Mt. Hood, Oregon

Silvaine Wood

Crack-BOOOM!!!

Silvaine glanced upwards towards the sky where thick, black storm clouds were rolling in. Silvaine had never minded the rain, in fact she appritiated it for what it did for her plants, but a thunderstorm was admittedly dangerous. High winds could snap her trees in half if they were strong enough, and (given the bipolar weather on the mountain) rain could turn to hail in a moments time. Not to mention the lightning...

The safest thing to do was head back inside. Silvaine stood slowly, looked around at the magnificence of what she'd made and exhailed softly, taking in the scenery once more before turning around and starting to walk along an invisable path. Plants retracted under her heel but grew back immedeately after she'd passed. Above her head large, umbreala-like leaves grew to shield her from the light rains which were now falling.

See, Silvaine used her powers whenever possible, unlike most campers who used them as little as possible. She'd been smothered for so long it felt... nice to be able to do something all on her own. Something no one could stop her from doing. It was just a shame that, though she now had her freedom, she stil could quite grasp how to make friends. With freedom, she'd assumed, came companionship, but apperently not. So where did it come from? Being social? And how was one to do that?

Silvaine sighed, frustrated, wishing she knew what to do. Her plants were swell, but still she longed for something deeper. A friendship. With another person. But how to gain such affection was beyond her. Deciding that it wasn't worth getting upset over, she shook the irritation off as she crossed over the wooden bridge and followed the little river upstream until she came to her gateway, passing quickly through it as the flowers recceded then closed up the gap again.

Walking around the side of her cabin, Silvaine could hear voices a short ways away. There were group of kids talking just beyond the first cabin and Silvaine peeked around the edge of her own cabin to see them. A few boys, a couple girl, one pair (likely a sister and a brother) was walking away from the group, the girl pulling the boy's ear as he shouted in protest. As they began walking in her general direction Silvaine quickly ducked inside her own cabin, frightened at the prospect of being seen. As they passed she did not recognize them and realized they must be fairly new... or she just didn't get out much, which was also very likely.

Either way, she didn't want to know them, or meet them, or anything, or ANYONE really! She knew how to be alone, and that's how she was used to living. Unfortuntaly this camp did quite the opposite then let you live the life of a hermit. Weekly games, challanges, missions with others, competitions, mealtimes (mercy!). Awkward situations Silvaine tried hard to avoid. The worse was probably the mealtimes, especially when it was raining because they meant you couldn't eat outside. If this rain kept up... Silvaine shuttered at the thought.

Skylar flipped her hood back up quickly and backed away from Apollo's son as the twins came around. The loud noise frightened her, she dismissed the small creation in the boy's hand and waved goodbye before running over to Cabin 1. She didn't care which one it was just that it would protect her from the rain.....the rain she created.

"Shit" Sky muttered falling against the outside wall of the cabin and sliding down it. She focused on the weather but nothing happened but that's most likely because her powers seemed to form around her emotion's and not actual control. The sadder she got the hard it seemed to rain, the winds picked up and the groan of protest from the cabin entered her ears. Sure she could control and create small little storm's but not the big one's, no they formed because of how she felt. If she was happy which was rarely never these day's it would be all sunshine and beautiful days. When she lived in Alaska and was always home alone and lonely that emotion would create blizzards and golf sized hail, anger would create violent storm's like hurricane's, typhoon's, large lightning storms or blizzards so powerful they could freeze a person in minutes. She knows this because it once happened again in Alaska, she had once gotten so angry she had flooded the town from the nearest lake and frozen people alive.
In her life she had killed a total of 10 people by accident and she felt horrible about it.

"just go away" she whimpered putting her head in her knee's was the storm worsened.

Silvaine Wood

Silvaine heard soft whispering just outside her door and crept up to the window, peaking out from behind the curtains and past the binds which she'd pulled down after she left to take a walk through her nature trail. Something was crouched down below the window ceil, shaking slightly perhaps with cold or fear of the storm. Feeling pity for the shaking... whatever it was, Silvaine pushed her palm against the wall and on the other side ivy crept up and around the wall until it came to where her hand was. Then a large, umbrella-like leaf grew, fanning out above the trembling being, sheilding it from most of the rain.

