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The 'Amazing' Crew
We went to take a bath, it was almost dinner time, at camp the only thing now that was worrying me was how the people there were looking at us, a few had looks of distaste, some looked a bit annoyed, but good thing that from our cabins, only huge smiles came out of them, it is one of the reasons, why I still hadn't run away from here. So it
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was dinner time we did the usual, like offering to the gods, announcements etc… but one of the announcements today was very strange, Chiron and Lupa (she was also a camp director) said that there would be camp fire today, which happed to amuse everyone, since there was a specific rule that camp fires and marshmallows only happen on Fridays, but no one said anything because it was one
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more excuse to take in sugar, since we were not allowed many sweets per week, since they say we have to be fit, and that sweets won't help us with that. So after dinner we went to the camp fire place, we roosted marshmallows, sang, and when the it was almost ten pm, Chiron spoke for the first time since the camp fire started, everyone suddenly turned towards him, in
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silence, Chiron said "I know that everyone already knows about the new prophecy given to the one of two newest demigods in this camp. Kailyn" everyone still in silence, nodded in agreement, as if we were having a student's council and Chiron was the president of the student's council and everyone just seemed to be agreement to whatever he said, but to be honest it was fair Chiron was the oldest person in
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camp, even older that the wolf goddess. "So as everyone knows she must have company in her quest, so this is where and when we are going to decide who goes with her." But as soon as he finished saying does words the people started whispering in each other's ears, and Lupa just started glaring at them then the silence returned, then she gave them the "you always do this" look which still looked like she was annoyed. "So
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Kailyn I ask you to repeat what the Oracle told you. Go ahead." Then the crowd suddenly turned to look at Kailyn, who was still much concentrated in roosting her marshmallow, then she turned looked at every one and repeated what the Oracle had told her, everyone looked at her, with puzzled faces, but from all of the Miranda was the only one who looked surprised, and worried at the same time, she
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shifted her gaze as if trying to figure out something, and when she finally did she looked at Chiron, with pain that could be seen right through her soul, which happened to worry me, and I got the feeling that, that pain was immense, and could only be kept inside to a certain extent, and if she continued like that, the pain inside her would consume her fully and turn her into something she doesn't want
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be at all, I just prayed to the gods that it will be fine, that she will be fine. Then Chiron said "Well it seems like the Lucy I mean the Oracle has been clear about one thing, about who should go with her." I spoke after long, I couldn't understand what Chiron had meant by that. "But Chiron, the Oracle never said who should go with her" he took a deep breath, while looking into my eyes, and said "Sally, the Oracle said five new
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demigods, and only five have entered in the past five years." What I feared had come, now I knew what he meant, something I feared for as long as we got the prophecy. "So Kailyn and I and who else?" again people looked at me as if it was stupid question, which made me feel bad about speaking a word, according to this matter. "I guess that the three people themselves already know, so please step forward, so I can declare it
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official." The three people that stepped forward were friendly, but I also didn't expect to be them, it was Maya, Lana and Sam, the three of them looked quite lost, like I was feeling just then. "So Kailyn here is your crew for the quest, hope all of you get along well, and please if you have hatred towards someone, don't try to kill them please." Kailyn just looked at them, as if the world had come down crashing her, but I guess it
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was reasonable, imagine if you couldn't even take care well of your own room (meaning she is not as organized as she appears to be, her room is a huge mess) and now you were supposed to take care of four people, make sure they don't get killed, become their leader, and lead them to victory somehow, it was probably the biggest responsibility she ever had to carry, Chiron said nothing to us
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just a simple "That's all! Hope this will end well! You can discuss this matter on your own." He turned towards Kailyn and said "Kailyn regarding this matter be careful with the choices you make, you might end up regretting some." Then he went off to his office, Kailyn stared at us for a while, then she went running towards her cabin, but before I could follow her, Sam, Lana and Miranda told me to stop and give her some time for
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herself, so I just asked Miranda to her about a meeting that the five will held. So Miranda went running towards her, then I asked everybody else to get some sleep, and think about the matter, so we could talk about it the day after, without speaking a word they went to sleep.
XXIV
Underworld's Blades (1)
After last night none of us five felt like talking to each other. I woke up with one of the worst headaches I have ever had, I guess because I was up all night, thinking about, the whole quest thing and stuff. I took a bath, I was wearing black jeans, blue shirt, a black leather jacket and snickers. Yesterday before the five of us went to our cabins, I
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asked everyone to meet near the dining hall, for a discussion about the quest, I went there after I dressed up, but unfortunately I only found Maya, Sam and Lana there, Kailyn hadn't come, but as soon as I got there, Miranda came said that Kailyn confined herself in the cabin, she said that she doesn't feel like seeing or talking to anybody today, that she wants to be alone for a while, after that
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she left. So the four of us started planning on what to do to get her out of the cabin, we wouldn't accept a 'NO' for an answer, we needed her, she is the leader of this quest, without we couldn't do it, but before we could put our plan to get her out of there she came running towards us, she looked so disturbed I had never ever seen her like that, she was wearing, white baggy pants (one of does
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long ones, that if not careful you can trip over them), yellow shirt, and sandals, when she reached our spot, she was out of breath, I ran to get some water for her, when I got back she just hugged me which was very rare for her to do that, I couldn't it was her, before I could say anything she showed me two blades, one was a sword the other a knife, both of them were shining, the handles were red, with some
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bright white lines around them, the problem with them was that they gave a scary vibe, I didn't even feel like being around them, everyone just took a step back away from them, Kailyn looked very confused, up until I asked where she got the blades, she told me that last night she had a dream again, she said her father handed her the blades, he said that each blade can only be used once, by every demigod
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that are his, and that she would know when to use them and how, but when she finished all that, she still looked a bit troubled, so I puled her aside to talk, so she told me that her father also said something else, that she would lose me, at a certain point in this quest, I understood right then that what he said had to do with my prophecy, but Kailyn choose not to let that happen she, she said
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that before she fell asleep yesterday, she promised herself that she would bring everybody back, with their teeth, and bones on the wright place. So feeling a little bit better about thing we had our meeting with the other, but Kailyn still seemed to be a bit uncomfortable around Maya, but I let it be, but I still thought that something sure had happened between the both of them, and that hey had already
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met each other before, because for as well as I know Kailyn she wouldn't just be all like 'I don't like you get out of my sight' at the very first meeting, at the meeting Lana shared that she also had a dream, she said that she saw to huge man, wearing military uniforms, that it was a dark place, and that it was at the deep part of the sea, they were inside a cave, she said she had seen slightly a part of what
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might have been a cage, she said she wasn't sure, and that unfortunately she couldn't track down the location of the cave, part because it was very difficult to do that in a dream, second because it was probably not in her father's domain. After the meeting e went for training and today, our tutors (including Lana) were very hard on us, they pushed u to our limits, up until I couldn't walk anymore, was
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covered in sweat, Kailyn was literally about to fall down, and probably collapse. The training was definitely not the best part of the day.