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Andy nodded to Arthur and then looked up at Cassian. She didn't know the older kid very well. But she knew he was one of Mr. D's kids, which was weird to her. Mr. D didn't like kids yet he had them. He still hadn't even called her by the right name yet. She had barely met her dad, but at least he had called her by the right name, she was used to having non-existantant parents so that didn't bother her.

"Isn't Nancy an Apollo kid too though? Like that's her dad and Zeke's dad too." She asked confused. The way Cassian spoke about Nancy it made it seem like she was just a Roman and not a demi-god like the rest of them. Andy knew that her aunt Mads had the same mom as Rebecca but the Roman version, which made Andy sad that Rebecca had never met Mads. She never knew they were related too. She knew that Niah's mom was a river.

Andy noticed that there was a new girl over by Mary who was claimed. The girl looked about her and Arthur's age. A part of her was a little excited, but also nervous. The last girl their age had died horribly. She hoped this girl would live longer.



Niah didn't like letting Nancy go off alone with Apollo, but she respected her friend's desire to speak with her father alone. If it were Niah wanting to speak with her mother alone they would respect that. Not that her mom showed up very often either. With Nancy gone to talk to Apollo and Zeke walking off in a huff that left Niah alone, mostly, with Mads.

"What was that he gave her?" She asked quietly as she could to her friend. She had seen it but didn't know what it did. She watched the chariott for Nancy to get back out. Hoping she could catch a glimpse of Nancy's face before she made herself look calm and collected. Niah wanted to gage for what she'd be dealing with in the future. They still didn't know what her vision had been too.

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Bryan was in the Apollo's cabin getting a few things out from his trunk nearby which was some armor he kept there as he started to put it on just as he heard the cabin door opening. He noticed Zeke coming into the room and waved towards him, seeing that broody look and wondered what was up. "Hey Zeke whats up?" He asked as he was fiddling around with some of the armor straps as he turned to face his half brother. "I was gonna hit the climbing wall or to the arena for some sparing wanna come with?" He offered his half-brother, he didnt really have to much going on and was hoping for a little bit of company as well to. "Also whats with the grumpy old man face?" Bryan couldn't help but ask.

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Tammy the head counselor for the Iris cabin was working at the camp store usually it had just about everything from weird little nick nacks here and there, to some ambrosia, to nectar as well. Along with camping supplies, and food as well for anyone who was going on a quest and clothes for both warm and colder climates to as well as a bunch of art supplies to. She was leaning forward slightly reading a random book while eating a powdered doughnut. The store was kinda dead at the moment right now as she was reading away mostly just out of boredom as a few campers occasionally stepped in and looked around.

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"Alright we won't go to her then we can just make something cool and simple or something nothing fancy?" Kiera said as she was mopping the floor of the shrine as she turned to face Leda, and nodded slightly. "Sorry didn't mean to open up any old wounds or anything like that." Kiera said softly knowing the history that her and Rebecca had shared she didnt want to bring up something that would make her girlfriend upset as she continued to mop the floor some more.

She stopped cleaning for a moment setting the mop down and leaned up against the wall slightly as she thought about potentially meeting her half-brother. "I mean i've thought about it but i'm not sure maybe if I had some company or something to?" Kiera said giving a slight shrug, they lived in the city from what she knew. "It might be weird to just randomly show up and say 'Hey i'm looking for my half-brother.'" Kiera said though it would be nice to get to know him and sometimes sleeping in the Poseidon cabin alone did feel lonely to.

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"It's not really often that they just randomly show up at camp, usually something happens shortly after they come to camp to why Apollo is here I have no idea." Kristin said as she noticed that Stella was claimed by her mother and smiled gently patting Stella on the shoulder. "Congrats, your mom is Demeter." Kristin said as she gestured towards all of the kids over at the Demeter table was they all returned the wave as well when Mary showed up and smiled towards her friend. "It looks like you have a new half-sister." Kristin said to Mary as she stood up for a moment and stretched.

Kristin noticed the bandages on Mary and wondered what had happened. "So what happened to you Mary?" Kristin asked mostly out of curiosity Kristin saw the kid Cassian was talking to Andy and Arthur, she hadn't known him that well really as he had come to camp pretty recently to and knew that he was one of Mr. D's kids but nothing really more than that either. Kristin wondered what Apollo and Nancy were actually talking about as well occasionally looking over to where the Sun Chariot was parked right now.

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"I'll pass along the message then." Madalyne said to Zeke as he sort of huffed and walked away wondering what that all was about as her attention turned towards Niah asking what was in the box she knew what it was right away just by looking at it. "It's the Physician's Cure supposedly it can bring back someone from the dead if administered quickly enough it's one of the things that Jupiter forbids the use of it was made by Apollo's son Asclepius. Last time it was used was during the whole war with Gaia a few years ago." Madalyne told Niah.

"If Apollo gave it to Nancy then something might happen to someone probably something what Nancy had seen." Madalyne said she had no idea why Apollo would allow anyone to get it either, she looked over towards Andy and waved towards her niece some new face was talking to her who she didnt really know and wondered who it was.

