Forgive, But Not Forget

Chapter 9

[Edited]

Original post: 5/18/15

Ya know, it's troublesome to keep on adding dates whenever I had to edit something that someone pointed out. So now I'm just gonna put [edited] and then the original date of publish. Much simpler that way.

Media is a map of CHB.

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Kenneth O'Brian

I yawned and stretched on my bed. I opened my eyes and saw a wooden ceiling. Wait, wooden ceiling? I'm pretty sure that doesn't look like the ceiling in my room. Then I remembered. The snake-women, Nico, the camp, Chiron...demigods. It's really hard to believe. But it explained all the monsters I've seen that I thought were hallucinations, and the fact that my mother said that my father disappeared and never came back.

I turned and saw Vic sitting up at the side of the bed, rubbing her eyes.

"Morning," She said.

"Morning," I answered, before I sat up and kissed her on the cheek.

She sighed and leaned against me. "Weird night huh?"

"Yeah. Weirdest night I ever had."

"That really wasn't a dream?"

"The snake-ladies, Nico, and Chiron? Yep, that wasn't."

She stretched. "Well, we better go down."

"Naaah, maybe later," I said, and I wrapped my arms around her waist and collapsed on my back, pulling her with me. "Hey!" She laughed.

She cuddled next to me, her cheek on my chest and my arms around her. I breathe in her strawberry scent. We heared the door opening below us and some shuffling.

"That's probably Chiron. Lets go," She said as she got up.

I sighed and followed her as she went outside.

"Zach!" I heared Vic say while I was going down the stairs. Wait, Zach?! He's a demigod too?!

I saw Vic hugging Zach and said rapidly, "You wouldn't believe what happened to us last night! We got attacked by monsters and then we were saved by Nico and we were brought here and we talked with Chiron and it turns out we are demigods! Demigods! And oh my gosh! What happened to you?!"

Only then I noticed that his left forearm is covered with blood and what looked like deep bite wounds.

Zach winced from the pain. "Well, I got attacked by large dogs called hellhounds and also a one-eyed giant called cyclops."

"Dude, how did you survive?!" I asked.

"Well-" He was interrupted by a girl with blond hair and light blue eyes entering. She looked a lot like Will. Maybe she's a daughter of Apollo. The way her eyes widened and she immediately kneeled beside Zach's chair looking at the wound, confirms that.

She did what Will had done and the wounds are now only faint red marks. She gave Zach some ambrosia and told him to eat. "Um, thanks," Zach said. She smiled and nodded before jogging outside.

Chiron cleared his throat. "I suppose you three know each other correct? Maybe you can tell each other of how you came here."

"So," I took a seat as Vic did the same. "What happened?"

"Yeah! You were bleeding badly!"

"Well, you see, yesterday after I followed Jackson, some parts of my memories were a little blurry. Something about a dragon with a lot of heads, a massive fire, floating waters, I'm not really sure. So this morning I decided to investigate and went back to Central Park. I was attacked by a one-eyed giant and some giant dogs. I mean, really big giant dogs, the size of a car."