Chasing Me Down

Chapter 5

Leo wasn't exactly sure why his tia's entire being was changing color but it was starting to creep him out.

The sun was setting as Nicole modeled green hair, tan skin, a green sweatshirt, and white shorts in front of a pond before turning to Leo striking a supermodel pose," I like it, what do you think, Leo?"

Leo wasn't as confident as Nicole about her so-called disguise," Aren't you supposed to fit in? Not stand out?"he inquired extra slowly, dragging each word to come in sync with Nicole's genius, "How about we don't make the hair any abnormal color?"

Nicole stared at Leo as if he was an idiot,"But this is a normal hair color."

"Well, not for humans!"Leo huffed,"You're a rock nymph anyway, what kind of rock is green?... Do not answer that question!"

Nicole smirked, apparently she was amused at his idiocy and lack of knowledge when it came to rockology. 

She puffed up her chest, pounding a fist over her heart,"From now on, I am Quartz the nymph of this fair Quartzite," she said holding up her ring, now green and an actual pebble in  her palm, to the sky as if she expected a divine god to come and kiss it. Unfortunately for her, no god appeared to do the task, Leo supposed most of them, for some beautiful reason, had some sense on the issue.

"Now that we have devised our plan my little nephew,"Nicole said with a gleam in her eyes reminding Leo of the old cartoons that he used to watch as a kid,"we take action! You do remember the plan don't you?"

Leo nodded  but Nicole seemed keen on explaining it over again,"First, you get into cam-I mean C-J,"she said twitching her eyebrows happily,"with the help of one of my dear satyr friends, then you shall act like yourself, and I repeat, your-actual self Leo!, you should never stray too far away from your actual persona when incognito, then you make some friends yadda yadda, you need to earn their respect too or the plan wouldn't make sense and make sure that you keep the camp safe. You need to mingle and keep an eye out for any suspicious people, okay? Find the person, call me with your S4600, I call my friends and we're through okay?"Nicole patted Leo's back reassuringly," Don't worry, I'm sure they won't recognize you. You look quite different from 2 years ago."

Leo nodded and put on a brave smile. Nicole had convinced him to stop joking too much but he occasionally liked to prank and joke around, just not too much and she had insisted that he read a little table etiquette. Leo didn't see the problem until she had made him read over 5 dozen books on modern and ancient and medieval table manners and her own personal collection of How to React to the Deity complete with its own survival guide on different types of monsters and gods. A complete guide on what and what not to do when your Oh-so-friendly immortal  invites you over for dinner along with over a few dozen languages on how to communicate with them, it was no fun when you didn't know what they were saying.

"And that's about it,"Nicole concluded,"Now to put our plan in action! The satyr will be here in a few."

Unfortunately, a few turned into a few hours, Nicole was just about to lose her patience when a thin satyr came jogging up to them. He was pretty tall for his age while wearing black ripped jeans, a gray t-shirt and a small silver chain with a ruby studded maple leaf around his neck. His black hair was slicked to the side like a 90's disco star and his pale face and dark eyes seemed to give him a weird vibe.

Leo wasn't exactly sure how to make of him, he looked around 14 and he already seemed to be going through a phase. A goth satyr was not something you see everyday. If anything he looked like a satyr version of Nico di Angelo.