Still Silvaine did not yet know what it was and couldn't tell from her peek-a-boo place from the window. Slowly she went to the door and opened it, just a crack, viewing the shaking intruder she'd just assisted. Silvaine recoiled as she saw it was not a stray puppy (as she was hoping it would be) but instead another camper! 'No duh Sherlock,' Silvaine nearly smacked herself in the forehead, 'Of couse it's another human- you're living in a village for pie's sake!'

Despite her initial urge to slam the door and lock it, Silvaine knew she'd already been seen and instead opened the door a little wider, peeking her head out a little bit. "Uh...um... hey, um, it's raining pretty bad out there..." Silvaine said awkwardly, trying to remember what little she knew about being polite back when she had still been allowed to interact with other people. "A-And you are probably getting, um, kind of cold... so, um..." Silvaine took a deep breath in and slowly let it out, willing her hand not to pull the door closed and her mouth to show some kind of friendliness. It managed a small, deer-in-headlights smile, but it was enough to give her a little self-confidence. "The storm doesn't look like it's going to let up soon and you look soaked. Do you want to come inside?"

Skylar looked up at the girl then back at the large leaf above her. Skylar had read enough books to know this girl must be the child of Demeter.
"no i created this storm i should be the one to suffer through it" Sky mumbled softly, she wasn't even sure if the girl would understand her but she didn't care at the moment. This is how she is, depressed and alone she didn't like it but i was the only way to keep herself safe she couldn't get close to anyone the last time she did that her heart literally broke in two. Sky knew since she was making a storm that her eyes would be pure silver, an unnatural glow would be to them and they would flash lighter every time there was a clap of thunder or flash of lightning.
And just think that, even the though of it flashing through her mind created a large blot of lightning to escape from the clouds and strike the dirt right by her feet, the dirt and gravel was burnt and large black mark left from the blow. She scooped up a handful of burnt gravel and stood up and turned to the girl. Using the winds she moved the gravel in a mini tornado so the girl could she it. The twister was the size of a pencil and Sky held it in the palm of her hand. She opened the door more and took the girls hand and placed the mini tornado in it.
"thank you for your offer but i'm fine" Sky gave the girl a small smile and let go of her wrist and tornado now sitting in the other girls hand. This have always been Skylar way of saying thank you, she didnt see the whole just saying thank you was enough.
"if you put it in a jar with some water colored with food coloring it looks really cool" Sky said softly and lifted her hood up a bit so she could fully see the girl.

sorry double post

Silvaine Wood

"No, I created this storm; I should be the one to suffer through it." the girl said grimly. 'Ah, so she's Zeus' child then.' Silvaine thought. "Well, I'm sorry to interrupt you're little display of self-sacrific here," Silvaine said with a clear note of friendly humor, "but reguardless of who caused the storm, no one and especially not it's creator should be sitting in it, mooping around. If you think that this is suffering, just wait until you catch the flu. Now that's suffering. With the seasons changing and all, your nose will be ten times runnier and there won't be a single tissue in the whole camp."

Silvaine had always been humorous, but rarely got to show it. Her mother had been so overprotective that nothing, absolutely nothing was funny. It had been her father, Daniel Wood, the teach her the art of comedy. It was the first thing she resorted to when stuck in an awkward situation such as conversing with someone else. Things were just... easier if it was all a big joke. Of course when lightning struck not three feet from where Silvaine stood she felt her lighthearted humor faulter and she visably flintched. The girl didn't though, which didn't surprise Silvaine in the least since she was the one who'd called it down in the first place. What did surprise Silvaine was what she did with the charred dirt by her feet.

Silvaine stared at the mini-tornado whirling in her palm with poorly contained awe. 'Well isn't that just niffy,' she thought to herself, holding the door open with her foot as the rain continued to pour down. "Thank you for your offer but I'm fine." the girl said half heartedly, providing a small smile that couldn't quite convince Silvaine that she wasn't lying. "If you put it in a jar with some water colored with food coloring it looks really cool..." the girl added softly.

Though Silvaine was having a hard time believing the girl who sat outside her door she really couldn't force her to do anything she didn't want to. Well, she could, but that would be just plain rude. She looked at the gift in her hand, then turned without a word and went inside, placing it in a glass vase with some colored sand. It did look pretty cool even though it wasn't colored water exactly. Going back outside Silvaine glanced up at the leaf and it expanded so that it could cover two people.

