Couldn't she just get some sleep for once?
Olly woke up suddenly because someone was shaking her. She rolled over and saw Leo, who had his three pound club hammer in one hand. His other was shaking Olly''s shoulder.
"What-"
"Uh, long story short, there's an angry god on the ship. Percy told me to get everyone up. I would take your bow and arrow, if I were you."
In less than a minute, she and Leo were racing down to the deck. Thankfully, Olly had fallen asleep in her clothes. She would look a lot less intimidating in her pajamas.
Olly wondered what god could possibly want to kill them now. It was either a Roman god, which she found unlikely because the gods knew the attack on Camp Jupiter was accidental, or someone that had a grudge against any of them.
A grudge.
Olly faltered slightly as she ran. It couldn't be...no, she refused to believe it. Percy had a made a lot of gods angry, right? It must have been one of his enemies, not hers.
They reached the deck to find that everyone had assembled in a semi-circle around someone talking. Olly and Leo joined them, and when she saw who it was, she backed up a step and bit her lip.
Holy Hera, it was him.
"I know you." Percy said. "You're Phobos, the god of Phobias. Son of Ares."
"Yeah. I remember you, Jackson." Phobos sneered. "But there's someone else who who I've met more recently."
The seven demigods all seemed confused. Olly just took another step back. She was shaking with fear now, memories surfacing with harsh vividness.
"Olly?" Leo asked in a concerned voice.
"I told you I wasn't done with you." Phobos said, swinging his sword idly. His eyes were on her.
"What's he talking about, Olly?" Piper asked, drawing her dagger.
Olly made the mistake of looking into Phobos's eyes. Immediately she felt pure terror run through her. Walls were closing in on her, the other demigods were laughing at her, talking about her behind her back, she was standing up on a small pillar at a dizzying height...Almost any phobia you could imagine was what she was experiencing.
"Olly, snap out of it!"
She broke out of her trance when Leo yelled at her desperately. Now they were fighting against Phobos and seemed to be winning. The rest of the battle was a blur. Olly was pretty sure she didn't do anything except stand there, which she felt pretty guilty about.
Eventually, Phobos disappeared in a shower of yellow dust. It was eerily quiet after that and Olly was aware of everyone watching her.
"Um...I had a bad experience with Phobos once...Made him mad once..." she mumbled, fiddling with her dagger.
Understanding dawned on Annabeth's face. Of course, she would get it. No one else would, though. "Guys, I don't think he'll be back. Why don't we just go get cleaned up?" The tone in her voice suggested that if anyone disagreed, things would get interesting. Everyone nodded in agreement and started to drift off to wherever they needed to go.
Olly reached her room as fast as possible. So he hadn't been bluffing. It had been about seven months. How could she have let him slip her mind?
Olly jumped nervously when Leo poked his head in. "Uh, mind if I come in?"
Olly shook her head and Leo sat down on her bed next to her. "What was that all about?" he asked.
She didn't say anything for a moment. She didn't know who she could trust any more. But she was pretty sure Leo wouldn't say anything to anyone else.
"Before I was born." she said hesitantly. "Phobos liked my mom. He wanted to, uh, have a kid with her, but she didn't like him back. He was mad, so he warned her that he'd get revenge. Well, a few years later my mom gave birth to me, and Phobos figured out that Apollo was the father. I was actually claimed when I was thirteen, but my mom never took me to Camp Half-Blood. She was afraid Phobos would attack me. Apollo has to claim his at age thirteen at the latet, so I was just sitting in my room when it happened. It really freaked me out and I never told anyone. But eventually she did take me there and dropped me off at the bottom of Half-Blood Hill. She thought I could make it to the border. She drove away and I was halfway there when..." Olly's voice cracked. "Phobos appeared and he attacked my thoughts. I've always been a nervous person, but he sent it to the extreme...I'm afraid of a lot of things now. I got knocked unconscious. I guess Annabeth found me and took me to the infirmary. I was there for about a week."
Leo blinked. "I remember Jason and Piper telling me about a camper who Annabeth found near the border. He said she was really shaken up."
Olly nodded. "That would be me..." She glanced over at Leo and noticed a gash on his arm. Had it been there the entire time?
"Is that from the battle?" she asked. Leo looked at it and winced. "Yeah."
"You should've taken care of that." she said.
Leo shrugged. "You're more important."
That comment warmed Olly. "Still...It looks pretty bad. I can fix it if you want."
"How're you gonna do that?"
"Apollo's children have healing powers." she said. "We have to sing a hymn to our father." she explained.
"Alright. I've never heard you sing before." Leo said, holding out his arm.
"I never sing in front of people." Olly said.
"Well, you do now." Leo said promplty. Olly rolled her eyes and touched the wound. Leo flinched but didn't move otherwise. Olly quietly sang in Ancient Greek, watching as the gash healed over into a scar. She pulled away when it was done, a little embarrassed.
"Wow." Leo said. "You have an awesome voice."
Olly shook her head. "Uh, nah. It's not that great."
"Are you kidding me?"
Olly ignored this. A bell rang, signaling that it was lunch time. She didn't even eat breakfast yet.
"C'mon." Leo said with a grin. "Let's go get something to eat.
