- 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 . . . Being a half-blood only caused trouble. Not many lived long and if ithey did, their life was filled with dangerous adventures and tribulations.
Stella had always been beloved by her fellow campers...
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🏹 | CASTLES CRUMBLING ₊˚ପ⊹ .୧ ‧₊˚⋅🗝️ a c t o n e ━━━━━━❛titan's curse❜ chapter three . . . welcome back
ESTELLA REMEMBERED AS CLEAR AS DAY WHEN she made it to camp half blood. She was around seven or eight. Her mom had sent the young girl on her way with her neighbour, Luke Castellan, another half blood, to take care of her.
The two had joined forces with two other half bloods. Thalia Grace and Annabeth Chase, and a satyr, Grover Underwood.
That faithful day, they had a horrible encounter with a cyclops. An encounter that Estella pushed to the back of her brain from the guilt it made her feel in her chest.
It ended with Thalia sacrificing herself for the other four. Zeus ended up turning her into a tree and Estella made it to the place where she'd make her first best friends.
The bonds she made at camp were ones she cared deeply about but none of them were like the one she shared with her mother.
But the bond she had made with the camp itself was special. It wasn't something easily describable. It made Estella's inside turned anxiously but warmed her heart a bit.
It still made her feel the same a two years later.
Frost covered the chariot track and the strawberry fields. The cabins were decorated with tiny flickering lights, like Christmas lights, except they seemed to be balls of real fire. More lights glowed in the woods, and weirdest of all, a fire flickered in the attic window of the Big House, where the Oracle dwelt.
"Whoa," Nico said as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?"
"Yeah," Estella said, speaking to him directly for the first time.
"Why is there lava pouring down it?"
"Little extra challenge." Percy replied. "Come on. I'll introduce you to Chiron. Zoe, have you met—"
"I know Chiron," Zoe said stiffly. "Tell him we will be in Cabin Eight. Hunters, follow me."
"I'll show you the way," Grover offered.
"We know the way."
"Oh, really, it's no trouble. It's easy to get lost here, if you don't" — he tripped over a canoe and came up still talking—"like my old daddy goat used to say! Come on!"
Zoe rolled her eyes, but seems she figured there was no getting rid of Grover. The Hunters shouldered their packs and their bows and headed off toward the cabins. As Bianca was leaving, she leaned over and whispered something in her brothers ear. She looked at him for an answer, but Nico just scowled and turned away.
