"Run faster!
"I'm running as fast as I can!"
The two boys that looked the complete opposite of each other ran from whatever was chasing them with fear evident in their eyes. One boy pale as snow with pale curly blond hair and dark eyes, the other had light caramel complexion with tussled straight ebony hair and bright golden eyes.
"That's not fast enough!" The caramel toned boy yelled but they both halted as they got to a road. "Aha!" They ran across the street to what looked like a biker bar.
"What are we doing here?!"
"I have a plan."
"Damien wait don't go in ther-ugh." The pale boy held his face in frustration, Damien always acted before thinking it was rather ridiculous. "Leave all the thinking to Mathew why don't you." He muttered to himself looking left and right for an exit. There was a loud bang causing Mathew to look across the street. His eyes narrowed and he could see the faint outline of the giant scorpion that was chasing them. "Oh my…. Come on come on come on who ever is looking down at us please please save us pl-"
"What are you whining about?" Damien asked as he came out of the bar. "Lets go." He said twirling a keychain around his finger and looking at all the bikes that were lined up.
"Where did you get those?" Matthew asked looking at Damien with a shocked expression.
"Lets just say I can be very convincing. Ah here's our ride out of here." He smiled looking at the black Harley Cruiser with dark red flames on it.
"Do you even know how to drive this thing?" Matthew asked as they got onto the back.
"Umm." Damien smirked revving the broke. "There's always first time experiences!" He exclaimed taking off just as the giant scorpion broke through the tree line and before Matthew could change his mind about trusting Damien on a high powered vehicle. "Hey! This is like riding a bike without pedaling!"
"I doubt it!" Matthew yelled holding onto the seat handles in a death grip.
"So how's mister grumpy doing behind us?" Damien asked relaxed as always.
"I don't think it's safe to look back."
"Because he's right behind us or my driving skills?" Damien asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Both." The blonde responded said but glanced back anyway. "DRIVE FASTER~!" Matthew yelled as the pincher came down towards them.
"No need to tell me twice!" The bike jerked forward and bounced as the pincher embedded into the ground. "Slight miscalculation!" Damien shouted as one of the tires popped. The handle bars swiveled out of control, "Okay, okay don't worry I got this."
"Damien!"
Damien slammed on the brakes and turned the bars quickly.
The boys jumped towards the scorpion and ended up rolling under its legs as the bike skidded away. Damien yelped as his knee got skidded across the asphalt. The stood up and he winced, his skinny jeans were torn down form the knee to the middle of his shin, the white bone off his kneecap could be seen under all of the blood.
"Don't worry!" Damien said ignoring the pain. "I got this." He said standing in front of Matthew who was groaning and holding his arm in pain. "It was my mistake I'll own up to it."
"Damien do-"
"This was my fault." Damien interrupted glaring at the scorpion as it turned. Suddenly a huge metal dragon came down crushing the scorpion. "…And that has nothing to do with me." Damien said sitting right down.
"I told you!" A voice said causing Damien to shiver slightly.
"Oh so you weren't lying."
Three people jumped off of the dragon and went towards the two, Damien settled himself closer to Matthew.
"Matthew, do the thing."
"Right." Matthew nodded taking off his one glove and touched the ground causing the ground to form a thin layer of ice to form. Two of three people fell and slipped automatically and fell. "What?" The ice melted around the curly haired male causing him to smirk.
"Ow." The other male said sitting up and rubbing his head. "That really hurt."
"Well they're obviously not human." The girl said.
"Matthew…." Damien trailed off. "Run, go." He said shoving the boy away.
"What?" Matthew asked his eyes going towards Damien.
"Go. Please." Damien said as the other three started getting closer.
"If you think for a second that I'll leave you here then you're insane."
"We're not here to hurt you." The curly haired male said. "I'm Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus."
"I'm Piper daughter of Aphrodite."
"Nico, son of Hades."
Damien looked at the son of Hades; he definitely had a dream about him the other night. They had a long conversation during the dream but Damien never remembered what it was about.
"Here let me help you." Leo said with a hand out being offered.
"He's injured let's hurry and take him to Will." Nico said looking at Damien, recognition in his eyes.
"Oh will you stop thinking of your best friend for a second." Piper teased.
Matthew stood up putting his glove back on. He helped Damien up and they both starred at the other three.
"We're demigods-"
"We got as much." Matthew said, "We know what they are and we know what we are. I know who my godly parent is, he doesn't."
