Disclaimer: I do not own PJO, never will. Now, I guess you're wondering why I haven't updated in a month or so, well you'll find out at the end of the chapter. I will now proceed to, remember this, take 2 to 4 hours out of my day and answer your reviews - it is pretty freaking hard to do, takes forever.
Danny Nightshade: Artemis please! I am a big fan of pertemis, so...
I am too, but it all depends on the poll unless I get a really adamant idea and it would need to be a certain pairing.
(Guest): Too bad for Zeus.
Ikr, about freaking time someone showed him his place. I hope I'm talking about the right part in the chapter XD.
Blue Torpedo: Nice chapter! I vote for Bianca
Thanks, I honestly have no clue how to respond.
True Wielder of Riptide: First off I still love it, a very interesting fanfiction and will definitely continue to read. Can Percy kill Markus(please he is annoying) and start a conflict with Annabeth I could be a very interesting plot twist. Sincerely, True Wielder of Riptide
I was already planning on the conflict with Annabeth and I guess I could make Percy kill Markus if I have more than one person wanting that. Also, I am glad you like my story.
Djberneman: Hemera. Also, continue his carefree attitude like he had in the throne room.
I will try to keep up the carefree attitude, but I don't want to make him out to be arrogant so I won't lay it on as much as it was in the throne room.
Black Belt (Guest): WOW! That was such a GREAT chapter! Keep up the good work! Oh, and I want Bianca to be paired with Percy, they would make SUCH a cute couple!
Thanks, and I am amazed because of how many people are voting for Bianca now.
Guest: That was great! I love it when Percy acts disrespectful at the gods.
Thanks, and I know right, it's just highly amusing.
Guest: First of all I was reading that other reviews, and I agree that Percy should kill Markus (at the very least injure him). And also, great story so far! I want either Bianca or Zoe to be with Percy.
Welp looks like Markus is dead. Thank you, and I will add your vote to the others.
NoTearsFalling: Eh, I guess I'll vote for Zoe. Thank you for not cutting it off. I love long chapters. Keep up the wonderful work! :D
You're welcome, it would've been too short anyway and I agree with long chapter, but they take forever to write, plus with me being sick and having stuff going on with my family it makes it especially hard. Lastly, thank you.
Guest: Thalia has one? Come onnnn!
I know right, I was surprised as well.
Jacob (Guest): Personally, I think doing a PercyxHemera would be best. He is a Primordial deity after all, so she matches him there.
Good point.
PJandLGequalsLove: very interesting story please update soon
Thanks and I'll try to update sooner.
micheal foster 908: That was pretty good. I am surprised that poseidon didn't speak up about him being his son, though.
Thanks and for the last part, everything happens for a reason.
ConnwaersonofThanatos: Let's go Bianca let's go! Honestly though there aren't enough of the PercyxBianca stories which idk the ship name of. So yeah vote Bianca!
This is the most enthusiastic vote I've ever received. And I agree with the last part, there should be more PercyxBianca stories.
Ddcs: Mmmmmmmmmooooooooorrrrrrrreeeeee iiiiiiiiii llllllllllllooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiitttttt
I'm done writing these comments and have resorted to copy and pasting. I'm glad you love it.
That is all the comments for now, I hope you enjoy the chapter.
[Edited 12/11/18]
So, right now, I'm laying down in the new Hades and Erebus cabin, I'll explain what it looks like later on 'cause Nico's pestering me. Oh, sorry, you want to know why I am relaxing instead of getting off of the bus which had landed at Camp Half-Blood? Don't worry, I'll get to it later on. However, in the meantime...
"Are you sure you weren't named after Persephone, Percy?"
"Yes, Nico, I am pretty sure that I wasn't named after your stepmom," I replied, rolling my eyes in annoyance. "I was named after the Greek hero, Perseus. The only hero who actually had a happy ending." I explained. Nico has been constantly shooting questions at me for the past hour. Do you understand how many time I have seriously considered strangling him?
