Boots On (OPEN)

[Dakota King]

Dakota hated when it was finally allowed to snow within Camp Half-Blood based on the fact that she couldn't wear her cowboy boots. She didn't have any ole plain boots she could wear out in the snow. Hers were fancy and intricate with design and she didn't want to have them ruined in the snow and the salt they put on some of the paths to melt some of the ice. Instead, she wore her riding boots back when she did English style riding events back when she still showed her horses.

She was wearing her riding boots on this particular day as she was taking care of her pegasus, Blue Sky, in the stables. She had her skinny jeans tucked into her boots while she was wearing a blue plaid long sleeve shirt with a black zip-up jacket over it. She was in the stall with her pegasus as she brushed out his coat. She hummed softly to a couple of ole country songs her parents would play at their house when she was a kid. Occasionally, she would give her pegasus a sugar cube from her coat pocket. These were ones that she would sneak out of the mess hall occasionally, but Chiron hadn't caught her yet.

"Good girl," Dakota cooed to her pegasus as she fed it a sugar cube and stroke its mane with the brush.

[Natasha Lannister]

Natasha was never good at rules. Onces they were able to calm her down they told her she could explore camp by herself, to see if it jogged in memories. As long as she stayed away from the horses. Hey she was a wolf, she knew smells better then anything and that place had the most, intresting, smells. She was sure she wouldn't be able to take one down now. Not with these weak teeth. That didn't stop a poorly dressed and tangled hair Natasha from finding her way to the stables and looking at all the horses.

For once, none of them freaked out and got spooked at her sight. They seemed to watch her carefully though. She honestly, judging by her so called 'siblings' faces, smelled like the woods and like rotting flesh as one tried to say out of her ear shot. She was a wolf though, whether she was acutally or not was questionable but sher senses stayed jacked. She could smell all the animals and people, hear a small tig breaking or campers a mile away talking. She could smell food cooking and sense that once she wanted into the stables there was someone else.

She still was having trouble getting her voice together again, the few times she tried in the large estate, which they called 'the big house'. Brilliant humans. Everytime she tried though it came out of a disorted howl or a barly audible growl mixed with words. She got some flinching on that one. She slowly walked over to the girl, her foot steps still quiet like she was on a hunt, but her new feet didn't agree with that. She stood behind her and looked at the horse that she was grooming and tilted her head. Wings? Wings? Why did it have wings? She blinked a couple times at that thought, before looking at the girl and pointing at the animal. "Pegasus?" she said in a cracked and dry voice, causing it to sound more like 'pigacu', but she was happy enough that the words came out.

[Dakota King]

Dakota was busy taking care of Blue Sky that she didn't bother turning around when she heard someone enter the stables. She figured someone else was here to take care of their pegasus or even go out for a flight. Dakota didn't know why anyone would want to go flying in this kind of weather. It was cold and there was the occasional flurries. She focused on making sure that her pegasus was taken care of that she was completely off guard once someone croaked behind her.

She jumped and turned around and almost jumped again. The girl in front of her almost looked like she was raised by wolves and even smelled like it. Her hair and clothes were completely a mess. Dakota tried not to look too disgusted as she looked at the girl as she tried to process what she just croaked out. "Yes..." she said as she nodded her head as she looked at the girl. "Pegasus. They do exist here..." She looked at the girl with a quizzical look. "Are you new to camp?"

[Natasha Lannister]

For Natasha it was easy to noice her disgust when looking at her, after all thats all she had been seeing since she landed here. Something in her started to boil, like it was disgusted by the way people were looking at her but that was all she could tell from it. Instead she focused on the pegasus and watched it eying her. It could recognize her smell so she figured, yet her apperance confused it. She no longer could rub her fur in the dirt and hide it. Yet it didn't flinch away from her. It was, whats the human word for it, oh, trained. It was trained by people who looked like her. It must have been as confused as she was.

