IV
Making a new 'FRIEND'
I looked at both Kailyn and the girls standing in front of us, while still not giving up, on trying to figure out what was happening, they were both glaring at each other, in silence, but I eventually got sick of it, gathered the guts to break it, I looked into Kailyn's eyes but my question remained unanswered, then I asked the both of them now shifting my gaze on to both of them, "What is this! do you know each
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other, and if you do why do you two look unpleased with it?" Both of them suddenly turned, as if just realizing that I was still there, then Kailyn took a few steps forward, and so did the girl, and then she said "No, I don't she just seemed like someone I knew, and disliked" In both of their faces I saw simply nothing, no feelings, just empty "Same" and right away she changed the topic, and I figured that maybe there is the slightest chance that they might have seen each other before and it
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was not good, or simply the girl seemed a bit suspicious, and to be honest why would I trust someone who mediates on the darkest part of the room, because I heard that Hades and Pluto's kids like doing that since they have the shadow travel thing going on, but she only gave me good vibes when she spoke, and she seemed like a good person, so I decided to let go of it and drop the matter. "So what are the both of you doing here, are you guys some newfound kids of Hecate?" we
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immediately answered, obviously there was no doubt left, about our parents. "No, we are not" She looked at us quizzically, for a while and then asked, "Then if you are not, what did you come here for?" I looked at Kailyn grinning which probably looked a bit scary since there was not enough light, and my hair was all messed up, so I guess I probably looked like a demon, instead of an angel (which some people think I am, but I am not, because I wouldn't be planning revenge if I
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were) and she smiled back, but she looked a bit scared probably thinking that my bad side would just take over, and then use my powers to grow plants, that would trap her around her and suffocate her to death so that she could meet her father in the underworld. "It is something that you might be interested in, we have heard that Hermes and Mercury's kids have played a lot of pranks on the people here, and we talked to Apollo and your siblings, both Greek and Roman," I noticed a tone of
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confidence in her voice I had great hopes that the girl would agree to it. "What! You girls managed to convince the Romans! Into what you are planning to do, they usually are not very much into such things, you two are two in a million, well done!" she said with a soft voice, she was quite impressed by what we managed to do, I still could get exactly why, since the rest of the Roman, didn't even argue about it, they just smiled and nodded in agreement, which made me think that they were used to this and that
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they weren't as tough as the Greeks said we were, but what the girl said was a complete full turn on what I thought about what a Roman should be, I confess that when I was about to speak with I felt a sense of fear within me, and I guess from the compliment the girl has started to like us, but now was not the time to start to be friends it was time for business. Right after we asked her, her name she said it was Maya, then we also introduced ourselves, then we told her about our plan,
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what the other kids told us, and so on, we gave her a few minutes to think about it, but it passed about thirty minutes, and while she was thinking she was moving her hands, and she was making them levitate, move from place to place, and make illusions, after those thirty minutes, and during that time, the sun was already rising and there was more light, and I could see the mess the room was in, but when those thirty minutes finished her had her answer, and I could not see
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any mess, anymore now it was all organized and tidy. Thankful to Goddess Fortuna she said yes, I was so happy that I started grinning again, that I even jumped. Now the only thing that needed to be done was to put the plan moving. So we found out that Hermes and Mercury's kids usually wake up late like at nine thirty-something, unlike the rest of the camp who usually wake up at seven o'clock, there are rumors that they sleep late because they are preparing a prank for the
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people, they want to attack the next day, so the person gets struck by it the next day while they sleep. So it was ten to six so we still had plenty of time to prepare ourselves, for our prank, supposing that they didn't wake up earlier than nine-thirty, the first thing we did was to ask Apollo's kids to help us get some centaur blood, which was quite easy since it seems that they use it for some kind of ancient medicine (which does not give you memory loss). Then we asked
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Apollo's kids try and miss some arrows, to see if they can do it or not, and the trial turns out good (though not that well because they are just not able to miss the target always, I bet if they are angry with Hermes and Mercury's children they wouldn't miss such a golden chance like that.) then we asked Maya if she could make good illusions with the mist, which was great turned out that the other kids both Roman and Greek were not lying she is the best, she is talented,
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and what is more impressive is that she only has one year in camp but she overcame all of her brothers and sisters who were there for years and were considered the best, in just one year, she is also such a good/ very kind person, I like her personality, her dressing code and I would sure like to make our meeting today way more than that I want it to be the begging of a new friendship, of course, it will never replace mine and Kailyn's but it can still be good, though I noticed that
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Kailyn does not like her that much, which is kind of acceptable since nobody has to like everyone, and that is pretty much what I have learned from my Dad, thinking about him I miss him, taking breakfast together, dropping me off at school, when he bakes his fabulous treats for me, going out for dinner or both of us cooking it together, the way he used to teach me about plants, as he always said that knowing how to treat nature, is something that every member of
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our family should know. I hope he is fine, just want to go back home and give him a huge fat hug, it has barely been three days and I miss him so much, think I will call him tonight to see how he is doing.
