Mortals: Meet... 2

Lelanto - Ryne Armani Rivera-Aldana

I sighed as I watched how Petah was getting cozily 'acquaintance' with that child of Venus or how Annie was in a screaming match with some guy son of Minerva. Gods, do they allow their vestal goddesses turn their oaths around and get away with it?

Of course, this was not something I expected when the Senate decided to do the annual visit towards Camp Half-Blood. It was gonna be my first year as a Preator, which is why I was excited that the relations didn't fall for some stupidity, like some rush decision from Annie. Though, the fact that Petah had relatives here and Annie was actual Greek helped a lot and I didn't have to worry about it.

That didn't mean that I was happy.

Seriously, watching the girls you had severe crushes on, with other guys gets your blood boiling, but I couldn't show it, no matter how it bothered me.

Speaking of bother...

"Hi, there!" I turned around and saw a girl of Petah's same age. She was wearing some kind of overall, of jean, I think, on top of some white T-shirt, and not orange, like the rest of Camp, along with a tool belt. Her hair was long and with waves in a soft caramel color, which only contrasted with her slightly darker skin. I'd recognized the skin of a Latino's descendent anywhere. Her eyes were full with fire and curiosity. And, if I may add, some annoyance.

Though, that could be because I was slightly upset.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I questioned, a bit rudely. The girl simply smirked at me, and I felt a chill going down my back.

"Cappella Velazquez, daughter of Hephaestus, fire user extraordinary, at your service" she pulled out her hand for me to shake. I simply raised my eyebrow at her.

"'Cappella'?" I repeated, with no shame that I heard her name wrong. She shrugged and stayed with her hand out.

"I go by Ella, but that's the name my lovely mother gave me. What's yours?" she insisted, not losing her smile. I shook her hand against my wishes and stared at her, firmly.

"Ryne Armani Rivera-Aldana, Praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata" I announced, before adding "And, son of Bellona"

"Explosive combination" she muttered, still with her smirk on hr face. Seriously, does this girl ever gets angry? "Does someone had showed you Camp and the city yet?"

"We hadn't had the tour yet" I admitted, as much as it hurt me. Her smile turned even wider and was about to say something when one of my centurions and our resident Augur, Richard, rushed into us, apparently shocked.

"Ryne, good to find you!" he gasped, before breathing air.

"What's going on, Richard?" I asked, serious and business mode right now.

"The Cloeis and the Amazons are here... And Hayes looks ready to start a war, because the Hunters arrived as well" he explained, making my skin look paler and paler by the second. I immediately rushed to the direction Richard was following, trying to stop my brother. Unfortunate for me, Ella had heard everything and was following us and was asking questions about, well... everything!

"Who are the Cloeis? And the Amazons? I've heard of the Hunters, cause Peter gives a mean class about Mythology, that he insists we call 'History', and Greek-" she parroted away, making me wanna grab my head in silence. Along the way, I noticed that she was building something with her hands while talking two miles per minute and running. What the Pluto...?!

"Ryne! You better stop Hayes before he starts a war and get us the Greeks as enemies... Hi, Ella" Haesel warned me, with this look that said 'this is not good relationships and I don't want to look as the bad guy' stare. For being one of the quiet daughters of Mars, Haesel could transmit a lot. It surprised me that she knew Ella, but I kept my mouth shut about it. I made my way through the crowd and saw a very handsome boy standing in the middle of what looked some kind of argument. On the guy's right, the Hunters. Behind him, the Amazons. On his left, my brother Hayes and the Cloeis.

The guy that was in the middle was the most perplex of all the presents. He was wearing some combination between a short toga as a shirt, while wearing some khaki jeans and sandals. His hair was brown and wavy, but not that long, which didn't make his sloppy about his appearance. His skin was tanned and was the most terrified.

"We saved him!!" Hayes was screaming, so the crowd was hearing him. Several of the Cloeis nodded and agreed vocally with him.

"You guys are Romans!" The leader of the Hunters, a girl with short spiky and black hair with a tiara argued with Hayes "You will force him to be with you, just because you think he owes you!"

"Excuse me! Excuse me! Daughter of Hephaestus coming through!" Everyone was pulled apart thanks to that scream/kindly request, until Ella reached the center of the circle and faced everyone, with that stupid smirk of hers. The first thing she did was to look around the crowd, before checking out the boy in the center of all this "I suggest a race through the lava wall to solve this...?"

"Yes!"

"We accept!!" Someone shouted from the Amazons, probably their Queen.

"We don't-"

"Are you insane?!" The boy talked for the first time, and he was giving Ella a look full of hatred "If you are the one who is suppose to be after my care, then, I'll go back to my island! I was well taken care there, avoiding trouble..."

"Aren't you a ray of sunshine-"

"I should be" the guy replied, sarcastically, interrupting Ella "My name is Lelanto and I'm Apollo and Artemis' uncle from his mother's side" Gasps were heard around and murmurs. The Hunters immediately kneeled in front of him. I was perplex until I remember that the Hunters are part of Diana's Greek form entourage. Following the Hunters, all the Greek demigods, alongside with some Romans, kneeled down. Except Ella, who I think she was too busy insulting the guy in her head.

Her face looked like she wanted to burst into flames.

"Lelanto..." Everyone heard the 'clop-clop' of the old centaur approaching before he stopped in front of him and bowed at him "Though an honor, I'm admit I'm very confused of your presence here..."

"You should thank the Cloeis for that, Chiron..." The guy, whose name apparently was Lelanto, walked towards the centaur and patted his arm "Besides, I have a story for you to know..."

"Why don't we go chat in the Big House?" he suggested, leaving all the campers by themselves.

But one look around could say we were ready for war.

"Capture-the-flag!!" The Greek shouted around. I held my head. This was going to be fun...

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Hello, buddies and buddiettes!! Welcome to another special about the life in 500 years!!

OK, explanations about this chapter (all the characters are recognizable, so I'm gonna skip that...):

Lelanto is a real (and, when I say 'real', I mean 'I didn't make it up, you can google it') titan, brother of Leto, which makes him the uncle of Artemis and Apollo. Little was said of him, so I wanted to make it our next Calypso and stuff...

The Cloeis is a group that I did made up, based on a Roman heroine named Cloelia who saved boys and girls from being hostage from a man. Again, didn't said much, but I found it good as concept for another group, besides the Amazons and the Hunters. And, like their namesake, the Cloeis save kids and teenagers that are in difficult situations, boys or girls, mortals, demigods or whatever. Then, they explain and take them with either the Hunters or the Amazons...

As you can see, the three groups hate each other to death... Or closely...

Anyway, I wanna do the di Angelos in a future, but I can't think of names so...

And pay close attention during the week for 'Comments Are Poll', cause I'm continuing the chapter of Piper/Drew/Lacy as the first chapter of a new idea!! Stay tune!

Love you guys!!