Apollo's Wolves

Chapter Four -- Delta

The kid herded me up to the Big House, where four other campers, one of them being Jake from the previous night, and Chiron already were. "What does she know?" a blond girl demanded. I recognized her from the night before.

He shoved me into the room; I stumbled into a chair and turned to throw a glare at him over my shoulder. "Nothing." He returned my glare. "Or so she says."

"Percy, please keep your head," Chiron said. He looked me in the eye. "Delta, if you know anything about Amari's whereabouts or why she would be missing, please share with us."

I scowled at him. "I swear, I know nothing! I didn't even do anything!"

The boy Chiron had called Percy seemed about ready to fly at me, along with the blond-haired boy in the room. "Didn't even do anything? What do you call that fight the other day?" Percy yelled at me.

"Percy," Chiron said again, more firmly this time. He looked at me again. "It does make some sort of sense that the fight you started was a catalyst to Amari's disappearance."

"It was all of you!" I snarled at the group. "You all act as though you've never seen a werewolf before." The other demigods exchanged looks with each other and the centaur. I rolled my eyes. "What, you really haven't?"

"We've never seen any werewolves that were good," one of the girls, a blond, responded evenly. "Amari never told us that she was one, probably for that very reason. You kind of destroyed her sense of security."

I rolled my eyes for a second time. "Whatever. If she's ashamed of her parentage, then that's her problem to work out. Not mine. It's not my fault she ran off. If she even did; those woods at the edge of camp are pretty big."

"We've gone over the woods with Mrs. O'Leary," Percy snapped at me, his sea green eyes flashing. "She'd have been found if she was hiding there!"

"Whatever."

"We still need to find Amari," the other girl said. "She might be hurt."

I snorted. "Not likely."

"Nonetheless, we're going to start a quest to find her," Chiron said. "We don't know what her mental state is, and we can't risk her hurting anyone."

Percy stepped forward. "I volunteer to lead the quest."

The blond girl stepped forward, too. "I'm with you."

"So are Piper and I," the blond boy said, holding the brown-haired girl's hand.

"Delta, you're going, too," Chiron told me.

"What? No!" I cried angrily.

"Then I'm going to need someone along who can wrangle her," Percy said, ignoring me.

"I'll go," Jake volunteered.

Chiron nodded. "Thank you."

"I am NOT going!" I exclaimed. "Why would I go on some stupid quest to find some stupid demigod brat?"

"Because that 'brat' is your sister!" the blond boy snapped at me. The air seemed to crackle around him. He let go of the girl he'd called Piper's hand.

"So?"

"So she's your family! Which is more than most of us have."

I snarled at him, but Chiron stopped me with a stern look. "You're going, Delta, and that's final." When I didn't protest again, he glanced around at the other demigods. "Pack your bags and get going."