A nap in the road (open)

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Jeremiah had made it, and arrived at the place he was supposedly safe. The journey had been rough and he had encountered so many creatures which made him nervous. The son of Timor slowly hobbled through the dark Caldecott tunnel, as he was told it would lead hm to this camp. Jeremiah's dark leather jacket was slightly torn and his sunglasses slightly askew as he hobbled down the tunnel. The last thing Jerry remembered he had encountered a wolf after his family vehicle was ruined and his mom was gone. Jerry slowly stumbled through the tunnel because of his encounter with the wolf, and something happened that sapped his energy. Jeremiah didn't know what had happened, all he knew was that the the wolf freaked out for a few minutes and now he felt weak. As Jeremiah walked his vision blurred in the darkened tunnel. The air felt good on his face as he walked.

Suddenly out of nowhere the darkness the sun shone, and Jeremiah thought it was odd the air felt good despite it being close to the middle of winter. He hobbled sllowly and smile his voice cracked as he felt like asking someone where the heck was he. " Wha....t is thi...s place?" Jeremy panted sigh as he tried to focus on anynone who could be around. The last few days had been kind of rough for him and Jeremiah was just tired and every fiber of his young little body ached. When he finally was within sight of someone he passed out from the strain his fear illusion power had taken on him. Jeremy laid there unconscious for he couldn't keep his eyes open. As he rested in the dirt path of the camp that was meant to keep him safe, Jeremiah muttered about his mother and how she should run. Jeremiah was lost in a world of misery and thinking all that he had experienced wasn't true. In his dreams Jeremy was back at home, sitting by the fire and reading a recent horror story. Jeremy love her stories and well in this current moment he was passed out just outside the Caldecott tunnel, several strange creatures gathered around his unconscious form and Jeremy could briefly hear the chatter. This demigod had finally arrived to camp but the strain had been too much for him and now he was passed and appeared dead to the world.

((Welcome to my weird week of getting to know him and wanting to play out his getting to camp XDD))

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Camp has never been the perfect place to have fun and being lazy, but in the last months no one had been allowed to res for a single moment, specially the ones in the first and second cohort, they were always training and guarding the entrances, it was incredible how the threat of an upcoming war could change the life of people, more if that people were part of the most imponent and magnificent army in history, the Roman army. They were ready to fight anything that could come and threat their live, beliefs or elders. anyone daring to fight them was a lunatic or was sure to have enough power, or in the case of the Titan threatening this time, both.

With everyone being so busy and not being able to leave their posts at any moment or any cost, some campers guarding the entrance to the camp and its boarders, were allowed to leave their posts, but some of them had order new swords and daggers. Well if they were guarding the entrance they needed their weapons, right? it was a crime to make them be there with no weapons at all! at least in the mind of a 12 year old girl who worked day and night in the forge, helping her brothers to keep the camp with enough weapons to defend demselves, the Camp and New Rome.

That morning she had finishes some sets of daggers and spears that were ordered for the guards at the entrance, people had told her that it would be good if she had some fresh air and met other people, not being all the time in the forge. so she decided to go out to deliver those weapons, she would have fresh air, a walk around, maybe she would be able to see Ronan in her way back to the forge, or maybe that cute guy, Lance, he was a nice friend. So she walked all the way by the Caldecott tunnel and delivered the weapons, they liked their stuff and thanked her. Well people were right, it was nice to be out there... from time to time.

She shiver slightly when a cold breeze ran through her hair, she didn't like cold weather, but she would love to watch some snow, no matter she melted it with her hands. Suddenly she saw someone laying on the ground. She walked closer and squatted next to his body. "hey... are you asleep?... it is not time to sleep... " she said and then poked his shoulder. Maybe the kid needed some help. "can you listen to me?" poking him strongerly.

