Hereeeees the next chapter, sorry it's so short, remember to read the little authors note at the end PLEASEEEE (: okay so... Ya.....
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I wake up breathing heavily, I touch my cheeks and realize they are wet from tears. What in Tartarus just happened? I think of how real it felt, of how betrayed I felt, I shake the idea quickly out of my head. Getting up I realize that we leave for the quest today, and I try to push the thoughts of my nightmare out of my head as I rush to get ready. I go to the washrooms and get changed into my personal clothing, since I am leaving to go into the mortal world, I don't think my CHB shirt would fit in very well... I quickly changed into a casual outfit, I slip over a long sleeved burgundy sweat shirt that has "Huntington, California" written across it in white bold uppercase letters. I slip a pair of ripped jeans on and my favourite boots. The boots go up to my knee, and they are flower printed, but not the normal girly flowers you would think of, no. Raven actually made them for me, she is an amazing artist when it comes to drawing. I think back when she gave the to me, I immediately fell in love with them, she had covered them in small design's of my signature flower (autumns sunrise) and her flower that I discovered, a beautiful silver flower that was literally meant for her, (but more on that later) it was called the moon lace. After I changed I let my hair go down, it was its usual dark brown high-volumed self, quite a bit longer then my shoulders now, I had been growing it out for the last couple of years, it still hadn't reached my rib cage just yet, but it was getting there. Then I head to the mirrors to see how my outfit turned out. When I looked in the mirror I was surprised how I looked, I looked just awful. No, it wasn't my outfit that was the problem it was... Me. When I looked into the mirror I didn't see a italian tanned faced, bright bubbly girl, I saw a pale, tiered, bags-under-her-eyes hag. What happened to me?
This was just overnight.... Did I really sleep that badly? I think to myself as I poke the tiered puffy-ness under my eyes. My usual golden-brown-orange eyes had suddenly took a turn for the worse, they looked like dark holes shooting thru my eyeballs... Yes they were still orange... but they were still dark as night, if that's even possible. I gawk at myself in the mirror of how awful do look and try to find a way out of my depressing ugly-ness. Don't get me wrong, I'm not self-conscious, I'm just not very good looking... Okay well maybe I'm a little self conscious but do you blame me?! My two best friends are basically models! And I'm just... Me. I tilt my face to look at the wall to make sure what I'm seeing is real, I pull my finger down my face to make sure this isn't a dream, my larger hawk-like nose seems like it's missing something, colour. I look like I've got all the energy sucked out of me from the inside. When I scale down my body I flinch at myself, my wide shoulders sag down, my strong body seems a little weak and my knees seem to be trembling. I quickly fix my posture and put a small amount of my sisters makeup on, just so I don't look so pale and lifeless. I add some colour to my face to make it look a little more tanned, not quite back to it's old self but good enough. Then I add some mascara to my large sleep-less eyes, and some colour to my eyelids. Once I am done everything I bring myself to look in the mirror again. Okay, it's a bit better. I lean into the mirror and touch my small thin colour-less lips. I will just leave them, hope fully people won't realize how awful I feel. I shake my head trying to get the thoughts out of my mind from what I dreamt last night. All demigods nightmares usually mean something, so what in the world did that mean?! I shake my head harder. No. I didn't want to think about it. I step out of the bathroom and take a deep breathe, grab my backpack and note book then walk out of my cabin, almost tripping on the broken step from the staircase going down from are cabin. I quickly make my way to eat breakfast while going over some plants from my notebook. By being me, and not looking where I'm going, I crash into someone and tumble to the ground on top of them. Before I know it, I'm face to face with my blonde enemy for the moment, Alex. I stay there on top of him, feeling my cheeks get as red as a tomato and watch Alex go from surprised to his face being extremely red. I quickly roll off of him and see him get up quickly, not even giving me a glance, and practically run to breakfast, leaving me there on the ground. I sigh loudly and look up to a hand outstretched in front of me. I look up to see a mischievous grin across of James face, I sigh and roll my eyes, then grab his hand. Before I realize it he has me up against him, looking into his eyes, are lips just centimetres apart.