I stretched out on the couch, sighing and telling myself that he was just nervous about the Capture the Flag game which we had soon. We had only been at Camp Half-Blood for six to seven hours, getting here early in the morning, and had already made many, many enemies. Who are they? I'm glad you asked. Basically, Marcus and anyone that supported or liked the dipshit, so that went for almost all of the Ares cabin, a handful from Hephaestus, a couple from Hermes (whether they were actually children of his or not, I didn't know), and most of the new campers who looked up to him as an "example" plus the few kids who were jealous of us.
To go into further explanation as to why most of them are going to be going after us in the game, even though we're on the same damn team and going against the Hunters of Artemis, I would have to explain the events which led to Bianca, Nico, and I being put into the newest Hades and Erebus cabin.
Once we had arrived, we'd gone through the process of meeting all of the cabin counselors and then the Hermes cabin counselors, Travis and Connor Stoll, took Bianca, Nico, and I on a tour of the camp. About halfway through the tour, they told us to leave our stuff at the Hermes Cabin and to follow them to the Dining Pavilion, so we did, keeping our valuable items on us because we weren't stupid.
The Stolls led us to an area with twelve tables lines up in the same order that the cabins were in, soon after we arrived and took our seats at the Hermes table since Bianca and Nico were unclaimed and Erebus didn't have his own table or cabin, campers started filing into the pavilion, chatting aimlessly while walking to their designated tables. The kids caught not sitting where they were supposed to be were called out and put back with their tables.
"Mhm, I don't think I like it here very much." Nico mused beside me, "After today, I'm done with campers... and people in general," He added, I scoffed from beside him, nodding in agreement as I was elbowed by a kid trying to fit his way into the too small table. The entire table was overcrowded and looked like it could break at any second, lawn chairs were placed all around the table where they could for the kids who weren't able to get a seat on the benches of the table.
If I had to guess, I'd say Erebus and Hades had a nice talk with each other about the best moments to claim their children, 'cause when Chiron was just about to sit down and begin eating after everyone had offered up their food and announced what all was going on (The Hunters of Artemis, Capture the Flag, us, etc.) his eyes grew wide and everyone's gazes turned to us. They all stared above our heads at the dark symbol of Erebus which appeared over mine, and Hades' symbol that appeared over Bianca and Nico's heads. Everyone in the pavilion began bowing aside from Chiron who stayed standing.
"All hail Perseus Jackson, Son of Erebus, the Primordial of Darkness," he announced, turning his attention to the siblings while the area seemed to get a touch darker as he said the "All hail," stuff.
"All hail Bianca and Nico di Angelo, Children of Hades, Lord of the Underworld," he dipped down into a bow, which I hadn't thought was possible for centaurs to do until that moment.
A table materialized out of nowhere, a dark stone which was pretty simple in design and it was long. I don't know why, but I felt a strange sense of dread overcome me and kept an indifferent and slightly stern face on as I looked around. Bianca was pretty much the same with a slight look of shock, while Nico, well, he was standing there wide-eyed and gawking at the symbol above his head.
I sucked in a quick breath through my teeth, feeling a chill go down my spine. I turned around, looking behind me at the cabin which began to appear at the end of the fight side of cabins. It was made out of a dark, almost mahogany wood, and had a much darker roof. It had a small porch, the railing being darker than the rest of the house and torches were posted on either end of the porch and beside the door, burning with Greek fire. Unsurprisingly, I wasn't the only one to notice the cabin appear. I remember getting so excited when I had seen it.
The pit of dread in my stomach grew stronger as lightning and thunder sounded off in the distance. I could feel the tides on the shore pull closer and the waves and currents get rougher. I guess two gods were a wee bit pissed off at being outshone.
"Well," Chiron started, "That was unexpected. Carry on eating, children," he finished, going back to his seat and getting into what looked like a heated discussion with Dionysus, or Mr. D.
As people started going back to their meals and talking, I got up out of my seat, Bianca, and Nico following my cue. Before leaving to go to the new table, I offered all the unclaimed children and those who didn't have a table of their own a place at ours.
"You serious?" One girl asked me, standing up from the plastic chair she had been sitting in.
