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Lykos character sheet!!
art by me
(Hes technically 13 because His birthday’s in February, when made that drawing i went off of Percy’s age but he does turn 13 after the quest
you dont really need to wory about the older version of Lykos, that’s just there for later into the fic(like a lot later
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I didn’t have a lot of time to pack up my things, plan a travel route or heal the wound on my face, so i supose thats how i ended in a crowded buss station in new york with sunglasses, a face mask and a bag filed with my most important belongings.(so nothing crucial to my survival, basically)
It probably looks like I’ve committed a crime and I’m fleeing from the scene, well technically i have committed the crime of entering like eight separate busses without a buss pass
I’m lucky to not have been taken in by security yet considering I definitely smell like dried blood
My only consolation is that i’m almost at there, just one more buss ride to go.
I’m dreading the next’s few months of my life. i just learned that god’s are real and that im a demi god and i dont know if i wish i learned more because i have so many questions or less because i just really want to forget that any of this ever happened.
I hate having to leave, i had plans this summer, whether i was looking forwards to them is up for debate.
At least i get to bail out of whatever my ‘friends’ were planong to pull this time around, ya’know on the accounts of being a state away.
During the last twentyfour hour i have already come up with a cover story to explain away why i know about this camp and that and all that demi god jazz so that dont have to worry about improvising a lie when i get there
My bag feels heavy over my shoulder, i take a few deep breaths.
i have done a good job at avoiding panic attacks on these buss rides so far and i’d rather keep it that way and not get a bingo
this is the final stretch anyway, i see the buss i’m taking out of the corner of my eye
It’s labeled; Long island, new york
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I look up
The sky was gray,it looks like a bad storm’s on the horizon.
but that’s the only glimpse i could get
it’s probably better that way.
Im in some sort of pit, with tall ‘walls’ in a circular shape.
Said walls are lined with dark sand seemingly falling from the surface
I breathe as quietly as i can,keeping my head up try and catch a glimpse at the unwavering noise in the sky; i couldn’t see the sorce of the sound but it sounded violent, the ruckus was accompanied by the sounds of crashing waves and striking lightning.
it would be possible to climb out if i only waited long enough for the sand to fall -or mabye it would drown me
Either way i was destined to see the surface eventually
Darkness..
My body jercked and my eyes flashed open.
The other kids in cabin eleven were awake with the dawn.
I hate having to wake up this early, i usually sleep inn every day of summer but I haven’t had much of a choice here.
I turned around to my side,laying back down in my sleeping bag in the coner of the cabin.
I close my eyes in hope of mabye going back to sleep but with that dream i had it was a lost cause.
It’s breakfasts soon so i gathered the mental strength to get up.
The view was the almost familiar surroundings of the cabin that’s been my ‘home’ for the past two months.
I’m used to sharing a room -my apartment back in Detroit was only two-bedroom and i lived with far more than two people but this place was a whole different level.
The Hermes cabin was pretty crambed, and over half of the kids there belonged somewhere else but their parents couldn’t or wouldn’t care enough to notice
Although i can’t blame them, im technically not any different.
The paint on the wall was a dull brown that was beginning to chip off, multiple floorboards were loose and the walls were lined with bunk beds.
I think it might look nicer if it had a paint job and mabye a second story added to it to make up for how overcrowded it was,but for now i hated it.
Now i wouldn’t say that alloud! and i also wouldn’t think of myself as a angry or hateful person,no not at all! I just really hated camp
Oh well to bad, i’m is already kinda stuck now until i can eventually fuck off and go back home when summers over!
I got out of bed and made sure to keep staying quiet as i grab my bag out from under one of the lose floorboards. It was a black bag with a leather strap, i have a pin and a embroidered triangle patch on the bag.
I’ve learned that i needed to get my stuff when none of the Hermes kids were looking, I learned the hard way,
one of them had already tried to nick my stuff, it was one of the tall kids with the curly brown hair…travis or something, if i remember it right.
I squint my eyes when the sun hits my face as i head outside.
I go over to the comunal bathroom to get ready for the day and i’m greeted with an out of order sign
wooow awsome…
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Breakfast goes as usual, i sit at the end of the table and try to make conversation but i get drowned out by the noise and go unnoticed, i internally kick myself for not trying harder.
As periodically as clock work I scurry into the forest, it’s been my favorite thing about camp by a long shot,The reson i like it so much is because it feels,well..normal
if you ignore the monsters! but if you stay close enough to camp and make sure to stay quiet and listen you should be able to hear before they see you.
I walk until i reach my usuall spot
A beautiful tall tree covered in glowing lichen, the first time i saw it was at night -dont ask my why i was out there.
it was beautiful,like fallen stars that settled on the tree
i’ve been coming here ever since,and like a moth to a flame i go here every time this place feels like to much, wich is most of the time
I sit down and reach into my bag and grab my DS that i got last Christmas, i needed to check on my animal crossing town, im glad this doesn’t require wifi or radio signals, i would be so upset
I think my villagers are my only friends, the nice ones at least
I sat there for what felt like eternity but also five minutes.
