“Does having two demi-god parents make you a demi-god or a legacy? Or is a Legacy a specific type of Demi-god?” I needed clarification, I had PJO stuff memorized, yes, but not everything.

Mr. D. Spat out his diet coke and looked me dead in the eye with pure shock.

“You’d be a legacy… which is a type of demi-god” Chiron’s voice was shaky as he explained, like he was shocked but didn't want to admit it.

“Okay… kid what’s your name?” Mr. D. asked.

“My name is Archie Rayner.” I said.

“As in… Ellie Kaser and Samuel Rayner? Well I guess Ellie would be Ellie Rayner now. Chiron, didn't you tell me that their kid would be coming to camp?” Mr. D. asked, “Where are they kid?”

I finally broke again and my knees gave in. I fell to my knees right there and sobbed. And it wasn’t a gradual build up, my nose got stuffy quickly and I couldn’t shut up. I felt embarrassed though, I was crying right in front of them. But I also felt sad, I missed my parents. I also felt mad, no, furious! I felt furious at the person responsible for my parents death. I was upset at that monster but then I seemed to shatter further… It was my fault. I turned out the lights on my 14th birthday. I was the reason they drove to get me here. I was the reason they died. They died trying to protect me… and I… I hated myself for it.

Everything else after felt like a blur. I felt numb after my breakdown. I could really remember the words that had been spoken to me till now, like the words were like static I still couldn’t understand. I don’t know why but at one point I left where my room was. Yep room. Chiron and Mr. D. were worried about me being a legacy and they didn’t really know how to train a legacy but they also weren’t gonna send me to camp Jupiter because my parents went here at camp-halfblood and they also didn’t want me to get hurt after my parents death they were worried about me. I knew earlier that night after I led them to their dead bodies and I hesitated when it came to burning their pyres but I did it, I did it because it felt like a way I can make them happy, even in death. I didn’t want to throw them into the fire, but I did because I knew I had to, I owed it to them. And now I am here. In a tree, staring up at the stars.

I hadn’t really met anyone yet aside from them. I’d gone silent after my breakdown and the kids were too into gossipping about me rather than talking to me so I was alone. I had been warned about the Harpies but I didn’t care. I wanted to just keep feeling numb. It was better than the sadness and empty feeling in my soul after they’d died. But I couldn’t feel the numbness anymore. It made me even more upset.

“Hey… you’ve been sitting in my tree a while… is everything okay?” A tree Nymph sat on the branch beside me and asked.

Fuck! I’d forgotten tree nymphs live here, and all that with everything… UGH!

I didn’t wanna talk so I just didn’t, but I felt rude leaving her ignored so I just shrugged.

She looked at me for a moment, “I haven’t really talked to a lot of boys so I guess I’m nervous.”