The Guardian

Chapter 18

Ron's PoV

Lana told us stories after stories about the Gods and made it seem so real. Everyone loved them and we groaned when we had to go.

"You know a lot about the Egyptian Mythology," I told her.

She nodded her eyes shinning in the dark, "I've known the stories since I was a baby,"

"Really?" I asked.

She nodded, "The camp directors are big fans of Mythology and told me those stories my entire life,"

"The camp directors?" I asked in confusion, "What about your parents,"

"My biological Dad is, lost at sea, a year after I was born, right before he left, he took me and dropped me off at my camp, and its been my home ever since. I met my brother at age 5 and then finally met my Mom," she said.

"Oh," I said.

"Thats sounds terrible," Fred said sympathetically.

"It wasn't as bad as some other peoples' lives, my camp is kind of like a sanctuary it keeps us safe. And its really fun, you guys remind me of people at my camp and people i've met at other camps that are like mine," She said.

"We're you in a war?" I asked her.

She nodded, "It was terrible, I watched some of my closest friends die before my eyes. We won, but not without a cost. Everyone who lived through it will never forget the memories of it,"

"Was it that bad?" I asked her.

"Ron! How can you be so DENSE! She watched people die in front of her eyes!" Ginny said to me angrily.

"Sorry," I told Lana.

"It's okay, without being in war, you only hear stories but you will never know the pain or the memories you get without really going through it. And I'm really sorry if you have to go into war," She said sympathy in her gaze, "You will lose people you love and if you're lucky maybe you won't lose all of them, maybe you won't lose any, but that's almost impossible. I hope you guys don't have to go to war,"

"Why do you think that we'd go to war?" Ginny wondered.

"Voldemort," She said simply and we all flinched.

"Hey! Lana! Is that you?" A girl with spiky black hair electric blue eyes and a black leather jacket. She wore a silver circlet on her head like a princess's tiara, which didn't match her skull earrings or her Death to Barbie T-shirt showing a little Barbie doll with an arrow through its head.

"Whats Barbie?" I whispered to Lana.

"Muggle thing," She said back, "THALIA! OVER HERE!"

The girl came over and wrapped Lana into a huge hug.

"Who are they?" She asked her looking at us suspiciously.

"Guys, this is my cousin Thalia Grace," Lana said.

"It's just Thalia," She interrupted, "You call me by my last name and you will have arrows through your eyeballs,"

"Oh, I did that to the basilisk in school, I'll tell you more about it in an IM, but Thalia these are the Weasley's, they're really nice and I'm staying with them while everyone has business at camp to attend to," She said.

We all introduced ourselves and she gave us a quick nod.

"Well I have to go, take care, and if you get killed I swear that I'll kill you," She told Lana.

"You didn't swear on the River Styx, so you don't mean it, you would be too heartbroken," Lana told her.

"Ugh, stupid overly smart kid, you must have stolen your brother's brains, yeah, that must've been it," She decided and gave her a hug, "You better take care," She threatened and walked off.

"Okay, lets go eat," I said and we all laughed.

"Lets go!" Lana cheered.

I saw Thalia keep an eye on us.

"She's a bit over protective isn't she?" I said.

"Oh yeah most of the people at my camp are too," She said rolling her eyes.

"Wow, your camp must be close," I said.

She nodded, "We are, its like a big family, most of the kids didn't have a good home life, some were abused, some abandoned, some ran away from home, well, everyone felt abandoned at one point, but it is our family,"

We stared at the stars above us.

"They're so pretty," I commented.

Lana looked up at the stars, "Bob says Hello," She whispered.

"Who is Bob?" I asked her.

"A friend," She said quietly.

"Oh," I said.

We walked the rest of the way in silence and FINALLY got to eat dinner. We got back to the hotel.

"Want to go swimming?" Lana asked us we jumped, we haven't heard her speak since she talked to the stars.

"Sure!" Fred said to her.

We got changed and when we got to the pool, I noticed that Lana wasn't wearing a swim suit. She jumped in and we stared at her.

"Why aren't you wearing a swim suit?" I asked her.

"Oh, yeah I'll go get mine," She said.

She jumped out of the water and ran to our room, her clothes weren't wet at all. She came back in a blue one piece bathing suit. Soon, we were all sitting by the pool side our legs dangling in the water. We were there for about 20 minutes so far.

"Wait, did you guys see Lana come up?" Charlie asked suddenly.

"I didn't, I thought you guys did!" We all said.

We all dove in frantically and saw Lana laying on the bottom of the pool. She saw us and swam up to join us.

"Hey!" She said brightly.

"You were under for 20 minutes!" Fred exclaimed.

"Oh really, it felt a bit longer than that," She said.

"Lana, how did you survive?" I asked her.

"Oh, I came up to breathe, I don't think any of you notice through you seemed in deep conversation," She said.

"Oh, we didn't notice," Fred said and we all started to laugh.

Then George splashed Fred. And soon.... Splash war. We stopped when Percy yelled us.

"Come ON Percy, have a bit of FUN!" Lana said.

He gave her a glare. Suddenly, it started to rain and he shrieked. Soon we had to go inside.

"That was so much fun!" Ginny said.

Lana nodded enthusiastically. We all went into our room. We only could book 2 rooms, so it was us children and Mum and Dad were in a different room.