Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know that I'll probably only be able to post a new chapter once or twice a week starting on Monday, because of school starting and everything, so keep a look out. I'll try to post every Saturday and Sunday, and possibly Fridays. I hope you understand, because I'm taking a lot of difficult classes.

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The Stolls Get Their Butts Kicked

Katie POV:

The rest of the morning was pretty normal. Well, as normal as it can get with sword fighting, and a rock climbing wall with lava. Really, the only normal thing was canoeing. After the whole, "I'm going to brutally maim you" thing, everyone automatically assumed that Travis and I were enemies. I didn't bother to correct them or anything. I didn't really care that much. By lunch time, I was pretty comfortable with my step-siblings, especially Miranda. She was like the big sister I never had. I mean I do have a little sister, and I love her, but I've always wanted an older sister.

"Hey Katie, after lunch we have some free time, OK?" Miranda said as we sat down.

"Cool," I said, then as an afterthought, "Hey Miranda, what do you know about Clarisse?"

"Well," Miranda said looking scared, "She's the worst child of Ares. I mean they're all bad, but Clarisse is the meanest. That's why she's head counselor. I heard she once liked this boy at camp, but she's not very good with feelings, so she never told him. Then he got a girlfriend, and she just got meaner."

"Do you know who this boy is?" I asked, interested.

"No, but I heard that he's a son of Hermes," she replied quietly.

"I also heard that her mom died in war when she was little," Ryan, who was 12 said.

"I heard that that was the only time in her life that she cried," another girl said. I think her name is Sophie or Sydney or something.

"I heard that she didn't cry even then," Jacob said.

Everyone started talking about Clarisse rumors. They finally stopped when Clarisse herself started walking past our table.

"Hey," Miranda said to me after Clarisse was gone, "Why do you want to know anyway?"

"It's just that one of my friends got on her bad side this morning."

"He's a goner," Ryan said overhearing us, "Did you know that she has an electric spear that she got from her dad?" he asked me.

We kept talking until lunch was over. Since we now had free time, I went to find Connor. I found the Hermes cabin at the sword fighting arena. Right now, Connor was getting his butt kicked by Luke, so I decided to talk to Travis while I waited. He was at the back of the group.

"Hey Travis," I said. He jumped, looked back, saw me, and smiled.

"Hey, Kitty," he responded.

"Don't call me Kitty!" I whisper yelled.

"Fine," he said mischievously, "To make you happy, I will never call you Kitty again."

"Thank-you Travis," I responded, relieved.

"No problem Kit-Kat," He replied with a smirk. I groaned.

"You're impossible," I muttered.

"Thank-you," he replied with a smirk, "What are you doing here anyways? Shouldn't you be with the Demeter cabin?" he asked.

"I have free time, so I wanted to come tell Connor something, but it looks like he's a little busy." I said with a grin. We both looked up and saw that Luke was still crushing Connor. Literally. He was sitting on top of him. We both laughed.

"Why did you want to talk to Connor?" Travis asked. Was that jealousy I heard in his voice. No, it couldn't be.

"I found out some information about Clarisse that I wanted to tell him," I said.

"Looks like you'll have your chance," Travis said . I looked up and saw that he was right. Connor was climbing down to join the rest of the group.

"So, everyone, now that we learned that move, I will demonstrate another one, "Luke said, "You," he continued pointing at Travis, "Come on up."

Once Travis got up with Luke, he started talking about some disarming method, and showed it slowly with Travis. While Travis was getting embarrassed, I told Connor everything I learned about Clarisse. The more I talked, the more worried, he looked. Travis was getting beaten even worse than Connor did. Almost immediately, he was on his back while Luke held his sword to his throat.

"OK, everyone," Luke said, letting Travis up, so that he could join the rest of the group, "That's all the time we have left today. Next we have canoeing. Everyone groaned. I said a quick good-bye to Travis and Connor, before leaving to join the Demeter cabin for arts and crafts. This has been an interesting day.

Please, please, PLEASE review. Nobody's reviewed yet, so I don't know if you guys like my story. I don't care if I updated a chapter 5 years ago(which I didn't so far) please review if you like it. Or even if you don't. I love constructive criticism, so that I can improve on future chapters and stories. Just please, no bad words or hate on me if you don't like Tratie or something. Thanks.