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Theo caught Saphron’s glares but didn’t really care. There were better ways to lose your head than to have it shot off by angry hunters. Instead he motioned for her to continue if she wanted. “Oh no, by all means dress up like a ninja if that works for you. I just don’t want to end up with an arrow between my eyes. I’m far too young and good looking for all of that.”

He fixed Saph with a placating gaze and then turned his attention back to the Hailelope to see her answer. For a moment he wondered if he was right in thinking that Hailey could still understand them but sure enough after a few moments she gave one very noticeable hop. “Well there you have it Saph. Hailey thinks they’ll help so it’s worth a shot at least. Still, we’ll probably want to bring a few spells just in case we have to make a scene.” He paused for a second in thought and then continued. “Tell you what Saph. Go ahead and get ready to go, I’ll work us up some spells and since I’m sure Hailey is about done with this whole horny bunny thing we’ll head on over to the Artemis cabin and see what we can do. That sound like a plan that everyone is good with?”

Ali & Freedom
These two should get along fine. Free isn't opposed to happy people she can just be a bundle of gloom sometimes. I imagine that if things keep going well for Free and Audrey then Ali should start seeing her around quite a bit too so they will have an opportunity to get to know each other I'm sure.

Ali & Ash
I like this as well. He shouldn't have any problem with her hanging around especially if she decides to be his hunting buddy as well. He is kind of protective so he would probably fit right into the big brother roll if she got in trouble. He might get short with her from time to time if she pesters him too much but deep down he really will care. Considering they are siblings they should already know each other so maybe they could be training together or she could be stopping by the Apollo cabin to pick up something for their first thread?

Blake & Ash
More friends is certainly not a bad thing and yeah they do have personalities that I think will mesh well. Again hunting is a pretty good way to connect to Ash but Blake's mellow personality should help them to get along. We could have them meet up on one of Ash's late night excursions or just meet around camp if you want.

Theo was glad that Saphron at least had some idea of who the jackalope might be. If this whole series of events had gone down as long ago as his sister seemed to think then very likely he missed out on it entirely. As frequently as he was gone it was no wonder he didn’t know what was going on. "Yeah I guess I was more out of the loop than I thought." He said more to himself than anyone else and then turned his attention back to Saphron as she finally got the name.

"It's really been a year though? That's got to be pretty rough. Too bad she never came to us before." Theo wondered if this Hailey girl even remembered what it was like being human. Were there any negative effect, aside from being a funky looking bunny that is? He supposed that would be a good question to ask when they got Artemis' magic reversed.

"Well if our history proves anything the spell will definitely do something." He said trying to sound confident. In truth he didn't know how this would go but it was sure to be a blast finding out, well, as long as they didn't end up with a dead hunter in their cabin. "I'm sure she'll be fine. I mean what kind of Hecate kids would we be if we couldn't figure out how to get her back into her normal shape? We've got this."

Theo chuckled at Saphron’s response. He did know how to get under his sisters skin but wasn’t really that worried about the jackalope running off. If he had been a jackalope he would have been willing to do whatever it took to get turned back. Even if it meant taking some good old fashioned ribbing from one of his Hecate brothers or sisters.

Turning his attention to the task at hand Theo began to search through a collection of spell scrolls that were on a shelf by his bed. He hadn’t looked into polymorphing spells that much yet, no one had annoyed him to the point of needing to use one so far, but he did remember stumbling across something that might be worth checking out on his last venture into the broader world.

“Ah here it is…” He mumbled to himself as he pulled out an ancient looking parchment and began to unroll it. His eyes skimmed over the collection of Greek letters with practiced ease and as he read silently to himself he took note of the magical incantations and spell components they would need. It wasn’t exactly a spell for turning a jackalope into a human but with a few tweaks he thought that he could get it to work for them. Hopefully.

