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Chapter 12: I Pulled a Tobey Maguire Moment!

After I encountered Tempest, I ran around Camp to find Sam. I recalled that she was doing some camp activities. I believe one of them was Archery. I headed toward where they kept the archery range and I searched for her. You're probably wondering what happened after I met with Tempest, right? Well you'll find out shortly.

I asked one of the campers if they saw her and pointed toward her direction.

"Sam!" I called out.

She was in the middle of Archery Practice as I called out to her. I noticed that she has been getting good hits on her targets.

"Woah, that's some fancy shooting, Sam. You're pretty good," I said, referencing Metal Gear Solid.

Sam looked at me and smirked and did the Ocelot pose. "Pretty Good…"

I laughed, always forgetting how much of a dork she is.

"What's up?" She asked.

I leaned in close so I could whisper to her in secret.

"I'm planning to sneak out of camp tonight."

"WHAT?!" She yelled.

I hushed at her to be quiet and she replied quietly.

"What?! Are you crazy?"

"Percy is being overprotective and I need some space away from him. So I'm going to head to Brooklyn to get some time to cool off. You have to join me."

"What? Are you crazy?" She said, "Chiron said that it's forbidden to leave camp without permission. We'd be getting into so much trouble."

I scoffed, "Percy did it before and he came out unscathed."

"He had that main character plot armor, Stella. He's the Son of Poseidon."

I rolled my eyes, of course she'd use anime logic. But it's not UNTRUE.

"Look, you're a demigod and I have the power of Spider-man. Nothing can beat us. No thug is crazy enough to face us. People are not that stupid."

Sam looks at me with an unamused look.

"…okay, maybe some people are stupid."

She raises an eyebrow.

"Okay… A LOT of people are stupid."

"Stella," Sam replied, "You tried to face a harpy assassin and a Minotaur without any protection or weapon."

"I was desperate and was trying to protect you!"

"And how were you gonna do that?"

"God, what happened to your shy personality?"

"Stella…"

"Look, if we get into trouble. I'll take the blame, okay? I forced you into joining on my sneak out. Okay?"

Sam took a deep breath and sigh.

"Fine, but only for a bit. I don't want to get caught and do the dishes or clean the stable."

I whooped in the air and hugged her.

"Thanks, Sam! Meet me outside the cabins at 10pm."

"How are we gonna sneak out though?"

"Don't worry, I made a friend."

"Huh?"

As I walked back to the Big House, I noticed that there were two warriors hanging by the entrance. I thought they were campers but their armor and outfits were different. Their gear was similar to that of Roman soldiers and their shirt was purple with a logo and a SPQR on it.

"Uh, excuse me?" I said. One of the guards responded.

"Address your name."

"Uh, I'm Estelle Blofis. I currently sleep in this place and-"

"Estelle?" I heard a feminine voice and just around the corner, I saw a short dark-colored woman, wearing a sunny dress and a sun hat.

"Hazel!" I yelled out and ran toward her and hugged her.

Hazel Zhang is another family friend that Percy knew and she and her husband would come visit once a while. Though now I know that she's actually a demigod herself and is a Roman daughter of Pluto, or Hades in another term.

"How have you been?! I haven't seen you in ages!" I said.

"I've been good, but what about you? Why are you in camp? Did Percy finally tell you the truth?"

"It's a long story but he did. But only because he had no choice."

I heard the front door and saw a big man walk out, he is Asian and was wearing a casual button shirt and simple pants and shoes.

"Frank!" I yelled as I ran and hugged him.

He stumbled a bit but stood his ground and hugged back.

"Estelle! How have you been?"

"I'm doing great, but why are you guys here?!" I said.

The warriors got nervous and were about to move forward towards me as if I'm a threat. But Frank ordered them to stand down.

"She's family, don't worry."

The guards stood down and returned to their posts.

"So, I guess Percy finally told you, huh?" He asked.

"He had no choice, my friend got attacked and I just got involved."

"I see, well I'm glad he finally did. Hazel and I felt bad lying to you."

Frank Zhang is a Son of Mars, the Roman god of War. He was a military child but his mom died in Afghanistan. Afterwards he was sent to Camp Jupiter, the Roman Demigod Camp. He joined up with Percy and his quest to save the world and since then, he has been family to us. Frank and Hazel talked to me about their lives. Percy told me that Frank and Hazel were Praetors in New Rome and helped keep Camp Jupiter and Camp Half-Blood's relationship stable and strong. They retired as Praetors and Frank is the current Ambassador for New Rome and Hazel is a teacher for enchantments and curses. Of course, they also have a child together recently; a little girl that's around 2 years old named Marie E. (Emily) Zhang. She was named after their mothers.

