"When Pan died something became of his powers, they were given to all satyrs and nymphs but the majority of his powers went to a child. And we believe Penelope, that child is you, your immensely close to being a goddess."
I gasped.
I blinked trying to think of a explanation, ten million things were going inside my head. Ok so no big deal, I'm only the child that my godly dad bestowed power upon or something! That's no big deal, totally! I looked at Juniper.
"Juniper, come on lets think of a logical explanation for all of this." Juniper and Rodney turned to each other and started to laugh their heads off. "What?" I got irritated.
"Sorry my lady, it's just that…" Juniper laughed, "Nothing at Camp Half Blood is logical if you haven't noticed." She had a point; the place was kind of odd, with all the Greek gods' sculptures and naked guys, creepy. I glanced at Rodney he was still giggling he was in full goat form it appeared, his stubby goat legs had white hair and golden little hooves. His horns stuck out of his hair. He gave me a look that I couldn't quite register.
"Ok so now what?" I asked. Juniper and Rodney sighed at the same time, and gestured for me to follow them. I did as they asked. They took me to a little cottage at the end of the forest where the trees broke to another clearing. I saw the cottage was made of limestone and had flowery curtains hanging in the windows. Rodney took out a key from a pocket? I wasn't sure where it had come from.
Juniper opened the door and once inside I saw it wasn't the small cottage it was a rather large temple. The walls of the inside were bursting with life, topical vines were strew across the ceilings and walls. While trees grew in corners and out of cracks, a few monkeys sat in them and stared at me. Toucan's sat on ledges of the jungle rocks. My voice was stuck in my throat, by the time I pulled it out all I said was,
"You guys sure are good with working with small spaces." Juniper walked to a rock in the center of the temple, she began to sing a five noted little song in what appeared to be ancient Greek, it could have been something else, I'm not sure. The rock began to crack and it combusted and revealed a beautiful golden book. Which made me think of Indiana Jones. Juniper grasped the book and heaved it upward and staggered over to me.
"Here." She breathed. I took the book from her and did notice it was very heavy. I read the front, The Legacy of Pan.
"Let me guess this book is my whole life mapped out for me?" I said and rolled my eyes.
"Something like that flip to page 1,188." Rodney said chewing on a appearing out of no where tin can. I did as he said and found what Rodney had meant, the page explained the children of Pan…
Pan is described as a loving Father to us satyrs and nymphs, but we have never known anything of his children. This page specifically describes Pan's sons, and the daughter that he will bring forth someday to shine a light on our lost world.
Kelaineus: He was the first born of Pan, known as the first satyr to eat the tin can.
Argennon: Pan's favorite son, his daughters were the first aura's in all of Arcadia which is where he died and was born. Aigikoros:He was evil and was a suspect of a murder of Pan's beloved mother.
Eugeneios:Is sometimes referred to the maker of the vine, Eugeneios had many sons that prospered and brought a vine of the council, here at Camp Half Blood.
Omester: Many days after the death his last son, Argennon, Omester was born, his mother cried out for he would never see his brother's face.
The unknown daughter: She will be injected to the world and save us from our dark future towards the laws of nature. For seeking her no one shall succeed for she will reveal herself.
"I don't think I'm this "unknown daughter" guys. Because you found me Rodney."
"True, but it also states that the daughter will reveal herself to the world, I can't help you out with that."
"But revealing myself would mean destroying the sake of mankind. Everything that mortals knew would tumble."
"Yes but there is the thing known as the mist I hope you know of." Juniper said.
"The mist?"
Juniper and Rodney groaned in unison. "The mist is a thing that the gods put here to protect mortals from finding out how things really are." Juniper said.
"Ok, so Rodney what did Ashes and Fleen see back on the island?"
"They could have seen you stop a garbage truck from squishing them for all I know."
"Right." I looked down, at my feet. "One more question, why aren't I a goat or a nymph?"
"Because your mother is a mortal you inherited her looks, but got Pan's powers." Rodney explained.
"Ok I see." I said slyly, "So if I'm let's say Pan's daughter I can do this." I closed my eyes pictured the green strong vine that hung on everything in the room and tugged on it. Juniper yelped and I saw I had tangled her in a vine. "Sorry Juniper!" I snapped my fingers and the vine slipped away disappearing into a crack into the ground. Juniper knelt down and breathed for a minute, then stood straight up. Her pointy little ear moved and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Rodney why is this place so deserted?"
"There's a war going on against the gods and the titans, it's a really long story do not feel like explaining."
"How long have they been gone?"
"Weeks, it seems like its been going on for so long, it doesn't even seem real."
"Wasn't there a war a long time ago with the gods and the titans."
"Yes, there was, but Pan did a butt kicking cry of panic and we ended up winning."
"Well I know my dreams of going to Julliard are over." Juniper and Rodney laughed,
"Honey you weren't going to Julliard even if you were any good." Rodney teased and high fived Juniper. I gave them a look, then I set the book down on the rock and it began to close up again. We walked out of the temple and back out to Jupiter's tree. Jupiter smiled and curtsied and jumped back into her tree. I saw the evening sky was waning, and I felt tired from killing monsters and using powers to get me to New York which I had never been to before. Rodney sensed this and sighed.
"Expect a tough rest of the year, kid." He led me over to a little hut where several satyrs slept, "Alright ladies which one yous is willing to give up a bed for little miss. Daughter of Pan here." The satyrs groaned and looked up one got up and gestured for me to lie down on the cot.
"Rodney you truly have lost it my friend, she can't be a daughter of Pan, she's not a nymph." The satyr said.
"So? Her mother is mortal."
