The Awakening: Chapter 10

Josh's P.O.V

I decided to tour the new girl around. She called herself Belinda Zito, and as I recalled, the Gods are supposed to claim her today. The exception is to the titans. The Titans did not made an oath to the Stygian River to claim their child at the day they reach camp so if she wasn't claimed by today, she is a children of the Titans.

On the way, she seemed to be an excited girl, though I could feel the power on her word almost each and everytime she spoke.

"Hey, Josh! What is this?" She pointed to the cabins.

"These are the cabins of the gods." I explained to her.

"Can I go in?" She said excitedly.

"Well, the gods won't be pleased that some other children visited their cabins. Having said that, let's move on!"

We continued to move on until she reached my cabin, then she stopped.

"Josh! I liked that cabin!" She pointed to the golden cabin right in the middle of Oceanus's cabin and Phoebe's cabin.

I saw what is she pointing at. Right in the middle of both cabins there's a golden cabin that lit up with gold. Belinda shouted with joy as she ran towards my cabin.

I raced her to see who would win. Of course I just let her win to give her joy and happiness. I would like to see everyone happy.

But that moment had turned 180 degrees when I saw the picture of my mother.

I felt water pooling my eyelids as Belinda stepped closer to me.

"Josh, are you all....." She stopped herself, and gave time to look at me. "Josh? Why are you crying?"

I wiped the tears from my eyes, and shook the question aside. She must not know that I had been enslaved by my own mother when I was her age or else she would freak out.

"It's..... it's nothing, Belinda." I straightened myself. "It's nothing." I shook my head once more. But I can't help it. I just kept crying because I just remembered something tragic, something that I had promised myself never, ever to talk about again.

"Josh?" The girl asked. Her eyes showed concern. Just then, I remembered what I should do. I should tour her.

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After I toured the new girl around, I went to Lunch, and had lunch in the dining pavilion. I'm showing her that she should sacrifice a portion of their foods to the gods they chose. I choose Hyperion, while Sarah choose Oceanus. Literally, the food that we sacrifice for is our godly parent.

I know there's a war coming, and I needed my fresh and clear mind to go to war.

So I decided to put myself in a self-induced coma (again) until it's about 6 months before the war starts.

I walked towards my cabin and opened the door. The new girl with dark chocolate eyes followed me. "Josh?"

"Yeah?"

"What are you doing?"

Her voice sounded melodic now. I couldn't even describe it. It's not charmspeak. Charmspeak didn't work that way.

I decided to tell her what I'm doing. "Okay, don't tell anyone, alright? And don't even attempt what I am about to do."

"Alright." The girl said.

"Promise, girl?"

"Promise." The girl held out her pinky, and I held out mine. This is a pinky swear. This is most common between children and mother, or children and children.

"What I'm about to do is that I'm going to put myself in a coma, so I won't wake up for another 2 years or so."

"Oh, ok." The girl seemed blank, and walked off.

I guess that's it. I walked into my cabin and smoothed my pillow and my bed, where I can sleep nicely. Then, I touched the bed and began my self-induced coma.