The Valdez Legacy (A Heroes of Olympus Fanfic)

Chapter 12: Overwhelmed

Soon, the Felix dude left, to join his his siblings in their afternoon activities, or at least that's what he told her. Soon, the Piper girl walked into the infirmary, with a sympathetic face, "Bad news, Chiron is busy with, erm other things. So, I guess I'll give you the tour."

Tour? There was a tour? Tour of what? Sofia tried to get up, but her hip began to hurt, as if it were punishing Sofia, for even thinking about moving when it didn't want to. Piper held out her hand, and Sofia took it.

Piper's hand was as smooth as butter, as if she had put lotion on it several times a day. She was also a beautiful woman in general; she had chocolate brown hair, which was put into a braid. She wore an orange shirt, that said Camp Half Blood, which was similar to the other's shirts in the infirmary.

Piper led Sofia outside, into the warm, spring air. Walking was a challenge for Sofia, and she felt grateful for Piper, who was her crutch the whole way there. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood!"

"Camp Half Blood..." Sofia muttered. She had seen those names on shirts, but she had verbally heard someone say that name before. It wasn't something she realized until she heard it.

  Piper smiled, "I'm sure you won't believe me, but you're-"

  "The granddaughter of a god."

  Piper frowned, obviously confused at Sofia's sudden intervention. She probably wasn't used to this "tour" being so easy.

  "You know?" Piper asked, incredulously.

  "Some boy told me....his name was Felix?" She recalled, remembering the boy she met in the infirmary. Obviously Piper recognized the name, because she rolled her...blue?.... eyes.

  "That boy does not know how to keep his mouth shut about anything. But yeah, you're father is the son of Hephaestus." Piper explained, in simple terms.

  Sofia was about to doubt her, like she almost did Felix, but then she observed her surroundings. There were people fighting with swords- real swords, and pegasi flying in the air. This wasn't normal.

"Whoa. You guys weren't lying." Sofia voiced aloud, and Sofia remembered a dream from when she was younger.

  She was on a pegasus, with a bow slung over her shoulder. She looked like an awesome badass warrior from the movies. Now here she was, staring at actual pegasai, and it was magnificent.

   Sofia looked at Piper, asking what had been lingering in her mind all day, and what Felix briefly mentioned, "Is my mother a demigod, as well?"

  Piper smiled sympathetically, "Perhaps, but Hazel said that Leo told her that your mother is a goddess. He never mentioned which goddess, but you're a demigod too."

  Sofia bit her lips, rather harshly. She remembered the Felix kid talking about it, and she had to admit she was curious about who her mother was. Was she a goddess? If so, that explained so much. She thought about what she just said- her father told that Hazel girl who Sofia's mother was, but not Sofia? Her stomach plummeted into a bitter feeling, that she never felt towards her father.

  "Why did my dad never tell me?" She demanded.

  She turned to see Piper look at her sympathetically, "Most mortal parents don't, because they understand how dangerous it could be. Your father experienced first hand what that is like."

  Sofia sighed. It must've dangerous, yes, but it wasn't an excuse. Sofia could handle the truth, and perhaps she would've been better prepared. She remembered all those times strange people would wander into the shop, and her father gave her one of his rare serious looks, and told her to lock herself in her room. Is one of these dangers why?

  Was one of those dangers what took her father? Then the reminder hit her, like a baseball bat hits a ball, that her father was gone. Possibly dead. Then all an overwhelming punch of guilt hit her in the stomach, and tears blurred her vision.

  Her father was gone, and all she could do was be mad at him. She swallowed a lump in the back of her throat, and soon heard herself sob, and she felt Piper press her against her chest, and Sofia could smell her coconut-scented shampoo.

  Piper seemed to know what was going on, "We'll find him. I promise."

  Promise. What a tricky word, that many times meant nothing. One can make a promise, but that does not mean that promise will be kept. She may promise to bring her father back, but that doesn't change the fact that he may already be dead.

  "Let's get you to the Hephaestus cabin, you can stay there until your mother claims you." Piper soothed.

  Sofia phased out, thinking in fear over what may have happened to her father. Her dad and aunt were the only two people who showed her any love or compassion all her life...and now they were gone, and apparently the gods existed, which strangely, she was too stressed with everything going on to argue about it.

Soon, her and Piper reaches the Hephaestus cabin, and Sofia saw a lot of familiar faces, from many Thanksgivings with her aunts and uncles, and some felt too young to be her aunts and uncles. Now, it all made sense.

"Hey Sofia!" Someone said, and she turned to see a man, she recognized as her Uncle Jake.

"Sofia's here?!" Another voice asked excitedly, and Sofia looked around to see a shocked Piper.

"You...already know each other." she concluded.

Sofia figures it wasn't a common occurrence for children to keep in touch like normal, mortal families did, or perhaps she didn't expect Leo to keep in touch with anyone after he left.

"Yeah, we do! We see her every year at Thanksgiving!" Uncle Harley exclaimed. "Leo hosts dinner at his house. Dad even showed up once."

Piper laughed a little, "So that's where you all go during Thanksgiving." then she paused, "Wait you knew where Leo was the whole time, and didn't mention anything?"

"He didn't want to be found, Piper." Jake informed, calmly.

Sofia wish she had popcorn, because this was interesting. But unfortunately, it ended, "Get some sleep, Sofia. We'll explain everything later."

The next chapter will be in Piper's POV and will explain why all the older campers are there.

Anyways, what did you think? I really need to start getting these ideas earlier than midnight.

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