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Chapter 4: Prophecies and Parents
So, for the past few days, everything was alright… I guess. I have been staying in different cabins every night. Annabeth told me that they don't do that often. In fact, they don't do it at all. In all of Camp Half-Blood history nobody has ever tried as much to find out someone's parents as much as they were trying to figure out mine.
I don't get why everyone thinks I am so special, but apparently I am. They say they sense a very strong and powerful aura around me, and that attack I had the day I arrived, nothing had ever happened like that to anybody before; well except for Nico. But that is a whole other story that he hardly even remembers, and they say it was Zeus going after him himself.
So now everyone was trying their hardest to be my friend and to figure out where exactly I came from. Every night I stayed somewhere else, hoping to be claimed.
Athena's cabin was a blast! We hung out together, and played all these mind games and talked about a bunch of different debates we had, like about books and other things. It was so amazing. Every single person wished that I would just get one little symbol over my head, but nothing happened. Disappointed I left in the morning
The next day I hung out with the Ares cabin. Annabeth told me they were trying extra hard to be nice, because being nice isn't in their nature. They blared music in their cabin which just gave me a headache. Things were getting thrown across the room, and it was chaos. Everyone was fighting, physical and verbally, half of the time I didn't even know what it was about, just something ridiculous. I myself got in a very heated conversation with Clarisse and left banging the door shut; I shut the door so hard the window almost broke.
I had to make a mental note to stay away from that cabin. I was so thankful that I wasn't related to any of them.
I liked to mostly hang out with Annabeth and Percy, and then Piper, Jason, and Leo also joined in bringing along Will as well. They have been the nicest to me so far. I was totally praying to all of the gods that at least one of them would be mine.
Percy taught me how to fight with a sword, and Piper taught me this special technique in riding a Pegasus, and for doing makeup. Annabeth kept quizzing me on Greek mythology, and she also taught me many battle strategies. Jason tried to teach me how to fly, but that got me in the infirmary for a few minutes.
They have this special medicine that tastes like cookies and popcorn, and they say that only we can have it. After that my leg was fine from my fall, but I wanted more of that medicine. Angus said I would burn up inside if I had too much. Like as in I melt or catch on fire burn up, and I didn't want to take my chances.
Jason then taught me how to use a spear. I would hang out with Leo in arts and crafts, because he could build the most amazing things. After a class, I would do chariot races and play basketball with Will and his siblings.
Everyday this slow routine continued, and a week had passed by but I still wasn't claimed. Sure I was having the time of my life, I mean, no finals! But still there was something inside me that just felt-empty. That always kept me in my way from doing my absolute best. At meals I would sit at the Hermes table like a real unclaimed child, I was miserable. Sure I also had a ton of friends now, but they all seemed like a little clique, and I was the person in the background. I could tell that Annabeth tried the hardest to keep me included, but now I was avoiding them. I didn't want to have parties anymore; I just wanted to be left alone, and to go back to the real world.
After a month Chiron started to get desperate. I still wasn't claimed and the camp leaders were starting to worry. As their final act of desperation they started rooming me in Hera and Artemis' cabins. This was not received as an honor to me, but a slap in the face. Those two goddesses had vowed to never have children, so why start now? I began to believe I wasn't worth claiming.
Annabeth noticed my recent depressions so she invited me to go canoeing with the rest of the gang. I appreciated the gesture, so I tagged along behind the group. I stared at the ground in front of me, wondering what was going to happen to me if I never got claimed, while kicking a pebble and talking to nobody. Then I saw a pair of white sneakers that obstructed the dull brown of the path. I glanced up
"Hey Will," I said with no emotion in my voice.
Will shifted his feet "Hey," he said smiling. I didn't smile back, and he looked away, "So I know you are having a tough time and all right now," I nodded, "So I was wondering if you wanted to stay in Apollo's again?" I didn't know what to say so I shrugged. He shifted his feet again uncomfortable.
Aside from Athena, Apollo's cabin new how to party! We played all kinds of games all night, made jokes and told stories and riddles and poems. They even had their own little band, and they had a piccolo I could play, which is practically a flute, only it was a lot smaller, and had its octaves were higher and it could mess up your embouchure if you didn't practice. So I got to play that. It was so much fun, but I don't think I'm up for that right now.