"We had to leave her in California since this is a business visit. But she's with her uncle for now, she's safe," Hazel said.

"That's good, but why are you guys here? Is it because of my curse?"

"Your curse?" Hazel asked.

Before I could answer, Percy came out of the big house.

"Estelle, I see you met up with Frank and Hazel."

"Percy, why are they here?" I asked with concern.

"Chiron invited them, we needed to talk about some serious business. Nothing to do with your situation."

I frowned.

"So I'm not involved in this?"

"No," Percy answered sharply.

I scoffed, "Whatever." I got up and went back inside to check my nephew and niece. I can hear Percy apologizing to Frank and Hazel and saying they'll talk tomorrow.

Later that day, when everyone was asleep, I sneaked out of the cabins and looked for Sam.

"Sam?" I whispered.

"Over here," I heard from behind the Athena cabins. I saw Sam, wearing her casual clothes, a long-sleeve green shirt, blue jeans and a denim vest.

"How are you planning on sneaking us out of camp?" Sam asked.

"I got it covered, I just need to get a saddle from the equipment room in the Big House."

"What?!" Sam whispered-yelled. "Are you crazy?! Chiron and everyone is going to be there?!"

"Relax, their meeting is going to be on the second floor, I'll just grab it and meet you at the strawberry field. I want you to meet Tempest."

"Tempest?"

"I'll explain later," I said as I sneakily ran to the Big House. The guards were still by the entrance so I couldn't go through the front door. I noticed that one of the windows on the second floor is open.

"Guess it's time to use my Spidey powers."

I looked for the closest tree and avoided the guards' sight. I climbed the tree, with the help of my new powers, and stood toward a branch. Even with the new powers, I can't jump without making a noise. I looked at my hands and decided to do something the other Spider-men would do.

"Okay," I said to myself, "Time to put all that knowledge from the movies and games to use."

I aimed my wrist a bit upward and shot a web out of my wrist.

Ugh… even just saying it makes it sound weird. Why on earth did Sam Raimi give Toby's Spider-man that ability? Well anyways, The web reached toward the top of the roof. I cheered silently.

"Okay… time to cross the web. I'm sure it's not that hard to-"

It was that hard. The second I stepped onto the webline, it got wobbly and I nearly fell. But I managed to grab onto the web before I did. Unfortunately, I yelped silently and the guards heard it.

"Did you hear that?" One of them asked.

I covered my mouth to prevent any more noises coming out of my mouth.

"Heard what?"

The guard was silent as he was looking around, "Must have been the wind."

THANK YOU SKYRIM! I knew that trying a stealth build in the game will affect me in real life. Back to the current situation, HOW ON EARTH DID THE OTHER SPIDERMEN MAKE THIS LOOK EASY?! I refused to believe that they just got on 'first try'. I tried to get back up but it was too thin to even get my feet on it. At least it's durable to hold my own weight. I slide myself closer to the roof so I can reach the window. I was almost there until I heard a loud snap.

"Crapbasket."

The web didn't break by the way, it was the branch that was holding it. I fell right on top of the roof but made a loud thumping noise.

The guards definitely heard it and ran toward the branch.

"It's just a broken branch."

The guards looked up toward the roof to see if there's any intruders.

Of course, they won't see me because I already ran inside before they could.

"These Greek kids are too laid-back," Said one of the romans. "Aren't you married to one?" Said the other.

The two bickered as they returned to their post.

I sighed as I got up and headed toward the door. I looked around and noticed there's no one by the hall. I headed toward the equipment room downstairs but I saw Annabeth exiting the room and locking it up with a key.

"Crapbasket." I said. I hid as I saw Annabeth heading upstairs with the key. I followed behind and saw her entering a big room. It was the counselor's room since there's a sign saying it and Chiron was there too.

"Annabeth, are the children asleep?" He asked.

"Yeah, they're asleep now. I just locked up the equipment room too so no one would pull what the Stolls and Leo did all those years ago."

Remind me to ask Leo what he did to increase security.

"And Percy? How is he holding up?"

"He's with Frank and Hazel, making sure the campers head to bed. He's… also went to check on Estelle."

I remember, Percy came into the cabin to check up on me. I was fake sleeping but I heard him coming in.

"They're still arguing," Annabeth said.

"Sibling fights tend to happen."

"But it's never this bad. If Percy just told her the truth…"

"We both know how loyal he is to his family. How much he'd give for them to be happy."

I'll admit, I did feel a little guilty when he said that. But even so, I needed to get some fresh air to cool off. As I slowly tried to reach the key, I heard someone coming. I started to panic because there's no way to hide from the entrance side.

As they came in, Percy spoke.

"We're back, I finished checking with the cabins and Estelle."

"How is she holding up?" Annabeth asked.

