AN/ Hey! I am seriously sorry for being this terrible at updating. School has been tough and I have had some writer's block with this but luckily I have a three day weekend and was able to work this chapter out! Thank you for sticking with me and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or Twilight
Bella's POV (as promised)
"Well, that was fun. Come on lil' sis, I want to show you around camp." I grabbed her arm and pulled her into motion beside me. I started pointing out the cabins, activities, and all the other fun stuff but I noticed she wasn't really paying attention.
"Hello, earth to Pippa." I started waving my hand in front of her face She shook her head and looked at me with a dazed expression.
I chuckled. "Wow, didn't think I was that boring. Maybe I can use this next time one of the Ares kids try to get to me." I smiled.
She laughed. "No, your not that boring,they will still taunt you." I laughed. "I'm sorry for not paying attention. I was just thinking why I couldn't have just been normal, you know? I mean, I don't even know what I am. I'm not even a Half-Blood! Am I a goddess? Athena said I was creation, so am I just a clone or something? What am I supposed to help with? I'm just really confused, that's all." She finished with a small frown on her face. I smiled and gave her shoulders a tight squeeze.
"I can't ell you too much, seeing as I am actually kind of new here myself, but I can tell you that your not alone. Whatever you are, you have the whole Athena cabin plus Percy behind you. We won't let you down." I smiled at her, hoping to reassure her that everything will be OK. She smiled back a grateful grin.
"Hey Bella! Who you got there!" Travis and Connor yelled at us, coming out of the Hermes cabin. Uh oh I thought.
"Hold on to anything you count as valuable. She nodded and took her bracelet off and held it in her hands. I took my wallet out of my pocket and got a tight grip on it.
"Bella, it's not nice to keep things to yourself. Are you going to introduce short stuff here?" Travis said, mischief clear in his eyes.
"I'm not that short." Pippa glared. Nice Travis, already getting the newbie to hate you.
"I'm sorry for my brother's rudeness, but he can't help himself. He was dropped as a baby." Connor smirked at Travis who just glared at him.
"My name's Pippa, and don't worry. I forgive you. If both of you promise not to ever try to steal my stuff." Pippa smiled knowingly. She was good.
"Deal. So Pippa, who is your parent exactly?" Travis questioned. Pippa winced.
"I'm not sure, Bella can you explain, I think I'm gonna go retire to the nice comfortable bed in the Athena Cabin." Pippa asked, looking hopeful at me. I nodded and chuckled as I saw her shoulders fall in relief. She smiled at me and ran off to the Athena cabin. I saw Annabeth there welcoming her in.
"So, if she doesn't know then why did she go off to the Athena cabin?" Connor asked.
"And if she is Athena's, why didn't she just tell us?" Travis quickly said, making sure I answered all of the questions.
"Well, lets just say she isn't a Half-Blood. Not exactly anyway. We are still trying to figure out the details, but she is a creation of Poseidon and Athena." They still looked confused but nodded.
I talked to them a little bit more about some random subjects then left to follow Pippa's example. I entered the cabin to find almost everybody asleep. Annabeth was on her computer and Malcolm was looking over some papers.
I smiled at Annabeth and grabbed some cloths for the shower. Once I was done I towel-dried my hair as best as I could, not wanting to wake anyone up with a hair dryer. I jumped in bed and grabbed a Greek version of Wuthering Heights. Annabeth had given it to me on my first day here.
"Hey Bella?" I turned my head to the whispering Annabeth. Speak of the devil...
"Yes Annabeth?" I whispered.
"Do you have those boots that I told Aphrodite to give to you?" She whispered.
"Oh ya, I'm sorry I forgot to give those back." I started to move out of my bed but she stopped me.
"No, it's fine I want you to keep them, but did they work OK?" She asked with hope filled eyes.
"If you mean they fly then ya they worked great! I love them and they were a big help." I answered. Her eyes were lit with joy at my answer.
"Alright, thank you Bella. That's all I needed to know. Night Bells." and with that she crept to her bed. I chuckled and decided just to go to sleep.
I put Wuthering Heights under my pillow and closed my eyes.
I was in a large cavern. It was dark and there was a pit about 50 meters ahead. I could here low voices down in the pit put couldn't quite make out what they were saying. I was trying to listen when they stopped.
"So little Bella has come to see us. How wonderful." a chilling voice spoke from the depths of the pit. I shivered.
"No, reason to be scared. I don't bite, come help me Bella, I can return your father to you. Help me rise and I can to much more than that." the voice said. I realized who I was talking to. Kronos.
"Come help me Bella, come help me and I can make you Princess of this world. Come little Isabella, come..." I could feel the voice sucking me into the pit. I screamed and tried to run away but my feet felt like lead. I screamed and screamed until I felt someone shaking me.
"Bella wake up! Bella what's wrong? Please, wake up!" I pulled myself towards the kinder voice.
I sat up gasping, Annabeth and Pippa giving me worried looks. The whole cabin was looking at me, some of them still in their eds but most of them were up and around.
"Bella are you alright? You just started screaming out of nowhere, you sounded extremely frightened." Pippa asked, I nodded.
"It was just a dream, I'm OK." I said, still trying to catch my breath. Annabeth and Malcolm exchanged a worried glance. Malcolm came over from his bed.
