Chapter 5
For the next few days I tried to avoid contact with Nico, I had to be careful with what would come out of my mouth when I was close to him. Otherwise I could give him the information he needed to find who my father was. At least for now he was still not sure if my Godly parent was my mother or my father, so that was good. However, with him hearing me sing at the lake, and with what I told him I had no idea when he would figure all out.
I kept helping around with training around the camp, the campers had stop looking at me on the side. A few of them even looked for me to help them with their training. However, Nico was a whole other problem, especially when Percy visited the camp. Both gather and started to ask questions trying to catch me unprepared. But they were unlucky every time.
"So how many names did you took out of the list?" I heard Percy ask Nico over breakfast.
"Not many, when there's something to cross out one of the Gods. She does something that makes me keep it on the list." Nico replied whispering.
"That's going to make this hard. Do you have any ideas of whom it might me, more than the others?" Percy asked also in a whisper.
"Well she did say something to me the other day, when I caught her singing by the lake." Nico started. "When I told her that I would keep Apollo on my list, she told me that Apollo was not the only one with kids that could sing."
"Then we should keep looking with that clue." Percy suggested. "I will ask Annabeth if she knows something, that can help us."
I knew that that statement would come back to haunt me, why couldn't I stay shut up?I knew that it would come to bite me back. I stand up and walked closer to the two boys.
"You guys should talk lower, I can hear your plans from there." I told them.
"We would stop if you just told us what we want to know?" Nico said, turning to me.
"Not happening, Nico. I told you already, I can't answer to that question." I explained.
"Why not? At least gives us a reason." Percy asked.
"Zeus doesn't let me. He thinks it's the best to keep it a secret for now." I replied.
That was the only thing I could tell them, I wished that I could at least tell them that the reason, that I could not tell who my Godly parent was, it was due to a prophecy. A prophecy that decided all my life since even before I was born. I really wished that I could tell them at least that.
"It's always Zeus." Percy commented. "For sure is planning something again."
"Sorry guys. I really can't say anything else." I said.
I started to walk away from them, I had to go to the training session. However, a hand grabbed my wrist not long after I had walked from the breakfast area.
"Wait." I heard Percy saying.
"What now?" I asked.
"Sorry, we just are really intrigued with the situation. It just that, you know who your Godly parent is, but you can't tell us." Percy answered.
"Don't worry about that. I really wished that I could tell you the true, but for now I can't." I explained to him.
"So, I'm going to bet that there's something else behind all this secrecy?" Percy commented.
"You have no idea." I said. "Now I really need to go, I have training to teach."
"Oh yeah, go ahead." He said letting go of my wrist.
Gods why was I going through all of this? Whatever that was coming that important, that I needed to hide the identity of my father? Was all this hiding worth it, 22 years of hiding. However, I was glad that I had been able to come to earth seven years ago. Well it had been a very fast visit, and I can't really call it a visit since I was there for a small amount of time. I still can recall the fight that I had with the Big Three to let me interfere with something.
I shook that memory out of my mind when I reach the arena, a few half-bloods were waiting for me. After a few days of me being at camp, and after seeing how I fought, most of the campers wanted to learn something from me, so they always came to train with me. Well except from Ares kids, since my Godly parent was a secret, they could not accept that someone was that good.
From the corner of my eye I could see Nico and Percy looking at me while I was training the other campers. However, not long after Percy walked away. I guess it was time for him to go back home. Minutes later Nico had join the group and started to also train.
"That will be all for today." I told the campers after an hour had passed.
All of them started to walk away from the arena, but Nico came closer to me.
"So, Percy told me he talked with you." He started.
"He did." I said.
"I mean if the whole "I want to find who is your Godly parent" is bothering you I will stop." Nico said.
"Don't worry about that. It's fine for you to continue, it kind of keep things interesting for me." I told him. "And I bet it's also for all of them."
"Are you sure?" Nico asked.
"Yeah, plus I already gave you one big hint the other day." I replied.
"True, they always have fun thanks to us halfbloods." Nico agreed.
"Don't worry too much about it, I will give to them when I see all of them again." I said.
"You better not, they might take you out." Nico said.
"I have a special permission to scream at them, so don't worry." I told him as we both started to walk away from the arena.
