Sigh, so this is my second story but it was a request from mah friend. So, yeah, please read and review (if you want).
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians...which is sad.
Enjoy!
Chapter 1: A Day of Malevolence
Laveila sat down on the grass, looking weary after her unarmed combat session with Sherman, a son of Ares. She had a hard time taking him down because he was much stronger and more brutal. As always. But her I'm-better-than-you-because-Zeus-is-my-dad pride wouldn't let her be beaten down easily. People expected so much from her, just like her half-sister, Thalia. Too bad though, she became a huntress of Artemis and Laveila compared herself to 'forever alone guy' in her cabin. Everyone treated her as another leader even though Percy did more things than her. A stereotypical thing when someone's a child of Zeus, the king of the gods.
She wiped her sweat that was trickling on her left eyebrow. She grudgingly waited for her bestfriend Xandri, short for Alexandria, to finish her archery class. However, being a demigod and having a temperamental father, patiently waiting was never her forte. So, she decided to stand up and walked around the camp. She arrived in the sword fighting arena and saw that the sword-fighting class was still there, training. Her eyes landed on a certain son of Hermes and her stomach reacted violently. He was teaching a demigod, another son of Hermes, on how to handle a sword properly to avoid fatal accidents. Like the time where a daughter of Demeter tried to fight with a sword, she looked silly wielding the sword. It would've been funny if she hadn't accidentally stabbed her face. But she was lucky that Will was a good healer.
She slid her hand on her dark hair and watched the fight. Luke was going easy on the kid, who was having a hard time defending himself. While Luke kept on encouraging him to fight and pretend that he was an enemy. He even did the evil face. But sadly, the kid dropped his sword and chickened out. He rolled his eyes and sighed. He called for another kid, which she knew as a daughter of Athena. Since, she had the signature blonde and gray look and also the calculating eyes that Laveila always saw on Annabeth. Luke gave her a friendly smile and a pang of jealousy hit Laveila, even though he wasn't her boyfriend.
Luke talked to her for a while which just made the girl nod, probably giving her instructions. She observed his actions. The way he talked to her, which made her jealousy grow. The way his body glinted against the sunlight. The way how he carried himself, he seemed light and full of happiness. She wouldn't admit it out loud but she was one of his fangirls. Not the shallow type, of course. The one who'd go for his looks. They were friends and she knew his painful past. She felt hurt and wanted to comfort him in different ways without exposing her feelings but…
"Vei-vei and Wuke, sittin' on a twee, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! EACH OTHER!" Alexandria surprised her.
The aforementioned girl pivoted her head and glared at none other than her bestfriend, Xandri, who was still doing the 'ta-da' pose. The daughter of Apollo chuckled and waggled her eyebrows. A kid of Apollo indeed.
"So" she started, "How long have my friend been like this? Hm?"
"What do you mean?" Laveila asked in her I'm-innocent voice.
"Oh stop that pretension, my friend, I know you like Luke!" she raised her voice and Laveila controlled herself from strangling her friend.
"Oh, just say it to the world will you?" she growled at Xandri, but immediately regretted at her statement when the other girl considered this.
"Okay" she nodded innocently and then turned her back to Laveila, "HEY EVERYBODY! LA-!" she was unable to finish when Laveila took an immediate action of shutting her friend up by covering her mouth with her hand.
"Mmmm? Mmmmmmmmm!" Alexandria tried to speak but Laveila was too strong for her.
"I was being sarcastic dimwit!" she whispered and dragged her away from the amphitheatre, afraid that Luke might have heard Xandri.
She let go of her hand at Xandri and glared at the girl, "Girlfriend, keep on denying, you're just lying, stop trying, you're not convincing"
"Stop with the rhymes Xandri, seriously, it's annoying" she rolled her eyes.
"Psshhh, I'm just being observant, that's all" she shrugged and then looked behind Laveila. A wide grin broke into her lips and waved like a child," HIIIII LUUUKKEE~!"
