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The struggle was real as Ezekiel tried to mount the wall and climb up it again. He kept slipping off the grips and a camper noticed. They tossed a thing of nectar at him and Zeke snapped it up. The headache was gradually getting worse and that certainly wasn’t helping his nausea or his vision problems. He drank a good portion of the nectar and stood a moment as the liquid filled him and wiped the symptoms of a concussion out of his body. He would likely still have Bryan or another Apollo kid look him over but for the time being, Zeke was back in the game.
He looked up the climbing wall, seeing how high Bryan was and he frowned. The sun was still out and so Zeke tried his hand at bending the light to try and disorient Bryan. The light bent to Zeke’s will and he grinned as it targeted his half-brother. Hopefully, it would keep Bryan preoccupied while Ezekiel climbed up the wall.
Everything seemed to be on point as Zeke climbed higher and higher, dodging every obstacle that slid around or pushed out of the wall. He heaved himself up beside Bryan and grinned.
”Now who’s going to lose,” he said and pushed himself higher.

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Jason was wondering what it was that Kristin was talking about. Man eating horses? That definitely was a new one, something he hadn't heard about before. Then again, most everything here was a bit of an oddity to him, his sister typically kept track of that sort of thing, not really what he cared to pay attention to. Just his train of thought after all, though currently he was really starting to think that maybe he should pay more attention to everything that happens and what all the monsters are.

Janelle smiled at Stella when she was making her comments about technology, "Yeah, it is a bet 'ard to get used to de idea o' naht usin a phahne, but you get used to it eventually," she said kindly to Stella. It was a bit hard to figure out everything that was going on, or how everything in the crazy world of demigods worked, but most people seemed like they were easy to adapt. That sort of thing was always fun, adapting to the insanity that was the world around you, whether you wanted to or not.

"Oh, about your other question... You can tell them if you want to. I mean some people do, some people don't, it just depends. If you want to tell your dads about who your mom is, than go for it. No one is really stopping you, and as we said before, an Iris Message wouldn't be too difficult to send, and as Kristin said, when you're ready we can see about sending one to them okay?" she said to her. Yeah, Stella was an interesting person that was for sure, but she seemed more than ready to learn about everything.

He turned his head to go see what the commotion was about. Some people just were not the nicest people around, and seemed more than a little bit hellbent on causing problems for everyone around them. Seeing what was going on with Arthur wasn't exactly the best thing. He hated bullies of the sort who just more or less got annoyed with people for no damn reason. Jason glanced over at his sister, knowing how many people tended to pick on her over the years growing up because of her lack of eyesight, so he was wondering what she was thinking right now.

The sounds of a kid yelling at someone else over something seemingly dumb reason was getting on her nerves. "I'm goin to go over dere and see what's goin ahn, I'll catch up ahr talk to you later, ahkay?" she said to the small group, giving a slight wave in Stella's direction, before she used her cane and moved away from where they were, and headed to where the other group was. She walked over to them, and recognizing Arthur's voice when it came to talking about people who couldn't watch where they were going, she couldn't help but giggle slightly. "It's 'ilarious when dere are people like dat, I dahn't trep over me own feet nearly as much as ahthers, so wahnder what 'is excuse was about it."

Mary glanced over at Kristin after there was the brief distraction of what happened over by Arthur and them, and listened to her question. "Honestly? Nothing much really, wasn't sure what all I'd want to do for the day. Though sounds like you are planning on taking Stella on a bit of a tour, so mind if I tag along? It'll be fun," she commented to both Stella and Kristin. Tours for the newbies were always fun, plus seeing a new camper excited or the look on their faces when they see everything new was always fun too.

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"She fainted in the shrines, we just found her like this," Leda told the healer. A few seconds later, Kiera came crashing into the infirmary - and Leda couldn't help but be slightly impressed with how fast her girlfriend made it across camp. "You sure you don't have superspeed, luv?" Leda teased slightly. Maybe it was denial, but she believed that Rosie was going to be okay, so a few little quips weren't going to be out of place in the situation. Oracles did stuff like this all the time. It was an occupational hazard, and as long as Rosie had medical attention, she'd be fine. Just fine. Nothing was wrong at all. Nope, not a single thing was out of place.

There definitely wasn't any green smoke billowing around the room - or a horrific prophecy. Leda grimaced as she saw the illusions or images unfolding in front of her. There was a wolf, along with Andy and Mary in some sort of chamber. Then there was Leda and Kiera, along with Arthur, in some sort of ocean camp. And then finally, a ginger she didn't know, Jason, and one of the Romans. It was a triple prophecy. Leda let out a soft whistle, trying to comprehend what they had seen. "Oracle shit," Leda explained to Kiera. "Looks like we've been issued triple quests."

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Nancy raised an eyebrow. "Why don't you do that yourself?" she muttered, even though Apollo had already left - she had a feeling that he could hear her. Her emotions about the entire situation were still varying wildly. She had been extremely blunt and honest with her father in the chariot, and she didn't know yet if she felt better or worse because of it. She didn't know if he was genuinely trying to be better or if this was just some sort of charade for praise and attention. It made her wonder how Diana could be Apollo's twin - Diana was a straight shooter, whereas Apollo....

