Lessons

                                    

                                          
Bella's POV
                          
I walkes towards the edge of the lake where Chiron had agreed to meet.
                          
" Hi Chiron what's up for today?" 
                          
Chiron returned the greeting."Morning Bella, we are going to test out the extent of your powers. Try making this ground break apart" He motioned to the ground where he had drawn out a 1 metre square for me to practice on.  
                          
I sighed and concentrated,  imagining the soil cracking and splitting, the ground below me rumbling at the impact then slowly breaking away from the soil. 
                          
Suddenly, Chiron screamed.  "Bella! Stop!" 
                          
I opened my eyes to find I had broke apart ground way bigger. 
                          
Chiron sighed and looked at the floating piece of ground.  " Place it back in Bella" I blushed and dropped it back into the pit. 
                          
" Bella, try making an earthquake take place here." He pointed to the open area in front of us. 
                          
I sighed and concentrated again. In a matter of seconds,  the ground stared rumbling ferociously then splitting open violently,  cracks branching out from the main vein. The waves of the lake crashing against the sides because of the impact.
                          
The ground was shaking so badly, the nearby trees threatened to topple!. " Bella that's fine" Chiron said quickly.  
                          
I looked at the mess I created.  Chiron sighed, "I'll get Katie to fix  it up" 
                          
I felt really bad.  Then a thought struck me, if I can summon earthquakes,  then can't I heal the scars left by the earthquakes I created?  
                          
I knelt down and dug my hands under the loose soil. Immediately, fertile soil lapped over the cracked skin and layered itself. 
                          
Chiron nodded. "Impressive" 
                          
"But Chiron,  I'm not a daughter of Zeus!  How was I able to 'control' the wind to create those cyclones? " I made invisible speech marks. 
                          
He looked thoughtful for a second before responding. "If my assumptions are correct,  you only got to control the winds then as you were using them to conjure up a destruction of your Father"
                          
Seemed reasonable enough.  
                          
"I'll see you tomorrow then Bella." 
                          
I nodded and walked away. Wait realisation struck me. My birthday was tommorow! Gee time passed so fast.  
                          
As I walked towards my cabin, I spotted the head councillors sticking posters on random places. 
                          
I walked towards Nico and crept up behind him.  "Watcha doin' Neeks?" I said as I placed my hands on his shoulders. 
                          
He jumped up in fright and I smirked. "The Ghost King is scared of me?" I pouted. 
                          
I ruffled his hair. 
                          
" You should be scared of me" 
                          
" Doubt so"
                          
"so watcha doin?" 
                          
"pasting posters for Chiron, the feast of Hope also the celebration of Gaea/Gaia its gonna be a Demigod Dance" He explained. 
                          
" I wonder whose gonna take me?" I scratched my chin in pretend thought.
                          
"I wonder who" Nico rolled his eyes and punched my arm playfully. 
                          
I wonder what I'm gonna wear... I only had like 2 formal dresses! I'll check in on that later.  
                          
" Hey, I should bring you to Camp Jupiter"
                          
"What for? And what's Camp Jupiter?" 
                          
"Ya know, to check it out and Camp Jupiter is a camp for Roman demigods" 
                          
" Cool I'll go clean up"
                          
Nico warned me that Camp Jupiter is strict and to be careful with my speech. So I wore my Authentic Superman shirt my skinny jeans and my red converses. 
                          
" Legggoooo" I shrieked as I ran out and jumped on Nico's back. "Let's go horseyyy"  He grunted below my weight. "I'm not a horse im your boyfriend" He growled and rolled his eyes. 
                          
"Make me regret that" I taunted.  
                          
"You asked for it" 
                          
He ran quickly and before we could fall into the lake, he shadow travelled us to some place-with me shrieking bloody murder. 
                          
We shadow travelled in front of this river.  Nico dashed towards the entrance of a guarded building. Hazel and Frank stood at the mouth, Frank had a quiver of arrows and a bow strung over his shoulder.  Hazel on the other hand had a calvary sword hung loosely by her side. When the spotted us, they gasped and Frank aimed an arrow while Hazel held jer sword at the ready.
                          
" GUYS NO ITS US BELLA AND NICO" I screamed when I realised what was going on. They quickly lowered their weapons. 
                          
Hazel stood agaped. Must be because Nico never gave people piggy back rides.
                          
They let us pass and the minute we entered,  Nico told me he had to go to the gents and he'll be back soon. 
                          
So I was left with Hazel and Frank. 
                          
" Bella I know your bored, go explore!" Hazel cut in to Frank's incessant talk about how to polish your bow. She pushed me gently to a direction.  Only then did I notice the large tattoo on her forearm. 
                          
It was tgis weird sign with SPQR under it and 2 lines. I gasped "What's SPQR? Why did you do this to yourself? " 
                          
Frsbk and Hazel chuckled.  They both held out their forearms. Frank had one with crossed spears. 
                          
" Its a thing we do here. The pictures are our godly parents signs,  SPQR  is the legion and the lines are our years of service here." Frank explained. 
                          
I heaved a sigh of relief,  gave Hazel a grateful look and headed off.  The camp was mostly empty, I saw a gigantic building nearby and walked towards it. 
                          
Above the doors were ancient Roman words : Principia  My ADHD translated it for me. 
                          
I barged into the Principia.  My footsteps clanked noisily against the marble floor. Making my entrance loud and very disruptive.  
                          
As I came into the light,  I saw a teenage girl with a royal purple toga. A shiny golden armour shone beneath the one shoulder toga.  Her hair was tyed in a side fishtail braid. Next to her, was an empty throne and standing near her a skinny guy with blonde hair-that bastard Octavian.   When I came into full view,  I heard the girl gasp.  The whole room turned to stare at me. Followed by more gasps. The girl nodded her head in respect for some reason. 
                          
Octavian shouted "How dare you tresspass! Warriors! " I groaned in frustration.  "Shut up Octavian" 
                          
She stepped up "Who are you?" 
                          
"Well Hi! I'm Bella Trojan,  Daughter of -" I waved. 
                          
"Bellona's child?"
                          
"Pfft. More of a Poseidon child" 
                          
"But your name it means...."
                          
"I know War in Latin" 
                          
"The point is,  she entered the Principia!"Octavian squeaked. 
                          
" Uhh" I raised a boulder right in front of him. "Talk to the wall" 
                          
The girl's eyes widened.  "I'm Reyna, praetor of the 12th Legion and New Rome" She stuck out her hand to greet me.
                          
I shook her hand. "Wait for me outside I'm about to end the session" She said. 
                          
I walked outside. Soon she came out followed by the rest of the campers. They were all wearing purple shirts I just realised. 
                          
" Come" She beckoned me.