A/N: So there are a few things in this chapter that have been tweaked and twisted to fit the right needs I had for the story. I very much hope that my own personal canon is well integrated with the existing canon in the Heroes of Olympus series, and I hope that this chapter is enjoyed by all who read it!
Read, review, and I really hope you all enjoy this.
"So let's give you a tour of camp that doesn't involve you getting mauled by a stuffed leopard," said Percy. "We'll start out with the greatest of all cabins, and that's all you really need to see."
With an exuberant gesture, Percy grinned and pointed to a slightly green, well made, clearly ocean themed cabin. It made Reyna slightly uncomfortable.
Percy's face fell. "You don't like it?" he asked, looking remarkably like a kicked puppy.
"I just…I don't think I like water very much," muttered Reyna, trying not to meet Percy's eyes.
He sighed. "That's highly disappointing," he said, "seeing as I'm the kid of Poseidon."
"I don't dislike you!" she said, feeling awkward. "It's just…Me and water, I don't think they mix."
Percy shrugged. "Well I'm still only 70% water, just like a normal human. I'm completely average except for the demigod part."
Reyna furrowed her eyebrows. "Alright then." Before she was sure what was going on Percy had slung an arm around her shoulders and, with a big smile, was walking her toward the camp fire. "Come on, it's almost dinner time."
"Can I sit with you?" she asked. "I mean, I'd sit with Leo, but I think he probably wants to bond with his new family."
Percy moved his arm as they kept walking, and an uncomfortable expression took over the smile. "Well, actually…No."
Reyna started. "Oh," she said carefully. "Tha-that's alright, I mean I'm sure you have your own friends –"
"No, that's not it!" Percy replied. "It's just, to eat dinner, you have to sit at the tables assigned to you by which god or goddess is your parent."
Reyna nodded slowly. "And since I don't actually have a godly parent so far –"
"You get to sit by Chiron at the head of the table. Argus sits there too – and Nico every once in a while, since he's never here enough to actually get his own table." Percy paused. "I still try to figure out why we have a cabin for Hades but no table but, hey, not my job."
Percy continued to talk about everything from sneaker designs to the time that he and Annabeth had had their date interrupted by Hermes.
"So," said Reyna, jumping in at one point where Percy needed to pause to breathe. "You're kind of ADD aren't you?"
Percy grinned broadly. "Alas, Reyna, it is my greatest struggle in life."
"Struggle?"
Percy shrugged. "I nearly failed sixth grade. But then I met Annabeth and…" His sentence trailed off and he sighed so deeply Reyna was afraid he'd manage to expel his own lungs. "Yeah. She's the smart one."
The two walked in an awkward, charged silence until they got to the tables. Luckily, not too many people were already there. "Hi, Chiron," said Reyna. "Percy told me that this is where I will be sitting."
Chiron nodded. "Anything for a guest, my dear. Come, take the seat of honor."
Percy snorted. Reyna turned to him, raising an eyebrow. "I don't think I get the joke," she said.
"It's just," Percy snickered and tried to calm himself, "um, that was Mr. D's seat, and, um, calling it the seat of honor –" He interrupted himself with a fit of laughter, and Chiron stared at him until he stopped. "I'll go away now."
Chiron rolled his eyes as he laughed and turned back to Reyna. "Have a seat, Reyna."
"Is Mr. D going to kill me?"
"N – well, most likely no."
"Most likely?"
"Well, he is Dionysus, so the likelihood of him killing anyone is far lower than most of the other gods. Well, probably."
Without trying to decipher what that meant, Reyna sat down.
Chiron stood, smiling. "Hello, campers!" he announced. "Though it is a winter meeting, I am glad to see those who were able to come to camp for their school break, if only briefly. I trust you've all been informed of the fact that we have three new campers. Piper is still incapacitated, but hopefully she will be well enough to come visit us for the campfire. Reyna, Leo, would you please stand to introduce yourselves?"
That would explain why Reyna couldn't see Piper as she sat in the crowd of Aphrodite kids. It disappointed her.
Leo grinned and waved at everyone. "Hey, peeps," he declared happily, "how's it hanging?"
Reyna, however, opted for a smile and a wave. She, it seemed, was not one to speak to announce herself. Usually, she felt, people would simply quiet when she walked into the room.
Dinner was quick yet delicious, and Reyna was very pleased with the delivery system of the meal. Her orange juice tasted like home, even though she didn't know where home was or what it meant. It comforted her.
When it was time for the campfire, Percy galloped up to the larger head table and brought Reyna to sit down next to him.
"So what's this part?" Reyna asked.