She glanced inside of the pavilion, seeing her friends talking with some Greeks. Nancy couldn't help but feel incredibly self conscious. Everyone had to have seen what had happened - that Apollo had given her some gift. Had they been able to hear her screaming at him in the chariot? And then, the episode she had had with the vision, it all made her feel queasy and sick. She knew that she ought to go talk to Mads, to explain what she had seen... that Mads was going to fall into Tartarus. But the thought of being so honest in front of so many people, it was horrifying. So instead, Nancy raised her hand slightly, before lowering it and she just started walking, trying to process so many life altering things at once.

She didn't even notice where she was walking to until she realized she had left the dining pavilion behind and walking through the northern woods. She glanced up at Joanie, before petting the dragon's snout affectionately. "Does a walk sound good?" she murmured to the dragon, before pressing onwards. Maybe the woods would help her clear her mind.

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The Climbing Tower:

Bryan groaned as he started to shield his eyes from being blinded by Zeke using one arm to hold onto the tower itself while using his free arm to try and rub at his eyes to clear them. "You know that isn't fair at all right?" Bryan said as Zeke started to get higher and closer to the top, Bryan's vision started to clear up again and then saw that Zeke was getting awfully close to the top of the tower along with a few other campers. Zeke would end up getting hit in the face by a piece of the tower before going back inside, and then getting hit in the shoulder as well. Bryan ended up getting hit in the face as well, and caused him to loose his grip for a moment before quickly climbing up again and managed to catch up to Zeke.

Camp Forges:

There were a few other kids, mostly Athena kids and a few Ares kids as well working on some weapon projects that they had going on some were busy with making a few shields as well to. One of the kids looked up and gave Demi a slight nod before going back to what they were working on. Lauryn came shortly after holding a few scraps of celestial bronze that was mainly scrap metal used for other projects in the Hephaestus cabin. "Sorry for being late." Lauryn said as she grabbed an apron and then grabbed another and tossed it over to Demi, seeing his jacket. "Ya might want to take that off or something, gonna be working with heat and all of that jazz." Lauryn said as she went over and started to get a metal mold set up setting down a guitar blueprint of sorts. "Alright so first get that scrap metal into the forge to be melted." Lauryn said as she finished setting up the mold.

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"I have to keep up with you somehow love." Kiera said with a slight laugh as she looked over to see Rosie slowly coming to and the apollo kid quickly going over to get a cup of water set up for her. "Here drink this." She said as Rosie nodded as she started to take a sip of water and laid down resting her head slightly. "Thank you." Rosie said as she turned to look at Leda and Kiera there, still having a bit of a dazed look. "How did I get here?" She asked as Kiera looked towards her girlfriend for a moment before turning her attention back to Rosie.

"We were cleaning the shrines and we were heading to Zeus' when we saw you there, then you collapsed and Leda took you here." Kiera answered Rosie truthfully. Rosie gave her a slight nod as she took another sip from the cup of water, before slowly trying to sit up, and the Apollo kid gently laid her back down. "Rest a little bit longer, alright?" The camper said much to Rosie's annoyance and sighed. "Fine." She said turning to look at Leda and Kiera. "Could you two go and tell Chiron and bring him here?" She asked as Kiera gave her a slight nod. "Sure thing." Kiera said as she turned to face her girlfriend for a moment. "You've been on a quest before right?" She asked her as she started to head out of the infirmary.

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Kristin nodded towards Stella as Mary answered her question, an Iris Message wasnt super hard really either. "Once you finish with your foot, just dump whatever you have left into that brazier over there, and just do a little prayer for Demeter as an offering to her." Kristin said as she pointed over to the one where another camper was dumping his offering to their parent there and headed out of the dining pavilion. Kristin turned to look up at Mary and smiled towards her and nodded. "Yeah you are more than welcome to join in, you to if you want Jason." Kristin said as she stood up watching Janelle going over to where Andy, Arthur, and the new kid and the two Romans were at now.

"I'll stand outside of the dining pavilion once you are ready to head out, we can start out with the cabins and show you where you'll be staying." Kristin told Stella as she headed out and leaned on a nearby pillar seeing Nancy heading off towards the woods with her little pet dragon and thought about seeing what was up with her, but she had her task right now and give Stella her tour.

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Madalyne turned to stare at Cassian though she was actually flattered by his compliment towards her she shook her head slightly. She really didn't have the time or patients right now for anything romantic for the moment she was mainly focused on making sure that her people were alright. As well as her niece and to make sure that Andy was okay. "I do appreciate the compliment, though I don't even know who you are. Also Narcissus was punished by Invidia, for being basically an asshole to his admirers so she punished him by staring at his own reflection to eventually wither and die right?" Madalyne told Cassian using Nemesis' Roman name instead of her Greek version, she didnt know much about that other than that story.

she turned her attention to Andy asking what the whole thing with Apollo was about. "Apollo gave Nancy a gift shortly after she got a vision, thats about all that I know honestly." Madalyne answered her niece seeing Nancy and gave her friend a nod as she looked at Niah as well. "I'm going to check on Nancy right now, you and Arthur can come if you want to up to you though." Madalyne told Andy turning her attention to Cassian she wasnt sure about the greek kid at all and he seemed to be a bit of a trouble maker to in her opinion.

