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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia fell out her chair laughing when she saw the flying ship. She was sitting in her favorite chair sipping her coffee during her break from border patrol. Frank Zhang had been called by the Greeks and told of a new prophecy. The ship seemed the size of a clown car. That's when it happened again. Vines flew out the ground as she fell, and pushed her back to her chair. She hated her father's abilities./div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"If she was in trouble, vines to the rescue. Seriously Bacchus? Why not give her powers over leopards and dolphins? She hated grapes, vines, plants in general. They make you itch, trip, can kill you, or give you bowel problems. She ran inside the camp and saw three kids in orange shirts step out. One was a maybe 16 year old boy with a perfect tan and blonde hair with light brown eyes. Then walked out two… She assumed they were twins. They both had caramel skin and pitch black hair, the boy's covered his right eye, and the girl her left. The boy had a gray streak through his hair, and the girl had purple. She ran up the stairs and tripped. And guess what she tripped on. A vine! When she got up, she saw Reyna talking to the group./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Sorry," said the blonde. "Chalice. So either Ganymede or Dionysus- er- Bacchus."/div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia giggled at the way the blonde said Bacchus. It sounded like he was saying "Back-Chuice"./div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Reyna seemed nervous about this. "When it comes to this camp, we have no spawn of Ganymede. Since Dakota left the legion for college, there has only been one Bacchus camper-"/div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia cut her off by clearing her throat. "Hi. Do you happen to be talking about me?"/div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Reyna regarded her and nodded. She left, and she was left alone with Frank and the Greeks. They sat in an awkward silence for about five minutes before Frank decided to break it./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""So… What are your names?" Frank asked. "I didn't catch them earlier."/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""I'm Xander Fadler. Son of Apollo." said the blonde. Frank shook his hand./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Frank Zhang, son of Mars, legacy of Poseidon." said the Praetor. Xander's eyes drifted upwards like he was doing mental math./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""God of war. Greek is Ares, right? I'm new to this. Literally got one day at camp before I was sent on this quest." Xander said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Yes," said Frank. "That's what I call beginner's bad luck. And who are you two?" he asked as he pointed to the others./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""I'm Aria and this is my brother, Ash. We're the children of Aether… I mean, Cosmos." said the girl. Frank tensed./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""How did that happen?" he asked. "Isn't Cosmos in like, space?"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Mom was an astronaut." Ash said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Mom? Isn't Cosmos a goddess?" Frank asked./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Greek form is Aether, who is male," Ash snapped "Can we not talk about this schizophrenia?"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Uh… Sure."/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"After an awkward silence, Mia decided to speak up./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Why exactly do you need a Bacchus camper?" Mia asked. "Why not Mars, or Vulcan or-"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Duh, cause it was plainly stated that the roman spawn of 'The Cupbearer' would join us on this quest." Ash said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"That embarrased Mia./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""So… Mia… How would you feel about going on this quest?" Frank asked./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"For years she'd pondered about getting off of that camp that didn't even like her. Then she noticed the look on Ash's face. It was… Hopeful. She would never get that face out of her head. It made her think./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Give me about a day to pack, and prep myself." she said half-heartedly, to make it more effective. She walked back to her little corner in the 4th Cohorts dorm. As she was packing, she heard a familiar chuckle. She spun quickly with her sword in hand./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""I suggest you come out right now." Her sword glinted silver and gold in the light./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"A red eyed wolf walked out of the shadows./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Mia, you're going with them? You've chosen to leave me?" he asked. He turned human, a boy with silver hair and pale blue eyes. "You are my only friend. If i revealed myself to the rest of the camp, I would be murdered…"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Then come with me." Mia said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"He smirked and melted into her shadow, Octavian's eerie laugh melting along with it./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia knew that was probably a bad idea, but no one else in Camp Jupiter appreciated her for who she was. She finished packing and walked out to the ship./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""So you're ready?" Ash asked./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Of course I am!" Mia answered./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia had never felt so ready. She felt like she could kill a Minotaur. She bounded onto the ship./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia