The Beginning Of Solangelo

“I don’t care. There has to be another way! For crying out loud, you were unconscious a moment ago! There is no way I am going to let you Shadow Travel two people so far,” Will said. His voice dropped to a whisper and he turned away so that I couldn’t see the tears welling up in his eyes, though, I already had. “I can’t let you do that.”
Just when I was about to ask him what we should do, a bright blue light exploded from the center of the cave. I shielded my eyes and took a step backwards. Will stood in awe, staring at the light.
I figured that that was the Oracle. The Spirit of Delphi. The light moved out of the mouth of the cave and took the rough form of a woman, her hair splayed out in all directions, like she was swimming. With both hands, she beckoned Will and me towards her. I looked at Will, silently asking him if we should go forward. It took a beat before Will looked at me, but when he did, he nodded and looked forward again.
We slowly took the five steps that spanned the distance between us and the Spirit. When we were within one foot of her, she lifted both her hands up and grabbed one of each of our arms. I quickly drew my sword out and held it up with one arm to swing, but Will locked eyes with me and shook his head, “no”.
My sword hanging limp at my side, I let out a deep breath. I looked up at the Spirit to see that she was spinning around and around, like a miniature tornado. My hair started to whip around and the trees started to shake as the Spirit of Delphi-tornado picked up speed. Even though I was frantic, I could see that Will’s eyes were as calm as ever.
Blue tendrils drifted up from the bottom of the Spirit of Delphi and hit both of us in the chest. The smoke encircled us, each in our own blue cocoon. I started to get drowsy, and closed my eyes. The last word on my lips was, “Will,” as I tried to warn him that I was falling asleep.
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I pried my eyes open. All white. I had been here before. We were in the Infirmary at Camp Half-Blood. But, how did we get here?
I sat up in bed and looked around. I had bandages around my arms and all of my muscles were really sore. Upon reaching my hand up to my head, I found bandages wrapped around my forehead and hair. I looked over to my left and saw a mop of blond hair. Will’s blond hair. I unwillingly smiled.
I swung my feet over the edge of the bed. On my left foot, which I hadn’t realized that I broke, there was a white cast. I placed my good foot on the floor and pushed myself off the bed. I hopped over to Will’s bed and sat down, huffing lightly.
I moved some stray strands of blond hair out of Will’s face. A small smile crept onto his face as he quickly reached out and grabbed hold of my wrist. I let out a little yelp. Will pulled his other hand out from under the blanket at placed it over my mouth.
I noticed that Will’s hands were wrapped with bandages. I grabbed Will’s wrist and pulled his hand off of my mouth. “What happened?” I whispered.
“So…” Will started. He let out a little laugh. “It turns out that I can create sunlight or something with my hands. That’s how I was able to fight Python. All of those burns were from me putting my hands on him.”
“Oh,” I said. “Cool!”
“Yeah,” Will replied, letting go of my wrist and studying his bandaged palm. “Hey, wanna get outta here, Darlin’?”
I impulsively blushed. “But, won’t your siblings get mad?”
“Who cares? I never was very patient. C’mon,” Will said, swinging his feet out from under the blanket and over the edge of the bed. I let go of his hand and hopped down onto the floor on my good foot. I held onto the end of the bed for support. Will landed on the floor with a loud slap.
All of the sudden, I was off the ground and moving towards the door. Will had picked me up bridal style and was now carrying me. I let out a gasp, but quickly started laughing. Will started laughing with me. The light, carefree laugh that I had learned to love over the past months, years.
Will stopped in the middle of the hallway outside of an open storage room and set me on my good foot, slowly. I gripped the doorway with one hand to keep myself from falling over. Will winked at me with his fingers to his lips before ducking in the doorway. I heard some rustling for about a minute before Will came back out of the storage room with a pair of crutches in his arms.
“Thanks,” I breathed. I figured out how to use the crutches pretty easily with only minimal slips where Will had to catch me before I hit the ground. We slipped out of the Infirmary unseen.
It felt good to work out my sore muscles and I was already starting to feel a little better.
“Race you to the canoe lake!” Will called out after we had subconsciously walked towards it for a little while. I raised my eyebrows at Will, but he was already off, racing towards the water, which was only about twenty feet away now.
I took a deep breath and started off towards the lake. By the time I was there, I was drenched in sweat and Will was standing, jokingly tapping his foot.
“What took you so long, Darlin’?” He asked, a smile creeping onto his face.
“You little a-“
“Whoa!” Will cut me off. “You look sweaty. Here, lemme help.” Will picked me up again, letting my crutched clatter together on the ground. It took me a split second before I realized what Will was going to do.
“Don’t you dare-,” I started to say, but Will started to laugh as he threw me into the lake. I lifted my bad foot in the air as I hit the water, but I was unable to keep the cast dry.
My head came back up to the surface of the water and I took a huge, gasping breath of air.
“If you’re going to throw me in the water, the least you could do is help me out,” I said, raising my hand out towards him. Will couldn’t stop laughing, but was able to walk over to the edge of the water and grab my hand. I summoned all of my strength and pulled Will in. He fell on top of me and yelped as his body pushed me underwater.
I came back up to the surface a couple of seconds after Will. He was laughing.
“Okay, I deserved that,” he said in a whisper. Will put his hands on either side of my face and pulled me in for a kiss. I happily obliged.

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