Hope you like the fifth chapter in this story. Yes I am a Hufflepuff that's why Mare is. Two big things happen in this chapter. Oh and a little fun fact Hunter was originally named Ross and Ross was originally named Connor. Thanks for reading. Can someone also tell my computer that Hufflepuff is a word. Long chapter I know.
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When I woke up I put on my normal everyday clothes which was completely disapproved by my sisters. They went through my clothes I got really embarrassed when they pulled out my Hogwarts robes and Hufflepuff tie. They made me put on a pair of short shorts I forgot I packed and gave me a bedazzled orange Camp Half Blood t-shirt and a pair of boots that I again even forgot I owned. We walked down to the mess hall I think they call it and ate breakfast. While I was waiting in line for the fire, standing in front of me was a really cute guy. I have never thought a guy was cute before maybe my sisters were rubbing off on me which could be a bad thing. I taped him on the shoulder and he turned around and looked at me.
"Hello I am Mare." I said nervously thinking about how weird he must think I am.
"Oh hey my name is Hunter son of Apollo you must be that new girl Aphrodite's daughter right." Hunter said. I was surprised because he had the same facial features as his siblings, but he had brown hair and green eyes probably from his mother. All of the other kids had blonde hair and blue eyes like me and most of my siblings.
"What is a PureHalfBlood anyway if you don't mind that I ask." Hunter said.
"ohh," I said realizing I was staring at him, "Well my father isn't a muggle I mean mortal he is a wizard." Hunter nodded and I felt my wand in my back pocket forgetting I even had it.
"How old are you?" He asked.
"Eleven. How old are you." I asked.
"Same age, but unlike you this isn't my first year of camp." He said and we just stood in silence again. He turned back to facing forward. Um yep Awkward.
After breakfast we went to our first activity, sword fighting. I feel like all I would learn from that activity is that I would die outside of camp. Of course I get chosen to spare with the best swords men in my cabin Ross. He tried to teach me, but to be completely honest I wasn't as bad as I thought. It was really embarrassing when he first lunged at me I dropped my sword and pulled out my wand and yelled, "Expelliamus!" a little tiny spark came out of the end and slowly floated to the floor and everyone started laughing. Again completely embarrassing, but it was cool because I have never even managed a tiny spark before.
After that was archery which I was pretty good at for never holding a bow in my life before. It was really strange, I picked up the right size bow my first time and actually hit the target my first time which again surprised me because no offense to my siblings, but they are absolutely terrible at archery. Though I felt triumphant, right next to me shooting bullseye after bullseye splitting the arrow that was already lodged in the target. Then I realized it was Hunter, I should have expected that he would be good at archery since his dad is Apollo. I didn't realize I was staring at him until my sisters started giggling behind me. I placed down my bow and walked over to a group of my sisters sitting off to the side.
"Someone's got a crush. Ooh this is going to be so much fun." Said Octavia. I was scared I hoped they wouldn't intervene.
"Please don't I can handle this." I said.
"Mare we are professionals were going to do this even if it takes the whole year." Aria said. I didn't think about being here year around. Maybe I'll go back to England during the school year, but probably not because for the first time ever I made a tiny spark appear so I wouldn't be going to Hogwarts. Then a nasty thought flashed through my mind will I ever see my dad again. I brushed that thought aside, but I was still scared. Then I noticed Aria and Briana pulling Hunter over towards me. They placed him right next to me and I started to blush and so did he I didn't know if it was because he liked me or if it was because he was embarrassed.
"Sorry about my sisters, they are just trying to make us a couple I am sorry that sounded weird." I said making him turn even redder. Maybe he does like me and I started to blush more, and my sisters noticed. It was awesome to find out my mother is a goddess, but honestly I could have gone without the love part. It got even more awkward when my sisters left. We just stood there not saying anything, both of us blushing like crazy.
"I think I'm going to go..." I said awkwardly. I turned around and started walking towards the bow rack.
Hunter's P.O.V.
I felt disappointed that Mare walked away, but then I had an idea and a smile worthy of a son of Hermes lit my face. I thought she was pretty, but also wasn't trying hard to be and she actually participating in activities. I ran over to Mare and said, "Umm would it be okay if I helped you with archery, I mean I completely understand if you say no." She started to blush and I thought maybe she liked me back, but probably not because I am not even close to good looking. I felt like such a creep we just met like an hour ago, love is to complicating for me.
"Sure." Mare said. I smiled again and looked over to see some of Mare's half-sisters jumping up and down, giggling.
After I gave Mare some tips and helped her with her stance the conch shell sounded and it was time for lunch. Afterwards, I went down to the lake for canoeing and I felt as if Aphrodite was watching because my cabin was again with her cabin and I also got paired up with Mare. We rowed out into the ocean still close to the beach. We just sat and stared at each other not saying anything. Eventually I realized that we were just rowing in circles, but I was alone with Mare without her sisters embarrassing us. Wow this was weird and I think she knew it too like we barley know each other and we act like we have been dating for a year.