"Also stay away from my niece and her friend alright?" Madalyne said to him gently patting Andy on the shoulder giving him a warning before making her way to Nancy, Joanie was happily wrapped around Nancy's shoulders and neck as she made a cute little sound and nibbled at Nancy's fingers. Madalyne made her way over towards Nancy gently resting a hand on her friend's shoulder. "Is everything alright?" Madalyne asked her as she handed the box back over to her friend.

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Demetri took the apron and placed it nearby. It was hot enough without the flames, he didn't wanna risk passing out from heat stroke or he'd never hear the end of it from Zeke. He undid his jacket, tossing it to the side where it would be out of others way, revealing his black plaid button up underneath. Demi undid the cuffs and rolled up his sleeves three quarters of the way before sliding the apron over his head and tying it about his waist. "Meant to stop by the Cabin beforehand to drop off my jacket but I kinda got into my own mind and ended up walking here instead. " He said with a shrug.

He watched as Lauryn began to set up the molding, his attention darting around from project to project until it settled back towards her as he directed him with what to do. "Right, heat metal. Got it." He grabbed some of the scraps of Celestial bronze and placed it inside of a metal cup, watching as other campers worked and grabbed a pair of tongs to help place it into the forges fire to begin and heat it up. He wasn't exactly certain how hot it needed to be or how long to hold it there, just that it needed to melt. "Just tell me when I guess? Or am I already doing this all wrong?"

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At this point Cassian wasn't sure which child he disliked more. The one constantly throwing jabs at him and finding just the right words to irk him, or the brat that was so blunt she could be used as a hammer to plow in a nail. She gave a crude but correct assessment of what had just happened, and he could immediately feel any sway he may have had on the new Roman slip away. Cassian had no idea who this Invidia person she mentioned was, but it did sound familiar to the story of how Narcissus was tricked into seeing his own reflection until death. "You aren't wrong, I simply meant even he would avert his gaze from his selfish love to see your beauty."

Cassian offered Mads a coquettish smile before she averted her attention back towards the two brats. The children of the Big Three sure had it easy around here it seemed. No short supply of people Roman or otherwise, simply throwing themselves towards them. He tried his best not to roll his eyes as he took another sip of his tea. Perhaps he should try harder with the lankier child of Zeus. That could certainly look nice within his cult. Cassian allowed himself to stay silent as the trio spoke before him, only breaking it to clutch invisible pearls when he was asked to stay away from the pair of twerps. "I've nothing but the utmost care for the young. But if you insist I shall do so at once your radiance." He flashed Mads another flirtatious smile before stepping back and allowing them all to follow her if they wished.

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Andy nodded at her aunt. She wanted to go with her. "Come on Arthur." She took his hand and followed after Mads. She looked over her shoulder at Cassian, so that only he could see, and stuck out her tongue. Once they were into the forest Andy kept a bit of distance from Nancy and Mads. She wanted to give Mads and Nancy a bit of space.

She didn't let go of Arthur's hand. It felt good to have him there next to her. Andy wanted to know what the vision had been about. She wanted to know what the gift from Apollo was. But she hated being the one to ask questions. She hated drawing attention to herself. A pang of missing Ash crossed through her heart. Ash always asked questions.



Niah rolled her eyes a bit at Cassian. He was a strange one. She watched Nancy walk off to the woods. She supposed that worked too. Maybe better than the tent. This way they could see if anyone was near them listening. Instead of not being able to see who was around the tent trying to listen to their conversation.

She followed Mads and saw that the kids were following too. That was Mads prerogative since Andy was her niece, which made the girl at least part Roman. Though she had never seen Lupa. Niah wondered if Andy would survive meeting Lupa. The girl was more Greek than Roman. Niah only knew of one Greek who Lupa had allowed to pass the trials, Percy.

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Stella smiled a bit at everyone's words and reassurances. She could still talk to her fathers it seemed, even if it wasn't over phone. She just hoped that they wouldn't freak out when she called them in a pretty supernatural way. She decided to see how they would react to the call first before she let them know about her mother, and how she was part godly from her. She finished her slice of toast and then asked for another stack of sourdough and took it over to the brazier. She thought it would be rude to offer her mother half eaten toast and bacon, so a fresh stack would do. She gently tipped it into the brazier and thanked her mother for giving birth to her as well as for helping her get to camp safe.

Once she was done, she turned to Marygold and Kristin, as it seemed that Janelle was parting from them and she wasn't sure if Jason would continue to tag along with them now that his sister had parted from them. "I think I'll take the tour first, find out where I'm sleeping before I talk to my dads. I should take a shower or something, as I don't think taking a quick dip in a river counts as getting clean." She knew it didn't really count, as she hadn't had time to scrub up. She had tried to wash her hair, but then some other creature had chased her and her satyr guide from the river.

She picked up her ragged backpack and then smiled up to Kristin. "Ready when you are!"

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Location: Dining Pavilion -> Woods
Skills: N/A

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Arthur had to stifle a giggle at Andy's arthur, but merely shook his head. there were better ways to deal with people than abject violence, as fun as something like that could be. He'd figure out how to deal with Cassian later, watching him talk to Mads, he was surprised that he'd gotten this far in life with all his teeth still in his mouth. As Andy dragged him away, he shot a parting smile at Cassian, before turning away and not sparing him another glance. People like him wanted attention, and he was going to give him as little as possible, he'd have to earn it to get it from him.

