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And now, here's Ada!
Madison Adaline Darby, Ada for everyone else and if you try to disagree with her good luck, was ditching most of her "counselor" activities. Instead, she delegated most of her responsibilities to her younger half-brother, Franklin. He was currently leading the Eris cabin through the day's activities while Ada... Simply walked through the forest.
Her mood had been bad recently for no reason. Actually, the reason was a certain Roman gladiator whose entire ideology and logic completely boggled her to no end. In apologies for almost getting them killed, he had Hermes-mail sent her and Hikaru... A live chicken... Really, she only tolerated him because Hikaru tolerated him.
Speaking of Hikaru, they were still in the infirmary under the careful eye of the Apollo boy Ranger, leaving her even more sour than usual. Even Chenelle was busy, helping to teach some of the newer Aphrodite girls, leaving Ada with too much idle time.
Which she hated. That why she decided to walk away, just in case her "bad mood" might cause other things to have "bad moods".
In her hands was one of her thirteen magical knives she kept on her body, this one being the largest. Its weight perfect for throwing, whether through the heart of a monster, or to pin some idiotic child of Hermes from pranking her.
"Hello daughter," a smooth and strangely playful voice hissed behind Ada. Turning on her heel, and drawing a second knife, she spotted a woman leaning on a tree.
She was dressed in black strapless dress. Her skin seemed to glow with an unnatural purplish hue to it, while her long black hair flowed behind her on invisible winds.
This was the Goddess of Discord and misfortune, Eris. She who has the power of misfortune itself, and the random occurrence of bad tidings. She was also Ada's godly parent.
Purple eyes looked at purple eyes. Each not moving an inch.
"Mother, it is nice to see you." Ada nodded towards the goddess. Eris only smiled before appearing in front of Ada and kissing her cheek.
"Oh come now daughter, must you be so formal around your own mother?" Eris asked with a faux-sadness. Ada only raised an eyebrow.
"Mother... Are you allowed to even be down here?"
"Please, I'm free flowing. Goddess of Discord and all means that I can say "screw the rules" and all that." Lightning and thunder flashed loudly, causing Ada to look apprehensively at the sky. Eris only shrugged.
"Got it Z," she replied flippantly. More lightning and thunder before Eris looked back at her daughter. "So, daughter of mine, how has life been?"
"Unlucky," she stated with a dead-panned face. Eris let out a tittering laughter. "Mom... Why are you down here? It's not exactly... Normal for meetings like this to happen."
"Well, I thought I'd do my favorite daughter a favor-"
"I'm literally your only daughter... All I have is half-brothers," she interupted. Eris blinked.
"Really?"
"Wait, you didn't know?" Eris shook her head. "But you gave birth to them!"
"To be fair, I think two or three of them look much more effeminate than masculine."
"Lucky for them, they have brothers to cover for them," Ada replied. "Meanwhile I have to deal with twelve boys living together in the most hazardous place since Chernobyl."
"Ah Chernobyl..."
"Did you cause Chernobyl*?!"
"Not my best moment..." Eris admitted sheepishly. Ada only stared in horror at her mother. "Anyway, I've just come to give you a message. Prepare for a monstrous year."
"Wait, what?"
"Love you sweetie, bye!"
"Mom!"
However Ada had to look away due to the bright light beginning to show from Eris' true form. Eventually the flash died down and when she looked back, all that was left was a small note reading "give my love to your brothers ;3".
"Mother!" Ada screamed up the sky. A bolt of lightning flashed next to her, impacting a derelict tree and causing splinters to fly everywhere but near Ada. She only sighed and continued her walk, hands in her pockets.
Eventually she came to Camp, just in time to see a fight about to occur. What made it better? It was her brothers against the entire Nemesis Cabin. A headache came along to Ada as she felt the impending verbal lashing she'll receive and need to dish out.
"Fuck off, you idiotic prick!" That was Winston, the youngest at fourteen, who shouted that. Her brother's dark hair and purple eyes flashed dangerously at he was held back by Martin and Vincent, the two most level headed. Franklin tried to assuage any problems, but it seemed one of the Nemesis boys wasn't going to back down. A hard shove sent Franklin, the smallest Eris brother but the second oldest, to the ground.
Ada glared menacingly as she walked forward.
Martin, Vincent, and Winston pulled back to see if Franklin was okay. One of the Nemesis boys took this chance and was ready to punch Winston on the back of the head. That was until a flash of metal sent him flying away.
He let out a high-pitched scream as he saw that the sleeve of his shirt had been pinned to the picnic table where some children of Hecate were mixing potions. One of them fell on top of him, making large moose horns grow.
