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Open! New person! Yay!

Who: Umi Ryuuzaki and anyone wandering on by.
When: Noonish and onward.
Where: The shore of the lake, wandering up and down.
What: New girl is confused and needs to think.
Warnings: ...sarcasm? Water?

A demigod. Really. The daughter of a god, a Greek one no less, instead of her mama and papa - they'd always be that to her, of course, but her birth mother or father was something entirely beyond that.

It scared her, how believable it was. Her name, her powers as a magic knight, hell, her personal color scheme all matched up. She'd given it a passing thought before, but there was probably one trait in there that led to all the others, or else Emeraude had a thing for thematic appropriateness in desperate situations.

Nope.

Frowning to herself, she kicked a stone, blessed with not being bothered by anything the moment she got down there. Umi wasn't a brainiac, she couldn't even keep the Roman vs Greek names of gods straight, but she was named for the sea and commanded water. So did that make Poseidon/Neptune her father? There were more minor gods, and that felt more appropriate to her, but many of those came back to the big man in the sea.

On top of all of that... this was a place to train their children, and they'd gone missing. Heck of a safe place to drag a bunch of people new to the very idea of being demigods. Really, they could've just asked if she wanted to come help and she likely would have done so but what about others? They couldn't all be born warriors, right?

...it was too much to think of, and at some point she just plopped herself down on a log, shaking her head and trying to make it cooperate.

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"We barely got an introduction before we were attacked." What a time it had been.

"Where we learn to fight for parents who may not even acknowledge we exist, let alone ever speak to us." She shakes her head. "I shouldn't be so upset... but I miss my real family."

"Parents." Shrugging, she tries and fails to think about them. "Only in the sense that they're part of our creation. My mama and papa are my family though, so I hope they don't expect us to act otherwise."

Umi huffs, crossing her arms. "Once we help out here, though, I'm sure we'll get to go home, no matter how long it takes."

Oh she smiles at that. "That's what Mr. D said. He told me that there shouldn't be any reason for the gods to keep us here when the missing children are found!"

"Shouldn't be." Not that she's too worried about being stuck one way or another - not forever. "Though I'd like to solver this sooner rather than later not just to get home but so that the ones we're here to help are safe."

Fuu nods before a look of more concern spreads over her face. "We need to find them. It would appear some of us are missing, as well. One of Apollo's children disappeared as well. One of us."

One of the summoned ones. Just vanished into thin air.

"Already?" Umi tenses. Did that mean that they were all in such immediate danger? "Did anyone in charge say anything about it? Is that just part of the normal way of life here?"

"They didn't. They don't talk much to us about important things..." Seems backward, as that's why they're here but who knows the minds of gods?

"They probably think we don't need to know."

Their minds are probably all kinds of distracted by god things, like thinking they're better than everyone. Just look at how Mokona acted!

"Someone who gets claimed by a nice god should just ask. Maybe they'll get half an explanation." Huffing, Umi ponders the odds of getting anything useful out of a god, even as their demigod child. "If they're going to bring us here, they should keep us informed."

Mokona acted pretty cool as things went, Fuu thought at least.

"We haven't had any contact with the gods outside of Hestia when we first arrived and Mr. D. Even those who have been claimed."

Probably cooler than these guys. "Too busy to give us the time of day, huh?" Or too stuck up. Gods. What makes them that anyways? "I kinda... hope my... parent is someone I can give a piece of my mind without getting blown up."

"I believe the gods are proud. If you'd like to give anyone a piece of your mind, I would try to refrain from it." Umi bits. Umi bits everywhere.

"You may vent at me, if you'd like."

"You think they'd all blow me up?" Hey, Poseidon will just... crush her with the pressure of the depths of the sea or something, unless she manages to piss everyone off at once.

"I'll just... vent out at the lake if I need to." Hopefully no gods take offense to that, only someone probably will.

"Probably. Mr D seemed very upset just because I asked him a few questions."

You know, it's a good thing Apollo probably won't kill her for things. Just probably maim her. Or curse her. It'll be bad.

"Maybe that's just him. Of course they'd put a grouch in charge of us, it's probably some kind of discipline thing" mumble grumble.

As long as she doesn't make Poseidon earthquake everyone.

"I don't think he's really as bad as he seems. He's better than some, at least. He claimed his daughter immediately."

His daughter's cool, too.

"I'll give him credit for that, but it's not enough so far." Umi needs to meet the cool people. "I wish I could just get claimed to get it out of the way though."

"I don't know. Everyone in Cabin 11 is very kind." She looks a little nervous.

"What if you were claimed by someone you didn't want to be claimed by? I certainly wouldn't want to be claimed by Ares."

"I'm glad that everyone seems nice, at least." And she honestly expects people to at least be helpful, if they aren't buddy buddy. "I bet I'll find some people I like."

Umi frowns. Ares doesn't sound right at all. "Worrying about it will cost me more sleep than being the daughter of the worst god in the whole pantheon."

"Try not to think about it. It could be a very long wait."

She wants to think she was Athena's kid. But Athena normally claimed her kids pretty fast. Umi iss probably Poseidon. If not Poseidon... maybe Aphrodite? She's certainly beautiful and elegant enough for it.

"If we're all going to be training, then I'll need my sleep." No matter how much experience she has she doesn't expect that they'll be the only ones here who have fought.

Please, Fuu, be the daughter of someone neat like Athena. Please, self, be the daughter of anyone who isn't an ass.

"You'll likely be so tired at the end of the day, you won't notice how crowded it is."

Hahaha, someone who isn't an ass. "You can take my bed for now. I think it's time to start figuring out the rotation better, anyway."

"You'd be surprised what I noticed." Umi shrugs, leaning back a little. Rotations? So they don't have enough beds.

Brilliant. "We can just take turns and heck with everyone else..." nah. She shakes her head. "That might be too selfish though."

"Since I'm the one who originally suggested the rotation, it really wouldn't be fair." Fuu shakes her head. "Everyone here is sort of like our family now, aren't they?"

"We've got a lot of cousins we never knew." Wait. "...what if we have the same parent? Or our parents are siblings?"

Umi stands up. "Or one of our parents is the other's... parent?!"

"With the understanding I have of the Greek gods, it's nearly impossible for us to not be related. Several of the Olympians--the Lord of the Sky, the Lord of the Seas and the Lord of the Underworld--" She doesn't say their names, she's learned not to do that, "were brothers. The children of the king of the titans. Demeter, Hestia and Hera were their sisters. Hephaestus, Hermes, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Mr. D and Athena were all the children of Z--the Lord of the Sky. Aphrodite is the only goddess on Olympus who isn't related. I suppose if we are the children of one of the minor gods, we might not be related.

"But it's far more likely that we're cousins, sisters or aunt and niece."

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