The other girl flinched and then her eyes popped out of its sockets. Her heart was beating fast and she willed to calm herself down but instead, it just made it a whole lot worse. She was sweating like Hades and couldn't stop herself anymore. She mentally cursed but it didn't help her at all. Alexandria smirked at her friend and waited for things to unfold in front of her.
It's just Luke, what else could go wrong? She thought to herself.
A lot, another tiny voice answered her.
"Hey girls" Luke greeted in a casual manner.
Xandri still grinned and also Laveila but her forced smile looked like she was constipated. Casual, a word that was missing in Laveila's vocabulary. She couldn't compose herself and it's a shocking news for her. She was a daughter of Zeus for crying out loud. The king of the gods. She was supposed to have a regal and scary aura not the one with a diarrhea! But nooo, Aphrodite just have to play with her love life.
"Heya Luke!" Xandri greeted back and then she innocently looked at Laveila who was uncomfortably shifting her weight.
"Erm…Laveila?" Luke called but heard no response.
Laveila was still having her battle with her thoughts. She was confused. One part of her wanted to just casually greet the guy and get over with it but since Aphrodite had nothing better to do, her other part wanted to show Luke the feelings that she harboured for him. But she didn't know what part won because she was blushing so much she might've passed as a tomato and her thoughts were clouded. All thanks to Luke who touched her forehead.
It's just a forehead! Jeez! A part of her shouted.
No, it's not! It's Luke that's touching our forehead, he's not a stranger! Another one shouted.
"Earth to Tricia! Anybody there?" Alexandria knocked on her head, thus ruining the moment.
Laveila shook her head to stop the confusion and faced Xandri and asked, the same time as Luke, "Tricia?"
Xandri grinned like an idiot, glad that she had her dumbfounded friend back, "Yes…short for Electricia"
Laveila rolled her eyes, "Did your dad showed his true from to you and fried your brain?"
She shrugged nonchalantly, "I guess so"
"Well" Luke butted in, "As much as I want to stay, I have to go for now, bye girls! Still got training to do"
He waved at them and went on his way, much to the disappointment of Laveila but didn't show it, of course. She looked at Xandri who eyed her.
"Awww…you lost your chance to properly talk to Luke"
"Did not!"
"Did to!"
"Did NOT!"
"Oh yeah? Then why couldn't you speak in front him?"
"Well…I was having, uh, a hard time…yeah…because you know, I was thinking-"
"-about him all the time" Xandri mimicked.
"Was not!"
"Chea right, like I'm supposed to believe that!"
Laveila crossed her arms and looked away. Xandri was her bestfriend and as much as she wanted some things as secret, she couldn't hide it from her, the girl was just too damn good. The wind passed by and her long black hair waved like a banner. Xandri was still there, eyeing her. She didn't know where to start, her mouth kept on opening and closing but no words could back her up. She faced the girl and inwardly groaned, she was still looking at her.
"I suppose-"
"I knew it! YOU, MY FRIEND, ARE IN LOVE WITH LUKE CASTELLAN! OOOH YEAH! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!" she jumped for joy and attracted the attention of some campers who were still on their training sessions. Some snickered at her.
"YOU…WILL…DIE…RIGHT…NOW" Laveila clenched her fists and was ready to pounce at her.
Xandri's grin faltered and her legs were ready to sprint any second. Laveila glared daggers at her and was going to break her bones when someone decided to butt in and save her ass.
"Xandri! C'mere!" Will called and waved at her to attract her attention.
Xandri looked behind Laveila and she mentally sighed in relief, "Well, as much as I want to stay and play with you, my brother's calling me. See ya!"
She dashed off and sprinted as fast as she could. Laveila looked back and promised to herself that the girl was going to get it, big time.
Friday night came fast and the campers were eager. The tables were cleared and the people were already on their armors and weapons, poised for war. Chatting voices filled the pavilion hall. As always, the Athena cabin was strategic in picking out their teammates.
