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[Anabelle Clarence]

The sun didn't shine much at Camp Half-Blood anymore. It was like all the sickness had just driven all the light away. But you could catch the sun for a few hours in the morning as those weak first rays of light popped up over the hill and illuminated all of the dew and last night's rainstorms with an inspiring yet slightly eerie glow. And if you noticed it, those same rays could be seen setting under the hill, disappearing and making the whole world black. The orangey sun would fade and not rise until the next morning. When the sun was fully in the sky, it was covered by a layer of clouds and mist. It was beautiful, those several hours you could catch the sun in the morning and evening. They were the perfect photo-taking hours.

Anabelle Star Clarence had been tracking the sun's risings and settings so that she would have the perfect time to photograph it. She had gotten up early every morning to graph the sun's rising times and setting times but didn't take the pictures then because it was never the perfect moment. It was today that she was definitely going to get a photo of the sun rising and she could go and get one setting later today. It was all a mystery to her, but she wanted a Camp Half-Blood sunrise/set photo for her collection.

It was precisely 5:50 AM when Anabelle woke up. She showered, towel-dried her hair and put it in a side-ponytail so that it sort of cascaded down her shoulders as it started to curl but was still damp. She put on a cropped white short-sleeve shirt with black polka dots and dark highwaisted jeans so that only a bit of her stomach was showing. But that really didn't matter because she shrugged on a Batman sweatshirt and zipped it up anyway. She put on a silvery gray slouch beanie and tied up her red Converse, deciding to do without makeup.

The only light on the camp was the fading moon. Anabelle ran across the cabin commons and up to Half-Blood Hill. She sat with her back leaning on the Big House, camera pressed to her eye as a ray of brilliant sun tried to pop over the hill. She got an excellent picture of the sun casting light rays of elegance over the camp and then one on the hill. The scene was majestic, and it was perfect, even if Anabelle could hear all of the coughing, sniffing, sneezing, moaning and puking from the infirmary behind her. The sight was perfect and it smelled like morning. And Anabelle just sat there.

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[lucy]

Once again, Lucy Chandler had been unable to fall asleep. The air in the Ares cabin never felt very fresh, and it had felt as though she were slowly suffocating the night before. In all honesty, it surprised her that she was still alive after hour after hour of tossing and turning, rearranging the positions of her bedsheets, flipping over her pillow to get to the cold side. Strangely enough, the daughter of Ares was usually a sound sleeper. The butt of all the pranks when they were performed on whoever fell asleep first - not that such activities were rampant around the cabin full of children of the war god, but still. With the insomnia came the idea that something was wrong with her, as stupid as that was.

She had expected to be alone, but evidently, this was not the case when she realized after walking towards the Big House that a girl with perfectly white hair and a dreamy look upon her face had also taken the opportunity to wake up early. The silence didn't seem awkward, but all the same, being in the presence of someone else made the daughter of Ares feel required to utter a greeting. She wanted to talk to somebody, anyway, despite the fact that it was a strange time and place. "Hello," Lux said softly, tucking a mousy blond lock of hair behind an ear as she waited for an answer.

[Nathan Lockwood]

Long steady road. Oh travel be kind
I'm searching for some peace of mind

Nathan was never really a morning person but ever since he discovered that his father was the god of the sun, he turned into a morning person. In the time he spent at camp half blood, he noticed that the light was fading from half blood hill, it wasn't just Nathan either but the other campers too and it was kind of frightening, like no one was screaming but everyone was certainly on edge and paranoid. A darkness was on it's way, everyone knew it and was preparing. However through these dark times there was a few rays of golden light that crossed the sky in the early hours of the morning. Which meant that Nathan's dad was close by.

As Nathan made his way down to the Big House, careful not to wake his siblings because he knew from experience not to wake up a certain Amber James before a certain time of day or else you probably wouldn't make it to the next day. When Nathan reached the Big House there was already someone there. He took a closer look making sure not to be seen, although he didn't know how well that was going to go, he was no son of Hermes, man those kids were sneaky: one handshake and the next thing you know your wallets gone from your back pockets. Nathan wasn't really all that shy but then again he wasn't really always the one to start the conversation. He sometimes liked to keep to himself and just think or listen to his music.

