Hey Demigods! It's me Jackie. I've been writing a lot on wattpad so, that's why I haven't been updating much. Hope you enjoy!
Darcy's POV:
I woke up in the infirmary. Again. I feel like I'm always in here. I hadn't noticed Percy sitting next to me, asleep. I felt bad. I mean, he was a normal demigod until I came along. Can a demigod be normal? Whatever, I just feel like he's been worse off since I showed up with all my stupid problems. As I was thinking, Percy woke up. "Hey." I said. "Hi Darcy. Listen, I'm so sorry, I should've been there sooner. I didn't mean for you to get hurt. I-" I cut him off. "Percy, I'm the one who should be sorry, I've brought you nothing but problems since I've been here. I feel bad." He took my hand. "Darcy Ellens. Don't you ever say that again. Do you know how lonely I've been since Tyson went to dad's place? You're the best. I love you." His voice wavered. "I love you too Percy." I gave him a hug as a tear went down my cheek. I heard foot steps and we pulled apart. Amanda, my friend was there. "So, I see you're up." I nodded. "Well, let me give you one last check up and then we'll send you off to training. Chiron made schedules. That's right, schedules. Camp Half-Blood is getting fancy!" She said with one of her bright smiles. I laughed. She handed me a slip of paper while she had me stand up, move around. all that doctor ish stuff. Something caught my eye. "They have pegasi here?" Percy smiled. "Yeah. Hey, when you go today, look for a black pegasus named Blackjack. He's the best." I nodded. "Ok, will do." Amanda tapped me on the shoulder. "You're ready to go. Have fun!" I though for a second. "What about you, don't you go to training?" She nodded. "Yeah. I train with Will Solace and some of my siblings. We work on our medical abilities for most of the time, but obviously we have to learn how to fight too. I'm pretty good with a bow and arrow." I smiled. "Cool." Percy grabbed my hand. "C'mon. Let's go back to our cabin. You can get dressed and stuff." I laughed. "Ok."
We walked to our cabin. Annabeth came running over. "Hi Seaweed Brain." She said and gave him a kiss. "Hey Wise Girl, he said and kissed her back. "Hi Darcy." She said, once she was done with Percy. "Hi Annabeth." I said. "How are you feeling?" She asked. "Better, I guess." I said. She smiled. "Good." Percy looked at Annabeth. "I have to go Darcy, I'll see you later." I waved. "Bye." He ran off with Annabeth, hand in hand. I was walking back to my cabin when I felt someone tap my shoulder. I turned around to see Liam standing there staring at me. "Hi Darcy." he said. "Hi Liam. What's up?" He smiled and looked excited. "I actually wanted to show you something." I smiled. "Cool. What is it?" He reached inside his back pocket. "I-uh, made you something." He blushed. He held out a small bracelet. It was a light blue cord with a small bronze charm of two dolphins in the middle. I was touched. "That's so sweet of you. Thanks so much." He grabbed my hand, making me tingle. "Let me show you how to put it on." He lifted up my hand and loosened a knot near the charm. He slipped it around my wrist and tightened it. "Is that ok? Is it too tight?" I studied the bracelet. "Yeah. It's perfect. Thanks so much." He blushed. "I love it." He continued to hold my hand. A loud splash startled me and we jumped. He let go of my hand. I heard a scream and my brother's laugh. "PERSEUS JACKSON I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" I heard Annabeth yell. We laughed. "Ah, Percabeth." Liam said. I was confused. "Percabeth? What's that?" He gasped sarcastically. "It's only the biggest ship here. They are so OTP." I though about it. I'd heard that term before. Ship, OTP. Girls in my old school used it all the time. "Yeah, I remember now." He smiled. There was a really awkward pause for a couple of seconds. Then it broke. "Um." He said. "I should probably go back to training now..." I nodded. "Yeah, me too." He waved. "Well, uh, bye." I fidgeted with my bracelet. "Bye. Thanks for the bracelet by the way. I love it." Liam paused, like he was having another thought. "Yeah, uh, no problem." He waved and jogged off. I sighed. I think I like him. What? No, that's so childish.
