Claiming:Camp/Audrey Hemlock

Name: Audrey Hemlock

Gender: Female

Species: Demigod

Age: 13

God Parent: Palaemon, Poseidon, Zeus

Mortal Parent: Fiona Hemlock

Appearance: She usually wears jeans and a red scarf alongside a blue jacket, but she sometimes dons other clothing when she wants to. Her eyes are silver at first glance, but if you look carefully, they are actually blue in color. She's a little scrawny for her age, but she is concerned about her weight and would be highly offended if you call her skinny.

Personality: Audrey Hemlock cries easily on some days, but is a rebellinous, adventurous girl on other days. While she does have an interest in boys, most boys disgust her, so she used to have an obsession with looking for The One (although she gave up after a few months), and as such is still very awkward around boys.

She can be sarcastic, cold and arrogant on the outside, but softens once you strike up a conversation with her, she can be a nice, soft, sort of whiney and spoiled girl on the inside. She prefers to be mysterious, curious and polite on the outside, but her friends see her more as a intruiging, soft, funny person. However, despite her flaws as a boy-obsessor and a bit of a crybaby, Audrey is clever, understanding,somewhat patient and loyal.

History: Fiona Hemlock was an esteemed writer when she went a beach she especially loved one sunny day in New York. Here, it was perfectly serene and beautiful, and a cool ocean breeze swept over it constantly. She had just written a bestselling book about Greek mythology, and she was relaxing on this beach to cool her nerves and to think of ideas for a new fantasy novel she was thinking about writing. The beach she went to was a popular beach, but on the weekdays it was almost deserted. And the weekdays were when Fiona Hemlock chose to go there.

But there, she met a dashing young man, just about her age, who was also relaxing on the beach, taking a dip in the cool water. She was also swimming in the water, so they struck up a conversation and found they had much in common, and they had fun playing a two-person game of Marco Polo, having swimming contests and talking on the beach about nothing in particular whenever they wanted to dry off. He was so handsome, funny, young and enerjetic that Fiona invited the man to a nice Italian restaurant to eat that evening. He accepted.

The dinner went well, and Fiona and the young man were in a relationship for a happy two months, eating out together, talking about Fiona's books, watching soap operas hand in hand, and of course, swimming at the beach. But one day, Fiona found out she was pregnant using the pregnancy test, and she told the news to the man. The man, caught off guard by her discovery and distraught that he couldn't be with her anymore, he told her the truth about himself: He was Palaemon, a minor Greek sea god. Shocked, Fiona begged him to stay with her, but Palaemon knew that once Fiona was pregnant, he couldn't stay anymore, so he gave her a Celestial Bronze sword he wanted their child to have and a note that listed the name of the camp he wanted their child to go to once she was old enough, the address of the camp, and the directions to Camp Half-Blood from Fiona's apartment in New York City. Palaemon explained as much as he could to Fiona about their demigod child's destiny and what she has to do after her first monster attack, then told her to get some sleep as he went outside to buy some groceries. Fiona was almost destroyed the next day when she awoke as she realized that Palaemon had vanished off the face of the earth, and that he was gone for good. Luckily, though, Fiona was a strong woman and clear-sighted for a mortal, and managed to pull through. Her next book was about a fictional character's struggles in getting through heartbreak over a relationship that couldn't last, and it was an instant bestseller.

Audrey Hemlock was an enerjetic, smart girl when she was a toddler, and learned her how to walk, how to count and how to read briskly and lovingly. She was curious about everything in the world, touching everything as soon as it was in touching range and asking about everything. Once, she asked about her father and who he was, but Fiona replied that one day she'd tell her. Audrey, not satisfied with the answer, pestered her mother more over the next few days endlessly, causing her mother a lot of stress and annoyance. Being a toddler, though, soon Audrey forgot about her question and stopped pestering her mother, and continued to live life normally. Soon, she was a diligent student in her school, but there were a few problems. One, she had problems reading sometimes, saying that 'the words are just dancing off the page or mixing themselves up', and overall getting frustrated, as she loved to read. Two, she paid little attention to class after first grade, her eyes straying outside the window or to the boy picking his nose more often than to the teacher or the lesson, and saying that class was boring and too easy at times. She also was very hyper throughout the day, doodling in her textbooks or making paper frogs instead of paying attention to class. At age 8, she was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia.

