Hey guys, sorry for not uploading sooner, I was kinda busy. Anyways, chapter twelve! Enjoy!
SAM'S POV
After walking back to my cabin, I crashed onto my bed and fell asleep immediately. The only problem was, I woke again in the middle of the night to someone whimpering in pain…which was me. My eyes felt like they were burning off and it seriously hurt. I struggled to stand up, but I couldn't see because I had shut my eyes tight. It felt a bit better when I did that. I shuffled around, feeling with my hands until I finally reached the door. I slid out of the cabin and took a deep breath. It was a bit chilly at midnight and I just sat there. Hopefully there's someone in the infirmary, I thought.
Finally, after like an hour of stumbling around, crashing into cabins and tripping over myself, I arrived at the Big House. I opened my eyes for a second to make sure, which caused my eyes to burn and hurt like hell, and then pushed the door open. I heard a grunt and then hooves.
"Hi," I muttered, "Sorry for waking you up."
Then a voice I didn't know said: "Hello demigod, what are you doing here?"
"I'm looking for Chiron," I said.
"Argus!" said a voice I did know. "It's fine, I'll talk to her." I could feel Chiron kneel down next to me, well, the way horses get down. He was probably seeing what was wrong with me. Then he led me over to a chair.
"Can you open your eyes please?" he asked. I opened them for a second and then squeezed them shut again.
"It hurts," I said. I heard Chiron leave and after a while he was back again. He put a cool cloth in my hands. It smelled funny.
"This should make the pain become less," he said. I felt it and shrugged. Then I covered my eyes with it. Instantly the pain subsided.
"Wow," I said. I tied a knot to the back of my head and rested my head in my hands. Then I drifted off into sleep.
"Go sit next to Samantha."
I jerked awake at my name. I tried to open my eyes instinctively but they stung a bit, like I was opening my eyes under water. My eyes are getting much better, I thought. I heard someone approach me and sit down in a chair, which made a lot of creaky sounds. I got a bit annoyed.
"Are you…are you bli—I mean, are you okay?" asked someone. Rylan, I thought angrily. Why does he have to appear everywhere?
"Did you think about my warning?" I replied in a flat voice. He probably didn't. But whatever. It's none of my business. He didn't say anything.
"Whatever," I said, "It doesn't matter to me."
"If it didn't matter to you, why would you warn me?"
My face got a bit hot, and I really wanted to tell him to stop being so damn smart.
"Shut up," I said. He laughed.
"How do your eyes feel?" called Chiron from across the room. I tried opening them again. Nothing hurt.
"They don't hurt anymore," I replied. I heard hooves again. Then gentle hands pulled on the knot that I tied using the cloth and the cloth fell off. The light was blinding after having my eyes closed for so long. I squinted at everything. Soon, my eyes adjusted and I could see clearly.
First thought I had was: Rylan has a wig on. Then I looked closer and realized that it was his hair. Except there were random strips of red in the natural brown.
"Whoa," I said, "Look at your hair." Rylan's hands went up to his head immediately like he wanted to cover it.
"But, uh, it doesn't look bad," I added quickly.
"Samantha, turn this way," Chiron said.
"It's Sam," I said. I gritted my teeth but I still turned to him.
"That's fascinating," he murmured to himself. Huh?
"What's fascinating?" I asked, confused. Chiron gestured to my head with his hands to Rylan. Rylan looked at something.
"What the cheese?" he said.
"What are you guys looking at?" I blurted out. I got up and walked to the nearest bathroom. I glanced at the mirror above the sink. Everything was the same except I didn't have my white lines around my eyes anymore, they were gone. Then I noticed my eyes. Instead of brown like they used to be, they were…green. And blue.
One eye was sea green like Percy, while the other was lightning blue…like the guy called Jason Grace.
"Oh my gods," I said. I walked out of the bathroom and round on Chiron.
"What's going on?" I asked. It came out a bit more furiously than I would have liked. He just gestured behind me and I glanced over my shoulder. There, sitting on a chair was the girl Lianne. She didn't look any different, except her arms and legs were covered in black lines that looked like tattoos. I turned back to Chiron.
"What's going on?" I repeated.
He sighed. "I believe that the gods' powers that you three have received have caused you three to have ah, physical changes. Too much power," said Chiron. He glanced outside the window.
"I think you have to go," he said. I got up with Rylan and we both headed out to the dining pavilion. Lianne was still in the Big House with Chiron. The moment we stepped out from the Big House I scooted away from Rylan, just to avoid Drew getting angry or jealous or whatever, but anyways I've had enough of her.
I sat down at the Aphrodite table, my head down to avoid people seeing my eyes and going "What, you got a makeover for your eyes? How's that possible?".
"Hi."
I glanced up. Oops. I looked down again. But then I looked up slowly again, just to see who it was. It was Piper. She sat down at the table, and she was pretty late, but I didn't mention anything. She gestured to her eyes. I shrugged and she shrugged too, like whatever.
"I just went to see Chiron," she said while starting to munch on a French toast in a really unladylike way (I guess she wasn't a complete Aphrodite freak).
