As Pollux pushed me forward to the children of Athena, and all the rest of our team. We started marching into the woods. I turn around. Try to look him in the eye. (He's a good couple inches taller then me. I'm like maybe 5'3ish in height, he's like 6'1).
"I have one thing to ask." I said flatly
"What?" He asks. He wasn't looking at me though.
"Did you see the flowers?" It wasn't until after I thought that it sounds stupid.
"Ah yeah. He looked down on me. Your good at growing, And it was sweet of you, but-."
"I'm sorry if you didn't want me to do that, it's just that." He stopped looking at me again. "Are you listening to me?"
I whipped around to see a girl melt out of a tree. She saw Pollux and blushed, he blushed back and waved. The girl just sat there and watched us walk. She saw me staring at her and she looked away. When we are almost out of site. I waved with a stupid looking grin and gave a thumps up. She just looked confused.
Haha that was the most fun of my night. Pollux has his eye's on a girl who's forms from a tree. What's their name's again? Nymphs! Aw he's so adorable.
"So you were eyeing that nymph back there?"
"Wh... what? No we're just friends!"
"You don't have to explain to me!" I stop marching. The wind picks up. I grab for my sword. Pollux bumps into me. Then all of a sudden, Annabeth the head of the Athena cabin yells. "This is as far as we need to be!"
She gave out orders. She was on the left flank with her siblings. Pollux was on right with some other camper's. And then she turns to me.
"Your on flag watch." She gave me a warm smile. When Pollux cut in.
"I want to be close to her if she's in trouble, I want her with me on the right flank!"
"Pollux she would just get hurt more on the right flank." Annabeth said flatly.
"Then take me off the right flank leave me here!" He stomped his foot.
"Pollux! I can stay here and not get hurt. Besides I don't think with this plan to win, they could even get close to the flag." I grabbed his arm. He looks at Annabeth then to me.
"Fine but you promise you won't fight!" He looked me in the eyes. I give Annabeth a wink. She takes here team and marches off. Then Pollux leaves. I'm left there standing alone. It was a long time before I heard the clashing of metal on metal, far off in the distance. I hear a rustling sound behind me. I turn around, Raise my sword. And I scared a bunny half to death when I slammed down my sword next to it.
"You might have just given it a heart attack!" It was a boy much older then me. He wasn't on my team though. "Who are you!" I say loudly.
How could he get past the others? Then something else grabbed my shoulder. I tried to get away. But whatever had my shoulder has a good grip.
"I'm Travis and this Conner." He said simply.
Good now I know that I can beat the living crap out of who's grabbing me.
"We're the sons of Hermes!" Said the one who has my arm.
"Are we're going to take your flag now." They said it in unison. I slam my elbow into the boy's gut. He let go and crouched over.
"Hey what was that for-."
"You're not taking my team's flag!"
"We thought you were a big softy and you would just let us have the flag." Said the boy near the flag.
"You thought wrong!" I beat them pretty good. I then imprisoned them in vines, and they just sat there wiggling like worms. I rolled them over to a random tree. Then I think it was Travis who got his mouth free.
"Come on let us go!" he yelled.
"You brought it on yourselves, and the more you struggle, the tighter the vines will get." They started struggling harder. As if on queue the vines got tighter. The look on Travis' face was priceless. I covered his mouth with more vines. This was easy. Or it was.
They finally gave up about thirty minutes later. I sat next to the flag and thought about my dream. Why did my mom have that short look of confusion on her face? Why did Megan attack her if she's working with them? I slid down on to the ground, and stare into the stars. The wind picked up again, and there was the faint smell of fire that I had smelled a few days before. It was getting stronger. I saw a light flicker out of the corner of my eye. I hear a twig snap. I sit up. I heard a growl from my right. It came right out of the darkness and jumped at me. It pinned me on the ground. My sword flew out of my hand. It showed me it's fangs and howled. I could feel it's claws slowly ripping through the armor. It's breath smells like years of old gross gym socks!
"Hey ugly need a breath mint?" It was Leo.
I flip my head back. The monster got closer to my neck and put its teeth just on top of my neck. I screamed.
"Leo get it off!" I cried out.
He took a hammer out of a tool belt and throws it at the monster on top of me. SNAP! I scream out in pain. My arm was broken again for Third time in Two monster dodged the hammer easily. I looked it in the black beady eyes. It looked amused. Like if it was saying, yum demigods for dinner!
"Looks like I have to use the heat plan." I heard him say.
My eyes were getting heavy. I look away from the monster. It grazes my head with one of it's fangs. I see flashes of red light and feel blazing heat. That smell again! The monster jumps off me. And backs into the woods. There's blood running down the side of my face. I sit up. Leo runs over to me. My head felt dizzy. Black dots danced across my eyes.
"Eve are you alright?" He tries to wipe the blood from my face. I flinch backwards.
"I won't hurt you." He said trying to wipe my face again.
"You did this morning!" I turn away from him.
"I didn't mean to! He yelled out. I was trying to apologize this morning!
"About what!" I yelled back.
"About the thing with my mom!" He tried to calm down.
