I stood there, gapping, I mean, it's not like I meet a Greek Goddess every day…
"You wished for a sign, Hermione, why did you do so, don't you believe your father?" asked the beautiful goddess. She was truly beautiful, and intimidating. My mom looked at her, stunned; I think she's surprised that a goddess is wearing a business suit instead of a Greek toga and armor. I know I was…
"I don't tend to believe people when they talk about almost impossible things." I retorted, she smiled a small smile, I guess she likes me well enough…
"Almost?" she asked, she noticed every word I am saying? I impressed.
"What do you mean?" I asked her, playing dumb.
"You said almost, it shows you have a strong belief that's everything is possible. I like it very much, especially in my children…" I cut in…
"Yeah about that… I don't think it'll work out between us…" They are laughing; I don't think I said anything funny…
"Honey," Started my mother, the mortal one.
"You sound like you are breaking up with her… "Continued my father; In a way I am, I don't really want her as my mother, I already have one, the one who bothered raising me, even when she didn't have too. She loves me as her very own and I know nothing better, and I don't care for it ether.
"I know you want nothing more than go up those stairs and mail your friends, plan to visit them over the summer, but you have to go to the camp." Said Athena;
"I don't want to. I don't know you or your family; I am happy where I am." I said. Athena looked a little sad, is she for real?
"I know you want nothing to do with us, but you have too, camp half-blood was instituted for all demigods to come and learn how to defend themselves, and if you won't join the camp for at least on summer I am afraid you will get hurt, or worse, be killed." She does sounds concerned… Maybe I should give this camp a try.
"One summer, and if I don't like it YOU WILL let me return home!" I said and Athena looked victorious. Why? That I don't know, I just told her she must return me home if I don't like it in the camp…
"Oh, Hermione;" Athena started, am I dreaming or did she just smile and stroked my hair?
"You will love it there! And you will meet your twin sister and your other siblings…" There are more of my kind? More demigods, cool, I think… WAIT! Did she just say 'your twin sister' I have a twin sister which I know nothing about? What's wrong with you people! You don't tell me anything! And I still don't get it; I look nothing like Athena… like she read my mind she said;
"I almost forgot! The mist;"
"What mist?" I asked, looking out the window for any traces of mist in this sunny and bright day.
"The mist is what keeps mortals from seeing us the way we are, it hides the way we look and feel to the mortals and helps filling the gaps in their minds after they see something that is unnatural." She explained. Well, it sounds like a really easy memory charm…
"What does it have to do with me?" I asked her.
"Well, the way you look, of course, none of my children looks this way and neither does you. I surrounded you with mist the second you were born, I knew Tom is trying to take over the wizarding world and he would have taken any risk to have the second witch in my line, after all my only other daughter who was a witch is long gone, Rowena… She was a brilliant child, she really was." Said Athena; She changed the way I look, why did she make me so ugly.
"How do I really look?" I asked her; she smiled at me and clapped her hands once, a wind suddenly burst out of her clapped hands and surrounded me so I was completely covered in the mist, I felt myself change. My feet hurt, my face tingled, my brain buzzed and my eyes went watery for just a second but returned to normal almost immediately. Then, I knew I was changed. My mother, Athena, has given me a mirror, a simple, silver handled mirror, and I looked at my reflection, not recognizing myself. My once frizzy-bushy brown hair which was cut just below my shoulders has grown to a waist length golden-blond wavy-silky hair, my face, which was a bit childish, has defined itself to sharp lines of an almost godly beauty. My chocolate-brown deep eyes had gone softer in color, to a stormy grey with flecks of ocean blue. My skin, was as white as it was before but it was softer and silkier, making my skin almost glow in the light. I've grown taller too, about 6 inches, I was really tall for a girl before and now I feel like a giant, well, almost like… I was 6'3 foot now, it's actually scary, and I was only 3 inches shorter than Ron and about 5 inches taller than Harry and Ginny.
I looked at Athena and asked,
"Are you sure this is how I look?"
"Yes," She laughed,
"I do not control the way you look anymore, though all of my children bare those genes of blond hair and grey eyes… so if you really want to do so, I guess you can blame me for the way you look, but I do know that girls at your age will kill for a body like yours."
"Yeah! They would kill for it. They will kill me." I protested, I really don't know what I was protesting about, it was my body, I couldn't change this fact… and girls would have killed for a body like mine, I guess I just have to get used to it…
"Do you need time to pack or you are all ready to go?" asked Athena,
"I am all ready to go," I sighed, I was really going to miss my parents and those days, I don't know if I even get to see them again in the future. Athena smiled and held out her hand and my trunk flew into her open palm after being shrunken. I guess being a goddess has few positive things in it…
"How do I get to this camp?" I asked Athena, she looked at me thoughtfully before answering.
"I think I would take you there, what do you think?" I don't think she was waiting for an answer because she motioned for me to make my farewells, well, I did make them, they were kind of tearful but I managed through them. Athena locked her arms around me in a firm hug like manner, I was feeling a bit drowsy and then I was feeling as fresh as I could be after hearing all those amazing but weird stories and I was standing at the beautiful area of Camp Half-Blood.