"Shhh shh shh." Leo try's to sooth me patting my back awkwardly.

"I know. I know. It's alright. It's going to be okay." He says. He's not helping.

"She's gone! My mother is gone!" An attack of sobs hit me like a train making it hard to breath. Leo stops talking and just sits there holding me in a tight hug.

"What do I do now?" I ask him. He sits for a bit before answering, "Now, you morn, later you fight." I chuckle lightly. He gives me a weird look and I chuckle a bit harder.

"That's what Percy said," I tell him, "except that was when he was telling me to fight to see my family. For all I know now my siblings could be dead too."

"What's your siblings like?" He asks me.

"My oldest brother Ted, he's like my father in a way, always telling me what to do. Sean my second oldest brother, he's the smart one, just became a surgeon. The twins Zoey and Cooper are three and they're not the kind of twins that like each other. Zoey's
/very girly and loud and Coopers very sweet and shy." Leo sits there for a moment, "You sisters name is Cooper?" He asks me. I burst out laughing shaking my head no. He smiles as I stop laughing.

"Chiron told me my mother is," I take a breath before correcting myself, "was a child of Hephaestus." Leo smiles even wider.

"That makes you my niece, come to uncle Leo." He says. I smack his arm laughing at him. I chock back another sob.

"She would've liked you. Same sense of humour." I tell him leaning my head on his shoulder.

"Did you get the prophecy from Rachel?" He asks.

"Yeah yeah I did." I run my fingers through my hair a couple times letting flames put colourful streaks of blues all throughout the locks of blond.

"Do you want to share with me what this prophecy is?"

"No."

"Really?" He asks putting a hand on my shoulder with a 'honey please we both know your gonna tell me' look.

"I don't have a choice do I." I say to him, my tears long forgotten by now.

"No honey you really don't." He says giving me a false sympathetic smile. I take a breath before speaking the rhyme.

"In four days time all will start

Around the hands go

That twist the heart

They do not knowwho thy foe

But they do know who must go."

"I think that ones worse." Leo mutters. We sit there for a while in silence, both trying to figure out what this damn thing means.

"How the fuck did this happen?" I ask him, "one minute I'm stressing about forgetting to light the fire this morning, the next I'm stressing about prophecies and who's alive and dead. I used to be normal." Leo gives me a strange look.

"The 'normal' girls from the schools I went to before camp were makeup obsessed freaks, kinda like Aphrodite girls."

"Don't tell Piper that. She'd kill you." I say laughing.

OoOoo

Around the camp fire that night was when Chiron made me tell the prophecy for the quest.

"Does this mean the great project will start in four days time?" Someone asked? All eyes turned to Rachel.

"No the great prophecy isn't meant to happen yet, a puzzle piece isn't here yet. I'm pretty sure the prophecy means the quest will start soon." She answers.

"How do you know?" I ask her.

"It's a feeling I get, like listening to your gut." She tells me.

"If it's not the start of the great prophecy then why do all eleven of us have to go?" A wave of laughter erupts from the Aphrodite girls. I'm getting the feeling they don't like me.

"Only three people go one quests like this." Drew snickers. I roll my eyes preparing myself for possibly another round of laughing at me, "then what does it mean by 'but you do know who must go'?" The laughter comes again but this time they're just laughing
/at me not because they know something I don't.

Rachel thinks for a minute or she's just listening to her gut again, "that parts for you to decide. Who do you feel must accompany you?" She asks. I look around. Piper is with her cabin so is Hazel, I'm sitting with Leo's cabin. I think for another few
/minutes the whole camps eyes on me watching me decide. I already know Leo's going to come with me I just can't decide who else. I scan the crowd one more time until my eyes land on Annabeth. She gives a silent nod and that's all I need.

"Leo and Annabeth." My voice rings out over the crowd. Everyone from the Argo looks extremely confused since it was no secret Annabeth wasn't really fond of me. Chiron asks the two if they would like to go, they both nod.

