Chapter three;

William Weasley was, to put it nicely, absolutely pissed. Oh no, he had been fine when Axegar the goblin had pulled him from Egypt to assist a highly rated customer of the goblins. He had always wanted to visit America and hadn't had chance, and the pay for the trip was too difficult to resist too (the goblins would still pay he is salaried wage, plus the equivalent of the time the trip too from the customer themselves) – when he had found out that the said customer was a mere child, and not an adult that was in need of assistance was rather annoying, but it was time away from the tombs. As much he loved working the tombs, sometimes the heat got to him and he hadn't had a break away from Egypt for six months already.

At the age of 23, the last thing he was expecting to be told was that one of his parents weren't his biological parent.

Which side?

Well, that they weren't sure of just yet.

When he had woken in the medical tent in the camp he had been escorting the children to, a centaur by the name of Chiron had pulled him aside – he had shown him some sort of non-magical moving picture that actually had sound! It was like a talking book where the pictures moved, if he thought about it! The thing was called an orientation video, or so Chiron had said. It went on about the Greek Gods, Goddesses and a basic history of Olympus and the Olympians – some of which he already knew, since he had done NEWT level history.

Then Chiron had blurted out that he was a demigod.

That one of his parents were a god or goddess.

Chiron had said that they had know the moment that he had been able to pass through the barrier, without permission of either Chiron himself or one Gods. Chiron had, apparently, just been able to exit the barrier to grant the access so he could heal when he had been carried through.

His powers, like Deo's, had been bound.

Deo…

"Come on kiddo, wake up." Bill whispered, "Can't have the person that I owe a life debt to, dying on me!"

"He isn't going to die." Lia snapped from the opposite side of the bed,

"When he wakes, I will believe you!" Bill argued right back,

William himself had been unconscious for nearing to the 24 hour mark, but it had been another three days and Deo hadn't budged a little bit. To be fair, Bill had also been knocked back out for a good 18 hours when they had unbound his 'godly' powers, and they said that Deo was a lot more powerful than him, so maybe that was why he was still out of it.

"What do you mean by life debt, anyway?" Ales asked, he was sat cross legged at the end of the bed that Deo had been placed on. "You are both demigods, saving each other is what we do. There is no debt involved."

"Its…a matter of honour within magical society," Bill explained slowly – thinking out his words. He hadn't grown up knowing the traditions, but they applied to himself and all of his family as much as his parents (parent?) didn't want them to learn them. "Its actually magically binding, it is said Lady Magic herself made it so, to give wizards honour and respect for each other."

"Magically binding?" Lia prompted,

"It depends. It could mean losing your magic, or your life." Bill explained, reaching out and grabbing the childes hand. "If I actively killed Deo right now, I would most likely die. If I sat back and allowed you to do so, without attempting to stop you, I would likely lose my magic. It is said that in times of war, it was used to forge alliances. In times of peace, instead of alliance in battle, it was often used to forge marriage contracts."

"You aren't marrying my nephew!" Lee shouted from the other end of the tent,

William actually laughed out loud at that one,

"No, I didn't mean that!" He reassured as he was pierced by glares of the children of Apollo within the room. At least Deo was going to be very well protected here. "I just meant that it could be used for that. Where marriage allicaces weren't practical or wanted, the person who owed the life debt could offer fealty to the person or their family.."

"Sounds old fashioned," Lia commented,

"So is most of the Greek stuff we live in," Ales pointed out,

"I cannot offer fealty until I find out if I am a true Weasley, or a Prewett." Bill sighed, which of his parents had been unfaithful? Why? "I am the natural heir of both now technically, so until I find out which is my mortal parent…"

"Why didn't anyone else tell me about tha'?" a young voice interrupted them, William could have sworn on the name of Merlin itself that the lot of them jumped a mile.

"I suppose…" William considered his words once more, "Well, I suppose that there wasn't any need, really. Its not like you've saved any lives, as far as you've mentioned."

"I saved Ginny's life a month ago." The slightly slurred voice of the boy stated,

Ginny…wait, what?