I cleared my mind and continued walking back to my cabin. Once I got there, I slid off my old clothes and went to put on new ones. I then noticed a small package on my bed. It was wrapped in silver wrapping and tied with a blue ribbon. On it had a little notecard. It read;
Darcy,
Here's some of my stuff that doesn't fit me anymore. You can have it. I hope you feel better.
-Annabeth
I made a mental note to thank her, that I knew I'd probably forget. I slipped the ribbon off the box and peeled off, ahem, ripped off the paper. Inside were a couple of t-shirts, sweaters, jeans, shorts, pajamas, and even two dresses. I picked out one navy blue tank top with a silver embellishment on the top. I slipped it on with a pair of my shorts. I put on my converse, put my wavy hair into a ponytail and went outside. My schedule said that I had canoeing first, but I'd missed that. Next was archery. Oh gods, that was gonna be bad.
I walked over to a field where some kids were shooting arrows. The instructor was standing there, correcting people. I walked up to him. "Hi, um, my paper says I'm supposed to be here now. I'm Darcy Ellens." He smiled. "Hi. Yes, you're on my list. Daughter of Poseidon, right?" I nodded. "Cool." He said. "I'm Jared, son of Apollo. There's a station over there.
He pointed to the left. "I'll show you how to shoot." He walked over to the station handed me a bow and an arrow. "Ok, so its like this." He got into a position, knocked an arrow, and hit the bullseye. He made it look so easy. I did the same. He fixed my elbow and told me to shoot. I totally missed. Archery was NOT my thing. I tried a couple more times, missed every one. He finally said, "Ok, I'm gonna go help the other campers, you keep trying, you're doing great." I rolled my eyes and laughed. I kept trying and trying but I just couldn't do it. Then, a girl bumped into me and I shot my arrow. It flew into a tree.
"Oh my gods! I'm so sorry. I just wanted to say that I love your top. It's so cute. I'm Ariana, but you can call me Ari. Who are you?" She had super curly black hair, dark skin, a beauty mark on her cheek, and deep brown eyes. I smiled. Finally someone who didn't know me as the daughter of Poseidon. "I'm Darcy." She smiled. "That's a pretty name. My mom's Aphrodite. Who's your godly parent?" Is this the first question all demigods ask? "My dad is Poseidon." She gasped. "For real? Holy Hera, that's so awesome. You're Percy's sister?" I nodded. "Yeah. He's the best." She rolled her eyes. "Duh, he only saved the world about a million times. Is it hard?" I was confused. "Is what hard?" She twisted her hair. "You know, living up to the legacy Percy left. He's like, the most powerful demigod ever. It must be hard, always, like, being compared to him." I'd never thought about it. I didn't know what Percy had done. All the amazing things he'd done. I guess what she was saying was true. I kinda did have to live up to him. I mean, I didn't wanna be super lame and never do anything cool like he did. "Yeah, I've never really thought too much about it." She nodded, studying me. "Well, I didn't mean to bring you down. Hey, here's a tip for archery. That tiny mark, right there," she pointed to a small scratch on the bow. "Put it where you want to hit, and magic happens." She winked. "See ya!" she said. "Thanks Ari! Bye!" she waved and walked away. I tried what she said, and I hit my first bulls eye.