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Stella smiled up at the three slightly older teens and then looked at the plate before her before her attention was drawn elsewhere by someone yelling that she was a commie. She looked up and saw the wheat stalk and sickle. "That's not the Communist symbol, that's wheat and a sickle... wait..." She smiled when Kristin told her that meant her mother was Demeter, and her smile grew just even wider when she told her that Mary was her half sister!

"That's awesome! I've always wanted siblings! And Demeter is my mother? That explains the plants... I've always connected with them better than people sometimes." The young redhead looked nothing but ecstatic about being a child of the goddess of the harvest. "Oh, Mary was part of the group that helped me when I arrived. There was a manticore and Mary was so cool and killed it! I mean there as this other girl there, some Roman girl I was told. But that's awesome! We're sisters!" Her bubbly enthusiasm was just beaming from every little bit of her at that moment.

"Oh yeah, I should eat." She chuckled at that and then looked at the plate. "I would like... sourdough toast, buttered please, with a fried egg and bacon please? And to drink... hot cocoa... with cinnamon." Her favorite treat, which her Otou-san usually made for her on those foggy and cold mornings in San Francisco.

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Demetri started making his way over towards the Arts and Crafts center, glancing backwards to look at the Apollo Cabin once more. He felt a tightness in his chest, worry coursing through him wondering what had Zeke in such a foul mood. Whatever it was, he would hopefully find out later, and perhaps the gifts would help to cheer him up. Demi looked forward, letting out a sharp sigh as he pressed forward through the snow with more determination than before. It was then that Demi fully realized he wasn't trekking through snow anymore. The satisfying crunch beneath his heel now turned into a sloshing sound as his foot met wet ground.

Demetri was so focused with the list and his design that he hadn't noticed all the snow at camp had melted. The air felt warmer, and suddenly with this new revelation, his jacket felt more uncomfortable. He unbuttoned the front, but decided to keep it on, if only because his hands were about to become very full very fast. Once Demi had made it to the center he began to scour the supplies for stencils depicting the scenes Zeke had described. Much to his surprise they had them all, and Demi could help but smile knowing Zeke's favorite scenes would be depicted across his new gift.

Demetri grabbed the supplies he needed from there, filling his arms and pockets as much as he could before entering the Camp Store. Tammy was there reading a book, and Demi, in his awkward fashion, decided to tilt his head and try to get a glimpse of the spine. "What'cha reading there? Mind if I interrupt?" He asked with a smile on his face as he glanced about the store. "Just looking for some guitar strings and the items on this list. I'm playing errand boy today."

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Cassian eyed Arthur warily as he whispered something towards Andy. He took several steps closer until he was standing just a foot away from them, stopping to take a sip of his drink before flashing them, well mostly Arthur, a smirk. "Secrets Secrets don't make friends." His cockiness preceded him as he spoke and looked towards the two, rapping his fingers against the cup. "While Apollo is her father, it doesn't mean the others won't get jealous. I mean, she's only been here for what? A few months? And suddenly daddy dearest comes and offers her and only her a gift? Sure he gave Zeke some minor attention but did he so much as glance at his other kids?"

In truth, Cassian wanted the others to get jealous. He wanted them to act out if only just a little. He had nothing against Nancy, but with the camp on lock down due to the fighting, Cassian just wanted his own form of enjoyment for a change. As much as he loved the satyrs and spirits of nature around here, he still craved that bit of chaos that came from monsters, infighting, and just about anything else. "I mean, if your dad came here and only paid attention to your brother how would that make you feel? Just look at how Zekey boy stormed off. Clearly the kid has some daddy issues that need to be resolved and his father isn't helping."

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Zeke pulled off his beanie and stripped his jacket off as soon as he stepped into Apollo cabin. The conversation with Demetri was confusing. Clearly the son of Zeus was up to something and he was equally curious and annoyed with Apollo being here to see Nancy. He looked over when Bryan acknowledged him and Zeke sighed a little.
”Dad’s here. He gave something to Nancy. I didn’t really get a good look at it but she seemed pretty shocked and demanded to talk to him alone. On the plus side, no more snow thanks to Apollo.” He ran a hand through his damp hair from the snow earlier and breathed a sigh with relief at Bryan’s suggestion to go to the climbing wall. Zeke definitely needed to expel some energy.
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Mary looked over at Stella and gave her a bit of a smile, "Yep, looks like you're another daughter of Demeter. Probably should have guessed from the plant thing," she commented. Yup, another half sibling for her to have hanging around that was for sure. It could be fun, who knew, Stella was a bit of an oddball when it came to her personality, at least that was going to make things interesting. Of course at the moment there wasn't really all that much to really do, at least for the moment.

"Wow, that's cool that you are a daughter of Demeter. Sounds like you'll have lots of fun with that," Janelle commented with a bit of a shrug. Personally she wasn't sure about the whole idea of having half-siblings, well aside from Jason, but with him they had been raised as siblings, so she didn't care too much with regards to it in that way. Though everyone probably saw how things were differently, and family or relatives meant something different for everyone, that's all that mattered.

