Bewitched • Percy Jackson

I

Serendipity

NOVA SINCLAIR was never hard to read. her facial expressions were explanatory enough. as soon as her saytr and her went to camp an annoyed look was all you could see.

the girl never liked summer camps. all the weird campfire songs, bugs, and worst of all, the outdoors.

nova never was a big fan of those large friend groups. she thought they always ended up with everyone hating each other.

though during the sixth grade, she decided her opinion was wrong.

a couple of months into the school year she noticed a couple of girls in the group grouping together and laughing.

nova later found out that they were talking shit about her and her best friend.

she never believed in violence, she'd rather use her words.

the two friends made a plan to get back at the girls, but before they could do anything one of the girls took the first swing.

they got their ass beat but she concluded one thing. never will she let her guard down.

when she left for camp it was one of the worst moments of her life. her saytr who she now knows was one of the weirder kids in her grade, which she never talked to.

as nova got to camp she noticed a specific boy and a girl.

the boy eventually approached her and they got to know each other. the two became great friends and he soon introduced her to his friend.

annabeth and luke.

nova never had a filter.

even when she was walking around egg shells with people she still would say what was on her mind. usually, it was nothing bad but after sixth grade, she changed.

an example of this would be when annabeth tried to get her to train with her.

"yeah no, you'll never catch me training. even if i get claimed." annabeth never offered to train with her again.

nova didnt get claimed as fast as she saw everyone else. someone even came to the camp a whole month after her and got claimed within a week.

this was the tip of the iceberg for her.

how could someone get claimed so fast?!

did her godly parent hate her?

as she talked to luke about it he kept on repeating the same thing. "you cant force the gods to claim you, nova."

a week later she was sitting on the pier talking to annabeth. the two girls were talking, mostly nova as she was braiding her own hair. "so annabeth what do you mean by capture the flag?" she asked.

annabeth started to explain before she paused and started at nova. "what?" nova asked slowly. annabeth pointed above her head.

she looked up and saw a dove that soon flew away. "it just a dove annabeth, nothing special." she laughed. "no nova... you're getting claimed." annabeth explains.

nova scoffed and rolled her eyes. "you know you're lying to me..." she said slowly. "im not nova i-" annabeth got cut off by a pink blinding light engulfing nova.

after the lights dimmed down nova looked down to see that her clothes were replaced with a white dress with golden details. "what the hell..." she muttered as annabeth smiled at her. "aphrodite. nova you got claimed by aphrodite." annabeth laughed.

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a while after she got claimed her mother gave her a gift. a small compact mirror. it didn't look like much yet it would be able to transform into a shield.

nova walked to the pier -which was now her favorite place to go- she sat down on the edge, the sunrise looked beautiful as she stared over the ocean.

the way that the waves moved and glistened was hypnotizing.

she thought back to when she was living back home in manhattan. she

what would happen if she stayed there?

if the fight never happened.

she turned around to see luke standing behind her. "the ocean's beautiful isn't it" she sighed as she turned back to look at the water. "yeah, it sure is" luke said as he sat down next to her own the pier.

"how long have you been here?" he asked. "maybe about 30 minutes, hasn't been long though. im just looking over the water." she giggled.

he nodded as they sat in comfortable silence for a while before she got up. "i'll go back to my cabin, if thats okay..?" she says before hugging him and walking back ti her cabin.

the next night she went outside her cabin to see everyone rushing over to half blood hill. she caught the attention of annabeth who ran over to her.

"everyones heading over to half blood hill." annabeth explained. "yeah, i can see that." nova crossed her arms before annabeth started talking again.

"as i was saying, they're heading over to half blood hill because there was a new demi god spotted over there." annabeth said. "then lets go..?" nova offered before she grabbed annabeth's hand and pulled her over to half blood hill.

"shit, is he breathing?" nova asked as they walked over to everyone and pushed their way though the crowd of demi gods.

annabeth just stared down at the boy. "annabeth, nova, enough. everyone lets leave this boy alone." chiron said before everyone scattered back to camp.

"i wonder what will happen to him. what did happen to him?" nova asked. "well grover said that he supposedly killed a minotaur." annabeth said as they walked to her cabin.

"no fucking way!" nova exclaimed. "a real minotaur! and a small boy like him?!" nova scoffed. "any possibility that grover would be lying?" she asked.

annabeth shook her head. "you know grover would never lie about something like that, nova." annabeth sighed before opening her cabin door as they both sat on her bed.

"i guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens when he wakes up" nova nodded and waved goodbye to annabeth.

little did nova know what would happen from her trying to involve herself with that blonde haired boy.