seeing the camp counselors gather together at night. It was supposed to be dinner time now, but that's been delayed. All because of me. If I had the chance, I would've escaped and head to the dining pavilion but Argus was staring at me with his many eyes, I doubt he'd even let me leave the chair.

Chiron started doing a headcount, muttering things like there were lots of counselors who weren't present yet but the door slammed open and a bunch of angry teenagers entered and took their rightful seats.

"Now that everyone's here, I'd like to talk about Miss Shaw, who suddenly made Nico di Angelo....sparkly" Chiron announced, and suddenly I'd rather have Argus look at me rather than all of them look at me simultaneously. Nico glared at everyone so they averted their gaze from him.

"Lou Ellen Blackstone will explain her condition. Miss Blackstone, you have the floor,"

Lou nodded and stood up, "Sorry for delaying dinner but this is important-"

"What could be more important than food?" Travis Stoll whined, he was one of the people I first met when I came to camp.

Lou rolled her eyes, "Don't interrupt me,"

"Yes ma'am" Travis did a salute

Lou cleared her throat and started talking, "My sister, Treya, casted a spell on Nico for um, self defense during capture the flag. We've been training her the past few weeks so she could harness her sorcery, but tonight, she casted a spell that has never existed before. She and Nico also claimed that the spell was not complete. I'd like to remind everyone that us children of Hecate cannot cast incomplete spells, hence, the real reason why we're here. I don't think this just happened because of an accident, I think it was supposed to happen"

Silence then someone coughed, "Don't worry, the sparkles suit you Nico,"

I almost laughed at Nico who only rolled his eyes and shook his head but that might have been inappropriate and I'm sure not only Nico would strangle me, but Lou as well.

"You just arrived Percy, shut up" Someone else muttered

"So," Annabeth started, "What are you trying to say?"

Lou sighed, "This was originally a secret between Hecate campers only, but it's been three months since our mom contacted any of us. We tried contacting her but she never answered. We think she's lost, or has been abducted"

My jaw slacked. I had not known any of this.

Annabeth raised an eyebrow, "Continue,"

"But it seemed like Hecate knew. She knew she was going to be taken. A year ago, she told us about this powerful demigod daughter of hers, and that she was stubborn to go to camp. Hecate knew her only chance of escaping was with the help of her daughter. Not just any daughter, but Treya"

I didn't know what to think. Now it finally came to me like a complete puzzle. Why my mother was so hell bent on protecting me and why Kaya was so aggressive back then.

Someone raised their hand, and she stood up. She looked like an exact replica of Merida from Brave.

"Lou's right, last night I had a dream- oh no-" She cut herself off when a swarm of green mist surrounded her and she looked at me dead in the eye before walking towards me and pulled me up before holding my face with her hands.

I tried to push her off but it was of no use, she had an iron steel grip.

daughter of the mist, must go east

accompanied only by the cursed one, save the goddess held by he who escaped death

one will take the fall of their relative, with a promise until their last breath

Then the mist disappeared after she spoke, and looked at me with an apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry,"

I was too stunned to move, "Did I just hear how I'll die?"

Lou looked concerned and came to me, "Treya, why don't you take a seat," I listened to her and she tried to calm me down by casting a spell but it hardly worked.

Chiron cleared his throat, "There we have it,"

"Who's the cursed one?" Leo asked, fiddling with a metal toy.

"It's me," Nico spoke up, looking bored

"I'm going on a quest with Nico?!" I complained

Nico scowled, "If you cursed someone else, it wouldn't have to be me! Does it look like I enjoy going on quests?"

Percy laughed, "You do go on your own little quest-"

"That doesn't count," Nico cut him off

I raised my hand, "But Chiron, I don't know how to fight"

Nico nodded at Chiron, "That's something we can agree on,"

"Shut up, death breath!" I barked at him and he stood up to give me some insult but Chiron beat him to it.

"Okay, stop fighting. It's not that it has never happened before," He glanced at Annabeth, "But rare that a quest is done by two demigods. It's usually three, but the quest specified that there would only be two of you"

"Chiron, I'm still horrible at battle," I reminded him

Chiron smiled, "Nico can train you, I am aware that you have to immediately but if you have no confidence in your battle abilities, Nico can train you tomorrow, and at night, you leave for your quest"

Nico had a sour face on, "Why do I have to train her? Percy's a better swordsman! Or Annabeth can teach her to fight with a knife!"

Annabeth sighed, "Just train her Nico,"

Nico looked at me, agitated. "If you're not up by five in the morning, I'm gonna have to drag you out of your cabin"

"Oh, for you my dear ghost king, I can even wake up at four in the morning" I sarcastically said and it managed to piss him off even more.

Leo and Percy laughed out loud, "Man, seeing Nico get roasted is something new,"

With more arguing later, Chiron decided it would be best to end the meeting and head to dinner. But when I was so enthusiastic at the beginning of the chapter, I didn't know what to do now. I had lost all of my appetite, because I was frightened of my fate.