As they entered the woods, Arthur kept holding Andy's hand, and gave her a hug once they were out of sight of the others, "That Cassian's terrible", he whispered, before eyeing Mads and Nancy. He didn't like the thought of following people, but they were all friends-ish, so he had to assume that it wouldn't be the end of the world if they noticed them. Other than that one comment though, he kept quiet. He didn't want to broadcast the fact that they were there by any means, and the more that he talked, they more likely that they'd end up being heard.

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”Only trying to prepare you for the world outside Bry. No one plays fair,” Zeke stated through the exertion of climbing and staying on the wall. Zeke was a firm believer of real world scenarios and using powers to your advantage was one of those scenarios. Zeke surpassed Bryan on the climbing wall and grew excited as he saw the top nearing. That excitement was his downfall though.
Zeke felt the blinding pain of being hit in the face. His eyes watered and he wiggled his nose to keep from sneezing and assuring his nose wasn’t broken. A second later he was hit in the shoulder and let out a loud groan from the impact. He climbed up, dropping his hit arm to shake it out before latching onto the wall again. Bryan was now beside him again. Zeke refocused and pulled himself up the wall, ignoring his half-brother and made it to the top.
He flipped over, landing on his back on the platform and cheered. Zeke rolled onto his stomach to look over the edge and saw Bryan get knocked back down. The climbing tower wasn’t exactly small. Zeke sighed and stood.
”Short lived victory again.” Zeke walked over to the zip line and grabbed onto the next available handle and pushed off. The air was soothing from working up a sweat but he kept his eyes shut as he went. Heights weren’t exactly a favourite thing of Ezekiel’s. Once his feet hit the ground, he turned to go check on Bryan.

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Leda nodded at Kiera's question, heading out of the infirmary with her girlfriend. "Yeah, someone had kidnapped Calliope, so Apollo made me go find her with Kristin and Zeke, bleh. Just thinking about all the time spent in close quarters with the two of them makes me wanna barf," Leda complained. However, she got the feeling that complaints about people she didn't like wasn't really what Kiera needed or wanted to hear at the moment. It was a bit of a scary idea, going off on a quest. "I won't lie, quests are hella dangerous, but they're fun too. Gives you a chance to test yourself, see what you're capable of, explore life beyond camp."

She paused for a moment, looking at Kiera as they headed to get Chiron. She figured that Chiron would likely be on the porch of the Big House. It seemed to be one of his favorite spots. That or maybe he'd be grabbing a bite to eat at the dining pavilion. "It'll be chill though, we're going to get through this, I promise," Leda said, offering her pinky out to Kiera. "Pinky swear." She smiled, hoping it would help Kiera feel better. Leda was a little bit scared too, but mostly, she was excited. Quests were really fun adventures - provided you walked away from them.

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Nancy really shouldn't have been surprised that Mads caught up to her so quickly. She forced a slight smile, her eyes darting around for a moment. She wished that they could have been alone for this conversation - she didn't mind Niah being there, in fact she was a little glad Niah had come to. The children, they were unexpected complications. Despite the screaming match she had had with her father, Nancy was a private person when it came to inner thoughts and feelings. She didn't open up lightly. Besides Mads and Niah, the only other person here who Nancy had begun to open up to was her brother - and she hadn't even told him yet about some events who shaped who she was.

Nancy took the box from Mads, feeling the weight of it. She nodded. "Yeah, just felt like I was going to ralph if I stayed there longer," she said, only telling a half truth. She paused for a moment. She didn't want to talk about her conversation with her father, with Apollo. She also didn't want to talk about the prophecy that she had seen, but she knew that she needed to do so. "The stuff I have to share, it's going to be heavy," she warned, more or less giving a minute for the kids to leave if they wanted to.

"... I saw you die, Mads ... I saw you fall into the Pit."

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"Yeah, once we get going out of here we can head over to the cabins, it'll be loads of fun, you'll see. Our cabin is cabin number 4. And we can get you set up with that message that you want to send afterwards. That sort of thing will work. There's a lot of places to see around the camp," she commented to Stella. There was a whole lot to see around Camp Half-Blood, though she might see if they can just avoid actually going over and seeing the Romans, just mentioning the fact that they are around and where they had more or less set up camp. That would be fantastic.

Jason found Stella to be an increasingly interesting sort of individual. And she kept reminding him of his sister when she was a lot younger, it was a bit of an odd comparison, but one that stood out in his brain. A tour would probably be good, and then when she eventually did send a message out to her parents, she probably could tell them all about the camp. Which wasn't your typical summer camp by any means, that was just how things worked. This place could just be considered more than a bit strange to anyone, even the people who were here.

Mary watched as Stella went over to the brazier and offered up some bread and food for their mother Demeter, giving her a slight smile, "Let's get going then, you'll love the camp I think... And yeah, getting a shower or something like that would make sense. But I do think you'll learn where everything is rather quickly, and yeah, it tends to get confusing, but you'll figure it out," she said to her, following after her, before turning back to look at Jason, "Are you coming Jason? or are you going to hang around here?"

"Yeah, I'm combing. I'm de one ooeht o' de three o' us who 'asn't been around 'ere very lahng. So yeah I'm combing alahng," he responded to her with a bit of a laugh. Before following after them, he glanced back at his sister for one second, before he headed off after the group and back out of the Dining Pavilion to where Kristin was waiting for them. It was going to be a fun time, going around the camp on a tour for Stella, though for those who knew the place it was more of going to be a bit of a stroll.