Mare's P.O.V.
I thought it was awkward, but I also liked it. My sisters were on the beach because they didn't want to mess up their nails while canoeing. He seemed like he was not feeling awkward, we just stared at each other while we just unconsciously kept rowing. I think I wanted to tell him how I feel until some jerk from the Poseidon cabin sent a huge wave towards us knocking us off the canoe and tipping the canoe over. I was not a good swimmer and was not currently wearing water proof mascara. Hunter turned the canoe back over, swam over to me, and helped me into the canoe. The jerk who tipped us over yelled as he surfed by, "How do you like that, Love birds." I started blushing as Hunter got into the canoe with me also blushing.
"Hey are you okay Mare?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks you saved my life." I said still blushing.
"No not really I just uhh though umm you could use some help." He said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Umm maybe we could continue rowing in circles. If you'd like that." I said.
"Okay." He said picking up the rows and giving one to me. I know my hair was horrible and I had makeup running down my face, but Hunter didn't seem to care. Which I thought would make him stop staring at me.
At the end of the day during dinner all my siblings gathered around me.
"So how was your canoe ride with Hunter." Briana said.
"You all saw that." I said blushing.
"Of course we did its young love so cute. You two are the cutest we have all seen while we were at camp, which we all have agreed on." Christina said while everyone else smiled and nodded.
"Tell us all the details." Mavin said. So I told them everything that happened and all of them including the boys started giggling and saying aww at other parts. This took up almost all of dinner and we were interrupted by Chiron stopping his hove on the ground scaring me. As an instinct I took out my wand and yelled, "expelliuarmus!" at the pillar right next to Chiron. A green line of light shot out of the end of my wand putting a huge dent in the pillar. Everyone looked at me and I looked down at my wand thinking, "How did I do that." Then when I noticed everyone was staring at me I sat down and put my wand away.
"After dinner please see me in the big house Mare," Chiron said then after a few seconds continued, "On another note the teams for the capture the flag match will be the Athena team Red vs. the Poseidon team Blue. Remember the creek is the boundary and please no maiming or killing of other campers, no taking hostages, and Ares cabin please once you get someone do not continue to torture them. I will be the referee and on field medic otherwise have fun!" He finished and everyone got up and headed with their teams. Except I headed down to the big house to meet Chiron. He was standing on the front porch waiting for me which was surprising because I am pretty sure we left at the same time, but again he is a horse man. Then I realized they make rules to stop something that has happened before, People have died playing a camp game!
"What do you want umm to talk about." I said nervously thinking I was in trouble.
"I was told you couldn't do magic Mare." He said.
"I didn't think I could do magic. I have never done anything like that before I'm sorry I…" I said then Chiron cut me off.
"I am impressed and think that your powers could be your weapon as of in the game and in battle. You can use your wand in the game now go to your team. Oh and Mare please wear all armor." I was surprised I thought I would get in trouble for almost hitting him. I ran to the woods where Christina said my team would be.
Like Christina said I would be playing with the Athena team which what do you know also includes the Apollo cabin. I am serious when I say the Aphrodite cabin has a reputation because wow do they. The Athena children put me on the edge with a shield and a helmet that was too big for me. They told me that I wouldn't be useful to them because I would be worried about my nails or if someone came by I would just tell them how to improve their look then let them pass. Obviously my siblings have done all those things more than once. I really wanted to prove them wrong, so I was paying so much attention to the things around me. I held me wand out in front of me and jumped when Hunter landed right in front of me making me throw my wand up in the air which he caught in mid-air. Hunter handed me my wand and said, "Hey I am just going to be up in the trees firing arrows at people," He said as if it was normal, "Do you mind if I take the area around you?" He asked.
"Sure." I said blushing.
"Umm hey maybe I could walk you back to your cabin after the game," He said blushing I nodded then he jumped back into the trees. My attention was official gone all I could do was squeal in my head. The I heard the conch shell and I got back into my stance looking around. I thought people would think the same thing as the Athena kids and would try to get to are lag vea me. My suspicions were right a minute after the shell I was attacked and I just used the disarming charm because that is the only one I knew would work. Sure enough a green line sent people with blue plumes on their helmets flying back, with a little help from Hunter up in the trees.
The conch shell blew again meaning the game was over. Hunter jumped down and said, "We won Mare thanks to you." Then we hugged at first it was awkward, so we both backed away and looked at each other awkwardly while blushing. We walked over to where everyone else in silence.