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"Um..." His loss for words was starting to make me uncomfortable. "So was that a yes or no, because it would be awesome if you go again, because it was so amazing." He said slowly.
I didn't know what to say. I mean I liked the Apollo cabin, but I really didn't want another party.
"I don't know, Will. Maybe I will just stay in Hermes again tonight." He looked disappointed. I tried to think of an excuse. "Well you know, I kind of feel bad for going to all these parties because…" Think of something, quick! I screamed at myself."Because of Gizelle. I couldn't do that to her. Here she has been unconscious in the infirmary, and I didn't stop by once to see her." I felt bad lying to Will, because all he did was be nice to me, but it was partially the truth. I mean, I haven't even once gone to visit her. I was such an awful friend. It turns out her case was even worse than they thought, and I didn't even think about her twice when I got here. "In fact, I really have been bad on seeing her, I should probably go now. You know, to just check on her."
"Oh" said Will, obviously disappointed. We walked in silence for a while
"Why can't they just use that ambrosia and nectar stuff on her like they did for me?"
He sighed, "Because she is not a goddess or a half-blood."
"So what is she, a mortal?"
He looked a little uncomfortable about this subject which I had no idea why. "Well, no she isn't. Mortals can't come inside Camp Half-Blood."
"So what is she?"
"Um...I think it is best if you ask her."He answered. I just gave him a confused look. I then turned around, but Will put a hand on my shoulder. "Why don't I take you there, you know, to make sure no monsters get you?"
"I thought monsters couldn't…" His hand slid off my shoulder and grabbed my hand. He laughed and pulled me in the direction of the Big House.
On the way we laughed at some little joke he had about those mortals who thought they were fortune tellers. I immediately felt weird laughing to that joke. Considering you to not be a mortal was kind of…weird. Especially since I wasn't being claimed.
"Well," he said when we reached the Big House, "Your friend awaits you." He made a hand gesture across his body and bowed.
"Thanks for taking me here Will." I decided to flash him a smile I had been practicing in the Aphrodite cabin; just one small star falling smile. He stood there a little longer than necessary, but then he walked away and I went up the steps.
I saw Dionysus playing a game of Pac-man, while holding his usual Diet Coke. I had to admit, that it was pretty funny to view a god the way you viewed Dionysus.
I walked by Chiron's study, and turned the corner in the hall and collided with Rachel. "Oh sorry about that," I said. The scrolls she was carrying rolled across the floor. "Here let me help you."
"It's no big deal, really" she said, but I went to pick it up anyways. When I picked up this one scroll I accidentally touched her hand, and then she got all rigid.
"Rachel…?" I asked unsure of what was going on. Rachel just turned very white, and then her eyes kind of glowed. "Chiron!" I yelled, and he immediately came out of his study in full on centaur form.
"A prophecy," he gasped. I had no time to ask what he meant, because green smoke began to ooze out of her mouth. There was no way that was natural.
"A journey to a young girl's past,
Must take part as the god's request.
Live or die a most brutal death,
Only to be solved from past text.
Ten Demigods will go on a mighty quest,
Only to come back as three less.
The roots of her soul and heritage
All depend on Olympus's pilgrimage.
Her destiny to be discovered,
Only to shatter her to the gates of Tarturas,
The gods are coming; they know her heart is in this.
Trust the untrusted, and don't trust the trustworthy.
Here she finds love and danger.
Her life will end the way it came, if she doesn't play this game."
Rachel crumpled to the floor, and I double checked to make sure I hadn't wet my pants.
"Get the others." Chiron bellowed at me, picking up Rachel. "NOW! Tell them the next big prophecy has been delivered upon us." I didn't question him and ran out of the hall like my life depended on it, and in my case, it did.
I ran headfirst into Will who just happened to be just outside the door. My mouth made solid contact with his chin. I immediately jumped back. He had blood on his face, and I realized that it was mine because I split my lip. "S-sorry Will." I apologized out of breath from my run, "Get the others. Now! There has been a prophecy!" He nodded at me like this had happened before, and ran off in one direction as I ran in the other.
