Hope you guys liked the first chapter.
Here come the second one yey.
When Darcy is being claimed everyone's reaction is different, some scream (like me), others gasp. 2 new kids who turned up yesterday who haven't been claimed scream loads as they have no idea its normal and they was sat either side of Darcy. Reactions to being claimed usually aren't this bad but what can you expect when you claimed by Hades, god of the underworld, one of the big three. Chiron didn't quite know what to do; I had been at camp 4 years and seen loads of kids claimed but never any from the big three. Admittedly Percy was son of Poseidon and Nico was also son of Hades who had been claimed but they were both before me and Darcy came. I was good friends with Percy, I knew most people at came and got on with near enough them all but my best friends was my small group. Then Nico wasn't here often at all, I hadn't met him. I've seen him about 10 times in the four years being here. He spent a lot of time in the underworld. I got a scared feeling that Darcy might do the same, shed move out of the Hermes cabin and into Hades cabin alone most of the time. What would she do, I mean would she spend more time in the underworld to get to know Nico and leave me, us. I was scared I didn't want to lose my last true family. All these questions were bugging me. I snapped out of my daze and turned to face Darcy who looked panicked. She said she wasn't up for eating and to be honest neither was I. everything was happening to fast. Me and Darcy got permission to leave the dinning pavilion early and we went back to the Hermes cabin and sat on Darcy's bed, old bed now. Her eyes started going red like she was trying not to cry. Darcy starts complaining that she doesn't want to move to an empty cabin, live by herself at 12. That she doesn't want to sit by herself at meals and not be with me or anyone else. I move closer to her and put my arm round her. I try my best to comfort her but it doesn't work everything I say she thinks of something worse. Her strongest argument is that no one will accept her and I know what she means, I've seen it happen to Nico, that's probably why he spends so much time in the underworld. I saw how people reacted to her being claimed, not nice. I know people will judge her know differently. I don't want her to become sad. I know I will always love her all the same and I hope everyone in our group will too, they should do. I go under my bed and pull out a box to put all of Darcy's things in over the years she has been gotten some things even though she has never been on a quest, will she get one now being who she is I really don't know. Also she has never left camp. I've been on a quest once 2 years ago when I was 14, wasn't very big one I was with ash and Tony. Tony died a couple of years back about 3 week being back from our quest, He went on a quest which he wasn't meant to go on, I wasn't a fan of tony he wasn't a nice person, believed he was better than everyone. I didn't take much interest when he died; I think I heard something about a volcano. We was sent to go and pick up two demigods not far away and bring them back to camp, usually a satyr will go but all of them was out or doing something and it wasn't a far about a 6 hour walk it took, when we stopped at a shop I stole some stuff, son of Hermes what do you expect god of thieves. I got some things to give to Darcy as she had nothing. In total we were gone for 4 days, I was worried about Darcy. I picked up the box and put it on her bed. She was looking down at her lap; she was holding a picture of her and her foster mum and me. She looked up as I came over and put the picture down. Elliot came running through the door out of breath. He said that Chiron wanted to talk to Darcy. She nodded and got up not looking to happy about it. I offered to go with her. She replied with
"No its okay, I've got to start doing things for myself." I felt a little hurt by the comment like she was leaving and didn't want me. I could tell that she wanted someone with her but she felt like she needed to go by herself due to her being claimed and it was gonna start getting worse, also she was living by herself so she felt she had to become more independent. (It's hard to explain but I understand what I mean I think, if you don't, don't worry) Elliot added that Lulie was gonna walk (well she had the bad burn on her right foot of more of a limp) her over which made me feel better. She asked me if I would pack up her things in the box if I wasn't doing anything. which I wasn't so I packed up her things and putting a letter in the bottom that I written not long after we came to camp for something she could take to her new cabin as I figured we would end up in different cabins and I would hope it would make her feel better. As I was packing up her things Elliot explained to me that after we left everyone started talking about it, some was saying not to trust her. H and Guy were sticking up for her saying she is still the same person. Elliot then went to say that it wasn't going well and not many people liked her now. I could have guessed something like that would happen. Elliot came over and took the picture of Darcy's bed and smiled at it, I was 8 and Darcy being 5. (Even though there is 4 years in-between us now me being 16 her 12, she's 13 in 2 weeks and I turned 16, 11 days ago so it's closer to 3 years apart) Elliot also then laughed at me in the picture because I was in the middle of a sneeze.
