The Valdez Legacy (A Heroes of Olympus Fanfic)

Chapter 14: Tour

  It wasn't that Sofia didn't appreciate the concern the others gave her, nor did she hate her new family members, but it was just so much to take in at once. Not only did Sofia feel overwhelmed with the concern, she just needed to clear her head- so, Sofia slowly snuck out of the Hephaestus cabin, and wandered around. The camp was huge....and strange. Full of teenagers wielding terrifying weapons, which filled Sofia with worry, and then there was a lava rock climbing wall...which was actually tempting. Nobody seemed to notice that Sofia had wandered outside her cabin, or perhaps they didn't care.

  "Well, if it isn't the Valdez girl..." a familiar voice said from behind Sofia, prompting her to turn around to see that Felix boy.

  "What? Now you're stalking me?" Sofia joked, realizing that was the first one she told since the discovery of her father's disappearance. Her father told many jokes, but none of them were that funny, or even made sense, so naturally, Sofia inherited his cringy sense of humor.

Felix, however smiled mischievously, and laughed, "Or, are you the one stalking me?" Felix suggested, brightly,

Sofia rolled her eyes, remember her father used to do the same thing to her, and laughed. She laughed painfully for about fifteen seconds, before she stopped laughing abruptly, at the realization that she would never hear her father's stupid jokes again. She stood there for a moment, trying not to show her disappointment at losing her father.

For the first time since she knew him, Felix looked serious, "What's wrong, Sofia?"

Sofia forced a smile, trying her hardest to not to grieve to the point where it was killing people's mood, "Nothing, I'm sorry, I got distracted..."

Felix smiled immediately, "I would be too....it's easy to be distracted here if you've never been around this kind of stuff before."

That was true, Sofia noticed, as someone who had never been acquainted with this world before. It was so strange to find out that not only was your grandfather a god, but so was your mother. Sofia had always wondered about her mother, but had only asked on few occasions, and therefore knew few things about her. She knew her father and mother built the shop she had grown up in, but her mother left for work and never came back....was her work being a goddess? She also knew her birth was unexpected, and now magic seemed to be the only logical explanation.

It made sense, so why was it so hard to believe?

Felix seemed curious, but he luckily respected her privacy and didn't press on, instead he asked, "So how much do you know about the Greek gods?"

  Sofia frowned. She knew enough about the Greek gods, she knew the major ones, such as Zeus, Apollo, Athena, and Aphrodite, and she remembered her father telling Greek myths as bedtime stories, mainly of the goddess Athena and Hephaestus, and now it made so much more sense.

"A little bit." Sofia responded.

  Felix smiled, "So, who do you think your mother is?"

      Sofia shrugged. To be honest, Sofia didn't really think about it, because she had been too distracted by her father's disappearance. So, she said the first non-maiden goddess to come to mind, "Demeter."

  Felix raised an eyebrow, as if that was the response he wasn't expecting, "Are you good with plants?"

  Shoot. She wasn't, in fact, she was a disaster with plants, and killed anything that grew from the dirt. One time, she had a science project where she had to grow flowers and collect data. The flowers never grew.

  "I mean, no, but I thought she would be a good first guess." Sofia smirked.
 
  Felix laughed, "Well, there are so many other goddesses who could be your mother. Aphrodite, Hecate, Nemesis, Athena-"

  "I thought Athena was a maiden goddess though?" Sofia argued.

  It was true, all the myths Sofia had read had labeled Athena as one of the three major, maiden goddesses.

  Felix nodded, "She is, but her children are born differently, they are born similar to how she was. You know how she was born, don't you?"

  Sofia thought back to her little Greek mythology, and came up with the first thing that came to mind, "It was something to do with a fly?"

  Felix waved his hand dismissively, "Not that part. You're born out of her head- from her thoughts."

  Interesting. Sofia thought. If this life couldn't get stranger......

  "Well, I'll show you around."

***

"Piper!" A voice called behind her.

  When Piper turned, she saw a tall and slender woman with curly blonde hair and dangerous gray eyes. Piper had just exited the cave where Rachel Elizabeth Dare lived, rather worried, thinking about the prophecy that was just given, and the quest that needed to be announced.

  There needed to be five half bloods, instead of the normal three half-blood limit. There needed to be a child of Aphrodite, a child of Apollo, a child of Athena, a child of Hades and a child of a Roman god.

  "Piper!" Annabeth called, recognizing the frustration in her face, "What's wrong?"

  Piper looked at her, "Rachel has a new prophecy, and there are five demigods."

  Piper went on to recite the prophecy to Annabeth, in which she attentively listed. That was something Piper loved about Annabeth...she always listened.

  "Well, Sofia has to go." Annabeth told her firmly.

  Piper couldn't believe what she was hearing- Leo was already in enough danger, he couldn't just put his daughter in danger too! Only she didn't say that, she said, "No, she wasn't mentioned in the prophecy-"

  "We don't know if she was mentioned in the prophecy, because we don't know her mom." Annabeth reminded her, "Plus, Leo is her father, don't you remember when your father went missing? Did you not want to do anything to get him back?"

  Piper frowned. "Yeah I remember..."

  Then a realization came upon her, "You realize that unless Sofia's Roman, if she goes on the quest, this means Leo's daughter is one of our half-sister."

  Annabeth choked on her own spit, and then left with that.

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