BATTLE OF LOVE

𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤│𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭

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She could tell her siblings were walking on eggshells around her, they stopped wearing her clothes and whenever she asked them to do something, they did it at the speed of lightning. When asked why they were being so nice, her siblings went back to fighting for a few days then nice again, until two weeks later. Calista had enough of their pity and snapped.

The cabin door opened, as a boy walked through the doorway ¨ hey lista, i made you these earrings when i was at the beach.¨ he said, opening his palms, which held two small seashell earrings. The shells were blue and pink, like a ombre . he went to the beach when he went to his dad's to visit.

She smiled ¨there lovely holden, how was your dads.¨ She asked the 14 year old boy.

The look on the brunettes face almost made calista topple over in laughter. He told her how they went to the beach, then went for dinner to a french restaurant, the next day they went to see a  Alice in wonderland play , they also went to a fair and after that it was time to go back to camp. and here he was.

¨that sounds amazing, hold-¨ Calista was intterpurd by the door slaming open, as her two brothers, lynx and oidn walked in arguing about something but stopped when they saw calista. Thats what she was talking about, if she wasn't here they would've kept arguing until they envteltyy cursed each other.

¨calista what are you doing here.¨ odin said, making a move to step further away from lynx and closer to her.

Everyone was supposed to be in the dinning for lunch except for holden because he was packing away, calista decided to meet him and help him.¨ what are you guys doing here?¨

¨dont answer a question with a question, calista. ¨ Lynx spoke, stepping closer. ¨ what are you doing here, in the cabin?¨ His voice dropped a octone, as it sounded like a song flowed out of his mouth. Calista knew what he was doing as she ' s done it countless of times.

¨i'm your older sister lynx! dont you dare!¨ she went to push through the teenage boys when she bumped into a wall. Issac. his eyes glanced at her and behind her to their siblings. He nodded to lynx, something that calista didnt understand. She turned her head again, her brothers held eye contact as if they were having a convotaion through their eyes.

she went to side step when she felt a grip on her wrist.¨"Calista¨ Lynx dragged out her name as she tried hard to get out of issac's grip, she didn't have anything to hide, she just didn't like that they would ever think about using their powers against her. ¨what are you hiding¨ The words seemed to float into her ears as calistas eyes blinked slowly, she stopped her struggle as the power of charm speaking went into her brain.

¨nothing¨she voiced out as issac let go of her.¨I was only in the cabin to wait for holden and that was it.¨ Her body started to sway as she broke out of lynx's trance, she glared at him and stormed away. tears ran down her face as she tried her hardest to wipe them away but more kept coming, her vision blurred. After everything she did for her yougenr sliblings they treat her like this. She was practicality like their mother, yet Aphrodite,  their actual mother gave birth to them.

More tears flowed down her face as she replayed the sincero in her head. it seemed like lynx and issac had planned that and they wanted to- ¨hello, calista, what seems to be the matter dear?¨ Chiron's soft voice inttepets her train of thoughts.

¨My makeup didnt turn out well today.¨ She said, faking a laugh as she wiped her tears from her face, careful not to mess up her makeup. She didnt want to tell the true reason why she was crying because using your powers in a personnel setting was permitted, especially against your siblings.

¨that's a shame¨  The centaur said, his hooves clicking in place. He made eye contact with calista, the blonde smiling despite the tear streaks down her face. Furrowing his eyebrows, his eye narrowed at her,  he felt this weird aura around her that he didn't quite know what.  it was the same aura when someone had a prophecy , but he didn't see this when he saw her just two weeks ago. It was mostly like the gods sending him a message. ¨ tell you what, why dont you go to the oracle too see how well your makeup is going to turn out the next few days.¨

Confused, she raised a brow.¨ its okay... i really dont need to go¨She dragged out a laugh to ease the awkward air.

¨i insist¨

One moment she was standing in the middle of camp half-blood and the next she was standing in front of the oracle.  The old lady seemed to wake up as her eyes turned into a bright blue, her eyes drawing calista in. ¨ Calista Thronefleid, hair as golden as hay, eyes as grey as the moon, i sense a deep power in you, one that is unknown by everyone expect your mother, it will soon be awaken in you and nobody will be able to stop it expect for a artifact that is hidden in the depths of hell with Hades. venture off into the right path and you will find it, but beware that your power will bring along uncontrolled darkness that will follow you until you handle it and even then, you can not stop it......Goodluck, vincere amoris¨ The oracle trailed off, shutting down for who knows how long.

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After telling chiron what the oracle said, word for word, he set her off to a quest with Issac. She and issac stood at the front entrance of the camp, everyone in front of the duo, saying their goodbyes. one by one, their siblings walked up to them, some happy and some sad. no one knew how long they were going to be gone for, hopefully it was short. Calista thought.

They didn't know they would be gone for 6 years, coming back to a camp that was obsessed with the favourite daughter of Aphrodite.

I've been writing this instead of studying for my Geo exam! wish me good luck, it's tmrw. :)