Hey y'all! Sorry it's been a while. I'm starting to get ready for my AP exam and my teachers have been loading me with homework. On top of that, I just had a really weird weekend… like über weird… but anyways, I hope y'all enjoy the chapter!

Quote of the Chapter:

"… Breaking News: The Pity Train has just derailed at the intersection of Suck It Up and Move On, and crashed into We All Have Problems, before coming to a complete stop at Get The Hell Over It. Any complaints about how we operate can be forwarded to 1-800-waa-waaa. This is Dr. Sniffle reporting live from Quitchur Bitchin."

~Unknown

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Chapter 6: I Fry My Breakfast

Bryn

Bryn woke up with a start. She had had a nightmare for the umpteenth time. It had started four nights ago… or when Luke and Silena had come to camp.

Luke…

She had been training him and Silena in sword fighting while Derek taught them archery. Luke had a knack for sword-fighting; Silena was good, too, but Luke beat her at it. However, when it came to archery, Silena could almost pass as a kid of Apollo she picked it up so easily. Luke, on the other hand, seemed determined to miss the target even though he swore up and down that he just couldn't hit the dang target.

Bryn smiled in spite of herself. She wasn't much of a social person. It still shocked her that she had offered to train him and Silena in the first place. Naturally, since she was a daughter of Zeus and Luke was the grandson of Poseidon, they had their arguments… every day. It usually ended up with the two of them ignoring each other for a few hours before they both cooled down enough to have civil conversations. However, she got along with Silena really well. Bryn decided it was because Silena took more after Athena than Poseidon while it was the opposite case with Luke.

Children of the Big Three, specifically Zeus, had a temper issue. Poseidon's children tended to be laid-back. Hades' children tended to hold grudges. Something they all had in common with each other though is that they always thought they were right, whether they were or not. Together, they could either be the best of friends or the worst of enemies… rarely was it the former.

Bryn pushed her thoughts of Luke from her mind and focused on her dream; there had been fire, lots of it. There were two people. She couldn't tell who they were but one was holding the other in their arms. It was obvious the person being held was dying. Bryn had sensed fear, sadness, and love, mainly love. The fear surprisingly came from the person that was holding the other one. The person being held actually felt pretty calm.

Bryn groaned. She hated demigod dreams. Bryn turned on her lamp so that she could see. The statue of Zeus in the middle of the cabin shone. Bryn wasn't one for gold but this one was a soft matte gold, which Bryn tended to favor. The rest of the camp wouldn't be up until eight, so Bryn had three hours to either try and fall back asleep or stay awake. She decided to stay up. Since Hecate was her great-grandmother, she liked the night, actually preferred it. There was something about the moon shining its silver light on everything that enraptured Bryn.

She climbed up the ladder next to her bed and onto her roof, something she had convinced Zeus to let her do. How she had done it, she wasn't sure, but Bryn was pretty sure she had inherited her mother's ability to Charmspeak, a handy thing to have. She watched as the moon set, almost positive she saw Artemis's silver chariot flying above her. Multiple times Bryn had thought of joining the Hunters of Artemis but had never been able to bring herself to do it. She guessed Aphrodite had something to do with that. But Bryn also realized she didn't want to live forever, not with the lonely life she had. She did have Derek though and she was completely fine with that. He had always been there for her. However, now that Silena was here, she felt herself losing Derek. He had never had a girlfriend; he had never actually liked any of the girls at camp and had always hung out with Bryn. They got each other. They knew what each other wanted when they wanted it.

Now he was completely hooked on Silena and Bryn knew Silena knew. Of course, Silena was just as hooked with Derek as he was with her. Bryn wanted Derek to have a girlfriend. He deserved one. Most girls at camp had a crush on Derek. He was tall, handsome, had the superman thing going on with his hair, and he had the most startling blue eyes Bryn had ever seen.

With Bryn, when she had started to grow up and began wearing makeup, the guys took notice of her. It scared her, all the attention. She had never been center of attention before. But she wasn't going to show that she was scared; it wasn't in her nature. Bryn started hanging out with the guys, learning how to be like them, how to act like them. That only made the guys like her more.

But now they were dead scared of her. Not only was she the fiercest fighter in the camp, but she was also the most powerful. There were a few Hades kids, but Hades was their only parent. There hadn't been any Poseidon kids until Luke and Silena came.

Bryn had a long line of godly heritage. She was obviously directly related to Zeus, having him be her father. Aphrodite was her grandmother, Hecate was her great-grandmother, and Apollo was her great-great-grandfather. Add that entire heritage together, and you have a deadly demigod. Not only that, but she had received a gift from each of them. She had a sharp intuition from Apollo. With Hecate, she had received the gift of being able to see fairly well at night, not as well as a cat could but almost as well. From Aphrodite, she had received the ability to Charmspeak, a powerful thing to have in the right situation. From Zeus, she had received the ability to zap lightning whenever she felt like it; that went for all of Zeus's kids, but it was still a powerful ability.

The thought of striking lightning made Bryn think of the sunrise so she just sat there, watching the moon disappear and the sun rise. It was painted with red, blue, orange, pink, yellow, and purple. It made Bryn smile.