"Well then you should have said so before you slammed your stupid sword in my arm!" I'm still yelling.
"At least you have a." My voice faltered.
"A what? Mom? No I don't I killed my mom by accident when I was young!" He was yelling again.
"Leo?" I reach out to touch his arm.
"Don't feel sorry for me! I got over that along time ago." His voice got smaller.
"I…." I don't know what to say.
"But you probably have a mom and other family at home.I don't need your pity." He looked mad and jealous.
"Your wrong! Very wrong! I don't have other family." I wasn't yelling anymore. "I don't have brothers or sisters. And my mom!" I can't stop thinking about that dream. Tears trace down my face.
"Hey, I didn't mean to make you cry!" said Leo.
"Leo….I." I have to choke out these words.
"Leo my mother wants me dead!" My tears get thicker. And I let out a gods horrible sob. I close my eyes, put my head between my legs and cup my good arm over my head.
"Eve what are you talking about?" He pounded the ground next to him.
"Just what I said! My mother wants me dead."I choke out those words again. The words I've dreaded saying.
"Eve that's not true!" He grabbed my arm.
"Leo it's true. I wish it wasn't but it is!" I lift my head. Leo meets my eyes. I hug him (with only my right arm). He puts his arms around me. I just keep crying. I let him go when I remember that Travis and Conner are still there.
"What?" Asks Leo.
"Um I kinda have prisoners." I turn my head around to find Travis asleep and Conner's face bright red. I turn to Leo again. He was looking at me intensely.
"What!" I ask.
"It's just I can't even get a girl to even talk to me! Yet you hugged me willingly." he said with a smile on his face.
"Well it won't happen again!" I shove him.(Again with my right hand.)
"Yeah sure." He laughed. He looked at my forehead.
"Your head stopped bleeding." He said.
I let him wipe the blood away from my head this time.
We hear cheering. Some were chanting Athena! I look at Leo.
"Well I guess we won!" I say.
"Yeah, yeah." He said mockingly. I gave him a mischievous smile.
"What?" He asks nervously.
"Leo Valdez you're my prisoner!"
"Wha-"That's all he got to say. I tied him in vines. Pollux came running into the clearing with others following him. He saw Leo, Travis , and Conner tied up. He raised an eyebrow.
"What?" I ask.
"You did this?" He asks.
"Yup, I guess we won!" I stand up. He looked at the boys one last time. He grabs me by my left shoulder. I yelp out in pain. He looks at my arm.
"You can't have any more nectar or ambrosia." He was glaring at Leo.
"I know," I look at Leo.
"It wasn't his fault, He saved me."
"Then you going to let him go?" He raised his eyebrows.
"Maybe." I shrug. He thrashes around. I laugh and start to walk away. I hear sizzling. I turn around. Leo was using fire to break the vines! How could he have gotten a lighter or match out of his pocket? I made sure that they were tight though! He would have had to move his hands. That would be exhausting to do with how tight he was wrapped.
"How did he do that?" I whisper into Pollux ear.
"That's his special technique." He looked scared almost.
"It's a lighter?" I ask.
Travis got free. Travis walks up to me and looks at Pollux. Then he says sorry to me. I was taken back, why did he apologize? Then Conner comes over after Leo let him free, by untying the vines. He wraps his arm around me.
"Your pretty awesome!" He got in my face. I ducked and weaved away from him. I backed away from him and bumped into Leo.
"Oww!" I yelp. I backed into his hands. Which were very hot.
"Sorry! I didn't mean too!" He put his hand on my back again. I yelp again.
"Sorry that was dump of me!"
I take a step forward. And turn around.
"It's ok that your dumb." I rub my back. With my right arm. Arianna steps into the clearing she had the flag in her hand. She was the one who won the game.
"Arianna your mom's Athena?" I ask. See gives me a hug.
"Yeah why? She cocked her head. It's not like it's a big deal!"
"Well it's just I do better then you in some school topics like math and English."
"And what does that have to do with my mom?" She scratched her head.
"She the goddess of wisdom and war, She's smart and stuff, And your not the brightest in the class." I look up into the stars again and put my finger on my chin.
"What! You stay there. When I beat the brains out of you. We'll see who's smarter then!" She grabs at my right arm. I duck behind Leo.
"Hey don't use me as a human shield!" He says sarcastically.
Arianna chases me around the clearing. We both stop, we're out of breath. I collapse on the ground. She drops next to me. We both start laughing really hard. She slaps the ground. I'm gasping for air. When she stops laughing. I'm still recovering from laughing. She turns to me and straight faced says.
"You smell like a dead dog and burnt wood."She looks into the woods.
"Gee thanks." I push her over.
"Tell me what happened." She sits on her knees and starts bouncing on them. "Tell me!" She whined.
"I was attacked by a monster then Leo saved me then I sorta, Well I had a break down." I confessed.
"Aww. And I missed it. The break down I mean." She sticks her tongue out at me. I stick my tongue out at her too. Just then Chiron bounds into the clearing.
"Demigods we must have a war meeting now! He shouted. He came up to me. "You must come to Eve."