"Of course, no sense in wasting all of that space for three people when you all are stuck shoved here together," I said, nodding my head toward Bianca and Nico. "We don't mind, do we?" I asked, watching as Nico and Bianca both shook their heads.
"Of course not," Bianca said, looking back at me then to the girl.
"Thanks," She said, nodding to a bunch of kids who I guess also weren't children of Hermes as she made her way over with us to the Hades and Erebus table, all of them saying thanks to us as we made our way to sit down. Once we were all seated, probably around fifteen kids were sitting with us, while the Hermes table looked a whole lot less crowded. They didn't even need the plastic chairs anymore.
"You still hate camp?" I asked Nico after sitting down and beginning to eat again.
"It's gotten a little bit better."
All of that happening contributed a good bit toward getting on the bad sides of a lot of campers out of jealousy. I didn't blame them, though, it had to have sucked still being unclaimed and stuck in the Hermes cabin and then being claimed, but not being able to have their own space because the twelve Olympians were the only ones prioritized. I wish we could've shared the cabin like we did the table, but once we went inside of it, we discovered it was less designed like a cabin and more like a house, with three bedrooms for the three of us only. Other than that getting us on the bad sides of campers, Marcus and his entourage had come up and tried to fight us after our tour with Connor and Travis had concluded and they'd let us go and get our stuff back from the cabin. They had nearly pissed their pants when I manipulated the shadows into forms of hellhounds and scared them away. We had entered the cabin after that, just trying to get away from everyone for a little while before the game.
The cabin had a surprisingly modern looking design to it, surprisingly warm and comforting with all the colors which it used like deep browns and dark reds. It had three bedrooms and one bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen.
Now, back to what was happening in the present.
I flailed myself out on the couch, Bianca walking into the living where Nico and I were. "Bianca, make your brother stop bothering me... please!" I added on, peering up at her upside down while she looked toward us with an eyebrow raised, fixing the floppy green hat which she still wore on her head.
"I just want to play Mythomagic with him!" Nico shouted at Bianca right after me.
"I don't know how to in the first place!"
"How?!"
"Dude! I never had the reason to, nor would have a person to play with."
"What kind of point is that?! I play by myself all the time!"
"Oh, that's fucking sad!"
"IDIOTS, STOP YELLING!"
"Sorry!" I quickly said to Bianca, shutting up.
"SORRY, BIANCA!" Nico screamed out.
"Watch it, man, you're gonna piss her off," I warned.
He gave me a cheeky grin, "I know."
Bianca walked out and back to her room to get ready with a loud sigh. I groaned, shaking my head and sitting up, telling myself in my head that I was going to have to force myself to learn how to play that stupid game - I am a decent person.
"How 'bout we make a deal?" I proposed, leaning over toward Nico with my elbows resting on my knees. "You stop purposefully being annoying, I'll learn the game and play with you. Deal?"
His eyes lit up, "Deal!"
"Great, now let's go get ready for Capture the Flag," I said, getting up with Nico following behind me. I hadn't seen the inside of the other two's rooms, just guessing they had been designed well by the sounds of surprise and happiness which had come from the two when they'd walked into theirs. I did know, though, that their weapons had come with their rooms by how Nico had walked out flaunting his, attempting to flip it but quickly backtracking in panic as it spun in mid-air towards him, stabbing into the floor right between his legs and how Bianca had sighed in disappointment when she'd come out and saw the scene, silver and stygian iron dual hunting knives in hand. My room was basically the same as my one at home, just without all the decorations, memorabilia, and pictures I had in my one at home. But that just meant I had a lot more opportunities for new stuff to decorate this place with.
I walked out of my room after cleaning myself up a bit, seeing Nico walk out with his stygian iron sword while Bianca had her knives sheathed in a belt which she wore around her waist, the brown of it fitting right into her outfit.
"You think they noticed that we skipped dinner?" I asked, walking down the hall toward the living room with them.
"I don't know, Percy, maybe they didn't notice the newly claimed kids missing from the brand new table," Bianca said sarcastically.
