Daughter of the Big 3

Chapter 13 : Ashley - Reunited

Chapter 13 : Ashley - Reunited

After dinner, I head over to the climbing wall, like Karina had instructed me to. Once I get there, I see her standing beside it, next to the cliff. “Hey!” I say as I approach her. “Hey.” She says. She smiles at me as if she is keeping a secret.

“Okay. I know that look. What’s up?” I say.

“You know about the mist right?” She asks me cautiously.

“You mean like fog?”

“No the mist. Not just mist. It’s like a magical wall only people like us can see through. So that mortals can’t see things like monsters or your sword.” She explains.

“Oh yeah. Percy might have mentioned it to me a couple of times.” I say, remembering what he had said about his mom being able to see through the mist.

“Well, being a daughter of Hecate and all, I can manipulate the mist easily. watch this.” She moves over, closer to the side of the cliff. suddenly, the surface of the rock shimmers a bit and reveals a small archway, just big enough for a person to fit through.

“Whoa.” I say in amazement.

“This is where I train.” She says leading me through the archway. “I hide it so I can be alone. No one except you and Chiron know about it, so please don’t tell anyone.” I nod in response, taking in all my surroundings. I look up and see the sky, meaning that Karina has also somehow manipulated the top of the cliff as well to hide her training ground from up above.

Even though Karina is a super outgoing and happy person, she is also really secretive. We have been best friends ever since my mom and I moved to New York, five years ago. We had been ten years old, and we had moved in beside her. It was hard being friends at school though. Karina was always getting in trouble. Every year she switched schools. I got lucky though. I had only changed schools 3 times in the last 5 years, which apparently was an all time record for demigods.

Karina leads me over to a patch of grass and we sit down. “So, this is the camp you’ve been going to since we were 11?” I asked her.

“Yeah. I hated lying to you about it, but you know, I really wasn’t able to. I had no idea you were a demigod, let alone the most powerful one in thousands of years!” She says.

“And that guy you were talking about last year… The one you said you had a crush on… He’s here too?” I ask dying to know the answer. Last August, Karina had come back from camp saying that she had met this guy who she liked. She claimed that they’d know each other since she had started going to camp, and that he was really sweet. Now that I knew he was at Camp Half-Blood, I was dying to know who my best friend was crushing on.

“Yeah. He goes here.” She said quietly. “But I’m not going to tell you yet. I want to know if he likes me back first.” She says. I raise an eyebrow. “Okay. But don’t get your heart broken. Promise?” She nods. There have been a few too many incidents where Karina has had her heart broken. That’s part of the reason she’s so secretive now.

“Well I should get going.” I say getting up to leave, even though I really had nothing to do tonight.

“Why don’t you come hang out with us? You know, Abbey, Robby and I.”

“Yeah sure.” I say as we leave the training area. I’ll meet you at the beach she says. “Get your bathing suit on. We’re going swimming. And bring Percy and Leo and your friends as well. I’m sure Abbey would love to meet them. “Okay.” I say. as I run towards my cabin. “I’ll meet you at the beach!”

I run back to my cabin and throw on my bathing suit. “AND WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING?!?!” I hear Percy yell from behind me. I roll my eyes. Leave it to Percy to be the over-protective brother. “Swimming with Karina.” I say. “You, Leo, Jason, Annabeth and everyone else is invited too! C’mon!!!”

“Gimme a minute.” He says digging around in his stuff on his side of the cabin. My things had arrived last week, so I was finally able to wear what I wanted. Today I am wearing my favourite jean shorts and a white tank top over my blue bikini that I had gotten last summer. I walk outside and head towards cabin 13 where NIco is when I run into Leo. Like literally run into him. His hair was on fire.

“Sorry.” I say quickly.

“My bad.” He said. scratching his head, not even realizing that his head was on fire. He’s so oblivious that he wouldn’t even notice his head was on fire. Oh wait, IT IS.

“Hey, did you want to come down to the beach with us?” I ask him.

“Yeah sure. When?”

“Right now.”

“Oh yeah. Of course. Meet you at the beach.” He says running off.

“Uh Leo….” I say eying his hair, which was still on fire.

“Yeah?” He says turning around.

“Nevermind.” I say. I figured it would be funny to see Leo walking around camp with his head on fire. He’ll find out soon enough.

I walk up to cabin 13 and knock on the door. After waiting there for about a minute, Nico finally opens the door.

“Hey Nico, everyone’s going down to the beach and we wanted to know if you wanted to come.” I say.

“Who do you mean by everyone?” He asks me. “Well my friend Karina invited me and she told me I could bring my friends with me so, Leo, Jason, Piper, Percy an-” He cut me off. “No sorry I can’t come”

“Why not?” I ask him. “Is this because of you and Percy not being on the best terms? Come on Nico you don’t even have to talk to him just come. You’ll have fun.”

“No. I’m not coming.”

“Then tell me why. Give me a good reason as to why you aren’t coming and I’ll leave.”

“It’s embarrassing.” He says. I roll my eyes. “More embarrassing than dating a guy for two months then finding out he had been cheating on you and you were the only one who didn’t know? Yeah, I don’t think so. Spill.”

“Fine. But not here. Give me a minute.” He says closing the door on my face. I sit in the steps waiting for him to come out of the cabin. Five minutes later, he comes out.

“That was more than a minute.” I say. He rolls his eyes. “Come on.” He says grabbing my arm. “I’ll tell you, but not here. Let’s go.”

CLIFFHANGER lol jk not really

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