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Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

Lance nodded in agreement. "Prophecies are usually predictions of the bad and rarely the good, I guess." He glanced at the sleeping Oracle sadly. "I wonder how Rachel feels having to make apocalyptic premonitions all these times..." He shrugged at Valerie's apology. "It's alright - I think the thought of going on a suicidal quest with someone makes me paranoid about having to watch him or her die in front of my helpless self again."

He pondered about the prophecy that Rachel told them not long ago. "Love and war - so Aphrodite and Ares huh?" He frowned at the thought of meeting those two after returning to a quest from a long hiatus of self-blame - he secretly admitted that they were his least favorite Greek gods (scratch that - god and goddess, he rolled his eyes). "Blaze...that should be Hephaestus - wait, please don't tell me this prophecy is referring to their godly love triangle."

Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

With Valerie's conviction to join him in his quest and laughing at his embarrassed state, it took all of Lance's willpower not to snap back at the two girls (then making the matter worse with messy apologies and whatnot later on) as the two demigods were ushered into the Oracle cabin by the tomboyish redhead.

He met Rachel on countless occasions around the Camp, but this was his first time to be in her cabin, waiting to hear a prophecy about his upcoming quest. Rachel had obviously taken the liberty to brighten up the dull interior: though he saw a few spots of algae lurking on the grey stone walls, it seemed that she had scrubbed down the whole place as much as she could alone, covering the walls with posters of her artwork - sketches of the Greek gods and goddesses.

Rachel led them to the round table in the middle of the room, pouring tea for everyone. "Well, just relax, will you?" she said to Lance as she settled back down on her chair. "My bad drawings of your godly ancestors aren't supposed to frighten you this much."

Lance slowly let go of his tense shoulders and unclenched his fist - he didn't realize that he had been all stuck up ever since he stepped into the Oracle's cabin. "S-Sorry. Are you going to tell me - tell us our quest now?"

"It doesn't work that way---" the cheery Oracle began but she suddenly stopped short, her eyes became unfocused. She sat bolt upright, and in a harsh tone she recited the prophecy:

"Ye shall cross over the rift of space,
For love, for war, ye will face.
The chain of curse is set ablaze,
And the land lies in the wake of faze."

With that, Rachel collapsed onto the table. Alarmed, Lance went forward worriedly, only to see that she was simply fast asleep. He turned his attention to Valerie. "Okay... What's that supposed to mean?"

Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

@RavenTLark

Oh yeah - time for our characters to hear the prophecy of their coming fate... *cue in the suspense background music*
I'm totally not sorry at all to bully my own OC a bit there muwahahaha.

Jokes aside, I don't quite understand what Val is trying to say. :/ I'm sorry - English isn't my first language. ^^;

DEAD - Percy Jackson RP

@Greek Myths Rock

Anyway, forgot to drop you a notification that I've already posted. :P

Can't wait for their quest to start! Cheers.

Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

Lance stared at her, not quite believing his ears. His conscious was warning him to reject her offer, but the words that came out of his mouth were the opposite. "I don't mind...but are you sure about this?" He couldn't understand why, but somewhere deep inside him he knew that he would need her this time for the quest, which was similar to the gut feeling he had when Bill died before his cowardly self. He shook his head - he was probably thinking too much again.

"Lance?" A female voice from behind pulled him out of his inner torment. He turned - and looked straight into the bright green eyes of Rachel Elizabeth Dare, the current host for the Oracle of Delphi. "Chiron told me to expect just you, so I wasn't expecting you to bring your girlfriend too."

"Rachel, please."

She laughed at the rising color on the Chinese boy's face. "Joking. C'mon in."

DEAD - Percy Jackson RP

~ SORA ~

It had been three long years since he last stepped into Chiron's cabin-office: it was the last quest he had pairing up with Aria, and they got an unpleasant hearing (especially when Mr. D provoked the revenge demigoddess with fizzing Diet Cokes) - the quest was a success, but not without them leaving behind a trail of damage to both the places and beings alike (mostly due to Aria's impatience to get over it so that she could go join the Capture the Flag game against the Hunters of Artemis in the following month). A sideways glance at his bane partner made his heart sank: Aria showed no sign of nervousness; on the contrary, he swore he saw a glint of excitement in her dark eyes.

