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Nothing to Fear

Chapter 9- Action and Reaction

Olivia didn't stop walking from the beach, but she did look over her shoulder angrily.

Who does he think he is? Geez, with an attitude like that you'd think the guy was the savior of the planet or something. Going around like he owns the whole camp, She thought angrily to herself.

Unfortunately, she was too busy glaring over her shoulder that she didn't see where she was going.

Abruptly, another person managed to slam into her, knocking them both into the ground. Olivia hit the dirt with a thump, before letting out a painful moan.

"Why don't you watch where you're going!" a familiar voice berated.

Olivia looked up at the voice, about ready to apologize, until she saw who it was. "Clarisse?"

The daughter of Ares glared at her, gripping a spear in her hand. "Be happy I'm in a good mood today."

"Uh… thank you?" Olivia replied as she climbed onto her feet. Clarisse's glare stayed on her until they were both up.

After a moment, her glare faded with only the stable expression of a leader standing in its place. "Look, I heard that your brother scared off some demigods."

Olivia rolled her eyes. "Don't tell me you think he's some kind of freak too. Clarisse, I don't need-"

"Actually," She stopped. "I was going to ask you about what happened right before he turned."

Olivia looked at her oddly. "What do you mean?"

"Rick told me about how fast you moved to guard your brother from those muscle heads," Clarisse explained. "Said he'd never seen anyone maneuver that quickly before."

Olivia's confused expression didn't fall. "Still not seeing where you're going with this,"

"I could use speed like that," Clarisse decided, arms folded across her chest.

Interest sparked in her azure eyes. "My speed? For what, exactly?"

"Capture the Flag, of course," She scoffed, with a roll of her eyes. "I figure you're already staying in my cabin, you might as well fight beside me,"

"Um… I-" Olivia muttered, but the daughter of Ares had already turned and started to walk away.

"I'd train pretty hard in the next few days if I were you," Clarisse called over her shoulder. "Demigods can be pretty ruthless around here."

Olivia just watched her go with a stunned look on her face. She didn't even get a chance to ask what Capture the Flag games usually entailed in this camp. But if Clarisse was asking for her help, she wasn't so sure she wanted to know.


Olivia walked towards the archery set up as the sun set behind her. She knew dinner would be starting soon, but she wanted to see if she could shoot an arrow without hurting someone first.

Then she saw a familiar face concentrating on filing her nails.

Speak of the devil, Olivia thought to herself as she passed her.

Unfortunately, when she felt someone pass her, the Aphrodite girl looked up to see the person that had earlier tried to run an arrow through her foot.

"Hey, Deimos kid!" She yelled after Olivia. "The one that tried to kill me,"

Olivia rolled her eyes and turned around to look at the blonde. "I don't even know you. Why would I want to kill someone I don't even know?"

The girl shrugged her shoulders. "Simple jealousy."

"Jealousy?" Olivia asked incredulously. "Why in world would I be jealous of you?!"

"Because of my obviously superior charm," She answered smugly. "I am a daughter of Aphrodite after all,"

"Hmm… well, that explains your obvious vanity," Olivia countered with a smirk. "But I'm just not seeing the charm."

"Watch it, Demon spawn!" She retorted angrily.

Olivia bit the inside of her cheek to keep from attacking the girl. "Look, Princess, I'm no demon spawn."

She got a malicious look in her eyes, before letting out a wide smirk. "Oh, that's right! You're mutant half-brother is," She stated shamelessly.

Olivia nearly pulled out her knife, ready to slash away at the mouth that had spit such prejudice at her and her brother. "I'd watch that tongue of yours. Might end up causing me to scar up that pretty face you're so proud of."

"Trust me, you don't want to start something with me, Scare fest," The daughter of Aphrodite proclaimed, crossing her arms in front of her.

"Oh, trust me, I really do," Olivia promised, not letting her guard down. Her hand reached towards her dagger.

Suddenly, a voice cut through the intensity.

"Olivia?"

Both demigod girls looked over to see a certain son of Hades, walking over confused.

"Nico?" Olivia replied as she eased out of her attack stance.

"Hey, Olivia," Nico greeted, and then he saw who she was talking to and visibly brightened at the sight of the daughter of Aphrodite. "Darlene! Hey!"

When Olivia heard his excited greeting to her opponent, she couldn't help but glare away from the two.

What he's so flippin' excited about? She thought angrily to herself.

