Arrival after a cruise (open)

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Makayla felt her hair blowing past her on the cruise ship as he leaned over the railing. She wasn't afraid that she would fall over(what child of the sea would?) but wasn't planning on it yet. She still wanted to say goodbye to her mom before she left. She leaned on her fist, watching the waves as she waited. She was wearing short jean shorts on and had one of the Cruise ship's Hawaii T-shirts on over her Bathing suit top. Very far from her usual wear, but she was dressed for fun on the big boat. Still, the fun was ending soon. The ship was gonna be at it's closest to the camp in 15 minutes soon, and she was gonna jump off there.

Ever since her "incident" her mother had moved to New york and taken up work there, still a health inspector in this boats and getting free rides on them all the time. This one had started in New york and went down to the Key's in Florida. It was the return trip, and she was heading back to camp after the school year and the vacation. She still had a tan from it, and wondered if it would last at camp.

"I see some one is excited to get going," her mom said as she walked up in her usual inspect clothes. Makayla turned, smiling as she saw her mom walk up. Marry(the mom) took a spot next to her and watched the waves. "He's still out there you know," She said, ruining Makayla's good mode. She looked out to the waves and said," I know mom. I wish he would just give me a sign that he was still looking over me sometimes." He mother chuckled at that, saying," You'll be fine. Now, If you don't want to keep your camp waiting, your jump if coming up." Makayla nodded, feeling the position they were at. She whistled, and a hippocampi came up through the waves. She waved, seeing her favorite one had heard her. Or had been waiting for her. Makayla grabbed her suitcase next to her, turning to her mom and giving her a hug, saying," I'll see you next fall, okay?" Her mom nodded, saying," Oh course dear. Now give my best to your friends and Chiron."

Makayla promised to do so, grabbed her suitcase and jumped over board. She didn't hear any screams so that was good. It also helped she willed the pool water to rise and fall to make a splash to catch everyone's attention. Makayla hit the water like embracing an old friend, opening her eyes to the wonders the sea help.

"Hey hey, take it easy boy," She said, laughing at the hippocampi tickled her with his muzzle. "I know i know, but I'm happy to see you again. You don't believe everything that's happened since you went on-land." Makayla slipped onto his back, her suitcase still dry and on her back down as the hippocampi raced away, heading towards Camp half blood. "You asked her to be your mate? That is so sweet," She said, listening to the hippocampi's story.

About an hour later the hippocampi finally ran through all his stories. Makayla didn't have the heart to tell him she didn't really care about fish gossip and which hippocampi was interested in which hippocampi, but she listened anyway. There wasn't much else to do anyway, and she loved the hippocampi to much to hurt his feelings like that. "Simbad, is that it?" She asked at they surfaced above the waves, seeing the shore. "Yes ma'am, we have arrived at your destanation. Does the noble steed get a reward?" she rolled her eyes at the hippocampi, saying," lets get to shore and find out." He raced ahead, as if he knew about the sugar cubes for him in her suit case.

"Ahh, it's good to be back," she said, stepping off the hippocampi and onto the beach, breathing in the scent of strawberries and camp. Smelt like home. She turned, pulling out a small jar of sugar cubes from her bag and put them on her palm, saying," Thank's simbad."

"anytime," he said between cubes. She smiled patting and said," I'll see you around ok? I need to go tell the camp I'm back. And as for your lady friend, give her these in the air and I think it might score you a date." She handed him a small bag of cubes, and he whinned, taking them. They were easy open, she she wasn't worried about it when he sped away into the waves.

makayla turned, looking at the camp. "It hasn't changed a bit," She said, walking up the beach and swiching the sand off her flip flops. She would change in a little while, get out of the cruise clothes and into her normal camp clothes. "Wonder if I got her late,"she thought, picking the suitcase up and strapping it onto her shoulder. Wouldn't be the first time for her.

