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Remembering is The Worst Part

So I woke up, with everybody looking at me, the only thing I could think about at that moment was the voice in my dream, that voice sent me a chill down my spine. After a few moments of observing me, Miranda spoke today I could see her face clearly, she is blond (which made me remember that most Athena kids are blond, they

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say it is genetics, and I asked how they were born since Athena is a maiden goddess (which of course I couldn't know that by myself, Sally told me), but no answer they just looked at me distastefully), yellowish-like eyes, she was wearing, a blue camp shirt, and jeans, she had a few scars maybe from her last fight, but she still looked beautiful, she is quite nice I guess, some in the cabin

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said she is kind of strict according to cleaning, organizing, training, and lessons (especially, but unfortunately I am no good with studies, but I am at least average), Sally was wearing, the same as Miranda, and her hair was tied in a high ponytail, the person who threatened us in the nursery, he had red hair, blue camp shirt, and green track pants, the other kid I didn't know was in pajamas,

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a blue one, he had brown hair (that was so messy it might have been embarrassing for him), gray eyes, and he looked like he had been sleeping for the past five years without waking up once, he had no eye bags, no black parts under his eyes, and he sure looked like he wanted to sleep more. As Miranda spoke all I could remember was the scenario in that dream, it looked so real, that I could even feel the

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weather, the ground, so Miranda asked me if I had a dream, I struggled to answer, but then I got the courage to speak, though my voice was not coming out properly, it seemed like I was choking, and I said that I didn't if it was exactly a dream or if it was real, soon Miranda answered me after giving a serious look to the kid I didn't know, she said that it is was surely a dream, and that unfortunately she forgot to tell

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me that, demigods normally frequently have dreams about the past, present, and future, and that they were never pleasant. And she introduced me to the kids I didn't know, she said that the one in the blue camp shirt and track pants was Sam Miller a kid from Apollo's cabin, and the other one in pajamas was Connor Obrien, and he was a Hypnos the Greek god of sleep, dreams whatever is

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linked to that, she said he helped me in the waking-up part, and she said he interfered with the dream signal or something or the other. Then Sally asked me to describe the dream I had, first I still felt quite tense about it, took my time to properly describe it, and while doing it I could only think about what the figure said at all times. After I was done describing it, and told them what the figure said,

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Miranda looked quite concerned about it, she said nothing for a while, she just stared at the ceiling, which was a brown color, and had some crystals, that maybe Pluto's kids put there just because maybe they pitied us, for our cabin having bones all around it, which made me remember that maybe that is why many kids try avoiding passing by our cabin, and kind of fear us, maybe that we will kill

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them and then use their bones as decoration, but fortunately, only the younger demigods did that, soon Miranda had her answer to the dream she said "Congratulations! You just met our father, but unfortunately not in the most pleasant way, and the things with claws that you saw were the Three Fates, they are the ones who decide, when somebody's life ends, and the blue string you saw is the lifeline of those people." She looked

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quite concerned about it, and maybe also a bit worried about me, and she probably was not likin what our father had just done, because she was cursing him in Greek a lot now, maybe she was also worried that I might have to go on a 'quest' is what they call it to hear, and so was I. I have no proper training, because of the late events in camp, I never fought against anyone, and I would probably

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just get myself killed out there. She continued "Unfortunately I don't know what to say about what Father told you, and I can't interpret it, because normally when Father visits us in dreams, it is nothing good, and when he says something like that, it is better not to try and interpret it because we might be wrong and the thing will go the wrong way eventually. And I am sorry we can't help you more than that, you will have to do the rest by yourself, I am

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sorry Kailyn, but I think there is something you can do talk to Chiron after classes he will tell you what you can do, still, I am sorry I can't help you." I held her hand, it felt warm, I started to feel like she was going to be a good friend to have by my side. "No! don't be sorry you tried, and thank you for it Miranda." then Miranda, Sally, Sam, and Connor went back to their cabin chores, and I was left with a bunch of mixed feelings

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about what had just happened, I was still trying to process what had just happened, about my father, why would he just claim me and then a day later, make me have a dream, that would probably send me on a deadly quest, all I did was sit down and think about it until it was time for breakfast.

XV

I Suck At Lessons

After talking to them, I went to the baths, took breakfast and then it was time to learn about the new part of my life.