"Well, if you refuse to come inside I guess I'll just have to stay outside. I'm Silvaine by the way. Daughter of Demeter as you've probably guessed," she said with a snort of distaste, "Being the only one here can get pretty loney, but I don't facy going out in search of companionship, so when an opportunity like this comes along I'd be stupid to pass it up." She offered a meek smile, after introducing herself since she figured the girl wouldn't have any idea who she was if she didn't speak up.

Oh sure, she'd recieved the traditional, "Campers, this is Silvaine~" "Hi Silvaine~" when she'd first come here, probably a month or so ago, but that hadn't left as much of an impression on the campers as it did Silvaine. Standing infront of hundred of onlookers, hearing them chant her name in unison, feeling the judgmental eyes already classifying her as a thing instead of a person... definitally not Silvaine's cup of tea. That was for the more... heroic, outgoing campers who were "destined for great things" and all that junk.

"Anyways, now that you know who I am, what's your name?"

"Im Skylar, daughter of Zeus"...

No kidding.. Noah thought to himself as he studied the little storm cloud she had placed in the palm of his hand. He didn't know what to say, which was so odd for Noah, being the son of the God of poetry words had never failed him. "It's bea..." he stopped mid word as he looked back up at her and noticed she was looking panicked, she'd lifted her hood back up and was backing away. The Poseidon boys yelling distracted him for a moment and when he turned back to Skylar she was already sitting by the wall of his Cabin.

Noah wasn't sure if he should follow her, since he had already tried that, or if he should just let her be for now.. The storm had picked up, he didn't know all that much about other Demi-gods so he wasn't sure if she had anything to do with it but after being splashed by Caspian and now the rain his clothes were almost completely soaked through so he started at a slow pace back towards Cabin 1 a little disappointed with how things were going so far. Well at least I got her to smile. That thought cheered him up a little, he didn't like seeing people upset, and she seemed like such a nice girl.

As he got to the front door he stopped and turned to the now two girls sitting in the rain, he recognised the other because she was one of his room mates but she always seemed to duck in and out without him getting the chance to say hi. "This probably isn't the most appropriate time to introduce myself but I'm Noah" and then looked at Skylar "and I never got to thank you for this" he held up the storm cloud that was surprisingly easy to hold "anyway I'm going to get changed, you guys should come inside ill make some hot chocolate or something."
Noah ran up to his room and pulled out a pair of jeans and a hoody. He wasn't quite sure where an appropriate place to leave a storm cloud was so he placed in on his bedside table and flipped a glass he had there over the top of it. Yeah that works

Katharyn "Kate" Bines

Kate had opened her mouth to reply to either the boy or the girl, when another girl came around, and comenced in an argument with the boy... Caspian. At first, it was slightly funny, but as his sister brought him away, it seemed more and more like she was a mother figure as opposed to a sister. Then, realizing Nicki had stuck her hand out to shake, Kate put hers in it, smiling. "Nice to meet you," she replied, before adding on more. "Did I hear you were the daughter of Hephaestus?" She asked, getting slightly excited. The first Demigod, and only one she knew outside of camp had been the son of Hephaestus, and she had been both her best friend, and like a brother to her.

As she thought about the fact that he was the only other demigod she knew, she glanced around, looking at all the people in the area. Was it even possible that there were this many? And they all have powers, she thought, wondering what each's was. That was incredible, and unbelievable.

There was cave-like silence as the two twins walked through a heavily-wooded path, presumbly some sort of shortcut through the camp. Merridia walked with her hands in her pockets, while Caspian's eyes looked attentively at his sister as he waited for her to say something. He looked like he could explode at any given moment.

"I swear, sometimes i think you're actually the son of Aphrodite...."
"DUDE!!!! WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?!?! I WAS JUST TRYING TO HAVE A NICE CONVERSATION WHEN YOU BUTTED IN AND MADE YOURSELF LOOK LIKE A HUGE JERK!!!! SERIOUSLY, WHY?!?!"
"The THUNDER, Caspian."
"What?"
"Dark clouds were hovering over where you were. Abnormal weather changes like that can only be caused by one god: Zeus. I told you to stay put and yet you COMPLETELY disregarded what i said and went on to ANGER the child of Zeus!!! Now we have an enemy on our hands, and it's all your fault!!"