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Baldr walked on the beach and spotted the girl on the beach and tilted his head did a mortal get lost and find this camp? last time it was a pizza guy wasn't it, now someone from...a cruise ship from the looks of her he sighed and wondered if he should go full on winged form on the person and make her think it was all just a dream, he looked at his giant dog "what do you say? friendly or ignore?" the dog looked from baldr to the girl before barking it's loudest bark and making a sprint for the new girl , his dog, killer a 235 pound 33 inch tall Kavkazskaïa Ovcharka that looked like this running at full speed is a sight that understandably scare people seeing as this is what they see, just with the other's fur
Baldr sighed and started running after his well trained nice dog that didnt seem to grasp how scary it can look when it runs full sprint at someone "oi lady step out of the dog's way he will pounce you and lick your face"

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Makayla paused, hearing a....bark? "Can't be hell hounds," She said, looking up as a wave touched her feet. She looked around, feeling weary. Her instincts were screaming at her to jump back into the wave. She reached for bag, pulling out some bronze knuckles. She was best with her hands. She set her bag up out of the water, and looked around. It was..... A giant man eatting dog bearing down at her.

"AHH!" she yelled, and waved her arm. The water of a wave swirled up and around her arm, hitting the dog in the face with enough force to go right up his nose. Course, he just bit into it, and taking a bite of it. She blinked, reconizing that. "Killer?" She asked, and looked up the slope, seeing Baldr. "I'm gonna kill him," She said, stepping back into the waves, the water wrapping around her ankles as the dog pounced on her.

If it wasn't for the fact that she landed under the water the dog could have broken her back, but the sea water caught her like an old friend and cushioned the blow from the massive mutt. Course, there was one thing that she couldn't clean off and it was dog slobber as her face was licked all over. "Down boy, down," She said, and a hand of the waves formed, pulling the massive mutt off.

"Yeah yeah, Down boy," She said, patting him on the head as he sat, looking happy to see her. She glared daggers at the boy at the sand. "Down boy," She repeated, getting up and brushing her self off. He cracked her knuckles and said," I don't blame the boy in this case." Yeah, she was way shorter then this guy but she was gonna kick his head in. It was good to be back. She stopped, letting it go.

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baldr walked up to his dog and looked at him "you are 18 months, not 2 months you" the dog looked at him and wagged it's tail "dont go attacking people, you see people you dont attack them" the dog tilted his head at his owner "people not licking toys" baldr pointed at the sea "go take a swim you need one to calm down" the dog walked into the water
Baldr looked at Makayla "sorry about that, he is...still young, his kind grows...fast, a few months ago well a year ago he wasnt bigger then my duster jacket's pocket and now" he looked at the air no a year wasnt right was it, 10 years ago, he had only been out of the lotus for part of a school year "you are a water demigod?" he looked at her and smiled and looked at her seeing her readiness to fight

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Makayla sighed, letting it go. She wasn't gonna let him ruin her first day back at camp. "just, let it go Mickey," She thought, disliking him already though. It's hard to forgive someone for letting their mutt on you. Plus, she didn't really like dogs to begin with.

"I don't blame the dog for it, though he could have killed me." Yeah, Makayla was in her angry mode. She didn't let things like this go since she still had dog droll in her hair and ear. Annoying.

"I'm Makayla. I'm of the Poseidon cabin," She said, and felt a wetness on he chest. She looked down and saw that her Hawaii shirt was open, and her Bakini top was exposed. She grabbed her shirt and pulled it in, seeing the buttons were torn off. "Great," She said, and glared at the boy. A ball salt water rose, and soared straight at his face, aim true. It had enough force to knock him on his feet.

"See you later dog boy," She said, holding her shirt and her suit case and begin to walk up the shore, her feet hitting ground and heading towards her cabin. She needed to change out of these clothes soon. Maybe it would have been better to change before getting here, but she still had a small fear that if she did she might loose all her stuff if she let go of her bag to get a change.