Kailyn
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SWEET, SWEET REVENGE
At nine something, the record prankers woke up, and as soon as they were going to the baths, we attacked, Sally and I had the job of taking one of the camp battle chariots, to spread centaur's blood over them, and soon we did they started screaming, and both cabins leaders from the Greeks it was a girl named Isabel, and from the
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Romans a boy named Mark, there are rumors that even though both cabins are kind of rivals, (because they normally do competitions on which cabin does the better prank and over the years it only made the others hold more and more grudges against them), Isabel and Mark are dating, and they don't their cabins to find out, they started telling the cabins to clean up the centaur's blood quickly before it
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had an effect but no luck, they continued to roam around and scream. Then after the centaur blood, Apollo's children both Greek and Roman, started shooting arrows at the sky, mine while also we asked some of Zeus and Jupiter's kids to control the winds to avoid any of those arrows landing at the bodies of innocent people, and while the arrows were being shot towards the sky, Hecate's kids were
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making exact illusions of the arrows, and directing them towards Hermes and Mercury, in their shoulders, throats, and legs, for them it probably looked like a planned murder, and Hecate's kids did a little extra thing there they planned an illusion of fake blood, which kind of looked quite real, and we also threw some red paint over them, good thing is that none of the so-called record prankers didn't
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see any of us, we were all hidden, so when the attack was over, we decided to talk to them, the first thing we asked was for the cabin leaders, we asked if they were dating, but they tried to not speak, but the centaur's blood had already done its part, simple and clear answer to our question was yes, then we asked how many pranks their cabins had done since the camp opened, about to three to two
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centuries ago, the strange thing is that they answered straight forward no time to think, they said about two to three thousand, they said that each cabin leader since the camp opened keeps records of every single prank their cabins had done, and even if it was not the whole cabin doing the pranks only one of the campers, the still would record it they did a monthly record of each one of
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them, I would say that they were quite organized for two of the messiest cabins of the entire camp. Then I and Sally left the sighting, to call the other kids from camp if they wanted to ask anything of the 'prankers', and it seemed like everybody had scores to settle with them, after that we spent the rest of the morning laughing about it, but the worst is in the afternoon Chiron called us to his office,
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(which kind of looked like a monster museum, there were heads of some monsters, some arrows (probably battle arrows), swords, etc…) and told us that he also found our prank quite funny, he said that we had to clean everything since we made a mess in the middle of the camp, but the whole camp decided to help us clean up, since they also thought that they deserved it, and also found
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it was hilarious, and the Greeks found it impressive that the Romans also got into it, they said it had been a long time since the camp had seen something this funny, we spent the rest of the afternoon laughing, and we enjoyed it, for me, it was one of the most joyful days I have ever had in a long time, we just finished cleaning up about four to five pm, right after every cabin went in turns to the baths,
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when I entered the baths for the fifth time since we got here, the baths were the same, steamy, comfortable, soft towels, there was a sauna room, and there was also cold water, the baths were incredible, every time I went in there and came back, I would feel refreshed, they are some of the best baths I have ever taken, the only problem was that they seemed to stayed a little too far from cabin for my
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like, maybe one or two km, soon after the baths we were called to the dining pavilion when I entered, I could see a lot of benches, plates cups, sure there was a lot of wind, but over time I could things passing quickly, so it seems like we seat by cabins which means that I had to stay with my cabin and Sally with her's, but we could also move around and seat with other people after they are done
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eating, the cups and plates could refill themselves, but when you wanted something else you needed to ask, for example, if you were eating a burger, and now you wanted to eat a pizza you had to ask them for it, or else the plate would continue to refill itself with the same type of food, same for the cups, I spent the time there mostly talking, laughing about today's events, got to know the people around
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there, got to know more about my father from my half-brothers and sisters ( though for me it seemed like my father was not a great relationship man, he was one of the most loyal, Olympians, I could say he was a bit disloyal to Persephone (his wife) so didn't have many children.), every single time I looked at Sally, she was trying to keep a distance from others, she was mostly hanging out with her
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half-brothers and half-sisters, she isn't the type of person who gets along with everybody, she does not like socializing, overall.