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Jeremiah was passed out in the middle of the road, his body drained from the shock and strain of what had happened to him not long ago. It seemed like somehow, in his encounter with the wolf he did something that sapped what little energy the boy had and now he was paying for it. Jeremiah lay there quietly the sounds of his surrounding filling his ears, the son of Timor heard the pitter patter of feet approaching so he knew someone was nearby but he didn't have the energy to wake up let alone move. His entire body ached as he laid there groaning. The person approached and he heard a young woman's voice as he tried to get up but couldn't. This woman had audacity to ask if he was sleeping, as if she knew him and knew where he was coming from. He wanted to tell her off and to tell her to leave him alone but all he could mutter was, "No". At least that was all he could get out before a more forceful poke came to his side. Who the hell was this woman and did she always go around poking things on the ground? Jeremiah couldn't but slowly sit up his sunglasses having fallen off. The only things keeping the outside world from experience the effect of his fear vision. Jeremiah sat up sighing and groaning. His young body felt like a herd of elephants trampled it. Jeremiah didn't bother to pick up his glasses before looking up and he coulld ask but only one thing. "Where am I?" Jeremy asked cautiously.

The air felt cool and Jerry still felt slightly weak as he sat there. The son of Timor looked around and for a moment he thought he was still dreaming. He could see kids growing tree, Women becoming trees, Half goat things. This all had ot be some random nightmare and just knew he would wake ups soon. He would wake up not so tired and achy. The son of Timor sat there mouth opened wide as he tried to take in the sights and sounds. What the was this place and why the hell had no one seen it before? It was not hard to miss half goat things runnig around. Jerry Rubbed his forehead looking up at his new companion with unshield eyes, slightly forgetting when ever he looked at people most ran in fear. He never completely understood why but knew the sunglasses stopped people from panicking so he wore them. Now he would not completely understand the events about to unfold.

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Nova poked him once more trying to make him wake up if he didn't wake up then she would run to ask for help to one of those guards she just saw or maybe she had the time to run to look for Mr.Kyoto and ask for his help, because he wasn't only a doctor, but praetor too! Maybe he knew what happened to the kid or maybe he could just tell the kid to move and not be lazy in time of needs! But she was thinking about all of that when suddenly the kid made some sounds, proofs of him being alive, which made her smile instantly.

Maybe she was daughter of a god that was a hermit and rather be with his inventions than with other gods, but in her case, she liked to meet new people, she hated crowds but loved to talk with one or two people each time. So knowing that this boy was still alive, made her smile about the posibilities of maybe know a new person, maybe even have a new friend, which would be great! So she stood there by his side, waiting for her to move. "Then why are you there, if not asleep?"

She looked at him again and then at the tunnel, she then remembered when she got into the camp, right after Lupa decided that she was capable to be in Camp with the other demigods. "you are new here, right?" She asked not thinking that it could possibly be a very fool question to someone as your as the kid and as tired as he was. She tilted her head when he started moving. She smiled at him again and then looked that he was wearing sunglasses, well maybe they were souvenirs or maybe a gift from a parent.

"This is Camp Jupiter, a safe place for those who are children or grandchildren of the ancient Roman gods." she smiled at him in an earnest way, but then he moved and looked at her without his sunglasses, in a second she opened widely her eyes. She start looking at something that made her shiver and scream. It was a field, a battle field in fact.

Everything was covered in red, but it wasn't paint or water, it was blood, people, demigods were fighting against each other, people hurt and injured. Lance was already inured but he ran in front of Nova and protected her from a spear, but it got his chest and he died at her feet. She wanted to scream but it seems that she was behind a crystal wall or something like that, because she couldn't hear her screams. She looked around and there he was, ronan was fighting with his last breath to keep camp safe, but then he died too.

But everything was in her mind, nothing was outside, she was holding her head and tears were rolling down her cheeks. "no, please... no... no... Lance... Ronan!!... No!! make it stop!!! please!!!" she begged to Jerry, but she didn't know she was talking to him, she only wanted it to stop.

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Jeremiah was slowly regaining his strength from having used his fear illusion against Lupa but not even knowing he was doing it. All he knew was the Goddess seemed lost in her own world biting at thin air as if she was scared of something. He was still trying to grasp what the hell was going on and why he was seeing half goat things and people becoming trees and this crazy stuff he saw. The son of Timor looked at the girl as she spoke of him being new and he wondered, How the hell can I be new here when i don't know what the hell here is, but he wouldn't voice that opinion outloud. He then regained his focus and remembered what happenned his mother gone in the car wreck and the massive bull man. Jerry got up quickly and when the girl started shrieking about some people he didn't even know he just slipped on his sunglasses again, having seen this kind of thing once before not knowing that was she was seeing was like a horror film playing out for her but using his gaze as the camera. He then regained his focus onto his mother. Maybe it was just a nightmare and she still out there. "MOMMY I AM COMING!" Jerry yelled.

