~The Beginning of Life~

~ Chapter 19 ; Another One ~

Date: April 1st
Time: 12pm
Place: Strawberry Fields

It's been nearly a month since we've been here. No one's really suspicious of us yet, but it's about time. The other 15 are already making close friends, and they'd need a life to tell. It might be a lie, but not in their imagination.

I sit among the others in the strawberry fields. I'd told Walton about the gaps in our past and he'd called everyone here. The others took this as a meeting, and thankfully, they didn't think me as the leader.

"So what's up?" asks Gabe.

"Well, I brought you here to talk about our lives," replies Walton from next to me.

Joey raises an eyebrow. "Meaning?" he asks coldly.

"Well... we need biographies. We can't tell these guys that we came from the real world and tell them they're all fake-" Walton gets cut off by Melissa.

"But if they're fake, how come we can see them?"

"I don't know, but still, we can't tell them we just appeared. It's creepy," he replies.

"Yet true," comments Emily.

"So you want us to think up of a past?" inquires Asuka.

"Yep," affirms Walton.

"Hmm... I think I have one. I lived in Mexico in some garage. My mom died in an accident on the way to New York and I eventually wandered to this gas station where I was found."
Asuka looks at Alexandra and Clara, her closest (who aren't that close) friends, who are also 'hated-by-Leo-gals'.

"Hmm... that's cool," says Alexandra.

"Ooh!" Clara raises her hand. "I got one; I lived in an apartment in Virginia with my mom until she decided I would be safer here, and I needed to learn the ways of a modern demigod, so she packed me off and drove me here," she says quickly.

Then Melissa speaks up. "How about this; My dad was american, and I was born in New York. I was bullied often in school and no one really liked me. So I once ran off into a forest. Leo found me and took me to Camp Half-Blood... It's not complete, but, that's the plot."

"Yeah, like that. So you all think of stories and..." Walton says uncertainly. "That's all."

Most of the others disperse immediately, talking to their group members (Chiron still kept the useless tour guide thing) while a few lag behind.

I turn to Ash. "You got any ideas?"

"I dunno... how about that I was born in Canada, and when I was about nine, monsters came and killed my parents? Then maybe I wandered around for a bit and Ella brought me here."

"That sounds cool."

"Mhm. What about you?"

"Uhh... I could be an orphan... say I lived on the streets after my parents were killed by monsters when I was a kid."

"That might explain why you're so unpredictable and careful."

"Am I that unpredictable?" I ask.

"From what I've seen over this month? Yes." Ash smiles.

"Good," I smirk. I then frown. "I'm careful?"

Ash shrugs. "You're nearly always prepared for an attack."

"Hmm... I think there's another word for that because I don't think someone who walks on the Zeus cabin's roof is careful... They aren't are they?"

Ash chuckles. "Nope."

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Time: 3pm
Place: Hermes cabin

That afternoon, I decide to take a stroll. Well I didn't decide, but I just got tired of circling the lake and I subconsciously headed to the Hephaestus cabin. I pass Leo fixing something to the door.

I suddenly spot Asuka next to the Hermes cabin with some sort of gun-like machine in hand. I walk over to her.

"What is that?" I ask her suspiciously.

"Something I made." Asuka shrugs and aims it at a sign board propped next to Leo.

"What does it do?"

"I'm not sure. But hopefully nothing good to those."

"Those?"

"The boards. Leo made 'em. They're meant to do... something. It's got him really excited."

"And you want to destroy it?"

"Yeah. Leo keeps trying to show me up, making me look useless."

I think it's more like the other way around, but I don't voice that. Like, they both hate each other but Asuka is making it competitive.
"Okay..."

Asuka presses the trigger and a faintly visible ray hits the boards and they crumble to dust. Leo jumps when they touch his shoe and he looks towards us.

Asuka chuckles and shouts, "April's Fools!"

Before I can ask how that categorizes as a prank, she runs off. Leo scowls and chases her.

I slowly make my way to the campfire in the middle and try to ignore them running around me.

Leo abruptly stops, staring at Asuka. I look at her too, and see what got Leo so shocked.

The floating hammer on her head.
Asuka notices it too and smirks at Leo, who scowls again.

"Siblings... should've guessed," I mutter under my breath, slightly amused.

Leo starts chasing Asuka again, with renewed hatred, trying to get the gun. Normally, siblings would fight over a remote but who said we're normal