"W-was that a joke, Bianca?" Nico asked, amazement and surprise obvious in his voice. Bianca only slapped him upside the head in response.
I laughed at him, opening the door of the cabin and letting them go in front of me. We made our way into the huge crowd of children who stood before Chiron as he explained the rules of the game. We slowly worked our way through the crowd, getting ourselves somewhat near the front without drawing much attention to ourselves.
"Camper and Hunters!" Chiron addressed, "You know the rules! The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. All magic items are allowed. The banner must be prominently displayed, and have no more than two guards. Prisoners may be disarmed, but may not be bound or gagged. No killing or maiming is allowed. I will be serving as a referee and battlefield medic. The teams are Camp Half-Blood versus the Hunters of Artemis. Arm yourselves!" Chiron finished, spreading his arms wide as four of the tables in the pavilion were magically stocked full of weapons and armor.
The Hunters immediately sprinted off into the woods, already prepared, while we just tried to walk away. It wasn't like we needed anything from the tables, anyway.
However, we were stopped as Chiron trotted up to us, asking us where we were during dinner. We just said that we had been settling into our cabin, getting more comfortable with the situation which he seemed satisfied with. He commended us for allowing the unclaimed children and those without tables of their own to sit at ours before asking us if we had still offered our food to the gods.
I stepped up, saying, "Don't worry, we set up a fire in the cabin - sure, it got out of hand once or twice, but we managed to offer up our food there." I said, then mumbling, "A bit more than we would've liked." just loud enough for him to discern. Nico was having a hard time keeping his composure and a small grin had started creeping onto Bianca's face. Chiron's eyes had widened, a slightly troubled look on his face as he quickly but politely said goodbye and trotted away.
"He thinks we're insane. You know that, right?" Bianca said, crossing her arms with a smile on her face while looking at me.
I brushed my hair out of my eyes, grinning. "Yeah, I know. You see how quickly he walked off? That was amazing." We then went over to where a crowd was forming again, but around Annabeth, Thalia, and Marcus. They must have been going over the plan and who all was going to be doing what.
"How shit is the plan going to be with him leading?" Nico whispered to me. Bianca glared at him but didn't hit him, instead flicking her glare up to me right after. My eyes quickly widened in panic.
"I blame you." She said, ignoring the incredulous look I sent her as Nico started giggling at us.
We got to the crowd and attempted to make our way over to the front. We couldn't hear barely anything over the sounds of other people talked, only catching little snippets of Annabeth saying "-Cabin here", "-Three over there", "Guarding is-", and finally being able to discern "Marcus, Thalia, and I are going to be getting their flag along with a few Ares children," as we finally got somewhat within earshot, but a bit late as all the campers started splitting up, going to their positions and roles. I shook my head, stopping a kid and asking us where we were going. Thankfully, he knew and told us we had border patrol by the creek. We thanked the guy and headed out into the forest where we were positioned along the creek by the border.
As we made our way through the forest, was saw that our flag was put atop a pile of boulders with was called Zeus' fist. Just take a second to let that settle in, they named a pile of fucking rocks after him. Had no resemblance to a fist, just a big pile of boulders. Zeus' fist.
We went past it, getting to where we were stationed after just a little bit. It only had a few traps set up by the Hermes and Hephaestus kids, with a creek being where the boundary line was. If I was to assume correctly, which I usually am, not to brag. Okay, maybe to brag a little. They put us here since it seemed like the perfect place to use to sneak around the forest to the other side, and because of how far off it was from everything else, it was the perfect place to beat people up and never be caught. If I'm right, this is gonna be a pretty fun time.
We decided to screw the campers and just relaxed. The creek was pretty nice and quiet, Bianca laid on the outer bank with her eyes closed while I took this time to get started teaching Nico the basics of swordsmanship. Going over to where Bianca laid a little bit after and managing to convince Bianca to let me begin teaching her how to wield her hunting knives, albeit with a bit of reluctance.
Chiron's voice magnified and echoed, being heard throughout the entire forest saying, "Campers and Hunters, remember, no killing or maiming is allowed! You may begin!"