Nathan stood around the corner of the Big House, he watched the girl with the camera as she sat against the big blue building with a glint of curiosity in his eyes. he recognized her white hair as Anabelle. One of the daughters of Demeter.Oh I like this one! Date any girl here you want just not a daughter of Hades, very dark...very depressing, suck the light right out of your soul. came the voice of Apollo in his head. "Shut up!" Nathan whispered to his dad. Apollo was always very flirtatious and Nathan was positive that if he hadn't been the Sun god that he would be a son of Aphrodite. "Please don't do anything stupid" he pleaded out loud to his dad as he made his way over to Anabelle.

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[Anabelle Clarence]

It was like a dream, the sun in the morning. The silky rays illuminated the dew on the grass of the hill. Anabelle was thrilled to catch it on camera, every photograph more inspiring then the one before it. There was nothing like the sun rising on a gorgeous morning. Anabelle was smiling at the photographs she was snapping at the quickly rising sun when she realized that someone else had come up to the hill to enjoy it with her.

The person was a boy, maybe fifteen, sixteen or seventeen. Anabelle didn't know him very well but she knew that he was Nathan Lockwood, son of Apollo. She could've sworn she heard him saying something to someone that clearly was not her. As he approached her, she continued snapping pictures. She couldn't waste a day observing another demigod. What a waste of daylight that would be! As he came closer, she spoke to him.

"I assume you've come up to see the sun, eh?" she asked him, turning away from her camera "I know how some Apollo kids are very loyal to Daddy." she smiled at him, a charming, sweet and shy smile all together. She was teasing him a bit. She never really thought of wracking her brains to say the right thing like some other people did.

Nathan was a somewhat innocent-looking boy. He had messy hair and sincere eyes. To be honest, he seemed sweet and not at all snarky. Anabelle hated to make predictions because you can't judge a book by its cover, but she couldn't help but read a bit of his sunny aura. It's just the way she preferred to get to know people.

ooc; Ignoring Lucy's post because she is not inactive

[Nathan Lockwood]

Long steady road. Oh travel be kind
I'm searching for some peace of mind

When he got to the top of the hill Nathan took a seat next to Anabelle. "It's beautiful isn't it?" he said smiling over at her. The sun felt warm on his face and looked a little brighter. and he couldn't help but feel that his dad was indeed watching him at this moment. Nathan's sister Summer said that sometimes when she praises Apollo the sun shines just a little bit stronger. He doubted that was it though, Apollo was always very flirtatious. He probably wanted to see how quickly Nathan could mess this up by saying something completely idiotic.

Anabelle glanced back at him but continued to snap pictures with her camera. Nathan tucked his knee's up to his chest as he sat beside her watching the sunrise. "So" he inquired "do you do this everyday?" he asked. It wasn't really THE thing to do as most people would rather get the sleep that everyone so desperately needed. The camp in these dark times was kinda on the edge. A lot of campers were having nightmares and had to visit the Hypnos cabin almost once a week. It was almost as busy as the Hermes cabin now a days.

"Is it that obvious?" he asked chuckling a bit "Yeah I have. It's just I feel closest to my dad right now...when the sun rises and when the sun sets again at night." he said smiling out at the sun "Almost like he's saying hello and goodbye everyday." he added. Anabelle smiled, and it's like his brain forgot how to function, she was so sweet and pretty without even trying. He smiled back after a while. He felt like he could tell her anything and be himself around her. But of course he would have to get to know her better. She wasn't like any other girl he had ever met, then again he mostly hung around with the Aphrodite girls so that's a good sign I think he thought as he smiled back at the daughter of Demeter.


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[Anabelle Clarence]

Anabelle smiled "I've been tracking the sun to find the perfect time to take a good picture," she paused "it was a bit of work but I think it was worth it." It definitely was worth it in Anabelle's mind.

Nathan was telling her about how he felt closer to Apollo when he saw the sun rise. His words were eloquent. "That's beautiful," she told him, smiling gently "that you can feel that close to your father." She thought for a moment and then said "I get the same feeling, like my mother Demeter is watching over me, when I take care of the strawberries or when I'm growing flowers," Anabelle paused "it's like she's helping me take care of the Earth." She shook her head lightly "I'm sure you don't want to hear me ramble about flowers and plants and my mother all day, do you?" She laughed at herself.

