WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU READING MY STORY!?!?!?!?!
Sorry, I had a spazzy moment there. Anyway...
Thanks for the review, my apparent friend. By the way, I have to say a few thing to you.
First, I don't know anything about any song title, as I'm not in chorus (If I was then half of BCS would be jamming pencils in their ears).
Second, who are you, and how do I know you? Can you leave the answer in a review, cause this is freakin' me out!
First names will do, based on the internet saftey issue.
So.. yeah. I'll see you people at the end of the chapter!
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The sun was high above Cody's head as he walked into the base courtyard. Being virtually the only piece of nature with in the magical walls, it was kept beautiful by the daughters of Demeanor, who hung vines from every wall, and planted exotic flowers in every open piece of soil.
The place always smelled of roses and freshly cut grass, which was a relief to Cody after half a week of rocky mountains and snow-filled deserts. The sun warmed his face as he walked through the dirt path that the garden nymphs had grudgingly left free of vegetation.
It just felt so... perfect. Cody felt a warm smile spread across his face as he passed the rose bed, closing his eyes so he could take in the oder, the warmth, the-
crunch
Cody quickly opened his eyes at the noise, lifting his shoe to reveal a broken flower. "Uh..." He said, as he tried to pick it back up, to bring it back to life. But it was no use. It was dead.
"And what do you think you're doing!?" Came a feminine voice from behind Cody, causing him to turn around and face the person who had yelled at him.
Standing maybe 5 feet away from him was a smallish girl, who was wearing a flannel shirt and overalls that looked like they had seen many years in the garden. Her hair, which was tied in a ponytail, was a light brown color that seemed to shine in the sunlight. She was attractive, Cody figured, but her eyes seemed to draw all of his attention. They were a magnetic shade of deep green, and they glinted with an excitable light.
"Well?" The girl asked, causing Cody to realize that he was staring at her "What are you doing, and why are you-" she cut herself off, gasping as she saw the mangled flower on the ground.
She bent to pick it up, cuddling it like it was an injured child. "You stepped on it." She said, her eyes filling with resentment "I can't believe you!"
"Hey!" Cody said, suddenly feeling the need to defend himself "It's not like I was trying to kill it, OK!"
"I can't believe your disrespect for nature!" She said, standing up "You would just step on an innocent flower like it's no big deal-"
"I just closed my eyes for ten seconds!"
"They shouldn't have been closed at all!"
This girl was really starting to get on his nerves.
"I think you love your roses a little too much, flower girl."
Her eyes glinted dangerously in the sunlight. "And you care way too much for yourself, hot head!"
"Dirt breath!"
"Haiku face!"
"Twig brain!"
"Arrow head!"
"Tree hugger!"
The girl glared at Cody, her eyes threatening him better then any words could. "Call me that one more time. I dare ya."
"Tree... Hugger." Cody said in a slow, mocking voice.
Before Cody knew what hit him, he was on the ground as the girl punched him in a fit of rage. He gagged as her fist collided with his stomach. She was stronger then she looked.
Cody pushed her off him, causing her to stumble back into the flowerbed, five inches from crushing a row of roses.
Her face was still contorted in anger as she ran back at him, kicking him in the ribs. He stumbled back, causing his head to collide with a tree.
Spots danced before his eyes as he staggered away from the tree, and as they disappeared, he took note of the half bloods that had gathered around to watch them fight.
"Not much of a nature person, are ya?" She said smugly, looking at Cody with a smirk.
"I dunno." said Cody, as he took off a foot long tree branch "You tell me!"
The tree branch came spiraling at her head, and she just barely dodged it in time, but she was too late to dodge Cody's knee as it smacked her in the back of the head.
She began to stagger around dizzily, giving Cody just enough time to push the girl who had caused him so much trouble into the Naiad pond.
She landed with a satisfying SPLASH, leaving Cody smirking down at her as she treaded the freezing water, and the crowd's excited cheering filled Cody with a feeling of fulfillment.
Fulfillment that was short-lived.
