Hey people! I'm back, again. Well, this may be the last update you'll get this week. I'm getting ready for Christmas! If I do get to update, then it means I was bored. –smile-
Well, I guess it's better to leave you with the story then.
Disclaimer: I don't own any PJO characters or Kara or Aaron. They are created by Rick Riordan and to those wonderful people that supplied my story with characters that my brain can't think of. Thanks guys. And by the way, Aaron might come in the next chapter.
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5:30 a.m.
Wonder if Percy's wake.
5:31 a.m.
Hmmm…. How early is breakfast?
5:32 a.m.
I'm starving. Did I eat anything last night?
5:33 a.m.
Oh wait. I didn't.
5:34 a.m.
Wonder if I could take a stroll in the beach.
5:35 a.m.
I suppose the harpies are still outside. Won't they?
5:36 a.m.
Can't wait any longer! Wait, am I talking to myself? Whoa, I must be really going crazy.
5:37 a.m.
I really need to stop to talk to myself. This is crazy even for a half-blood's standards.
I got out of bed or more like fell out, and walked to the bathroom to change. Gee, I wonder what I happened last night while I'm gone.
I can't believe I really am going crazy.
I pulled my grey hoodie down to me and a set of black skinny jeans. I walked out and crouched on the floor for my white converse.
I walked out into the clearing and was greeted by the soft sea breeze. I guess the beach idea was better than the stay in bed or breakfast thought because seeing that I can see neither hide nor hair of a camper or monster.
I sat on the beach, bringing the rose with me and stared at the slowly rising sun and the disappearing stars. It was calm and peaceful, nothing that can ever be compared to a demigod's life.
I looked down at the rose. I still can't guess why I never saw Rose again. She was there a while ago, before I went to Nico. Maybe she was afraid of him or something.
" She was never real." , a calm voice from behind said. I tensed up and turned to see a girl leaning on a tree that had straight, chocolate brown hair with side bangs and emerald green eyes that had a silver gleam in the still dark sky. She wore an orange camp half-blood shirt and black shorts with Vans.
I looked at her confused, " Who are you exactly?" I asked. She smirked.
" The name's Kara. Something like yours but without an i. Daughter of the sun god, Apollo." I raised an eyebrow and she sighed and sat beside me.
" The girl that showed you a garden in the cave right?" I nodded, " Well, she was a camper here. Daughter of Demeter. She used to live in Mt. Olympus but was transferred here when Percy just arrived after his little quest."
" Why are you telling me all this stuff?"
" I think you know why. You want answers right?", she raised an eyebrow and smiled sadly, " She was still 10, back then, a little talker. Then she had a fight with another girl in the Hermes cabin and ran away. She wandered off, far from us and, well, she never came back." She looked down to the rose in my hand while all the things she said sunk in my mind. I looked at her, my eyes widening.
" So she was a ghost?" my voice a little too loud for the morning.
" No. More like a memory. Whenever a stray camper wonders off, she always greets them the same. Take her to her garden she always loved before. Am I right?" she looked at me and I nodded, " I always loved her like my little sister. I was the one that brought her here when I was 13. it crushed me when she never came back."
We stayed silent for a while.
" She said something like being forced too be happy. Why?" I asked Kara.
" Well, she always tried to be brave, no matter how hard it was. She never gave in to her feelings, like you do." I looked at her, clearly shocked.
" You heard my fight with Izzy?" she smiled.
" Come on Kiara, your like an open book. You look so sad when your alone but you smile for others' sake." She looked it her watch and made *tsk sounds, " Well, I better be off, before the others found me out of bed earlier than they are."
I waved at her and went back to the ocean. It felt like I sat there for hours, not bothering the noise in the background.
My mind was racing fast. So Rose was just a memory. But why was Demeter angry with Poseidon? I wonder if I'll see Rose again.
A finger tapped my shoulder after a while and I turned around to see Nico. " Good morning." ,he said sitting down next to me. By now, the sun was just beaming down at me, not too harshly compared to the noon sun.
" What's good in the morning?" I asked. He grinned.
" Breakfast." At that moment, my stomach growled and Nico laughed, " Knew it!"
" Oh, shut up!" I snapped and got up to my feet, " where are you going?" he asked clearly still smiling when I headed to the where I think the pavilion is.
" Going to the pavilion." I answered matter-of-factly.
" It's the other way dearest Kiara." He smiled and turned me around. I blushed and cursed my whacked my whacked up sense of direction.
" I knew that." I said as I walked to the right direction.
" Where's the pose this time?" he asked as he catched up.
" No pose." I said as I walked faster but he keeps on catching up.
" Why, I think the little Izzy problem is catching up with your personality. Come on, where's the girl I know and love?" he asked playfully and his eyes widened as he took in what he said, " Not that I did love you.", I fake pouted. Gee, I didn't know messing with Nico was this fun. "I mean I do- wait no!- Not like love love- I mean- I'm not making this better am I?" he asked, raising his hand apologetically.