I do like learning about history, but depends on who is explaining it, Ms. Allison, was the worst History teacher ever. But this time instead of her it was Chiron it happens that he was not only one of the camp's

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directors, but as well as a teacher, he explained everything so nicely to everyone, different from my old teacher, and unfortunately just like her at the end of the day, he gave us a pop quiz. Fortunately for me, I have a good memory, but some of the things there were just hard to remember, like which god did what to the other in the year of what, the cause of the fights, and some things I just couldn't

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understand, like why the gods and goddesses would take petty fight and turn them into war against each other, and then make their children also be at war with each other, the few things I understood about them is their history, why they exist, their domains, and pretty much that they have serious memory issues, that makes them forget their children exist once in a while, and as well that they are a

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terrible family, that Hera the queen of Olympus, is the one who tries to keep them together, but unfortunately at the cost of other people's happiness, and that turned out pretty much clear to everybody after the two big wars the second Titan war and the second Giant war, I can still hear tales from it, from the seven who saved the world, and a heroic hero from that time who fought the titan lord

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himself, but I still managed to fail it hard, but as expected Sally passed it with flying colors, and Chiron even congratulated her for that and said that he was quite impressed with a person who just learned she was a demigod four days ago, I knew I would fail the very moment, he spoke his first fifty words I had a blackout for a few minutes, but this time fortunately I had no bad dream I was dreaming about

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my mom, I saw her cooking dinner for herself, she looked kind of sad at times, I guess she was just worried about me, and how I am, and probably if I hadn't done anything dangerous by now, but as well happy sometimes, I knew that something good had happened to her, and it seemed to please her a lot.

XVI

The Desire Walk to Belong

After I failed the test, I went to Rome, where I saw the garden of Bacchus, it is beautiful, there is a fountain, the water in it is crystal clear, and the grass had the brightest and the certainly most beautiful shade of green I have ever seen, the was a statue of Bacchus (Dionysus), there were benches painted purple which had some birds drawn on them,

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there were some vines with grapes already growing out of them, Lovers holding hands, drinking coffee together, having meals, it felt so peaceful to be there, it is not fair at all, why can't feel the same towards someone, I want to experience it, I want to know how it is to love someone, and that person to love you back, even without you loving yourself at all, and also kind of hate yourself for

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whom you are, and always feel like you never belong, like you are just a huge burden on someone, something nobody desires to have by their side, you feel like you are some piece of trash and people just throw away casually. I want to be able to feel the opposite of all of that and much more, but for that, I need someone who can love me first, so I can at least start loving a bit of who I am, I want to

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belong, love myself, love someone, and live a peaceful life with them like everyone else does. I need that. I desire that. I want all of that.

XVII

A decision from the office

I went to Chiron's office, and I found the door wide open, he was playing some kind of old music I just couldn't figure out which one, (My mom also likes such music, and she likes playing it while taking a drive, so I know many of them by now.) he was arranging some files, and he looked quite stressed about it. I knocked on the door, and he

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seemed to notice that someone was there for the first time, he was probably drowned in the work, that he didn't even notice. He turned and answered with a sudden smile, (unfortunately, I was still getting used to seeing a centaur and not getting scared, that when he turned, I made such an expression, I looked as if I had just woken up from a nightmare and it seemed to hap for real now, it also looked at the

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the same time that had just committed the worst crime ever, and was worried sick that I would get caught as soon as I took another step, and more things I couldn't even explain myself.) "Oh! Kailyn, still getting used to it?" I was still making that horrible expression, and it seemed that Chiron wanted to laugh, but got the hang of him, I thought I should do the

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same for a change. "Yes! Chiron, pretty much." I got control over me again and made the serious face I should have come with. "Come in, Miranda mentioned that you have something to discuss with me." I entered the room, and the floor was making some kind of 'Crack' sound as I walked in, and the sealing seemed higher than what I remembered. I went towards a chair near his desk and sat, and something caught

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me by surprise, Chiron sat as well even though he had a horse part from the waist down, he sat on a wheelchair, his legs were immediately hidden by a blanket, and I could only see feet, and they were surprisingly human ones. He told me to tell him what I wanted to I described bit by bit my dream, and as I was describing it he looked at me, with a quite quizzical face I could say, he was paying

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attention to every single word I said, he also told a few campers that were near his office to call Sally from cabin eight on the Roman side, and as soon as I was done describing what she reached there, Chiron told her to describe what she saw from the other side, I mean what happened when I was a sleep, looking at her I realized how much she cares for me, and that she had always been there for

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me, though the past few years had been hard on me, but she never gave up on me. When she was done Chiron said "Well! Sure that was Hades, you need a quest, head to the Oracle!"