"Oh, discussions, songs, talking about imminent disaster. The regular things for Camp Half Blood."
Reyna nodded, feeling a little distressed. "Good to know."
For a while, she made the effort to search for Piper. She knew it was futile, but she just wanted to know where the other girl was.
"Looking for Piper?" asked Percy, fighting a grin.
Reyna shrugged. "Maybe."
"Look to your left."
Reyna turned and saw Rachel approaching with Piper. Reyna grinned and waved, and Piper, looking surprised, waved back.
"Well then, time to have some discussions about the recent events," said Chiron. "W –"
"Let's start out with Tweedles Dee, Dum, and Bad Hair over here," said Drew, jerking her head in Reyna's direction. The camp froze. Apparently the introduction of these new campers was a thorn in her side. The other people didn't seem to have expected her into speak in front of everyone.
"And what about activities?" called a kid from the opposite side of the fire.
"I know everyone, most importantly the Ares cabin, Clarisse, is anxious to get back to activities, but –"
"Well some cabin is taking too long figuring things out."
Leo, who was sitting next to a bunch of big, strong looking campers, shrunk back a bit as half the camp looked over to him and his siblings. "We're working on it," announced a small yet burly girl.
"Not hard enough," demanded an Ares kid.
"Don't even try to give me that," she grumbled.
The camp exploded into angry complaints and shouts, which didn't end until Chiron began pounding his hooves into the ground.
"This is not the most pressing issue," said Chiron, his voice carrying throughout the camp.
"Annabeth?" someone asked. The fires dimmed, responding, Reyna guessed, to the anxiety spreading through the camp.
Percy stood, folding his arms over his chest. "I didn't find Annabeth –"
"Obviously. You two aren't all over each other, if she were here you two would probably be nakend." said Drew, rolling her eyes.
"Nobody asked you, Drew," called somebody from the Hephaestus cabin. Reyna realized, by the way Leo was trying to hide his face, that it must have been him.
Percy cleared his throat. "Anyway, we're not giving up. She may not be at the Grand Canyon, but she's got to be somewhere. Everyone available is searching for her. She's not going to get away from us this easily. We'll find her. But Chiron's talking about something different."
"It's the Great Prophecy," said Clarisse, shrugging. "Is it really only obvious to me, or are you idiots going to open your eyes sometime today?"
Reyna felt like she'd been hit. Was it really okay for people to be this rude? Something about this felt really wrong.
"Hey, quit it, Clarisse," said Percy. "Try that again without sounding like you want to get punched in the face."
"Annabeth's gone, Olympus is closed, and hey, I don't know, Hera sends you to pick up a couple of strays, leading you there by telling you you'd get information about Princess. Something's going down and, knowing our luck, it's the Great Prophecy."
Reyna saw Piper lean over to talk to Rachel, and she was nearly sure she was wondering the same thing that Reyna was: is the Great Prophecy something they should already know about?
"Hey Oracle," called Drew, "you know all this stuff. Is this the Great Prophecy or what?"
Rachel stood and closed her eyes. "The Great Prophecy has begun."
All hell broke loose.
Reyna looked over at Piper, who looked bewildered. Reyna couldn't blame her – the person she was sitting with was now standing and looking all wise.
Reyna smiled at her, and Piper calmed and smiled back softly. She wished she hadn't noticed it, but Piper was just so pretty. Piper looked away from her soon after though, the smile fading away. It shouldn't have, but it hurt.
"For those of you who are unaware of the specifics of the Great Prophecy," said Rachel, "I will recite it for you:
"Seven half-bloods shall answer the call.
"To storm or fire the world must fall –"
As Rachel spoke, Reyna felt as if something was flooding through her body. She knew these words, as familiar to her as a lullaby.
"Whoa, Reyna!" said Rachel. "What are you –"
Before she knew what she was doing, Reyna was on her feet, beginning to speak. "Ut cum spiritu postrema sacramentum dejuremus, Et hostes ornamenta addent ad ianuam necem."
The camp went uncomfortably silent, and Reyna felt as uncomfortable as she would feel had she stripped naked in front of the entire camp and started singing Britney Spears.
"You just finished the prophecy," said Rachel, staring at Reyna. "How did you just finish the prophecy?"
Reyna, half stunned, shook her head. "I – I have no idea," she said. "But I've heard that before, I know it." Unable to figure out what else to do, Reyna slowly sat down onto the bench beside Percy, who patted her shoulder. She chanced a small smile up at Piper, but Piper wasn't looking at her.
"Anyway…" Rachel began. "Well, the first great prophecy predicted Percy," she nodded over toward him, "so this second one? I'm pretty sure we're in for something just as bad."