He had paid attention really to her speaking about roman gods, because he didn't believe in myths and fairytales. He rarely even believed the horror stories his mom wrote, but they were well written. He listened to the girl speak more making her nightmare stop. "It has stop now help mme find my mommy! I know she is out there and the big bull thing was just a dream! Help me find her or so help me i will bring back the nightmare!" Jerry snapped in grouchy mood and not wanting to deal with the paranoid ranting of another. Jerry walked around and the place was just weird and he wondered how could such a place remain hidden. His mom had driven him through San Francisco before and yet not once had he seen a place like this before. Jeremiah had been traveling alot with his mom durign her book signings and interviews. Then his mind traveled ot his mom's publisher, a kindly old man in a wheelchair but yeet the man was not disabled. Jeremiah knew he must be dreaming for he had sworn he saw that the man had a pony body and the chair was gone and that was the last he had seen of him. Jeremiah rounded on the girl and looked at her from behind sunglasses. "What the heck is going on? Where am I? Who are you? Why are there goat people? I know I am insane right? This is a mental hospital and mom dropped me off because she thought i am crazy!" Jeremiah asked while nodding and coming to the only conclusion his young mind could come up with and this would help him explain all he saw. He was going to get answers one way or another.

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The things that Nova was seeing in that horror personal movie right into her eyes was more than any common girl could handl, thank to the gods she wasn't common. Seing the things she saw in the past allowed her young mind to not go completely crazy. The blood pool in her mind was incredibly real, so as the bodies of those that had being with her all along, since the day she got to Camp. In her mind, she got closer to Ronan, and he was in the same state than Lance before him... bothe were dead. She then yelled for help, she looked around for help! Praetor Kyoto would be able to help them... right? He was a som of Apollo after all! But then she saw her body there too, also with a lifeless sight in his eyes. All of them dead and she was simply covered in their blood and couldn't helped them! Suddenly a veil got over the vision of her beloved ones and those had being nice to her, slowly started to disappear, she started seeing again the real world. The kid was in front of her, he had his glasses on again. Her mind felt blurry, confused and her heart felt as if an invisible hand had just squizzed it, again if she had been a common girl, she would have died out of fear. She breathed deeply and then looked at the kid again, focusing her sweet hazel eyes, still covered with tears, on the glasses of the boy. He threatened her to bring back the nightmare if she didn't help him find his mom. "You don't need to threat..." she got up and looked at him again. It was nice to see that she was taller than he was, but maybe he was as young as she waa when she got to Camp, so that view wouldn't last much. "If you need help, I'll help you... but, you... your mom, is she human? I mean, totally human? And was attacked by a minotaur?" She knew the odds of his mother being alive were almost non existent. But maybe she could do it, maybe... she got more luck than her mother who was a well trained daughter of Bellona. She was thinking of a way to find out if his mother was ok, when he asked what kind of place he was into. She tilted her head and looked around. "Crazy?" She shook her head and half smiled stil shivering due the fear she had gotten into due the kid's powers. "No, you're perfectly sane! The half goats are satyrs... the tree people are nymphs I am Nova Silverwood and I, as the other humans in this place, am a demigod... my father is Vulcan." Smiled at him. "And you won't be able to go out through there, I think we should go and talk to Praetor Jason Kyoto, he will be able to help you a out your mom." She said hopibg he didn't hurt her again.