I shouted inside cabins, at the basketball court, stables, the rock wall, the track, and finally got to the lake where I met up with the others, although Will beat me to it. We then all ran back to the Big House out of breath.
"Inside!" hissed Chiron. None of us protested, and I sat down around the Ping Pong table and closed my eyes, but the scene was tattooed to my eyelids, so I forced them open. My lip was throbbing from when I bumped into Will, and I wished I had something to help.
Annabeth seemed to have read my mind as she handed me a tissue and some ambrosia. I took it thankfully and ate the ambrosia while I cleaned up the blood.
The room was packed and stifling. It seemed as if the entire camp had shown up, which I realized they probably had.
"We," said Chiron calmly, as if, "Have had a prophecy. Rachel," She opened her eyelids. I hadn't even noticed she was in here.
"Ya, um. So I had a prophecy. Again, and this one is kind of huge." I heard someone groan, but then they yelped because I guess somebody else elbowed them.
"And like if I don't tell you, like right now, we could be in like big doo doo…"
"Get on with it, Rachel!" said Clarisse unhappily.
"Fine. A journey to a young girl's past,
Must take part as the god's request.
Live or die a most brutal death,
Only to be solved from past text.
Ten Demigods will go on a mighty quest,
Only to come back as three less.
The roots of her soul and heritage
All depend on Olympus's pilgrimage.
Her destiny to be discovered,
Only to shatter her to the gates of Tarturas,
The gods are coming; they know her heart is in this.
Trust the untrusted, and don't trust the trustworthy.
Here she finds love and danger.
Her life will end the way it came, if she doesn't play this game."
I couldn't help but mouth all the words along with hers. My eyes were shut tightly, and then I opened them because I though my head would explode. When I did, everyone was staring at me. I knew what they were thinking
Holy crap, this is the new girl's entire fault! Now three of us are going to die because her parent hates her! Who is going to go? She better go, who cares if she has no training? Because she is gonna die anyways, I thought bitterly.
"I'm going," said Annabeth surprisingly loud to my right, making me jump.
"Me too." Jason and Percy piped in at the same time.
"G-guys you don't have to do this." I said.
"Sure we do," said Piper from across the table, "I will go also."
"No, guys. You can't go. I won't let two of you die."
"It said three people were going to die, not two." Piped in Nico among the crowd.
"Well that doesn't really matter because obviously I'm going to die anyways." My hands shook and I closed them up into fists and shut my eyes.
"You know, there has never been a prophecy this direct before…"
I cut Annabeth off, "Ya, well I cause a lot of stuff that hasn't happened before." I said harshly.
She looked at me sadly, and then continued, "Maybe it means something else. Like it didn't say Kinsey is going to die with two others."
"It practically did." Said Clarisse grinning. That jerk. I stuck my tongue out at her.
"What does it mean by she will end the way she came?"
"I don't know." I said angrily. "Chiron, You know what it means though. I can tell. You knew right from the start that something like this was going to happen, and you let me walk right into a trap!" I let all of my fury burn inside me.
He hesitated before speaking, "No. I had my theories, and thence I figured you were supposed to be dead. You should be in Tarturas right now."
I felt like he slapped me. I grabbed Annabeth's knife before she could do anything about it, and leaped across the table over to Chiron. I pointed the knife right at his heart. "Tell. Me. What. You. Know!" I growled through my teeth. My fury just kept building up.
"I don't know exactly!" He protested. "It says this will happen one way, and then the same thing on the other." I faltered and looked up. He took this opportunity and grabbed my knife and threw it to Annabeth.
"So I am doomed." This wasn't a question. I walked back to my chair and slumped down in it. "Look, if the outcome will be the same, then no one is going on this quest. I will go alone, and give myself up to whatever wants me. That way nobody gets hurt. I just wish…I wish I could see my family one more time before I go…" There was absolute silence, and Chiron was still looking me in a weird way. I felt someone put a hand on my shoulder. It was Will.
"We might as well see what the outcome does bring us." He said, "I'm going."
"No, absolutely not…" Annabeth cut me off.
"Okay," she said, "We need nine people. Raise your hand if you're going."