I could immediately hear the distance sounds of bowstrings being drawn back and released and the sounds of quick running.
"So, how fast do you think our team's gonna lose?" I asked, spinning Revenge over in my grip while making my way to where Nico stood.
"By what I saw at the archery range, I'd give it an hour or so," Bianca answered. I hmphed and began showing Nico the basics, using my own sword as reference to teach him and taking out the hunting knife I had strapped to my waist to teach her how to use hers.
Around thirty minutes go by and Bianca has gotten bored and gone back to laying down on a large boulder by the creek bed while I was still teaching Nico.
"Slash, not jab," I reminded while Nico was practicing on a tree which we had double checked to make sure wasn't a nymph's. He was pretty good, picking everything up quickly for someone who was new to all of this. As I was watching his form as he attacked the tree, I felt my senses go haywire, heightening to go on guard. I had the urge to turn around just in time to see a bush on the other side of our area shudder slightly as if someone moved to hide behind it. I blinked a couple times, taking another glance around to take away any suspicion that I had noticed them then casually made my way to where Bianca laid.
"There are people watching us," I said, crouching down to get closer to her and out of earshot of the people watching us.
She opened a single eye, peering up at me. "Hunters or campers?" she asked back. I shrugged my shoulders, trying to get a sense for the forms of the people hiding in the shadows but wasn't able to get any information other than the fact that they weren't monsters. I sighed lightly, standing up and walking back over to where Nico was still practicing on the tree.
I leaned over and discretely told Nico that there were people watching us. He stopped mid-swing to turn to me, giving me a surprised look then whisper-yelling, "We're being stalked?!" it wasn't all that quiet and they heard it because the next second, three huntresses dropped out of the trees above us. Zoë Nightshade leading with the two other huntresses following.
"Not stalk, boy. Hunt." The Huntress said.
"Why? We are playing Capture the Flag. Why are you hunting newbies? Who does that?" I asked looking at them with a bewildered expression.
Nico stood behind me while Bianca had made her way to stand beside me. Nico stared at the huntresses in awe, his sword hanging loosely in his grip while Bianca just raised an eyebrow as if saying, "Really?"
"This is the quickest way to get to your flag, and they put the newbies in this spot, making it even easier. Why wouldn't we use it?" one of the huntresses behind Zoë said. I recognized her, she was the hunter which had come and gotten me from the forest where we camped this morning. Phoebe.
"Does it really look like we care if the campers win?" Bianca asked. I had to stop myself from snorting at that. Honestly, we were all laying around, really not caring at all about this, and they were still acting like this instead of breezing their way through us.
"If that's all you want, then go straight past us. We don't give a shit if we win or lose," I added, ignoring how Bianca glared at me as I swore.
All of their eyes narrowed at us, "And how do we know that this isn't just a ploy and that there isn't a trap waiting for us if we go past?" Zoë asked.
Nico sighed loudly, "I'm gonna get back to slashing at the tree," he said, turning around and making his way back to his tree.
"Dude, your timing is awful," I said, turning to look at him. He just shrugged his shoulder and continued slashing at the tree.
"Does it look like we're lying? And besides, we're new to all of this, like you said. You were even there when we were taken from Westover Hall. Do you really think they'd trust something as big as tricking you on newbies?" Bianca asked. I had to agree with her, her logic was sound.
"This is taking way longer than it shoulder. Just go past us, or don't - there are no traps if you go straight through that patch over there." I said, pointing at the safe passage through the brush and toward Zeus' fist. "If that's all, I'm gonna get back to helping Nico." I finished, starting to turn around.
I guess they didn't like my tone because Phoebe lunged at me with her silver hunting knives just as I began to turn. I quickly ducked under two slashes aimed for my head and dodged a jab and thrust for my stomach.
"What the hell happened to no maiming?!" I yelled out, quickly bringing up Revenge to block a strike aimed for my left arm.