After i was done checking in on my villagers(and being ridiculed by sue e) i satt for a while before getting distracted by a frog, the lil guy was as captivated by the tree as me i guess.
I got out my camera and skrap-book ,thats falsley labled as “skrapebok” because I can’t write for shit. I took a picture and started painting the frog
For once i felt lost in the quiet instead of alerted by it, and so it was to late before I realized something had snuck up on me
I flinched
“Lykos, I thought i’d find you here, are you skipping activities again?” a voice said, they sounded quite feed up with be judging by the tone of their voice
I turned my head to be greeted by one of the only ‘mabye’ friends i have around here. Annabeth chase. We’d met while she was examining me to see if i was “the one”, wich I’d noticed to be one of her usual greeting to any new camper to come her way.
After that we’ve been hanging out after she realized i was up for listening to her ramble about greek myths, architecture,quests and whatever she was thinking on that day, lately it’s been all about capture the flag.
It’s stil nice to have someone who values my presence,even if she intimidates me a little, she’s nice and she might be my ticket out of here if we get the opportunity for a quest.
I snap back from my thoughts
“Heeey, Annabeth, wacha doing” i stutter, i’ve been caught red handed
“You didn’t answer my question” she gives an exasperated sigh and crosses her arms
“Uh. Well okay to be fair, it wouldn’t really matter if i went, it’s not like i’m any good at this stuff anyways” i try not to mumble but I can’t stop myself from avoiding eye contact
im sure she means well
“Well, you won’t be getting any better if you don’t try to learn.” She she puts a hand to her hip “if you want to even have a shot at going on a quest you need to be competent”
Thats fair, those are the plain facts but that doesn’t mean i need to like it
“I mean its not like i dont know anything.. i dont always skip” i mumble out
I did attend a few activities in my first few weeks but after a few older kids refused to go easy on me during sword play -and i get i picked that as my weapon but that’s just because it seamed easier to pick up, it was for some people but it’s definitely not for me, we were supposed to find the wepon we were comfortable with because apparently we all have one.I didn’t find one i was good at i ended up almost losing a limb no matter what weapon i tried
“Come on, were doing sword fighting down by the arena,i need an extra pair of eyes and a second opinion.” I rase my eyebow at that “that new guy i told you about, Percy Jackson, i need to try and find out if he’s the one”
I smile at her knowingly “ah i see, we’re back back on your personal quest ‘mabye this new kid is the one’ ,i see, that’s why you haven’t come to bug me this last week”
“Oh shut up, this is important! I need to be the first to know”
“Alright fine I’ll go with you, but I can’t promise I’ll actually train, I don’t feel like going to the infirmary today”
I get up form my spot and follow Annabeth out of the woods
“Is there any reson why you think he’s the one?” I ask just to know if there’s any marrot to her suspicion, she’s smart but i ont follow her blindly .
“Well originally no,just the normal suspicion but somthing happened yesterday while i was giving him a tour”
I give her a curious glance
She continues “Clasrisse was trying to pick on him and and tried shoving his head in the toilet because he looked at her funny or something -honestly don’t care to remember- but anyway the water came flying out of the bowl and at clarisse, and not even a dop landed on him”
“Thats weird, wher’d you hear that from?”
“i saw it! I was soaking in toilet water for the rest of the tour,it was disgustin! im honestly surprised you haven’t heard yet considering plenty of people have been talking about it.”
“And it is aproching summer solstice so if anything’s going to happen it would happen now!” She says confidently, makes me feel slightly more confident too
It dawned on me that the summer solstice is close- the deadline is approaching, the clock has almost struck and the sand has almost fallen
This percy guy might actually be the one we’re looking for then. If he could help me i should probably give it my best shot to get to know him, i know im not the most approachable, considering no one is approaching me but it’s fine, it has to be fine
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The wind blows more freely out here than it does in the forest, i can feel it as the wind blows through my hair
It’s nice
My attention turns to the arena where campers are forming a circle with luke and someone I don’t recognize in the senter, he’s talking but were not close enough to where i can hear him properly yet
“Alright, do i haw everyone’s attention!”
We heard luke shout as we closed in to the arena
“ okay great, now as i was saying, if Percy doesn’t mind,I want to give you a little demo”
so that guy is percy
I feel bad for him, getting peer pressured into doing this kinda thing on one of your first days sounds terrifying
Luke continues ”this is a difficult technique” he stressed “i’ve had this used against me, so no laughing at Percy,alright”
Luke sets the rules for the spar and they get into position
Im surprised to see that Percy is pretty decent, he puts up a good fight.
