Tidalwave - A PJO fanfic (COMPLETE)

Sequel Sneak-Peak

Alright, so here's the first chapter of the Sequel, United (I might change the name later, but for now that's what it's called).  Hope y'all are having a great day, and if not, then I hope it gets better!  

Enjoy!  

- Anne <3 

My eyes fluttered open with a start.

I sat up forward, blinking. I'd woken up in the middle of nowhere, the dark sky slowly gaining color in the early morning. With slight pain, I grunted as I got to my feet. When I looked around, I realized I wasn't in the middle of nowhere. I was in a camp.

It was a bit small, with tents making a circle around a round cooking stove. There were wooden archways, as if they were building cabins or buildings. There were a few peoples sitting on logs near the fireplace, eating from clay bowls, others walking around with weapons or heading into the large tents.

There was strange writing on the side of the tents, but it was too dark for me to make out what they said. The words shifted and blurred, but the writing above it was readable, for some reason.

A few feet ahead of me, a girl around seventeen maybe was talking to a boy near the fire, gesturing with her hands. I couldn't tell if what they were talking about was bad or good, but when she glanced over at me, she stopped and walked over, shouldering a bow and quiver stocked with arrows.

"You're awake, good," she said, her eyes flickering over me, checking for injuries or weapons. "I'm True Archer. This is Camp Oasis, for half-bloods of all kinds, Roman, Greek, Egyptian, etcetera. It's still a work in progress, as you can see, but Felix Knightly is still working on making some tools to help make things go by faster."

"Um," I said, trying to get my mind to process. "Wh-I-uh-"

"It's okay, your mind is going to take a little while to process, like the others." A hard look crossed her face before she cleared her throat. "You can stay here, of you want, for the time being. Or I can take you to Camp Jupiter of Camp Half-Blood-"

"Camp Half-Blood," I said, recognizing the name. "I need to see my brother. Now-er, please. I need to see him now."

She nodded understandingly. "Get some food in you first, then we'll leave. We've got chicken noodle soup. If you're vegetarian or vegan or whatever, just pick the chicken out or eat crackers. We don't have much of a food option yet. If I could just convince someone to sneak back some magic goblets from the Greeks, we'd be fine, but nooo, even if I am the founder of this camp..."

She continued ranting, so I shuffled past her and to the fire. A girl with long, midnight curls handed me a bowl, and I took the long spoon and scooped some soup from the put over the fire into it.

I sat on a log across from her, staring down at the liquid sloshing around in the clay bowl. It was so weird, the last thing that happened...the Hunters...True Archer...Zoe had briefly mentioned something about her...where was Zoe?...

Once I finished eating, True let me borrow a small sword from Camp Oasis' weapon vault, which had a nice selection, despite being small. Then we headed off into the night, silence filling the night as we journeyed.

We bumped into a few monsters, a couple empusai and a cyclops' layer, but True had experience and turned them into gold dust within seconds after reaching her bow. I hardly did anything at all, but that was probably better. I was too busy thinking about him.

We rested and stopped in alleys or hotels where True had connections, taking shifts while the other slept, which was mostly me. True seemed immune to sleep, the dark shadows under her eyes testifying to that.

Around day three, I could see a pine tree sitting up on a hill. We'd reached Camp Half-Blood just as the sun was starting to set. I was exhausted, we'd been traveling since that morning and True preferred walking than taking buses and trains.

I stumbled up the hill after True, panting. The camp felt almost deserted. No one was walking about, no one was at the Dining Pavilion, no one was at the Cabins. True realized they must be at the campfire, so she led me there.

Sure enough, campers were roasting smores and singing camp songs. We came up from the back, so no one had spotted us yet, which I was thankful for. It gave me a moment to find my brother among the crowds of people.

There.  

He was sitting next to a girl with midnight curls and eyes that almost seemed to swirl and change colors. She was about ten, and talking to him. On his other side was a girl around fourteen with dark skin and curly hair, her hazel eyes focused on a guy with brown hair that was cut kind of like an arrow. Hazel. I'd met her when I was...when I was...

"Attention, campers!" Chiron called, and everyone stopped singing and looked at the centaur coming up in the middle of camp.

I realized with a start that True wasn't next to me anymore. She was near Chiron, arms crossed and face hard. But I blinked too long, and she was next to me again. She grabbed my arm and led me away from the campfire and to the Big House.

"Wait here, Chiron will be here in a minute. I need to get back to Camp Oasis." She glanced at me. "It was nice meeting you, only come to me if the Prophecy is dire or you want to stay at Camp Oasis."

Then she left through the door we'd came in from, leaving me alone in the Big House. I waited nervously, walking around the room slowly in tight anticipation. Would he be mad at me? I'd just left him, alone. But I needed my own life. But he seemed so different, so sad and dark and completely unlike the boy I'd left behind.

The door swung open, and I caught view of Chiron in wheelchair mode coming through, with the red-haired girl behind him. Then my brother, his face mostly unreadable, but I saw some confusion and the slightest bit of hope.

He closed the door behind him and looked at Chiron, waiting for him to start talking. But I stepped forward from behind the wall that was separating us and locked eyes with him.

His jaw dropped and he stumbled back, unable to speak. When he finally did, his voice was deeper and barely a whisper. "Bianca?"

Then green smoke started swirling form the girl and she spoke a prophecy.

A/N: Yessss another cliffhanger! And I'll leave y'all with that for a little while until I figure out what the prophecy is :D

Hope y'all enjoyed, be safe, love y'all, byyyeeee

- Anne