What did this child know of his little sister?

"That's enough! He can explain later!" Lee rebuked, "The lot of you, out! I've got a check up to do!"

"Where's William?" Deo asked,

Deo dropped down onto the grass outside of the medical tent where the twins and several others had been waiting for him, a good hour after they had been kicked out so Lee Fletcher could check up on him. He had been given a clean bill of health, although the teen hadn't seemed pleased at what the malnutrition had done to him over the years – his height would always be stunted because of that, according to Lee.

They had spoken of the binds that had been on both his wizarding magic and on his godly side, surprisingly both had began to burn through the bindings – so whoever had placed them had clearly underestimated him, or simply hadn't had chance to renew them within the past year or so. Lee had also demanded to know why his medical history was so bad – especially to do with the long-term malnutrition. And the breaks, contusions and bruising to his bones and internal organs that Lee had managed to heal whilst he had been unconscious the past few days.

Deo didn't say a word about his relatives.

"He said he's going back to the UK," Lia answered – with somewhat of a grimace to her face, like she wasn't happy with his choice. "The guy was pretty cool, hopefully he decides to come back and see us!"

"He mentioned needing to see his parents, about the truth." Ales added, Deo nodded in understanding. He had asked Lee why William was still here, and Lee had explained the circumstances.

Did that mean that all of the Weasley children had different parents? Or was it just William?

Was it Mrs or Mr Weasley would had strayed and had been unfaithful?

Well, it was hardly any of his business, if Deo was honest with himself.

"You are staying in the Apollo cabin for now," Lia chirped, "We cleared it with Chiron – as an unclaimed Demigod, you would normally go to the Hermes cabin…."

"But since you've been claimed as a blessed legacy, you can stay with us!" Ales finished, pulling himself and Deo to their feet with obviously practiced ease. He slowly pointed to those around them. "So, this is Michael, that's Austin, Kayla, Jasmine, Will and that's Joseph. Ryan and Bethany are off seeing to someone that got hurt training, and Noel and Anthony aren't at camp right now. You've met Lee. That's all of our currently claimed children of Apollo!"

The camp, as it turned out, wasn't anything like he had been expecting. He had been expecting the typical summer camp, like the one he had been sent to for the weekend when he was six years old with Dudley (school trip), mouldy old cabins and mud-drenched trails to walk. It wasn't anything like that though – there were stables, and fighting arena, and even basketball and tennis courts! There was a huge lake, and he could see people canoeing out onto the smooth waters, towards the lake area were a horse-shape layout of 12 cabins. Lia and Ales, who were taking him on the tour, explained that each of the cabins were dedicated to the 12 Olympians who had a seat on Olympus; personally, he could see the issue straight away – there would be demigods that weren't of the "major" gods, and even Lord Hades didn't have his own cabin.

As it turned out, if he hadn't been a legacy, he would have ended up in the Hermes cabin – since he was unclaimed by his actual god father.

Why wasn't there a cabin for those who were unclaimed or a cabin for those of the minor gods?

Sigh.

If there was one thing he couldn't stand it was inequality just because of who you were born to. The Hogwarts professors did it to him all the time, thinking he should or shouldn't be able to do something because of who they thought his parents were.

They were heading towards the cabins once more, so that he could be shown around when a large girl stepped in front of him. She was very tall, heavily muscled (for a girl, anyway!) and had a sneer set firmly on her face.

Around her where several others, who looked rather similar to her – given what he had been told, he assumed that they were all siblings.

"Clarisse, go away!" Alesandro ordered with a groan,

"So, its true. We do have a new fry!" the girl – Clarisse? – jeered, Deo bit back a groan – he had heard those words plenty of times before…Dudley use to say them to anyone that started new at their primary school, if they were younger or older than him.

