Chapter Four
I leaving now. I'm sure of it. My pain will finally end. I lay on the cold, snowy, ground. I am in-between. Here and there, alive and dead. The cold presences still havn't left me. One felt as though it were draining out the life from within me. Draining me dry of my soul. Another felt like a part of me, something important that was never told. The last was something dark, evil. My eyelids flutter open. It's dark and I'm alone. Alone in the infirmary. I look at the clock then at the calender. Just a week and one day has past. Wow, I really like to sleep. It's nine pm. I stand up and walk to the Hermes cabin. Alone in the dark. It's funny how I always manage to end up doing everything on my own. I hear owls howting in the night. Nocturnal bird's wings flapping as part of the air. I can just picture them. I wish I was a bird, always belonging to something greater then myself. Flying away from things that can hurt me, with someone at my side, without worry. Someone to come away with me...
But sadly, life isn't so kind. I can hear the branches of the trees rustling in the wind. I reach the triangular shape thingy that makes up the cabins. I go to the Hermes and silently enter. I remember Annabeth told me, there weren't as many Hermes campers now as ther used to be. The gods were claming their children more. I was just the unlucky one that was sadly forgotten by my parent. Thrown away in the gutter, forgotten completly. Killing those I love. Thats me. I reach a space of empty floor with a folded blanket tucked in the corner. I grab it and sit on the cold ground of a stall in the bathroom. I grab it and wrap it around me. I just want to go home. Where I belong. I can tell I'm not a demiigod. People like me aren't that special. They can't be given that special privilege. I eventually cry myself to sleep. I want to go home. I admit it. I'm weak. I need my aunt who's words of wisdom, helped me throw the worst of the worst.
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I wake up to hear the banging of fists on the door. I get up fold my blanket and tuck it under my arm. My friends tell me I'm a pretty fast runner. I run track at my school, so some people have told me that I have good legs and that I run so quick I can't be seen. I take it as a joke, cause that's not posible, WAIT, IS IT? Well, I'll trust them now. I throw open the door, and run like a mad man. Which means as fast as I can. When I reach the door I take a note of my sorrundings, it's early. Five AM-ish. I slow, and walk inside my cabin, everyone else is still asleep. I look at the spot that was claimed for me. On it were shorts and a shirt that said Camp Halfblood. I pull the shirt slowly over my head, feeling sluggish and sore. And I slip the shorts under the hospital gown, awear of my cabin mates. I then slip the hospital gown from under my shirt. I put on the combat boots that were next to my space, and drop down, and I slowly, but evntually slip into restless, dreamless, sleep and it's dark clutches.
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I wake with a start. I feel three pairs of hands shaking me. As if fearing the worst might have happened. My eyes fly open and I sit up right. Grover, Annabeth, and Percy were trying to wake me. I look at their faces and can't help but laugh out loud.
"Wakey, wakey sleepy head,"mutters Annabeth under her breathe. I laugh louder and pinch her checks.
"See, she's not that bad," says Percy, as he helps her up. Grover follows and he helps me to. It's only when I'm standing, do I realize that Grover isn't wearing pants. I look down and see that he has fur as thick as a llama and he has hoves. I stumble backwards, catching my balance in a few.
"You. Are. Half. Llama. Or saytr."I say."Put on some pants, dude," I giggle. I can tell I woke a couple of Hermes campers. "Hey do you guys here have like, um, kareoke!"
"Of course!"said a camper from the other end of the room. He had stood up straight, and was talking to another camper. he had chestnut brown hair and light skin (light because he wasn't pale nor was he olive-toned), and blue eyes. He wasn't exactly tall, he wasn't taller then me,that's for sure. But he was about my hieght, all I could say for you guys to know who he looks like is, he was a dead ringer (almost looked like the guys identical twin, even spoke like him!) for Michael J. Fox in 1985, when he was in the greatest movie of all time Back to the Future. "We have those every Saturday,"he said, leaning against the back wall, he ha the posture of an olympic medalist and the slyness of a jungle cat."Everyone loves them, escpecially my syblings."
"Well, I take it your a kid of Apollo," I say. When he nodds yes, I say,"Like father like son." And grab the three behind me and walk out. I grab a crosant off the tray of one of the Ares kids who happene to be passing by. I shouldn't have done that next thing I know I was being chased. I ran past the amphitheater. People their saw me and the unknown kid chasing me, and started to follow to see whats going on. I couldn't help but reach into my pockets while running, I always did that to get my iPod to add theme music. I reach in knowing that my iPod wouldn't be there but it was! Ha ha! MY PARENT REALLY DOES LOVE ME! I put on my headphones and while running I put on the perfect song! Johnny B. Goode sung by Marty McFly! I tripped over my laces but didn't break my face! Lucky me! I scrambled to get up and wiped the sweat off my face. I ran by Eura creek, the wind wiping my face gave me live. Made my cheeks sting. This is probably the closest that I'll get to being like a bird, free of worries. I ran as fast as I wanted to, giving the kid my back to try and grab. I ran, my arms close to the ground my legs low, running as if I was crouching. People told me I ran like a majestic lioness, ha! but that didn't fool me! I knew I ran pretty fast but not nearly graceful. And you know what, this only fueled me more! I saw the Mess Hall and saw my route to escape. I jumped over stream of water that cut through the camp and lead to the Long Island Sound. My legs as a bungee spring. I saw the climbing Wall, rising before my eyes. Perfecto! I run to it and jump catching on to a rung, four feet above me, that juted out and caught my attention. Suddenly, started an avalanche. I knew the Ares kid's anger was just building and soon enough I felt a tug on my shoes. I looked down and saw it was a huge girl.
