Chapter 2
The next morning they met up with Grover Underwood and headed to camp half-blood. At around noon they stopped to eat lunch and Grover told them that he informed Chiron about their arrival and who their godly parents were. Apparently Cassie's siblings were excited since it was extremely rare for Hermes too have a daughter and she was the fourth daughter he ever had and it was over a hundred years between her and his last daughter. While Luna and Cedric's siblings were not as excited they were still anticipating their arrival. Finally after traveling across New York on foot they made it to camp half-blood.
After two months at camp the three kids were settling in great. In that time Luna had turned six and Cassie turned seven, now it was August and Cedric would be turning ten. In this time the adventures that the three of them went on had spread all around camp and had even reached the gods. Apparently all the gods were impressed with what the three of them did before they even went to camp and had formal training.
Cassie also learned that she was not the only one at camp that could speak to snakes. Apparently all of Hermes children, and descendants could speak to snakes. The next year went by relatively fast with the three of them staying all year and only leaving when they went to Gringotts. They did many things at Gringotts like when Cedric changed his surname from his step-fathers to his mother's which was Doukas and she was Greek.
Once that was found out Cedric took an inheritance test and found out that he was the heir of the Doukas Wizarding family, and that Cedric was the only member of that family still alive. He also found out that he was a fourth generation demigod. After he went through the finances and made a few small investments Cedric found out that he had a small manor called Lyric with six Bedrooms, three Baths, and a small library; which he told the goblins to renovate since it had been empty for over twenty five years.
During that trip Cedric also had the money and house he inherited from his step-father Ammos Diggory placed under the Doukas name. Another trip was when Luna changed her surname to Selwyn and placed all Lovegood money and valuables as well as the house under the Selwyn name and banished the only other family member, who was a Death Eater that was in Azkaban, from the family. She also found out that she was the heir of Ravenclaw through her step-father. The trip to Gringotts after that was when they updated the wards and made sure that they were only keyed into the three of them, and they learned how to key in other people if they wanted to at a later date.
Luna had also decided to take an Inheritance test and found out that she was a fourth generation demigod. Her mother was the demigod daughter of Melinoe and a demigod named Jacob Selwyn, Jacob was the son of Hades and a demigod daughter of Poseidon named Nixie Selwyn. So Luna like Cassie herself would one day stop aging and be immortal unless killed. The only difference was that Luna only had three fourths of her blood being Ichors.
Now Cedric was turning eleven and he had just gotten his Hogwarts letter, he would be pretending that he came from Greece instead of America or Britain. After receiving the letter he owl ordered his school supplies with the exception of this wand that he got a few months back so that he could learn the translation charm to turn all his English books to Ancient Greek and everything he wrote in Ancient Greek to English. The three of them were fluent in both Ancient and Modern Greek for Reading, Writing, and Speaking.
Luna had turned seven the month before while Cassie turned eight just the previous week. In their lessons they learned Greek, Sword Fighting, Archery, and they rode the Pegasi. On top of that Luna learned to control her gift of sight and prophecy, and Cedric was the camps best healer. During the spars Crystal had beat Luke enough to be called the best sword fighter in camp.
Cassie had just gone on a quest with Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood to get back Zeus's Master Bolt, and Crystal noticed that Ares had both the bolt and the helm of darkness that belonged to Hades. When she noticed that she stole the two items from the god of war and told Percy, Annabeth and Grover to return the bolt while she gave back the helm. When she was returning the helm and explaining things to Hades she noticed that he kept looking at her with lust even though she was only eight.
After getting him to release Sally Jackson she went back to camp where she met up with Annabeth and Grover who told her that Percy got in a fight with Ares after they split up and then he wanted to return the bolt alone. Now it was a month after the quest and Cassie was walking in the woods and she noticed the creek that they use as a boundary for capture the flag. As she got closer she noticed that Percy and Luke were standing across from each other and she heard Percy talking.
"…that's who you serve." After hearing that Cassie saw a pit scorpion crawl up Percy's pant leg.