As quickly as it has started, the clapping stopped, leaving only the terrified silence of knowing that an authority figure was right behind you, and that you were in a whole mess of trouble.
"Mr. Redmin," Said Mr. Zener, chief of the base "Ms. Yonth. Can I have a word with you in my office."
Cody's shoulder's sagged. This wasn't going to end well.
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"... So irresponsible, so reckless," Mr. Zener was saying as he paced across the room "and you call yourselves Members of the Order of the Half-Bloods!"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zener." Cody said for what felt like the millionth time.
"Sorry doesn't cut it, Mr. Redmin!" Mr. Zener said, raising his voice for the first time "Especially for you! You come back to base with news of a slaughtered demon, your old reputation begins to wear off, and just as it seems that the old Cody is gone for good, you try a stunt like this!"
"Serves him right." the girl muttered under her breath.
"And as for you, Ms. Yonth," Mr. Zener said, turning to the girl coldly "I would expect more from you! One of the Order's top fighters... and you blew it all over one little rose!"
"But I... Mr. Zener, I-"
"I don't want to hear it!" The chief said, as he turned to look at the view from his window. Slowly, his shoulders relaxed, and his whole body seemed to become less tense as he breathed a deep sigh.
"You may go now." He said, not taking his eyes off the view "I will announce your punishment at the lunch hour. Until then, you are dismissed."
Cody nodded quickly, hastily making his way to the door.
"Uh... sorry, Mr. Zener." He said, halfway out the door "I'll try harder next time."
There was no answer, his shoulders just sagged more.
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"So?" asked Aaron as Cody walked into the boy's dorm room "How'd it go?"
Cody looked at his friend with sad, anxious eyes. "How do ya think? I pushed a girl into the Naiad pond."
Aaron shrugged, putting down the comic book he was reading as he sat up in his bed. "It's okay, dude, I woulda done the same thing."
"Thanks." said Cody sarcastically, sitting down heavily on his bed "That makes me feel a whole lot better."
Aaron frowned the way he does when he is pondering one of his great questions, like how he could get an Aphrodite girl as his prom date, and how he could get enough money to buy his own moon rocket ("Think of the moon men we'll meet!").
"I guess I can't help ya outta this one." he finally said, sitting back down on his bed "Good luck."
Well, there went Cody's moon shuttle out of probation.
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"What happened, Sophie?" asked Alexa, the Demeanor girl's dorm-mate as she walked in with drenched clothes.
"Stupid Apollo kid." Said the Demeanor girl, or Sophie, as she grabbed a towel out of her dresser and began dabbing her drenched work clothes.
"Pushed you in the pond?" asked Alexa, putting down the latest issue of Half-Blood Fab.
(A/N: Yes, Alexa is an Aphrodite kid.)
"Er..." Sophie said awkwardly as she toweled off her light brown hair "Well, I technically threw the first punch. But he stepped on one of my roses!" she added defensively.
"MmmmHmmm." said Alexa, crossing her arms as she pursed her lips.
Sophie knew that look all too well. "Don't look at me like that!" she said as she threw the towel in the hamper "I did what was right!"
"What you thought was right." Alexa corrected, standing up and looking Sophie square in the eye "You're way too attached to those roses. Or all those plants, for that matter."
"And what's wrong with that?!" Sophie said as she backed into her half of the room, or, in other words, the part that wasn't hot pink and covered in boy band posters.
"Plants can't replace people in your life, Soph." Alexa said as she placed a hand on Sophie's shoulder "It's not healthy."
Sophie sighed, grabbing a pair of jeans and a tie-dye shirt out of her dresser. "I'm sorry I brought it up." She muttered before she slammed the bathroom door behind her.
Alexa stared at the door in pure shock, then her face broke into an amused smirk.
Sophie would always be weird, no matter what she said. And with that thought, Alexa returned to her fashion magazine.
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Well, that just about does it for this chapter. And can I have some more reviews this time? It would help.
M'kay, well, see ya next chapter!