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I woke up with a jolt of electricity running through my body. My fingertips still feels weird, and its not warm anymore. Its cold – ice cold, and kinda blue, somehow. My head's spinning. I don't think I've experienced a headache this painful since the time I got sunstroke. Its like my brain has turned into mush. My whole body ache, especially my arms and legs, and I found my suitcase on the wooden floor, scratched and tattered. Fortunately, its still in one piece.
Where am I? Clearly, I'm in a room, but where? All I remember was running through woods with Charlie dragging me and me holding on to my suitcase, and a boy named Leo and an awful creature whose name I couldn't seem to remember. Was that really happening? Am I not dreaming? This seems too… crazy to be true.
I sit up with difficulties. My back also aches. I found some white bandage with red stains wrapping my upper left arm, my right palm, my left foot, my right ankle. I also noticed the one on my stomach. How did I manage to destroy my body? What did I do, running through a chainsaw? And why the hell am I only wearing my bra? Who did this to me? Luckily, I still had my pants on, even though its dirty and tattered.
"I see you're awake." An unfamiliar voice making me jump. I look around to see who it is, and I found a pretty girl standing on the doorway. Her hair is brown and braided and her eyes… I don't even know how to describe it. Is it blue? Hazel? Green? All of those at once? I don't know. She's beautiful, and her voice is enchanting. "Sorry to startled you! My name's Piper McLean. Call me Piper." She smiled and sat on my bed. I can feel myself blushing. I'm not used to have people around me while I'm only wearing a bra.
"And sorry for removing your shirt. You had some pretty serious wounds on your stomach. Don't worry, I won't let the boys see it." She winked.
"How did I even get wounds on my stomach? All I did was holding on to Charlie as he dragging me through the woods." I asked. "Well, before you freezes it, the empousa managed to stab your stomach." Piper answered, and I winced at the thoughts. That thing stabbed me? Why did I not feel it?
"Do you want to go outside? It must be pretty boring here." She said with a smile. I spent most of time sleeping so I don't think its boring at all, but I nodded anyway.
She gave me a white shirt that's too big for me, and together, we headed outside. For a moment, the brightness of the sun blinds me and I cannot see anything, but after I let my eyes adjust for a while, I see that the place is beautiful.
"Yo, Pipes!" I see the Latino curly haired boy running towards our direction. I thought they were good friends, but apparently I thought wrong since Piper returned him smile with a scoff. "Oh, come on, I thought you're not mad at me for disappearing for like, a while!" He grins. I can see dimples on his right cheek.
"A while? You were gone for 2 fucking years, Leo Valdez. And where is this daughter of Atlas, Calypso, that you were so in love with? I thought you go to Ogygia to see her and brought her here." Piper retorted. Whoa, daughter of Atlas? What's up mythology around here? I'm clearly missing something.
"Yeah, about that…" Leo scratch the back of his head, and starts telling us his story. And since I just got here and didn't understand anything, Piper and Leo had to explain everything for me. I'm quite grateful for both of them.
They explained how this, the place where I stood right now, is a camp for Greek demigods to go to. Yeah, Greek demigods. Sons and daughters of Greek mythology gods. Piper is apparently a daughter of Aphrodite, the goddess of love whom I adore so much (but when I told them that, they just snorted and hold their laughter) and Leo is a son of Hephaestus, the god of fire. No wonder he smells like forges and smoke the first time I met him. When I asked them who my parents were, they told me that I have to wait until one of the Olympians claimed me, which is cool, I guess.
So 2 years ago, Gaia, or Mother Nature is awakened and threaten to kill everyone because of reasons I don't simply understand myself. Who knew Mother Nature could be such a bitch? And long story short, Piper, Leo, and 5 of their friends are Hera's chosen demigods and they go on a quest, there's lots of explosions and life threatening situation and emotional rollercoaster and Leo fell down from the ship, landed on an island called Ogygia, and met the goddess Calypso. And fell in love with her.
Okay, onto Leo's story. Leo sort of sacrifice himself, and his friends thought he was dead. But he's not. He took a cure that made him alive again? Sort of? And he founds Ogygia, and since he promised Calypso to free her, he did. They traveled the world together for quite some time (Leo said Calypso's favorite place is Australia), and one day Leo asked Calypso to go to Camp Half Blood with him, since he thinks its time for him to go back home. Calypso gently refused, because she didn't like to stay in one place (which is weird because she has been staying in one place for millenniums, but also understandable since she has been staying in one place for millenniums. See what I mean?) and Leo tries to understand. For their last trip, they went to Bora Bora and apparently that's where she's staying right now.
"Pretty cool, right? She kissed me goodbye when I climbed onto Festus's back." He says with a crooked smile. Judging by her facial expressions, Piper's still pretty mad at him. "Okay. Fine. Whatever." She mumbled under her breath.
"Oh! Isn't it weird that I found you and I don't even know your name? Who are you?" Leo asked, suddenly noticing my presence.
"Glace Blanc." I answered.
"Grace! Cool!" Leo smiled.
"Not Grace. Glace." I corrected him. This always happens whenever I introduced myself to new people.
"Glace, with an L. Got it." Piper said.
"Glaze? Like the donut?" Leo asked, and Piper smacked him.
"Not Glaze, you idiot!" Piper smacked Leo's head, and I was surprised to find myself chuckling.
"So, Glace," Leo carefully says, taking a glace to Piper who smiled proudly. "Who do you think your godly parent is?" He asked.
He let me think for a moment. The first one that comes into my head is Hades. I was hoping to be a daughter of Hades. He's cool and laid back, and probably to most chill Olympian ever. Besides, I love the dark and fortunes. I don't want to be Zeus's kid, because that means Hera would be my stepmother and she'll dislike me instantly.
Aphrodite? Nah, I'm not that pretty. I don't have multicolored eyes like Piper's, but that's alright. I like my icy blue eyes.
I don't I'm Hephaestus's daughter, too. I'm nowhere near good in mechanics or something like that.
Suddenly, I feel something on top of my head. A little delicate thing. It fell down from the sky, and now it fell into my hand too. I'm pretty sure that my hair's covered in those things, because my shoulder is too.
Snow. Its snowing.
How is this even possible?
"What the fuck?" I hear Piper muttered under her breath. Judging by her and Leo's shocked expression, I don't think this happens very often. Why is it suddenly snowing?
But wait… Piper and Leo isn't staring at the snow, they're staring at me. Like they've just seen a ghost. "What is it?" I asked.
"You've… You've been claimed." Piper whispers.
"By who?"
"Unfortunately," She continued. "Khione."
Author's note: Because I can imagine Leo with a dimples ;) I feel like this is kinda rushed... Its not my best work. I am so sorry! I'll work harder on my next chapter. Tell me your thoughts on this chapter and story! If there's something I need to improve, please let me now. I also accept suggestion! Please review, favorite, and follow... You know, if you wanted to. And here is something to my lovely reviewers so far!
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