Jason was just listening to the conversation, which then went towards Stella and her godly parent who turned out to be the goddess Demeter. Well that was an interesting thing that popped up, she got claimed somewhat quickly it would see, so the gods weren't too busy to pay attention to their demigod children it would seem. Of course given the fact that Apollo was in the camp at the moment, it made him wonder what was going on with them. Then came them bringing up a fight of some sort, "Wait Manticore?" he couldn't help but ask.

"Yup, a manticore. It was chasing after her and the saytr that led her here, I went charging in, it wasn't anything really. And the roman girl she mentioned was ugh Leandra, who started driving me made and more or less ended up insulting the camp and how things were ran here, this after the fight where she wanted to essentially fall back and maybe leave the manticore alive and wandering around outside the border, she was driving me insane, and made a few other comments that made me want to stab her." Mary explained with a slight shrug.

"A manticore? That sounds like a cool fight to have been a part of. From the sounds of it it was an interesting fight, and one that happened while we were here at first. At least the monster isn't around anymore to cause problems though for us at the moment right?" Janelle said with a smile, turning her head to face the direction of Stella's voice.

"Yeah, it's gone. Stella here helped out way more then Leandra did by wrapping them up in vines and letting me have an easier time killing the monster."

"Wow, that's awesome!" she said happily, still smiling from what she was hearing with regards to the fight.

"It's always fun to get into a fight of some sort when you first get here. That kind of happened to us, our first introduction to this place was when we were brought here by a saytr and a bunch of monsters started attacking. No better way to get used to what all tends to happen around here then getting thrown right into the middle of it right?" Jason commented with a bit of a shrug. Yeah, he and Janelle had been running from a larger swarm of monsters then just one, and that fight also resulted in Janelle needing a new cane since she bashed one over the head with her old on and it bent.

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Leda shrugged slightly. She didn't really think about her relationship with Rebecca as being an old wound - it was more like a cautionary tale. "Nothing to be sorry about, luv. What I had with Bex is old news." Still, it didn't mean she wanted to poke the bear by going to Rebecca's siblings for help. Rebecca had been rather cool about the break up, but Leda didn't know if her siblings felt the same by any means. Leda had grabbed a dust cloth and was dusting thoroughly while Kiera mopped - they were making pretty good progress, Hades' shrine was already looking much better. She smirked slightly as she picked up what Kiera was hinting.

"You mean you want your amazing, total babe of a girlfriend to come with you?" she teased. She nodded, understanding what Kiera meant about it being a little weird looking for half siblings. Leda had never really gone looking for other children of Iris - her siblings tended to find their own way to camp and they got to know each other by living together. But seeking out unclaimed Iris kids? It would have been a little strange. "I'm sure he'll come 'round camp eventually, maybe you two'll hit it off."

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Nancy hadn't considered that other children of Apollo might have been jealous that she had one on one time with their father. She had only ever met her father once years ago and it hadn't been under the best of circumstances. It would have been much easier to hate him, but as much as she tried, she couldn't. She was angry with him. She didn't trust that he didn't have some sort of ulterior motive. The fact that he had given her the Physician's Cure was terrifying. And the conversation she had just had with him revolved around a lot of things she kept private and personal. A few people knew about what had happened in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, and she didn't want to increase that number.

She stepped out of the sun chariot. "I'll go grab the sample," she told Apollo. She then crossed her arms and walked back into the dining pavilion, noting how they had gotten a bit of a break from the winter chill. She went on over to where Madalyne was, noticing that Zeke had left. She'd catch up with him later for archery - assuming they had time. Her vision was ominous and foreboding and she needed to focus on keeping Mads safe. "You can't ask why, but I need some of your blood," she whispered bluntly, only loud enough for Niah and Mads to hear as she stared at Mads.

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As Cassian smirked at Arthur, he felt a twinge of his old life. The way he was saying things, the self-assuredness, it was things he used to have, and remnants were still in here. Politics, thinking of ways to get people to do what he wanted, thinking he was better than other people. But now, he felt like trying to be better was a bit like being the tallest dwarf, the very existence of gods made them that much lesser. Instead of attempting to react directly, Arthur collected himself, and smiled, "Apologies, my voice was quiet so Apollo wouldn't hear, not you. Don't worry, not everything is about you."

That dig was maybe a bit mean, but he was getting a bad vibe from Cassian, and he was sure he could take it. "Sorry, I don't think we've met, who are you again? I'm Arthur, and this is Andy." He said, looking up at the boy, and straightening himself. Cassian was practically looming over him, but he didn't let that get to him. "It's neat how you know what's going on in Zeke's head, but I'm sure he'll be fine." Arthur didn't know Zeke too well, but he always seemed to be able to take care of himself. Exhaling, he felt good about himself, confident for the first time in awhile, and not at all put off by this new kid.

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"Cool then lets head on over there, also you might wanna get some armor or something as well to, since you know the climbing wall is pretty unpredictable." Bryan told his half-brother as he finished getting changed and stretched out slightly as he looked at Zeke as he mentioned about their father meeting with their roman half-sister. "It kind of sounds like you are pretty jealous that pops wasn't paying attention to you at all." Bryan started to tease Zeke a little bit before playfully nudging him and motioned for Zeke to follow him. "C'mon theres probably a bunch of other camper's there already anyway by now." Bryan told him as he started to leave and made his way over towards where the climbing wall was. Once he was there he looked up to see that there were several other campers there already trying to climb their way up to the top. "Whoever wins has to buy dinner next time we are out of camp." Bryan said as he quickly made a beeline towards the climbing wall and started to climb.

