hey Thanks for everyone who is reading this. Hope you love it. I'm so excited. We're getting to the war and It's so fun to write. This chapter is really important.
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This time skips to the day the Romans arrived at Camp Half-Blood
I was sitting in my cabin when it happened. Lacey came running up onto the porch and started pounding on the door.
"Clair, Clair you've got to come see this." She called through the door. I quickly ran over to the door. The last few days had been really boring. Nothing happened. I had practically perfected sparing using my wings. Flying and trying to fight someone although easier from above is still hard.
I ran behind Lacey. I was wearing sweat pants so it wasn't hard to follow her. We arrived at the barrier and I instantly thought of what Chiron had said. I pushed it to the back of my mind. We looked down the hill past Thalia's tree. Beyond the trees the thinning tree, there was people running around. I couldn't see much but I could tell that they were wearing purple shirts.
Lacey nudged me then handed me Binoculars. Looking into them I could see the writing on their shirts SPQR then underneath that Camp Jupiter. I had heard that before most definitely. Every single one had at least what looked like swords or bows. Some had both and some had even more strapped to them.
" Are they here to talk?" I said nervously.
"Follow me I'll show you. We made our way moving through the trees. Which got thicker as we moved. Then we came to a stop near where the forest started where we played capture the flag. There were even more Romans down there.
Large Catapults were being set up. They were preparing for war.
"What did we do to them?" I asked Lacey. She shrugged. Then it clicked. Leo had said he had been possessed. If he attacked the Romans and then went to Rome and from there to Greece. Maybe they decided to attack us instead?
"Chiron's going to try to talk to them. Although their Monsters have been following them. He says he's seen them. Centaurs with horns in their heads, evil cyclopes." She said.
I forced myself to look surprised, and said, "Wow, how long have they been here? Did they arrive today?"
"We're not sure. I don't think they could set up those catapults dock boats away from our shore and set up camps." she said. " They've probably been here a few days, two or three.
She looked at me and then said, " I'm going to breakfast, return the binoculars when you are done."
Then she walked away. I watched the Romans for a little bit. Then I decided to get closer try and hear what they might be yelling. It was a crazy idea but I did it anyways.
I silently moved closer. Carefully placing my feet. They finally I was as close as I was comfortable getting. A boy with blonde hair wearing a toga over a pair of jeans and a purple shirt was yelling orders out. Octavian, his name is Octavian. The boy that asked if I missed him.
For a moment I thought about yelling out to him. I quickly denounced it. That was most likely suicide.
Then the next thing I heard took my breath away, " Matt come help your siblings with the next catapult." Then I saw the boy, Matt.
He was the taller than Mark was, had dark brown hair and with the binoculars I could see he had dark brown eyes. He had a small pendant that was tucked underneath shirt.
Suddenly someone tapped me on the back. I whirled around and almost screamed. They cover my mouth. "Shh do you want to get us caught?" Sherman said. "What are you doing this close, if they saw you! Come on let's get back to camp. I'm guessing you haven't eaten.
He placed a hand on my back and lead me away. Once we were back inside the barrier he turned to me and said. "You don't even have your sword. Clair, oh my gods if they took you! Chiron would go crazy!"
"I'm fine they didn't see me. Sherman, I'm fine." I say quickly. I can't focus now. He looked so uptight like he had been hurt badly. Just like my Matt would be like. He looked like he should. But then why were all these memories coming back. I didn't remember them before why was I know.
"Thats it, I'm handcuffing you to me." Sherman said he grabbed my wrist tightly and pulled me towards his cabin. I knew I couldn't escape so I followed willingly. He opened the door and pulled me inside.
It hadn't changed a whole lot since Mark left, just had one more open bed.
He put the handcuff on him and I before dragging me to breakfast. He pulled me over to the Ares table and sat made room between Clarisse and some other guy. I sat down next to him.
Clarisse pulled a plate over for me and then asked, "What's with the handcuffs Sherman?"
The food appeared on the plate, using my right hand was weird. I was left handed and Sherman was right handed.
" I found her spying on the Romans and then she started ignoring me so I'm keeping her safe." He said with what might have been pride. One glance at Clarisse was all I needed before she said, " Give me the key." he handed it to her. She unlocked me.
I shrugged and continued eating. A few minutes later she asked, " You going to move you your table?"
"Nah, It's too lonely." I said.
"Don't blame if my father tries to kill you." She said laughing.
After Breakfast Clarisse, Lacey and I went back out to the spot I was at earlier. This time of course I had my sword.
We were watching them when a boy with hair as dark as mine appeared a little too close. He was talking to Octavian.
I heard him say, "Do you really think it would look intimidating?"
Octavian then said, "Yes, we have a winged demigod and they don't have one." I grinned at this.
"Gods, he's handsome. Easy on the eyes too." Lacey said. Clarisse nodded in agreement.
"Well the Romans just won." I whispered quietly still watching him.
He then pulled off his shirt. "Oh, my gods." Both Lacey and I whispered but for two different reasons. Lacey was looking at his muscles I was looking at his back. He unfolded his wings. White like an angel. Just like people described Cupid's wings.
"He's a son of Cupid." The weirdest thing was he didn't look dangerous. My father described Cupid as to hansome. To hansome that you'll notice something was wrong.
In the days to come Lacey and I returned to spy on the Romans. Clarisse was busy preparing our army in case we attacked.
During this time I learned his name was Owen, Owen Tang. He was the son of Cupid (Couldn't have guessed that one.) He had six older brother, he being the seventh son of Cupid. He was the only one with wings. Oh yeah and they have a war elephant.
Owen would sit really close to where we were but he never acknowledged us if he noticed us, but we also made sure we were hard to see.
Then one day when I was there by myself he was in the field and that's when he started talking aloud at first I thought he was talking to me.
"Father says Thanatos is dangerous. I mean yeah for the God of Death of couse he is. But does he have a grudge against children of Cupid or something?" I carefully looked at him he was talking to someone a few feet to the left of me.
Then I heard Octavian say, "It's because they both had sons the same age back in Rome and Greece and they were actually pretty good friends but then they turned against each other and Your brother killed one. The Thanatos took his spirit and probably placed him in the fields of punishment.
"Hmm seems extreme to still not get along. I wonder if he has any children now? Imagine my father's face if I was dating Thanatos's daughter. Oh if I had children. I think he would murder everyone on the planet." He was rolling around on the ground laughing.
Octavian was having a hard time speaking, "Owen,... Get off the⦠ground...it's not Roman of you.
I smiled . It was nice to know they joked around sometimes.
Thanks for reading. I've decided to go past where the book ends. Probably time skipping into Clair's early twenties or so. Thanks for everyone reading this. If you have any thing yo u think would be nice make sure to leave it in a review- Tyme
