Once again, I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I apologize if Rachel is not exactly in character as Rick Riordan portrays. The 5th line in the prophecy is from a prophecy Rachel makes at the end of The Last Olympian, I do not own it. Stupid legal stuff. Read and Respond! :D

Chapter Five

Phoenix

I ignore Lucius' hand as I get up. My stomach hurts and the blood in my mouth tastes like iron. When I blink, it feels as though I'm jabbing a needle in my eye over and over again.

As we walk out of the cabin, I put my hand over my eye to prevent myself from blinking. I keep my eyes trained on the ground, not wanting to capture anyone else's gaze. The scene in the cabin had really scared me.

One second Lucius had been smiling at me, and then next his face lost all emotion and he fell to the ground. To think that it was my fault…

I shudder. If being a demigod meant even less contact then when I was human, I'm not sure I like this so much.

As we walk along the ground of the camp, I glance at Lucius. He stood tall and appeared as if he hadn't almost died. His blond hair fell carelessly into his face, but I could see his golden eyes beneath.

Lucius glances at me and catches my eye. He gives me a cocky grin, and I drop my head immediately. Beside me, he chuckles but I keep my eyes trained on the back of Chiron's wheelchair.

"Morning Chiron."

"How ya doing Chiron?"

"Welcoming new recruits, eh, Chiron?"

The various greeting towards the man in the wheelchair astound me. Everyone respected him deeply and seemed to think of him as a friend. My liking of Chiron deepens.

"Excuse me ladies, I must steal Rachel for a minute." Chiron says to a group of girls. They giggle frivolously and release a red haired girl from their mist.

Her red hair curls at the ends and a blue clip holds part of her hair up. She smiles at us. "Hey Chiron. What can I do for you this fine morning?"

"Rachel I think you've been hanging around Aphrodite's daughters a little too much." Chiron says in worry as we move away from the group of girls.

"Pish posh." Rachel says as she waves a hand carelessly. "They can't hurt me."

Chiron sighs. Rachel perks up when she finally pays attention to us. "New demigods?" She asks.

"You don't know the half of it." Lucius mutters.

Rachel looks over at Lucius. I see her eyes scan him from top to bottom and I feel myself begin to glare at her. When I realize I stop myself, not wanting to fry someone's brain again.

She takes a step closer to him. I can tell from the way she's looking at him that she thinks he's really hot. Then she taps her finger on his chest and I feel an indescribably urge to slap her hand away.

"Try me." She whispers with a wry smile on her face. Then she removes her hand and places it and her other one on her waist.

I see Lucius open his mouth to speak, but surprisingly Rachel beats him to it. "Golden hair, and golden eyes." She turns slightly to look at me.

"Black hair." She pauses and bends a little to look at my face. I had lowered my head once again. "And black eyes." She barely breathes the last word.

Rachel folds her arms across her chest. "I've never seen either of you before, so you must have only just been marked. However, there was just that Lastrygonian attack at the carnival. Plus, you're here with Chiron."

She smiles and then points at him. I notice with odd relief that she's not touching him. "You're a son of Dawn." She keeps her eyes on Lucius as she points at me. "And she's a daughter of Nyx."

Rachel places her hands back on her waist. "You're both here to hear the ancient prophecy about Day and Night, aren't you?"

Lucius whistles. I want to roll my eyes. If Rachel was a prophet then she would have already known. It wasn't that impressive.

"That's pretty impressive." He says. Now I do roll my eyes. If I didn't know us, I could have figured it out too.

Rachel leans her head back and laughs. "Not really. Annabeth came running by earlier. I couldn't stop her but Percy was closely following her and he gave me the whole story."

"Oh." Lucius has a blank face for once and I'm actually impressed.

"May we have it please Rachel?" Chiron speaks up. I wonder if he had noticed Rachel's obvious like of Lucius.

"Hm?" She glances at him as if she had forgotten he was there. "Oh yeah. Of course."

She shakes her head briefly and then she goes a little stiff. Her eyes are open but they seem as if they're looking far away. Suddenly her mouth opens wide and a deep voice filled with the experience of millions of years comes out.

"Two half-bloods born of dark and light

Enemies the Son of Dawn and Daughter of Night

Appearances are naught but an illusion

Elements destruction over unneeded confusion

To storm or fire, the world must fall

If the truth is not told to all"

Rachel blinks and seems to come out of her trance. She wobbles a bit and is about to fall when Lucius catches her. I notice that she blinks her eyes adoringly at him, and I am extremely temped to smack her.

Thankfully she stands on her own and then looks at Chiron. I look at him to and I nearly fall to the ground in despair and the look of horror on his face.

"What did I say?" Rachel asks.

"You can't remember?" I ask her surprising myself.

"I don't remember any of my prophecies. Why should this be different, just because I'm not making it?" She counter asks, barely noticing that was the first time I'd spoken.

Chiron repeats the prophecy to her. Rachel's face whitens too. She licks her lips and then glances back at us. This time though, she looks at us as if we're a bomb about to go off.

"We need Percy and Annabeth." Rachel tells Chiron.

Chiron nods his head. "Who wants to go find them?"