Fiona was surprised that Audrey had ADHD and dyslexia, as nobody else in the family had either problem, and began to push her harder. Audrey used to be very popular, being the swim team captain and a captivating writer, but she began to drift away from her friends as her mother pushed her to be the best math student, the best language arts student, the best historian,the best scientist, the best athlete, the best writer, etc. Soon, as more people found out she was ADHD and dyslexic, she began to be bullied by other people, friends and foes alike. She tried to tell the teachers or even the principal about it, but they always said that the other students were 'little angels' or hadn't done anything wrong. The few teachers that did anything about it only gave up after a few days of questioning students, saying they couldn't find any proof the bullying was happening.

However much Audrey cried or threw tantrums at home, Audrey managed to pull through her situation with her mother's help. While Fiona did try to tell the principal about the bullying and stop it, the principal said the same thing over and over to Fiona, and Fiona was too busy writing new books and taking care of Audrey to try to get them a new apartment in a new school district or take the time to investigate the bullying herself. As the bullying continued, although it began to lessen after fifth grade, Audrey began to shut herself off from the world for hours at a time and dedicate herself to overcoming dyslexia, perfecting her swimming strokes and speed, or improving her writing. Mostly perfecting her swimming, though, as she was dedicated to the swim team and considered it one of her only hobbies besides writing.

But as Audrey grew, she noticed a few strange things. One, Fiona refused for her to buy a cell phone for herself, much less use one, and only let her use the computer for school projects and when Fiona was home. She also noticed that her mother didn't allow her to go over to other people's houses for sleep overs or even hour-long birthday parties without Fiona constantly around. She also wondered why her mother never told her about her father, and never let Fiona read any Greek or Roman myths. Her mother also seemed concerned that she would be out alone in the streets at night, and set a six o' clock curfew for Audrey that would never be eased or removed, no matter how much she begged.her mother to change it. And one day, when Audrey had managed to sneak out to visit a friend alone at the local ice cream parlor after six, her mother immediately realized she was gone, and began looking for her. When she did find Audrey coming back from the ice cream parlor, she scolded Audrey for an hour on end and grounded her for a week. Yet, since Audrey was so wrapped up in her own life and studies that she never carefully considered all these nagging things that would've made Audrey suspicious about what her mother was trying to hide from her, which might've delayed the first monster attack.

At age 13, though, just a few months ago, when she was in the principal's office half an hour after school filling out swim team forms and signing up for a few clubs after school just after she had been hanging out with her friends outside for a bit, the principal's poodle, Mr. Snuffles, was yipping at her from behind the principal's desk and scratching at the door, obviously wanting to get out. Seeing that the principal didn't mind students interacting with Mr. Snuffles and that only the secretary was in the office with her, she approached Mr. Snufffles carefully to open the door for the poodle. However, when she approached Mr. Snuffles, she saw the poodle suddenly grow, its fur blackening, and jumped back in horror as the poodle grew into a full-sized hellhound! She tried to kick the hellhound away, but the large monster easily batted away her blows and pinned her down on the floor. Audrey was on the floor, screaming as the monster growled and began to lower its jaws to clamp down on her throat, with the secretary conveniently listening to her Ipod on full volume and sifting through some of the office's mail, when Audrey suddenly managed to grow multiple rows of sharp teeth and dislocate her lower jaw and bite the hellhound. The hellhound yipped with alarm and let go, and Audrey managed to get up and run to the desk, finding a heavy paperweight and a loaded stapler. She threw the paperweight and the stapler at the hellhound's head, and it melted into golden dust right before her eyes. Audrey, scared sightless, and suddenly very tired, fled the office and ran outside, where her mother was waiting for her to come out after signing up for the after-school activities.