"Are you new to camp?"  Well, she wished she knew. Her voice was feeling slightly stronger after finally breaking into words after all the howling and she opened her mouth and thought carefully. "I, uh, don't know." Yes don't know was correct. "Chiron told me I was. Um," she said and tried to remember the word he used. Artemis, Aphrodite, Young, faulted, wolf. She remembered them all clearly but the defentions only sat on the tip of her tonge and she couldn't figure out how to use them herself. It was like forgeting your footing when you race, you know how to run, but you don't know how to do it in the right way. "Cursed. Cursed is what he howled." She said with a slightly nod. She looked at her hand and slowly moved it towards the horse, watching it flinch and making her jump as well. It didnt buck though, and she moved her hand again and managed to touch it. I remember this. These feeling she thought as she felt the horse. She had done with before.

[Dakota King]

Dakota was finding it nearly unbearable to be around the stench this girl was giving off. She tried to look as pleasant and not look completely disgusted, but this girl in front of her smelled like a dumpster. Dakota's face strained a bit as she tried to breathe through her mouth. She almost gagged since the smell tasted even horrible.

She tried to focus as the girl explained her situation. Cursed? Only a select few demigods were worthy of curses as far as she could tell. "Umm..." Dakota muttered as she scrunched her face up as she tried to think, but this stink was affecting her mind. "Did Chiron happen to tell you which cabin you were in? Who your godly parent is?"

She opened her eyes to eye the girl as she petted Blue Sky. The pegasus seemed a little hesitant of the girl, but allowed her to pet her. Dakota knew something was just off about this situation.

[Natasha Lannister]

Natasha knew this girl was disgusted by here, which didn't exactly make her feel great about this situation. Maybe thats why they wanted her to stay out of the stables, not for the horses but cause they had a crazy guard keeper. Either way she was suppose to be back at the cabin area so they could settle her into her cabin again. This whole situation was throwing her off. Supposibly she had lived there once before but the idea of being in a closed off building with limited exits. It sent shivers down her spin.

She with drew her hand from the horse and took a few steps back, not feeling comfortable around all these animals. She was suppose to hunt them. They feared her, but this one barley noticed that she could rip out his throat if she was back to normal. "Um.. something with a Ah  sound." she said and thought for a moment. They used the term love alot when they spoke in the larger estate. "Aphrodie or something" Hey it had the word die in it so it couldn't be that bad right? She knew all about killing things. "They were suppose to get me after they talked to their... alpha?" she said slightly questioning. For a rouge anyone above her was pretty much a alpha, but he used the word leader so she thought of alpha.

[Dakota King]

The stink was becoming almost unbearable, but Dakota tried her best in not looking too disgusted. She didn't know this girl's past, even if she was cursed. A part of Dakota, a teensy tiny amount, wanted to help the girl. It was in her nature to help people, usually the wounded kind, but she guessed she could help the stinky as well. All her thoughts stopped immediately in their tracks as soon as the girl mentioned she was an Aphrodite.

"You're... an Aphrodite?" she choked out, partially from the disbelief and partially from the stink. "I... Um..." She closed her eyes as she tried to gather her thoughts. "Umm... I'm cabin leader..." She opened her eyes and looked at the girl and her mind was immediately made up. "You're coming with me," she said as she reached out to grab the arm of her new sibling so she could drag her outside.

[Natasha Lannister]

For all the weird that had happened this day, her look at her was the strangest Natasha had seen. She didn't know what to make of her being the leader of her new home or whatever this use to be her old home. She didn't look like a love expert, hey she was with horses instead of people. Wasn't she suppose to be shooting people in the butt with arrows?

All those thoughts were lost when she grabbed her and started pulling her. She literally growled and thought about showing her what a wolf's bite was like but remembered that, she wasn't herself anymore. She wasn't a wolf, just a stupid weak human now. That she was being pulled along by this weak alpha. "Unhand me. I am not your little puppy!" she said yanking her arm back once they got where ever they were going. She would easily kill her if she could but that wasn't possible. "Do not touch me again."

[Dakota King]

Dakota couldn't believe she had to drag her new sibling outside. She would probably would have to wash her hand a gazillion times before it got back to smelling like normal. Dakota was slightly concerned that her new sister... growled at her? What did she think she was, a bear or something. For all Dakota knew, she could be one of those people who dressed up like furries and went to conventions. Hades, she couldn't blame the gods for cursing her then.