Camp Store:

Tammy turned her attention to see the door opening seeing Demi walking in, asking what she was reading and then lifted the book to show that she was reading World of Warcraft, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. "Reading this, it's based off of a video game series." She said as she slipped a bookmark into the page that she was on and closed the book. Tammy sped over much like Leda was being a child of Iris she snatched up the list and looked it through before handing it back to Demi. "The guitar strings are over there." She said pointing over to where there were some guitar strings. "What else did you need?" She asked.

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Kiera smiled as she finished mopping up the floor and turned to face her girlfriend, she was glad that it didn't really bother Leda talking about her ex, though part of her did wonder if they would end up bumping into her at some point to. "It would make it better to have you tag along and it would make it a lot of fun." Kiera said as she set the mop down in the bucket and nodded towards her, since Percy was here long before she was he would more than likely pop up here at some point. "Looks like we are done here, lets head off to Zeus' shrine now and get that done." Kiera said as she grabbed the cleaning supplies and headed out of Hades' shrine making her way over to Zeus' as she entered she looked around and noticed Rosie was there.

"Hey there Rosie, whats up?" Kiera asked as she approached the camp's Oracle and then reached out to touch her shoulder and turned to face her, it looked like she was in some sort of daze she snapped her fingers to get Rosie's attention and didnt get a response to her before she collapsed Kiera quickly caught her in her arms. "Is this normal, should we take her to the infirmary?" Kiera asked looking over at Leda.

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"I'm glad that you have more siblings now." Kristin said to Stella and laughed slightly and shook her head slightly. "It's more or less a running joke at the moment there was a camper who did that awhile back to another daughter of Demeter." Kristin said as she watched Nancy coming into the dining pavilion and looked at her as she approached Madalyne and Niah wondering what the three of them were actually talking about before turning her attention to Jason and Janelle. "I remember you guys were being chased by a bunch of Empousa." Kristin said remembering their encounter back then.

Kristin shook her head slightly as she heard more about the whole Leandra thing and wondered how the girl was able to piss just about everyone off and why the Romans even kept her around in the first place. "Getting stung by a manticore's stinger is never a fun thing at all honestly it's probably the worst pain anyone could ever experience." Kristin said shuddering slightly as she watched Stella eating her breakfast. "Once you are done we can get you on the tour around here."

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Madalyne sat up in the bench as she eyed the box for a moment and still wondered why Apollo would even give Nancy the Physician's Cure in the first place. She leaned forward slightly as she thought for a moment, as her attention turned to Nancy seeing her friend coming back in and quickly asking a sample of her blood. "You aren't going full vampire on us now are you?" Madalyne said jokingly though she knew that it was something serious and nodded as she reached over for a nearby knife and glass. Madalyne winced slightly as she cut her hand and then held it over the glass letting her blood drip into the glass until there was a good amount in it and slid the glass over to her friend.

"I'm assuming we will have a chat privately once you hand that over to Apollo." Madalyne said softly to Nancy as she looked down at her hand, and watched it starting to slowly heal before her. It was one of the better perks of her curse she could heal a bit faster now as she took the nearby napkin and started to clean up her hand.

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Andy frowned at Cassian. "Says the person whose dad runs camp. My dad hasn't made much of an effort to talk to either of us. I only just barely saw him at the solstice and didn't even talk to him there. How would it be any different from the last eleven years?" She asked a bit in a huff. They hadn't invited Cassian over to talk to them and he was treating them like children, which fine they were, but still, it wasn't cool. "As of now, I've said more words to you than my father. What do you want anyway?"

Her day had been ruined by Apollo showing up and melting the snow. Now this older kid was trying to act like he was her friend. It was a bit frustrating. She looked over at her Aunt. Mads knew she was there watching, she had acknowledged her and Andy had acknowledged her back. But Mads hadn't waved her over so she was going to keep her distance. This looked like it was a Roman thing, and even if Andy had some Roman legacy in her that didn't make her part of their weird military thing.



Niah raised an eyebrow at Mads explanation for what had been in the box. She had no reason to doubt Mads. But it was a surprise. Why would Apollo risk that? Was he setting Nancy up? Jupiter had already punished him recently had that broken Apollo a bit? Made him want to lash out against his own children?

Her other eyebrow went up when Nancy asked for a bit of Mads blood. Niah looked over at Apollo sitting in his 'chariot' "Is this a setup or something? Is he trying to get you trouble with Jupiter?" She asked honestly. Niah was worried, she didn't want Nancy to get in trouble. She decided that if she had to she'd administer the Physician's Cure. She wouldn't let Jupiter's wrath hurt her friend.

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"So it's normal for you to be chased into the camp by monsters? I'm glad that it is not just me then." She laughed at that as she sipped her cocoa and then smiled. Somehow it was just like her father's cocoa, down to the subtle hints of cinnamon. She set the cup down and then went to take a bite of her food and sighed a bit. "A running joke huh? Alright then but it seems that people are pretty dumb about the concept of wheat and sickle." She relaxed more at that and then took another sip of her cocoa and then paused as she looked at the siblings, and then to Marygold.