I got the fright of my life (yes I scream, what can I say – I'm a screamer) when a bodied appeared in the corner, just out of nowhere. As the person steps out of the shadow I realise its Nico. He walks over to us and says he's looking for Darcy, I'm too stunned to answer I mean he just came out the wall. What? How? I reply by saying 'Nico' he looks confused then realise that I'm confused about his appearing magic act then he explains it to me as fast as possible and goes back to the question of where Darcy is. I feel sad like I'm already replaced by Nico. First time I've ever spoken to this guy and he doesn't even care about anything else. I didn't feel like putting up a fight with him, I've heard bits about his powers not loads and I'm alright with a sward. The odds weren't in my favour. I look at Nico and he stared back, you could see the pain in his eyes, I guess he could see some in mine too as he asked me if I was alright. I explained to Nico that she was with Chiron in the big house and said she should be back soon. Nico didn't reply we all just stood there awkwardly till Elliot said 'I'm going to try and find out when Darcy's back'. I had completely forgotten about him being there. After he left Nico sat on the floor and I did the same I would of rather sat on the bed but) he asked me questions about Darcy like how I had known her, he tried to hide the fact that he didn't know who I was. Nico seamed really nice and concerned. I caught out of the corner of my eye Darcy coming back chased by guy and Harley. I stood up and walked over to the window. Guy seamed in a good mood his blond curly hair bobbing up and down as he runs. He has different colour eyes due to one being damaged when he was younger, a story he won't tell and I'm scared to ask. One is blue and the other is grey (the damaged one). Then Harley who is average height of any 15 year old. With ginger thick hair which is really straight just below her shoulders, usually tied off her face with a bandanna (any colour you can imagine she has a bandanna in that colour). Bright blue eyes full of life and excitement. What you expect of Athena daughter eyes sucking in every bit of knowledge around them. With a little black dot on her right check. As guy caught up Darcy he flung her over his shoulder and started walking towards my cabin. She stars kicking her legs trying to get down but it never works. When they come in as soon as Darcy is down she punches guy in the gut. It doesn't hurt him but he pretends it does. Darc walks over to me and sees the box on the bed and hugs me saying thank you for packing up my things. When she pulls out I'm a little disappointed but I forget about it and point over to Nico who is stood in the corner and say
"Someone is here to see –"
"NICO" Darcy screams and runs to hug him. I'm surprised that I don't feel hurt by this but happy to see Darcy happy. Nico looks to me while hugging back and mouths 'Darcy?' I nod back and he says "Hey Darcy".
I leave the cabin to meet up with guy and Harley so Darcy and Nico can talk. Lulie is asleep by the camp fire (unlit) so I Harley and guy find ourselves drawing on Lulie. We do it to her all the time she just laughs. Not a bright idea to do it to Darcy, she wasn't impressed at all. Not long later Darcy and Nico come out and walk over to us, Nico carrying Darcy's box. They come over to say hi. Darcy is really happy about Nico being here. I think it's because it's someone new and knows her dad. Her real dad. Also her brother. I'm really happy for her. I expected to feel rejected but I don't. Nico goes over to the Hades cabin with Darcy's box. H asks Darcy how it went and she says great they have quite a bit in common so far and Nico is gonna stay the night. I get a rush of relief because I finally know she won't be alone tonight. By the time Nico comes back its time for dinner. Darcy sits on her new table with Nico and they look full in conversation every time I look over. Harley is talking about books so loud I can hear her. Ares table is having arm wrestles. Then there's me and Elliot talking about how much we hate golf, out of everything in the world we talk about golf. At the end of dinner we all gather around the camp fire, Darcy drags Nico to sit next to me. Well Darcy in the middle of us. Me and Nico don't do much/any singing no matter how many times Darcy hits us. When that's over we all go back to our cabins, I say night to Darcy and hope she is alright tonight. As soon as I step in my cabin I feel sleep pulling me down and that's when it hits me that Darcy is gone. Instead of going into my own bed tonight I sleep in Darcy's. Finding the picture under the pillow of me, her and her foster mum. I fall asleep straight away after for me a long day.
(Bad ending I know but I was stuck on how else too and it will lead on to the next chapter)