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(Aurora's Pov)
"Arie come on get up" my brother yelled at me.
"Too tired" I mumbled burying my head deeper into my pillow
"Fine then you're going to miss breakfast which will make you late for the meeting," Percy said grabbing his things to head out.
"I'll meet you at breakfast," I said reluctantly getting up from my bed.
"See you there," he said walking out the door.
I got up and changed into my jeans, sneakers, and a blue tank top with my charm bracelet/ sword τσουνάμι or Tsunami. I fixed my long black hair into a half ponytail and walked out the door. It was only a few weeks after the war but everyone was starting to settle back down to their old habits or starting new ones.
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When I got to the Dining Pavilion nobody would actually look me in the eye or talk to me even the seven. Frank and Hazel had come up because everyone is still working out with the new knowledge that another camp exists. I went to sit down at the Poseidon table with Percy and noticed he was acting strangely too.
"Percy," I asked, "Is everything ok?"
"Yeah," he said facing away from me
"You sure everyone is acting weird"
"It's just the meeting today nobody wants to go" he halfheartedly mumbled as he was getting up from the table. I watched him as he went over and started whispering to Annabeth who quickly looked my way before they headed to the arena.
I finished eating and went to the lake to talk to the water nymphs but even they were acting weird around me. They were always friendly to me even though my Aura is stronger than most even Percy's that's why I haven't been able to leave camp for so long. Chiron won't even let me on a quest after what happened last time and the number of monsters that were following me when I barely made it to camp when I was nine. I walked off leaving them to their gossip.
I saw Grover and Juniper talking so I walked up.
"Hey," I said as I walked over "what's up".
"Nothing," Grover quickly blurted out. That earned a smack from Juniper.
"I have this... thing to do.... for Percy... I should probably go do that.... now" he managed to get out before running away like it was Enchilada day.
"Seriously what is with people today?" I said turning to look at Juniper only to notice that she had left.
Fine, if everyone wants to be that way let them. I thought to myself going over to the Rockwall to avoid people. As I was climbing up again, I started thinking people didn't act this weird around me when everyone realized I was stronger than Percy. It was weird when I was first discovering my new powers. Percy and I can do all the same things but mine are almost amplified and because of my Aura even mortals can kinda sense it which causes everyone to know if I am having a strong emotion. I remembered when I was injured and almost flooded the camp after the second war and the scariest of them all was when we found out I could blood bend. I never use it on anyone one not even monsters unless I absolutely have to. I remembered how scared everyone around me was that I would snap after Natalie died on the quest three years ago and when Oliver and Sophie died in the Titan war they stayed as far away as possible.
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"Rory, it's time for the meeting, come down" Nico was yelling up to me from the bottom of the Rockwall.
"Ok" I shouted as I quickly made my way down.
When I got to the bottom Nico and I started walking up to The Big House and just as I was about to ask him what was going on, he shadow traveled inside. I was slowly getting angrier and angrier as I patiently walked up to the house and sat at the table while all the other counselors filed in (they let both me and Percy stay because it was only the two of us). Unlike all the other meetings where everyone is talking and messing around before Chiron got there everyone was quiet and trying to avoid looking at me. That was it I stood up and was just about to yell at all of them when Chiron walked in the door.
"Ms. Black please take your seat," Chiron said to me calmly, but I noticed even he would not look directly at me.
Come on I thought he has been alive for thousands of years. What is so bad that even he cannot look me in the eye? I sat there quietly fuming and I knew everyone else could tell I was mad because they all became restless more so than a room full of ADHD kids usually is. They started talking about the regular stuff the meetings go over and about halfway through scheduling the next Capture the Flag when Katie Gardener started slowly moving her chair away from me. That just made me madder and everyone started shooting me nervous glances every once in a while.
"Ok, you can all go back to your activities unless I asked you to stay," Chiron told everyone.
"Not you Aurora," Chiron told me as I started to get up.
A new wave of anger rolled off me which caused all the people leaving to hurry up and the rest to start shifting nervously. After a few minutes, the only people left were the seven, Nico and me sitting in the room waiting for Chiron to talk.
"As everyone in this room knows Aurora has an unusually high Aura even for a child of the Big Three plus advanced powers" he continued " and that after the second war the gods decided that each of you and others deserved something to make up for your loss. I am aware that all of you already got yours"
This came as a surprise to me but everyone else nodded which did not help my temper causing Chiron to shoot me a worried look. But continued nonetheless turning to me which made me lean forward finally interested.
"And as a gift for you Poseidon, Hephaestus, and Hecate have been working on an Aura dampener so you can leave camp without as many monsters attacking you all the time it will not affect your powers either," he said looking at me hopefully as was everyone else.
I didn't know what to say so my mouth was just hanging open. I mean I have lived with being stuck in camp all this time and now I finally get to leave and go on a quest without more people getting hurt.
"Thank you" I whispered nearly on the verge of tears at this point all my anger gone.
Percy came up and hugged me, smiling then Hazel joined till everyone left in the house was hugging Piper and even pulled Nico in. They all pulled away so the Chiron could give me the necklace.
The necklace was beautiful. It has some sort of heart-shaped gem in the middle that was a dark blue. The whole setting was black and had little black gems that came onto the heart almost like wings.
"It's beautiful" is all I manage to say
"It's beautiful" is all I manage to say
"I was also told to tell you some things about it," Chiron said "first only you can remove it no matter what. Secondly, it is nearly unbreakable. Thirdly if you do take it off it will return to you. And for some reason your father wanted me to tell you that it will shrink or grow to fight you" he finished.
"Can I tell her now?" Piper whispered to Chiron. He nodded
"There is one more thing we ha—" she started
"No, nobody has to do anything else this is more than enough," I said
"Trust me sis you'll want to hear this" Percy says. Nodding Piper to continue
"We all know that you had a family before you came here," she said hesitantly at first
I was shocked I never talked about them. I nodded telling her it was ok to go on.
"So, we all decided to try to find them because everyone agrees that you deserve a break for all our crazy half-bloodiness," she said looking to Annabeth to continue.
"The whole camp helped," Frank said.
"And we found then in LaPush, Washington, and might have arranged a flight with Zeus for you tomorrow to go there," Annabeth said looking at me for once unsure
"Thank you all so much, thank you thank you thank you," I said pulling them all in for a hug again.
"Wait a second," I said pulling away, wiping the few tears that fell from my eyes away.
They all looked nervous.
"Is that why everyone was acting weird around me today?" I asked
"Of course, it is no one wanted to give away the surprise" Leo answered smiling in his mischievous way.
"and literally no one can keep a secret from you" Jason added.
I smiled back then joined the hug again.
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That night at dinner I burned nearly all my food for Zeus, Dad, Hephaestus, and Hecate as a thank-you for the gifts. After dinner, I packed up all my stuff to leave the next day before I drifted into a peaceful sleep.