About 20 minutes later, I had sword fighting. I was really nervous. I don't know why, but I was. I walked into the arena and I saw my brother standing there with an attendance sheet. Percy gave me a wink. "Hey there demigods! I'm Percy, and I'm your instructor, obviously. Chiron said I should take attendance so I guess I have to. Maggie Haber, Lara Agro, Ava Hernandez, Jaden Albert, Marko Baker, Austin Harf, Will Myers, Orion Magan, Caelyn Tuffy, Elyse Davis, Alexa Zarelli, Darcy Ellens, Luke Weber, and Kasey Lewis. Ok, great everyone's here. Get in pairs, actually I'll pair you." He put boys with boys and girls with girls. I was with a girl who was about my height, with long. curly red hair, hazel eyes and pale skin. "Does everyone have a sword?" We all nodded. "Weapons out." Percy commanded. I pressed my blue diamond and Sapphire appeared. My partner unsheathed hers, a celestial bronze sword, which for some reason, had stickers all over the hilt. "Nice sword, I'm Darcy, by the way." She swung her sword around. "Yeah, I know who you are, everyone does. I'm Caelyn." I gave her a look. "Uh, cool." Percy walked around, checking everyone. "Ok, beginning stance, 3,2,1, GO." He said. Caelyn lunged at me, I sidestepped and swept her off her feet, I went in, but she blocked my attack and disarmed me. As I scrambled out of the way, I crawled toward my sword, avoiding her. I managed to grab it and stab at her, but she sidestepped me, causing me to slip forward. She held her sword at my throat. 1,2,3. "I WON!" she yelled. I blushed furiously. Percy slapped me on the back. "Ha." he said. Ari was right, I needed to step up. "Let's go again." I told Caelyn. "Deal." she said with a smirk.
We got back into our stance. This time, I lunged at her first, she was ready to block my attack. So, at the last minute, I slid around her and flipped her over, she landed on her back, but was not disarmed. She rolled to the side and jumped up. We continued our fighting, blocking and jabbing at each other. Finally I disarmed her and held my sword at me neck for 1,2,3 seconds. I gave her a small smile and brought my sword down. "Nicely done, Darcy." Percy high-fived me. "Ok, since all the other groups are done, but these two, at 1-1, the next winner wins the tournament thingy." I liked the thingy at the end. "Also, others, you may try to distract them. Both. 3,2,1 GO." He yelled. At first, it was easy, just the clanging of swords, nothing else. But then, I saw a boy run up behind Caelyn and give her a small cut on her arm. "OW!" she yelled. She turned around to fight him, so I took the opportunity. I jabbed at her, and she fell. But she popped back up. Then, others tried to attack me. Luckily I had really bad ADHD so I could easily fight off more than one person, but Caelyn was having a harder time. Finally, I managed to get her disarmed, and on the gound. 1,2,3. "Yes!" I yelled. I'd won, and it felt great. "Good job everyone!" Percy yelled. "Who won each of their fights?" I saw a couple boys and girls raise their hands. I raised mine. "Ok." Percy said. He went over to a corner and brought back a tie-dye purse that said R.O.F.L on it. I had no clue what that meant. "So, theirs a bunch of tiny trophies that my friend Leo Valdez made. You can each have one." All of the winners picked out a trophy from the bag. "We'll do this every two weeks. By the time Christmas comes, whoever has the most tiny trophies gets a really big trophy and a day off. Cool?" All the campers nodded. One tall girl with long, straight brown hair and gray eyes, stepped forward. "But, what if you can't come to sword fighting practice? Then you'll have no chance unless you win all the other battles." I smiled at Percy, who looked totally lost. "We need to find a way to balance that out." Percy just thought for a sec. "Um, how about whatever day you come back, even after the three rounds, you have to battle the camper of my choice?" She nodded. "Ok, just wondering." Percy gave a sigh of relief. I walked over to her. "You're Darcy right?" she said. "Yeah, and you are..." She smiled. "Maggie, daughter of Athena." Oh, Athena. That makes sense. "Nice job, with Percy, by the way. It's so funny, the face he makes when he's confused." I laughed. "Yeah! I do this to him all the time! It's hysterical!" We both laughed. All the other campers were now just talking with one another. "Ok everyone! Good job! Time to move on!" I walked out of the arena with Maggie.
