A/N Hello there everybody =) Sorry for those of you who had to wait, but I kept true to my word…I WANT 2 REVIEWS FOR EVERY CHAPTER. I only got one review *sigh*, however, I did get favorited as a story, and as myself, so thank you for that =) so you are lucky that I wanted to continue this story otherwise I would have given up. This chapter is dedicated to my first ever FF fan and the only one who reviewed….xXxrouxXx this chapter is for you.
Chapter 2: Summer Camp….Yikes
Everything was shaking, and the building was toppling over. Thankfully I was able to drag myself and Gizelle underneath our coffee table despite the bitter pain coursing through my body.
I kept screaming as I saw my home that I had lived in for two years became nothing but rubble. What was left of the walls and furniture was on fire. I felt tears run down my filthy face, and saw that Gizelle was covered in plaster too despite me trying to cover her.
I heard sirens in the distance, but time seemed to slow. Like literally, the ash went in slow mow, and the sirens went weeeeeeeeeee oooooooooooo very slow and very annoying. Then when everything was still I stood up.
I walked around and touched one thing of ash and then it fell down. I glanced at the TV again. It was smashed.
Realizing that everything had stopped, I quickly freaked out that Gizelle might not be breathing, so I grabbed her from under the table and took her into the front of our building.
If the whole symbol thing and the explosion weren't creepy enough, now everything was frozen. What the heck is going on? I screamed inside my head. I glanced at the horizon and actually saw something moving. Then it stopped like everyone else when it got closer.
Please, I begged to nobody in particular, let this get fixed! Just as I thought this, the ground began shaking again and more rubble and dust covered me and the siren noises came closer.
I sat down waiting for the ambulance to come as my head ache slowly got better. I saw that Gizelle was stirring a little bit more, and this was a huge relief. Even though my head ache was gone, I still wanted to pass out very much, but something in me realized that if I did, I wouldn't wake up. Ever.
Finally the ambulance came into view, but then behind it I saw something moving. In the sky where two white figures, and one black; I squinted my eyes to see further and it looked like some kind of animal, only HUGE. As it got closer I realized that they were yup you guessed it, flying horses.
"I-I-I am going insane today!" I screamed, "I must have hit my head or something today, or maybe I got food poisoning and I am imagining this whole thing." I remembered hearing that if you pinched yourself, you would wake up. "YOWCH!"
Note to self: Do not pinch yourself awake, because most likely, you are awake.
I began pondering more things when THUMP! The horses landed next to me and my mouth was in a big O and I probably looked like an idiot.
"Get on," said a tall blond with weird grey eyes, "Now!" she hastily added looking at me. "We are under attack, can you not see? If you want to live GET ON!"
My mind put this into perspective, so I hastily climbed onto her Pegasus. A dark haired boy with green eyes put Gizelle on his black Pegasus. Then there was this blond beach boy dude who looked all serious on another white Pegasus, and if I wasn't seeing correctly, he had eyes everywhere."
"Argus," said the girl, "you know we need to get them out, now. What creature would attack like this?" she demanded.
He shrugged, like this helped the conversation.
"Must be one of the big three," said the cute boy. Then the blond nodded and looked at him with admiration. They must have been going out.
"Ya, Percy, I think you may have a new sibling." She smiled at him then continued, "Let me see your eyes, girl."
"I have a name you know, Miss. Know-It-All," I said pretty pissed off. The least she could do was be nice to me and tell me her name or ask me for mine; not that I would tell her, it was just the polite thing to do.
Percy laughed, "Well considering she is a daughter of Athena she is Miss. Know-It-All. Anyways, her name is Annabeth Chase. She's my girlfriend. As you probably already know, I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. Argus here, he is Camp Half-Blood's security," Argus grunted in agreement, "Now can you please tell me your name, and perhaps some strange things that has ever happened to you? We need to find out who your parent is. Mom or dad?"
I liked Percy a lot better than any of them so far. Too bad he was taken. I hesitated a while, and then told him my name, but I was still confused about the whole parent thing. Why did they need to know about my parents?
"Kinsey. Kinsey Admeta. And I don't know what you are going at with my parents. Why do you need to know who they are? Aren't you here for me?" I asked confused.
"Yes," Annabeth said slowly, "Kinsey, let me see your eyes."
Well this was an odd request, "Um…okay."
She gasped when she saw them. They were different colors, but I was used to my friends doing this day by day. My right eye was blue with three dots of brown, maybe on third was brown' my left eye was brown with a rim of green on the outside. Ya, cool I know? It is like a one in a million thing.
"Aphrodite?" she said hesitantly. "That is great and all, but I sensed more power to you. Not beauty."
"Aww my feelings are hurt." I teased. "So why do you say I am a goddess because of the colors of my eyes? Who are the big three? And I have two other siblings, and he is not one of them," I said pointing at Percy who was struggling to keep Gizelle upright. "Where are you taking me anyways?"