XVIII

We Walk Towards A Green Mist

After going to Chiron's office, Chiron, Sally and I went ahead to the Oracle's cave, Chiron led us through the fields of strawberries and vine (grape plants), up until a rocky place where it was a bit hard to pass through, it took us over an hour to reach the cave's place, the fields were about a mile long (which is about 0.625 km,

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honestly, I don't even know when I got better at math.) That alone took us twenty minutes, and to reach the fields ten minutes of walking, plus thirty minutes going through the rocks, as soon as I wanted to stop, and was quite exhausted, Chiron told us that we had reached the cave. The cave was in one of the most peaceful places in Camp Olympus, I could no longer hear at all any chariots, campers

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fighting, no more, and the woods around it seemed so quiet, the only thing I could hear coming from the woods was the sound of the wind technically making the trees go against themselves the trees were such a beautiful green, and around some of them there where some bushes with some berries growing. We entered the cave from inside it looked just like a normal home (surprisingly) the

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was a sofa, lights in the sealing, and some of those Christmas lights as well, there was an office desk, some bookshelves, music was playing, there was a TV, and there was a corridor down the cave, and from what I could see there were two doors at the end of it, in one of the rooms the light was on because I could see light peeking through under the door, Chiron led us towards the sofa, and told us to sit and said

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he would bring the Oracle, then he went towards the door with the lights on and knocked the door to come in, a voice told him to go in, so he went in and closed the door behind him, and after that, all I could hear was a girl like a voice screaming angrily at him, but after a while, it calmed down which took about ten minutes, then Chiron opened he went outside with a serious face, and a girl came outside

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with him she was sixteen or seventeen, she was grinning, she seemed kind of crazy and that didn't please me that much. She had black hair, that was tied in a high bun, she wore a black leather jacket, a white shirt with the words 'Oracle of the year' on it, she had long white baggy pants that were open at the feet, she had sandals, at the jacket's back there was a skull on it, she had a few small chains warped

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around her (jewelry ones), honestly I was still trying to figure out her story. She went at fast peace towards some kind of throne/chair there were drawings on it, ancient Greek and Latin, there was an island drawn on it, someone shooting arrows, no two people shooting arrows one was a male the other a female by the hair and the way she was standing, it was painted gold, honestly I don't know how I

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hadn't noticed it earlier the thing was glowing. Before she sat on it she said "This is the Throne of Delphi, after the giant war, Lord Apollo and Lady Artemis themselves, built this throne." Her voice sounded a bit hurt, and cold as if it was a burden, she sounded just like my mom when I used to ask about my father, cold and distant, her voice seemed kind of approaching, inviting, calm, soft. Then she said

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"So whenever a human which hosts the spirit of Delphi sits on it the spirit will be awakened inside them, I have the spirit of Delphi inside of me" Again it seemed like a burden, but this time she spoke with a hit of pride on it, she seemed to feel a bit good about it by now. "So only I can sit on it, from time to time when its host dies the spirit chooses another host." she sat on it the throne glowed brighter, then suddenly it stopped, her eyes

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turned white, there was nothing no pupil could be seen, she was looking down at her feet, the air suddenly began to shorten for a few moments I was out of breath, the lights turned off, it became as cold as in winter, my hands began to feel cold, then she lifted her chin, turned towards me, my heart racing, there was a deadly silence, all I could hear was my heart pounding, my breath became

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faster, then a green substance came out of her, there also a greenish type of gas, then she lifted her hand and pointed her finger at me, as if she had no control over it as if she was just a skeleton, then a voice spoke different from hers, the voice seemed cold and distant, it was as if a snake was speaking, that only made my heart beat faster and the voice in her said:

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Five new demigods shall visit the old sea. The cursed blade shall cut the ropes. To free the queen. One friend lost. The other is a traitor.