These are the next couple of days after capture the flag and when I noticed where my life changed for the worst.
I look over in dismay as I notice I was related to the Apollo children. It sort of frightened me that I could possibly be related to them, I mean they are like Aphrodite children except they can use bow and arrows. They looked just as surprised as I was. Pretty much after that was a blur some frowned, some cheered, some clapped, some just stared, but I was pretty much wasn't paying attention I was too busy thinking, thinking about all that had happened, thinking about how, how he could sit there and not visit me at all then I blacked out. There was light everywhere, a shining, golden, piercing light. Am I dreaming? Did I somehow die without knowing? It would be weird if I had a heart attack but if I did at least it was painless. Then I see in the light my mother, with her silky, brown hair, with a few gray steaks here and there, laughing, looking very happy and then a man. A man with blonde hair and a glowing radiance around him, happy, both of them laughing and smiling then me as a baby in my mom's arms reaching for the man, Apollo, smiling at me, wait…this is a memory, the only memory I have of my dad.
I wake up in the infirmary, in the dark, with tears on my face, feeling mad for some unknown reason. I hear shouting through the door. "How could you kill him!" I hear a girl shout. "I thought I replaced all my arrows with rubber ones it was an accident!" a boy shouted. The girl shouts back "Excuses! Are excuses all you can think of to say! He was the only one I ever loved!" The boy says, a little shaken "Well I'm sorry." I hear Chiron say to them "Now Alexa! Calm down I said the wound was serious, but not fatal, and Tomas it's okay, we all make mistakes," then in a very serious, grim tone he adds "And don't let it happen again, am I clear?" They both say "Yes sir Chiron!" when they say that I feel really nervous, and I hear people running as Chiron walks in and says "Glad you're awake! You blacked out and we took you here. Your stuff is in the corner when you're ready to move into the Apollo cabin, of course you don't want to be caught by the harpies so I'll escort you there when you're ready." I get up, yawn, then say "Well I'm ready now Chiron. Chiron when that girl was mad I felt mad and when they were nervous and scared of you I felt like that too do you know why?" He nods and says "Well they call people with that ability empaths they can feel other people's feelings by feeling them themselves. There are some demigods who get the empathy ability so it should be fine so lets go now shall we?" He starts to go and I follow him to the Apollo cabin.
I open the door and find an annoyed looking boy about 16 or so with long black hair in his face with blue eyes with the same sun-stripe around the edge as me. He looks me over and says "My name is Democritus and you'll be my roommate so hurry up!" He jogs to a room about 5 doors down from the main room. He looks annoyed and scowls as I take my time looking around the hall way. The room is painted dark red with two beds on either side, and some duct tape on the floor separating two sides of the room. He points to the left side of the room and says "This is my side, you can have the other side. Oh, and never, EVER, EVER touch my bass guitar!" I nod and look at dark, black bass with red strings and a couple of signatures, one I see is Cliff Burton next to a Metallica sticker. Over to the right is Steve Harris with an Iron Maiden sticker underneath it. I spot another one behind the strings, Ritchie Blackmore. I break the silence "I take it you like hard rock?" He glares at me and says "No, really…?" Yeah nice guy, I walk over to my bed and go to sleep.
I'm in darkness, and I can see only in different shades of gold. It's hard to adjust to the weird sight. When I see again I see I'm in a cave, no wait a cavern, but its…it's sort of bloody on the walls. I feel a sharp pain in my side; I look down and see my side has a big gaping hole with blood covering it, my blood, I scream as the pain overwhelms me.
I wake up in a cold sweat and see Democritus looking at me. "Are you ok? I heard you scream and saw you clutch your side," he says worried. I lean up and manage to spit out "Yeah I'm fine it was just this dream." He looks unconvinced but goes back to his bed. I stay up the rest of the night just staring at the ceiling. I wake up all of sudden, hmm...when did I fall asleep? I go outside and hear something similar to an elephant. Then I realize it's how loud they're talking. I go take a shower and get showered with questions by the other Apollo kids. It's about noon when I manage to slip out. I go out to the woods to a tree and start reading. I see Percy come through and say "What'cha readin?" I say "a dictionary…." Percy questionally replies "Really?" I look over at him and say "have you ever spent a day in the Apollo cabin?" Percy nods and leaves understanding that the Apollo kids can be a bit loud. I continue reading until I fall asleep.
I wake up with Democritus poking me with a stick. "Huh?" I say groggily. He smiles and says "You fell asleep and missed dinner. You're lucky I found you otherwise the harpies might have found you. Oh and by the way meet me at the amphitheatre." I nod, get up, and walk after him. I reach the amphitheatre and see my name on a banner over the entrance saying "Ambias sings!" Oh no…I start backing up when Democritus stops me and says "Sorry but ALL Apollo children have to do some type of performance but I noticed your sax had a messed up neck piece so I told them that you'd sing." I just moan and then say "Really! I'm terrible in front of crowds!" "Oh well sucks for you." He replays plainly. I go through to the back entrance and there is a guy and two girls on either side, they ask me to sing from low to high. I do it and the girl on the left goes through my iPod songs. She then says "Hmmm, I think something soft like "Hey Jude" by the Beatles." She then hands it to the guy and he looks through it and says "I don't know, I think "How to Save a Life" by the Fray would be good." He then hands it to the other girl and she does the same thing and says "I think it would be interesting to hear him sing "Home" by Daughtry!" The guy then says "Ok well those are your 3 choices." I nod and say "I'll do "How to Save a Life" I guess." He nods and I go listen to it for an hour. They then push me out on stage and Chiron says "And now everyone Ambias here is going to sing…"How to Save a Life" by the Fray!"
