Lily Zolomon Jekyll: The Lightning Thief?

CHAPTER FOUR: unwanted

Before we ate we took some of the food and poured it into the fire "the gods like the smell of the food, apparently" luke said his face forcing a smile as if he resented that he had to do it

"Why are the gods so important here? They're just people with more power." I said genuinely with a distaste for the gods for not helping my family or even showing a sign that I'm theirs

Luke's forced smile shifted into a genuine one you could tell "Exactly, to tell you a secret I don't really like them all that much either" he whispered so percy wouldn't hear us

"Obviously no one here probably does" i looked at a random ares kid "hey, Do you like the gods?"

They turned to me nervously because they heard i slayed a giant snake "no, not particularly" they said feigning confidence

"See" i turned back to luke looking at his scar "literally no one likes the gods" i reached for the knife to cut into the chicken that just appeared on my plate and ran my hand across the blade not creating a single mark weirdly, i then dug the knife into the chicken and cut off a piece of the poultry

"So, you killed a giant snake?" Luke said trying to start a conversation with me

"Yeah I killed it. I didn't really intend too. My vision went red and then i sort of just burned with pure unadulterated fear, I could feel a rush of adrenaline and I don't remember anything else but like, a song i could hear my bones crack to the beat of the song the feeling of my bones compressing when it collided with the snake. It was such a rush" I didn't realize that i sounded almost psychopathic, i lost myself in the memory of that feeling luke was just staring at me sort of happily

"So i guess you like fighting, you're probably an ares then" luke said grabbing his goblet and speaking into it "sparkling water" it filled he then drank the water inside it

"Yeah I'm an aries how did you know" i said mistaking his name for the zodiac sign

"If you know that why are you in the hermes cabin" luke said focusing on cutting his food up so he could eat it

"What does my zodiac have to do with where i live i thought it was based on your parents" i said mega confused for the first time looking him in the eyes "what's up with that knarly scar on your face dude"

Luke's smile dropped a little bit not by much but noticable "I'd rather not talk about it, also do you really believe that zodiac nonsense" he said kinda judgingly

"Oh no no no I mean mines weirdly fitting but besides that it's probably not true.. all though gods exist nowadays so anything could be true right?" I took a bite out of the chicken without even cutting it this time like a barbarian "besides I don't think I could be an Ares kid" I said with food still in my mouth "those guys are some real jerks"

Luke smiled when he looked at me "yeah, I guess that's true the world's crazy" Luke took a napkin and handed it to me as my face was dripping with barbecue sauce from absolutely devouring that meat "you got a little something there"

I grabbed it smiling at Luke while the entire camp looked at me "I'm sorry, I guess never really learned manors given that, y'know my mom's dead and my dad's a deadbeat" I chuckled from my own dark joke most of the campers didn't find it funny and felt bad for judging me

However luke chuckled with me "yeah i mean when your dads a god life can be tough" he ate his chicken with his bare hand like I did cause he's popular and if the popular kid does something no one's gonna judge the person who did it too "I mean, i met the guy once. That one time was enough"

I looked into his eyes "so.. I didn't really wanna ask this considering everyone seems to announce it like it's something to be proud of but it what's your godly parent, I mean you live in the Hermes cabin so I'm assuming him but others live there too" I used my spoon for the mashed potatos

"Yeah I'm one of the lucky ones I actually got chosen, not that it means anything though, the gods don't want us around that's why they bring us to this camp and make a grumpy minor god run it." He said very seriously but then smiled to relieve the tension "listen, don't worry about who your dad is. It really doesn't matter I mean you probably won't even wanna be claimed considering people think your dad could be a powerful one, the more powerful the dad the lonelier you are" his gaze seemed to drift in the direction of halfblood hill

I went back for seconds "god, or I guess gods, why am i so hungry" i started brutally ravaging the meal once more

Luke chuckled again "that's one great metabolism even for a demigod, Hades maybe even good for a 3/4ths god like you" his eyes drifted back at me and to the bracelet that was probably a mixture of celestial bronze and imperial gold very valuable I would catch him "sorry, my dad is the god of thieves and all"

I had already been done with the second plate of food and I still wanted more but luke did offer to show me around so I got up and said "can we go see the Hephaestus cabin maybe we can "borrow" armor from them" I winked at him

"I like how you're thinking" Luke got up and lead me to the Hephaestus cabin on the way we started talking about our hobbies "well I usually just start trouble by accident and that ruins my hobbies but I guess I like fighting, reading, oh and VR" I got hungry so I pulled out the bag that my grandma handed me that had pastries in it and luke looked shocked as I went to put one in my mouth

"No, don't" he said grabbing my arm and holding it so I didn't eat it "do you want to die kid"

I put the pastry back in the bag "how am I gonna die from a little sugar dude lighten up" I put the bag back in my pocket

He stared at me for a second, "dude that's not a brownie or something like that it's an ambrosia square eat to many for no reason and you'll disintegrate" we stopped walking at a cabin

"Oh.. wait isn't my blood literally ambrosial so what would happen if I ate too many do you even know if I'd die" I I looked at Luke and then looked at the cabin the cabin said something I thought it looked like jiberish and a number on it, under it was some Greek lettering that conveniently changed shape when I strained my eyes to say in perfect English "boys only, keep out" there was a kid next to the sign he was 'tiny' and leaning on the sign maybe 5'6 at best, with brown hair that I couldn't tell was either brown or just darkened from the dirt in his hair his face was dirty his skin was a light brown and he had unclean clothes as if he'd been hard at work all day

"Hey, the signs a joke by the way one of my brother is shy" he spoke confidently and gently "sorry that I'm dirty I haven't had time to clean up"

"You look like one of my friends, his names leo do you know him?" I really liked him he seemed fun and friendly I fiddled with my bracelet frantically as if I had adhd