" No." I said in mock sadness and grinned at him, " But I get the point. You don't think that you do unlove me." I said with a wink and went to my table and left Nico ponder about the things I said.
" Someone's happy" Percy commented while I shoved my food in my mouth after I gave my offering to the gods, "considering what happened yesterday."
I gave him a mocked shock, " But dearest brother, you still haven't lived this day yet! I shall have a better day today big brother, ye of little faith." I said between bites. Percy rolled his eyes in me and went back to his food.
This day is going to be a good one, I know it.
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Time to establish my plan, 'get back on Izzy'.
I got out of breakfast, later than usual, but it was okay with Chiron. He gave me a nod when I looked at him with sad eyes. He looked sorry and I was not sorry at all at what I'm going to do.
I walked out of his sight after the whole camp was in their activities. I began my way towards the cabins, particularly the pink colored cabin and looked at it with disgust.
Wonder how they keep up with all that pink.
I pulled out a bucket of paint, out of one of the bushes I hid the black paint. Well, I had to change his pink colored shirts right?
" Getting back on the Aphrodite kids? I thought you knew better." Nico popped out of nowhere and grinned wickedly. He was still wearing those pink shirt and I couldn't help but snicker. I can't stand not laughing at my genius pranks, can't I?
" Yeah. Like to help?" I asked raising the paint bucked.
" Love too." And with that, we went to work at my master plan.
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Lunch was the time we really got to see the final reaction we wanted to see.
A ear piercing scream erupted and all the people in the pavilion turned to see a mob of angry looking Aphrodite kids that looked like their ready to kill.
" Kiara! What. Did. You. Do?" screamed an angry Izzy. I looked at my soup and pretended to be bored and then looked at her innocently.
" What did I do?" I asked, biting the inside of my cheek to stop myself from laughing.
" Don't use that innocent face with me. Who would paint our cabin black?" she asked, her nose flaring. It was really funny but I still had too keep my game face on.
" That sounds very fun to do Izzy, but if I did do it, why would I admit it?"
" We have proof." Izzy smiled and pulled my paint stained hand that I forgot to wash. Oh no. dead end.
" That's there because she helped me paint my shirts back to black. Right Kiara?" nico asked with a smile on his face. Oh Nico, always the savior.
" That's right." I said with a grin. Izzy looked between the two of us and I swear she turned really, really red from anger.
" I can't believe this." She said and was about to slap me when Chiron, oh dear Chiron intervened.
" Ah… ms. Logan, we don't have proof that she did the crime" I smiled at him, " however, there are still the mystery of who painted the cabin black. Now all Aphrodite kids are exempted from the rest of the activities."
" But Chiron, we have guard duty tonight." An Aphrodite kid said at the back.
" Oh, then Kiara and Nico would take that place, won't you?" I was sure my jaw dropped to the ground with Izzy.
" But you can't!" I said waving my hands frantically at Chiron's front as if wondering how he saw me and Nico and me together tonight.
" Oh, but the Aphrodite kids need to redecorate their cabin. I'm sure you'll handle it." he said with a wink before turning to walk out.
Nico came by and whispered in my ear, " It's a date then." And he left me with my mouth wide open.
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" Your late." I said to Nico with a cross of my arms on my chest. He was about five minuets late and I guess I was feeling lonely.
" Slept in." he said as if it explained it all.
" So you ready?" I asked as I sat at the bottom of Thalia's tree. I placed a pack of biscuits on the grass and stared up to him.
" You know, it's guard duty and not a picnic right?"
" I know." And he sat down next to me and began to polish his sword.
Several minuets passed by and it felt like hours to me. I was laying on my back and was tracing figures out of the night sky.
" How many minuets have passed by?" I asked.
" In one minuet, it'll be exactly 5 minuets." He said still polishing his sword.
" Well, I'm bored."
" Okay." Was his only reply.
" Okay? Come on Nico, give me some entertainment." I pleaded with my puppy dog eyes.
" So my job here is to provide you with entertainment?" he asked raising an eyebrow.
" Come on. This biscuit is more exciting than you." I said raising a biscuit.
" So, the biscuit has your undivided attention. Such a lucky thing, isn't it?" he said dully. That earned him a biscuit to the head.
30 mins.
" Come on Nico. The Stoll brothers are more fun than you." I said whiningly.
" The Stoll brothers would dance in front of you with only wearing a biscuit." He said as he looked at the stars.
" Atleast I'll be entertained."
" So, I have to dance in front of you and wear only a biscuit to entertain you?"
" Come on. I'll die of laughing first before you even start."
" Atleast I pleased oh great Kiara." Another biscuit to the head he took.
Boy this night is going to be long.
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Okay long chapter for you lot! Now, I won't be updating soon cause it's Christmas!
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