Apollo, one of the largest cabin with athletic and some overconfident kids. They were good in archery. Wait, scratch that, they were champions in it, well, except when the Hunters of Artemis were present but they weren't there. The Hephaestus cabin, their partner in crime, whatever these nerds ( well, pretty cool nerds) could think, they were the ones who would put it into action. The Poseidon cabin, Percy promised to be with Annabeth's side this time and the forest had a creek , so, that was pretty much the advantage well, maybe his awesome sword fighting skills but the other side had Luke. The last was Demeter, the venue of Capture-the-flag was in the forest so they had an advantage.
Laveila wanted to join the red team but Xandri ruined it for her. When Luke asked her if she wanted to join his team, she was about to decline but she was hyperventilating at the same time. That was when Xandri "accidentally" passed by and asked Luke if what was wrong with her. Luke answered her by saying that he just asked her if she would like to join the blue team. An impish grin painted across her face and looked at her troubled friend.
"Well, maybe she's honoured to have you as her teammate that's why she's like that but I think that's a BIG YES!" she answered, her eyes full of mirth.
And that was how she ended up in the blue team, all thanks to Xandri. The campers were getting jittery when Annabeth and Luke came out, banners in hand. When they raised it, the crowd went wild. They all shouted and the loudest was the Ares cabin. They were cheering and cheering at the same time. The campers flooded out the dining pavilion, full of excitement. They all went to the forest and got into positions. They were waiting for Chiron's signal to start. While waiting, Luke went towards Laveila and put his hand on her shoulder, her face was pink but luckily it was too dark to notice it.
"I know it's hard to beat the Athena cabin, with Ares cabin as our teammate, I fear for our team. You're my only hope Laveila, I trust in you" he whispered and she tried to remain serious and composed, which worked this time.
They were still waiting for Chiron to start the Capture-the-flag when she heard someone chuckle. She looked at her left and a gleaming golden bow appeared.
"Aren't you supposed to be at the other side?" Laveila asked, giving her a quizzical look.
Xandri only snorted, "Right and miss that moment with you and Luke, I don't think so. I knew that something like that would happen. I was right all along!"
"Shut your trap Alexandria, this is not the time to fool around. Aren't you worried that Annabeth or the others would notice your disappearance?"
"I'm pretty good with ditching people, especially Will, he may be my big brother but he can't tie me like a dog!"
"How about your other siblings?"
"I'am as invisible as Annabeth's invisibilty cap!" she beamed at me.
"Whatever. Look, if you want to make fun of me, now is not the time, go!" she lightly shoved her to the other direction.
However, Xandri ran off to Luke's place and Laveila cursed in Ancient Greek. Whatever this girl's planning, it cannot be good. She ran after her and on bad timing that's when Chiron appeared among the crowd and banged his hoof on a log, which must have hurt.
"Heroes!" he bellowed, "Capture-the-flag shall start in-"
She saw Luke leaning on Xandri, listening something to whatever she was saying.
"No! This cannot be good at all!" she thought aloud in her head.
"…1…Begin!"
Every camper charged into different directions and Laveila was crushed but she still saw the blond hair of Luke and Xandri's. Luke looked (very tongue twisting) confused and gave her a weird look. Laveila glared at her bestfriend and bellowed, which made every camper stop, wince and jump a little.
"YOU BETTER RUN NOW ALEXANDRIA MIKAELA HASSEN BECAUSE YOU ARE SOOO DEAD! LIKE A SWISS CHEESE!"
Xandri didn't know whether to run, whimper or cower in fear. But there was one thing that she knew, she definitely needed a plan to survive Laveila's wrath.
And she picked the choice to run.
"MOMMMMYYY! HEEELLLPPPP MEEEE! AHHHHHH!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.
She ran as fast as she could and made a mistake of looking back hastily. She cursed in Greek and Japanese (she had a Japanese ancestry) when she saw that Laveila was gaining on her. The other campers were too stunned to even process of what was going on. Though it looked normal for bloodlust to occur in Capture-the-flag (for fun, according to the Ares cabin), they all knew that Laveila was different. She would not hesitate unless she vents out her anger to someone else or something else. She was that scary. An advantage to the monsters and a major disadvantage to her peers, mainly her bestfriend.