Audrey, not sure what she'd just done, killing Mr. Snuffles, told her mother everything about what had just happened, believing that her mother would think she was lying or needed to get a mental checkup. However, to Audrey's shock and surprise, her mother said that she had anticipated Audrey's first monster attack, and was proud of her for handling the situation like that. Audrey asked her who her father was, remembering the question she'd asked her mother all those years ago as a toddler, and all the odd things that she'd noticed but not thought about in her life. Fiona, heartbroken that she'd have to reliquish her daughter so soon to her destiny, hesitated at first, then told Audrey that her father was the Greek sea god Palaemon, god of sharks. Audrey, shocked to hear this, and not even knowing who Palaemon was/is, almost fainted from the shock, but Fiona said that she had to take her to Camp Half-Blood as soon as possible, as now that she was aware of her powers, her scent would grow stronger and monsters would be more intent on finding her.

As Audrey and Fiona clambered into the family car, Audrey asked Fiona how she knew all this about demigods and the dangerous world they live in, and how her father is Palaemon. Audrey explained everything to Audrey as she drove to their apartment, about how the Greek gods move with the center of power in Western civilization, how they still have affairs with mortal men and woman constantly, how Lamia enchanted demigods to have a distinctive scent that monsters were attracted to and could easily track, how children of the Big Three have a stronger scent that lures monsters to them earlier than other demigods as they realize their powers faster and are supposedly more powerful, how minor demigods like Audrey were attacked later, why most demigods have ADHD and dyslexia since they seen too much and their minds are hard-wired for Greek, and a few other legends that Audrey needed to know to survive. While Audrey's mind was reeling, she was also aware that her mother was not lying, contrary to what she wanted to believe. Fiona had no idea why a satyr hadn't found Audrey before the age of thirteen, and told Audrey that she was going to drive her to camp anyway because she couldn't risk her daughter's life anymore by keeping Audrey with her.

They arrived at the apartment a few minutes after Fiona finished telling Audrey everything she needed to know, and Fiona quickly gave Audrey the Celestial Bronze sword that her father had wanted her to have (it had been locked away in a safe under Fiona's clothes, and Audrey never snooped in her mother's closet), and took out the old slip of paper that Palaemon had given her many years ago to get directions to Camp Half-Blood. Fiona helped Audrey pack up her clothes and essential items, all the while telling her about Palaemon, how they met and a few other things about her father to give Audrey energy and purpose to packing up her stuff, and when they were done, a few water bottles, three changes of clothes, a bottle of SPF 30 sunscreen, a few toiletries and a yearbook or two were in a backpack for Audrey to take to camp.

As her mother drove her to camp, thought, Audrey turned the new bronze sword over and over in her hands (luckily, it was sheathed as chapstick, so she didn't cut herself) and thought over her destiny. She wondered about this Palaemon guy and who he was, and if she'd ever get to meet him. She was thinking about what her mother would tell the school system about where she was when her presence was missed, and if she'd ever see her friends again when a Stymphalian bird's feather impaled itself in the roof of the car a mere inch above Audrey's head! Fiona sped up and managed to get to camp before the bird could follow them, but Audrey would never forget the close brush with severe injury. She left the car and crossed the border safely, but is convinced that if she'd stayed outside of camp longer, she would've been attacked by more than just a hellhound and a Stymphalian bird, since her mother had told her so much about her history.

Weapons: Audrey has a Celestial Bronze sword with a shark tooth embedded in its hilt, but the shark tooth is only there as decoration and as a sign that she is a daughter of Palaemon. She doesn't have any other weapons, since she likes the ability to grow multiple rows of sharp teeth and bite with them.

Thegreateagle (talk) 02:50, April 6, 2014 (UTC)