"Bella, demi-god dreams are never just nightmares or good dreams. I is the Fates trying to tell you something. Either something that is happening or something that will happen. You can pop up in the middle of someones conversation and not move from your bed." Malcolm said. Oh shit.
"I dreamed of Kronos, in Tartarus. He kept saying to come help him, that he could bring my father back and make me princess of the world or something. I felt his voice staring to pull me in but I couldn't run away." I whispered. Annabeth looked at me worried. She nodded.
"OK, get dressed and then we will all go to breakfast. I will take this to Chiron and see what he says about it." She walked away and finished getting ready for the day. I got up and got out an orange camp t-shirt, some khaki shorts that went to about mid-thigh, and some my Nike shocks. I went to go take another shower and used Annabeth's hair dryer. It didn't look all that bad, so I just left it down and put a hair band around my wrist for later.
"You ready Bella?" Pippa asked from the door way. She was wearing her reddish-auburn hair up in a high ponytail. She had on the camp shirt and some black cross country shorts.
'DO you only wear cross country shorts?" I asked her.
"Ya well, they are really comfortable and really easy to fight in." she said.
"Ok, I get what you mean." I walked out of the bathroom with her behind me.
"Oh, wait." I said and ran back in the bathroom. I grabbed my necklace and my bracelet off the counter and ran back out the door. Don't want to leave those lying around.
We walked to the dining pavilion and saw almost every cabin except for the Aphrodite kids. Of course they are probably still getting ready.
Annabeth was talking urgently with Chiron. He had a scowl on his face and I couldn't mistake the fear in his eyes.
"Hello, earth to Bella? Is this reversed or something now?" I shook my head and smiled at Pippa. We walked to out table and waited to begin.
"Camp Half-Blood. We got a new camper yesterday. Pippa, Daughter of Athena." I gave Chiron a knowing glance. He didn't want the other campers to be worried since she technically wasn't a Half-Blood. Pippa seemed to understand as well as she seemed to give a quick wave to everyone.
"Now, let's eat!" He clapped and immediately food appeared on our pates. Pippa looked confused at her goblet, which was still empty.
"Talk to it. Tell the goblet what you want." she looked at me like I was crazy. "Just do it." She nodded but probably still thought I was loony.
"Non-alcoholic Shirley Temple please." she said. Immediately the goblet filled with a red fizzy substance. I laughed.
"Not so crazy anymore am I?" I chuckled. She laughed and took a sip. I heard her moan with pleasure.
I told my goblet to give me cherry soda and took a drink. I got up and gave two strawberries to Athena. I saw Pippa do the same to Athena, Poseidon, and strangely Aphrodite.
After we were done, we started walking back to the Sword Arena. None other than Clarisse stopped us.
"Alright, left Bella alone, but people will start to thing I'm going soft If I leave little Carrot -top be." she said, the other Ares campers snickered behind her.
"Don't call me Carrot-top" Pippa said defiantly, glaring Clarisse right in the eye. Huh, that's a first.
"Hmm, I don't know, I like the nickname. It really suits you. SO, Carrot-top, watch are ya' gonna do about it?" Clarissa mocked her.
"How about a fight in the sword arena? If I win, You have to stop calling me anything but my real name Pippa, and you get to be my personal slave. If you win I get to be your personal slave for the the next week and you have all mocking rights." Pippa said. Well, she was getting herself into some deep shit.
"Your on. Let's go." Clarisse and Pippa walked to the sword Arena and stared gearing up. Clarisse got her armor and her electric spear and went to the middle. Pippa grabbed her dolphin charm and her sword came out onto her hand. She looked around for some armor but none fit. I walked over.
"Here, borrow mine, we're about the same size." I said. I tapped the first and second charms. The breast plate popped onto my chest but I took it off and helped Pippa put it on. I handed her the shield.
"Sorry, I don't have a helmet." I looked around for one but she was walking to the middle before I could stop her.
"You got guts, I respect that." Clarisse said. Then she charged right in. To anyone besides Pippa and maybe Percy it would look like a weak spot, but Pippa immediately parried the spear and jumped to the side. She made a jab the I knew wouldn't be lethal, she was testing Clarisse.
Clarisse jumped to the side to avoid the jab but she landed off balance. Pippa immediately twisted Clarisse's spear with her sword and sent it flying to the ground. Pippa pointed the tip of her sword to Clarisse's throat.
"That was the same move Percy used against Luke the first day he fought him." Annabeth said next to me.
"Really, maybe it's in the blood." I joked. She laughed.
"Well, that was honestly amazing. But I was going easy." Clarisse said, but I could see fear in her eyes.
"Sure you were. I didn't think it was in the mean Ares campers to go easy." Pippa taunted, smirking at the easy defeat. Clarisse glared at Pippa as she put down her sword.
Pippa started walking towards the benches and yelled back over her shoulder, "Oh and Clarisse?" Clarisse looked at Pippa, anger in her eyes. "Find me some armor please, and once your done with that I think my sword needs to be polished." Pippa sat down and started taking off my armor. Meanwhile Annabeth and I could not stop laughing as Clarisse stalked over to the armory to get Bella her armor.
"Good going sis!" Malcolm yelled. Pippa winked at me and handed back my shield and breast plate. I had a feeling we were going to have a lot of fun together.
AN/ Hey! I hoped you liked it and I'm sorry if you didn't. I tried to make it longer because I felt bad about the other chapters being so short. Thank you and R&R!
~Liz