Chiron was the first one to snap out from the trance, "Well, I believe that we should start this early so that we could save Alexandria from being mutilated to death, now shall we?"
Everyone nodded and the excitement that vanished earlier came back and all the campers were giddier than ever. They all went to their designated positions hurriedly to start. Percy guarded the red team's flag while Castor guarded the other. Annabeth looked for an opening so that the Apollo kids could infiltrate without having much trouble. The Ares cabin charged and looked for the flag and plowed to the other side. Chiron just watched the scene and got himself ready in case they get injured but he was greatly concerned about the daughter of Apollo. Where were they anyway?
Meanwhile, deep in the woods, Xandri was on a tree, hugging it for dear life. She managed to get away from the raging daughter of Zeus, all thanks to her talent of hiding in unexpected places. But she was happy that she just landed on the top of the tree, by climbing like a crazed monkey. Her other hiding places were much worse than a dumpster. She shuddered when she remembered it.
She frantically searched for Laveila but at the same time, she formed a plan in case she spotted her flaming friend. She sucked her breath when she saw Laveila below her tree, gripping her double, gigantic swords tightly. She was shivering in fright and tried her best not to go down and run away again. She saw Laveila stiffen and turned her head sideways. Xandri's heart was racing, she knew how Laveila gets angry and it was not something that was worth paying for. She eyed her bestfriend and semi-sighed in relief when Laveila went straight forward.
But what she heard confused the other girl, " Found it" seemed vague but something vague clicked inside the gears of her mind.
She didn't know it at first until she heard a scream. Laveila's battle cry (she had heard of it a lot of times and the reason was always her). She craned her neck to see Laveila fighting Percy. Her eyes widened when she saw the rage that was showing up in her eyes. Oh, how much Percy was in trouble. Even though he was a good fighter, a very angry person was ten times better as a fighter than him. She saw how their swords crossed. Percy was struggling. Laveila was mad. Very mad because of what she did earlier. Xandri was so much in trouble if Annabeth saw Percy as a dying young guy. But she knew that maybe Percy could snap her out of this.
Percy rolled out of the way and once again, their weapons crossed. Percy was losing his energy quickly because of the girl's force and there was no water to support him. He dodged again and was about to disarm her when she must have knew his style and disarmed him instead. The sword skittered in his right side. Uh-oh, not good. She was breathing hard and glared at Percy but her features softened a little and her eyebrows knitted. She then realized that all her anger became her energy and now she vented it out on Percy…she looked at him, his butt on the floor panting, sweating and both hands balanced behind his back. He smiled at him a little which confused Laveila but there was only one thought that jumped inside her head. She defeated Percy! Never in life did she realize that it would happen in her lifetime. She was overjoyed! Yes! But she didn't show it, outside she looked cool and calm. Pollux somehow arrived at the scene and Laveila tossed him the flag, he too was shocked but she glared at him as if to say Move it, wineboy! and he ran to their boundary line.
Xandri gaped at the scene. Oh dear, she and Percy were so dead. Annabeth would be so angry that they lost. And she had something to do with Laveila's adrenaline rush. She was too young to die!
She wanted to go down and sprint so she could catch up with Pollux and stop him but Laveila was near in her way. She couldn't face her yet. She saw the small figure of Pollux running towards the boundary line and all she could do was stare and wait for their cheers.
Waiting…waiting…waiting.
An explosion of cheers erupted from Laveila's group, the banner turned purple and that was the only thing she could make out. The twins looked extra joyful at their win and fist-bumped each other. The other campers looked defeated, since they were. Others crowded under her tree and they mumbled to each other at how Athena was beaten easily. But she knew that Annabeth would come and shout at Percy first before her, if she told her the truth that is.