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Jeremiah listened to her talking about his mother and he heard the most ridiculous question in his mind, was his mom human. He rolled his eyes behind his dark sunglasses and couldn't believe she asked that.What was she thinking, of course his mom was human what more could she be. Jeremiah sneered and opened his mouth to speak as he tried to eloquently voice his opinion but only one thing came out. " Nooooo, She was an alien and she came to earth to get human genetics. I am just the product of genetic experimentation!" Jeremiah snapped sarcastically and was not in the mood to deal with this stupid question. Jeremiah just listened to her speak about a minotaur.The son of Timor thought he heard the phrase mini tar. " A mini tar? It was not a small pile of tar. " Jeremiah sneered and he thought for sure if he was sane that she had lost her marbles. The son of Timor hadn't read up mythology and preferred horror. He then couldn't help but laugh her Dad was a vulcan? What was she part alien or her dad was a huge star trek nerd. He didn't do sci-fi but he knew of Vulcans and star trek. "Live long and prosper!" Jeremiah teased obviously not believing a single word she was saying.

Jeremiah got up and began to look for his mother not sure what she was talking about and would not give up his search. "Look will you stop making up stories and just tell me where am I and what is going on? I remember a car cash and my mom...." Jeremiah sighed as it hit him that his mom is gone and he would never find her. The son of Timor sat down in a slump his energy once again depleted because the shock to his young mind was too much. Where was he and what was going on? Jeremiah nodded when he heard about someone who could possibly explain things. "Take me to him!" Jeremiah growled he wished to see this Jason guy and was in no mood for continued made up stories. He was not entirely sure where he was but no matter how much he blinked the goat and tree people were still there so he believed her about Satyrs and nymphs now. He just was not sure about this girl being part Alien for she looked completely human to him and He wished to speak to someone who would clear up this whole mess and maybe the Praetor guy could do just that. Only time would tell what they had to say.

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Nova waited patiently for his reply, he seemed extremely confused about everything in camp, even when he had already passed through Lupa's supervision and obviously passed her tests, he was still like... ignorant of everything that was camp or the people that lived in there. but when he replied to her comment, she couldn't help but smile, it was a sweet bright smile, not mocking him but only smiling as if he had said something logic and smart. "well... if she was an alien, then that could have been really cool!!" she said and then sighed, relaizing by his little face that he had been joking about it or maybe using what others called sarcasm, which she never used because didn't know how. "well, if your mom was a full human, and maybe your father was... god of fear or son of that god, because of your... gift." she didn't call it a curse, because she hated when people weren't thankful to the gods for the powers that their goddly parents or grandparents gave them. She laughed at how he pronounced Minotaur, but then cleared her throat and smiled at him again. "sorry... but it is not a mini tar, a Minotaur is a half man half bull. they are highly dangerous and it was a miracle she could keep you safe till you got to Lupa's house." she said and didn't say more about it, she knew that if her mom that was a daughter of Great Bellona, then a common human would have died even easier, but she wouldn't be so mean to the kid, she would tell first Jason or Tessa, maybe they would know a better way to tell him that. But then he laughed and she frowned at him, she heard the phrase and recognized it from a very old show that a friend of her mother used to watch back in the MIT. "oh! no!!" she giggled and shook her head. "my father is the great god of crafts, blacksmiths and forges! well and many other things. don't you know a bit of roman Mythology?" she asked and looked at the kid. She tilted her head and then knit her thin brows. "A car crash?... how did you get to Lupa's?" she asked and then got worried, maybe he got in that crash, maybe his mom... gods! Jason needed to see this boy. "of course, come with me, we'll go and talk to him. he is a great man."

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Jerry listened to Nova talk about his mother being an alien and it would be cool if she was. He could only think about how dense could this girl be not to understand sarcasm. "R....Right cool... Whatever." Jeremiah said snarly. He was in no mood to deal with this. Then she tried to guess who his father was and not even Jeremiah knew that he had guesses from random people but overall he didn't know. Then she tried to say his abilities were a gift. They were more like a curse, how could people running away from him being a gift. It was horrible, though her guess on his parent being the God of fear did make sense. It was part of his abilities but he didn't know if it was true. Then he heard Nova explain about Roman mythology and it wasn't a min tar which is still what it sounded like to him. She didn't know that his mother's publisher took him away from the wreck and he rode on the back of a pony man all the way to wolf goddess. He didn't want to explain to a little girl that didn't seem to understand Sarcasm. "I do not read myths i prefer horror. Mom was a writer so no I wouldn't know about your daddy and your misguided belief he is a god. I swear you have lost your marbles. " Jeremiah spoke as they walked to this Jason fellow. Obviously she expected him to know more than he did and he didn't for even though the wolf tried to teach him not much sunk in because of the grief and exhaustion from using his fear illusion.