OoOoo

Everyone continued on with the campfire like nothing happened then everyone went to bed right after. Some hushed conversations and odd looks my direction where shot at me all through the night.

The next morning I woke up in the Hephaestus cabin before anyone else did. Which was a huge shocker since I never woke up before any one else. Now I'm guessing it's just part of the Hephaestus blood line.

I slipped on my mothers bracelets and threwon some clothes for the day. I tiptoed out the door trying my best not to wake anyone up. I was not successful. I was out the door before I was forced to talk to anyone I didn't know.

I strolled around camp looking for somewhere to practice with the knives my mum left me.

I almost walked right past Percy waving me over.

"Hello." I say to him as I walk to the plateau area he was standing.

"Hey Elly you wanna practice those knives with me?" He asks.

"That's perfect actually I was just looking for somewhere to test them out." He gives me and odd look, "you haven't tried them yet?" I shake my head no, "do you know how to turn them into knives?" Again I shake my head no, "well looks like we have a lot
/to practice than." This time I shake my head yes.

He shows me how to flip my wrists up and catch them in my hands. We go over that for a bit until he decides to show me a few ways to block attacks.

"Now with knives you want to be closer to your attacker so you can strike so don't be afraid to get in close." I nod a little on edge with the whole basis of using a weapon for harm.

He picks up a wooden sword apparently charmed so it will only leave a bruise. He swings towards my head and I put the knives in an x shape and crouching low to absorbed the impact of the blow. My arms shook from the force but I had no room to recover
/because he was swinging at my side and fast. I swung my left arm down to stop the fast approaching sword. My left arm shook just like the last blow shook both of my arms. Percy swings the sword again at my ankles in an attempt to trip me. He trips
/me.

I lay on the ground wheezing trying to catch the wind that was knocked out of me.

I hear laughing somewhere above me and find Annabeth doubled over.

I stand up and give her a sassy look, "don't laugh at me!" I call.

"I'm not laughing at you!" Annabeth says in between laughs, "I'm laughing at Percy! He had to do a cheap shot to beat you!" She falls over laughing again.

I stand there confused. He did like three hits and it was clear from the beginning that he was gonna beat me. I turn to Percy and he's beat red.

"She was not going to win." He mumbles.

"Oh she so was did you see the way her stance was and the way her arms shook but yet she still managed to block the next hit, if you had taught her to hit first I'd be packing you off to Will right now." Annabeth says still giggling.

"Here it's all in the shoulders Percy showed you to get in close but he didn't show you how to hit strong. When you stab you want to thrust forward but still keep a slight bend in the elbow, then when you go to pull out lean with the knife backwards so
/you don't hurt your elbow." I go through the motion a couple of times on a dummy before she teaches me to swing. Again we go through that.

"Okay now we're going to verse." She pulls out to wooden daggers for the both of us.

"Here now get ready." I go into the stance she showed me. She lunges at me building her body for a stab, when I go to block she changes her body in an instance for a swing. Before she can leave a good sized bruise on my right side I grab her knife arm
/with my right and stop the blow going in for a stab at her throat with my left. I stop the knife right above her throat.

"I'm sorry- I didn't mean- uh- sorry." I stutter feeling the heat rise to my face. She laughs again.

"Don't apologize I wasn't expecting you to act fast enough to actually grab my arm. It's good you caught me by surprise." I give her an odd look, "why are you being so nice to me all of the sudden?" I ask her. She looks over my shoulder and waved her
/hand. I spin around to see Percy, he had been watching us and I had forgotten all about him.

"I figured since we're going to be on a quest together I might as well make sure your not going to get me killed, I can't look after both you and Leo." I smile at her briefly. A bell goes off signalling breakfast.

"Don't think this means I like youElly. But keep in mind you can still change that."

I try to respond but she was already walking away to breakfast.

I'm really late. I'm so sorry. I have a lot of excuse but I seriously doubt you all want to hear about them.

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