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    Zane Finally Returns!

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    Post by zanematthews 2/2/2015, 11:15 am

    With a very audible thump, Zane Miyas slams face down into the ground. Once again, he lost control of where he was shadow travelling to. That's how this entire thing got started. He had meant to end up at his cabin, not at Thalia's Tree. He slowly pushes himself off the ground and back onto his feet before rubbing his face a bit, trying to ease some of the pain.

    "Stupid Shadows.." He mumbles to himself before looking up and finally looking back at his home. He missed Camp so much it almost hurt. He rolls his shoulders a bit to get some of the stiffness out of them, ruffling his jet black hoodie, with the hood having slid off his head as he landed. He tugs on his sword's sheath strap that drapes across from his right shoulder to left hip, making his Stygian Iron blade shift slightly across his back. He looks down and brushes a few straggling pieces of grass and dirt off of his black jeans then looks back up at camp. Unable to resist, he gives a small smile, the corners of his mouth barely curling upward. This was a huge display of happiness for Zane, who usually only ever has a depressed, lonely face upon him.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/2/2015, 5:42 pm

    Sawyer's hands were black and greasy with motor oil as she came out of the forge with a couple of her siblings, chatting about Capture-the-Flag and music groups. Sawyer was mainly into Led Zep, Linkin Park, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, that kind of stuff with the occasional dubstep here and there, so she listened to them go on about One Direction, Daft Punk and Macklemore. She was dressed in a pair of large shorts with a graphic shirt representing the Statue of Liberty, walking in her big hiking boots, her lackluster, greasy hair held back by her U.S. army bandanna.
    Suddenly something caught her eye -- wait a second. She knew that hoodie!

    "I'll catch up guys," she said in her deep voice and made her way over to the hoodie guy walking down Half-Blood hill. "Matthews?" She called.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/2/2015, 10:14 pm

    Zane jumped a bit as his ears heard his last name being called. There was only one person who ever called him by his last name, Sawyer. Quickly looking up, his eyes honed in on the girl, proudly wearing her usual grease and oil. He stuffed his hands into his hoodie pockets and couldn't resist smiling a bit. It's been so long since he's seen someone he knew, especially one who he considered a friend.

    "H-hey, Sawyer.." He stammered out in his usual quiet voice, although a hint of guilt could be detected, as if he were ashamed that he hasn't talked to her in so long.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/3/2015, 6:34 am

    "Hephaestus almighty, it is you!" she said in her Texas accent, her crooked grin spreading over her face. She grabbed his shoulders in friendly happiness -- dude they were bony. Like of course he had muscles, he was a demigod and that kind of went with the job, but seriously someone get this son of Thanatos a sandwich. "Oh sorry for the stains," she said, letting go of his shoulders. His hoodie had now traces of motor oil and grease so she took out a piece of plaid cloth from her large pocket, wiping his shoulders clean. "So! Where've ya been all this time? Almost thought you'd been chewed up by a monster!"
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    Post by zanematthews 2/3/2015, 10:58 am

    Zane shivered slightly at the sudden touch, not expecting it. He looked down at his shoulders, noticing the small spots that she left on him from her hands, though they were pretty hard to see, since it was black liquid on a black hoodie. "I-It's fine.." He replied, standing as still as a statue as she cleaned his shoulders. As she spoke, looked up to face Sawyer, his face blushing a bit in embarrassment. "A-ah...well.... Umm... I w-was practicing my Shadow travel, a-and ended up somewhere in Northern America.. c-close to the Canadian border.." He stammered out, unable to resist looking away in embarrassment. "I h-had to walk all the way back... a-and Shadow travel.." Zane added, shifting his weight to his other leg.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/3/2015, 11:25 am

    Sawyer laughed. It wasn't mocking or anything, quite the contrary. She had a rich, fullhearted laugh coming from deep in her ribcage; it was the only moment where her voice actually sounded nice, not the hoarse thing it usually was.