"So, have you met our mother before? I know she left a few things for me that I got." Stella took another bite of the toasted sourdough. She smiled as that wonderful tang spread on her tongue and then down her throat. "So, once I finish we'll go on the rest of the tour and I'll get to see where I'll be sleeping then? I should also try calling my dads... they might know... or they might want to know about my mother. Or at least that I made it here. Can I tell them that?" She dove back into her food and sighed a bit as she ate.

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Demi cocked an eyebrow at Tammy as she tilted the book to reveal the spine. He'd never played the game before personally, but he'd heard nothing but good reviews. Of course his only knowledge of the game was an old YouTube video of some guy named Leroy Jenkins that first got Demetri interested in trying out the game. He'd had a chance to download it and create a character but his ADHD made it very hard to focus in the game and the dyslexia didn't help much either, so he ended up quitting before ever hitting level 5. "Sweet. Didn't realize they made books about the game too, not that I know much of anything when it comes to WoW."

Before Demetri could even finish his sentence, Tammy had already bookmarked her page, zipped over towards him and snagged the list, looking it over. He had to admit the breeze she created felt nice now that the snow was gone and his jacket getting a bit too warm for comfort. "Right, thanks." Demi made his way through the store towards where Tammy had pointed. Finding the guitar strings and collecting a few. "Think I got everything else covered. Buuut." He snagged a box of Whoppers from a shelf, shaking it slightly so that the malt balls rattled within their cardboard cage. "Think I'll take some of these too. Granted I'd prefer the non-American version but I suppose this'll have to do while I'm here." Demetri placed the items onto the counter where Tammy had been earlier. "What do I owe ya?"

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Cassian smiled as Arthur began to apologize. About to accept it and mention how ideal that would be before Arthur had decidedly finished his sentence sending a pang through his own heart. He carefully removed a stray curl that rested on his forehead and moved it up towards the tufts that fell to the right, holding his smile in place. The moment was cold, calculated, almost surgical, as if it wasn't meant for comfort rather than a display of sorts. He let Arthur finish speaking before he finally let out a soft chuckle at the boy, noticing how he straightened himself as if he was almost trying to make himself appear taller. It was cute, really.

His attention was snapped over towards Andy as she joined into the conversation, focusing more on the aspects of the gods than the social snarks being made by Arthur. Cassian chose to ignore the little boy for now, not giving him an answer and purposefully speaking only to Andy for the moment. "It's true that my father does run this camp. But I don't see why that should matter? Especially now that all this turmoil is happening and it appears that every god is having their time pulled away. But then again I never was the jealous type. After all more is merrier I always say." Cassian said as he punctuated his sentence by tapping a single finger against his rosey lips.

His eyes slowly moved to the side, finally acknowledging Arthur again and having his smile creep back. "How very rude of me I forgotten to make my introductions. The names Cassian, Cassian Rudenko and I'm the child of Dionysus. Arbiter of Madness and friend to The Wild. I'm also very keen on reading people so it isn't too difficult to see what's going on in the minds of others." Cassian took a long sip of his tea, tilting the cup up so that the vessel and his hand would cover his eyes from their view. There was a slight shimmer of gold in his eyes that vanished as soon as he began to lower his cup. No one needed to know he was a legacy of Eris. After all, what fun would there be in that?

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Zeke nodded and grabbed his armor at Bryan’s recommendation. Once he was changed and suited up, he followed his half-brother out of the camping and to the training grounds. Ezekiel rolled his eyes as he was teased. It never seemed to bother Zeke when he was teased or undermined by his half-siblings. It was everyone else when they discredited him that made him mad.
”Hardly. Anytime that man pays attention to me I’m sent on a death mission,” Zeke declared. If he didn’t acquire Apollo’s attention, Zeke was perfectly fine. It was just a knee jerk reaction for him earlier. It was nothing. At least that’s what Zeke was telling himself.
They reached the rock wall and Bryan placed a bet as was the usual incentive to win. Zeke smirked and nodded before racing after Bryan. Zeke didn’t have a lot of money to his name but he’d earn some if he lost but Zeke wasn’t planning to lose. Zeke latched onto the rock wall and was starting to climb. Bryan was ahead of him and Zeke was trying to push himself but he quickly got hit in the head and blacked out.
His world went blank for a moment but he came to and could feel the ground around him and hear a ringing in his ear. Ezekiel groaned as his vision blurred and the world spun around him. He heaved himself up right, feeling a wave of nausea and paused for a moment to let it pass. Zeke looked up the rock wall and saw a rather blurry figure of Bryan. Zeke self diagnosed that he had a concussion, likely stage two with his brief moment of unconsciousness before realizing he was on the ground.
”Fuck,” he cursed. Concussions were no joke but at least here, there was the strong chance of it being healed so no long term damages occurred. The ringing diminished some but it was still faint and brought on the effects of a minor headache. Zeke pushed himself to his feet and stumbled into the rock wall as the dizziness continued to disorient him. He groped for a hold and tried to pull himself back onto the wall. Sure, Ezekiel would yell at anyone else who was about to do what he was attempting to but do as I say, not as I do, right?

