"Now dear tell me about your step father" Chiron said sipping his tea.
"Why do you want-" I started to ask but was cut off by a girl barging in.
"Chiron the meetings ready to start." She said. She was a big girl, not in a bad way. She had muscles but not so it made her look masculine just so that you'd fear her.
"Thank you Clarisse I'll be right down." Chiron said dismissing her.
"Would you like to come Elly?" He asks me. Why the hell not I think.
"Sure."
OoOoo
The meeting was like a meeting I'd imagine a frat house having. All of the counsellors from the cabins gathered around a ping pong table with snacks. One boy was eating the ping pong balls with cheese.
"How can you eat that stuff?" I ask him wrinkling my nose up.
"Oh the ping pong ball? I'm a-" he starts but I cut him off.
"No the processed cheese." He makes a confused face.
"You don't want to know why I'm eating ping pong balls?" He asks still confused. The people around the table I know chuckle.
"Elly's not the typical kid we get here." I hear Piper say.
"You could say that again." I hear Hazel laugh. Chiron clears his throat and everyone quiets down.
"Let's talk about the prophecy now. Can someone repeat it so anyone who has not heard knows it please?" He asks. Everyone turns to me.
"Oh no no no, I can't I don't even remember it." I say stepping back with my hands in the air.
"Oh yes you can Elly, you mumble it to yourself every night." Leo says with a pointed look.
"How do you know that?"I ask, "you know what doesn't matter. Here we go. Um,
Eleven demigods will save them all
A blue eyed girl will lead them strong
Flames from a hand will burn tall
And one of their lives will be all wrong
When the clock tower reaches dawn
Another era will have begun." I look around the room not sure of what to do now. "What now?" I ask
"Now we decode it." A red headed girl says.
Percy looks up and smiles at the girl,
"Well the eleven demigods are most likely me, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, calypso, Leo, Nico, Will, Hazel, Jason, and Elly. The blue eyed girl who will lead us strong is probably Elly, the flames from a hand that's either Leo or Elly. Not sure what the next
line is, and the clock tower and era part have me stumped." Annabeth nods at him like a teacher would a student. Percy rolls his eyes.
"Um does anyone know what kind of clock tower?" I ask looking around.
The red headed girl looks up, "Uh no I don't thing so." She says curiously.
"Do you know of a clock tower Elly?" Chiron asks.
"Well theirs the one in London that everyone knows about, and I'd love to go to London, but my guess is it probably has to be something, oh I don't know, significant to one of us. And well my dad, step dad whatever he is, just happens to have a board
shop in this old converted church that has a huge clock." I can feel the deep blush on my face as I look down at the table.
"Well it looks like we know where we're going now." Percy claps his hands, "you just need to get a project from the oracle now." He says.
"Why do I need another prophecy?" I ask confused.
"Because you're the one leading the quest and we need to see if it's going to go well or not." The red head says.
"Okay that's reasonable where do I find the oracle?" The red head puts up her hand, "I'm the oracle."
OoOoo
After I got the prophecy from the oracle who I later found outs name is Rachel, I immediately went to find Leo. Everyone I talked to told me to go to bunker nine but I had no idea where that was.
"Percy! Percy! I need your help," I called running up to him he'd just been walking to his cabin, "I need help finding bunker nine can you help me?" I ask. Percy smiles, "yeah of course, it's just this way." He says leading the way towards the forest.
We walk for a bit in an almost awkward but not quite silence. I'm racking my brain to find something to say I don't even hear Percy when he asks me something.
"Pardon?" I ask him.
"I said how are you liking camp so far?"he repeats himself.
"It's okay I mean I haven't even spent a full day here so I can't exactly answer that." Honestly I loved it here. Mostly everyone I've met has been kind to me.
"That makes sense. The first while I was here I was in the big house being babysat by Annabeth. First thing she ever said to me was 'you drool when you sleep.'" He mimics Annabeths voice failing miserably.
I laugh at him. We continue to walk towards bunker nine now in a comfortable silence.
"Do you think I'll ever see my family again?" I ask him. He doesn't even hesitate before answering, "yep I think you will. Being a demigod isn't all that great at times, but it's brought a lot of good to my life. My moms married now to someone she actually
loves and is also pregnant. I have Annabeth who I would never had met, I also have a brother Tyson he's a cyclops you'll meet him eventually. None of that would have happened. I've lost a lot of friends and put my mom in danger I had to grow up fast
even though at times it doesn't seem like I did at all." He pauses after his speech to look at me, "if you want to see your family again Elly you need to fight to."
I think about his speech for a while. He's right I can't change anything that's happened. My mothers gone, and I have a feeling I'll have more to loose. After this I'll most likely be held together by tape and glue. I'm lost in thought again.
"Do you have any brothers or sisters?" Percy asks.
"Yes I do. Three brothers and a sister. My oldest brother Ted and my second oldest brother Sean are my half brothers, their dad died after Sean was born. Then I have my little brother Cooper and my younger sister Zoey their twins, three years old." Percy
nods.
"You know their all you half siblings." He says not unkindly.
"Yeah I guess so." I reply.
We walk for a little while longer until we come to a big rock. Percy knocks on a section and it opens.
"Here you go. Bunker nine." He gestures for me to go in and I do.
"Thanks." I tell him as I pass.
"No problem."
I walk in using a small flame from my hand for light.
"Leo!?" I call out. I hear a crash and some rapid Spanish which I'm guessing was Leo swearing.
"Hothead! You in here?!" I call out stopping in my tracks waiting for a response.
"Yup I'm back her Elly!" I hear him call. I round a couple corners and see him look up.
"My moms dead." I manage to say before bursting into tears.
Little bit of a cliff hanger.
Ski hills opening soon! AHHH I'm so excited!
Okay okay avril get back on topic.
Anywho does everybody get why I made Elly break down when she saw Leo? Or the tape and glue reference? Also I haven't done a disclaimer yet so yeah I don't own anything from the books.
Thank you everyone who reviewed that's really the only way I know if someone's read my story.
I hope you all enjoyed!
-avril