"Red team wins! That is the end of a great game now everyone back to their cabins." Chiron said. I turned to look at Hunter, he smiled and said, "Come on let's go." In a calm voice. We walked all the way to my cabin then he left and went into his cabin. I walked inside and all my siblings sat on their beds Indian style. I walked over to my bed and saw that I now had a chest, so I put all my stuff in it.
Christina's P.O.V.
Mare walked in and I saw when I looked out the door that she was with Hunter. All of my siblings were excited to hear all about what happened. As a gift during the match I had Briana ask one of her boyfriends from the Hermes cabin to swipe a makeup kit from the camp store. It would be a present for Mare since she didn't have her own and she could always need one.
"So tell us all about you in Hunter. Spill!" I said.
"Well when we got to our positions he asked if he could be in the tree above me I guess that is how American boys show that they like you, then he asked if he could walk me to my cabin after the game." Mare said and we all went Aww.
"After the game we hugged for a split second then realized it was awkward because we just met." Then Aria interrupted her.
"But it is true love I can sense it." Everyone but Mare nodded in agreement.
"Tomorrow you need to ask him out on a date like a walk on the beach." Caleb said. (the author and the readers scroll up realizing he was introduced and we all forgot he existed)
"I don't know like I said we just met." Mare said.
"You've sort of already had a date with the whole canoe thing." I said. She started to blush probably recalling the memory.
"We should all probably get ready for bed." Said Ross. I do not understand my little half-brother, he has never been in a relationship and he is so uptight. The real reason I don't like him is because he makes me look bad, I mean he is all about staying on time and everything, but I feel that I represent Aphrodite better than he does. Why am I being so self-conscious right now whatever I am the cabin's head counselor.
"Why are you such a poop head Ross." Said Skylar a 7-year-old who has been here a year. I sort of laughed in my head because to Skylar that must have been an insult.
Mare's P.O.V.
One thing that makes since, well sort of, is that none of them asked me about how I pulled off magic, but that was fine with me. I thought about Hunter and about what my siblings said. As I changed out of my clothes and put on my pajamas I thought about what would happen the next time I saw him. I went to bed dreaming about us dating. We were walking along the beach holding hands, the sun setting out to our left on the horizon. Then all of a sudden I started thinking the weirdest things like saying Pancakes over and over again in my head. I pushed that away and started to think about me and Hunter again than I fell asleep.
"Mare wake up Mare." Someone said. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that all of my sisters were up doing their hair and the person who woke me up was Briana.
"About time we need at least an hour to get you ready for the day." Christina said from over her shoulder looking into a mirror. I sat up in my bunk and stretch got down and walked over to Christina.
"Why do you need to get me ready and why will it take an hour? "I asked her. She turned around and screwed in the top of her mascara.
"Well you will have all your questions answered soon, but first we must choose an outfit for you." She said then yelled, "ASSEMBLE!" All of my sisters flung opened their chest and dug though their stuff to find their favorite outfits than did their weird huddle thingy again. As they talked outfits got dropped to the ground next to their feet, I am guessing it was probably the rejected outfits. When they broke away I changed into the outfit they gave to me which was a light blue summer dress that was tight with no sleeves at the top then flowing past my belly button. I walked out and my sisters clapped and bowed since they were proud of their work then put me in a chair. Aria was 15 and apparently the best at hair in the cabin, so she curled my hair and added some product and other stuff in my hair. They gave me a pair of shiny light blue flats and then sat me in another chair were I was attacked, again, by makeup brushes. Once the storm died down I was facing a mirror and I thought I looked just liked my sisters with my hair and makeup done.
"Ekkk now Hunter will deffinantly ask you out." Octavia said. I thought to myself how much all of this makes sense now. Then the conch shell blew did it really take any hour or was I staring off into to space for longer then I realized. I followed the rest of my siblings out of the door and headed to the mess hall to eat. I got some fruit and whispered, "Orange Juice." To my cup which filled with orange juice, which is sort of obvious.
After breakfast we went to Archery were Hunter walked up to me.
"Wow Mare you look Beautiful I mean uhh you look great I…" He said awkwardly while blushing which I did along with him.
"Thanks." I said shyly.
"Umm how about we work on archery together, like we did yesterday." He said
"Sure." I said. He shot tons of arrows the same way I saw him do archery the first time for a couple minutes.
"Do you always try and impress girls with archery?" I asked. He laughed then said, "Not always, but you are an exception," He paused then continued, "Umm I… can I be honest for a second you are the first girl I have ever liked." He said shyly.
"Same here. Maybe we can go…" I got cut off by multiple sisters fake coughing and sneezing. I shot the target, which barley hit it, sat down my bow and walked over to my sisters feeling stricken with major déjà vu.
"Why the heck did you do that I was about to ask him out. I thought you wanted me to do that." I said angrily.