"First off, you are not a goddess. We think you may be a daughter of one however, and they all have different ways of telling them apart. For example, hair color, eye color, personality, and also talents and your muscular build or figure."
"WHOA! My mom is a goddess! I can't wait to tell my dad, this is sooo weird. So I have powers, do my siblings too? Why didn't she tell me?"
"What do you mean? You have a step-mom?" Percy asked confused. This was not good.
"No. Both of my parents are my blood parents, and so are my siblings. Why…?" I asked starting to freak out again. My happy moment was over.
"Kinsey," I knew this tone, and it couldn't happen to me like this! "I think you may have been adopted."
"No! That is impossible; I am fourteen my parents would have told me. I look like everyone in my family, and I mean everyone including cousins. Why do you keep insisting that I am adopted or have one parent, is this unusual for you, 'cause boy do I need to explain unusual to you guys. Now tell me where I am going!" I demanded. Again, they were really starting to freak me out.
"Kinsey, us Demi-gods usually only have one parent. One mortal human and the other…"
"Is a god." I finished for him, the message dawning on me for the first time. "But what does this mean if I have two? Could they both be gods, or am I adopted? Who knows, one of them could be a step-mom/dad." I said disappointedly. I never had to question my heritage before.
"Exactly," says Annabeth a little excitedly. "I can't wait to tell Chiron all of this; he would be quite interested to figure out your heritage. Oh! I think we are leading somewhere this is fantastic! Hmmm…I do believe that you are one of the Big Three though. Obviously your essence drove those monsters insane. I wonder how you outlasted them sooo long! Percy almost died when he was twelve. You're fourteen! Must be Zeus…"
"Chiron?" Ya, when I am told my dad is possibly Zeus, I ask about Chiron. "Like, the horse dude?"
Argus nodded, and I shivered forgetting he was there.
Percy kept looking at me though, and I became curious. He was Annabeth's girlfriend, right?
He must have finally caught on too, because I said, "Anything the matter?"
"No, well yes," I raised my eyebrows and he hastily added, "Not you. It is just that last summer there was this huge war against the Titans, and well, I won."
"Go on," I said tiredly, not knowing where this would go.
"Well as a reward for my service, the gods gave me the gift of immortality" I gasped.
"But he turned it down, and I got to help rebuild Olympus" says Annabeth cheerfully smiling at Percy.
"At first Zeus was angry, but I asked for another gift. I asked that they would claim all of their children' the reason the war started was because the children felt unwanted and they wanted revenge for being used. They also had to do it no later than twelve, or as soon as you arrived at Camp Half-Blood-"
"Where?" I said, confused.
"The place we are taking you….for Demi-gods. We already went over this. Catch on." Annabeth said impatiently.
"Anyways, you were supposed to be claimed a long time ago. Not only that, but you are a powerful Demi-god. In fact, we might be siblings since you have a bit of green in your eyes."
"Doubt it," I muttered under my breath, but to be honest, I started getting excited.
"No matter what though, we will all be cousins…sort of." Annabeth said. She dated her cousin? That is kinda gross.
Just then, the Pegasi broke through the clouds and a huge hill with a big field was there. "Um, why are we stopping here? I thought you were taking me to that camp."
"We are here."
"Where? There is nothing here but hills!" I said exasperated.
They exchanged looks. "The mist." says Annabeth.
"The what?"
"Mist. Keeps mortals from seeing what is really there, like a place or monsters for example, and sometimes they fool Demi-gods too. Try and concentrate. It is there. Trust me."
I had nothing to lose so I squinted my eyes, and thought hard until I got a head-ache.
"Take her in," grunted Argus, "That should clear her up.
Percy took my arm and I worriedly walked with him over to a tree, while Argus held Gizelle, and Annabeth was making the Pegasi follow her. I was about to walk past the tree, when I did a double take.
"Is, is, is that a dragon!" I said in disbelief.
"Yup," Percy laughed, "He guards the Golden Fleece." I then looked, and saw what he was referring to.
Then, I looked even farther, and saw a huge hill full of strawberries, and numerous strange cabins in some weird semi-circle. There was a lake full of some mermaids of some sort, a track for I don't know what, stables, a rock wall that squirts out lava and had rockslides, an area where kids were playing with swords, and kids being chased by half goat people, and the goat people also tried to chase after these strange girls too that turned into trees. Everything seemed so unreal, like a dream, and trust me, by the looks of it there was also a huge forest and much more activities.
Percy was still pulling my arm, and we were getting looks from other people who were dressed funny. Whatever, it was their problem. He then dragged me up to the largest building that was there; a giant house.
"This is where the magic happens," says Percy, jokingly, then more seriously adds, "We are gonna find out about you whether you want to or not. I hope you're ready to meet Chiron." Then he opened up the giant doors that led to the house.
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