Janelle listened to the conversation that she had walked up to, and she held back the laughter that was fighting to rise to the surface as Madalyne more or less put the other guy (Cassian maybe? Who knew, she didn't really pay too much attention to names and the sounds of their voices unless they actually interacted with her more) in his place. That was kind of funny, she had to admit, and she listened to the footsteps of the others all walking away, aside from Cassian who was still there too, having seemingly moved to the side so that the others could leave.

"You certainly are a strange one, and sahmehow managed to annahy de keds, as well as seemengly anger one o' de Roman leaders. I do 'ave to applaoehd you ahn dat one," she commented to Cassian, giggling slightly at the comments that had been made towards him, not being able to hide it any longer once the others were all gone. She didn't care if he found what she was saying a bit annoying, truthfully she didn't really care what anyone thought of her. That was just how her life was, just not really caring about what was going on or what was being said about her to others. She preferred to be a bit more carefree in her thinking.

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Lauryn would continue to work with the molding a little bit more as she looked over towards Demetri and smiled some. "It shouldn't take to long for it to melt. Once it's molten then pour it into the mold, that will be the top piece of it." Lauryn said to Demi as she started to finish up the rest of the molding and set it aside looking over towards Michel. Who was one of the newer campers around and gave her half-brother a smile and wave. "Hey there whats up Michel?" Lauryn asked him as she looked over towards the furnace seeing that the metal was just about done. "It's good to take out now." She told him as Lauryn pushed over the mold towards Demi so that he could fill it.

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The Dining Pavilion was just about empty now at this point only a few other campers were there finishing up their breakfast, though the Head Councilor for the Ares Cabin entered and started to sneak up on Cassian. With a bit of an evil grin on his face he managed to sneak up on the kid of Mr. D, he'd feel the hem of his pants being grabbed and suddenly pulled them up really hard giving Cassian a wedgie. "Oops sorry about that friend." Jace said with a bit of a laugh as he started to walk over towards his table to grab some food of his own now. Some of the Ares kids were laughing at the sight as they ate.

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Kiera turned to look at her girlfriend as she followed her out of the Infirmary and smiled a little bit towards Leda, feeling a little bit better now. And also knowing that her girlfriend was going to be on this quest as well to made her feel more comfortable, though she was still a bit nervous. She laughed slightly hearing Leda complaining about the quest that she Kristin and Zeke had all gone on with for Apollo apparently. "I bet it was loads of fun to be with them for hours on end." Kiera said with a laugh as she looked at Leda as she held out her pinky finger and smiled.

"Well going on a quest with you will make it a lot better then." Kiera said to her girlfriend as she took her pinky in hers and shook, as they made it to the Big House. She didn't see Chiron sitting on the deck like usual, as Kiera looked at Leda for a moment before going over towards the door and knocked on it. Kiera saw Chiron was sitting and reading a book with a record player going on in the background, hearing the door opening seeing Kiera and Leda coming in.

"What can I do for you two?" Chiron asked as he set the book down and turned the record player off, and motioned for the two of them to take a seat. "Thank you." Kiera said giving him a smile as she sat down and looked over towards Leda. "We bumped into Rosie at the shrines, and took her to the infirmary where she gave out three prophecies." Kiera told him hoping that Leda would give out more details on it.

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Kristin smiled seeing Stella coming out, along with Jason and Mary. "Alright lets get going, we can start with the cabins and where you'll be staying." She said as Kristin started to make her way down the trails towards where the Divine Cabins were, it wasn't super far as they entered the area where the cabins are. "We have about twenty cabins each corresponding to each of the greek gods and goddesses." Kristin said as she pointed towards each and every cabin. "There are some more under construction as well to for some of the minor gods and goddesses as well to." Kristin told Stella as she pointed out to some of the ones who were slowly being built still.

When she made it to the fourth one that looked like a cabin covered in various flowers and plants, even having a grass roof on top of it as well to she looked towards Stella. "Thats the Demeter cabin where your other half-brothers and sisters stay and sleep, theres also some showers and a bathroom in there to as well to, you can drop your things in there now if you want to as well." Kristin informed Stella as she looked further down seeing the large tent a bit of a ways away and gestured towards it. "Thats the tent where all of the Roman's are staying currently now as well." Kristin told her.

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Cassian's compliment towards her made her cringe, she was just glad to get as far away from him as possible, as she looked over her shoulder towards Andy and Arthur who had decided to join her. Madalyne turned to face Nancy as she spoke, as she gently rested a hand on her friend's shoulder. She had known Nancy far longer than anyone else in the Legion, she knew that her friend kept things private a lot and trusted her and Niah. She found a nearby fallen tree and sat down on it, hearing the news that Nancy had told her was something that she wasnt expecting at all.

She was always prepared to die anyone of them could die however being a demigod at times was also a curse since monsters were constantly after you to kill or eat you. Technically she was a monster now herself, she rubbed her arm where she had been bitten if she did die now she'd end up in Tartarus as well. She shook her head slightly as she looked over towards Andy for a moment, she was an actual blood relative of hers and they hadn't known each other for very long either she wasn't sure how Andy would take it. "Did you see any other details?" Madalyne asked looking over at Nancy trying to not shake either.