XI
INTRUDE: Mark's point of view
I woke up at nine something, which was no surprise, since our cabin Mercury's cabin, was preparing a new prank for the newcomers to get to know us, in our cabin, there is a bathroom, where we brush our teeth, before entering the baths, I woke up everybody else, told them to organize the cabin, but as always we are messy, and
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ended up losing attention, so we went to the baths, and as soon as we were halfway (I guess, I am no good with mathematics) I saw one of Apollo's kids' chariots, passing by, and out of nowhere, I just saw them dropping a greenish colored, liquid. Right then I told Isabel (Hermes's kid's cabin leader, and also happens to be my girlfriend, (Hehe)) soon she realized that it was centaur blood when both
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cabins were covered by it, quickly she told everybody to clean it up as soon as possible before it could have an effect, but everybody just froze, as soon as we saw arrows coming towards us, (gosh I love that girl she is so smart, pretty, as a sense of humor, she knows very well how to be a leader.) soon we found ourselves smeared in blood, and we were asked questions by the whole camp,
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unfortunately, some of them were what was our last prank, for whom, and where it would happen, after the crowd was gone we just stormed off to the baths, the whole camp had never done this, we were the ones who were supposed to do this by tradition, our cabins had always been the ones to do this, but the two cabins had to admit that the prank was great, well planned, organized, and this
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time they did better than last time, but still it was low, how could they do this to us?
XII
STILL KAILYN
The Creepy Skull Cabin
After dinner, the venti cleaned everything, and then me and Sally had to part ways unfortunately, reaching my cabin with my siblings for the first time, the outside of the cabin was decorated with, bones (it seems like the people who built it the cabin, liked a lot bones.) I asked my siblings if they liked
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the decoration, and they said that they didn't like it that much and that they decorated it this way because some people have this mindset that since we are the children of Hades, we would like it, on the left side of my cabin there was another cabin for the children of Pluto, it was decorated with shiny stones, some gold, silver, diamond, I could that it was one of the most well-decorated cabins of the
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camp and I think it made the camp look quite rich, I guess. So when I entered my cabin, it was dark there was not much light during the night, they said that it helps when we want to practice shadow traveling during the day as well, since it is the only place during the day, that we could practice, there were not as many bunks as in Hecate's cabin, there was a bathroom inside, each one of the bunks was well organized
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and tidy, they said that every cabin is like that (except for Hermes and Mercury's cabin) because since most kids here are ADHD, we do not have many things around us, we could get distracted during certain tasks, they also told me that our father sometimes sends us in some quests in his name, I got to know more about my father, my siblings, who is the cabin leader/ head (whose name
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is Miranda). After our talk, all of us went to our bunks, and unfortunately, my bunk stayed at the darkest part of the cabin, I hadn't realized how tired I was before, so I sat (to my surprise the bunk didn't have bones on it, it was comfortable to be on, the pillow was white, and it was as fluffy as cotton candy) so I put my head down and slept into the dreamland.
XIII
Dark Dream Land
As soon as fell asleep I had a dream, I was in a dark place, and the ground seemed to have grass, I could feel that I was barefoot, that the grass between my toes, I could hear crackling noises of fire but I saw none, I heard the sound of wings flapping towards my direction, soon on my shoulders I could claws as cold as ice, then I could no longer feel the ground, then wind was cold, like a cold
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winter breeze, the only thing I was sure of was that I was screaming, soon the air moistened, and it became much more like summer, now I could see fire torches, a throne made out of bones, ghosts/ spirits (I guess I wouldn't know) floating around it, then out of nowhere the claws threw to the ground, I fell on my knees, facing four figures, one of them was sitting on the throne, one of them was by the left side, the other one on the right side, and the last one was
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flying over the head of the one on the throne, the three that were around the one on the throne, none of them had normal legs and arms, instead, they had claws, and wings that were grey, and apart from that the rest of the rest bodies were normal, all of them were knitting blue strings, that never seemed to end until they cut them with their claws, then the one in the throne had a dark purple robe, with some ghosts/ spirits on it, that were moving, I couldn't see the legs, the
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head was covered by a helmet which covered the face fully, then when I got up, the one on the throne spoke, and said "You need to save her, it is important, or I will be done for, you need-" he said it with a tone of worry, desperation, and with struggle, but before he could finish, he was cut, short when suddenly I wake up covered in sweat and out of breath, facing four people one of them was Miranda, then Sally, and one of Apollo's kid, the one who threatened us in the nursery, and I
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couldn't recognize the last one, they all looked at me as if expecting me to get scared.