Entry 7: Amber Lendin

Willow awoke to see Holly standing off to the side looking concerned, and Jason, standing over her.
"She's awake." Jason said, turning towards Holly.
"Oh, thank Zeus." Holly said, sighing with relief.
Willow sat up in bed and looked at Jason. "What's going on? What just happened?" she inquired.
"This'll take a while, Willow. You might want to lay down." Jason said. He then began his tale....
" When I was born, my mom looked at me and said:"He's adorable. I'll call him Jason." she laid me down in my crib, and that's all I remember of the day I was born. When I was 3, I remember a man leaving my house, and my  mother wishing him farewell. When I mentioned this to my mother when I was 5, she said that man was my father. I had never really known my father, and did not worry much over his leaving, but my mother took it hard. She got worse as the years went by. Eventually, she sent me to boarding school so I wouldn't see her grieving when I was 13. While I was there, I met a girl. Her name was Amber Lendin. We became close friends, and she told me about demigods. I found out that she was a daughter of Zeus, and that I was a son of Poseidon. She told me how many normal families had rejected their demigod children, and how she had met a family who had done this to a little 7 year old, and she had no clue why. Amber wanted to support young demigods to find places where they could really be accepted.
             There were a few other demigods there, and I supposed that's why what  happened happened. A herd of hellhounds and empousa came and attacked the school. There were few survivors. Amber was dueling a demigod who seemed to be controlling the hellhounds. He performed a strange ritual, and black smoke came out of his mouth. The smoke forced itself down Amber's throat. She changed. She killed the demigod and all the enemies, and began acting horribly, treating those who were once her friends with cruelty.  All the demigods who were left realized that it was the smoke, and they worked hard to remove it from Amber's body. After 2 years, someone finally succeeded. As soon as the smoke left Amber's body, she realized what she had been doing. Ashamed, she left immediately, though we tried to persuade her to stay. She claimed that she was going to a camp for demigods, to do good deeds to redeem herself. We tried to follow her, but she was too fast.
     After Amber had left, we kept the smoke in a glass jar. However, there was a traitor among us. This person set the smoke free, and unleashed on the world. I think that you might have been affected by the smoke, Willow."
Willow sat there for a minute, and then said:" How do I fix it?"
"Well", Jason said, "I have managed the affects if the smoke temporarily, but it won't last. I'll have to keep performing the ritual over and over, which might be bad for your health. I think that if we find Amber, we may be able to figure something out."
Willow then said, "Well, there's only one thing to do. We need to initiate a quest."