"You should be more careful with names Percy." Luke said coldly.
"Kronos got you to steal the master bolt and the helm. He spoke to you in your dreams."
"He spoke to you too, Percy. You should've listened."
"He's brainwashing you, Luke. Call off the bug. If you're so strong why not fight me yourself." Percy said
"Nice try, Percy. But I'm not Ares. You can't bait me. My lord is waiting, and he's got plenty of quests for me to undertake."
"Luke…"
"Good-bye, Percy. There is a new Golden Age coming. You won't be part of it." Turning his head Luke called, "I know your there Cassiopeia."
"What is going on?" Cassie demanded as she saw Percy drop to his knees in pain when the scorpion stung him.
Luke didn't answer, and all Cassie knew was that one second Luke was standing in front of her and the next she felt his sword plunge through her stomach. After he pulled his sword out Cassie collapsed to the ground vaguely hearing a screaming demi-god and a conch horn being blown.
The next morning Percy woke up and told his side of the story and what he saw Luke do to Cassie. Percy also found out that Cassie was in a bad condition and had stopped breathing a few times.
"Thank you for telling me but I must now tell the gods of what happened and inform them of Cassiopeia's condition." Then he turned to the sandy blond haired son of Apollo, "Cedric we will take it from here and your need to leave so that you can head off to that school of yours that starts in a few days."
All of the major gods were sitting on their thrones waiting for Chiron to arrive. The day before there was an attack at camp half-blood since both of the attacked campers were unconscious Chiron wanted to wait till at least one of them were awake before giving details. As Chiron walked up to them and knelt Zeus stated, "Now Chiron start from the beginning."
"Yesterday at around 3 p.m. two campers were found attacked. The first was Perseus Jackson who was attacked by a pit scorpion. He was in a somewhat decent shape and it was easy for them to heal him. The second camper was Cassiopeia Evans a daughter of Hermes she was stabbed by a sword and lost a large amount of blood. Once both of them got to the infirmary Cassiopeia had stopped breathing for almost five minutes before they were able to get her heart started again." Hearing those words caused Hermes to pale and fear for his daughter's life. "She is still unconscious at this time, but this morning Percy woke and I asked him about what had happened. He had said that he and Luke Castellan a son of Hermes had gotten into an argument that lead to Luke admitting to stealing Zeus's master bolt and Hades helm of darkness and Luke also mentioned that he worked for someone. Then Percy remembered Cassiopeia appearing from the woods and that he saw Luke stab her before he ran. It was then that Percy fell unconscious and they were found." Throughout it all Hermes was pale and could only listen with horror at how his son almost killed Cassie, and the horrible condition that she was still in.
"Will she be okay?" Artemis asked worriedly
"I really don't know, and her condition is only made worse by how young she is and how small for her age she is." Chiron said sadly
"How old is she?" Apollo asked worry in his eyes for his niece.
"She's eight but she looks like she is five," Hermes said softly worry in his eyes causing everyone, even Zeus and Hera, to pale.
Later that night Hermes was kneeling next to his daughter's bed holding her hand and looking at her with worry. She was his youngest child at camp half-blood and currently his only daughter, who he could locate since he didn't know where Elizabeth was. The worst part was that it had been her older brother who had put her in this condition, and that Luke had been his favorite child. Cassie looked so fragile her skin ghostly pale, and her breathing uneven.
It was now mid-September and Cassie still had not woken. Her brothers came to visit her often especially Travis and Conner Stoll. Cedric had made it to Hogwarts fine, was sorted into Hufflepuff, and Iris Messaged Luna every two days to see how Cassie was doing. Cedric had become popular rather fast even though not many Hufflepuff's became popular. He also cunningly let it slip that in three year his cousin Cassiopeia would be attending, and that in four years and his younger half-sister Luna would also be coming. He also made sure to let them know that all three of them, were from very old and politically powerful families. Cedric also made sure to play the role of the half-Greek transfer student perfectly so now they all assumed that Luna was from a second marriage after his mother died. He was also at the top of his class for potions and herbology and was in second place overall.
