A very (very) short Camp Half-Blood au I started three months ago and just found in my drafts. There was the start of another scene tacked onto the end, but I cut it since it didn’t get anywhere.
There were three people out on the porch, if you included the skeleton. Five, if you wanted to count the peacocks.
Klaus blinked, his hand still frozen on the doorknob. The boy standing in front of the door, to his credit, wasn’t phased at all. It was probably difficult to phase a kid who was carrying a double-bladed celestial bronze battleaxe that was taller than he was.
“Hi,” he said cheerfully, his smile bright even though his face and clothes were covered with dirt. “I’m Bill Heterodyne. This is the camp for demigods, right?”
Klaus looked at him, and the axe, and the dirty, blood soaked bandage wrapped around his thigh. Then he looked at the skeleton, which was dressed in a tattered union army uniform and carrying a small haversack. A smaller boy was riding on its back, clinging to the ribs. His legs were hung over the pelvis, and one of them was secured in a makeshift splint made of bandages and driftwood. The peacocks sat serenely at its feet.
Klaus turned away from the door, angling his body towards in the interior of the house without looking away from the porch.
“Chiron?” he called. “New campers!”
YES. YES YES YES EXCELLENT. Heterodynes Hades’ kids – though the peacock is Hera’s so ??. (The answer, of course, is that she likes them – the Boys, I mean. She likes heroes periodically, so long as they aren’t her husband’s get.) I gotta assume Klaus is Athena’s – well of course he’s Athena’s, c’mon, war and wisdom and storm-grey eyes. Zanta’s an Amazon, Lu is Aphrodite’s aaallll with the charm speak – oooh how complicated are we making this? All Greeks, or was Andronicus Valois the son of Jupiter? Praetor Tarvek is all I’m- wait, scratch that, PRAETOR ANEVKA. The question, though, is are they just descendants or did Jupiter slip back into the family line at some point? (Answer: yes, obviously. Follow-up: did Lucrezia have something to do with it? Follow-up answer: probably. Lucrezia who studied with Hecate I’ll bet, and has spent decades hiding in Daedalus’s Labyrinth, or maybe just drifting as a ghost…and scratch the above, or rather, amend: Lucrezia is Venus’s daughter, not just love and sex and beauty but victory as well, and the mother of emperors.) Teodora in an loveless, abusive marriage, but her heart is cold steel over blazing gold and her eyes hold the certainty of Death, and Hades slept with her twice and twice she bore sons (to her husband’s delight, who never knew they weren’t his.) Agatha, Freud’s perfect granddaughter of Greek Death and Roman Love grows up in hiding, alone, plagued with headaches from the golden bauble at her throat that hides her from gods and monsters alike (even those who just want to help), and stops her from seeing through the Mist around her adoptive parents. Zanta gave birth to twins and whoops ha ha somehow her man disappeared with the male; how could that have possibly happened in this secure Amazon base; Zanta certainly doesn’t know; it is a mystery. no she will not be checking Camp Half-Blood. (Gil wields celestial bronze in battle, on quests, years before he ever kisses a girl or goes to anything like normal school; he has beads for every summer since his birth and he’s been trying to build Daedalus’s wings since he was eight.) (He had a best friend once; turned out the boy was Roman, not Greek. They sent him home.)
*”Don’t Stop Me Now” plays in the background*
Okay this is a very long paragraph so let’s go by a list
- The peacocks are actually because Bill and Barry are Amish, because it seemed funny at the time (their names are Punch and Judy)
- I don’t remember what I decided on for Klaus but I’m fairly certain it was Athena; it was either that or Zeus, but Klaus’ weather motifs aren’t quite strong enough for that
- Lucrezia is definitely, totally, 100% Aphrodite
- I am not even getting into the logistics nightmare that is the second generation melting pot of divine genes, you can do whatever you like with the Valois
- I feel like Lucrezia should be a mix of Roman and Greek, someone who breaks the mold; probably a descendent of Venus and a daughter of Aphrodite, flitting back and forth between Half Blood Hill and Camp Jupiter to grab power wherever she can get it
- I’m laughing at Klaus meeting Zantabraxus, the Amazon queen, and being like “Yes please absolutely put me in my place and do it with extreme prejudice, thanks”
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