Chiron folded his stallion half into his enchanted wheelchair before he spoke to the four, "I'm sorry about that - it was rather unexpected - but I'm sure you have all heard the Oracle. This calls for a quest." He closed his eyes and let out a slow breath. "Never in my life have I heard such a perilous prophecy, not after the one about the child of the Big Three."

"But sir, where should we go to start our quest?" No surprise here that Aria had to be the first to ask a question.

"Hmm," the immortal centaur frowned, deep in thought. After a long silence, he finally replied, "The prophecy mentioned a song, so I suggest that you should seek Apollo for advice. The last time I hear that he's at the Rockies."

Right, Sora thought miserably. Let the suicide quest with these three demigods on the other side of America begin.

Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

Lance listened to Valerie's recount quietly, sympathizing the bad experience she had been through; he almost raised a hand to give her a pat on the shoulder but he decided against it. He let the silence hung in the air for a minute before he spoke, "I guess I'm just a bit like you - it was my first and last quest." As he recalled that bad memory from the back of his mind, he could feel his heart aching in his chest. He tried to ignore the pain. "It was a year after I came to the Camp. There was an abandoned well that was tampered with dark magic, so Mr. D sent me and a satyr Bill to go investigate it. The well originally belonged to Iris, but Hecate turned it into one of those secret passageways leading to the Underworld. Hades was furious when we showed up on his turf - he thought that Zeus sent someone to spy on him again - so he set the Furies on us." Now it was his turn to get to the nasty part. "We tried to get back to the mortal world via the well, but only one of us could go through - Bill pushed me over and I was safe, in exchange I had to watch him being ripped to pieces by Hades' monster bats. I just watched him die - like deep down I know that it's inevitable, that there's nothing I could do to change his fate." He closed his eyes and swallowed, forcing down the mixture of sadness and horror rising up in his throat. "Ever since then I tried to avoid taking up any quests at all costs. It's my fault that Bill died - he was the one who brought me here to Camp Half-Blood, and I killed him."

Lance stuffed the remaining of his toast into his mouth, to force all his attention on chewing his food and pushing his emotions off his mind. "Chiron said that I need to stop running away and grow up, and I think he's right." He stopped - they had arrived at the cabin where Rachel was staying at - and he turned to look at the demigoddess. "This is it. I'm going to see the Oracle. What about you?"

Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

Lance raised his eyebrows at Valerie's rather surprising reply. That sounds handy, but she'll definitely change her mind if I tell her the clocks are always chiming at odd hours, then suddenly you sink through the bed into the rift of time and catch glimpses of things you wished you knew nothing about before coming back to reality with lapses of nasty heart attacks. He couldn't help shuddering at the memory of his first experience with an unexpected time-travel, when his grandfather visited him years ago.

"Yeah, a quest." He lowered his head and fixed his eyes on the worn-out sneakers he was wearing today. "I...promised Chiron." From the corner of his eye he noticed that the dream demigoddess went silent. "Bad memories from previous quests?"

Demigods of the Dawn: Chain of Harmonia (RavenTLark x tsukune)

Lance blinked at the sudden chattiness this stranger girl - who introduced herself as Valerie - directed towards him. He tried to digest her torrent of words: he vaguely remembered seeing her from the Morpheus cabin, but it was news to him that she's also the granddaughter of the goddess of wisdom. Her description of the cabin for the god of dreams sounded far more livable compared to the queer cabins of his godly grandparents.

"You wouldn't want to stay in the Chronos cabin," he replied slowly, his soft tone layered with a hint of distaste. "Not with all the loud ticking noise echoing around you in the middle of the night when you're trying to sleep. It's enough to drive anyone insane." He took another bite off his toast and sighed. "I think I'll need to visit Rachel after this." Partly was because of the oath he made with Chiron, but another part of him was telling him that it was the right thing to do. It was a necessity.

But why? he couldn't help wondering that something bad was about to happen...

DEAD - Percy Jackson RP

@Greek Myths Rock

Aria seems like a pretty good contrast with Luna - because Aria is very proud of her own parentage. She loves and hates with equal passion, haha.

Judging from the personality of our characters at this point I can totally see the pairing of Lexi x Aria (this one would be full of drama) and Luna x Sora (this one would be pretty sweet). Heh.

As for my characters' names, I actually got them from car models. Don't ask lol.

It's quite late here and I have to work tomorrow, so I'll probably do the next post after my work ends. :)