The Half-Blood Project

28- RARA

Hazel Levesque 

"You're the imposter!" The blonde boy shrieks loudly, pointing a crude finger at Leo, his blue eyes screwed up with such insanity that he must be some sort of psychopath. Leo steps back and looks like hes going to fall over until the boy starts to burst out laughing, holding his chest like this was some sort of joke. 

"Just joking! But I've seen you all in my dreams, just a way of making you feel welcomed..." Octavian laughed but I wasn't laughing. This boy wasn't right in the mind. I know what that looks like too. 

"Hilarious Octavian, but have you seen anything in your dreams indicating the rise of Kronos?" Reyna says in a cool, calm, collected voice and her dark, dark eyes are focused on the stringy blonde. 

He shakes his head. "The same thing. The scraphoguase in the tunnels. That's it. And a pair of people walking down towards it. Hasn't really changed." 

Reyna nods in dissapointment. "I understand. Well, keep looking and don't steal more stuffed animals from the probatios, I've gotten ten complaints since I've walked in." Octavian rolls his eyes and turns back to the Zeus statue and does this weird thing with his hands, raising them up and down as though in some sort of sickening trance. 

I didn't like this boy at all. 

We walk in the other direction, me and Piper walk beside Reyna while Leo trails behind us, gawking at some of the pretty girls who wink at him as he passes. He's such an idiot. 

"That's Octavian Octavian, he's a descendant of Apollo, his great-great-great grandfather was a son of Apollo, predicted many horrible things back in the 1930's apparently. Told the gods everything only if they swore to protect their family. He's a bit stuck up if you ask me." Reyna wrinkled her nose and I couldn't help but agree with her. He was a bit stuck up and the joke he made about Leo being some sort of imposter wasn't all that funny if you asked me.

"Okay, but who has a first name for a last name and last name for a first name?" Piper shook her head in confusion. 

Reyna laughed. "His real name is Augustus Octavian Octavian, but he only goes by Octavian." 

I shake my head, drinking in the fact that, that kid was supposed to be a legacy of Apollo. Was Apollo some shrink god or something too? Beause this kid needed help. 

"So, how exactly did you find so many demigods for Project Jupiter?" 

We're walking around the camp, a couple of kids stand a little straighter and salute her but she ignores them. "Again, I started threeish years ago with my sister, she had a small gathering of sorts.Jason and I had been friends before all of this and he told me about half-humans and I took a test, and I was one. So I began the search of others like me. Took a while but I've made it so far." 

Reyna reminded me of Percy and how good a person he is, such a natural leader with a good heart, never let others piggyback off of him, maybe Jason everyonce and a while, but they where best friends and that was much different. If Reyna and Percy ever teamed up, the monsters would retreat at the thought of them fighting. At the thought. 

Maybe if this ended in the right way, maybe, Project Jupiter would be an interesting start of change. Change is good. And change is bad. 

"When your men coming running back, we'll set up an area just behind the camp for you to use." We walk out on the other side of the walls, where kids are digging trenches with big shovels and others are lining the sides with cement bricks. They seem driven, not even caring to wipe the sweat from their brows or adjust the slipping overalls on their backs. 

"I really appreciate you letting us stay, Reyna, after the metal bulls and the warehouses being destroyed, we owe you one." I say and sit on the grassy hill next to Piper and Leo who look at the Camp in awe.