The two are slashing at each other and theny start narrowing closer, it seems like Luke has a upper hand.
I blink and nearly miss it.
Percy hit the base of lukes sword and twisted it, it was followed by a loud clang as Lukes sword rattled against the ground.
Everyone’s attention is at the fight and everyone is silent
“Um, sorry” Percy stamerd out
Lukes suprised expression broke into a grin
“Sorry?by the gods percy, why are you sorry? Show me that again!”
Annabeth and i stod there and looked ahead at the scene, i think there might be a chance she’s right. I mean he isn’t the first or last camper to come in with natural talent but with the timing I wouldn’t be surprised, but maybe it’s just wishful thinking
There was now chattering among the crowd and luke was stil talking, but I didn’t acknowledge it, i was contemplating whether i should try to aproach him after this, just in case! Ya’know see what he’s like
,But the moment escaped me and before i built up the courage they were already lost in the crowd
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I was headed over to the lake at friday afternoon, i would have gone to my tree again but there’s to many people over where i usually go in so i didn’t wanna take the chance of getting caught
I hadn’t gotten to talk to percy at all, he’d be sitting to far away from me at the table and it would feel to akward trying to talk to him with so many people around and I didn’t want to come of as annoying ,and i guess we don’t really do any of the same activities,i would assume he would be learning the basics with like, fighting and the climbing wall and I’ve already astablished that im not up for that, I’ve also seen him canoeing -he’s pretty good at that actually -I can’t swim so that’s a no go. When im not in the woods im usually siting by the amphitheater or the beach and mabye if im feeling confident or bored i might try my luck at volleyball.
I was to lost in my thoughts to notice who was sitting at there
It was Percy and one of Annabeth’s friends, Grover, i don’t know the guy to well, my first impression on him was that he seemed a bit like a nervous wreck.
We certainly have that in comon but at least i don’t make it obvious…always
i should probably teach him about deflection i think it would help :D
They way they talk to each other makes it pretty obvious they’re friends,Grover was probably the satyr who brought him here.
I feel like I should probably try to approach them, i didn’t wanna come of as annoying but i might have to risk it, now might be the only chance i get.
I gather all the crumbs of courage that i have and i start approaching them
My heart is pounding in my chest, this is so fucking scary, fuck this shit! As soon as i go home i’m never talking to anyone ever again!
“H-hey Grover”i stammer when i turn my head to great him but then quickly turn it over to Percy “you’re Percy right?..Um Annabeth’s told me about you”
I take a breath
“I uh-i just wanted to say that it was really impressive, you’know that disarming maneuver, it was pretty cool” i look at him to await his response.
Can the gods just fucking smite me already, omg he’s going to hate me why did i-
“Oh! Thank’s man, thats really nice of you, it’s probably just beginners luck” he chuckles
“Noproblem” the words flew way to quickly out of me and if not for that it might have sounded natural
He looks up at me and when he speaks it’s obvious that he’s trying to not make me nervous “anyways, whats your name, you know my name but i dont know your’s”
I have to breath again, i do so but in a way that makes it sound like im try to hide it,like im pretending I don’t need it
“Im Lykos, Lykos Dean”
“Percy jackson” he introduced himself properly
“Just out of curiosity!- sorry if it’s rude to ask but who’s your parent?”
Grover looks back and forth between me and percy, he knows that can be a sensitive topic amongst the un-claimed kids, but i honestly couldn’t care less
I answered probably in the most casual and relaxed way i have in this entire conversation ,although my heart rate hasn’t slowed down
“ I don’t know, i’m un-clamed”
“Oh i’m sorry- is that something to say sorry for?” He mutters the last part
I try to keep up the good composure as i answer
“eh. Mabye some people would appreciate it but, i don’t really care that much about my dad, the only reason i care about being claimed is mabye so that i can move out of the hermes cabin”
“Yeah i think thats fair! That place is pretty packed” i think that he’s relieved he didn’t offend me
I sit down cause the conversation is getting more relaxed, and mabye so that they might refrain from shooing me away
“So, what have you guys been up to today?”
That afternoon was fun, i got to hear about what Percy and Grover were doing at camp and i got to learn more about them, like for example that Grover wants to get a searcher license and how Percy’s sword is also a pen! Thats pretty cool, it’s got like a two in in one shampoo vibe but better and not gross
We talked about the stuff we’d usually do at summer when we weren’t at camp(and told Grover about them because he spend his summers here) and Percy even offered to try and help me to learn how to swim,
His defense was that it was fun and and an essential summer activity, and when I answered that i was afraid of the water he said I probably wouldn’t be if i just learned how to swim.
Touche
I wouldn’t say we were friends, this is just one conversation but it’s a nice start
It was just aimless chatter, which isn’t something im used to, i think i could get used to this
I want to let myself get used to this
But the gods know thay won’t be happening, not honestly