HEY ALL! Back with another Chapter, this is from Lucy's POV.
READ IT! Or else I'll come to your house with a bag of balloons!... I know that doesn't sound as frightening as I want it to be, but you don't know me. I AM TERRIFIED OF BALLOONS! Anyone else share this little phobia?
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Chapter 3
And then, just like that, I was falling. No, this is not a start so some cliché dream. I was actually falling, from the sky. And not in a graceful kind of way, in the 'pummelling to the ground at an incredible speed' kind of way. Oh and another thing, I was naked.
So here I was falling, my heart was racing and breeze blowing in places of my body that it shouldn't be. And then it was over. I fell I mean, on the ground, hard. Really hard. Luckily it was grass, unluckily a part of my body fell on my father's dagger; let's not say which part just that they were probably going to be bruised.
I groaned in pain and opened my eyes; I looked up and found a boy, a little older than me staring at all my nakedness. I was still a little dazed, but I managed to make out is face. He had incredible shining dark blue eyes and wavy, messy black hair.
Great, of all the people that could come to my rescue, I got the pervert. He was just standing there, blocking the sun out of my eyes. I tried lifting myself up with one arm but I couldn't. A surge of pain ran through my body and I fell back on the ground.
Suddenly the 'peeping tom' seemed to have caught himself a bit of common sense and actually started moving. He took off his aviator jacket, wrapped it around my body and lifted me in his arms. Mr. Pervert was actually quite strong, and now, up-close, he was also kind of...'good-looking'.
'You'll be alright.' He whispered in my ear.
I tried to lift my neck to face him, but every time I moved even an inch of any muscle, my whole body seemed to go into some sort of painful spasm. I then attempted to open my mouth to say something, but instead a bottle seemed to have reached my lips.
My 'oh-gracious' saviour was feeding me something, and I had no fricken' idea what it was. It could've been drugs, or alcohol, something to make me more vulnerable. But before I could say anything, I passed out.
I then awoke, this time not falling, but on a bed. I yawned, stretching my aching muscles and bones. I looked around the room and found that I was actually in some kind of hospital ward. And then I noticed someone sitting beside my bed. It was Peeping Tom.
He looked up from some book he was reading and gave me a small smile. I couldn't help but smile back, he was actually quite handsome. His face, though incredibly handsome had some dark feature to it. Then, remembering how I was portrayed as naked before, I took a quick look under my bed covers and found myself in a hospital gown. I sighed in relief.
The boy next to me chuckled.
'Don't worry, I didn't look.' He said his laughter fading.
'You sure?' I replied with one questioning eyebrow raised.
He blushed slightly.
'My name's Nico.' He put out a hand for me to shake.
'Lucy. Where am I?' His hand felt cold against my warm skin.
'You're in Camp Half-Blood.' He replied, leaning comfortably back in his chair.
I had heard of Camp Half-Blood before, a place where demigods lived. Where they were trained and kept safe from monsters and other mythical creatures. My mother told me that. Wait...
'Where's my mum?' I asked, starting to panic.
I looked around the room once more and found unfamiliar faces. There were satyrs lying on beds, and nymphs and other demigods. I had only ever seen these people on TV or drawings. The hospital was also a new place, only one I've ever seen on House or Scrubs.
'I don't know Lucy.' Nico said in a calm voice.
'Where's my dad? My mother! Are they safe? You have to tell me!' My voice started to rise both in volume and in panic. Tears started to fill my eyes and a looming depression started to dawn on me. Electra, Alcyone, I thought they were meant to take me away.
'Look, Lucy. I wish I could. But you just fell out of the sky. I don't know what happened to you.' Nico said, holding my arm gently.
'Well, I have to find out. I have to go back. I can't stay here!' I started to get out of the bed, pulling the covers off my legs and attempting to stand up. My legs ached and my knee buckled as I stood up, but I grabbed unto the wall for support and started to limp towards the door.
Everyone was staring at me now; they probably thought I belonged in a mental institute more than a simple hospital.
'Wait, Lucy don't!' Nico calls after me.
I turn back and shout in reply; 'Look Nico, you've been great. Thanks, but I have to-'
'Oomph.' I grunt as I fall on the floor backwards. I look at the person I've just bumped into and find a black haired 30-ish year old dude with sea green eyes and stubble growing on his chin. He was wearing an orange t-shirt that said 'Camp Half-Blood'.
'Whoa. Slow down. Where are you limping off to?' He giggled slightly at his own joke. He helped me up with his hand and smiled friendlily.
'I have to get out of here.' I said impatiently.
He looked at me quizzically and said;
'Sorry, no can do. You have to stay here.' He pushed me gently, his hands on my shoulders.
'Now, let's go back to sleep shall we buddy?' He says to me slowly.
'Don't patronize me!' I yell back at him, unable to take it.
I push him away from me, with all my might. But he only took a step or two backwards.
'I need to find my parents! Please! Let me go home!' I shout, throwing my hands in the air. I started to sob, in the middle of the hospital ward with everyone staring at me.
The guy in front of me stood awkwardly for a while before he put his arm around me and hugged me gently.