"She's okay, just giving me the silent treatment."

"Considering that you have been hiding this life from her this whole time, I wouldn't be surprised," Hazel said. "And what's this about a curse she has?"

Annabeth explained to Frank and Hazel what's been happening to me.

As for me?

I'm hiding on the ceiling. Thanks to the abnormal super strength that the curse gave me, I was able to jump up toward the ceiling before anyone could notice and stay there thanks to my wall-climbing ability. However, I was unable to get the key before they arrived. It's still by a small table that's near the door. I can't reach it, but my webs could.

Problem is that I haven't properly practiced aiming.

To be fair, Percy refused to let me try to use my new powers. Overprotective brother and all.

"I see," Frank said. "Considering your bad history with spiders, you think this may turn for the worst, don't you Annabeth?"

Annabeth nodded.

"Carter is already working on a cure for it so we'll have to wait until then. In the meantime," Percy answered, "We need to start the meeting. Chiron wants to speak to us and the others about an important issue."

"I'll start Iris-Messaging them."

Annabeth turned a switch on and small sprinklers were turned on near a table. A rainbow appeared and started showing figures.

One of the figures I did recognize.

"Carter Kanes," Chiron said. "It's good to see you again."

"Likewise, Chiron. Good see you guys too," Carter said toward Frank and Hazel.

"I take it that Bast can't make it today?" Frank asked.

"No, she's still investigating at the moment."

Then another figure appeared from another rainbow. He looks to be around my age, with blonde hair similar to Annabeth's.

"Magnus," She said. "How have you been?"

"Been pretty good. Not much has been happening here, other than the usual Valhalla events."

I know this guy.

Magnus Chase, Annabeth's cousin. I remembered him coming to visit when I was little. He looks exactly the same!

"Hey Percy, you look good for a 30 year old man," He said, smirking.

Percy scoffed, "Says the dead guy. Also, where's Mimir?"

HE'S DEAD?! BUT HE IS STANDING RIGHT THERE… sort of…

Okay, that's another thing I need to ask about later. For now, as these all talk to each other. I'm trying to reach for the key for the equipment room. Unfortunately, I'm doing terribly. I kept aiming with my wrists out so I could shoot webs and get the key. But I am not aiming so well. I kept hitting either the table or something on the table. I'm just lucky that Percy and the others don't see it. Anyways, I wasn't fully paying attention to their conversation at that moment but they are starting to talk more seriously now.

"Anyways, for starters, let's start this meeting. I have something important I must tell you all," Chiron announced. "Recently, Poseidon was attacked and got his Trident stolen by Typhon."

"What?!" Percy said. "But I thought Typhon died!"

"He is alive, but he is heavily weakened. Bast informed me of this and I asked Artemis to search for him. He has been in the shadows for a while now. But it seems he has emerged now and has attacked Poseidon."

"Wait, but if he's weakened, how was he able to defeat Poseidon? Even back then during the war, Poseidon helped us win the war and defeated him."

"...I think I know," Carter implied. "This actually involves the Cult of the Cosmos. I believe they helped orchestrate the war and salvaged what they could to prepare another attack at Olympus. They may have given Typhon some sort of device that either strengthens him or weakens the gods."

Dang, sounds like a broken buff or nerf.

"Cult of the Cosmos?" Hazel asked.

"They're a group that despises the mythical world and wants us to be gone for good. They fear we'll be too powerful and dangerous to exist. I can't say for sure how long they've been around, but I guarantee you, they were definitely involved in both world wars. They… were the ones that orchestrated the assassination of Prince Ferdinand and started the first World War."

"...Then… everything that happened afterwards… Was it because of them? The war? The holocaust? What happened to Nico and…" Hazel hesitated.

I know this is bad timing, but… does this mean it was Cult's fault we have the [REDACTED] manga?

WARNING: DO NOT LOOK IT UP!

THE ONLY REASON I KNEW IS BECAUSE SAM DARED ME TO READ IT ONE TIME! DO NOT READ IT! AND PLEASE DON'T TELL MOM!

…At least the Jojo ending is canon.

Anyways, back to the current situation.

I am still trying to get the key at the moment.

"Well, before we deal with this cult. I would like to inform everyone to be alert for Typhon. He may be weakened but he is the father of all monsters in the Greek world. Do watch yourself out there."

THWIP

The last web finally caught the key and I yanked it up towards me.

"Though this doesn't have to involve me and Hazel to be here," Frank said. Percy answered.

"I was the one that asked."

"Why's that?" Hazel asked.

"...It's about Estelle."

I stopped what I was doing and started listening more to the conversation. Don't get me wrong, I was listening the whole time. I was just focused on getting the key without getting caught. It took me a few tries but I managed… somehow…

"Wait what?! Estelle's at camp?!" Magnus said.