"I killed a drakon. I can take you with my eyes closed,"she said, I looked to the ground and saw OD campers were gathering around! I kicked her face and raced up the wall. I felt my heart pumping in my chest and I felt as though it was going to come out my chest. I raced the wall as fast as I could while many obstacles tried to slowed me down. Lava. Avalanches. Fireballs. I slowed several times, but not enough for her to knock me down. I quickly reached the top and saw how far the bottom was and how close the girl was. When she reached the top, she alost grabbed my shirt when I let go completely.
I was pumbling down. soon enough, my feet made contact with the ground, and I heard a snap. I landed on my shines. I alowed a two seconds rest and looked up to see she was already on the ground standing up. I can't help but imagine the gods laughing about it now. I can hear Ares in my ear taunting me and my parent,"Oh, ? you're gonna get it GOOD!" I can hear all the gods laughing, and I'm wondering if my parent is one of them. This only fuels me even MORE. "Expect the UNEXPECTED!" I shouted to the girl as I bounced to my feet and ran backwards just as fast as I ran forward. I turn around and my face had a clision with a tree. Smack! RIGHT ON THE PUCKER! I bounced off and feel on my tush.
"Yeah! Expect the unexpected!"said the girl. She pulled me off my butt, grabbing on to my shirt and raised me higher than my desired hieght. I was dangling. I could feel the splinters in my gums. I felt blood coming from my mouth. I though it would taste like copper. But it tasted like cherry soda. She punched my nose and droped me. I fell on my stomach.
"I think that's enough Clarisse,"I heard three people say at about different times. One was Chiron the Centuar. The other was Percy. And oddly enough the other kid was the Fox look-a-like. But oh, she didn't stop. As she kicked me at my side, I saw the water fill my field of vision. Touch it, those voices again!
"Stop it," I whispered softly. I looked at the water again. I remember how when I couldn't kill myself in the snow I would either try to cut myself or drown myself. The water was a sweet escape, even now. I remember that the water would fill my lungs, as would air. It calmed me. It did not do my bidding. I now struggle to crawl towards. I can tell nobody is looking at me now, they are all arguing with this so-called Clarisse. I give up. I can't crawl to it. I instead pull myself to it with my tired arms. It felt like I just had a trmendous wieght dropped on my shoulders. My fingertips just glaze the water, but I want more. I pull myself until my whole torso is in. I fell the water healing me. As Apollo would with his medicine. I breathe in the water. I block out the gasps I hear from above the water. I fell brand new. I look around the water and see it has turned purple. Purple with my blood. I can see that where ever a fish goes near my blood, it dies. I am a monster. I jump out the water with a start. I scramble backwards. I see a dead baby sea horse. I feel tears stream down my checks. I always silently cried. I didn't shake, nor made noises. Tears just spilled from my eyes. I wiped them and felt not only was my face and hair was wet, but my shirt, my pants and boots. NOT MY BOOTS! I now felt furious! I stood up swiftly and faced her. If shoting lazer throw your eyes was posible sh would be Fried Clarisse. Stood on my tip-toes on stared her down. I felt a sudden rage and punched her in her diaphram, knocking the breathe out of her. With the heel of my pal hit her zeros and her nose in an up right mostion. Kicked the back of her knee, as she fell back I catched her in the himlech position, and put her in a headlock. But she was quick to recover and just stood up straight lifting me up off the ground. "Damn it!" I growled. I grabed on to her as if she was giving me a piggyback ride. Until she slamed me against a tree.
I let go and saw as four girls pulled Clarisse back, and I heard her growl," LET ME AT HER!" More poeple held her back. I wiped the sweat from my face with the back of my hands and stood my ground. Grover, Percy, and Annabeth walk over to me then stop walking. It seems that everyone stopped what they where doing. They all looked at me. Then Chiron pointed up as everyone bowed. I looked up and saw two signs and heard two voices,"Your parents have claimed you, my daughter..."
A/N if you don't know who Michael J. Fox is SHAME ON YOU and look him up he is just so uber delicious in Back to the Future! plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz plz REVIEW WITH SUGGESTIONS! Hey! I'm putting up a new poll! Answer the poll! or PM what you think!