'It's okay. Sh.' I can feel his hand rub my back gently, trying to calm me down.
'Uh, Nico come over here.' He yells to the guy across the room.
'What's her name?' He asks Nico gently.
'Lucy.' Nico replies back.
The guy in front of me then puts both of his hands on my shoulders and bends over so we're face to face.
'Lucy, listen to me. My name is Percy and we're going to take you to Chiron. He'll know what to do.' Percy says to me comfortingly.
'Uh, Percy it's cold outside.' Nico says awkwardly.
'So? What do you want me to do?' Percy retorts back.
'She can take my jacket.' He says, taking his jacket off and handing it out for me.
I take it and smile sadly at him.
Percy looks at Nico with an eyebrow raised, and a confused expression on his face.
'Come with us Di Angelo.' He says, taking my arm and pulling me towards the door.
I put the jacket on as we step outside and suddenly feel a cold blast of air hit my body. It wasn't freezing cold, but I was wearing only a hospital gown so you can imagine the awkwardness of the situation. I put the jacket on and look back at Nico who half-smiles towards me.
I then look around the camp. It was as expected, training areas, big cabins, satyrs, nymphs, weapons and a lot of people wearing orange, their sacred colour. A few... no, a lot of people were staring at us as we zoomed past. Everyone was whispering to one another and looking confused. I waved back to some of them, who in return raised their sword in precaution.
Nico behind me chuckled softly. His laugh was amazing.
Suddenly we burst through a pair of big wooden doors and into a room with a big table, and other people surrounding it.
'Welcome to the Big House.' Percy whispers beside me.
Everyone sitting around the table turns to stare towards us. Majority were campers in their orange t-shirt, one chubby guy, sitting at the head with a cup of something, an older guy sitting in a wheelchair with a blanket over his legs and a girl with spiky black hair and storm blue eyes who looked like she went a bit crazy with the eyeliner. I smiled at her, she smiled back.
'Ah, hello Percy, what have you got there?' The guy in the wheelchair nods towards us.
'It's not what, it's who.' I mumble softly.
'Oh, sorry darling, let me re-phrase that; who have you got there Percy? The old guy says gently, with a smile.
'How did he-'
'This is Lucy.' Percy interrupts me, giving me a warning look.
'I found her, outside the borders of Camp-Half Blood. She could be a demigod.' Nico says from my other side.
'I'm not a dem-' I start to say.
'Oh great!' The chubby one says sarcastically.
'Not another one! I hate you kids.' He spits at me, rolling his eyes angrily.
'Excuse Mr. Dionysus Lucy, he's a bit irritable.' The wheelchair man says to me gently.
'I'm Chiron by the way. Would you like to take a seat?' He asks.
'No.' I reply, getting a bit irritable myself.
'I just want to go home.' I say, crossing my arms against my chest.
'I'm sorry darling, but if you're a demigod then that's not-'
'I'm not a demigod!' I shout at him angrily.
Everyone looks at me, shocked and surprised.
'Okay then, take a seat and tell us who you are.' Chiron says, standing up. I then notice that this man was no man; he was only half a man and the other half horse, a centaur.
'You can take mine.' Chiron says, pointing towards his wheelchair.
I walk slowly to it and sit down on the blankets on top of it. I look around the table and blush, realising that everyone is staring at me.
'So you're not a demigod.' Chiron says, helping the conversation along.
'No.' I reply a bit calmer this time.
'Then who are your parents?'
I sigh sadly, and look down at my hands.
'Calypso is my mother.' I hear a few gasps from the table.
'And my father is Luke, Luke Castellan. He's the only demigod in my family.' And then nearly everyone in the room is gasping in shock, even Mr. D who looked like he didn't care before is actually paying attention.
'You're father was Luke?' A woman says anxiously. She's wearing the same orange camp T-shirt, she has blonde curls and beautiful grey eyes.
'Yes.'
'Are you retarded?' A girl in an orange t-shirt with long brown hair shouts at me.
'Luke Castellan is dead! And he deserves to be dead!' She continues, standing at her seat in outrage.
'Why you little bit-' I growl angrily at her.
'Stop!' Chiron interrupts.
'Lucy, you can understand that this is a very sensitive subject for all of us. Now please explain how your father is Luke.'
'Okay well, he did fight Kronos and saved all of your lives...' I say, glaring at the brown haired girl.
'...But he didn't die when he stabbed himself. He was saved, somehow. He never really told me the full story, but he ended up in Ogygia and hasn't left ever since.'
As I finish I look around the room, almost everyone is frozen in shock.
'The gods are not going to be happy.' Mr. D says shaking his head.
'Can I just go home, please?' I plead to Chiron.
'You can't go back to Ogygia Lucy.' Chiron says sympathetically.
'What? Why?' I ask, confused.
'Once you leave that island, you can never go back.' He finally finishes with a whisper.
He gives me a pitiful look as I fall back into his wheelchair. Everyone's looking at me, but I don't care. I stare sadly into space, my heart feels like it's just been torn apart. You can never go back , the words constantly ring in my head over and over. I then close my eyes and let the tears fall.
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