Darlene, barely paying attention to Nico, noticed Olivia's side glare when she heard the boy's happy hello. And slowly, a devilish idea bloomed in her head.

She looked over to Nico with a plastic smile. "Hey, Nico, it's nice seeing you again,"

Nico's smile widened at her words which only induced Olivia to roll her eyes. Darlene tried to hide her smirk and the smugness burning from it.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH !

All three reacted to the siren signaling that dinner was about to start.

"Guess I'm out of training time," Olivia muttered to herself as she looked in the direction of the mess hall.

"Well, you should start heading over," Nico suggested to her. "The Ares cabin's table fills up fast,"

"Uh… yeah," Olivia murmured in agreement.

As she looked back at the two, the last thing she wanted to do was leave Nico alone with such a treacherous snake. But even if she didn't want to, she turned and began walking towards the mess hall by herself, trying desperately to shut out the voices telling her how wrong it felt.

Nico looked back to Darlene, his bashfulness beaming. "Um… so are you heading to the mess hall? If so, then maybe we could just walk there tog-"

"I actually have to get something out of my cabin," Darlene turned down politely. "But I'll see you later."

And with that she walked away from the slightly disheartened boy staring after her. After a moment of being a bit discouraged, Nico sighed in a defeat and turned to catch up with Olivia.

"Olivia, wait up!" he yelled.

When the Daughter of Deimos looked back to see him running after her, she stopped and waited for him to catch up, a welcoming smile on her face.


When the two walked into the mess hall, the Ares cabin was filling up with demigods. Olivia hoped Nico had a good meal before turning to walk to her cabin's table. The moment she saw Zach already sitting down, eyes downcast, she hurried over to sit next to him and across from Rick.

"Zach?" she asked as she sat down and placed an arm around his shoulder.

He just looked down.

"He had a bad day," Rick commented, speaking for Zach's silence.

Olivia looked across the table at Rick. "What happened?"

"Oli… am I monster?" Zach asked, still looking down at his lap.

Olivia never knew a question could break her heart that much. She put her hand on the side of her little brother's face and guided it towards her so that his Paris green eyes were in contact with her Sapphire ones.

"Listen to me, Zachary." She ordered. "I don't care what anyone tells you; you are not a monster."

Zach's eyes became downcast yet again. "You wouldn't say that if you saw the way they looked at me,"

Olivia allowed her hand to fall from his face, her eyes softened on his expression. She looked over to Rick to see his eyes were just as somber towards the kid as hers. She looked back to the eight-year-old, her arm still resting across his shoulder. "Hey, Zachy, you go get something to eat, alright? We'll follow after pretty soon."

The boy sighed. "Okay…"

And he got up and began to walk to the food line, trying to ignore the looks he got as he did so.

Olivia looked from him to Rick. "So… what really happened?"

"News spreads fast," He stated as he glanced at oblivious half-bloods. "I was going to show the kid the armory, and some Athena girls started whispering about how he wouldn't need weapons considering what he was. Then when I took him to see the strawberry fields, the Demeter kids glared at him if he even got close to the plants. At the canoe lake, satyrs avoided even coming near him. He's been getting a rough time."

Olivia couldn't believe how scared and ignorant people could be. Zach was just as helpless as they thought they were whenever he was around. Then a thought returned to her mind.

"Yeah, and what about you?" Olivia confronted, suspicions growing. "If I'm not mistaken, you called him a monster too when you first saw."

Rick let out a guilty sigh. "Yeah… I'm sorry for that. I was just spooked, and… the kid scared the living crap out of me."

Olivia looked over his shoulder at the little boy getting his food. "He doesn't want to. His life would be so much easier without that stupid curse on him."

"Curse?" Rick asked.

Olivia eyes fell back on him. "I assume Phobos cursed him because he wanted him to be safe. So he gave the kid his own security system."

Rick looked back at the boy reaching for a hamburger to put on his plate. "One hell of a system,"

"Yeah, it's gonna be a mess learning how to control it," Olivia replied. "I wonder how he's gonna take to his training."

"Training?" Rick questioned, looking back to the girl, confused yet again.

"Yeah, Chiron's helping me train him starting tomorrow," Olivia informed with a small smile. "But on a different note, what are Capture The Flag games like here?"

The question only made Rick smirk. "Come on, we should get something to eat,"

"Wait! Rick! That's not an answer!"


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Yours Truly,

The Victorian