"Well sort of we want him to ask you out, you have to make him want to." Briana said. From what I have heard I do not trust Briana based on her experience I just acknowledge it because of our mother.
"Now go back over there and make Mother proud." Christina said. I walked back over to Hunter completely pissed off, but I forced a smile.
"What was that about?" Hunter said.
"Oh I hope you don't find this offensive, but my sisters believe that a girl can't ask a boy out." I said awkwardly.
"Well I hope you don't find this offensive," he paused, "Will you go out with me?" Hunter said.
"I would love to." I said. We hugged, but this time it wasn't awkward until people around started to clap, aww, or just be completely rude by yelling things like, "Kiss already!" and "Get a room." We broke apart and started to blush.
"Talk about this later over a canoe ride." I said.
Hunter's P.O.V.
I nodded. I was so excited, (Mare doesn't know this, but when she arrived with Ross I thought she was beautiful. Then when we talked for the first time, I thought she was special (well obviously she is the only PureHalfBlood) She wasn't like the rest of her siblings caring so much about their looks. Again I am so excited, I want to do something romantic wait maybe something simple I don't know am I moving too fast. Ugg maybe I am just being paranoid. I walked back over to shooting arrows again while me and Mare's siblings dispersed. Well Mare's sort of left me and crowded around her, ohh this is going to be awkward with her mom being the daughter of the goddess of love. (I am sorry if you're a boy because I am not and don't know how a boy thinks) Soon it was time for us to head to the beach to go canoeing. It was hard to make it through the advice and threats coming from Mare's older Half-brothers, but I eventually made it to Mare and we paddled out as fast as we could.
"Haha sorry my brothers gave you such a hard time, I didn't know they would do that. Then again I have only known them for a few days." She giggled.
"Well at least now we can talk about where we want to go on our first date." I said.
"Umm maybe we can do something here at the beach." Mare said. Which gave me an idea.
"I know after dinner come down to the beach at the top of that cliff." I said pointing to a low cliff hanging over the beach.
"What are we doing?" She asked.
"You'll see." I said mischievously. She looked at me curiously and then went into deep thought probably trying to figure out what we were going to do. I shook the canoe which jogged her back to reality. We smiled at each other then I said, "Do you know I think that even though you are all made-up by your sisters to try and make you look more beautiful I think you are perfect the way you are." I said blushing. She started to blush then looked to the side of the boat and started to laugh. I follow her gaze and realize that we were rowing in circles AGAIN!
"I guess that it was meant to be we talk while rowing in circles, we are going to die out here from pure boredom." I said dramatically and she started to laugh.
"Aww am I really that boring." She said us both laughing though what I said wasn't even that funny. I didn't tell her that though because I love her smile.
"Hey well tell me about the other half of your DNA." I said.
"Well okay. Ever since I was little I was told my last name was of importance because of my grandfather. My father never new why and I deffinantly don't. My father being a pure blood wizard which means that both of his parents were wizards, trained me to be a wizard ever since I could hold a wand always saying that I was also a pure blood. I eventually found that I couldn't do it, but father said I was still too young and I should wait till Hogwarts, oh which by the way is the best wizarding school in the world." She explained and was going to continue when I said, "Wait the are multiple wizard schools?"
Mare's P.O.V.
I was about to say duh until I remembered that I was the only one at this whole camp who knows what I am talking about.
"Well there are Illvermory her in the U.S., Durmstrang in Norway or Sweden somewhere around there, and Beauxbaton in France and there is probably a lot more out there. Well anyway to continue with my story I found out my mother was Aphrodite a few weeks after my eleventh birthday. I was to spend a year at Hogwarts and should admitteatly come here if I found I couldn't do magic." I said.
"What an agreement so wait why are you here if you can do magic?" Hunter asked.
"I was getting there," I said angrily, "Anyway I found out I couldn't do it at all and kept sending my dad letters and he kept saying, 'wait until the end of the year,' eventually a cyclops found me and yep knocked unconscious in the hospital wing for a week."
"That must have hurt. Did the gods get rid of the cyclops?"
"No a simple curse got rid of him probably, and were not in kindergarten but please wait until I am done to ask questions." I said and he chuckled slightly while nodding. "Mom sent me here and the whole thing with the magic just let me explain. It has become a habit for me to take my wand with me and Chiron stamping his foot scared me and well you saw the rest." I finished.
"How did you suddenly perform magic when you have never done it before." He said and to be honest it is a fair question that I ask myself. What frustrates me the most is that I still don't know the answer to that question.
"I don't know. Well enough about me what's your story?" I asked, then the conch horn blew for lunch.
YAY! Mare can do magic. Bippy Di Bobby Di BO YAY. I bet you didn't expect that. Oh yeah and I guess Hunter is cool too. Single Pringle here so yes I am salty.
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