Fear Of The Unknown

Chapter 5

I noticed a man sitting on a wheelchair stroking his beard and looking quite thoughtful. 'Is this a place for disabled people? Am I one? Is half-blood code for disabled?', Weird thoughts popped into my head rapidly. I wasn't ADHD for nothing.

'Um.. Kyron', Said Sean, atleast that's what I heard. The man in the wheelchair broke from his reverie and turned to look at Sean and turned his eyes on me.

'Ahh', He said, he sounded ageless, like he was really old but young as well.

'How are you feeling now child?', He asked evidently concerned.

'Um.. I'm good, Mr...?', I finished questioningly.

'Chiron, my dear, C-H-I-R-O-N', He said with a laugh, 'You may have heard of me'.

'Yeah... But I thought you were-', I started, still very disturbed about all the happenings around me.

'Yes, yes that's not important', He interrupted. Touchy subject? I thought

'I'd like to know exactly how you got here. Can you tell me?', He asked kindly.

I immediately got the impression that he was a very caring person, even to me, and we just met about 5 seconds ago!

'I-I dont know how.. It all seemed so..', I drifted off unsure of what to say.

'Unbelievable?', He finished for me.

'Yeah.. uh.. well it sorta began yesterday morning when I started noticing a homeless guy following me, only he wasn't homeless', I began.

'Go on', He said listening carefully.

'Finally at about 8pm I saw him at my friends house, kind of lurking in the bushes and then I walked over to confront him', I said.

"Woah bad ass!', Sean said. I shot him a weird look and looked over at Chiron who acted as if nothing had happened and urged me to continue.

'He told me his name was Alecto and that he served in my fathers domain and that my father needed my help, and then he..', I hesitated.

Chiron waved his hand signalling me to go on.

I told them about the way he started to change ,what thing he changed into and how he whispered ''Camp Half-Blood'' in my ears and pushed me into the shadows.

'That's when I woke up in the woods, I guess I was knocked out for  most of the night', I added.

'A hag?', Sean said, looking afraid, 'Chiron, that sounds alot like-'

'Hush child!',Chiron said sternly, 'If the kindly did not attack her there must be a reason, only one reason'.

'Nico's got another big sister?!', Said Sean excitedly with a gleam in his eyes.

'Who?', I asked confused.

'Sean!', Chiron exclaimed, 'Don't you have archery now?'

'Well yeah..', Sean shrugged

'Then go along', He said.

Sean left the house with a disgruntled look on his face and a wave at me.

'Well I trust you don't know your father', Chiron asked 

'Um.. yeah', I said in a low voice uncomfortably. My father was always a very touchy subject.

'It's alright, it happens here alot,' he said. I felt quite hopeful. Like I could finally fit in in this place after all. Even if I was a disabled, half-blood.

'There is much you should know- Oh!!,' He gasped looking at something over my head.

I yelped at his sudden intake of air.

'What's-', I started when I noticed the sudden change in the room. A black light had fallen upon the room like shadows everywhere.

I looked around for the sudden source of darkness and looked up to find a symbol hovering over my head like a holograph.

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'Well I guess that explains everything,' he said calmly.