fell out her chair laughing when she saw the flying ship. She was sitting in her favorite chair sipping her coffee during her break from border patrol. Frank Zhang had been called by the Greeks and told of a new prophecy. The ship seemed the size of a clown car. That's when it happened again. Vines flew out the ground as she fell, and pushed her back to her chair. She hated her father's abilities./div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"If she was in trouble, vines to the rescue. Seriously Bacchus? Why not give her powers over leopards and dolphins? She hated grapes, vines, plants in general. They make you itch, trip, can kill you, or give you bowel problems. She ran inside the camp and saw three kids in orange shirts step out. One was a maybe 16 year old boy with a perfect tan and blonde hair with light brown eyes. Then walked out two… She assumed they were twins. They both had caramel skin and pitch black hair, the boy's covered his right eye, and the girl her left. The boy had a gray streak through his hair, and the girl had purple. She ran up the stairs and tripped. And guess what she tripped on. A vine! When she got up, she saw Reyna talking to the group./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Sorry," said the blonde. "Chalice. So either Ganymede or Dionysus- er- Bacchus."/div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia giggled at the way the blonde said Bacchus. It sounded like he was saying "Back-Chuice"./div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Reyna seemed nervous about this. "When it comes to this camp, we have no spawn of Ganymede. Since Dakota left the legion for college, there has only been one Bacchus camper-"/div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia cut her off by clearing her throat. "Hi. Do you happen to be talking about me?"/div
div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Reyna regarded her and nodded. She left, and she was left alone with Frank and the Greeks. They sat in an awkward silence for about five minutes before Frank decided to break it./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""So… What are your names?" Frank asked. "I didn't catch them earlier."/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""I'm Xander Fadler. Son of Apollo." said the blonde. Frank shook his hand./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Frank Zhang, son of Mars, legacy of Poseidon." said the Praetor. Xander's eyes drifted upwards like he was doing mental math./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""God of war. Greek is Ares, right? I'm new to this. Literally got one day at camp before I was sent on this quest." Xander said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Yes," said Frank. "That's what I call beginner's bad luck. And who are you two?" he asked as he pointed to the others./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""I'm Aria and this is my brother, Ash. We're the children of Aether… I mean, Cosmos." said the girl. Frank tensed./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""How did that happen?" he asked. "Isn't Cosmos in like, space?"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Mom was an astronaut." Ash said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Mom? Isn't Cosmos a goddess?" Frank asked./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Greek form is Aether, who is male," Ash snapped "Can we not talk about this schizophrenia?"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Uh… Sure."/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"After an awkward silence, Mia decided to speak up./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Why exactly do you need a Bacchus camper?" Mia asked. "Why not Mars, or Vulcan or-"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Duh, cause it was plainly stated that the roman spawn of 'The Cupbearer' would join us on this quest." Ash said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"That embarrased Mia./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""So… Mia… How would you feel about going on this quest?" Frank asked./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"For years she'd pondered about getting off of that camp that didn't even like her. Then she noticed the look on Ash's face. It was… Hopeful. She would never get that face out of her head. It made her think./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Give me about a day to pack, and prep myself." she said half-heartedly, to make it more effective. She walked back to her little corner in the 4th Cohorts dorm. As she was packing, she heard a familiar chuckle. She spun quickly with her sword in hand./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""I suggest you come out right now." Her sword glinted silver and gold in the light./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"A red eyed wolf walked out of the shadows./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Mia, you're going with them? You've chosen to leave me?" he asked. He turned human, a boy with silver hair and pale blue eyes. "You are my only friend. If i revealed myself to the rest of the camp, I would be murdered…"/div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Then come with me." Mia said./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"He smirked and melted into her shadow, Octavian's eerie laugh melting along with it./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia knew that was probably a bad idea, but no one else in Camp Jupiter appreciated her for who she was. She finished packing and walked out to the ship./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""So you're ready?" Ash asked./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;""Of course I am!" Mia answered./div
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div dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.2; text-indent: 0.63cm; font-family: OpenDyslexic; font-size: 20px;"Mia had never felt so ready. She felt like she could kill a Minotaur. She bounded onto the ship./div