"Well, you're not doing activities with cabin 10 anymore, so um, here's your new schedule," she said, handing me a sheet of paper.
"Right," I said. And…my day went something like this:
Sword-fighting training with Clarisse
"Hurry up!" yelled Clarisse. I ran after her into the arena. Having sword-fighting with the Ares cabin was not nice. First they ran laps around the camp. Which killed my legs. Then they tried to kill each other with weird bronze swords. I groaned. I was not really enjoying my first day of camp. Clarisse picked out a sword for me.
"You're training with me, runt," she said, "Chiron's orders."
"What is this stuff?" I asked, running my hand over the blade.
"Celestial bronze. Okay, attack me," she grunted.
I stared at her. "What?"
"I am a daughter of Ares. Are you questioning my skills? ATTACK ME!"
I jolted into action and well, charged Clarisse. And ended up on the ground with her sword point under my chin and my sword five feet behind her. Yep, I really loved this.
"Get up," Clarisse growled, "You need a lot of training."
Archery with the Apollo cabin
"There she is!" called a tall guy with blonde hair. He grinned at me.
"Let's test your archery skills. I'm Will," he said. He held out his hand to me. I shook it.
"Sam," I muttered. Will waved all the other Apollo guys away to practice on their own. He gestured to a small bow. It was tiny.
"Yours," he said. I picked it up.
"It's tiny!"
"So are you."
"Hey!"
He showed me how to notch an arrow, etc. I tried shooting. The arrow hit the bull's eye on the first shot with a pleasing smack. I turned and grinned at Will. He raised an eyebrow.
"Now I'll believe that talk about you receiving Apollo and Artemis's powers," he said.
Some kind of weird training with Percy
"Hi," said Percy when I approached the lake. He stood right on the edge of it, waiting for me. No one else was there.
"We're training here?" I asked, confused. Percy nodded.
"Okay, come stand here in front of me," he said. I did. And suddenly, I was in the water. I didn't even had time to hold my breath. I gurgled the water a bit but didn't choke. I held in what little bit of air was left in my lungs. I tried to swim back up but people started canoeing. I had to go back down to avoid them bashing my head. Problem was, I couldn't hold my breath in anymore. Nothing heroic like I am prepared to die came into my head, my only thought was SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEE!
I took a breath, knowing that the water would probably fill my lungs and drown me, etc. but it didn't happen. What happened was, I literally took a breath. In the water.
"Cool, eh?" someone said. I turned and saw Percy next to me. In the water. We had a conversation that went something like this:
"What the heck is going on?"
"Huh?"
"Am I in an illusion, I mean I'm breathing underwater dude."
"This is real, Sam."
"I think I'm going crazy."
"Looks like your Poseidon powers actually work…" Some more muttering to himself.
"What?"
"Nothing."
Some kind of even weirder training with Jason Grace
"Can you fly?" Jason asked me.
"Uh, no," I said like it was obvious. Jason shrugged.
"Let's try then," he said. He gave me an end of a thick rope.
"Tie a knot," he ordered. So I did.
"Alright, hang on tight," he said.
"What?"
Jason shot up into the air with the other end of the rope, which wasn't very long, about 1 foot. He could fly, I thought in amazement. I held on tight to the rope as we shot up into the air. 20 feet, 30 feet, 40 feet, 50 feet…right until the camp couldn't be seen anymore.
"Are you trying to kill us?" I yelled up to Jason. He shrugged again. My hands were sweaty and started to slip.
"I'm slipping!" I yelled at Jason. He just smiled. Crazy people, I thought. But I couldn't worry about that. Because at that moment I couldn't hold on any longer. And…I fell.
Panic washed over me and I screamed as I fell. Jason flew a few feet above me.
"Balance!" he yelled at me. "Balance on the air with your feet, can you feel it?" Well, I didn't have time to feel anything. I just screamed as the ground got nearer and nearer, 'cause I seriously didn't want to become a grease spot on the ground.
"Balance!" Jason yelled again. I had no choice but to try it. Problem: I was hopeless. I moved my feet around uselessly. I couldn't feel anything in the air that I could step on. The ground was getting closer and the ant-sized campers were growing at the speed of light.
"Uh," I heard Jason say, "Right Samantha, I'm going to get you!" I glanced down at the ground. I could see people staring up at me.
"AHHHHHH!" I screamed. 10 feet, 2 feet, I could see every speck of dirt and suddenly I felt something pull on my gut. Time slowed down and I watched as a strip of lightning came out of nowhere. My nose touched the ground and the lightning hit me straight on and blasted me backwards. I landed on my back with a huge "Oomph!". I stared up at the blue sky.
I'm dead, I thought. I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead. I got killed by some suicidal flying guy.
And Jason's face appeared over my face.
"Ah!" I scrambled back from him. He grinned at me.
"You're alive," he said, "And you can't fly. Nice to know I'm the only one." I wanted to punch him. I mean, what kind of joke was that?
"You can summon lightning though," he said thoughtfully. I let my head fall back. What a day.
Thanks for reading all that! Wow, that's my longest chapter so far. Eh, it was more like some kind random drabbles, but whatever!
-mi5hao