The Council: Child of Madness

Child of Madness is my first individual work. Technically my first writing ever. Here goes nothing!

I would also be really grateful to hear feedback!

Acknowledgements :P
Thanks to:


 * Ersason219, for helping me come up with the idea and coming up with the name.
 * ArchieScotts, for helping me come up with the name of Sophie Adams.

Characters

 * Allen Deliro, Son of Mania
 * Sophie Adams, Daughter of Hephaestus

Prologue
''"Its happening again." I thought as I saw the flames spread through the already blackened forest. Sophie was collapsed on the floor, surrounded by the dark orange flames that have caused us so much pain. The flames that had cost us everything. Everything. ''

''"I n-need to get her out of here," I said to myself in a quiet voice, the smoke beginning to constrict my throat. I hear something. A scream. Sophie's scream of terror pierced the smoke as swiftly as one of her arrows would. I was now coughing, the smoke having completely filled my lungs. I could feel my life fading away. As I knelt on the ground, a shape materialized in front of me. I vaguely heard a woman's voice whispering something. Before I drifted into unconsiousness, I had time to think one last thought. "Its happened again."''

Chapter 1
I woke up at the crack of dawn in a warm bed, which was a nice surprise. Unfortunately, I've been in this bed before; Cabin 42, Mania's cabin at camp. "Great," I muttered to myself. "Back to the place we were trying to get away from." As soon as I was dressed, I left the cabin, hoping I could find Sophie before people started waking up. The moment I walked through the door, I was swarmed by dozens of campers, asking me how I escaped camp unnoticed. For the third time.

WIP