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Grimacing as he set his hammer aside, Michel stretched. "Nothing much, I just wanted to make something, but I can't quite get it right. Thinking of abandoning the project and starting another." He wheeled himself so that he was facing Lauryn. "What about you?"

Michel looked like he always did: jacket, white undershirt, blanket over his legs, a distinctly assholish demeanor that seemed to be temped down due to the exhaustion he must be feeling. He'd been trying to make a small sword, one he'd seen his dad make before: a kopis, one of those weird Greek-Egyptian hybrid weapons. But he gave up on it. Too much effort for sonething that probably wouldn't be that good.

Michel leaned back a bit, grunting and sighing. His limp legs were getting to stretched, he better adjust them. But he couldn't be bothered.

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Demetri nodded along as he was instructed on what to do by Lauryn. It seemed this would end up being only the top piece, but truthfully Demi didn't know what that even meant. Nevertheless he trusted her and her ability to make magic happen around a forge, watching the bronze closely until it began to glow a bright yellow with red hues surrounding it. It was then he was told to pull it out, as he carefully maneuvered the tongs and bowl over towards the mold and began to slowly pour it in, making sure it wasn't fast enough to splash nor slow enough to cool down before he was finished. His tongue stuck out as he concentrated on the task, beads of sweat collecting on his forehead until it was all done.

Demi wiped the sweat from his brow before placing his hand on his hip. Looking towards Michel who had joined them for a moment. "Well that's no attitude to have, and I should know… it's what I would do. Take a break, make something else and come back to it from a new perspective. Staring at something won't make it make any more sense, sometimes you gotta stand back to see the big picture before you can focus on the details. Ya know?" He gave the kid a cheeky smile of encouragement before turning back to Lauryn. "Granted I know nothing about forgin so what's next."

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Cassian watched as they all walked away, dropping his smile and sticking his 5ongue back at Andy. He rolled his eyes and was about to go sit down when suddenly another person was by him. Pale skin, ginger hair, she must be a Weasley. Her accent was delightful however, and brought a genuine smile to his face. "I do have that talent I suppose. Not really sure why they were so annoyed, I was only saying what most others were thinking." He offered Janelle a shrug of his shoulders. "Names Cassian, and who do I have the pleasure of speaking to?"

Cassian's introduction was cut short as suddenly he felt a shift behind him as an Ares kid decided to give him a wedgie. Cassian's eyes flickered purple as he spun in place, hand grasping at his panflute and bringing it up towards his lips with a devilish smile. "No worries friend" He punctuated his sentence by playing a melodic sound, something one would attribute to faeries and weefolk. A jovial tune with a whirlwind of whimsy and mystery. When the playing stopped he held up a hand to his mouth "Oops wrong note"

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Andy wholeheartedly agreed with Arthur on his assessment of Cassian. That kid was weird. But she expected any kid of Mr. D would be weird. Mr. D was weird himself. She couldn't imagine what having him as a father would be like. She doubted her early life would have been any different though with how little the gods paid attention to their children most of the time. Nancy was speaking though. Saying that what she had to say was heavy, Andy didn't know what ralph meant, but she had seen Back-to-the-future once and knew that if something was heavy it was considered bad.

She tensed up. Half tempted to take the pause that Nancy gave as the excuse to leave. But she had been invited along by her aunt so she saw no reason to actually leave. Andy was glad she was holding Arthur's hand. Glad she had something to keep her grounded and from running to her aunt. She didn't want her aunt to die. Her free hand went and covered her mouth automatically. She turned and looked at Arthur wide-eyed.

Andy saw how Mads looked at her. The concern on her face. She wanted to run over and hug her aunt, which was saying something since she didn't do much hugging. But Mads asked exactly what she would have. Were there any more details? Anything that could make this not an absolute. Quest visions were mailable the could have many meanings.



Niah wanted to collapse. Wanted to scream and cry and fight the universe. But she had been around long enough that Mads would fall into the Pit. There was no avoiding that. Apollo had shown up and maybe given them a lifeline, or maybe a trap. She wasn't certain. But she knew that if she were presented with the need to give the potion to either Nancy or Mads she would. She would take Jupiter's punishment to save them.

She sat down on the other side of Mads. Glanced at the kids standing just in ear-shot. And then turned to her best friends in the whole world. "Alright, how do we get her back after she falls in." There was no avoiding the fall, but it wouldn't be the first time someone had gone into the Pit and back out again. It wasn't easy. One didn't simply walk into the Pit.

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"Cabin 4 then, that's mom's cabin? Cool. I can't wait to see it and the other cabins! Everything here is going to be exciting and new!" Stella tugged on the straps of her backpack at that point as she dusted herself off. She was pretty sure she hadn't spilled crumbs all over herself, but with good sourdough toast once could never be too sure. She did smile when Jason said they would be joining them on the tour. So she would have three older campers there with her, taking her on their tour of the camp. She was so sure that everything would go well on the tour.

As they headed towards the cabins, she caught sight and smell off the strawberry fields. They smelled delicious, and she couldn't wait to get out and help with then. She knew that she was going to have a fun time helping with those. She looked over at her cabin and nearly squealed in delight. It was a beautiful building, with greenhouse roof and gardens on it. She already felt like she was halfway home at that point, and her grin only got brighter at that.

