Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch 2

Light flooded my eye lids, I wanted to stay asleep. Although I felt something on my nose. I opened my eyes to see what it could be. The black straight hair of Gena's was seen just under my vision. She was pressed against my chest and wrapped in my arms. 'What!!' I thought alarmed.

I was holding her close, and she was doing the same to me in return. I tried to move my arms with out waking her. "So you're awake finally." Gena said looking up happily. My cheeks started to burn. 'Was she cuddling me on purpose?' I asked myself. "You're so warm." She said cheerfully, trying to snuggle closer. "Gen, we need to get up. Besides there are people starring." I said trying to sound normal.

I wormed my way out of her grip, got up, and stretched. "You're so comfy though." Gena complained as soon as I was out of her grip. "Gena, we have to get up, we might miss breakfast." I said trying to change the subject.

Gena's eyes lite up. "Breakfast?!?" She asked with an excited squeal. "Yeah, camps like this always have big breakfast. They might even have waffles." I said teasingly. Gena stood up on the bed, with her hair having small parts sticking sideways, and said. "Waffles! Cory, we will cuddle later, it's waffle time." Hearing her say that my face started to burn. 'We really were, weren't we.' I thought to myself, which only made my face turn brighter.

After fifteen minutes of messing around I finally got dressed, I was wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans. As I waited for Gena, I looked around. The people here were having fun, a lot of them armed with some kind of weapon. After almost giving up on Gena, she walked out.

She was wearing a bright orange T-shirt with the words: Camp Half-Blood on it and a small Pegasus under it. "Were did you get that at?" I asked surprised at the new shirt. "It was at the foot of the bed when we woke up. You didn't see it? What were you so focused on that you couldn't see a bright orange shirt on a black blanket?" She replied with a wondering.

"Ok let's get breakfast." I said trying to change the subject. We strolled out towards the bonfire ground from last night. Looking around at all the faces and people, I felt normal for once. Just when that feeling started to sink in, people started staring. "What's wrong with everyone?" I asked her as I turned to face her. She was standing there looking above my head. "Cory, you have a big shiny light above you. Looks like the moon, its cool." She exclaimed out loud.

"Child of the moon, Child of the hunt." Someone to my left whispered to the person next to them. "What?" I asked trying to look up and see the thing people were seeing. Although no matter how fast I moved or how much I turned, I couldn't see it.

"The cursed child." Someone else said grabbing their friends arm and walking away to avoid me. "Cursed?" I repeated questionably.

After amost a hour of people starring or avoiding me I decided to talk to Dionysus. We headed to the Large building that we last saw Dionysus head to.

"I don't get it Cory. I wasn't scared of the shiny light thing." Gena said trying to cheer me up. "I don't think its just a light to these people. Thats why I have to find out what it means." I replied trying to figure out the situation.

Past the place we ate last, night is the large building that we saw Dionysus head into. It was even bigger up close, the building had tan color walls. The gutters, columns that supported the roof, and the door were a bright orange color just like Gena's shirt. "Wow I'm the building's twin." She said sticking her tongue out after saying her joke.

We walked onto the porch and just as we we're about knock on the door, Dionysus burst through the door. "You. You are the child of Artemis. The child of the moon, the child of the hunt." He said in a worried tone. "Ok I'm tired of this what does this child of the moon crap everyone is talking about?" I said in anger almost reaching for my ring.