While Phoebe had me busy, Zoë and the other huntress made a run for where I had pointed out before as the place with no traps. All the while I am basically fighting for my life against this girl, Nico is just slashing at the damned tree, only stopping for a split second to turn and give me a thumbs up as I was knocked to the ground, quickly rolling over to avoid where Phoebe stabbed toward me, her knives penetrating the dirt all the way to the hilt. Are you fucking kidding me? I stared incredulously as she just as easily pulled them out of the ground, she made another stab for me as I was still on the ground, but I grabbed her wrist, twisting it quickly and painfully, getting her to drop it where I then immediately picked it up, attempting to knock her unconscious for her to push away from me, backing away and turning over her other knife in her hand. I took this chance to get back up to my feet.
We circled each other, each trying to trick the other into blocking or attacking with feints, never fully committing. Suddenly she took off a little bit further away, catching me off guard as I stumbled to follow her only for her to take out her bow and already have an arrow prepped and aimed at me before I was even within range to attack her. She was about to release the arrow when she suddenly fell to the ground unconscious. I looked up from her fallen body to see Bianca staring wide-eyed at the huntress's body, one of her hunting knives gripped tightly in her hand.
"Gods, Bianca, how hard did you hit her?" I asked, amazed.
"I didn't know how hard to hit her so I just used as much force as I could, thinking it wouldn't work," She quickly said, panicky, leaning down to check on the huntress and move her body to a safer area.
"The first person you've ever knocked out was a Huntress, nice job," I congratulated, helping her move the huntress over to a tree where we leaned her against it. I didn't bother checking over her because I knew some Apollo kids or Chiron would come around to get her soon.
True enough, I was right, they did come... right after they were plowed through by Zoë and the other huntress from before. Zoë was sprinting with her bow draw, shooting at the campers which chased her and the other huntress as they sprinted back through the forest, bright orange flag held in the huntress's arms. I didn't even bother to try to stop the girls, only sticking out my foot as I saw Marcus and some of his cronies were the ones chasing them. I fucking scored when his foot caught onto mine, sending him face-planting into the ground as the rest of the campers kept running.
Walking away from his body quickly with a smile, I motioned for Bianca and Nico to follow me as I headed after the group of fumbling Ares children to where both of the sides met, the Hunters were very close to winning, but I looked across and saw Thalia and Annabeth being pelted with the Hunters' arrows as they ran toward the middle. Thalia had her shield out, covering both of them while running with a silver flag which Annabeth gripped while ducking as a stray arrow almost hit her. I could see the unconscious bodies of the few Ares kids which were designated to go with them, they had all been taken out.
The Hunters were maybe thirty feet away from winning while Camp Half-Blood was probably twice that away.
"Huh," I mused, watching with increased interest as both teams got closer to winning, picking up their paces as they noticed each other. "Hey, how long has it been?" I asked.
"Maybe an hour at the most, like around 55 minutes," Nico said, grabbing my wrist to look at Revenge in watch form.
My eyebrows raised. "Damn, Bianca, that was a close guess,"
Bianca pouted, "I should've bet on it." I laughed at her, turning to hear the horn go off signaling that the game was over and someone had won.
"Capture the Flag had ended! The victor was the Hunters of Artemis, for the 56th time straight!" Chiron announced, a slight tiredness to his voice as he said how many times straight the Hunters had won. He trotted off with a few campers bodies on his back, heading toward where a small medic area was set up.
"56?" Nico repeated, surprised. "Wow, they suck," I laughed, the sound of distant fighting catching my attention. I looked around, noticing that Thalia was no longer here and that Marcus had never arrived.
I cursed and turned, running back to where we had been station before, Bianca and Nico close on my heels, confused as to what I was doing. I burst into the clearing by the creek, looking around to see Marcus with a small wave rising behind him with his sword out. I think it was called Riptide? Yeah, that was it. Thalia stood on the outer bank, electricity arcing off of her and her spear, obviously very heated.
"You couldn't have just gone with the plan, could you?!" Thalia shouted, a burst of lightning arcing off from her spear in a random direction. Nico reeled back as he saw the electricity and slowly backed away to where his tree stood. Bianca didn't join him, instead, she stopped as soon as she saw it and stood beside me, watching.