"Whose you godly parent?" Leo asked.
"Khione." Leo winced and looked at Piper. "Yes I know already, she's horrible, I've met my mother before."
"Anyway." Nico interrupted. "He's bleeding and he doesn't look that good so we're going to bring you to camp, which is a save haven for demigods."
"Okay." Damien nodded standing up and leaning against Matthew. "We'll go with you."
XxXxXxX
"Wait, no; don't touch me!" Damien yelled trying to shoo away the members of the Apollo cabin with his foot.
"You need to be helped!" One of the blondes said.
"DO NOT TOUCH ME!"
"You're going to die!"
"That's fine by me!"
"I don't know how to deal with him anymore Chiron, we've given him the highest risk of nectar and ambrosia even one more drop and he'll be in flames." Will explained as he and the centaur walked into the infirmary. "He won't let anyone touch him either and his wounds cannot be ignored from what I was told he jumped off of a motorcycle or something, the other boy, Matthew, he didn't get it to bad but he wouldn't let anyone touch him either but he was fine after a bit of ambrosia."
"I'll see what I can do." Chiron said going over towards Damien. "Excuse me, will you stop throwing things at the Apollo children." Damien froze and his eyes quickly darted to Chiron. "May I look at your wound?"
"Don't touch me." Damien said starring at him like a caged animal.
Chiron could clearly see the broken look in his eyes when he said touch, something had happened when he was younger, something with someone touching him.
"Why not."
"You'll die."
With the last word dropping from his mouth everything became silent. Chiron noticed the haunting look in his eyes worsening.
"Damien!"
"Matthew!"
The look in his eyes disappeared as he looked towards the doorway seeing his best friend. Chiron nodded and looked towards the other both. A glowing snowflake appeared on his head.
"Damien was it, son of Khione?" Chiron asked.
"Um…yeah, don't touch me I freeze people sometimes, by accident of course." Matthew said.
"And Damien kills people?" Chiron asked.
"He doesn't mean to!" Matthew said. "It's not his fault, it's whoever his godly parent is and-"
"Ummmm Chiron." Will said.
Everyone turned to Damien who had an inverted touch hovering his head (basically an upside down torch). Chiron blinked surprised however that would explain a lot of things.
"I can heal you Damien, you won't kill me." Chiron said.
"And why's that?" Damien asked still not believing him.
"I'm immortal you're death touch won't have any effect on me."
XxXxXxX
"Okay so." Chiron said. "Matthew will stay in the Hermes cabin since his mother obviously doesn't have a cabin here and Damien will stay in the Hades Cabin."
"What why?' Nico asked confused. "The upside down touch wasn't the symbol of my father, wouldn't that be disrespectful?"
"No his fa-" A small skull with ruby eyes floated over Damien's head. "It seems your father is okay with it, his own father is someone who works in the underworld and helps Hades out, he also trusts his father."
"Who is it?" Nico asked starring at the boy.
"Thanatos." Chiron said.
"Oh…." Nico said realizing the connection.
"Yeah."
"Wait will I be separated from Matthew?" Damien asked stepping closer to said boy.
"Yes but only with sleeping and eating arrangements." Chiron said.
Damien shifted from foot to foot and glanced at Matthew. Damien was normally the loud obnoxious one and usually was okay with strangers. However this time Matthew could tell he was uncomfortable with this arrangement. Damien had separation issues, ever since he was young.
"It'll be okay." Matthew said. "I'll still be here with you, alright?"
"O-okay." Damien said.
"Well, it's time for dinner so if we could all go to the dinning hall."
XxXxXxX
"Um you can just sleep wherever." Nico said as they came into the cabin. It was basically all black inside with coffin shaped beds with blood red pillows and sheets. The comforter was dark with small cartoon bones on them. "Um my bed is right there and the one across from it is my sisters…all the other ones are unoccupied."
"Okay…" Damien trailed off making his way over to the farthest bed away from Nico. "Thank you…" Damien trailed off sitting on the bed and looking around. "Is that your sister?" He asked pointing to a picture on the wall.
"Yeah."
Damien blinked and focused his eyes on the photo.
"She was dead before." Damien blurted out. "Eh…I mean never mind. Goodnight." Damien said getting under the blanket, not bothering to even change out of his cloths, not like he had any cloths to change in anyway since he usually just robbed a store.