"Or worse," said Percy and Chiron at the same time. It was clear that neither of them intended for the rest of the camp to hear, but it was clear from the way the fire darkened to purple that they had.
"All we know for sure is that Annabeth's gone and Hera's been taken from the gods," said Rachel.
All hell broke loose again, the rest of the camp clamoring with chatter. Rachel had to wait a few moments before speaking again.
Once the chatter had stopped, Rachel explained everything that had happened, she turned to Reyna. "Do you know your last name?"
Reyna shook her head, avoiding all eyes. "Well, Reyna No-Name –"
"No using that joke," said Percy.
Reyna and Rachel turned to him. He shrunk down in his chair. "Long story."
"Anyway, Reyna, you have been issued a quest by Hera, to go save her from whatever is keeping her captive. Do you accept?"
Reyna nodded. "Yes. I accept."
"You will be required to save Hera to prevent some king from rising, and you must do it before the winter solstice."
Percy interjected next. "The gods will realize she's gone when they get together to talk. They'll all end up fighting with each other, trying to accuse the other of committing the crime."
"And it must be done by that day also, because that is the day that then ancient and dangerous things of the world stir."
Reyna couldn't be sure, but it appeared that Chiron looked horribly worried. Percy, on the other hand, looking as if he were fighting a powerful eye roll.
"What's so important about this chick?" shouted the girl name Clarisse from the Ares cabin. "She hasn't even been claimed yet. How come she gets to go on a quest?"
"Can it, Clary," shouted somebody else across the campfire.
"She has been claimed, but not recently," said Chiron calmly. "And we need someone to show of whom she is the daughter."
"Won't she just get a little thing above her head, like me?" asked Leo.
Chiron shook her head. "That has already happened. We need a catalyst, a reaction to cause her to use her powers. She won't be getting one of those symbols ever again." He turned to the boy sitting next to Reyna. "Percy," said Chiron calmly, "attack Reyna."
"What?" he and Reyna said at the same time.
"Do it."
In a flash, Reyna's and Percy's hands flew to their pockets as they pulled out their weapons. Reyna was doing absolutely nothing on her own – it was as if all actions were on instinct, her body and brain disconnected. Reyna's hand flipped the hair pin, and this time the sword turned into a spear with a logo she did not recognize. Percy's sword flashed in the air, and Reyna's twisted. The two of them began to battle, Reyna deflecting Percy's stabs with the tip of her spear until his sword was at her neck and her spear point was about to hit his jugular vein.
"What, is she supposed to be one of us?" laughed Clarisse. "She doesn't look like an Ares kid. She's not even that aggressive."
Reyna tried to stay out of the conversation, as she had no idea what actually was happening. Ares? That didn't even sound right. If she had to guess, she would have assumed that her mother had been the one with godlike DNA.
Then, breaking a silence that had lasted for a few moments, someone spoke. "Enyo," said a redheaded boy sitting next to a bunch of children from the Athena cabin. "Your mother must be Enyo."
Chiron nodded slowly. "Essentially, yes, Malcolm. Reyna is the daughter of the war goddess."
Malcolm stood. "Then we can't trust her."
All eyes turned to him.
"Dude, what do you mean?" asked Percy, looking confused. "We usually like the Ares campers. Why can't we like a war goddess' kid?"
"Have you thought of why we don't have a cabin for the children of Enyo?" said Malcolm. "She helped not only Zeus, but Typhon in the first war of the Titans! She hasn't had children since then – she promised never to do so in exchange of getting a reprieve for helping Typhon in the war."
"He's right," said a small blonde girl next to him. "Enyo hasn't even been integrated into the Greek system for years. No children, no interaction, even the Ares campers rarely if ever see her."
"Yeah," said Clarisse. "I don't even know who she is. Who is Enyo, Rhiannon?"
"Sister of Ares," said the girl with the blonde hair. "She works with warfare, revels in violence." She turned to Reyna. "I'm sorry, but why should we trust you when you are everything we're trying to fight off with the last Typhon war?"
Chiron turned to them. "She is more than what you think," said the centaur. "Do not underestimate her skill, and do not underestimate her kindness." Chiron walked next to Reyna, resting a hand on her shoulder. "This girl is a leader. She will revitalize the faith in this camp, and you will hopefully understand her place in this camp." He turned to look at Reyna. "And I do hope that you, my dear, will find your place here as well."
A/N2: Everything about Enyo other than her involvement in the first Titan War is made up by me for the canon of this story. I hope it made sense, and if clarification is required I will likely go further into my idea in a later chapter. Love you all!