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Baldr let the water hit him and got up "not dog boy, baldr love, child of Eros, minor cabin counselor" he looked at his dog "really, you run and try to clean the face of a poseidon kid right next to water" the dog swam in and shook of water and looked at his owner "fine, fine" he sighed and ran, manifesting his wings taking off in fight so his dog had something to chase, all the while yelling out freedom or yippies or stuff in that nature along with something about modesty being a stupid thing, the dog, a giant now wet fur bag running after him

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Makayla turned around, seeing the boy run away from the shore with his dog. "Jeez. Boys are to weird." She walked off, heading to her cabin and wishing to get changed out of her bakini top.

As she climbed, she saw the row of cabins, and quickly walked over, closing herself into the Poseidon, sighing to be back. She looked around, seeing that it was empty. Better and better. She put her case down, grabbing a set of clothes from it and walked into the bathroom, going to get the dog slobber off.

About an half an hour later(Idk, give a rough estimate)

Makayla opened the cabin door again, walking about in a set of jeans, a camp half blood shirt and her combat boots again. "Better," She said, smiling as she pushed her hair back over she shoulder, thinking she should go find her cabin mates or chirion to tell them she was back. Look like everyone was in camp activities still, so she had some time to go get some stuff done.

[Daphne Scotts]

Daphne had been walking around the camp trying to get her mind off the recent break up. She couldn't sleep, since her nightmares of her kidnapping came back to haunt her. Black circles decorated underneath her eyes, but she finally broke down to see the Aphrodites for some help and they were able to give it to her. Concealer was her best friend at the moment if she didn't want the camp to know what kind of state she was in or Chiron dragging her to her therapist. Her last therapist was Aphrodite and she pushed for Daphne and Achilles to be together... but that didn't work out at all.

She took a deep breath as she decided to head back to her cabin. Her brothers would go searching for her if she was out too long with the state she was in. She had yet to go to their hideout to retrieve her things. She didn't want to open the wounds that were slowly healing.

On her way to the Zeus cabin, Daphne noticed a familiar face on the Poseidon cabin porch. She smiled a bit as she made a slight detour in her path. "Hey, Makayla," she said as she forced a smiled onto her face. "I see you're back at camp. When did you get back?"

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Makayla saw Daphne walk up and smiled, thinking," At least it isn't another dog." She walked over and gave Daphne a hug, saying," It's been a while. How was you year?" Makayla was smiling, but was really wondering why she had dark circles under her eyes.

"I just got back really. I got simbad to give me a ride since I jumped off a cruise liner again." She smiled, remembering explaining to chirion the first year she arrived how she got there. Jumping off a cruise liner. Usual way to do stuff like that.

"So, how are you and Achilles doing? Last I heard things were getting steamy," She asked, smiling at it. Yeah, she didn't really have timing at all.

[Daphne Scotts]

Daphne hugged Makayla back as she felt a bit relieved. She didn't know why, but hugs lately were making her feel much better. "My year was... it was good," she nodded her head. She was forcing herself to focus on the positive things. That's what her therapist would want.

She cracked a smile at Makayla. "You're going to freak out the mortals one of these days. Maybe even give one of them a heart attack." She shook her head as she smiled. Makayla was always one of those for grand entrances.

But Daphne's chest tightened up and she felt a sob caught in her throat when Makayla asked about Achilles... her ex... She took a deep breath. "We... broke up..." She pressed her lips together as she slowly nodded her head. "So... nothing steamy... we're just..." She took a shaky breath. "Done."

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Makayla knew she said the wrong thing once she saw Daphne's reaction to her teasing. When she spoke, she realized that, yeah, she said the WORST thing she could of said.

"Hey hey. Come here," She said, and wrapped Daphne in another hug. She patted her back, trying to comfort her a little. She didn't say anything that she knew would be wrong. Makayla was to real for that to lie to her about that. Makayla knew that it was gonna hurt, and that no amount of her talking would fix it. Still, never stopped her from trying.