Caspian looked back at his sister with wide eyes, his exhilirated face toned down to a look of realization. Merridia had misinterperated what had happened.
"Merri, I didn't anger the child of Zeus. Everyone was gathered around this one girl who had hurt herself. I healed her, and then started to have a conversation with the group. I merely asked them all who their godly parents were. She didn't even introduce herself, she just waved goodbye, pulled up her hood, and then the clouds and thunder came. Noah went to check on her..."

The wind had been knocked out of Merridia's sails as she realized that she had been wrong in jumping to conclusions. She looked down at the ground, secretely embarassed.
"Oh. Well, I guess in that case, she's just kind of.....sad, or something. Hmmmmmmmm....
I don't really see how that's a threat...I mean, she COULD be moody, but it's more likely she's depressed....i dunno. All I can say is that if she's actually depressed, we're probably going to experience lots of stormy weather...."
In that second, rain drops started to fall gently overhead. Merridia moved her arms in a flowy motion, and in an instant, the rain passed over Caspian and Merridia as if they were under an invisible umbrella. As they walked, Merridia gave an apology to her brother, who gladly accepted it. They both went back to their naturally happy moods as Caspian started the conversation again.

"So, did you find who you were looking for? Do you know where our cabin is?"
"No. I couldn't find Melissa Terry. I asked this guy if he knew where she was, and i'm pretty sure he didn't know either..."
"What guy?"
"Uhhhh....Ethan. He's the son of Ares. He's nice..."
Caspian came to an abrupt halt, his jaw wide open. As Merridia looked back, his mouth curled into a smirk.
"....What?"
"You tell ME not to make any enemies, and yet you go talking, making friends with the son of ARES!! You nuts???"
"HE'S NOT BAD, OKAY!!! He didn't SEEM like he wanted to beat me into a pulp..."
"You know, i'm not going to be surprised if I find you DEAD by the end of the week!"
Merridia gave him a hard yet playful punch on his shoulder. There was a new step in Caspian's stride as they exited the shortcut, entering back into the main part of the camp.

"So, I guess we still need to figure out where our cabin is, huh?" Caspian asked.
"Yeah....I hate to defy father's orders, but maybe i can find Melissa later. Perhaps theirs someone around here who knows where we're located.....Maybe that guy over there knows!"
Merridia pointed to a kid wandering around aimlessly.
"Errrr....I dunno...he looks kind of sketchy," he replied, scratching the back of his head. Reluctance dripped from his voice.
"Oh, c'mon! Don't be ridiculous..."

They approached the guy, Merridia in front, and Caspian behind her.
"Excuse me," she said, "my name is Merridia Cerulean, and this is my brother, Caspian. We were just wondering if you had any information regarding our cabin number? Do you happen to know where we are located or who we are staying with?"

Silvaine Wood

Alright, now there were too many people.

Silvaine had been fine with the girl (whose name she still didn't know) and still semi-comfortable when Noah had shown up (after all they were cabinmates). But as they saying went; three is company, four is a crowd. And Silvaine was feeling very crowded. Quickly she stood up, feeling claustraphobic and uncomfortable, and slipped without another word into the house. Of course, she didn't want to just vanish because that would be very rude, so she got out a few mugs started to make hot chocolate.

'Okay.' she thought, doing a few deep breaths, 'Silvaine, get a grip. They're a group of other campers, demi-gods just like you. There's no reason to push them away just because theres' like ten of them. Okay, three. Still...' As she poured the milk and chocolate into the pan she shook her head. 'No no no, that's not a good thought. Three isn't that many people. And they're all nice enough. Besides, weren't you the one who said this was a rare opportunity and that you'd be stupid to pass it up?'

'Shut up brain,' Silvaine thought irritably, hating the idea of being a hypocrite. So she wouldn't be. Carefully pouring the hot chocolate into each mug she went to the pantry where there were marshmellows and grabbed the bag, dumping a good portion into a bowl and setting it beside the mugs along with a few spoons. She personally didn't care for hot chocolate, but adored mthe marshmellow. Plucking one out of the bowl she popped it into her mouth and smiled at it's sweetness.

