Sea Princess

Chapter 2

I was in the Mess Hall eating dinner with my cabin when the camp director, Mr. D or better known as Dionysus god of wine, stood up. He was about to announce the game of capture the flag and my knee was bouncing in anticipation like always. Luke caught my eye and he winked at me. I blushed and my friends around me giggled and Bethany nudged me. I glared at everyone and their giggles subsided. I might not have been the oldest in the cabin but one glare could silence even the snottiest of them. And to be honest I got a thrill from that kind of power. Everyone said Luke and I were ultra-cute and we needed to stay together no matter what happened between us. Bethany already was picking out my fucking wedding dress, which reminded me I needed to burn those wedding magazines in the cabin when I got the chance to when I got back tonight. I just was hoping that I would survive that long; demigods as a rule don't exactly live long enough to have other kids unless you're the child of a minor god in which case I wasn't so I wasn't getting my hopes up.

"Tonight after dinner we will be playing capture the flag. First team to get the flag over into their side wins...blah, blah, blah you know the rest." Mr. D said sitting down. I smirked and nodded my head. This was my time to shine. I loved capture the flag. It was the only time I was openly allowed to hit someone besides in training classes. 

"Please no killing, maiming, or anything else." Chiron said. I finished up my dinner and then I looked around and my eyes landed on Percy. Poor kid was going to have to go through a capture the flag. I remembered my first time. It had been hellish. It was like he sensed someone looking at me and looked up in my direction. He locked eyes with me and then after a few seconds he smiled at me. I smiled back at him and then looked up over to Mr. D again who was looking around at us.

"Well get your army and everything." Mr. D said. I got up from my table and followed Annabeth because Aphrodite was always with Athena. Most of the kids in our cabin would sit out because you know they're prissy little bitches and couldn't handle getting dirt. Well, that was what separated me from those kids. Bethany and I would watch each other's back most of the time and defend our flag. We were a good team for defense if I did say so myself.

"So who's doing what?" I asked as an arm wrapped around my waist. I did a quick side glance to see Luke and I smiled before looking back at Annabeth. She glared at me from the side before continuing walking ahead of me. 

"Percy and you are on defense." She said. That's when my smile faded away. Did she seriously not want us to win tonight? If she put Percy on defense we were gonna lose because I couldn't hold off a whole group if they came at me in an ambush unless Percy had some freaky demigod powers we didn't know about. I looked around to try to look at Percy to see if I got a vibe. Well, guess what? I didn't. We were screwed. 

"Really? But Bethany and I always-" I said. She cut me off mid sentence and that's what really annoyed me out of the whole situation. Athena kids always thought they were right about strategy just because their mother was the goddess of strategy and wisdom. 

"Well, now it's you and Percy we need Bethany on offense tonight," She said. Bethany gave her a wide eyed stare before glancing at me. She could feel the anger running off me in waves because she moved away from me slightly. I glared at Annabeth and Luke's lips pressed to the crown of my head making my glare soften somewhat. I took out my mini bo-staff and squeezed it in my hand and it grew to be taller than I was. I smiled at it and used it for a walking stick for a while. I loved my bo-staff. It had a celestial bronze tip mixed in with steel that Luke had made for me and give me a few days ago after we had dueled. For what reason he had mixed the bronze in with steel I will never know but it made the tip a beautiful mix of bronze and silver. I could also quick zap someone with electricity. It was a good stun gun. I grabbed my armor and nodded to Percy who looked to small under all that armor. He started walking and then Luke grabbed me around the waist and I squealed quietly. He was smiling down at me with a slight smirk pulling up at the corner of his lips.

"Grab that flag for me, alright?" I said smirking. He just nodded. 

"I will babe." He muttered as he leaned his head against mine. I smiled up at him and kissed him lightly. His arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me closer to him. He tried to start to kiss me deeper but I just pulled back and raised an eyebrow at him. He pouted at me and I just laughed before giving him a soft smile. 

"Get that flag and you'll get more," I whispered. His eyebrows shot up probably thinking I meant more than just a make-out. Which, for the record, I didn't. 

"Oh an incentive." He muttered. I just shrugged with a playful smile on my face. He kissed me lightly before I walked off. He slapped my ass as I turned around and I squealed giving him a tiny glare. I ran over to Percy and we walked in silence for a while.

"So you and Luke go out right?" He asked. I nodded with a smile pulling up at the corners of my mouth.

"Yes sir." I said. He looked at me and shook his head as a blush appeared on my cheeks. 