All of a sudden Theo heard Saphron calling to him and he was immediately brought back out of his studying. He hadn’t noticed but his sister had already gathered some things at their little ritual circle and begun a divining spell. As he glanced up he noticed that the area immediately around the girl had been covered in a light mist. “Well there’s certainly something.” He said as he walked over for a look with the spell scroll in hand.

“I don’t know what you were trying to do but…” Theo stopped short as he looked down at the floor where Saphron was sitting. “Oh my.” He said with a little chuckle. “This is rich. This is very rich.” His eyes filled with barely contained laughter as he read the name that was formed in the mist. “Yeah I think we’ve figured out who cursed our furry friend and that tell us all we needed to know about what she’s been up to.” He said calling the jackalope by a definite pronoun for the first time. He wasn’t sure but if the name he saw was any indication then he was probably right because spelled out clearly in misty, shimmery letters on the floor was the name ‘Artemis’.

Theo was tired of the rumors. He didn’t know who had started them but ever since he had gotten back to camp he had been hearing about how people had seen him places that he had never been, doing things he had never done. It was ridiculous. Clearly this was all just a case of mistaken identity or someone’s poor attempt at trying to prank him. He wasn’t having it and that meant putting an end to all this craziness right now before things got serious.

Fortunately the rumors seemed to center around the Hephaestus cabin so that made things easier. Theo couldn’t honestly say that he had been here before. Hephaestus kids were all about doing things and, well, Theo wasn’t so why go by and visit them. That in itself should have been enough proof that he wasn’t hanging out around the Olympian’s cabin but still the rumors persisted and that meant one thing. The quickest way to fix all this was to go to the Hephaestus cabin and prove there was no Theo doppelganger hanging around and ruining his slacker reputation.

He wasn’t exactly sure what he was going to do when he found the source of all this misinformation. He had a few spells prepared and his jacket glowed faintly with enough magical symbols and runes to insure a wide variety of chaos depending on how things went. One thing was for sure though. Nobody was going to mistake him for being a Hephaestus kid after this. If somebody wanted to mess with him then it was a mess they were going to get.

Walking up to the Olympian’s cabin Theo knocked and waited for an answer. He wasn’t sure how many Hephaestus campers there were but it wasn’t his style to go bursting into a place unannounced, at least not when he was missing an audience. Besides, this was still probably just some misunderstanding. In which case he was going to have to find another target to fire all these spells at like maybe the people who kept bringing him all these ridiculous stories.

Theo touched down on the shore a short distance away from the girl. As he did he dispelled the magical effects letting the fog break off and drift away behind him. He supposed he could have kept up the show just to see if he really could impress the girl but part of being a good showman was knowing how to leave your audience wanting more. Sometimes less was more and judging by the girl's voice when she called out to him he thought that he had made the right choice here.

“Oh that?” He said casually as he turned to face her with a grin. “I was just making sure you were paying attention.” Theo watched as she set her camera to the side and was pleased for the moment that she had enjoyed his spells. There didn’t seem to be any fooling this one though so he decided that he wouldn’t play up his powers, at least not at the moment. “Maybe I just like to make an entrance. What’s the point in knowing magic if you can’t show off every now and then? As for posing I guess that would depend how that picture you got turns out.”

Theo watched the jackalope scurry away under his bed. Not exactly a safe place considering he tended to shove all his stuff up under there when he didn’t have the time or the patience to find a proper place for it. There was no telling what was down there but he supposed as long as the bunny came out eventually they would be okay. The last thing he wanted was to spend his night jackalope hunting.

“What they’re used for huh? They probably make a good jackalope stew.” Theo said teasingly. Eating a cursed human wasn’t really his idea of a good time but he could see how much of a liking Saphron had taken to the creature and couldn’t resist. “Yeah if we could find out who we’re dealing with here we might get some insight into what kind of curse we’re going to be undoing. Maybe we can find some way to communicate with our fury friend if it ever comes back out here or maybe it’s too far gone at this point. Who knows? In any case I think I’ve got a few books on polymorph spells that might help. I’ll start looking through those.”