Skylar followed Silvaine into her cabin. She didnt feel very comfortable but she ignored the feeling and went by Silvaine and Noah.
"i'm Skylar but you guys can call me Sky" she said quietly and watched as they busied themselves.

(sorry i am on my phone and dont have very long but hopefully i will be able to put something up tomorrow)

double post sorry

Noah headed back down into the living area and was quite pleased, and a little surprised, to see that the two girls had decided to come inside. He had only really just met them and they both seemed very withdrawn but Noah liked that about them. He had always thought that for people who didn't speak much, the words they did say have much more meaning and people who rarely let others in were much truer friends. They reminded him of himself when he was younger and moving constantly from town to town, his only friend back then was his mother because he never stayed anywhere long enough to make any his own age. Now that he was at Half-Blood Village he had the chance to have a normal-ish kind of life.

The room (as it always did) brightened a little as Noah walked in, like he was a human shaped lamp. Silvaine was make drinks and Skylar was standing near the front door, they both looked so uncomfortable Noah couldn't help but smile.
"So I only just got here today" he began as he walked over to one of the arm chairs and sat down, crossing his legs in the seat "how about you guys? have you been here very long?"

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It kept telling me there was an error when i clicked submit

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" i have been here for awhile i just.....don't talk to people much.....actually you to are the only people i have talk to in over 3 years" Skylar said softly, still not use to talking so much. She gave Noah a small smile but it went bigger when she looked around and saw the room had gotten a little brighter. This feeling of light seemed to lift her spirit's somewhat and a real smile graced her face, Skylar removed her hood and looked around in wonder. All her powers have ever brought her was destruction and lightened her spirits to know not everyone's powers were like her's.

"this is wonderful.....how you seem to make the room glow with a feeling of warm, your very lucky to have that type of power" Sky said softly. Small rays of sun fought through the storm cloud's that had begun to little, the thunder and lightning had stopped and now it was just a light rain all because Sky's mood had lightened.

"and you can make life" Sky said quietly slightly turning towards Silvaine, Sky smiled at her. She felt happy around these people she just didnt know how long it would last.

Silvaine Wood

"I have been here for awhile. I just... don't talk to people much. Actually you two are the only people I have talked to in over three years." Skylar said softly, removing her hood and giving the two of them a small, shy smile.

"This is wonderful; how you seem to make the room glow with a feeling of warm. You're very lucky to have that type of power." Sky said, indicating the compliment towards Noah when he entered the room. "And you can make life," she smiled at Silvaine who shrugged modestly.

"Yeah, kind of. I guess." She'd never really considered her powers the type that were all that incredible. After all, everything she did would eventually happen on it's own. She just kind of speed up the process. And altered it. And controlled it. So maybe her powers were a little special.

Watching them sip their hot chocolates, Silvaine was struck by thrist. She'd not drank anything since breakfast nearly twelve a hours ago! She went to the window over the sink and opened it just a crack. Slowly, as she willed it, a thin vine crept in, spiraling in on itself until it formed almost a cup, tightly wound so there would be no leaking. Then a brilliant yellow flower grew just above it, blooming, and a honey colored nectar dripped down from it's petals into the cup.

Once it was full, Silvaine snapped the vine and it's retracted, the flower closing, before slinking back out the window. Silvaine closed it once again as the rain fell quietly, turning the landscape grey and blurring out the other cabins in the distance. It was pretty. "Your powers are pretty impressive too Skylar." she said, nodding her head towards the window. "Probably much more impressive than mine could ever be..." she added quietly to herself before taking a sip of her drink, tasting the sweet nectar.

"never say that!" Skylar growled angrily all of the sudden and a loud crack of thunder boomed from inside the cabin.
"all my powers ever bring is pain and destruction, they cant be used for anything else besides giving pain, i make rain it turns into a tsunami , i make a little breeze bam its a tornado! i get just a little bit angry and that happens!" Skylar pointed to outside the window where a bolt of lightning hit the ground just as she said those words.

"i have killed many people, most of them was when i was under 10 years old, i cant experience normal emotion's without something bad happening" Skylar said quietly sitting down.

