apollo's blessing

The arrival

Daphne's  POV:

when life gives you lemons you make lemonades. But in this case when life gives you lemons you throw it in someones face or sell it. 

As a kid my mother told me she believed I was destined to do great things and that I was going to save the world one day, she told me "there is a place in the woods you will go to when you are older it's called camp half-blood it's a place for special kids like you". I looked at her with pure confusion thinking she was calling me autistic and that she was going to send me to an asylum, I knew I wasn't autistic and that asylums were no place for an autistic child, it was a place my mother shouldve been put in because im pretty sure she was crazy. My mother was a force to be reckoned with, she was mean, rude and sometimes condescending, its what you'd expect when you come from the richest family in the world you are bound to be a little rotten if your parents dont knock some sense into you at a young age, but when it came to her daughter she was a big softie sopiling me the way her parents did where is my mother now you may ask? She's still mean, rude and condescending but from the comfort of her bed, in the depths of her dark, depressing room. 

it's 7 am i think, when my mother barges into my room with a paper in her hand, smiling ,she's smiling. she takes a seat on my bed grining with happiness as she reads out the letter. " Camp Half-Blood requests the presense of Daphne Elizabeth Azul  to attend camp half-blood effective immediately!." she practically squeals in excitement waving the paper in my face. "mother can we not do this at 7 am" I groan as I sit up leaning against my headboard, she could tell I was not happy about early mornings and I hoped she take the hint and leave my room, wait till 10 am then come back in, tell me what she's on about and leave. But no she was too excited to get the hint. "don't be silly Daph, an oppertunity like this must not wait, you are finally going to save the world just like i palnned- just like your father planned " she smiles softly as she reaches out her hand caressing my cheek. I dont like it. I dont like it not one bit . I hate being touched. "this is your moment daph, to be the greatest Demi-goddess the world has ever seen" her hands are now grabbing both my shoulders sofly slightly shaking me like shes giving me some sort of motivational speech  or trying to knock some sense into me. I knew I was a Demi-goddess, my mother told me my father was a god and that he and her were in love, but just like anyone in love they fall out of love. my mother's hands is still on my shoulder and I'm starting to feel trapped and uncomfortable as i shrug off her hands from my shoulders. My mother sighs as she retracts her hands placing them on her lap. " get ready...we leave at 9 for camp" this was not how i planned my day going, I was going to sleep in till 10 am, stay in bed till 12, get up, eat and go back to my room till dinner, than shower. Going to a fucking camp for so called demi gods was deffinetly not on that list!. I dont even know the first thing to being a Demi-goddess im 16!, last i checked the only thing i was a goddess at was historical facts. I swallowed my nasty remarks about this camp that im not sure even exists but get out of bed anyway to get ready.

It's about 8:45 when i come downstairs, mother is already outside with the keys in her hands throwing it up in the air than catching it back in the palm of her hand. " daphne, hunny time to go!". a sigh escapes my mouth as i walk out the door hoping my mother wasn't on one of her crazy episodes. The weather is shit, it looks like its about to pour and thunder any second so i run to the passenger side of the car before the sky has a chance to rain on me. My mother being overly excited was already in the car, with that same smile from when she was showing me the letter, the smile that made me think she was loosing her marbles. She reverses out of the driveway and i take one more final glance at the house secretly hoping that this camp wasn't real. As we are driving i can't help but feel a sense of...unease..it's like i know something is coming but dont know when,  I  glance at the back window confusion written across my face sitting back in my seat and that's when i see it a fucking Minotaur. coming right for us.. "mother" my eyes immediately dart between my mother and the minotuar that just spawned out of no where! it was coming directly at us, destroying everything in its path as it got closer and closer. I know my mother saw that too because she turned straight into the forest like a madwomen! driving through it like she's trying to kill us both. That was until the minotuar caught up and straight up crushed the car ,we bearly made it out . I couldn't see where my mother was, all i could see was a minotuar coming straight for me, and all i could hear was my mother's voice telling me to run. I did just that . , ran because my life depended on it . The forest was like a labyrinth, only one way could save me, i knew my mother was safe which is why i didnt stop, the minotuar wasn't after her...it was after me and i wasn't going to let it get me. I've been running for what feels like forever i'm about to just give up till i see a camp that i was guessing was camp half blood because they were wearing shirts that said "camp half-blood" not very well hidden i think to myself as i push myself to run faster because the damn minotuar still has energy to chase after me!. Nearing the camp it starts to get foggy which is weird because it is hot despite it looking like its going to pour it's hot. I keep running not stopping till ive reached camp, i know ive reached camp when i hear the minotuar is not litterally on my ass so i stop and turn around to see the minotuar just standing there, like it physically can't come through. I want to walk up to the Minotaur and taunt it but i didn't want to run for my life again so i just stood there staring at it that is until a tap on my shoulder snaps me out of that rude staring trance i was in. " come with me" he said, listen i wasn't going to go with a 12 yr old boy you know the whole stranger danger shit ,but that seemed better than just standing here staring at a minotuar and possibly getting eaten by it so i followed the kid to the actual camp and he took me to this dude named chiron which i assume runs the place and as i'm standing there chiron says " who is your parent" being the confuzzeled girl i am i said " rose azul?" he looked at me and said " your godly parent" i had no idea who my godly parent was and by the looks of it he knew i had no idea. " right,i take it you're an unclaimed Demi-goddess, we'll put you in Hermes cabin till you're claimed. if you get claimed at that." he leads me out of his office and gives me a historical lesson and a tour, there are 12 main cabins, zeus,hera,poseidon,athena,ares,apollo,demeter,hermes hephaehstus,Artemis,Aphrodite and Dionysus. each of these gods and goddesses built their children their own cabins, Hermes cabin is used for both hermes children, new commers and unclaimed demi gods.yikes. chiron leads me to where everyone spends most of their time..training " uhh why are we here? i don't exactly do combat or anything physical at that matter." it's true i don't or won't. " do not worry Daphne we will help you find where you best fit in" first name basis, on the first day. " great is there any academic things here like a spelling bee or something" chiron looks at me like ive just said the most outrageous thing ever and that's when i get the hint that there is no academic stuff here, this is a place where you are taught survival. " moving on, here we have the training field, where you will be taught how to protect yourself from any danger" i follow him as he walks along the sidelines, i look around at the people on the field my eyes land on a girl maybe a year younger than me or older and she's staring at me, im not talking about a normal stare it was a stare into my soul stare. I couldn't tell if she was secretly plotting my death or just trying to practice her eye contact skills.  I lean towards chiron and whisper " why does it look like she's judgeing my soul right now" chiron chuckles and whispers back, " that's annabeth chase she's athena's daughter" i look between chiron and annabeth who is still stareing into my soul " that doesn't answer my question, why is she looking at me like that" chiron chuckles and waves over annabeth, which i am very against because she was already stareing into my soul and i was already sort of terrified of her. Annabeth walks over regardless and i have to compose myself so i dont make i fool of myself infront of her and retreat into hiding for the rest of my life, she stands infront of me . " annabeth this is daphne azul, she's a new Demi- goddess" i reach out my hand hoping she will shake it because it would be embrrassing for me if she didnt, my ego would pop. " hi" is all i manage to say