Chapter 13 - Quests Arising

I run as fast as I can, after scribbling the event in my "Important Notebook". After going to the Big House, I slow down and look for Chiron. A knocking sound vibrates from the wood behind me. I turn to find the Centaur looking grimly at me. I spill the beans. "Chiron, new war, Percy, Annabeth..." I trail off and sway slightly.

"Naomi, what do you mean?" Chiron asks.

"I SAID, WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A NEW WAR!" I shout, turning red.

"Oh. I have heard 5 demigods tell me that. One was Percy, another two were your cabin mates, another is a Athena girl, and the last is a Hecate boy. You just missed the presentation. We have campers on alert, the older ones taking border areas from curfew to 12:00. Then the satyrs and one of the new elements take alert for 12:01 to 3:00, and then I just stay awake and prepare for war and announcements after that," Chiron adds.

I sigh with relief, and drag myself back to the Demeter cabin, and rest for a while. Then I jump up! The camp needs me! I run over to Percy and I start panting. "Percy, cloaks, people, wavy black hair -"

"Calm yourself down, Naomi," Percy orders. When I was younger, a demigod named Annabeth had brought me to camp. Or maybe it was her friend. I don't know. Anyways, I followed Annabeth and eventually met Percy who was like a big brother to me.

"I saw people in cloaks float past me... and they literally introduced themselves as Air, Fire, Earth, and Water. One of them has black wavy hair... and her hair color is the same as yours! She's also wearing sea-green..."

"Oh, that's my sister, older by a second. She's trained with Chaos and Hades and she's really powerful," Percy says casually.

"B-b-but you're in a war!" I add.

"We're going to live through it, my sister and her crew are going to help us survive," says Percy, a grim mood settling over both of us.

"Hey! Air-head -" Earth shouts. "We've got our own cabin, everything was awesome -"

"Everything was not awesome. I was the one that was picked on. Air and Wind powers? Wow. So old fashioned. Now Jason Grace is my rival. And the problem is, I look almost exactly like him," Air says with an unhappy tone.

Fire nudges me. "It's either being called an air-head, or getting picked on," she murmurs. Fire is, underneath all of the ferocity, a overprotective person for her friends. I smile slightly, Fire doesn't normally have this personality.

"Umm... Fire? It's time to be fiery!" I whisper, nudging her side. This only leads to... chaos... (with a lowercase c)

Fire jumps out, strides toward both boys, and coughs twice. "Boys! Stop this ridiculous fighting! How come Water and I can get along perfectly well and you two can't? That's a shame. I guess you two will have to do it the hard way. To the arena!"

Both boys suddenly freeze, and shake their heads. "Nooooooooo!" Air screams, then he stomps off to his bed.

Earth suddenly freezes again and takes a rock and smashes it against my camera. I sigh. "I'm not going to edit the video like Fire did with you and Air," I grin, showing off my kinda-white-but-not-pearly-but-still-pretty-shiny teeth.

Since Air was complaining in his room, I decide to go check in and see if he's doing alright. He's pounding on his pillow and apparently, to normal humans, can't breathe. But he can. Because he's Air! Obviously.

I slowly open the door, tiptoeing in. "Goo awaayyy Earth!" he mumbles. I shake my head.

"No, Air, it's me, Andromeda," I say, and quickly leave the room before he can complain anymore.

I decided to go to my own room, which felt a lot more better than sitting on clouds. Fire knocks at our door. Apparently there are 2 rooms, since boys and girls have separate rooms. Air and Earth are disasters, Earth sleeps on the couch since Air is unbearable (how ironic!).

"We have a new announcement. One of us is sent to do patrolling duty. That's me. Now you don't look into -" before Fire can finish, there is a loud crashing sound.

And so our first planning day nearly ended up in chaos (with a lowercase c) until Water reminded everybody we were here to help, not cause disruption.

A/N: What a strange coincidence. Naomi's original name was "x". During a nine month gap with no recollection I ever called a character "x", I had another "x" inform a character of the same news.