"How old are you?" I asked glancing down at him. He couldn't be older than 13 I know just because of his height. 

"I'm 12." He said. I nodded. I would've pegged him for being 12. 

"Ah, the wonderful age before you get acne and stuff." I smiled. He laughed and shrugged.  I just shook my head. Maybe he didn't understand. Like puberty as a normal teenager was hell, throw in being a demigod too on top. That was just downright like being sent to Hades. 

"It's not funny once you get there....trust me." I laughed. He just shook his head. 

"I'm turning 13 in August on the 18th." He said. I just nodded. That's cool. But my birthday always sucked because it fell on a major holiday for the American people. 

"Really? I turn 15 in July." I said. He just glanced over at me. 

"Really? Are birthdays are so close except for like the 2 year difference. When do you turn 15?" He asked. 

"The 4th. I was born on July 4th, 1991." I said. He stared at me with wide eyes. I nodded and chuckled. Yeah, my birthday sucked but then again all major holiday birthdays sucked except maybe Halloween. Having a Halloween birthday seemed pretty cool to me. 

"That's cool you're an Independence Day baby." He chuckled. I nodded and we got to our spots. I stood and looked around. 

"I mean it can be cool and it can suck. You get your birthday put in with the Forth of July. It can be really weird sometimes....so I heard you soaked Clarisse," I smirked as I twirled my bo-staff around in my hands. He nodded with a smile. 

"Yeah in the bathrooms," He chuckled.

"Sweetness, your coolness just went up," I said. We both busted out laughing and then I heard a cry and I looked in front of us to see Clarisse running at us with two other people beside her. Well, if she was going to be going after Percy for some sweet old revenge but I wasn't about to let the poor kid get hurt. This was his very first time. I sighed and got ready. I super-charged the tip of my bo-staff and smirked at the two in front of me.

"Bring it," I said. One of the boys from Aries cabin came at me. I hit them with the tip of my bo-staff and shocked them and they backed up before swinging at me again. I blocked the swing and then we started fighting. He swung his sword low and I jumped and he pushed me back into the freaking little river behind me and I slammed into a few rocks and got the breath knocked out of me. I pushed the button that brought the spear head coming out on my bo-staff and I cut him in the upper arm. He pushed back slightly from the pain. Then all of a sudden a big tidal wave erupted from in front of me and Percy and soaked Clarisse and her two goons making them go back. I saw Luke go across the river with their flag and I cheered. He flashed me a smile and then I heard Percy yell my name. I glanced over confused. 

"Cassi!" He yelled again. I heard the growling and I looked up to see a Hellhound from Hades. Oh my god. I opened my lips just for a blood-curdling scream to come out. Percy jumped in front of me, for some insane reason. Then I felt the impulse to do something and Percy and I thrust our hands out towards the hell-hound together and a huge stream of water jetted out from the stream and hit the Hellhound in the face and then an arrow pierced it and it exploded into gold dust. Then that's when I noticed something glowing above us in the sky. It was two tridents. Fuck. I glanced at Percy and he was staring at me like 'did we just do that?' 

"Oh hades," Annabeth muttered. I was growling in the back of my throat as I stared up at the two tridents lighting up the sky above us. 

"Why are they bowing to us?" Percy asked as he helped me up. I glanced around to see the whole camp bowing to us and I backed up slowly. My eyes went wide as I took in the scene in front of me. Friends who I had known for the last few years were bowing to me and I felt incredibly uncomfortable. My whole lie was blown apart because of some fucking hell-hound and now I had to worry about the big huge prophecy. 

"Cause we are the daughter and son of Poseidon." I muttered. I found Luke's face and he was staring at me in shock and something else that I couldn't exactly place. The look in his eyes showed he wasn't truly shocked and that confused me. That actually kicked up a red flag in my head honestly. I bit my lip in frustration. This night just went from happy to annoying frustration. As I looked around I saw people staring at me. A shiver went down my spine and not in the future was going to be good. I never liked being the center of attention. Chiron came up to Percy and I and stared at us. 

"All of you to your cabins...Percy, Cassandra I want to talk to you alone." Chiron said looking at me. I nodded and then I glanced at Luke and he mouthed, 'Meet me at my cabin'. I nodded silently and then looked back at Chiron. He stared at me confused.

"So you two are now half siblings. But Cassandra I want to know how this is possible?" He asked. I shrugged. I mean personally I know how it came to be that way but I wasn't about to out myself for that lie I had told after I had gotten here. 