Suddenly, Anabelle felt shy and self conscious. She quickly started snapping pictures of the sun in its early-day period an before it got shrouded by the oncoming clouds that were sure to come and cover it.

[Nathan Lockwood]

Long steady road. Oh travel be kind
I'm searching for some peace of mind

"That does sounds like hard work" he said squinting into the suns rays as it climbed higher and higher with every minute that passed. Looking out across the camp with Anabelle sitting next to him, he finally felt like the camp was going in a positive direction for once. It always felt like the camp was overrun with one problem after another and personally Nathan was getting tired of it. This was how camp was supposed to feel like: watching a beautiful sunrise with a pretty girl and talking about their Olympian God or Goddess parent. He was sure of it, then again this was the first camp Nathan had ever been to.

Camp Half Blood was and always will be his home. When the carnival came around and the fireworks, the next day everyone would be going home to their families if they were still alive and Nathan would be stuck at camp all year long for the rest of his life, but was that so bad? He could train all he wanted.. that was good right? "Thanks" he added sheepishly, blushing a little bit. "I don't know it's just that I feel that sometimes he doesn't care...that he doesn't hear me" he added looking over to Anabelle. "But here right when the sun rises and sets I know he sees me and hears me" he said smiling at her.

Growing plants...Nathan never really thought much of it except when Anabelle talked about it and how she felt the same way Nathan did when she grew plants and helped out with growing."Do you like your powers?" he asked leaning back on his hands. "Like growing stuff and helping the earth of course." he added looking over to Anabelle. "Because I know with my powers there are some ups and err... some downs to being the son of the sun god." Nathan smiled and laughed lightly "No I really love it, I love hearing about your life, much more fascinating then mine" he said looking out across Half Blood Hill. Clouds were on their way to cover up the sun and soon there would be nothing left to photograph and Anabelle would leave, he hoped that the clouds never came.

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[Anabelle Clarence]

The sunlight warmed Anabelle, so she pulled her sweatshirt off and let it lay down behind her. Nathan was saying something about how he felt that his father didn't hear him. "Well," Anabelle started "There are times when we feel as if the gods aren't listening and there are times when the only thing that they're listening to is you talking, even if it isn't to them," Anabelle paused and looked at the sun "I'll bet good money that Apollo, a very smooth, flirtatious god he seems, is listening right now," she smiled "He's just waiting for one of us to say something totally stupid so he can laugh at it." The sun shined at that remark and Anabelle laughed.

"Most of the time my powers are pretty great," she started, smiling "I get to feel like I'm helping the Earth and helping the people on it, mortal and godly," she looked at him "Apollo is the god who keeps us living. Without the sun, where would we be?" She pushed a runaway piece of hair behind her ear "If I were his child, I would be honored to have such an important father." she mused.

[Nathan Lockwood]

Long steady road. Oh travel be kind
I'm searching for some peace of mind

The sun was playing off both Nathan and Anabelle's faces and it made him smile. It was starting to heat up as the day was beginning. As that thought crossed his mind the clouds covered the sun back up and the hill was plunged into darkness. Nathan felt tired. The sun acted as his energy source, it was almost like he was recharged by the suns brilliant rays. So when the sun's rays were blocked or the moon takes the sun's place in the sky, Nathan felt drained, limp and powerless. His siblings never felt like this...why did he? It was just another ability telling him that he didn't belong, that he was different.

Nathan paused and nodded as he looked up at the sun along with Anabelle. Maybe his dad could hear him, maybe he just didn't say anything. That was a possibility wasn't it? Seemed Apollo was listening, as the sun peeked through the clouds, as it shone a bit brighter behind them. Anabelle began to laugh and Nathan couldn't help but laugh as well "I know, I'm happy Apollo is my father, it's just that some of my powers are tricky to master and control and...it's just harder then I would of imagined." he said as if he had been fighting his whole life, which he had. Fighting to keep his powers under control. "Your mom is awesome too though. She is one of the originals . Without her we wouldn't be living either. I guess our parents both play an important role in our lives" he said. Thunder crackled loudly above their heads "Errr....All of the gods are very important!... is what I meant" he added nervously

"So do you photograph other things besides the sun?" he asked curiously. Nathan liked looking at pictures but not taking them. He was a horrible photographer. "Can I err... see them? maybe....sometime?" he asked about her pictures. Gods he was such a goof.

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