Chapter 7 (Fallen)
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While I walked through the woods I felt some peace, it was quiet and pretty nice, I could have spent hours out here, I kept walking deeper into the forest until I tripped over the root of a tree, yes i'm clumsy sometimes, surprised I haven't severely hurt myself yet.
I looked up to the tree were the root was, I noticed something, a plaque maybe, it looked like it was made of celestial bronze, I have already learned a lot about what celestial bronze is and all that good stuff from Silena's boyfriend Charlie Beckondorf. (AN, I really hope I spelled his last name right.) I looked closer and saw that it was a plaque, and it had a name and inscription on it in Ancient Greek, so I knew it had to be one of the campers. It read…
In memorial to Lee Fletcher
Son of Apollo
Good Hero and Good Friend
He will be missed most dearly
As I read it I wondered what had happened, why did this kid die?
"How did you die Lee Fletcher?" I asked myself, not really expecting to get an answer from anyone.
"He was killed in a battle about six months ago, he was a brave young man, I was proud to be his father." Said a voice I knew, when I turned around I saw that it was Apollo. He stepped closer to the memorial for his lost son and looked at it with what seemed to be grief for his son's loss, and pride for what his son had done.
"Lord Apollo, what are you doing here?" asked curious to the fact that he always seemed to be around.
"Well your mother actually sent me; she wanted me to give you something." He said as he pulled something out of his pocket. "She said she was very sorry that she couldn't give it to you in person, but Hera and Zeus are having problems with their marriage and Aphrodite is trying to make sure they don't destroy upper east Manhattan by giving them marriage counseling." He said laughing. "Imagine, the goddess of marriage needing marriage counseling, that's rich." He said still laughing. "That's why I never got married, didn't want to have to deal with having to go through counseling because I knew I would have and affair, and my wife would get pissed." Then he pulled out the gift from my mother.
The gift was a bracelet made from celestial bronze and had a bow and arrow engraved into it, Apollo handed it to me and I just stared at it, it was really lovely but I didn't know what to do with it.
"Put it on." Apollo told me with knowing eyes, maybe he would know what I had to do with it. "Now, act as if your drawing a bow." He old me, and I just gave him a wtf look, what did he mean act like I was drawing a bow, I would look like a pretty big idiot.
"Just do it okay, trust me, you won't look stupid, you'll actually think it's pretty cool." He said giving me a goofy grin, all I could do was smirk at him, he was kinda cute, and even though he was a guy, I felt pretty safe, maybe it was because he had saved me, and that he had a type of god aura to him.
"Fine, I'll do it, but I will look like an idiot." So I closed my eyes and acted as if to pull my bow, reluctantly I felt a bow in my hand and when I opened my eyes, I saw one in front of me. The bow looked like it was made if dark redwood, and the arrow of celestial bronze. I just stood there dumbstruck, but when I shot the arrow it hit a tree father away straight in the middle of the trunk.
"See, I told you it was gunna be cool." He said to me, still grinning like an idiot. All I could do was stare at the bracelet, then the arrow in the trunk, and last but not least Apollo.
"That is so cool! How does this work, and how did my mom know a bow and arrow? I just figured out I was good at it about 2 hours ago!" I said in shock, my mom was watching me, and she had given me this gift, I was so thankful. Silena told me that Aphrodite kept up with us as good as she could but it was kinda hard since she was a goddess. I felt really happy that she had given me this, so happy I started to cry.
"Hey! Why are you crying I thought you would be happy?" Apollo said in a bit of shock
"I am happy, I've know who my mother is, I met my great, great grandmother, and they both gave me these wonderful gifts," I said pointing to the marks on my face from Nyx, and the bracelet from my mother, "It's the first time I've been really happy since the attack." I told him, tears still rolling down my face.
"That's good, I thought you were sad." He said putting a hand on my shoulder. "You should get back to camp; they'll be worried about you pretty soon." He said to me smiling. So I started to walk away, but then I remembered my prophecy, I knew that Apollo was the god of prophecy's, so maybe he could help me understand mine.
"Lord Apollo," I said turning around to face him, thankful he hadn't left yet, "I got a prophecy from The Oracle today, since you're the god of prophecy's I figured you could help me understand it." As I told him this his face fell a little, what was wrong, had I said something?
"The Oracle gave you a prophecy? I should have heard it when she did though." He said a little disturbed, what was wrong?
"You should get going like I said; I'll talk to Chiron about it." He said still giving me a smile, but I knew he was worried.
"All right, see you around." I said turning around as I walked away, behind me I felt a glow but I knew not to look back, it was Apollo's true form and I knew I would die if I looked, anyone but a god would.