    "Next time that happens, Iris-Message me and I'll get you back," she told him, stuffing the cloth back into her pocket. "Guess you must be pretty tired. You headed straight for your cabin?"
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    Post by zanematthews 2/3/2015, 1:22 pm

    "I d-didn't want to trouble you." Zane replied as he enjoyed how happy her laugh was. The same moment as she said something about fatigue, he stifled a huge yawn, showing just how tired he was from all the uses of shadow travel. "N-no, i'm fine.. I want to stay up so I can let Chiron and Mr. D know i'm here. Even though Mr. D couldn't care less.." He replied, giving a soft laugh of his own. Even though it was soft, an immense happiness could be heard in it, from him finally being home.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/3/2015, 2:28 pm

    "Eh, I can do that for you. You go to sleep, you look like Clovis."

    Clovis was the cabin counselor of the Hypnos guys, he spent his free time sleeping around the place. At one point she had had to wake him up because had fallen asleep two inches from a superheating oven in the forge.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/3/2015, 2:32 pm

    "Thanks, Sawyer, but I figured all my... friends.. should know i'm back." Zane replied softly, hesitating on the word friend, almost like he couldn't believe he actually had friends. He was used to being alone, so knowing people like this was still new to him, even after all this time.

    "I should at least let them know too. How have you been, by the way?" He added, realizing that he was only talking about himself, something he hated to do.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/3/2015, 6:22 pm

    "Oh I've been great! I'm going on a combat mission soon with two Apollo guys, Moreau from the Ares', Herondale from the Athena's and another guy. Have been sharpening my ax ever since." She started walking next to him under the sunlight, the rays making the grease obvious in her hair, her burned face gleaming up. "And apart from that, school, college apps, all that stuff."
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    Post by zanematthews 2/3/2015, 10:18 pm

    "Oh cool, even though i have no idea who those two are." Zane replied, closing his eye that was closest to the blinding sunlight. He loathed the sun, probably a trait he got from his father. In the brightness, his face seemed to have gotten paler while he was gone, along with a light jagged scar that would almost be invisible unless focused on.

    "H-how has school been going? You're probably making all A's.." He replied, wondering why he never attended school. He thought of being in close proximity with so many obnoxious human teenagers, making him shudder at the thought.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 7:11 am

    "Hah, I wish," she replied. "Y'know, with dyslexia and ADHD, it can get pretty tricky. Only subjects where I get straight As are physics, maths and sports. English, US History and all that crap, I gotta work my butt off to get a C." She chuckled, putting her hands inside her pockets and looking down at Zane. "What about you? Where are you going to school?"
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 8:42 am

    Zane gave a soft, light chuckle, and nodded. He completely agreed with her. The Dyslexia and the ADHD were supposed to be gifts, but it made normal every day things difficult. Even though he feels he is more focused than most, able to, in a way, override his ADHD and can concentrate on one thing better than most demigods. It probably had something to do with his dad.

    "Umm... The last school I went to..." Zane started to say, and trailed off as be began thinking. It's been so long he had a hard time remembering. "I think it was a middle school in Florida somewhere. That's about all I remember."
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 8:45 am

    "Wait up... you don't go to school anymore?"

    Considering demigod lives that could be understandable, since a lot of teachers/students/cafeteria people turned out to be monsters but still, education was compulsory for later life. She wasn't even sure there was a middle school in New Rome since all the Roman demigods and legacies spent their middle school years flying giant eagles and fighting in formation. Oh and Latin lessons. Let's not forget that.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 8:49 am

    "N-no, I haven't been to school in a couple years.." He stuttered out, his tone slightly shaken thinking that it was weird not to go to school. He just couldn't stand it to sit in a desk with all those people. It would've driven him insane. As he spoke, his powers slowly began leaking out, creating a light trail of decaying grass behind him as they walked.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 9:23 am

    "Woah," she commented. "Well guess now the war with the Romans is over, education doesn't really matter that much, right? I mean we're pretty much all gonna study in New Rome after graduating."

