The Undead Heroes (The first part of The Reiteration of Olympus)

CHAPTER 11, I meet a demigod PT

DESIRÉE

It was only a few minutes ago that Jake had woken me up by pushing me out of bed. Which hurt. A lot. I had forgotten where I was until I remembered what had happened last night. But even though I could remember most of what had happened yesterday I couldn't remember how I made it from a hill to some random bed. My best guess was that someone carried me.

Jake and I were both extremely hungry so we tried to find some food. We eventually made our way to some large columns on top of a hill where we found Silena, Beckendorf, and Dyl.

And now everyone was staring at us. I had no idea why until I looked over at Jake. He had a glowing symbol over his head. I didn't really know what it was but it looked like those snake staff things they have at hospitals. When I looked at Jake I realized that he was staring at me too, Or, well, above me. I looked up and saw another glowing symbol. My symbol was of pieces of wheat and some sort of small scythe. Sickle, a voice in the back of my head said. It's a type of agriculture tool used for harvesting.

I don't know how I knew that but I decided that I had probably learned it in school.

"Uh, why's there glowing wheat over my head?" I asked and looked over at the others. Silena and Beckendorf looked a bit shocked but Dylan just had an 'I told you so' look on her face.

"You've been claimed," she said with a smug smile on her face. "Congratulations, Desirée Santiago, Daughter of Demeter and Jake Castro son of Hermes."

The people inside of the column thing burst into applause. I felt really embarrassed and I think Jake did too, but he also looked somewhat relieved for some reason. The applause eventually quieted down and Dylan's smile disappeared. Silena and Beckendorf looked serious and it made me feel nervous.

"Uh, hey guys, is something wrong? Is being claimed not good? Oh my gods we're in trouble aren't we oh go-"

"Calm down Desirée, being claimed is a good thing," Silena said and smiled. "But there is something we have to tell you, and fast."

I knew that I should focus on that thing they were gonna tell us about but I honestly couldn't focus on anything other than breakfast. My stomach rumbled and Silena giggled a bit.

"We have to tell you quickly, but that doesn't mean you can't have breakfast first."

We all had some awesome breakfast together before heading to a big blue house that looked eerily similar to the one in "Bear in the Big Blue House". Not that I would know anything about that show obviously.

Beckendorf and Silena led us in through the front door and then into a room with a big ping pong table in the middle. Around the table were the kids we had met yesterday, (Annabeth, Percy and Clarisse I think?) a girl with fiery red hair and a man in a wheelchair. I still had no idea who these people were but I could sense that they were powerful.

"Silena! Beckendorf! Took 'ya long enough," a girl with a red bandana, Clarisse, said and smiled smugly. Silena just rolled her eyes and we all gathered around the ping pong table. Now, I don't really understand why we were gathered around a ping pong table but I wasn't complaining.

"Have you filled them in?" the blonde girl, Annabeth, asked. Silena and Beckendorf shook their heads and Annabeth nodded slightly. She turned to look at me, Dylan and Jake and I felt a chill run up my spine. She had intense grey eyes and something told me that I should absolutely NOT mess with her.

"I suppose we should introduce ourselves before we discuss the prophecy." Prophecy?

"My name is Annabeth Chase," she said. "My mother is Athena and I'm the counselor of cabin six." She pointed towards the guy with messy black hair we'd met yesterday.

"This is my boyfriend, Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon." Percy waved slightly and he looked quite uncomfortable being around us. He felt oddly familiar and then it hit me that he was sort of Dyl's half-brother. He expelled the same aura as her and I'd be lying if I said he didn't scare me.

"I'm Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares," the girl with the red bandana said. She also scared me. We should probably just establish that everyone at this place scares me.

"I'm Rachel Elizabeth Dare," the girl with the fiery red hair said. She had paint stains all over her and she seemed to be a bit out of it. "I'm not a demigod or anything but I'm the hostess of the oracle of Delphi. I'm the Oracle, basically." Oh, well that explains why she seems a bit out of it.

"My name is Chiron," the man in the wheelchair said. He had kind brown eyes and he looked pretty harmless. "I run this ca-"

"Hold up," Dylan said and everyone turned to look at her. Something like recollection flashed in Chiron's eyes when he looked at Dylan. "Chiron? As in that Chiron? The one who trained basically every important Greek hero?" Chiron nodded and he looked quite embarrassed. I don't know why though, I think training every Greek hero is something to be proud about.

"Okay. Cool, I guess," Dylan said and crossed her arms.

"Well, you already know us," Silena said with a small smile. "So I think it's your turn to introduce yourselves." She looked over at us and Jake introduced himself.

"I'm Jake Castro. Son of Hermes." He made his introduction quick and he seemed a bit scared of everyone here.

"I'm Desirée Santiago," I said and smiled slightly. "And I'm the daughter of Demeter I guess." Percy smiled slightly at me and it felt amazing.

"Dylan Jones," Dylan said. "Don't worry about my godly parent, I'm leaving soon anyway." Annabeth frowned and it looked like she was going to say something but Percy stopped her by grabbing her hand. He shook his head slightly and she nodded. They seemed to be able to understand each other without speaking and it was really cool.

"Well now that the introductions are done," Annabeth said. "We need to talk about the prophecy. Rachel, do you mind?" Rachel shrugged and turned towards us.

"Okay, so, a few weeks ago I had a prophecy that I think was about you guys."

She recited the prophecy and I couldn't understand any of it.

Six half-bloods shall be needed for the task ahead,

Among them a traitor and the one who fled.

Something lost shall be found and the truth shall be told,

Those once selected by death shall realize time gained a hold.

"We think that this prophecy could possibly be about you," Annabeth said cautiously. "We don't have any solid proof, as always when it comes to prophecies," she frowned, "but we think that some of the stuff in the prophecy is about you."

I couldn't really comprehend what she was saying and I don't think anyone else really did either.

"I can understand where you're coming from," Silena said quietly. "That thing about 'Those once selected by death' could probably refer to me and Charlie and..." She seemed to pull herself together. "So could the thing about a traitor being among them." Silena looked sad and so did all of the others. Percy looked down at the ground and put an arm around Annabeth. Charlie put an arm around Silena and so did Clarisse. I had no idea what Silena had been a traitor for but I could tell that she wasn't proud of it. Surprisingly that wasn't what I focused on.

"Woah, woah, woah, hold up a second. 'Those once selected by death'? What's that supposed to mean?"

Silena and Beckendorf turned towards me with sad smiles on their faces.

"We died around two years ago."