Then when she asked the question he hadn't wanted to answer he stopped dead iin his tracks. This girl was asking him to relive the event and he was not wanting to do that. "I was picked up by mom's publisher." Jeremiah spoke but not revealing it was a pony man. He then thought about it and no longer wished to go see this Jason guy. If he was so good at explaining things why wasn't him that came and grabbed new people leaving those less comptent to do his job for him. Jerry turned around and began to walk the other direction of the one they were heading. He would just escape this crud and just go back home. "You know what?Forget it, I am not going to go see Jason.If he needs to see me he can come looking for me himself. I am going home." Jeremiah spoke still tired but not going to turn back now. He was going home end of story.

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For Nova that kid was much different, he wasn't a common demigod, or maybe he was, but he scared her more than Lord Pluto, and that was a lot to say! but she wasn't going to leave the boy alone, he could get hurt or lost! no one should be alone, walking around in camp! that wasn't right! anyone could just hurt that person! Nova wasn't much older than the kid, but still, she was older, better trained and she found him, so it was her duty to be with him till she brought him to the praetors. She looked at him and breathed deeply, she just hoped the kid didn't take of those glasses again.

Then as they walked the kid told her that he didn't like myth stories, but horror ones, well it was kind of obvious that he loved those ones. she had never liked horror movies, not because she was a coward, but because she knew that those things were real, her mom told her all of the things that were real. so she didn't like to see what those things could do to innocent ones. but that kid, with all what he showed to her, well... she was sure that he for sure loved those stories. "I don't like horror stories..." she said and then she looked at him when he said she was crazy. Other demigods were walking by, close to them, but Nova looked at Jerry only, she was being careful of the new kid on the block.

"I'm not crazy! My father is the god Vulcan, and I'm not talking about any TV show, ok?" she sighed and then continued walking thinking on a way to make him believe on what she was telling him, why he couldn't believe it?! But then he stopped, he started saying nonsenses about going other way, that if Jason wanted to see him, he would have to look for him. "what? no!! you need to see him! not the other way around!" she frowned and then glared at the kid, how could she make him believe?!. "Do you have a watch? or a... play station? or a game boy?" she asked and looked at him holding him by the shoulder, her hand was hot, really hot, as if she was burning in fever. If he had any of those toys, she could show him her powers over machines, how she talked to them and also controled them.

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Jeremiah shrugged because if there was anything he learned within his ten years of life he knew not everyone loved the same things and he didn't care if her dad a monkey frrom pluto, he was going home and she would not stop him. "No he can come after me! I am going home and get your fever looked at! I think the heat is making you delirious!" Jerry snapped pulling his shoulder away. There was no way on this planet he was turning around now. He hated this place already and he was expected ot believe his dad was some fear god. She then asked about gameboys and radios. He couldn't help but laugh. "No I didn't leave home with those, while running from beast wanting to kill me. " Jerry growled walking towards the tunnels. He was lonely in this camp and he was scared of very little. He would fight anyone who got in his way. The sun was bright and his energy was slowly returning. His adventures with Lupa were over but now he just felt like a useless face in the crowd a pawn whom the gods cared little about. Jeremiah in the last week felt nothing but pain and heartache losing his mom. Now he was to believe that his daddy had him for a reason. This camp could keep it misguided beliefs.

Jeremiah walked a little bit faster ducked behind a tree hoping to lose the girl. He was not going to some man to make further stories. He was going home and he would find his own way to fight these beasts. He would learn what he could alone. He was now alone in this world with no one else. His mom was gone and dad could care less he was trapped in a world with goat people. If these gods were real why did they not interact with their own kids. Jerry wished these so called Gods would disappear. The son of Timor hoped one day to show those pitiful gods how wrong it was to just ignore their kids.


Jerry looked around the spot he found was somewhat out of sight and he was relaxing. He needed to find a way to escape this place. He couldn't seem to ditch people and everyone seemed to keep an eye on the new kid and well getting out would be tough. He would figure a way out.