Hel On Earth

Actual Summary (cause the space wasn't big enough for all of it :( ) - Helena Annalise Rosaline Wing is one of Aphrodite's daughters, one who wears Converse and is one of the best fighters in camp. But with Love Magic starting to affect her, a sudden ability to conjure fireballs growing and another Olympic god, besides Aphrodite, claiming her, how does she find time to have weird dream conversations with the, supposedly, evil Luke, help her mum (something she thought she'd never do) to get Percy and Annabeth together, and to get Silena to finally stop calling her Helena?

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-A Hideously Horrible Hel-

I'm cursed. I have been since my birth when I got Aphrodite as a mum (and yes, I mean the Ancient Greek goddess of love, who else would I be talking about, idiot?). Then she gave the most hideous name imaginable; Helena Analise Rosaline Wing. Ok, the surname was my dad's but the rest is all her.

Helena. Honestly. Who calls their kid Helena nowadays? Well, obviously goddesses of love do. Damn gods with their stupid powers and stupid expectations. For example, if you're Athena's kid, you're smart, Hephaestus' unfortunate offspring, you're good at DIY. For me, I'm supposed to 'take pride' in my appearance and have boys throwing themselves at my feet. Yeah right. I'm about as much as Barbie doll as Mr D. Which is not at all if you've never had the misfortune of meeting him.

I'm what you would call a tomboy. Where every girl in my cabin has their porter lug bags of high-heels and truckloads of makeup through camp every summer, I'm perfectly happy with my hoodies and jeans. Still, at least I don't have to bother with the hassle of having airport security yell at me for not telling them about my belly button piercing every summer anymore, since my dad expired about a week ago. Ha! Take that posh-word-using-Annabeth-Chase!

You would expect me to be upset, but I'm not. Well, slightly pissed off that I now have to spend the entire year in the company of Mr D. but other than that, I don't really care. I got an Iris message from my dear darling mother though, after I'd heard the news.

"Helena, I am so sorry that-ahh!" she looked at me for the first time, having decided that her lipgloss was now perfect, "What are you wearing!" So what I'd just been playing football? So what if I was a tad muddy?

"Clothes."

"Well I can see that," she snapped, "what I mean is, they're highly inappropriate items for one of my daughters, or even my sons," the Goddess of Love adds, sniffing disdainfully, "to wear!"

"My life, remember? I can do whatever the hell I want." I said forcefully, folding my arms, attempting to prove to her for once and forall that I was nothing like her, and I never would be. Now it could have been my imagination, but I swear that the room got a bit darker, and my eyes felt weird for a second.

Mum stared at me, before muttering a sentence I'm not entirely sure I was supposed to hear, "Oh Gods, so much like her father..." before shaking her currently blonde waterfall of hair, that I think looked peroxide, and turning wide lilac eyes on me. "If you ever need a makeover, sweetie..."

"I'll be sure to give you a call. Just don't hold your breath. Oh, and I'm fine about Dad's death; we were never that close. So bye." I waved a hand through the image and it vanished before she could say anything else. That woman scares me. I'd rather fight Cerberus and all three Furies at once than let her near me with straightners and mascara. Percy completely agrees with me about the whole fear/hatred-of-Aphrodite thing, though he at least, has got a valid reason considering she's like constantly trying to set him up with Annabeth. He's sort of my best guy friend. We bonded cause of lipstick, ironically enough.

So there I was, sitting on the porch of my cabin at two in the morning with Lostprophets' Everyday Combat causing me permanent hearing problems (what? I like it loud), when a skinny boy with a mop of dark hair and red stuff scribbled across his face, stomped up the steps. I blinked up at him, not having heard a word of what he had said cause of my earphones. He glared at me with his vividly turquoise eyes before bending down and yanking them roughly out of my ears.

"Hey!" I cried indignantly, but it was immediately drowned out.

"Get this gunk off my face!" he shouted, but I shushed him, glancing at the pink wooden door that separated us from my lipgloss wielding half-brothers and sisters.

"Why are you asking me, anyway?"

"Well you obviously did it!" My eyes narrowed to slits instantly.

"Do I look like your average Aphrodite's daughter to you?" I demanded, gesturing first at the uncombed knot of hair then at my sloppy clothes.

"I guess not, sorry." I moved up, so I was kneeling and reached up with one finger (he flinched back as I did so) to wipe some of the 'gunk' from his cheek.

"It's Scarlet Strawberry Shimmer." I declared, after a tentative sniff, "it's Maria's. Third bed on the left." I added.

"You don't mind if I get her back?"

"Why should I? As I said before, I'm not your average Cabin Nine camper."

"Thanks." He said, accompanied with a blinding smile, "Be right back."

Five minutes or so later he appeared again, grinning,

"What did you do?"

"You'll see." he said secretively, smiling.

"Whatever, come here, I've got wipes."

Eyeing my nervously, he sat on my rug next to me and lent back against the wall. Once every trace of Scarlet Strawberry Shimmer had been removed from his face, I offered him one of my earphones.

"What music is it?"

"Good music."

After holding it to his ear, he put it in and agreed, "Yeah, it is. I didn't know anyone else here and heard of Zebrahead, let alone liked them." After a minute, "I'm Percy Jackson," Duh, everyone knows your name. "what's your name?"

"The name my mother gave me? Or what I actually want to be called?"

"Both."

"Helena Annalise Rosaline Wing, but if you call me that you will die a slow and painful death." He blinded my again with his teeth, "Just call me Hel."

A/N: New story! Woooop! yeh...so anyways, likes? dislikes? whatever it is, review :) new chapter up soon, promise this time xD

Becki

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