"Hi." He whispers to me. Oh god. I resist the urge to roll my eyes and try to push him off of me, but he quickly pulls me back.
"Don't be like that, baby." I roll my eyes and lift my head back in a cruel laugh.
"Don't call me baby." I say coolly. And push him off of me, making him tumble back a bit from the force. I quickly turn on my heels and strut off to breakfast, making sure I had an extra jump in my step.
I made my way to breakfast and grabbed a bagel and a pomegranate (just for my sister, Persephone) I threw the pomegranate into the fire for the gods (most likely her) to have then sat down at my cabins table. I, of course, was one of the last ones there. I had just enough time to eat my bagel then head to the front of camp, running a little late. As I walked I pulled my charm bracelet of three charms out of my bag, each charm has a certain symbol, one is a hawk, my brother bought for me, knowing it was my inspirational animal. It being strong, independent, it being able to fly (which was always a dream of mine) just everything about it. Also my nose is kinda shaped like a hawks beak so it's kinda my inner animal. I laugh at my thoughts and keep looking at the charms while I walk closer to the front of camp. I was about to continue admiring the charms when i heard two voices.
"We'll leave tonight, just shadow travel to them..." I hear a husky voice whisper behind a tree, it was zander. Intrigued by the conversation, i moved closer. Being the swift girl i am, i of course have to stumble over my OWN feet and fall to the ground in front of the two whisperers.
Good job Willow.
Really.
"Willow?!" I hear maple huff.
"What did you hear?" Zander says slowly questioning me, squinting his eyes.
"What? Nothing, Im just about to leave for the quest, that's all." I say getting up, acting like I heard nothing. They were probably just talking about going to do some prank, I didn't want to ruin their fun. I got up quickly and gave them a quick wave before I ran off. Clamping my bracelet on as I ran, I looked at the other symbols, one of wheat, when I press the small red button on the back the bracelet unclamps and brings to turn into a chain rod, then slowly grows into a whip, a chain whip. A gift from my mother. I will always love it. The last charm was a gift all my friends had given me, it was a little heart charm my friends had given me, it had said "even though we are different, we are the same." That was on my thirteenth birthday. I miss those days. While I clamped my bracelet on, I realized I still had the one James had given me the night before, ugh, I'm too lazy to take it off. Guess ill keep it on. I arrived at the camp and realized everyone was sitting against trees raven was twiddling with her knife, spencer looking of to the distance, alex was the only one standing and looking at a map. He wore dark jeans, blue and white running shoes, and a plain white T-shirt. His hair was slightly gelled back. He surprisingly looked extremely normal-guy ish.
"20 minutes!" Raven shouts and looks up at me annoyed.
"Sorry," I respond immediately and she sighs. I didn't realize I was that late.
"Ready to go?" Spencer asked.
"I guess... Where are we heading first?" I ask him, these quests usually just go with the flow and someone ends up dying, how exciting.
"New York, we have to pick some weapons up at an older demigods house, she's extremely powerful so she has some weapons we could use." Alex finally says something. God this is awkward. He won't even look at me. Oh, smith.
"How are we going to get there?" Spencer gets up, brushing off the dirt from his pants since he was sitting on the ground. Spencer wore a dark blue hoodie and black jeans his dark brown hair pulled back and gelled. His eyes were still their normal vibrant blue.
"Bus." Raven answered and began to get up. Spencer outstretched a hand for her but she just flipped him off and got up. She was in dark blue ripped jeans and a tank top that had an anchor on it, she covered up by wearing a black leather jacket and she had combat boots on.
"The nearest bus stop is like a 6 hour walk from here!" I protest.
"So?" Alex cuts me off cockily, he was in a bad mood apparently.
"Ugh." I sigh and get up.
We all stand in a line in front of the entrance of camp.
"3" I say, counting down until we step through.
"2" raven continues.
"1" spencer finishes and we all pass through.
Immediately we hear a howl.
Just our luck.
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Authors note: so here's a chapter! I'm very happy to get 100 reads! (I know that kinda sad) but still this is my first novel and it's literally just the beginning! So it's still pretty cool (: I would really love if you guys could do some comments? Or votes? Whatever goes! Thanks again :)
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