"That is so cool! I can drop my things off inside you said? Where can I put them? Any free bunk or are bunks and sleeping places assigned?" While she was waiting for the answer to that question she looked over to the tents and nodded. So that was where that Roman girl that had been a bit rude to Marygold earlier would be. She had a feeling she wouldn't want to head over there that often, to be honest.

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Arthur exhaled, and gripped Andy's hand tighter. Loss was the sort of thing he felt he was getting too used to, now feeling concern, but not a deep sadness over the fact that, apparently, Mads would be leaving them soon. He gritted his teeth, and looked on at their friends, pullin gAndy in for a side hug, before whispering, "Things'll be okay." He wanted to promise that, but he didn't know if he could, and the thought of lying to Andy made his stomach turn more than anything else at the moment. He couldn't, and wouldn't, promise her something he didn't know he could keep.

He tugged at Andy's shoulder, "Maybe we should go...." It felt wrong to be watching them like this, and the idea of revealing themselves after hearing something they weren't supposed to hear sounded like it could be incendiary to any kind of relationship the four of them had. He couldn't imagine how he would feel after hearing that he had a death sentence, but it wouldn't be anywhere near okay. If Andy wanted to run up and hug her aunt, he'd support her and be with her, but he wasn't about to force either of them into that situation, not without knowing what consequences it could bring.

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Leda was a little bit surprised to see that Chiron wasn't out on the porch, although she supposed Mr. D wasn't around to play games with him. She went inside with her girlfriend, finding Chiron listening to some records and reading a book. For a brief moment, Leda wondered if he ever got bored with reading - he had been alive for ages, hadn't he probably had his fill of reading pretty much every sort of story by that time? Did anything ever genuinely surprise him? Were writers nowadays just trash compared to the ones of his youth?

"They're bloody wild ones, too," Leda added. "One of them has three people going into a maze and a pit, another has people going under the bloody sea, and another is clearly talking about Atlas and all with going to where you hold up the sky," Leda told Chiron. She hadn't committed Rosie's words to memory, but she had gotten the basics of it all. "The prophecies name the questers too, well more of show who they should be, and give a description of the parentage," she explained.

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Nancy nodded. She did have more details. She hesitated slightly again, but the kids hadn't left, so clearly they were fine with hearing this conversation - and Madalyne hadn't asked for them to leave. "You're running from something, with Andy and one of the gingers. It's dark. You have a grody looking sword with the symbol I drew on it. And... Then something impales you, you drop the gem from our quest together, and fall into Tartarus as a black tentacle goes to grab the items," Nancy recalled. She shuddered slightly at the images in her mind. She didn't want to recall them - but she had to. The more information they had, the more likely they could save Mads' life.

Her thoughts flickered towards the Physician's Cure her father had given her, despite its suspicious timing. It wouldn't matter if they could get Mads out of the Pit if she died - although, Nancy realized as a monster, Mads would reform at some point anyways. It could take thousands of years though. And she didn't wish that on her friend. "I only know of two Greeks who went into the Pit and came out - and they were... you know, demigods when it happened," Nancy said quietly. She didn't know how the Greeks had survived Tartarus, only that they had.

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Lauryn turned around to face Michel as he wheeled himself slightly to face her as she watched Demi pouring the molten celestial bronze into the mold. "Just helping lover boy here with a project he wanted." Lauryn said, though she wasnt sure who it was for she got the idea that it was for someone he liked even if Demi wouldn't tell him at all really. She turned to face her half-brother again, and gestured towards one of the rolled celestial bronze poles nearby, there were a few that were already cut for other projects. "Could you grab one of the smaller bits of rolled celestial bronze for me?" She asked as Lauryn turned to face Demi. "Once he gets the rolled bronze I want you to put it into the forge until it's red hot and then take it over to the anvil and hammer it, that will be the neck and head for the guitar. Keep hammering it until it's the desired shape you want if it gets to cool it it back in and repeat, once it's done take it to the sand grinder and smooth it out a bit." Lauryn instructed him.

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Jace was grabbing himself some food as well and as he went and sat down to chat with some of his brothers and sisters were some giving Cassian a few weird looks as he pulled out his pan flute. They found it really weird as he started to play it in front of them all, though Cassian got what he wanted to do, his target wasn't the one he intended to effect. It was a younger kid a boy to be exact at the Ares table closer towards Andy and Arthur's age actually, and started to squawk and move around like an actual chicken. They didn't seem to like it as Jace started to stand up and made his way over towards Cassian. "What the hell are you actually doing to him?" Jace asked sounding really pissed off now.

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Chiron turned off the record player now as well as he turned to listen to Leda as she told her about the quests that Rosie had announced quests was a common thing pretty much at camp, but having three all at once was really rare. As Chiron leaned forward looking over at the two girls once more. "What did the prophesies say?" Chiron asked as he went over to grab a pen and paper, Kiera closed her eyes for a moment as she thought about what Rosie had said.

"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."

"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."

"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."

Kiera said as she was able to recite what Rosie had said as she gently held Leda's hand and looked over towards her girlfriend, she knew that she was the only one able to go on one of these quests since she was literally the only child of Poseidon in one of the three prophecies. Though she knew that Leda would go with her on the quest as well and having her girlfriend along would be really nice as well to having her watching her back. Chiron finished writing down the notes and looked at the two of them once more, he still wasn't sure about the prophecies or what was going to happen. "Thank you two for telling me about these prophecies, I'll announce all of this tonight after dinner. If you can check up on Rosie again and send her here for me?" Chiron asked as Kiera nodded and stood up.