The band starts playing the intro and my legs lock up. Ok here goes, I breathe deeply.
"Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life"
Ok so far so good!
"Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
Pray to God, he hears you
And pray to God, he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life"
I begin to hear the crowd cheering. I smile as I continue.
"As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life"
Everyone starts cheering when all of a sudden we all hear this loud boom come from the distance. Someone yells "monsters are coming through the border!" Everyone rushes in panic to meet them. I run to the weapon's building but I'm stopped by a hellhound. I take out the bronze dagger that Chiron told me to always carry. It pounces and I roll to the left. It jumps at me again and I jump up and land on its head and push off it doing a backflip, man who knew I could even do that! I charge then sidestep to the left as it snaps at the air. Then I switch the blade into my hand and throw the dagger at the hellhound. It yelps and disappears in a yellow fog as it lands in the side of its head. As I rush to pick it up a hellhound pounces on me. As I stumble for my dagger the hound poofs into smoke and a hand appears in front of me to help me up. I look over at my rescuer, see Percyl, and say "Thanks Percy that was close." He looks around and then replies "Well there will be plenty more so we have to move!" I nod and follow him to the weapon's building I rush to grab a weapon.
I see a spear on the ground and put it in my belt. I look over at the bow section and grab a quiver and clip it on the otherside of my belt. I look for a bow and find a yew bow…wait how'd I know it was yew? Oh well better find some daggers! I run to the other end and grab 3 daggers and put them in my pockets, sheathed of course! I meet Percy outside, fighting a group of hellhounds. "Percy duck!" He crouches down and I throw a dagger at a pouncing hellhound. I run towards Percy and kill two more of them with my spear. Percy yells over the snarling of the hellhounds "Thanks," I nod and continue fighting.
After killing the hellhounds we run to help Annabeth and Democritus fighting some dracaenae. Democritus has a saber and Annabeth has her dagger. I stab one in the head with my spear then spin and smash it into another's shoulder. One of them scrapes Annabeth's knee with its tail and she counters by kicking it in its face then stabbing it in the eye. Democritus sidesteps one then gets hit by another from behind. I get another of my daggers and throw it at the Dracaenae that hit him down. I run to Democritus' side and stab the other dracaenae that was attacking him. I dash to the woods to help the Satyrs and find a group of telkhines. I take out my bow and shoot one as they charge. I notch 3 more and say a silent prayer to Apollo and Artemis for this to work. I kill 3 more with those arrows as I'm swarmed by at least 8 more. I take out my 2 remaining daggers and slash three in the chest, only one poofs into smoke. I kick one back and throw a dagger at it killing it. I roundhouse kick one in the back and stab it in the head. Two bite me in either legs while two more are trying to drag me down. I slice both of the ones on my arm killing them. The other telkhine tackles me and lands on my dagger. The other 2 let go of my legs and jump on me. One bites my shoulder and the other bites my hip. I reach for my dagger but it's too far. I hear a familiar tune but it's really high, it "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. Vines come out of the trees and strangle the telkhines to death.
I look over where the music was coming from and see Grover. He rushes over with his usual worried look on his face and says "Ambias, here I've got some natural lotion that will clean and help heal your wounds." He rummages through his bag and pulls out a bag of green liquid stuff, it looks a little like pudding but green. He rubs it on my shoulder and it numbs the pain. He does the same with my legs and hip. I get up and lean against a tree, I look at Grover and take a deep breath. I run towards Thalia's tree and see everyone getting overwhelmed by the monsters.
"NO!" I shout angrily. All of a sudden my vision changes into black and white, then into different shades of yellow. All of the monsters and half-bloods look at me in a mixture of awe and terror. Everything seems like slow motion except for me. I yell and smash the ground and an enormous amount of energy surges out and kills the monsters. I can't hear anything. My body is going numb. I start to lose sight and black out.
I wake up in the infirmary with Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Chiron, the Stoll Brothers, and Democritus staring at me worriedly. Dionysus comes in and just looks at me sadly. I finally break the silence by saying "Um, what happened?" They all look at eachother and finally Chiron says "You don't remember?" I think carefully and say "I remember getting attacked by some telkhines, getting rescued by Grover, and then this weird feeling and blacking out." Chiron looks at Dionysus and then looks back speechless and concerned. Dionysus looks at me sternly and says grimly "We think you have Kronos inside of you." I feel confused and ask in disbelief "But….how?" Dionysus just looks out the window sadly, looking like he was about to die or something.
I haven't written in this for a while cause of, well bad events. Apparently Kronos is inside of me trying to get hold of my body. I have to admit I'm, I'm a little scared. They say I'm going to have to have a meeting with the Gods on Olympus. My arm is starting to hurt from the Telkhines so I'll fill you in later mom…………
-Ambias