I had gone back down to the infirmary to take a quick nap until we arrived at camp. Quickly changing my clothes into pyjamas, this whole fire clothes changing thing is pretty freaking awesome. I feel like Elsa except warmer.
"Elly we're here and Chiron wants to meet you!" I hear piper call from outside the door.
"You can just come in piper it's not like I was doing anything!" I call back to her. She opens the door letting a cool breeze sweep across the floor.
"Chiron wants to meet you, so get changed I don't really think you want the whole camp seeing you in your pjs," She says "but then again who really cares."
"I'm not going to be changing." I say, a forever hungry shirt and hamburger pyjama pants was fine with me.
"Okay then let's go." She turns around leaving me to flip off the bed landing on my butt with a loud thunk."
"Owwww,"I grumble rubbing my rear, "that hurt." My voice almost whines.
"Come on lazy bones let's go. You don't want to keep the whole camp waiting do you?" She says appearing in the door way hands on hips.
"I don't care if they stay waiting, they've gone their whole lives without me what's a few more minutes gonna do?" I say smirking like the smartass I am.
"My word Elly lets go!" Pipes up a new voice from behind piper. Hazel jumps out and skips over to me. She grabs my wrist and literally drags me out the door.
"How are you so tiny but have so much muscle?!" I ask in astonishment.
"I'm a demigod Elly, you'll be like this soon." Great this place isn't like the summer camp I went to when I was younger. I let out a groan and she chuckles at me.
"You might want to walk the stairs, I doubt you want your head hitting every one." I hear piper laugh at me as I stand up with a frown on my face.
"Stop laughing at me." This just makes Piper laugh harder at me. I begin to climb the stairs dragging my feet.
"Oh stop being like this Elly belly it isn't even morning." Hazel chuckles.
"So I just woke up." They both laugh at me like they know something I don't.
I open the door leading to the deck and see we're yet again parked on land. The rest of the crew are off the ship talking, hugging, and high-fiving a bunch of other kids. Piper and Hazel jump over the ship and climb down the ladder joining their friends.
"Hey Elly come down and join us!" I hear Leo call up. Almost every head turns up towards me. One pretty girl standing next to Piper speaks up, "that's her? I thought she'd be prettier." She says in a snotty voice.
"Now now drew don't be mean." I look over towards Percy to see a man in a wheelchair sitting next to him. His grey hair swept up on one side like he just got out of bed and a beard down to his shoulders.
"I'm guessing you're the Chiron dude. I guess they didn't mean literally when they said you were a horse." Chiron smiles at me before moving the blanket on his lap and standing up. I don't really know what I expected to see. But it was far from horse
legs.
"How on earth did your legs fit in there! It's like my friend Stacy's bra!" A wave of laughter goes through the crowed.
Someone calls out, "I like her!" Another one yells, "is she a child of Hermes!" I find the kid in the crowed, he has sandy blond hair and a mischievous grin.
"No. I'm a daughter of Helios." His smile falters for a second then he laughs.
"She's funny too. I'm guessing you haven't been claimed yet." Another boy who looks just like him cracks up beside him.
"Conner she's not lying." Annabeth says. Fierce whispers break out I catch a few.
"How's that possible?"
"I thought he faded!"
"Wait wasn't Helios a Titan?"
"Does that mean she's evil?"
Everyone seems to come to the same conclusion and backs away from me. I look at the girl Drew she's whispering like everyone else but is giggling.
"What's so funny?" I ask her. She looks up and smirks.
"Your clothes. You look homeless." The group around Piper bursts out laughing, she gives them all dirty looks and a few stop.
"Well then," I say, "let's change that then." Before I burst into flames I hear Leo mutter, "here we go again." I let the flames race from my toes to the top of my head. I have an outfit in mind my favourite one from back home. I let my bare feet
slid into camo 'muck' boots, let my hamburger pyjama pants turn into light blue skinny jeans, and my forever hungry t-shirt turn into a plaid button. Finally I let the flames race up to my hair feeling the blonde locks go into a loose curl.
