Kleptos: I Fight Devil Spawn- Again
As I walked out of the Athena cabin, I thought about what had happened that morning. I felt a little . . . . anguished. Some frustration and annoyance was mixed in there, too, with a pinch of confusion. Why did Annabeth avoid me? I had never done her wrong, except maybe when I accidently broke a window my first day here. But she was the one who was waving a knife at me! I had had a right to be scared!
My feet carried me towards the bathroom. Once I had my, um, business taken care of, I headed toward the pavilion for breakfast. The smell of barbeque hung in the air. In the distance I could see kids swarming all over the place, fighting for a spot next to their friends. Friends. The word sent a stabbing pain into my heart. I didn't have any friends, unless you counted a centaur older than dinosaurs who liked old-people music and could kill you with a bow and arrow. Lack of friends wasn't really the problem, though. It was the fact that everyone looked at me funny. Not like, Oh, that's the new dude; he looks dorky sort of look. It was more like they were . . . scared of me. Maybe it was because I had fought that guy in the black, the scrawny one with a giant sword. He could have won (not really), but then that Poseidon kid had interrupted our duel by taking both of us down, single-handedly. My thoughts were interrupted when I suddenly smashed into another kid.
"Oh, sorry kid! Here, do you need some h-" I stopped talking. The boy I had bumped into stood up and picked up his sword. A big sword. A big black sword that looked suspiciously like Stygian iron, which I learned comes from the Underworld. The skinny boy brushed his long black hair out of his obsidian-black eyes, and scowled at me.
"You again?" he snarled. "I thought Percy would finish you off! Guess I'll have to do it myself," he said with a sigh, and got into a fighting stance, wielding his sword. I was surprised (and slightly disappointed) he didn't topple head-first into the mud, since he was so small.
I groaned inwardly. "Hello Nico. Welcome back to camp, Devil-spawn."