"I saw a chance and I took it! My plan would've worked if you guys had actually just listened and done what I said!" Marcus yelled back. I highly doubted that last claim.
"Your plan was to just rush everything, which would've failed no matter what! We were up against the Hunters of Artemis, stealth was our best option, they don't think or act like campers, idiot!" Thalia screamed a flash of light accompanied by an ear shattered boom followed, a bolt of lightning coming down and sending Marcus flying off of his feet and into the water of the creek. Not gonna lie, Nico and I started laughing while Bianca looked at us disapprovingly.
The lighting had managed to get the attention of every else. Camper and Hunters started bursting into the clearing with Chiron at the head, leading it.
"What is going on here?!" he yelled, his outrage obvious in his tone as he yelled, looking around between the two furiously, his brown hair whipping around as the wind started picking up. Thalia turned, about to answer him but was suddenly knocked down by a wave of water. Marcus emerged from the wave, red-faced and dry, while Thalia got to her feet, soaked and absolutely furious. I would've called Marcus a deadman then and there if it weren't for his father keeping him alive in the water.
"Stop this instant, children! We will talk about this back at the Big House!" Chiron shouted, getting even madder, if it was possible.
They were both about to ignore Chiron and lash out at each other again when a mummy waddled into the clearing. I shit you not, a decomposed ass mummy in a sundress. What the hell was this? The spirit of Delphi or the Oracle? I mean, like... damn, just... I'm at a loss of words at all the bullshit which has happened within the last day.
This caught Thalia and Marcus off guard, taking their attention away from each other and to it, seemingly forgetting about everything as it just came on in. Everyone else there also focused on the mummy as it came into the clearing, staring on silently.
Its eyes started glowing a poisonous green once it waddled into the middle of us all, "I am the spirit of Delphi, speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python. Approach seeker, and ask." Its voiced hissed inside my head, causing me to wince. I guess the same happened to everyone because their reactions were the same, some holding their hands over their ears or just having pained expressions.
Swallowing, Zoë stepped forward, away from the huge group of Hunters and toward the spirit of Delphi, "What must I do to help my goddess?" She asked.
The spirit of Delphi's mouth opened, and a green mist poured out. I saw a vague image of a girl standing at the barren peak of a mountain. I quickly realized it was Artemis, but she was chained to the rocks at her feet, kneeling with her hands raised as if holding something up, an incredibly pained expression on her face. The spirit of Delphi then spoke:
Five shall go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall be lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan's curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent's hand.
And just like that, the green mist receded into the spirit of Delphi's mouth and its eyes lost their green glow. She then wobbled over to a rock, sat down, and stilled. That's it.
Silence overtook the clearing.
"Well, shit," I said
"Literally, I feel bad for whoever has laundry duty for this week," An Apollo camper spoke up in a high pitched voice.
I have finished a chapter and it was a good 3500+ words not including me talking, now for explaining where I have been. Ok, I have health problems along with I have been having family problems too, so that took up most of my time. And I before I had gotten sick I had written a good 1,500 part of this chapter, but I didn't like it and trashed the whole thing, then I got sick and couldn't write, whenever I get sick I feel weak like it's hard to move - so I couldn't write in my spare time and was sleeping. That is the main reason, the other small one is that my electricity went out in a storm - for an entire week. So that's why I haven't updated in a month or so and am really sorry about that, and I will try to update sooner but am still trying to recover.
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3. Artemis: 7
4. Zoe: 7
5. Other: 3
6. Harem: 2
7. Thalia: 1
Hemera still currently has the most votes with Bianca 6 votes behind, the poll will not close for the next two chapters probably so you can still vote if you haven't yet and I am counting both review votes and poll votes.
Now to the regular stuff. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, if you did favorite and follow the story, it's really appreciated along with reviewing to tell me how I am doing with the story and if I need to change anything. I think that is all for now, I honestly don't know. Oh, I will try to have another chapter up in the next two weeks but if it doesn't happen you know why. Yep, that's all for now, bye.