Once the sun was up, Bryn went back down. It was only six. She still had time to kill. It was time to read. She put on Taylor Swift, pulled out the first book of the Hunger Games series, the Greek version (since it was easier to read in Greek for her since her mind was hard-wired for it) and continued reading it. She finished the book at seven and continued jamming out to Taylor Swift. She had put a spell around the Zeus cabin so no one could hear her singing. She also closed her curtains so they couldn't see her dancing. Singing she was all right with. Dancing, she needed serious help.

"Nice singing." The voice made Bryn whirl around. She zapped at the figure leaning against the door, not even thinking about who it could be. They barely ducked out of the way before she sent another volley of lightning strikes at them. One of them hit him, throwing him against the wall.

"Ow! Gods, woman! I was just giving you a compliment!" Luke's voice stopped Bryn from shocking him again, but only barely.

"Luke, what in Hades name are you doing here?" Bryn demanded, walking over to him.

"I was going to bring you your breakfast which you missed but you just fried it," Luke replied, getting up and glancing at the blackened roll, bacon, and eggs.

"Why were you doing that?" Bryn asked, somewhat touched by the gesture.

"I was coming to see if you were okay; I was worried that…" Luke didn't finish the sentence.

"Worried that…?" Bryn prodded.

"Forget it. Listen, Silena and Luke are practicing archery and I didn't want to intrude. I was wondering if you wanted to try and help me figure out who the last person is in the prophecy."

Bryn didn't want to forget it but her instinct told her not to push him. "Sure, why not?"

"So do you think it's an Apollo, Demeter, or Ares kid?"

Bryn was silent, allowing herself to think. When her mind came to Demeter, her intuition kicked in, full force.

"Demeter."

"Why?"

"I have a wicked intuition that you would do well to listen to," Bryn snapped lightly.

"Are you okay? You're snappier than usual."

"I woke up to dang early."

"Ah. Well why don't you get some sleep and I'll come wake you up when it's time for sword fighting, deal?" Luke held out his hand.

"Deal," Bryn agreed, shaking his hand and making sure to send him a small shock. Luke's arm didn't even twitch at the shock, surprising Bryn.

After he left, Bryn tumbled into bed. Her dreams consisted of Luke, Silena, Derek, herself, and another girl that Bryn recognized from the Demeter cabin. Her name was Hannah, and Bryn couldn't help recalling Hannah asking if Luke and Silena were the kids of the Percy and Annabeth Jackson. That was when her instinct hit her, and Bryn knew that it was Hannah they were supposed to take. She didn't want to because she didn't necessarily like Hannah. She was a bit stuck-up and snobby but the meaning of her dream was clear: Hannah needed to come.

Rolling out of her bed, Bryn headed out her door… where she ran smack dab into Luke.

"Ow!" They both mumbled.

"Hey there, sleeping beauty," Luke said with a grin.

"The person's Hannah. She's who we have to take," Bryn told him without any forewarning.

"That's weird. I just asked her to join us."

"That's divine intervention right there. There's a reason she has to come with us. Just why, I'm not sure."

"Do those three ladies have something to do with this?" Luke inquired as the two of them started heading down towards the training facility.

"If you're talking about those old hags called the Fates, then yes, although it's probably a small part," Bryn explained. Thunder rolled overhead even though there were no clouds in sight. "Oh shut up you three. I have a right to bad-mouth you."

"You do?"

"Let's just say they've made my life a living hell." Bryn didn't go into detail; she didn't want to.

The two reached the sword fighting arena when Bryn suddenly realized it was Friday.

"Ach kólasi̱!" Bryn exclaimed suddenly.

"What?" Luke questioned, taken aback by her sudden outburst.

"It's Friday!"

"No, really?" Luke said sarcastically.

"It's Capture the Flag day. I have to go make alliances!"

"Why don't you be an alliance of Poseidon?"

Bryn laughed. "Yeah, that would work. Not!"

With that, she left Luke and headed towards Derek who was talking to the leaders of the Hermes, Hades, Nike, Hephaestus, and Nemesis. Everyone else was siding with Athena. The good thing was that they had the children of Zeus and Hades on their side, which the kids alone were powerful enough to take on a dozen kids alone. The Apollo cabin was the biggest cabin with twenty-four kids; Ares came in second with twenty-one. Apparently Apollo and Ares kept pretty busy…

They had Nemesis, goddess of revenge, on their side. The kids were already out for revenge since they had been sided with Ares last time but had lost. Kids that were out for vengeance were dangerous. Bryn had learned that herself. She had been the same way when she was younger; she still is.

Having kids of Nike on their side was good because she was the goddess of victory, and hello? Who doesn't want the children of the goddess of victory on their side?

Then there was Hephaestus. They were masterminds with mechanics and if anyone had a problem with a weapon, having a Hephaestus kid on your side to help fix it was a good idea.

Finally, there was the Hermes cabin, also the eighth largest cabin. These kids were masterminds at traps, being able to make them out of anything. They were also sneaky, a reason Bryn usually brought one of them along with her while she got the flag with Derek.

There was one problem. While not all of the cabins participated in Capture the Flag, a majority of them did… and Bryn's team didn't have the majority. But, that was their only problem. Bryn usually knocked out the guys on Ares and tried to daze the kids on Athena. Those were the two cabins you had to watch.

The alliances were made and then Derek and Bryn headed to the sword fighting arena, highly anticipating what they knew would be an interesting game of Capture the Flag.

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All right then, I hope y'all enjoyed the story!