"Another son of Apollo, how typical!" another one of the boys added,

"Actually -." Lia started,

It was too late though, before any of them could react Clarisse had Deo in a very, very tight grip dragging him towards the toilet block that were close to the lake. No matter how much he fought, he juts couldn't get out from her grip, since she kept adjusting it – he was thrown into one of the cubicles, and had just enough time to twist to see where the Apollo children had vanished to, they were being held up from helping by the others that had been with Clarisse, real weapons being used – it looked like his aunt and uncles were winning, but that didn't help him right now!

"Initiation, small fry." Clarisse mocked, yeah she had already said something about an initiation. "All new campers get a swirly! Your turn!"

Oh no.

Not a chance.

Dudley had flushed his head plenty of times growing up, when he wasn't allowed to defend himself from the attacks!

Just as Clarisse went to push his head down, he managed to find a grip with both hands on either side of the toilet – he wasn't able to push backwards, but he certainly wasn't allowing her to push forwards either, as he forced on the impending watery doom, he could feel a pressure rising up within him and cussed. That he had felt once too many times before, before a bust of accidental magic. It wasn't like he had told any of them about being a wizard either!

No, this one was different.

Not so forced, but like a powerful wave washing through him.

The water from the toilet bowl rushed upwards and he flinched, thinking that it was going to hit him; it didn't though! It seemed to arch around either side of his head, and hit Clarisse without power to sent her flying…

…flying right out of the stall, and into a big patch of now sludge-like mud that had appeared with the onslaught of water.

Deo nearly doubled over laughing when he saw the state of both Clarisse and her siblings, and the Apollo demigods – all of them were soaking wet, literally dripping with water, although those of the Apollo cabin had remained standing, the others hadn't and had ended up in a tangled heap a few feet away from where they had been fighting.

"You are so dead CALIX!" Clarisse screamed,

She tried to stand up in the mud but went flying backwards as her feet slipped from underneath her.

It honestly reminded him of a comedy moment from those shows that his aunt and uncle used to watch on a Sunday afternoon.

Ales and Lia grabbed one of his hands each and dragged him, running, away from the crime scene as Chiron approached from the Big House to find out what had happened. When they reached the Apollo cabin. At first glance the cabin appeared rather ordinary, but in the sunlight it looked as if it was made of solid gold blocks, and Ales said that for the other campers that weren't blessed by Apollo, it was quiet often said to be too blinding to look at.

Inside both sides of the cabin were lined with bunk beds, with a cot in the middle (Lia said it was for anyone injured to be treated), each of the bunk beds had shelves next to – even the bottom bunks! – and a wardrobe between each of the bunks. There were rough cedar beams on the ceiling and white plastered walls, that reminded Deo so much of the hospital wing. Cheerful yellow blooms from the island of Delos (Lia stated that they owned grew in and around the cabin and no where else), with other flower pots filled with red and purple hyacinths. Other than that, at the very far end of the cabin was a large book shelf, apparently filled with books on healing and on Lord Apollo himself – comfortable and colourful beanbag chairs were scattered throughout that area too, clearly it was somewhere that could be used to relax or socialise. At the very end of the cabin were hooks, and shelves, filled with a different assortment of weapons.

Deo was assisted to the bunk bed furthest from the main doorway, apparently Lee had chosen it for him, and was on the bottom bunk. The top bunk was currently empty, but he had assured that they usually didn't often have spare beds. When it had laid down, he found that it was like laying on a layer of clouds, and just the right temperature to be perfectly comfortable.

There was just enough space beneath the bed for his school trunk, which had been put there by whoever had brought it to the cabin for him.

Smiling happily, he quickly got changed into a pair of shorts and an orange tshirt that he was handed – it was the camp t-shirt – and his new trainers before allowing the twins to lead him out to go and get lunch.

*Deo is a legacy of Apollo (his mother was the Demigod Daughter of Apollo) but since Apollo has personally blessed – and that will be explained later in the series – Deo he is basically at the same level as most of the Apollo kids when it comes to his talents. Of course, just like most talents he will actually have to practice!

So, thank you all that have read the story so far – feel free to let me know what you think!

(**Spelling will be checked one the story is complete!)

Thank you!

Leelee!