"personally i hate my powers, but i kinda got to live with them" she said sadly, slipped her hot chocolate.

Silvaine Wood

"Never say that!" Skylar growled angrily all of the sudden and a loud crack of thunder boomed from inside the cabin making Silvaine cringe. "All my powers ever bring is pain and destruction! They can't be used for anything else besides giving pain. I make rain; it turns into a tsunami. I make a little breeze BAM its a tornado! I get just a little bit angry and that happens!" Skylar pointed accusingly to the window Silvaine had just closed just as a bolt of lightning hit the ground.

"I have killed many people, most of them was when I was under ten years old. I can't experience normal emotions without something bad happening..." Skylar said quietly, talking more to herself than to Noah of Silvaine. A breif moment of silence passed before Skylar sighed. "Personally, I hate my powers, but I kinda got to live with them." she said softly, sitting down again and taking a sip of her drink.

Silvaine watched her for a moment before she set down her own cup. Without a word she turned and went to a cabinet, opening it up and taking out a box of matches. Silently she took a match from the box and held it up infront of Skylar. "This is a match." she said, "When you strike it, like this," Silvaine struck the match against the box and it burst into flames, "it catches on fire."

Holding the match up betweent the tips of her fingers, Silvaine went on. "As the fire burns it destroys whatever it's using as fuel. This includes plants, animals, people... you know, fire really isn't all that picky. That's one of the reasons it's so dangerous. Even to people who think they know fire, or how to handle it, are at risk of getting-" Suddenly, the flames licked at Silvaine's fingers and her yelped, dropping the match into the sink. She looked from the still burning match to her singed finger. "Burned."

Sighing softly she held out her injured finger to Skylar so she could see. "But there is one thing it cannot stand." She nodded towards the window where the rain was falling outside. "And that's water. Because if there's ever a fight between fire and water, water will always win, no question." She went to the sink and turned on the water so it sprinkled down on the match, putting the flames out with a hiss. "Then, when water touches a wound, it soothes it." she added, putting her burned finger under the tap and sighing softly as it cooled the burn. Turning off the water she quickly dried her hand a put a bandage over her finger.

Turning back to Skylar she opened her arms, gesturing to the room all around them. "Do you see now? Your powers aren't destructive, they're out of control because you're young and not yet used to handling them. You've had no one to train with or learn from, so how could anyone expect you to automatically know how to reign them in?" She offered a warm, reassuring smile to Skylar as she picked up her cup. Holding out her hand with the burnt finger she closed it into a fist. "If you look a little deeper into your powers, you might find they're able to do a lot more good than bad. You just have to know how to use them Sky." she said, opening her fist revieling a gorgeous rose in full bloom.

"Nice to meet you," Kate said. I smiled at her. "Did I hear you were the daughter of Hephaestus?" she asked. I nodded. "Yeah I am!" I said. "So who's daughter are you??" I asked the girl, examining her. She was pretty, with brown hair.. I looked around. "Wanna go for a walk? We could go discover the camp together?" I suggest.. She seemed pretty nice... I wanted to get to know her better... Maybe we'd be friends? Everyone else had already departed so there wasn't much else to do now.

Sky smiled and thanked Silvaine before admiring her rose.
"thats beautiful" Sky smiled before closing her hand and concentration. A few moments later she opened her palm and in the middle of it was a large tear shaped frozen rain drop, frost decorated the outside looking floral and on the inside was a small lightning storm. Sky smiled at her creation and handed it to Silvaine
"i would like to be your friend....if thats alright with you" Sky said the ask part quietly and waited for her answer.

Silvaine Wood

Silvaine felt two things.

The first was an intense confusion, almost like she'd been slapped in the face with a fish. That had wings. And possibly a third eye. That level of confusion.

But the confusion she felt was replaced when she handed Skylar the rose and took in her own hand the frozen raindrop. It sparkled beautifully in the sunlight but gave no hint that it would melt anytime soon. She managed a smile and the rose, now in Skylar's hands, shuddered as it's petals glazed over so that they looked like colored glass. Neither of them knew it but it what was known as a life rose and it would take various forms according to it's maker's health.

A smiled bloomed on Silvaine's face, though she wasn't entirely sure why. "Sure," she said, timid but not unkind, "I'd love to be friends."