"Oops, I missed," Ada snarled as she walked into view. Another knife was already spinning in her fingers. The knife that once pinned the boy returned to her, causing him to fall onto the ground in his paralyzed and moose-ish self. "I aimed for his head."
"A-Ada!" Her brothers squeaked. She turned them and gave them her briefest attention. In that second though, untold lectures and horrors were mentally transmitted to them.
"I-I though you were on a w-walk," Franklin stuttered.
"I was walking... Saw mom by the way. She sends her love." Her brothers paled slightly, last time their mother sent her "love", the camp latrines exploded. "However, I must know, what are my "darling~" brothers doing with their "best friends" from the Nemesis Cabin?" She asked with a false smile.
"The pricks were starting a fight!" Winston retorted boldly. Martin covered his mouth as Ada raised an eyebrow.
"It was you guys who made all our mirrors break wasn't it!" One of the girls from Nemesis shouted. She was a girl whose normal face looked angry regardless of what she actually tried to convey. If Ada could recall, her name was Ganesa and she and Winston normally had more cordial relations.
"It was the bloody Hermes cabin! We don't fukin do pranks you stupid yank!"
Or maybe not...
"Mirrors breaking is a Discord thing! And a child of Nemesis always pays their debts!"
"Shut it you Lanister wannabe"
"Walking Mayhem!"
"Discount Judge Dredd!"
"Black Cat!"
"Second coming!"
Now the siblings for both arguers added their own two cents to the rather stimulating forum. It began to draw the eye of other campers, though most ran away when they saw which two cabins were fighting.
Ada rubbed her temples at the shouting match. The headache only increasing as the two continued to shout and argue. If anything, it sounded like they were flirting with all the rather person nicknames they had.
"Why don't you two just kiss, yeah? Save everyone the trouble," she barked suddenly. She cowed them into submission with her words. Either side not saying a single thing, while the two who were most passionate became red faced and refused to look at one another.
Bingo... Stupid kids.
With a wide and wicked smile she grasped both Winston and Ganesa shoulders and pulled them close. The two teens became painful aware of two things, their proximity and how hard Ada's hands gripped them. Meanwhile the other siblings were shaking in fear at the malicious intent that Ada seem to generate.
"I see the deal you two," she started as she brought her face close to theirs. "I know that you know that Eris doesn't do pranks, because our lives are walking pranks, right?" She said this to a very scared Ganesa. She nodded. Then Ada tuned to Winston. "And I know that I've told you that talking to people and not arguing is how we clear up misunderstandings, right?" A nod. "Well, I think that you two hot heads need to... Cool off." Then she pushed them off the pier into the lake they had been unknowingly walking towards.
They came up for a burst of air as the Nereids underneath swam away in surprise. Ada only cackled mercilessly before she turned on her heel to the retreating siblings of Nemesis and Eris. They snapped to attention at the level of malice in her eyes as she gave them the once over.
"Don't think I'm going to roll over for you," she hissed before feeling that ever-bittersweet snap in the air. Suddenly a stray chariot wheel came careening from the Hephaestus cabin's workshop and barreled into the siblings.
They were all sent flying into the lake just as Ganesa and Winston pulled themselves out. Ada only let out hyena like laughter as she saw what she inadvertently done. Everyone who observed this all shivered.
Adaline Darby, the sole daughter of Eris. The Eris cabin's head counselor. The owner of "Dekatreís", thirteen magical knives. And above all, the worse person to get on your bad side.
Turning on her heel, Ada went back on her walk. A merry tune being whistled out. Seems like her bad mood had quickly softened.
Notes
*Chernobyl - The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic disaster involving a nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union, now in the modern day country of Ukraine. A failed stress test as well as some other sorts of complications, resulting in a steam explosion which created a lot of fallout of radioactive isotopes. Basically a very, very, very bad explosion.
Madison Adaline Darby, how do you all like her? She was inspired from the general no-nonsense BAMFaction heroines that I really find psychologically intriguing. Their actions may be easy to think of, but their mindset however is something which may be harder to entail. Most of the time, it sees that some actions heroines are somewhat flat in characteristics or are forced into cliches that really overdone.
So Ada's gonna have some layers of her character, and some twists, and I hope you all lover her for them.
Also yes, most of her brothers are from the UK, hence the accent.
The first OC god is also met, Eris. As she is the goddess of discord, and sometimes referenced as the goddess of Chaos, I decided to make her attitude somewhat flippant, but very carefree. As for Chernobyl, well I feel like sometimes what the gods do aren't exactly always going to be good for mortals. You got to have a little bad to balance the good in life, and the gods have to make those decisions sometimes.
Well, that's it for this chapter. I hope to see you all next time, and Happy Thanksgiving!