Hearts Crossed - Kayla Knowles (2)

Chris I (TLH)

Chapter Title: A Recap And My Own Thoughts

If words could be even used to describe how Chris Rodriguez was feeling at this present time in his life, he would definitely use the two words that were 'lost' and 'worried' if he were to be brutally honest here. He wasn't exactly kidding on that part at all. That was how he really truly felt as of now, and for good reason.

It was hard enough having to manage an angry ball of energy in the form of Ethan in your own cabin, while also having to keep your girlfriend stable because her brother, alongside his cabin counselor, both happened to be missing. It was really weird for Chris honestly — who in all honesty, had technically been in this type of situation before, albeit under very different circumstances at that.

But then again, this situation right now was currently his reality, and it was taking its toll on the former member of the Hermes Cabin. It well and truly was. Even so, today — if Chris were to be honest here — had been anything but normal. To be fair, things after Colton, Michael, Luke, and Percy had disappeared were not normal, but what had happened today had even disrupted this new 'normal', and Chris could see it from a mile away.

For starters, it wasn't exactly normal for Hera to simply drop what seemed to be a definite hint as to where the guys are, only for them to end up bringing two new demigods and four amnesiac - Chris was definitely certain that the other four of the newcomers to camp were exactly that - already claimed demigods at the same time. It just wasn't normal.

It definitely was not normal at all for one of those amnesiac demigods to just so happen to be a child of the Big Three as well. If he had to be honest, he thought he had already seen the last of Big Three kids after Nico Di Angelo. Evidently, as this latest guy showed, Chris was dead wrong. He had to admit, Jason was definitely a bit intimidating. The way the son of Zeus looked like a statue from another era, the way he had more muscle than even Cato did at this current time, Jason was built like a tank in Chris' own opinion. The fact that he had a coin that could turn into a sword if it landed heads or a spear if it landed tails - just from the result of the coin flip - only strengthened this in his mind.

Still, he knew that whatever this guy had done probably wasn't nearly enough as the insane feats that Percy and Colton had achieved. On the subject of those two, Chris would admit that if anything, they had a bit of an odd rivalry going on between them. Sure, from what he had both seen as well as heard from Clarisse, Colton would be the one looking for a fight and Percy would be finding ways to get out of it - but even so, the fact that the two of them could put aside their own differences with each other at times just to get the Gods to actually give a shit - and even that hadn't lasted long thanks to Porphyrion being an absolute obsessive bitch over Colton's Monster King powers - about their own kids was absolutely impressive indeed. Chris had to admit, whenever those two got together and didn't either insult or argue with each other, they could really get things done. It was an odd dynamic currently, but then again, Chris didn't mind it at all.

With that out of the way though, as he sat in his bed in his cabin - listening to Ethan quietly snore in his own bed, Chris' thoughts turned back to the newcomers now that the tangent about Colton and Percy was over now. If Chris had to be honest, there was something crazy about how Bryce seemed oddly familiar to someone else. Chris hadn't really quite figured out exactly who he resembled, but if he had to guess, he was definitely suspecting Tartarus as of this moment - at least from what he had heard of the primordial. He had to admit, the resemblance of him in Bryce was disturbingly uncanny and unnerving at the same time. It took a whole lot of concentration for him just to be able to keep eye contact for even a few minutes. Chris suspected that this might wear off over time, but for now, it was just really unnerving to even look at Bryce as of now.