While I was at camp half blood I stayed in the hermes cabin. Throughout the weeks I became very skilled with a dagger, and I loved the arts and crafts. Every day I went to arts and crafts and created the most colorful thing I could think of. Rachel and I became good friends. She said I was probably a daughter of Hephatuas or Athena since I like crafts so much. But I don't think so. It turns out Rachel is the camp oracle. Which I think is pretty cool.
That day during practice something weird happened. I was practicing fighting with my dagger against Nico and I was dephanitly getting beaten. Right when I was about to lose, I turned into an alligator. It was so cool. I was starting to think that most demigods could shape shift like me. But when I asked Rachel if they did she said I was the first demigod she had ever seen to shapeshift.
I started to figure out a way to change back into human, so I didn't need Chiron's tonic any more. Most of the day when I practiced fighting, I would be some animal. My favorite animals to change into were horses, cheetahs, eagles, and a dolphin. When I went in the lake, I would be some water animal, like a dolphin. Whenever we played capture the flag people wanted me on the their team. I was really good at hiding, because I could be a small squirel, or a bird in the sky. Then I could sneek up on people and attack.
At camp half blood I became friends with a girl named Sapphire. She was a daughter of Aphrodite. She had long, wavy auburn hair, and perfect, smooth skin. Whenever guys passed her, they said hey, or they would flirt like mad. Sappphire had become head of the Aphrodite cabin mainly because, Silena had been killed in the battle against kronos. She was really pretty, and I was always jealous. How could she get guys so easy?
"Hey Addison!" said Sapphire as I finished a duel aggainst a son of hermes. I had won, but only because I turned into a fly and then I crawled into his ear to make him itch. He immediatly started screaming. Then I had slowly walked out from his ear and turned back into human. Then I just pushed him over.
"Hey Sapphire. What class do you have next?"
"Oh remember? We have free time!"
"Oh yeah! Do you want to go to the lake and see if I can beat Percy in a swimming race while I'm in dolphin form?"
"Nah...I was wondering...can we just talk right here?" she asked.
"Ugh...sure." I said as I put down my dagger and armor. "So what do you want to talk about?"
"Well...I was talking to Chiron...and he thinks you might always be unditirmened. Like, you may not really ever be claimed. What I mean is that your powers are very different then any other gods. There is only one goddess....but she never ever really had kids."
"What? My mother may never be found? But...I... fine. I guess I will always live with it." I roughly got up, and ran to the girls bathroom. When I got in there, I started crying.
"WHY MOM? WHY? WHY CAN'T I BE CLAIMED? I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!! I SEE HOW EVERYONE KNOWS HOW THEY HAVE A GODLY PARENT! OR HOW THEY HAVE HALF SIBLINGS! I DON'T HAVE ANY SIBLINGS! AND NOW DAD IS DEAD! WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME? WHY DID YOU LEAVE DAD? WHY why...why...why?" I whimpered. For some hours I bawled until the conch horn blew for dinner. I wiped my eyes and got up. I might as well live with this.
We had chicken burgers for dinner. It seemed good, but I couldn't taste any of it. When we went to the bonfire for the offerings, I threw in a roll and whispered, "Mom, Please, tell me who you are?"
I walked back to the hermes table, but everyone was staring at me.
"What?" I said.
They all just kept staring at my head. I looked up, and there, was a glowing hologram of an Iris flower. All of a sudden, it turned into a rainbow. Inside the rainbow, was a woman in a painted shirt, jeans, and purple clogs, with her hair pulled up in a pony tail. She looked just like me, my same dirty brownish hair, my hazel eyes, my skinny body, my long arms. She looked me strait in the eye and said,
"Addison, I am Iris, goddess of rainbows. I can shape shift, and I deliver ambrosia and necter to the gods. I am your mother. I may not look like a goddess, but I am on earth right now, painting at an art show. I know that your dad is dead, but camp half blood is a safe place for you. You must stay here. See, I loved your father very much. Do not think that I left him and you because I didn't love you. I almost gave up my immortality for you, but I knew it was wrong." she said,then turned to chiron and said, "You will let my daughter stay here, even though I am not one of the twelve olympians. Please." She then turned back to me, smiled, and the message vanished. Right as she left, a small golden box appeared. On it said "for Addison". I opened it, and inside was a necklace with a shiny rainbow diamond pendent. With it was a note that said:
Happy birthday. I am sorry it took so long for me to claim you. This necklace can take you any where in the world whenever you want. I hope it helps.
love,
Iris, your mother
I turned, put the necklace on, picked up my plate and walked up to chiron, then said:
"Where do I sit now Chiron?"