" Time heals all wounds," She said, letting go, but keeping a hand on Daph's shoulders. She gave it a little shake, and said," I don't want to get shocked for this but your gonna get over this in time. I don't know how long, and no body will. But your gonna get there." The ocean was always patient, and real, just like her father way and the way the ocean worked. Patient and real.

"Hey, come on. You know what you need?" Makayla ran her fingers though her hair, and said," A change. And I know a cabin that can get that done for you." She turned them both to look at the Aphrodite cabin. She smiled, saying," I'll even get something done to if you go. Poseidon knows, My hair can do for something that doesn't ahve a salt texture in it."

[Daphne Scotts]

Daphne did her best not to break down as Makayla pulled her into another hug. It had been weeks since that confrontation and break up, but she didn't go a day without crying about it. She squeezed her eyes tight as she took deep, but shaky breaths. And it didn't help that Makayla was saying everything that she heard from her brothers and her other friends. "Time is taking it's sweet time." She muttered as she opened her eyes and swiped at them. "I just want to be over him and move on... is that too much to ask for?"

Then Makayla offered something that made Daphne raise her eyebrows. "You're saying I should go into the Aphrodite cabin willingly?" She pulled a slightly disgusted face. "The last time I was in there... they chopped my hair..." But she sighed as she shook her head. "But fine, let's go. I need a change."

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"That's the spirit. Come on. I've i'm going in there." She smiled, taking Daphne's hand and leading her across to the aphrodite cabin. AKA, Make up salon central.

Makayla paused at the doorway, her hand about to knock on it as second thoughts entered her head. She still remembered the last time she was in here and left with blue hair, since they said it would match the ocean. She had been 13 at the time, and thought it was cool then, but now....Now she didn't think as much. Still, it was only a second then she knocked, and knew that what happened from here was pretty much her fault.

As the door opened, she felts a hand take her free one and lead her them in. She smiled, but almost gagged on the heavy smell of perfume. lucky she was able to surpress it as .... where those salon chairs. She was sat in one of them, and then said," Oh gods, what did we just do," As she felt a brush going through her hair, and whispered of what to do to it this time.

[Daphne Scotts]

Daphne allowed herself to get led over to the Aphrodite cabin as her heart thumped in her chest. She was going to do it. For once, she wouldn't be the girl that Achilles fell in love with. She would be someone new. Someone different. Someone who would survive without Achilles.

Once the door opened to the cabin, Daphne went into beauty attack mode and let the Aphrodites drag her into the cabin. She sat in the stylist chair as the other girls gossiped and played with Daphne's hair. "I want it to be different," she finally spoke up. The Aphrodites were stunned as they looked down at her. For the first time, their Barbie doll actually spoke. "I don't want to be blonde," Daphne said as she pressed her lips together. "Change it."

The Aphrodites hesitated a bit, but it didn't take them long before they worked on making their blond Barbie doll brunette.

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As they went to town on her hair, Makayla closed her eyes and just enjoyed the scalp massage her head was getting. It was niiiiiiice. Course, when she started to feel her hair get pulled and man handled this way and that, it was less so. Though when she opened her eyes for a second and saw the blue hair dye, she quickly closed her eyes again, wishing she didn't give this license to do as they pleased to her hair. Walking in the doors was like signing an unwritten contract.

After the process was done(And which Makayla has a little trouble breathing due to the hair spray and perfume. "How do the guys survive in here?" She thought) and opened her eyes, seeing the mirror in front of her and blinked, surprised.

She had blue high lights running down to the end of her hair, blending with her natural hair in a nice ocean wave. It was really pretty and she had to admit, nice. Even if they did use blue in her hair again, the biches. She smiled, getting out of her seat and turning around, feeling her hair swish around her, the blue flashing in a quick turn.

"See. Told you," She said, and grabbed Daphne's own Salon chair and turned it to face one of the many mirrors in the cabin. It was weird to see the natural blond with brown hair, but it was also very cool as well.