Chapter 8

Kiara's P.O.V.

The first thing Kiara noticed about Annabeth, was she was weird. She absolutely wanted to be her friend.

After the camp's tour, a dryad came to tell Annabeth something. Kiara knew what a dryad was, because they had made her run with them. She hadn't won them, but she hadn't lost either. They had arrived at the same time. Kiara had wanted a second time, because she was really competitive, but she hadn't got one. All the dryads looked strange at her, as if nobody had ever gone as fast as them.

Anyways, Annabeth and she went to a room, as the dryad had told Annabeth the Oracle wanted to see her. There she found Mish and Laila, who had already finished their tours as well. There was also a red-haired girl about Annabeth's age, who presented herself as Rachel, the Oracle. Then she closed her eyes and fell backwards. Luckily, Annabeth was right behind her and ready to catch her. When she opened her eyes again, they were bright green.

Laila's P.O.V.

She screamed. I mean, if you just made a friend, and suddenly she has neon eyes, I don't know what you will do. But Laila screamed.

Rachel turned towards her, and she covered her mouth, regretting having screamed. The Oracle reached out and opened her mouth. Instead of sound, a mist as green as her eyes came out. It formed shapes, and those shapes kept shifting. But after turning from a snake to a bear, it stopped. The bear spoke:

'Three girls, this quest will take;

To the north, the cold they'll head;

And there their past will be;

As clear as the mothers' eyes.'

And she passed out. Laila went over to help Annabeth drag Rachel to the couch. After that, Mish whispered something in Annabeth's ear, and Annabeth giggled. Then they looked at Kiara. Annabeth whispered something at Laila's sister and Kiara looked at her older sister. She shook her head and the three of them went to the couch were Rachel was laying. They drew a moustache on her face and they wrote something in her forehead she couldn't see without looking like she was interested in what they were doing.

But when Rachel woke up, fifteen minutes later, she did read it. And she immediately face-palmed. Rachel didn't notice and went out for dinner. Laila was about to follow, but Annabeth told her to wait inside. She said there was a show coming.

Sure enough, ten seconds after she said it, Rachel stormed in and went to the mirror. There she saw her moustache and a big "Approach, seeker" in the middle of her forehead. The three bad-doers were doing all they could to not laugh, but Laila couldn't resist. The look in the Oracle's face was too funny. She busted into laugh, and after five seconds of everyone looking at her weird, Kiara and Mish followed her example. Annabeth did the same, and soon enough, even Rachel was laughing hard.

After a couple of minutes of laughing, a camper came to take us to dinner. He said they had been searching for us everywhere, and couldn't find us. Percy came right after him. That's when Laila noticed he didn't have feet. The camper, not Percy. He had goat legs. But thinking of all the weird things that had happened that day, she wasn't scared.

She walked forward to go for dinner, but slipped. She would have fallen but, somehow she reached two centimetres before touching the floor, and stood up again. She cleared her throat and went to the door.

Everyone was staring at her strange, as if she had made a miracle. But Laila was used to that kind of thing. She called it good luck, and she tried to hide it. So she told the others to move their butts or they'll be late for dinner.