That day during practice something weird happened. I was practicing fighting with my dagger against Nico and I was dephanitly getting beaten. Right when I was about to lose, I turned into an alligator. It was so cool. I was starting to think that most demigods could shape shift like me. But when I asked Rachel if they did she said I was the first demigod she had ever seen to shapeshift.
I started to figure out a way to change back into human, so I didn't need Chiron's tonic any more. Most of the day when I practiced fighting, I would be some animal. My favorite animals to change into were horses, cheetahs, eagles, and a dolphin. When I went in the lake, I would be some water animal, like a dolphin. Whenever we played capture the flag people wanted me on the their team. I was really good at hiding, because I could be a small squirel, or a bird in the sky. Then I could sneek up on people and attack.
At camp half blood I became friends with a girl named Sapphire. She was a daughter of Aphrodite. She had long, wavy auburn hair, and perfect, smooth skin. Whenever guys passed her, they said hey, or they would flirt like mad. Sappphire had become head of the Aphrodite cabin mainly because, Silena had been killed in the battle against kronos. She was really pretty, and I was always jealous. How could she get guys so easy?
"Hey Addison!" said Sapphire as I finished a duel aggainst a son of hermes. I had won, but only because I turned into a fly and then I crawled into his ear to make him itch. He immediatly started screaming. Then I had slowly walked out from his ear and turned back into human. Then I just pushed him over.
"Hey Sapphire. What class do you have next?"
"Oh remember? We have free time!"
"Oh yeah! Do you want to go to the lake and see if I can beat Percy in a swimming race while I'm in dolphin form?"
"Nah...I was wondering...can we just talk right here?" she asked.
"Ugh...sure." I said as I put down my dagger and armor. "So what do you want to talk about?"
"Well...I was talking to Chiron...and he thinks you might always be unditirmened. Like, you may not really ever be claimed. What I mean is that your powers are very different then any other gods. There is only one goddess....but she never ever really had kids."
"What? My mother may never be found? But...I... fine. I guess I will always live with it." I roughly got up, and ran to the girls bathroom. When I got in there, I started crying.
"WHY MOM? WHY? WHY CAN'T I BE CLAIMED? I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!! I SEE HOW EVERYONE KNOWS HOW THEY HAVE A GODLY PARENT! OR HOW THEY HAVE HALF SIBLINGS! I DON'T HAVE ANY SIBLINGS! AND NOW DAD IS DEAD! WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME? WHY DID YOU LEAVE DAD? WHY why...why...why?" I whimpered. For some hours I bawled until the conch horn blew for dinner. I wiped my eyes and got up. I might as well live with this.
We had chicken burgers for dinner. It seemed good, but I couldn't taste any of it. When we went to the bonfire for the offerings, I threw in a roll and whispered, "Mom, Please, tell me who you are?"
I walked back to the hermes table, but everyone was staring at me.
"What?" I said.
They all just kept staring at my head. I looked up, and there, was a glowing hologram of an Iris flower. All of a sudden, it turned into a rainbow. Inside the rainbow, was a woman in a painted shirt, jeans, and purple clogs, with her hair pulled up in a pony tail. She looked just like me, my same dirty brownish hair, my hazel eyes, my skinny body, my long arms. She looked me strait in the eye and said,
"Addison, I am Iris, goddess of rainbows. I can shape shift, and I deliver ambrosia and necter to the gods. I am your mother. I may not look like a goddess, but I am on earth right now, painting at an art show. I know that your dad is dead, but camp half blood is a safe place for you. You must stay here. See, I loved your father very much. Do not think that I left him and you because I didn't love you. I almost gave up my immortality for you, but I knew it was wrong." she said,then turned to chiron and said, "You will let my daughter stay here, even though I am not one of the twelve olympians. Please." She then turned back to me, smiled, and the message vanished. Right as she left, a small golden box appeared. On it said "for Addison". I opened it, and inside was a necklace with a shiny rainbow diamond pendent. With it was a note that said:
Happy birthday. I am sorry it took so long for me to claim you. This necklace can take you any where in the world whenever you want. I hope it helps.
love,
Iris, your mother
I turned, put the necklace on, picked up my plate and walked up to chiron, then said:
"Where do I sit now Chiron?"