"Lets get going love." Kiera said as she made her way out of the Big House and back over towards the Infirmary seeing Rosie getting up and dusting herself off seeing the two of them just as she had gotten out of the infirmary. "Chiron needs you." Kiera said as Rosie nodded as she made her way over there. "So what now?" Kiera asked looking over at Leda.

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Kristin smiled as she made her way over and stood just outside of the Demeter Cabin, she would have gone in but she knew that it was more or less frowned upon going into another's cabin. She did feel jealous that Kiera, Andy, Arthur and Demi all had their cabin's to themselves pretty much. "Eva the head councilor for the Demeter cabin should be in and point you to an empty bunk or Mary can." Kristin told Stella and as if on cue Eva stuck her head out seeing Kristin, Mary, Stella and Jason there and waved towards them. "Hey there whats up?" Eva asked looking over towards Kristin.

"Stella just came to camp, and was wondering if you or Mary could point her out to an empty bunk for her to use?" Kristin asked as Eva looked at Stella and smiled towards her and nodded. "Sure thing, I can help you get settled in with a bunk and get you some supplies to." Eva said as she gestured for her to come in, once inside the Demeter Cabin looked more or less like something from a fairy table. The carpet in the cabin felt a lot like grass and there was a tree that acted like a support column for the building itself. Eva looked around for a moment before finding a bunk that hadn't been occupied in awhile now with a trunk at the foot of the bed. "Here you go, just set your things in the trunk if you want or keep them under your bed whichever you prefer." Eva said giving Stella a smile.

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Madalyne looked back over towards Andy for a moment a part of her wished she didn't have to hear what Nancy had said but then again she did invite her niece and her friend over with them. She wasn't sure what kind of sword that Nancy said she had with her in the vision but it must have been important then. She had brought the gem with them after Camp Jupiter had fallen so knowing that it was apart of the vision that Nancy had maybe they could change it or prevent the gem from falling. "Then we keep the gem here far away from what the vision shows it'll be safe here." Madalyne said softly taking a few deep breathes she didnt want to end up dying or falling into the Pit at all she knew that it would be her fate someday anyway.

She looked over at Nancy for a moment and remembered that bit of information about the two Greeks Percy and Annabeth both somehow surviving their fall into the Pit during the whole thing with Gaia. Which did give her a bit of hope as she came up with a bit of an idea looking over at Nancy, Niah, Arthur and Andy. "You guys will have to find The Doors of Death or at least somehow get in contact with the Letus he'll know where they are." Madalyne said knowing that much and she had a feeling that it might have ended up changing locations due to the fight with Gaia, it most likely wouldn't be in the House of Hades now.

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Janelle heard what was somewhat going on with Cassian, figuring that someone would have had to have pranked him in order for the commotion to occur. However, she did decide to answer his question with regards to who she was. "Ahh me? Me name is Janelle Gauger, daughter o' Hypnahs, dough I do 'ave a 'alf brahther 'ooze a sahn o' Ares," she answered him, introducing herself and figuring that he deserved to know. Though she was a bit confused by the music or whatever that he was making or really attempting to make or something like that.

The sounds around her were now going to well beyond strange, as she heard what sounded like a kid acting like a chicken or something like that. Then she heard Jace, the head counselor of the Ares group came over and started yelling at Cassian demanding to know what it was that he had done to the kid. So whatever happened, it was clearly his fault. "What is goin ahn? What 'appened?" she asked, clearly not too sure what to think about what was going on, and wishing somewhat that someone would actually tell her bluntly what just happened.

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Jason followed along as the group headed out of the Dining Pavilion towards where the cabins were. He didn't typically spend a whole lot of time around the other cabins, so in truth he didn't really see them a whole lot. It just was kind of what he did, though he did hang around the Hypnos cabin at times, that was mainly because of his sister though and not necessarily because he actually liked hanging around the cabin itself. He just hung around the Ares cabin mainly.

Mary followed along after Kristin as she headed for the cabins, and Mary nodded her head to Stella, "Yup, cabin 4 is where we stay..." she said as they walked. She noticed Stella looking over at the Strawberry Fields which weren't too far away and could be seen from where they were. "We can see about stopping by the Strawberry Fields next if you want to. After we get you set up in the cabin of course, if you're interested. It's always fun to head over there. If you want to."

When they reached the cabin, she gave a wave to Eva and a smile, as Kristin introduced the two. She almost went to see about helping to find a bunk for Stella, but Eva as usual was way ahead of her and already had found one for Stella to store her things. Made sense that Eva would probably know more about that stuff and which bunks were likely empty than she did. She wondered somewhat what was going through Stella's head with all of this, especially since the camp cabins looked nothing like what you would typically expect.

He remained silent as Kristin introduced Stella to the head counselor for the Demeter cabin, that being Eva. The conversation involving her, Kristin, Mary, and pretty sure Stella too, was not one he felt like he really needed to add to. Since currently, they were all discussing where she was going to sleep in the cabin and where she might be able to put her things or whatever, which was a good thin to say the least. So he was just staying back away from them.