"So, what do you have next?" I asked her. "Uh, archery. What about you?" I took out my schedule. "I have, ooh, pegasi riding. I'm so excited!" She smiled. Then frowned. "Aw, I have that last. Tell me how it is!" I nodded. "Ok, bye Maggie." "Bye Darcy!" she waved. I walked over to where the pegasi were. There were a couple of other campers, including Liam. "Oh, Liam!" I waved. He came over to me. "Hey Darcy." He said. He looked at my wrist and saw that I was still wearing his bracelet. He smiled. "Ok, everyone!" The instructor stepped out. He was tall and muscular with shoulder legnth black hair. He had a tattoo of a woman's name on his left arm. "I'm Aaron, and I'll be your instructor." I heard another voice all of the sudden.
Hey! Yo, bossette. Is that what you call a girl boss? You got any donuts? I looked around. Where was that coming from? Liam tapped my shoulder. "Darcy? You good?" I nodded, focusing on Aaron. "Yeah, I'm fine." He looked back at Aaron too. "So, everyone go to your pegasus. If you're afraid and want help let me know. Liam walked over to a chestnut brown one. I remembered Percy telling me to look for a black pegasus. I saw one and ran over. "Hi there," I said in a voice you'd use to talk to a puppy. "You must be Blackjack." Why are you talking like that? I'm Blackjack. Got any donuts? I jumped. "Did you just, talk to me?" Has Percy told you nothing? You're the daughter of Poseidon. He created horses. We can talk. "Oh, um, I didn't know. Sorry." It's cool. Got any donuts. "I'm afraid I don't." Any sugar cubes? "Aren't those bad for you?" Eh, yeah. But who cares about health? I like sugar cubes. Got any? "Nope." Aw. You're like Percy. "I'll bring you one tomorrow, ok?" Deal. Now you might wanna turn around and blush. "What?" Turn. Around. I did. I noticed a bunch of campers were looking at me like I was crazy. "Um. Hi?" Liam looked at me. "Were you, having a conversation with the horse. Blackjack nickered behind me. Pegaus! Correct your boyfriend. I blushed. "He's not my boyfriend. And, Liam, he's a pegasus. And, yeah, I can talk to him. It's a daughter of Poseidon thing." Liam's jaw dropped. "That is so cool!" he said. I sighed. The other campers were all talking about it. You're welcome. "For what?" For showing people your cool power. "I didn't need you to show people I'm cool." Liam jumped into our conversation. "Yeah, I knew she was cool long before you." I laughed. "Thanks Liam." Tell your boyfriend to mind his own business. "He's not my boyfriend!" Liam blushed. "Does he think I'm your boyfriend?" Liam asked. "Uh, yeah." I said. Come on, come on, come on. Ask her. Liam laughed nervously. "So, does your horse, um, pegasus wanna set us up?" YES. I laughed. "Yeah." Blackjack I'm not ready for us to be a thing yet. I"m 11. Please help. Blackjack responded. Will do bossette. Blackjack busted through the stable doors, taking me along with him. I was hanging on to him. I climbed my way up onto his back. We flew into the air. Was that helpful? "Very." We flew above the camp. Now, I don't like heights, at all. But I felt so free flying through the air. Ready for this? Blackjack threw my off his back and I fell. I screamed. Then, he came and caught me. I sighed. That was terrifyingly awesome. I'm bringing you back now.
When we landed. The other campers were learning how to get on their pegasus. Liam was having trouble with his horse. "Hey." he said. "Can you tell my horse to let me ride him?" I nodded. "Hey there, what's your name?" Sandy. Can you get this monster off me, daughter of Poseidon? "Why don't you want him on you?" Because he smells like fire. Fire is bad. "What do you mean he smells like fire?" His "BIG SECRET" of course! It's that he's one of those people who can create fire. Like that boy Leo Valdez. But he doesn't like to tell people. "Why not?" Because, in the New Prophecy, he's destined to kill his closest friend with those powers.
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