I tried to protest, but Annabeth silenced me with one look. I looked in horror as I saw hands go up. Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Will, Nico, and Clarisse. I had no idea why Clarisse was going. Maybe because it was a challenge to her, but I knew it wasn't because she cared about what will happen to me.
"Well what exactly is she?" Leo asked, "They wouldn't just send an innocent Demigod to Tarturas, would they?"
"She isn't innocent, and she is no Demigod."
"Oh really?" I said to Chiron sarcastically, "Now my feelings are hurt." But they really were.
"I can't say that I know what exactly, but there is something I should tell you."
"Look old man," said Clarisse, "I have a quest to be a part of, get on with it."
"Nobody knows about this except for the gods themselves and those closest to them. All records of it were lost. I personally saw it being destroyed, but it was written with ichor, so I guess it couldn't be destroyed.
"It can't even be translated except by the one who wrote it and to the one it refers to. Your past might be about this, and it is out there. My guess is that the roots to Olympus' pilgrimage would mean Mount Olympus itself, since Olympus is here in New York right now." I looked at him confused but he waved me off.
Then I almost had a freak attack as I realized what this all meant. "Oh my gosh! I know who has it! It has already been discovered!" Now people looked at me like I was crazy.
"All this happened because I already saw it! I got attacked after I saw this one symbol. It looked like a scribble, but it made what happened to Gizelle happen, and it almost happened to me too. Then we got attacked. It was on a tablet found by some archeologist named like Tom or something. I forgot. It might have been the reporters name…" Everyone still looked at me as I processed this all.
"I need internet access." I said. Annabeth slowly pulled her phone out of her pocket and handed it to me. I looked up the news stations website and began sorting through the articles. Then I saw it. A picture of the tablet. I dropped the phone and the screen broke. I was now in a trance. Chiron must have seen it too somehow, because he mumbled something under his breath.
Winds suddenly roared outside, and the roof got thrown off. People screamed, but I stood where I was still transfixed. I heard storms could never come here, but this was no ordinary storm. Then Jason bowed and I realized it was his father. Zeus.
I glared at Zeus. "You! You did this!" I screamed at him. "The dorm too!" I let all of my fury build up, and I pictured a mini tornado just surrounding us. All he did was smile when I said this.
"You are smart, my little Angel." Everyone looked shocked, but that wasn't the weird part. "It's time we claimed you, our Angel." I looked at him with disgust and hatred. I knew who I was. Why couldn't this just stop now? I don't want anyone else to get hurt too.
"Just take me back, Zeus." I begged, "I know. I saw the tablet." He growled and then he turned all bright, and then he looked like some kind of weird angel. He must have turned into his true form, but I hadn't died somehow.
He lunged for me, Stop him I pleaded silently. The ground exploded as roots ripped through the earth and wrapped themselves around Zeus. The winds picked up, but they were no longer controlled by Zeus. They were controlled by me. In seconds Zeus was immobilized, and all I did was imaging it happening. All I could do was think Oh, Crap! Here was the most powerful god, and I took him down in less than a minute without touching him.
People stared at me, and I stared at my hands. What have I become? I closed my eyes, and opened them again as I felt power surge through me. My hair was waving like there was a breeze, but the mini tornado I created was gone. My clothes suddenly disappeared into some old and beautiful Greek gown, and a laurel wreath was on my head. I was wearing some kind of jewelry too, but the worse part was what was above my head.
Above it were many interchangeable signs. All were overlapping each other and glowing intensely. I saw images flash by: a hammer, an owl, a bow, a hog's head, a lightning bolt, a trident, and many more. All I did was gape as did many others. Finally it shone so bright I tried to avert my eyes, but I couldn't.
There, above my head was the scribble. Only, it wasn't a scribble anymore. It was my symbol. Now that it was complete, it looked like a giant swirly atom that glowed fiercely and colorfully.
All I could do was gape. My lips hurt, and I realized I was biting down on them. I moved my hands up to wipe away the blood, but my hands came back, golden.
"Welcome home, Kinsey. All hail our angel, the Universal Goddess!" Zeus shouted in a chilling way that would forever be in my nightmares.
"No!" was all I could say, and then I passed out as I felt a chill rush down my spine.
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