    Sawyer wasn't quite sure though, she was dying to go to MIT. She knew the selection process was extremely competitive though, reason why she didn't let her hopes go too high. Pity you couldn't put "battled the Titans and fights monsters for a living" in your curriculum.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 9:26 am

    "I've gotten by without it. I haven no plans to live in the normal world.." Zane replied, fidgeting a bit and nervously glancing back at the trail of death he was creating. So much time has passed and he still hasn't gotten full control of his abilities. I guess you no one can completely control death, well, except maybe the Gods. "I don't like New Rome all that much.. No weapons allowed... I can't go anywhere without my sword.."
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 9:39 am

    "But at least you've got some security, the promise of a home you can return to without monsters crouching in your cupboard. Yeah you don't have weapons but you don't need them either. Whoa you alright?"

    She had just now noticed the trail of dead, yellow grass he left behind, the plants shriveling up and dying. Only a child of the Underworld could do that.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 9:42 am

    "What? Oh.. yea i'm fine. I still can't really control it.." Zane replied after noticing what she was looking at. He didn't really like the death and destruction he caused, but he learned a long time ago that it was a part of him. To get rid of it would be like cutting off an arm or a leg. "And you're right about the security, but.. I dunno.. It just doesn't feel right to me, i guess."
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 10:00 am

    "I get where you're coming from," she shrugged, the muscles of her shoulders heaving up and down. "It was difficult to accept the Romans at first but now we're kinda buddies with everyone so it's cool. Did you go...? No you didn't go to the gladiator games. Pity, they had equipped the Colosseum with electric floor sections and acid pits. I got paired with a Venus kid," she chuckled.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 10:05 am

    "Sounds like you really enjoyed it." Zane replied, smiling a bit. "It's not that i dislike the Romans, i just don't like the idea of living in their city." He added, absently kicking at a small rock, making it topple a few feet away. "Although, if I find a girlfriend and get married, New Rome would come in handy.." Zane said aloud, thinking that he was only thinking it.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 11:18 am

    "Yeah I enjoyed it but Keenan (Venus kid) and I got our butts handed to us by the opposite team. Well, by Cross to be more specific." Darren Cross was a Nike kid and one of Camp Half-Blood's very best sword fighters; he had sent both Keenan and her to the ground while his partner fell in acid pits.
    Then Zane mused about having a girlfriend and Sawyer sighed. For a hopeless romantic like her, she had never had a boyfriend. Never ever. She had had crushes of course, Najee from the robotics club in her school, Hanson from the Apollo's (though that had been a couple of years ago), but none of her crushes had made moves or showed they liked her back. In the end she had accepted they weren't the right ones and had moved on.

    "You'll find your significant other, dont worry," she said then broke into her crooked grin again. "Who knows, she might be a Roman."
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 11:29 am

    "W-what?" Zane asked, startled by what Sawyer said. Finally realizing he said it aloud, he looked away embarrassed. He never wanted anyone to know he actually wanted a girlfriend. I mean, who would want the son of death as a boyfriend? That's extremely depressing. "I g-guess..." He added, thinking how weird it would be to date a Roman, not that there is anything wrong with it, it would just be... different.
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    Post by Morgan Landry 2/4/2015, 3:33 pm

    Talking and walking, they had now reached the cabins' courtyard. A couple of kids fought in the pit in the middle of it, two kids strummed their guitars on the steps of the Apollo cabin, a couple of people painted their nails in front of the Iris cabin, some Demeter girls making honeysuckle grow around the doorframe of their pavilion with a snap of their fingers. Party music came out of the Dionysus cabin, loud snoring could be heard from the Hypnos', and the Tyche's gambled in their Las Vegas casino-like cabin.

    "So, you wanna meet up with your pals?" She asked.
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    Post by zanematthews 2/4/2015, 9:40 pm

    Zane struggled to suppress a joyful smile as he gazed at all the demigods enjoying the day. Dionysus's children sounded like they were having alot of fun. He shifted his hands in his pockets a bit and looked to Sawyer as she spoke. "Well, yea, unless you want to keep hanging out or something." He replied with a happy smile. Zane couldn't believe it, it was actually starting to get easier to talk to people. It's about time he started growing out of his shyness.

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