She barely managed to drag her outside of the stables and by the hose before her sister yanked her arm away. "No," Dakota snapped back, letting her temper fly for once. "You're not a puppy, but you smell like you've been rolling around in the dumpster." She walked over to the hose and turned it on. "I am not letting you into my cabin until you start smelling decent." Then she pointed the hose at her and turned it up more.

[Natasha Lannister]

Really. Thats what it was about? That Natasha smelled? What size stick did she have shoved up her butt, it must be large for such a small thing to bother her. A distinct smell is what kept her territory hers as a wolf. Now she wanted her to smell like what? A prissy human? "You would too if you've been living in the woods for the las-" she had to stop though once she got a face full of ice cold water in her face. This wasn't helping her not getting warm problem.

"What the!" She said using her hands to block some it "Turn it off you crazy human!" She could hardly move, was this what their cabin was about. Love and prissy leaders. No wonder someone cursed her to be into a wolf. Taught her some common sense. How to actually live. She reached of the hose and pushed it away from her "What is wrong with you!"

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There was just something about the children of Aphrodite and pegasi.  They had a certain talent in handling these magnificent winged beasts, and Gaspardo was one of those Aphrodite kids who could do just that.  He loved to interact with the pegasi and fly on their backs, and he knew what to do to make them like him back.  It was a mutual friendship between two different beings, one a demigod and the other a mythical animal.  One things for sure though--pegasi were beautiful creatures, and it just so happened that Aphrodite kids had a knack for beautiful things!

Anyways, Gaspardo was in the mood to do some pegasus-back flying.  He never ceased to grow bored of the wonderful sensation of being up in the air with the wind on his face.  It was also fun for him, for he was an expert rider and had better control of his animal, which meant that he didn't need to be as cautious as newbies.  He could have freer rein in the air, and sometimes he felt like he dominated the sky! No offense to you, Grandpa Zeus.  You could at least spare Gaspardo this one imagination, couldn't you?

He was dressed rather fashionably, as usual.  Of course, it was masculine fashion, in the way that male models modeled for clothing catalogs.  He was wearing a v-neck sweater with a collared shirt underneath, a pair of jeans, sneakers, and a scarf around his neck.  With his hands in the pockets of his jeans, Gaspardo had been singing a French song softly to himself, although when he passed by a few girls he would raise his voice a little and watch with pleasure as they pretty much melted at his sexy voice--and of course, his looks.

However, when he made it to the stables, a quite uncanny sight met his eyes.  His sister, Dakota, was spraying their other sister, Natasha, with water from a hose.  He was usually inclined to defer to Dakota, given that she was the cabin leader and one of demigods who had been in her role as a daughter of Aphrodite longer.  Plus, Natasha was a newbie.  Gaspardo didn't know a lot her yet aside from the fact that his mother had just claimed the girl, making her his sister.  She still had to prove herself to be Aphrodite-child-savvy, though.

Therefore, he would've usually let Dakota boss around Natasha however she wanted, but this time he thought it was going too far.  Well, that was mainly because he had no idea what was going on.  He didn't see demigods dowsing each other with water shooting out of a hose everyday.  This was just...unexpected, and funny.  He thought it was pretty cute to watch his pretty sisters get into this weird water fight of sorts--well, Dakota had the weapon in her hand and Natasha was the recipient of the torture.  With wide eyes but a slightly amused expression, he walked over to his unruly sisters.  "Hey, hey, pretty doves, what's going on here?" he asked, not really able to hide the smile on his face.     

[Dakota King]

Dakota growled a bit as Natasha had the nerve to knock the hose away. "Nothing. What's wrong with you?" she snapped back as she aimed the hose right back at her sister. "You are not walking anywhere in my cabin smelling like... like that." She had a firm grip on the hose as she made sure it was pretty damn hard for her sister to knock it away. Her eyes narrowed as she heard someone approach them. She readied herself in her spot. If it was some camper daring to intervene, Dakota would make sure that they didn't have a chance.

However, it was just her brother, but Dakota was still not letting her guard down. She side glanced at her brother as she made sure her sister got the stench out of her. "I'm making sure this one gets a shower," she hissed. "Make sure to stand back. Her stink can knock an entire army out."