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Leda nodded. "Yeah, think Hades would be chuffed with this," she agreed. The shrine was looking much nicer than it had been before, so it was more or less time for them to move onto the next shrine. Once Zeus' was cleaned up, they'd be done with the Big Three. She didn't know if the small act of cleaning out the shrines would help with the cosmic balance, but Leda figured that it couldn't hurt, and it was a nice chance to talk with her girlfriend without others around. Leda grabbed the rest of the supplies, gave the Hades' shrine a mini salute, and then started walking with Kiera to the Zeus shrine.

Of course, they weren't the only ones there - Rosie was in the shrine. Leda paused for a moment, about to suggest that they give Rosie some space, that they were intruding on a religious moment, when she realized that something was wrong. Rosie seemed like she was in some sort of trance. She wasn't responding to Kiera talking to her or snapping her fingers. "Oh, shit. I think she's having a vision - about to give a prophecy," Leda exclaimed. But then, things got stranger as Rosie collapsed into Kiera's arms. "Yeah. I'll run her." Leda then scooped up Rosie, gave Kiera a quick peck on the cheek, and then took off at a dash to the infirmary. Once she got to the infirmary, she put Rosie down in a bed. "Oi, need a medic, pronto!"

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Nancy wrinkled her nose and shook her head. "Ugh, gross. Vampires are way too sexualized. I'd rather be turned into a goat." Had Nancy known what asexuality was, she would have realized that her sentence was a great example of it. She didn't know she was a sex-repulsed asexual however. She just didn't know something like that existed. She picked up the glass of Mads' blood, glad that Mads hadn't asked her what it was for. She didn't want to break her oath, especially not in front of Niah - she didn't want to give her friend a wicked headache or anything like that.

"Yeah. Loads to talk about. Not to mention a stupid prophecy," Nancy admitted. She glanced around the pavilion, seeing so many people just going about their lives, unaware of the mortal peril that was right around the corner. "Everything's going to hell again." Namely, she had seen Mads fall into Tartarus and she was not going to allow that to happen, especially while Mads was still cursed. Nancy bit her lip slightly at Niah's question. "Honestly, I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine."

Nancy then left the dining pavilion, seeing her father still outside with the Sun Chariot. She held up the glass to him. "It's not wine, so don't drink it," she said sarcastically.

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"Oh yeah no, it seems almost really a rite of passage and mandatory at this point for someone to be chased into the camp and that's how they get here. Kind of common place really it seems like, happens more often then not," she sort of joked with a bit of a smile, looking at Stella with her comment about it. Yeah, they really needed to have better ways of getting people to the camp without the risk of them getting eaten by a monster or ripped to shreds.

"Yeah, it just sahrt o' 'appens, it's great," Jason commented with a shrug, "Dings get pretty 'ectic practically de instant you get 'ere it seems like. All 'ell tends to break loose no matter what, but eh you kend o' get used to it." Yeah, you sort of got used to the insanity that more or less was a bit of a whirlwind of events that happened when someone knew showed up. Hell, he and Janelle were sort of dragged through the ringer whether they wanted to be or not when they first showed up.

"You sahrt o' get used to it, all o' de insanity, it just sahrt o' goes away after a while..." Janelle sort of just mused, not really paying all too much attention to what was going on around her. Her brain was sort of just wandering around a bit at this point, thinking about how everything was or how everything was going to go with actually giving Stella the tour of the camp. It was going to be fun, Stella seemed like a interesting person to hang around.

"All I know is wit dahse Empousas I put me 'and straight through one and me sester brahke 'er cane ahn another one's 'ead." Yeah, it was a funny memory thinking back on it now. The monsters had been attacking, and the image still of his blind sister whirling her can around and just completely clobbering one in the head and killing was not an image he was going to be able to have disappear anytime soon. Which he was perfectly fine with.

"It's naht me faoehlt, it attacked, I reacted, de cane dedn't last two secahnds after dat aside as a very flexeble baseball bat ahr somethin like dat, it's long gahne now. I 'ave de cooler one now," she responded, holding up her cane that was a whole lot sturdier then the one she had had previously. "I mess me ahld one, but dis one is a laht better when it combs to fightin mahnsters, at least in me experience so far wit it..."

Mary rolled her eyes, before deciding to address the other questions that Stella asked. "I've met her a few times, not all too often though, we typically don't have too many interactions with most of the gods aside from when they find it convenient or something like that. As for contacting your folks, we don't really use the conventional means of communications like phones or anything like that. No, we typically use Iris Messages to talk, think of it like a video call you can make with just about anyone you'd want to."

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The Climbing Tower:

Bryan looked down over at Zeke seeing him getting knocked down and falling down to the ground by one of the various moving pieces from the Climbing Wall. "Ouch it looks like that's gonna hurt bro." Bryan said with a bit of a laugh as another camper who was attempting to try and climb the wall saw that Zeke had fallen and watched him getting up a few seconds later. "Are you alright?" The camper asked tossing down a flask of nectar for Zeke to take. "You better hurry up Zekey you are gonna loose the bet." Bryan said with a bit of a laugh as he started to climb high now about half way to the top of it now.