"PERSEUS JACKSON HOW COULD YOU SHAME OUR TEAM, YOU SEAWEED BRAIN!" Annabeth did appear and she was definitely not happy about the outcome of the Capture-the-flag.
"But-but…"he tried to reason but gave up; he knew that he had a very darn smart girlfriend and she would just scream her reasons as to why she had every right to mutilate him to death.
Annabeth looked like she was ready to kill. However, Xandri didn't bother to hear their argument, if Percy even had the throat to answer. She looked away and noticed that Laveila looked calm and collected, a sign that she was okay. For now. She bit her lip and chewed on it. She couldn't just jump down and act like nothing mattered. Everything mattered to Xandri, especially the once raging Laveila, that would kill her if she had the chance. Never did she expect Laveila to be so worked up at her prank. She didn't really mention Laveila's real feelings to Luke, she just said, "Hey. 'Sup?"
Of course, a person would be very puzzled if a person just popped out of nowhere and leaned on him just to whisper those words. But to Laveila, it was bad and unforgivable. She gulped at her odds of managing to get herself alive before summer ends. Which was two months away. Xandri hoped she'd get a quest that would last for two months and a day before the end of summer break.
The girl was too preoccupied thinking of things about how she was going to explain, wait no, survive in explaining to Annabeth that she didn't notice someone land close to her. The figure smirked at the girl's frantic face and quietly crept towards her.
"Why are you panicking Xanie? Capture-the-flag is over"
Xandri flinched then froze. No, this has gotta be an imagination, it's not true at all. Her worrisome face turned into alertness. She knew that only one camper called her into that uber lame name. She slowly turned her head and her face paled, she bit her tongue to stop from gasping. Her suspicions were confirmed and saw him grinning, his face inches from hers. But before she could utter a word, she forgot to balance herself on the tree bark and fell on the tree. She heard something crack and also a scream, which undoubtedly came from her mouth. She felt the searing pain in her right shoulder and saw that every camper were shocked but looked at Travis Stoll.
He nervously looked at them, "Hey, don't look at me. I didn't do it!" but they looked doubtful.
Xandri saw Laveila's calm face looking at her but she looked at the other way as if there was nothing to worry about.
She must be giving me the silent treatment again! Xandri thought.
Though, there was really nothing to worry about as she could heal herself like Will Solace. She reached for her right shoulder and spoke an incantation to heal herself. After a few minutes, the bone was good as new. She stood up and glared at Travis, who was still up in the tree, sniggering. The fall wasn't her idea of fun but it definitely Travis' definition of fun. He knew that she had the ability to heal, that was why he didn't look a little bit worried about her safety. As if she needed his support.
"I was kidding, I didn't mean to laugh!" he shouted after her but she pivoted her head and gave him a sarcastic look, "Okay, maybe I did mean it a little, but hey, we gotta laugh once in a while right?"
She rolled her eyes and went on her way. She was exhausted and she needed a rest. She trudged her way to the cabins but before she could even reach it, she had to dodge her way out to avoid Annabeth and Laveila. When she finally reached her destination, she washed, changed her clothes into pyjamas and crashed on her bunk.
"You look like something's bothering you, what is it?" a voice behind her asked.
She reluctantly got up and looked at her favourite brother, Will. He looked sincerely worried and he sat on the edge of her bed.
His lips rose into a smirk, "Is it because of Travis Stoll?"
Even though she knew how to pull up a blank look, she still couldn't stop the stupid fast heartbeat. She threw him her pillow and crashed on her bunk once again.
"Not talking. Fine" She felt Will stood up and threw her back the pillow, which she caught with ease.
Meanwhile, a calm-but-still-seething-on-the-inside-daughter of Zeus laid on her bunk. She promised that she'll give Xandri a torture, something that she always give to her, which she already started when she ignored her earlier. She will have her revenge, she'll just have to be patient. Thunder boomed inside which didn't help her mood at all. She turned and slowly closed her eyes. She'll have to avoid Luke first. Then, Xandri will be next. She smirked a little before sleeping. Her consciousness faded away.