Chapter 5

Alice knew what was going through her mind when Nico fell ten ft. into a hole and landed on top of her.

It was somewhere along the lines of, "I'm stuck in a pit with a pretty moron"

She can't, however, tell you what was going through her mind when a snake fell ten ft. into a hole and landed on top of her.

She froze, stopped thinking. She did the one thing demi-gods could never afford to do, absolutely nothing.

Nico had a similar reaction, but not because he was scared, even though he was.

He didn't move because the snake had slitted eyes and should it, gods forbid, become a little TOO agitated it could easily sink it's fangs into Alice

Different snakes had different poisons and Nico wasn't sure if this poison could kill.

Damn it thought the boy.

He slowly moved his hand towards the reptile, doing his best to keep it calm and not explode at the same time.

Nico's nimble fingers wrapped around the snake as one hand closed near the head and the other near the tail. He got to his feet when it slipped.

The damn snake slipped RIGHT OUT OF HIS FINGERS. He didn't have a long time to think about it because now the snake was agitated, very agitated.

In a second it had bitten Alice's lower leg. In a hurry, she tore it off her and threw the animal against a wall.

Her hands began to shake and her eyes to water.

Nico kneeled and examined the bite.

It wasn't clean since she had basically ripped the snake off her leg and it was getting a bit too red a bit too quickly. He picked her up bridal style and quickly shadow traveled to the Big House.

"What happened?" asked Chiron, quickly dropping his hand of cards and standing up from the table.

"She got bitten by a snake; I don't know the name but got a good look at it. Will she be alright?"

"I don't know", said Chiron.

He called two Apollo campers and asked them to take Alice to the infirmary. As Nico began to follow the centaur put a handout.

"Go back to your class. I'll alert her sisters when she feels better" Nico hesitantly walked out of the Big House and headed to the rock-climbing wall.


Meanwhile

Destiny was bad with a bow.

She couldn't hit something two feet in front of her.

Sword were more her style. Of course, she wasn't very glad to find out that archery was her first class that morning.

Destiny and her sisters each had different schedules so she would be alone. The girl barely had enough strength to drag herself out of bed.

After breakfast she reached the class as the teacher began talking.

" Everyone pick up a bow and some arrows, try to hit the bull's eye. Some campers and I will be going around helping".

Destiny had shot an arrow, which had landed in the outer white part when a hand landed on the older girl's shoulder.

She spun around to find herself face to face with a very mad, very purple Connor Stoll.

"What in Zeus's name happened to your hair, did you pick a fight with Mr. D.?" A red blush crept up the boy's neck and towards his face.

"Don't act like you don't know, this is your fault" Destiny's face showed confusion but inside she was grinning like a maniac.

"I'm sorry Stoll I have no idea what you are talking about." Said the girl, feigning innocence.

"Come on admit it. You put dye in my hair to get me back for the spider."

"You know, I'm not the only person in camp who might want to give you a taste of your own medicine. Pranked anybody lately?"

Connor's mind flipped through his latest pranks.

He had spray painted the Apollo cabin's windows black

Switched the hammers and screwdrivers in the Hephaestus cabin into hammer and screwdriver shaped balloons

Switched the books from the Athena cabin to kindergarten pop-up books (most not all, they have a lot of books)

Covered the Iris cabin with Skittles (Taste the Rainbow!)

And hidden the mirrors in the Aphrodite cabin.

Destiny noticed his thoughtful expression and began to laugh.

Connor pinned her with his eyes. "I knew it was you! I'd watch my back Tanner, you've declared war!"

With these last words Connor walked away, leaving Destiny very shocked and just the tiniest bit scared.


Destiny was just about to go to lunch, where she would meet up with her sisters when a girl named Melody from the Apollo cabin walked up to her.

"Hey Destiny, its Destiny right? Either way, Alice got bitten by a snake. She's alright and in the infirmary, I'm supposed to take you there"

Destiny was a shocked and scared for her sister. Within three minutes she and Melody had reached the infirmary.

The daughter of Apollo stayed outside while Destiny entered to find her sisters, one standing up and the other sitting down with a wrapped up foot.

Destiny hugged Alice then pulled back and looked at her straight in the face

"It is exactly like you to get bitten by a snake on the second day isn't it?"

Chrystal laughed behind her hand and Alice gave her older sister a devious smile, "What can I say, got bored."

"Plus", chimed in Chrystal, who had sat down on a chair across from Alice. "She's not the one who decided to start a war. I passed Connor Stoll on the way here, love what you did to his hair"

Destiny began to laugh.

"So, AL, how did you manage to do all this? Don't leave anything out"

"It's a loooooong story", said Alice from her seated position.

Destiny pulled up a chair and sat down, the three girls forming a circle.

"Oh, we've got time" The stayed like that, telling each other stories of their day, for a few hours until it was time for diner.

After that and the sing-along, everyone went to their cabins, took showers, got changed and went to sleep.

"Night"

"Night"

"Night"


Awww. Sisterly love :) On the whole "prank war thing" it's going to get a lot better don't worry. Please R&R