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Hades Gives Me A Quest
I woke up in the big house with Jason, Percy, Annabeth, and some cute girl I've never seen before. "––Happened?" The cute girl was asking Jason and I guessed there was a "What" in that sentence before I woke up. I tried moving but I couldn't, so I just laid there until someone noticed I woke up. "I don't know." Said Jason, I guess he wore himself out. When he woke up, he was yelling, and lightning struck outside, stronger than anything I've managed to summon, and longer too, it was incredible, it was scary too, but mostly incredible." Annabeth grabbed my hand and took my ring. I was gonna protest but obviously, I couldn't. "Has anybody wondered how did he get this? This is a Stygian black sword and he's a son of Zeus those things don't mix." "His patron," Jason said. "Hades is his patron and he gave it to him, same way Hera did with me." "Why would Zeus give his son to Hades? They hate each other!" said Percy, and honestly, I've been wondering that myself. Annabeth placed the ring back on my finger then noticed I was awake. "He's awake!" She said, "finally!" I thought. She reached over and gave me some of that nectar, I coughed, now able to talk, and asked: "Seriously why does that stuff taste like brownies?"
"It tastes like warm memories." Said Annabeth, which made as much sense as the rest of my day. "What's the last thing you remember?" asked the cute girl. "Blue light." I said. "There was blue light pouring in from the windows. Lightning outside the cabin. How long was I out?" "Seven hours," said Percy, "It's about 8:am right now." I stood up from my bed and gulped down every last drop of nectar these people had and a burning sensation down south. "No!" they all yelled as I drank it all, and then eyeballed me as if expecting me to explode. "What?" I asked, puzzled, and waiting to get out of sight deal with my problem. "Nectar is the drink of the gods." Said the cute girl whose name I learned was Piper with a slight tone of worry. "If you drink too much at once you'll burn up." Panic started to build up in me, "What if I lost my cojones?" I thought. But I didn't say anything about that, instead I said, "nah, I'm cool." And walked away toward the Zeus cabin. When I got there, I got straight into the shower and tried to get rid of the pain with water, didn't work. The pain spread over to my stomach already and with a pang I realized my whole body was about to be burned up. It was a long shot, but I had and idea. I quickly turned on every light in the cabin while the pain was reaching my neck. I thrust my hand into the air and the electricity from all of the lights in the cabin when down my fingertips, up my arm, through the rest of my body, and suddenly I through up in the middle of the cabin, but the pain was no longer there. I quickly changed into my cargo shorts, a clean orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt, and my dog tags. I cleaned the cabin floor as quickly as I could, and ran to breakfast. I had a giant stack of pancakes that was cut in half from the burnt offering to the gods. After that, I got down to business, going through my schedule for the day. I learned how to write and pronounce Ancient Greek with Annabeth. I learned sword fighting and shield usage with Clarisse from the Ares cabin, I wasn't a natural like some kids here, but I wasn't bad either. I learned archery with Chiron, though mostly, he was the one using the bow and I was shooting little balls/bolts of electricity at the targets (yes, I learned how to do that), After that, I went with the Demeter cabin to learn how to use a flying horse and areal fights. After that were the monster assault techniques with the Hermes cabin. Then I got two hours to do anything I liked, I was torn between Arts and Crafts with the Hephaestus cabin or combat magic with the Hecate cabin. I decided to go with Hecate seeing as I already had a sword and I didn't think I wanted to make a shield. This really cute girl named Cathy started showing me how to use magic with my sword. "That metal responds better to children of Hades." She said. "It'll be easier once you start getting the hang of that sword." Cathy was slightly shorter than me (so basically she was about 5'4 or 5'5), with long, caramel colored hair that reached about her mid-back, chocolate brown eyes, and a warm smile, man she was beautiful, and the only friend I've made since joining Camp Half-Blood. Everyday during my free time we tried to make the earth split by stabbing my sword at the ground I'd asked her how that helped me and he'd told me that splitting the ground was a basic for Underworld magic. Once I had that down, I would be able to move on to other, more effective ways of combat magic. Finally, after a week, I was finally able to do some Underworld magic. After my free time I had to go to the beach with the Nereids, and yes, I took Cathy with me a couple of times. Then we had a break from the training that most kids used to play volleyball or basketball or whatever but Angel and I, we used the hour-long break we had to spar. To us, there were no rules; we could use magic, our powers, whatever we had to do to win. None of us was really better than the other, I won a couple of matches and so did he; basically we were tied up. After that, we went to dinner and the announcements, had a good game of capture the flag, which by the way, is amazing. We had a sing-along and bonfire with the Apollo cabin. Then we showered and it was lights out. This schedule went on for two weeks before things went wrong. One night, everything was going great. Cathy and I mastered a new trick with my ring, not my sword (even though I could still use it for this type of magic, I beat Angel when we were sparing by using the metal from our swords to conduct the electricity to him, making him fly yet again, I was in good shape, and was considering asking Cathy out after the bonfire, but then, my whole world turned upside down. During the sing along, the fire that was usually high, green, and cheery, turned purple, confusing everyone at first then horrifying them when a voice bellowed from the flames. "Child of lightning! I own you! Answer me!" I walked over to the fire just as Jason was standing up, but he sat back down when he realized what was happening. "Hades!" I yelled just to have an effect on the other campers. The other campers started murmuring as a holographic image started forming in the flames. I saw the image of the furies snatching up my family, one by one. With a jolt, I remembered the dream I had forgotten, the warning Hades had sent me. I've allowed this to happen, Hades had sent me a warning yet I'd forgotten about it completely. Then, I remembered the rest of my dream, "The Key!" I said, "Where can I find it?" The image shifted to the pair of red eyes from my dreams.
"Well if I knew that, would I need the help of a Hero?" Said Hades. "Well then do you know who has it?"
"My son, Nico di Angelo." There was a sudden rush of collective gasps among the campers and some of them were murmuring something around the lines of "I knew it," and "I'll kill him!" This is definitely camp love.
"If I find your keys, will you let my family go?"
"If you find my key, your family will be brought back alive and well." The fire was dimming, getting lower, the image of Hades faltering. "You have until the 20th." Said Hades before disappearing, and the fire turning a suspenseful purple. The whole camp had their eyes on me, and Chiron walked up to me and said we had to talk in the big house. I didn't care what these people thought of me, but I still felt terrible. I almost broke down when I looked over, and saw Cathy with fear in her eyes, looking at me, horrified. As I was walking towards the Big House, I looked at Cathy one more time, to find her staring back at me with tears forming in her eyes.
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