I shook my head and let the two of them quarrel I laid down on the cot and went to sleep immediately. I dreamed of a fat satyr who I guessed was my father. He lay on a bed and played a pipe, the melody was eerie, it was like a scene off of Narnia. I watched and watched but he kept playing till no end, but then he ended the song and just stared at me his eyes were the same color as mine. He slowly began to fade his blank expression and terrifying glare never leaving his face. Then he was gone.
I sat up and saw it was still dark out, the satyrs snored happily. I got up and heard something outside, a slight vibration running through the early morning air. I walked up out of the hut and saw a touch of grey slanting through the darkened sky. I walked over to the Pegasus stables and saw that many were empty, but one pure white one stomped her feet on the ground. Her food bucket was empty and water was down to the last drop. I held out my hand and she glared at it angrily. But let me pet her forehead, the sound was greater then, it now sounded like a pounding, hammer. I walked out of the stable and saw a flash of red sore through the sky. But it disappeared behind a cloud. Then again it shot across the sky. I saw it was coming closer and closer to the ground. I saw when it was close enough, that it was a red sports car. The Beatles played, "All you need is Love."
The car landed and a tall blond guy got out of the car and saw me standing there. He smiled and I was charmed, he was pretty handsome.
"Hey there sweetheart, names Apollo, I'm sure you've heard of me." He shook my hand a gave a flirtatious smile.
"Nice to meet you sir, I'm Penelope."
"Beautiful name, say, what daughter of who are you?"
"Um Pan?"
Apollo's smile wiped right off his face. He frowned.
"Did I hear you right, Pan you say?"
"Yeah, I know shock to me too."
"No it's really not a shock you got his eyes its just, well he had a daughter as pretty as you. And I don't really like the guy."
"Well thanks," I smiled, "Why don't you like him though?"
"Challenged me to a music contest, who could play the best song. The deal was who could play their instrument the best upside down, of course I rocked the guitar upside down, but your daddy, his little pipe didn't even blow a note."
"Whoa I didn't know that."
"Most people don't, excuse me miss, meet my son, Phoenix." A boy stepped out of the car he looked like Apollo, but his blond hair was tasseled and hung down to his eyebrows. A red streak ran through it, he had blue eyes that were a dangerously dark blue, and his skin was tanned to the point of perfection.
"Hey." He smiled, he was just like his dad. Well they say the apple doesn't far from the tree. I saw Apollo whisper something in his ear, "You look fine." He said looking me up and down. I laughed, and started fixing my hair back into a certain place but it was no use.
"Well I have to get back to Mount Olympus, can't miss another council meeting, Dad's going to have my head." He winked at me, and hopped in his car. "Bye Phoenix." He waved and zipped off into the sunrise. Phoenix shook his head and walked to the big farm house planted in the middle of the Camp and didn't even glance at me again.
"So Phoenix do are you a demigod or a minor god."
"I'm a god, but um excuse me I have some very important business to attend to." He walked in and ceased. I saw Rodney was watching me from a far. I walked over to him. He just smiled and shook his head,
"Apollo's quite the flirt, I'm surprised he's not joined with Aphrodite. Don't take to his son, he's a jerk who thinks he get whatever he wants."
"Yeah I noticed that."
"Well come on, I just got a Iris Message from Chiron things are looking well, the titans were defeated, for now. And well everything's back to normal…pretty much. Normal isn't really a word to use. Well I suppose you should get yourself cleaned up they'll be home by tomorrow."
"Who?"
"The campers, demigods, satyrs, my dear friend Grover. I miss the idiot, and well of course our new Oracle as I'm told."
"Oh alright, yes I suppose is there a place where I can buy new clothes?"
"Yes, the camp store, come I'll show you." He led me to a weather beaten little store and grabbed a few T-shirts and a pair of jeans. That was weird how they kept jeans here, but maybe a half blood had shown up naked one time and they didn't want that to happen again. He gave me them.
"Rodney these shirts are like ten sizes to big."
"To bad, put it in a cup and suck it."
"Jeez alright." I went to the girls bathroom and changed into a Camp Half Blood T-shirt that was purple and tied it in the back so it didn't hang down to my knees. I saw the sun had come up and for once a grey sky didn't dictate the blue sky. It was clear and not a cloud in the sky. I walked down to the beach and saw the ferry boat from yesterday still floated on the shore frozen, it looked like. Then suddenly the sky turned a turbulent grey stormy sky. Rodney came and stood next to me,
"It's quite odd how Zeus gets angry isn't it?" He said.
"Wait why is Zeus mad?"
"Sometimes sentencing does that to him."
"Sentencing what's that supposed to mean?"
"He's judging the demigods who took charge of the quest."
"Oh, like giving them rewards and stuff?"
"Yes that's it."
"I see." I looked up at the swirling sky and shuddered, I'd hate to be in their position. I thought. Then a idea came to my head.
"I'll be back Rodney."
"Alright, I know you won't but oh well."
"Shut up." I got up and walked back to the stables I saw Phoenix there which made me jump with surprise. He looked at me with uninterested eyes and carried on with whatever he was doing. I rolled my eyes and walked over to the mare's stall, that I had visited yesterday. She was nice to me today and didn't show the whites of her eyes.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, the Pegasus is a monster with wings." Phoenix said, but he glanced at me petting the mare. He shrugged, I just laughed,
"Yeah more like a dog that begs for attention with wings." I saw her food and water buckets had both been filled. I detected Phoenix had done it. I looked at him and noticed him staring at me. His eyes were bright with something but it was dangerous to look into them. You could drowned in their vast sea.
I got on the pegasus's back and led her to a opening of the stabled she took one step and soared through the sky. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, just one person.