Camp Store:

"Oh yeah theres even a movie to but it's mostly based off of the first RTS game for WoW called Warcraft way back in like the nineties, theres dozens of books from the games mostly like post or pre expansion stories though." Tammy said with a slight shrug as she went back to the register and made a scrunching face at his choice of candy. "Eww, that will be about ten drachma." Tammy said holding out her hand to him while she opened up the register to put the money in. "Need a bag or nah?" She asked him she then gestured to his jacket. "Ya might wanna like tie it around your waist or something it got a bit warmer it feels like." Tammy suggested.

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"Go ahead and get her there i'll meet you there and clean up the shrine a bit." Kiera said smiling to her girlfriend as Leda gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. She watched Leda lifting up Rosie in her arms and quickly bolted off to the infirmary. Kiera quickly started to clean and sweep up the shrine as best she could making sure that every little bit of dirt was swept out of the shrine. Kiera then scrubbed the floors as best as she could before finishing up. Kiera set the cleaning supplies back into the nearby shed and quickly bolted over to the infirmary.

Bryan sadly wasnt in at the moment as a random daughter of Apollo came up seeing Rosie on the infirmary bed. "What happened?" She asked turning her attention to Leda. Kiera came in a few seconds later a little bit winded having done all the cleaning and then running from one side of the camp to the other Kiera took a few deep breathes as she turned to see Rosie was now starting to have a seizure. The Apollo child quickly went to keep Rosie's head still when Rosie's eyes suddenly opened and then a green mist quickly filled the entire infirmary as Rosie gave out three prophecies at once.

"To find the sword, the cursed, the storm, the garden, enter the maze one shall fall to the pit, and defeat the bane of fates." Kiera and Leda would see the labyrinth and in it they would notice a wolf, Andy and Mary were in a large chamber with a sword in a pedestal of sorts with a rather very old looking giant protecting the sword itself.

"To find the trident, the child of the sea, rainbow, and the dead must enter the depths to find the lord of the sea and with the camp of the sea." The next brief vision that they would see that the two of them and Arthur were under the ocean along with a camp similar to what Camp Half-Blood looks like and the residents of the camp fighting against a large titan with an army of sea monsters with him, and Poseidon's trident in hand in a chariot leading the fight.

"To find the bolt, the child of the flower, war and oaths, one must save the God of Boundaries, carrying the weight of the sky in the seat of power of the titans." The final vision that they would witness they would see the new girl Stella, Jason and Niah in Mount Othrys with Atlas standing guard holding Zeus' lightening bolt and Terminus holding up the sky in his place.

As the prophecies ended Rosie stopped having a seizure and was now sleeping calmly like nothing at all happened, Kiera stumbled back slightly and shook her head slightly seeing the vision. It was her first time seeing anything like that before as she turned to look at her girlfriend. "I wasn't expecting that really.." She said as she tried to process what she had seen.

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"I was chased by a bunch of man eating horses when I tried to get here to camp, honestly they aren't as nice as regular horses are though I do wonder what they say, Kiera the daughter of Poseidon knows what they actually say though." Kristin said as she watched Stella eating and Mary answered about contacting her folks. "Yeah what Mary said, sadly we aren't really allowed to use phones, don't ask me why or how but it's the easiest way for a demigod to attract a monster. I can help you with the Iris message if you'd like it's not super hard really and show you how it's done." Kristin told Stella giving her a bit of a smile.

She then heard someone yell and turned to see a camper had tripped and fallen onto the ground though he missed Arthur the kid turned to look at Arthur with a bit of an irritated look on his face. "Watch where you are standing." The kid said with a bit of a huff before going towards the nearby brazier to give what little portion there was left and stormed off out of the dining pavilion. "I wonder what that was about." Kristin said mostly to herself before turning to look at Mary. "Got any plans for today Mary?" Kristin asked her friend.

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"Who knows really with the gods honestly at this point." Madalyne said giving a slight shrug to Niah as Nancy had gone off to give her blood sample off to her father, still really curious what it was all about and why she was giving it to him. "We'll talk about what you saw once you get back alright?" Madalyne said to Nancy and Niah as well, she wanted to know what her friend had actually seen as well to, visions were never fun to see.

Apollo turned to look at Nancy as she came back with the blood sample and smiled towards her. "I don't think that would be appetizing really." Apollo said to her as she snapped his fingers as the glass turned into a vial with a cork in it. "I'll give it to my son as soon as I can, also give Zekey a hug and kiss on the cheek for me won't ya?" Apollo asked teasingly as he immediately took off the sun chariot looking like a missile flying off into the sky getting smaller and smaller until it was completely gone.

Madalyne turned to hear a kid snapping at Arthur and looked to where Andy and Arthur were still talking to the kid. "Lets see whats going on." Madalyne said to Niah as she made sure that Nancy's gift from her father was with her so that way no one could steal it. Madalyne made her way over to where her niece was. "Is everything alright?" Madalyne asked looking over at Andy, and Arthur then eyed Cassian up and down for a moment wondering who the kid actually was.

