It has been 227 days since I was made the immortal oracle, yet I am sitting inside a classroom at Clarions Lady Academy, Rachel Dare wrote in her notebook. I hate it here. Chiron keeps on telling me that burning my school down is not allowed, but I don't really care.
Unfortunately, I do not want to be the cause of death for anyone, no matter how annoying they may be. I also want ice cream. Rachel was supposed to be writing notes for the class, but she barely paid attention to her middle-aged teacher's squeaky voice.
"And now, please recite-" her teacher continued to drone on.
"I'll recite every way I could kill you right now," Rachel muttered.
"What was that Mrs Dare?" Her teacher asked.
"Nothing ma'am."
"She said that she would recite every way she could kill you." A new, yet awfully familiar, voice spoke. Rachel choked.
"Apollo?" she hissed, whirling around to face the sun god. "Go away!"
"Now Mrs Dare, that's not very nice." he said, crossing his arms.
"Did I ask?" Her classmates and teacher watched the two in horror.
"Nope, but I'm sure you were thinking about it."
Before she could retaliate and set his facts right, Apollo grabbed her and pulled her out of the classroom. "What in the world are you doing?" she hissed once they had stopped.
"Rescuing you of course!"
"I don't need to be rescued, especially by you!"
"I'll get you food."
"What food?"
"Uhh..."
"Ice Cream?"
"Sure, why not?"
And then they were gone.
The ice cream parlour was empty, save for a mother and her child.
Apollo and Rachel, both disguised, walked in and ordered their ice cream of choice. Apollo ordered the obnoxiously yellow lemon ice cream, and Rachel got Mint Chocolate Chip.
"How do I look?" Apollo said, gesturing to his mortal disguise. He looked like a black-haired version of himself, who was wearing sunglasses the colour of Hades throne.
Rachel thought he looked stupid and made sure to tell him exactly that.
"You're just jealous!" Apollo said, flipping his hair.
"I have never been, and never will be, jealous of you." Rachel said, raising an eyebrow at the obnoxious god.
"It's okay Rachel, you can admit anything! We're all friends here!" He replied.
"Since when?"
"You're a cruel woman, Mrs Dare." He said, pointing his spoon at her.
"I'm best friends with Annabeth Chase, what would you expect?" Rachel said as she took a bite of her ice cream.
"Fair point."
Suddenly, Rachel doubled over, a sudden headache taking over her.
Apollo lurched forward and tried to steady her. "What's wrong, what's going-" he winced. He could feel a small headache coming on.
"I-I-don't know. The oracles going haywire." her eyes widened, and she met Apollo's eyes. They exchanged a glance and ran out of the ice cream parlour.
Something was wrong.
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FanfictionSeven Days after Gaeas defeat, Hecate went missing, only to be found to have been brutally forced to fade by Gaea's mercenaries. For protection the Seven, Nico, Reyna, Thalia, along with a handful of the other people were made immortals. Demigods...