"I don't know....Lady Aphrodite could have claimed me wrong." I muttered acting sad. Chiron sighed.

"Alright well back to your cabin. Cassi move your stuff over to Poseidon's cabin." He said. I nodded and headed back to the cabins. I went straight to Luke and he was waiting outside the cabin. He hugged me the first thing when I got to him. I felt like I wanted to cry but nothing was coming out of my eyes. My gut instinct had always been right but on this I had hoped it wasn't. But here we are. I let out a breath and he hugged me tighter. 

"Don't worry babe every thing's going to be alright," He whispered. I nodded.

"Don't worry about Percy alright he's a good kid. He won't torture you much," He laughed. I shook my head. It wasn't about that I was worried about. It was that stupid prophecy that kept going around in my head like a fucking bumblebee. I was scared because I didn't know the details. He ran his hand up and down my back in comfort. When we walked back to my cabin he helped me move all my stuff to my new cabin. When I had everything set up I went back outside with Luke and stared up at the moon. It seemed brighter tonight.

"So," I said, glancing over at him. 

"Well we better get to bed unless we wanna get eaten." He chuckled. I nodded and turned to face him.

"Every thing's going to get better alright," He said as he pulled me closer to him. I nodded and he kissed my forehead lightly. 

"I hope so," I whispered shaking slightly. He pulled back and ran his hands up and down my arms smiling down at me.

"I know it will." He said smiling. I smiled up at him and he kissed me lightly.

"Aw!" I heard Bethany squeal. I gave her the finger and I heard her cuss at me and I laughed in the kiss. When I pulled back I smiled and waved at her. She shook her head as she stood there with her hands on her hips. I just shrugged. 

"I love you Bethany!" I said. She waved me off shaking her head.

"Yeah, yeah I love you too." She said going inside our-well her cabin. Luke kissed me one more time before walking back over to his cabin. I sighed and faced the door to my new cabin and then I walked inside. I noticed it was kind of dusty in here, which made sense. No one had been in here the entire time I had been at camp and that's been a while now. I walked to my bunk which was placed right by the window. I was about to get undressed when I saw Percy looking around at my stuff. Yeah I had some pretty high-tech equipment. I had quite a lot of things because of Jake. He was my smuggler in and out of the camp for me. Whatever I needed I went straight to him and he got it for me.

"Can you turn around for a moment?" I asked. He nodded and turned around. I got changed quickly into my pajamas before I grabbed my pooh-bear and blankey. Hey, don't judge I've had them since I was like two and I couldn't get to sleep without them. 

"Alright you can turn around Percy." I said. He turned around and looked at all my stuff taking it all in. I looked at Percy as I laid down on my bed. I pulled my redskins blanket up over my comforter of my bed smiling. 

"So how long were you in your other cabin?" He asked as he changed. I mean he was a 12-year-old and I knew how 12-year-old's dressed. It's not a big deal for guys because they didn't have boobs and all Percy had on was boxers so it wasn't like he was showing me anything important. And I guess since we were siblings we could do this without weirding each other out. Eh, I'm going to have to get used to that idea of having Percy for a brother. It might not be as bad as I'm thinking hopefully. He could be really cool and easy going unlike some of the boys from Aphrodite's cabin.

"For almost 9 years." I said.

"You've been here since I was 6?" He asked as he crawled into bed. I just shrugged but nodded at the same time. I caught something in his eyes which I didn't like. I didn't need his pity. 

"Yeah one of the longest campers," I said nodding as I stared at the ceiling. I didn't want to be mean and call him out on the look so I just let it slid this one time. 

"My mom was killed when I was 6 in a car accident in Time Square. I met up with Luke, Annabeth, and Thalia after that when they found me being attacked by a monster. Luke took me in under his wing like he did with Annabeth and Thalia but don't let Annabeth know I told you that. But anyways they came here so here I am!" I said. I sighed thinking back to Thalia. I missed her so much. Every time I got down I went out to the boarder to visit the tree and talk to her. I had a hope that she could still hear me even if she was a tree now.

"Oh," He said. I nodded and it went into an awkward silence. I rolled onto my side cuddling pooh-bear.

"I'm gonna probably end up getting a curtain to get privacy." I said.

"Yeah that would be nice." Percy agreed. 

"Well I'm going to bed. I'll see you tomorrow." I said.

"Alright night," He said. He turned off the light and I fell asleep silently.