"Oh my gods! Do me! Do me! Do me!" The girls from pipers group scream.
"See!" Percy exclaims, "I'm not the only one!" Hazel and Annabeth both reach up to slap the back of his head.
A bell goes off from somewhere nearby and everyone turns to walk towards a structure facing the ocean.
Percy and Chiron have a heated discussion before Percy turns to follow the rest.
"Elly follow me to the big house will you?" He asks sitting back down in his wheelchair.
"Uh yeah sure."
OoOoo
"Who filmed that video?" I ask Chiron after the orientation video.
"Apollo. You'll meet him soon enough." He says. Busing himself with poring tea. "What do you take in your tea Elly."
"Nothing." I respond.
Chiron gives a small chuckle, "every child was different. Percy I don't even think had tea, Annabeth took it with tons of honey, the stolls stole my sugar bowl instead." I laugh along with him.
"Who's the stolls?" I ask him.
"The boy you told your godly parent to and the boy next to him. Children of Hermes." He hands me my tea and I take a sip. It's cold.
"Um Chiron do you have any warm tea instead?" I ask him. He stops in the middle of blowing on his tea, "pardon my dear?"
"Warm tea, this teas cold." Now he just looks confused. He got himself warm tea and gave me cold water, for whatever reasons are beyond me.
"It's steaming Elly." He tells me. I glance down at me cup and my lips form and o shape.
"I'm starting to hate being like Elsa." I mumble to myself. Chiron bursts out laughing again. "Oh Elly." In a much whiter voice he says, "so much like your mother."
"What? My mother?" I stand up knocking over the tea pot, sending it crashing to the floor. Chitons face goes white, I wasn't supposed to hear that last part.
"Your mother," he starts carefully, "is a demigod like you." That explains a lot actually. When I was about three I had a dream, at least my mother told me it was a dream every time I asked about it. I was playing in our yard, which ended right where
the forest started, I had gotten to close to the edge and my mom started yelling at me from the garden.
"Elly! Don't go there!" She had called. A growl breathed down my neck from behind me. I remember turning around and seeing the biggest dog I had ever seen. It's nose was touching my nose and the wind felt like it stopped. Then I was flying back. Caught
by flames.
My mother stood in front of me, a thin, long knife in each hand.
"Go back to hell, hellhound." She spoke in her scary calm voice when she was angry. The beast glanced at me and huffed.
"She's not for you, any of you, ever." The beast nodded it's head and gave her a state like I'll be back. He turned around and disappeared in the shadows.
"Elly?" Chiron questioned me.
"Uh yeah sorry," I said coming out of my stupor, "who's child was she?"
"Hephaestus." I guess that makes sense on some levels she always had a shop in the back yard.
"Is he the God of gardens too?" I ask. My mum had always been in the garden more then she had her shop.
"No he's not." Chiron says watching me like I might start breaking at the seems.
"Your mother had a good friend from the Demeter cabin. It's very uncommon for a Greek demigod to live a long life so her good friend didn't make it. I imagine your mothers favourite flower were lilies." They are her favourite flowers but why does he keep
using the past tense.
"Chiron what happened to my mother?" About a month ago she went to Switzerland for a ski trip with a couple of friends.
"She never left for her ski trip Elly, she came here. She was attacked before she got passed the borders. She told Leo who was the one to find her, to get you and bring you here. It was only a coincidence that you happened to be part of the next great
prophecy. She also told instructed him to give you these." When he was done Chiron held out two gold bracelets, my mothers.
"Why did she want me to have these?" I ask him. She always told me they were worthless, and that she only wore them because my father gave them to her.
"Put them on and flick your wrist outward." I do as he says and two thin, long knives jump into my hands.
"Now my dear, tell me about your step father."
Okayyyy there it is. I'm not sure if this is good or not, I kinda just wrote this in the middle of the night but oh well.
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Depending on how much I write this week I might update twice but no promises. Hope you all had an awesome Halloween. Tell me what you
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