Will almost got hit by a flying piece of pizza. Hazel chuckled.
"Yep. Sorry about that. Our food is served by wind spirits, and they don't really have a sense of direction." she said.
The loud echoes of conversation came to a halt as we entered. The large cafeteria was filled with campers in purple shirts. They all turned to look at us.
Octavian scoffed. "Nice crowd," he mumbled.
Hazel cleared her throat. Her voice echoed in the quiet room. "Ah, yeah. Hey, guys. So these are campers from Camp Half-Blood. They're here...um, they're here because-"
"Greek campers, huh?" Hazel was cut off by a voice from the back of the room. A girl, around of the age of twenty, stood up. Her long dark hair was braided, and she wore a white toga. She looked extremely threatening.
"Yes, uh, Greeks." Hazel looked down awkwardly.
"Ah," the girl walked towards us. "How nice. Hello, I'm Reyna."
So this was Reyna. We all shifted awkwardly, avoiding her eyes.
Solace cleared his throat and stuck out his hand. "Solace. Will Solace. Nice to meet you."
Reyna just looked at his out-stretched hand. She walked over to Hazel.
"Yes, Hazel. Just how, don't mind me asking this, how did they get in here?" she spoke in such a sweet, yet absolutely terrifying voice. Hazel shrunk under her glare.
Hazel stammered, "Um, well, um…"
Suddenly, the doors behind us banged open. A young chinese man came strutting in, and walked up to Reyna.
"Frank…" Hazel whimpered.
"Reyna," the man, Frank, said, "does it honestly matter how they got in?"
Reyna narrowed her eyes. "Frank. Don't I outrank you?"
Frank stood his ground. "Well, we are both praetors. So, I get a say. Roman law." Frank shrugged his shoulders. "So, I suggest you let this one go."
Reyna and Frank glared at each other. I was afraid they would being seriously fighting. Instead, Reyna blinked.
"Fine. Ok. But just this time, Zhang." she walked away.
We watched as she sauntered off back into the crowd, open-mouthed.
"Well," Elliot said, "She's nice."
Hazel turned around to look at us. "She's not normally like that. She's usually fair and understanding…" Hazel's voice drifted off.
"What she means to say," Frank started. "Is that something is up with Reyna. She cut off all of our connections to the outside world. We're not sure what is up with her."
Solace said, "Do you think it's her-"
"If you say "time of the month", so help me I will kill you." Ewen cut him off.
Solace shrugged. "It's always a possibility."
Hazel glared at him. "Actually, we're pretty sure it's not."
"Well then I suggest that you the boy what you think it is before I show his spine down his esophagus." Ewen said menacingly.
Garrett almost choked on his drink in laughter.
Hazel swallowed. "We're thinking that she may be possessed…"
"Uh, a little too "Supernatural", love." Ewen sighed. "You believe that a Goddess is using her body, correct? It would make sense if Bellona was using her though. High-ranking Roman praetor, her daughter making her easier to manipulate, the facts do seem to add up. Frank?"
Frank was sitting there slack jawed staring at Ewen in disbelief.
"Darling, if you don't close your mouth soon a fly will go in." Ewen said with a smirk.
I was about to strangle her. And by the look of Frank's face, he was too.
Frank stood up. "Uh, that would make sense, but it's a little out there."
"Considering that the Greek and Roman Gods are real, I don't really believe that it's that far fetched dear."
Nico was actually having to contain a smile at his sister's remarks, whereas Frank was trying to contain his rage.
"The Hades child does have a point." Lauren spoke up.
"You didn't tell me you had a sister Hazel." Frank said looking at said girl.
"Listen here Chinese baby man, we do not speak of our counterpart's siblings. Also, we especially do not speak of sisters. *looks away sadly* There used to be two of us."
"Ewen that's enough." Hazel said looking at Nico.
"It's a reality Hazel. You of all people should know that. Besides, brother still dreams of his sea prince."
Nico was actually blushing. "We don't talk about it sis. And I've given up on him-"
"Halt die klappe, Nico. Now back to the subject at hand. We need to figure out why Bellona is using Reyna. She has to be planning something." Ewen said.
I leaned against the wall with a huff. These people were really at it. The big room was nearly empty, except for a boy holding a goblet filled to the rim with red Kool-Aid. He blinked at me, then stood up and left.
The whole "possessed by a goddess" idea sounded pretty improbable to me. Ewen and Frank continued to argue, and it seemed like we were getting no where. Something was up with this camp.
It got eerily quiet. All the noise from outside had silenced. The demigods slowly stopped talking, and looked around.
Will looked at me. "Did it just get quiet?"
Hazel glanced around. "You can usually hear all the campers talking…"
Hazel was cut off by a distant scream. Everyone defensively grabbed their weapons that Solace had given us earlier.
Suddenly, a huge chunk from the ceiling was ripped off. The rain poured down into the room, drenching us. We then could hear the chinks of armor and the screams of fallen demigods. A gianormous cyclops loomed over us, holding the chunk of ceiling in his hand.
Frank loaded an arrow and shot it directly into the cyclops' eye. It howled in pain, and fell over. We rushed out of the building, entering the battleground.