"I'll explain later, Magnus," Annabeth said. "Percy? What's this about?"

Wait, Annabeth didn't know either?

"I… asked them to come over."

"Is this about her curse?" Carter asked.

"CURSE?!" Magnus said.

"We'll talk later," Annabeth insisted. "Percy…"

"Look… Estelle is in camp because she's worried about her friend, Samantha G. Stacy. She's a daughter of Athena and somehow unlocked some ancient power. Because of that, Estelle wants to keep this curse and use it for good."

"Percy, there's nothing bad affecting her at the moment, she's perfectly okay," Carter said.

"For now, but what if she started getting influenced by Arachne? Or become a spider monster and attack camp? I…" Percy clenched his fist and was trembling. "... I can't bear to lose another person important to me…"

I watched as I saw Percy, the man who was so laid back and fun, trembling in fear and guilt. My brother was never this devastated before. He always has this quirky smile and laid-back attitude that makes you feel comfortable and safe.

Now… I see a man, broken and bruised with a tragic history.

"So… what did you want from us?" Frank asked. Percy took a deep breath and replied.

"...I would like you to take Sam to Camp Jupiter."

Wait… WHAT?!

"What?!" Annabeth said. "Are you crazy? What if Estelle finds out?!"

"Sam will be safe in Camp Jupiter and can continue school in New Rome. Estelle won't have to worry and keep the curse."

"Seaweed Brain! You'll distance their friendship!"

"But they'll be alive!" Percy yelled.

The two argued as I reminisced about what Percy was trying to do. He wants to send Sam to California so she can be safe and away from me. That way, I won't have a reason to use this curse and just go back to a normal life.

A normal life… without my best friend…

I was fueled with anger at my brother that I almost forgot I was still in the room with them.

"Percy… don't you think you're being hard on Estelle? She just wants to be a part of your life," Hazel said.

"That's exactly why? You guys know how harsh this life is! I lost so many good people before I even reached 18 years old! And after what happened to Jason, I…"

There's that name again.

Jason.

Who was he?

Why does he affect most of the people in this room?

"... And then there's Piper…" Percy continued. "There's still no word from her. She doesn't even know that Estelle is a huge fan of her work."

So he does know her.

What happened?

Eventually, Chiron spoke, "Perhaps we should continue this some other time, when we all calm down."

Frank and Hazel agreed as Percy and Annabeth were definitely giving some strong vibe of not backing down. At least Annabeth is on my side. Kind of…

Carter and Magnus said their goodbyes and Chiron showed where Frank and Hazel will be staying.

Percy and Annabeth stayed for a bit to talk.

"Percy…"

"Please don't argue with me on this, Wise Girl. I… I just can't…"

"But.."

"I can't lose her too… God, I haven't had a decent sleep in so long. I keep seeing their faces and all I can do is beg for forgiveness."

Annabeth walked toward him and cupped his cheek so he could face her.

"You're not alone, Seaweed Brain. Never again."

Their foreheads touch as they stay close together. Assuring that everything is okay.

…I'd like to be like that someday…

Anyways, after they all left, I got down quietly and sneaked my way to the equipment room to grab a saddle. Once I did, I headed my way back to the window I sneaked into in the first place. Afterwards, I ran toward the Strawberry field and found Sam hanging with Tempest.

"I see that you met Tempest."

"Stella! Did you get the saddle?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, we're gonna sneak out with Tempest to Brooklyn."

"That's going to be some distance, even by horse. Plus how are we going to avoid the traffic on the road?"

I smirked.

"Road? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Author's Note:

So several things I want to talk about:

First, sorry for the delay. Our schedule has been very conflicting but I am still working on this story. This story will have 30 chapters in total and an intro and background chapter along with at least 2 to 3 bonus chapters which will be portrayed as after-credit scenes.

Second, I got to see Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse and… I AM COMMITTED TO THIS SERIES! I already planned out a whole trilogy, her canon events AND some original abilities she will have. I saw a post in Twitter how technically our Spider-sona is technically canon despite not being seen in the movie. I mean… Multiverse is canon in Marvel and it's owned by Disney and the Series is coming to Disney so… You get what I'm saying? I'm kidding! This is still a fanfiction, I'm just teasing you. Anyways, this leads to me asking this question: If Estelle gets a spiderman costume, do you want it to have the same color scheme as OG Spiderman? Or do you want an original color scheme like black and Orange to represent Camp Half-Blood?

And Lastly: Thank you for reading this story. I also have been planning a soundtrack to use for this story but I'm still testing out some songs. Would you like to see the recommended soundtrack for this story? Or would you like to wait until the end?

Anyways, thanks again and I hope to see you until the next update.