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Andy really was a lot more direct in her disdain than Arthur was, but he wasn't about to critique her for that; different styles for different people. As he watched Cassian though, and his reaction, Arthur felt something similar to fear rise through him. Maybe it was that there were too many unknowns about Cassian, or that fact that he did not at all expect him to control himself that well, but he turned his head a bit as he looked up at him. Maybe trading social punches with a spawn of the God of Madness wasn't the best plan for his long term mental health.

Instead of running though, he smiled, and decided to try to be a little friendlier. "Well, now that we're introduced, I'm still not clear on what you want." He noted, giving a bit of a confused look at him. Cassian seemed like the the type of person who desperately wanted people to think that he was important, or at the very least needed attention. So, he figured he'd take actions to deprive him of that, "If that's all-" He was about to say, before a camper tripped and fell in front of him, before yelling at him. He exhaled, more annoyed than anything, but he held his tongue. As people started to flock over, he nodded, saying, "Some people don't know how to look where they're walking, it's fine."

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Demetri tried to think about the old movie she was talking about, deciding it was probably as bad as the old Mortal Kombat movie his parents had tried to get him to watch. It wasn't exactly horrible but it definitely wasn't on par with other rookies from that Era. For a moment, Demi lingered at the counter holding onto the candy as he felt them shift in the box. Thinking about the movie nights he'd have with his parents, and how often they'd end up watching The Mummy or Jurassic Park because they were his favorites. The sound of the register opening called him back towards the space, eyes widening as he realized he had just been standing there.

"Huh? Oh uh right. Um here ya go." Demi pulled out the coins that Lauryn handed him, giving her the drachmas as he agreed to take a bag. "It's fine, I'm stopping by my cabin in a bit and will just have to change clothes there. Till then I can handle a little warmth." He grabbed the bagged items and slipped the Whoppers into his coat before heading out, hands in his pocket and the handles wrapped around his wrist. He looked around at all the sloshed snow and began to wonder exactly what happened, coming up with fanciful ideas in hisbhead until he finally made it towards the forge. "Yo."

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Cassian's smile curled at his lip as one of the campers tripped before Arthur and made a bit of a scene. He hoped that some enjoyment could be derived from that but Arthur remained composed throughout the interaction and allowed the kid to go by unscathed. Cassian made a mental note of that. He would decidedly need something bigger if it was to impact this child, and so he glanced over towards where the kid now was and noticed he'd already made his way out of the Pavilion. No known godly parent or close friends of his were by that Cassian knew, and so he let off a mental sigh, keeping his outwardly composure to Arthur and Andy.

"Well, as to what it is that I want -" Cassian's words were cut short as a hazel-haired woman made her way towards them and asked if everything was alright. Arthur remained composed as ever, almost as if they were locked in a battle to see who would falter first. Cassian's mind ran rampant for a moment on ways to handle the little brat but they all fell short and so he decided it best to ignore him all together for now and focus on the new person joining the conversation. "How could anything be wrong when such a radiant beauty as yourself joins a conversation? With eyes so beautiful even Narcissus would dare to look away from his own reflection to see them."

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Stella laughed a bit at Marygold's comment at that point, and then she looked at Jason and Janelle as they spoke. She laughed a bit more between bites of her breakfast and sips of her cocoa. The warm food felt so good, especially after being on the run that entire week. It was suppose to start as a bus trip but it had turning into running into camp at the end. The stories were amusing her, and the mental image of Janelle waving around her broken cane and attacking monsters did cheer her up quite a bit.

Once Marygold spoke again she blinked, and then she sighed as she heard what Kristin added. "So, technology a bad idea for calling then? I guess I'll try an Iris message then... but should I tell them who mom was? If they don't know? Or is that a bad idea?" She looked around the table, gauging their responses. She did look over towards the yelling and frowned a bit at that. It seemed that there will still bullies here too.

"I'm almost done, then I can get that tour, right?" Stella smiled at that as she took the last sips of her cocoa and then nibbled on the last bits of her toast.

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"I could punch him for you." Andy offered quietly, but probably not quietly enough that the other kid didn't hear her. She didn't care. She looked up at Cassian as he spoke to her aunt. She looked at him super confused. "Yeah, everything's fine. We were building a snowman and all the snow melted so we came over to see who it was and then this guy." She gestured to Cassian, "Joined the conversation and went on about something or other and the fact that he wanted a fight to happen. Then that kid tripped over his own feet and blamed Arthur." She shrugged.

"What was that about?" She gestured to where Apollo had been parked. If anyone knew and was willing to tell her it would be her aunt. Though overall she just wished she could go back to spending time with Arthur. She preferred his company. Her family was second best.



Niah bit her lip at Nancy's response. Did either of them think Apollo would actually set Nancy up like that? She wasn't certain. It was hard to tell with them. She nodded though and followed Mads over to where the kids and some other Greek kid was. Niah didn't recognize him, but he was complimenting Mads which made Niah struggle to keep a straight face.

"We should go back to your tent to talk about this." She did not want to involve the Greeks more than necessary. If they were involved in the prophecy so be it. But she mostly just wanted to figure out why Apollo had decided to show up at that moment and Niah knew there was no way Nancy was going to tell them when they were standing in the middle of the Greek's territory. At least the tent was set away from their camp center.