NOTE/ Hello people, bringing another chapter here for you. responding comments: death fury: most certainly, the girls are scary, my sister is equal to one ounce when irrito her, gives me chills.guest: thank you, i'm glad you liked. sparky548: surely it should.now without further ado we go to chapter.Alain is eleven now.

I swing my sword to defend myself against Adrian's attack.

"It's getting better, Adrian." I say as I avoided another swift sword swing, Adrian was a ten-year-old boy, son of Aphrodite.

He is good at sword fighting, who would say.

"Thank you." he says, I bent down to deflect an attack that almost hit me.

"adrian." we stopped when we heard drew's familiar voice calling adrian.

"Go inside, you've trained too much. "

"but ..." an icy drew look made him nod and head away to follow the path to the aphrodite cabin.

I looked at the boy walking away, poor Adrian, but I did not expect less than drew.

"Did really need this?" I ask turning to Drew who was looking at me with hateful eyes.

"Yes, did." she approached to stand in front of me, face to face.

"I do not want you close to him, did not you understand? It's not a good influence for Adrian." I felt my anger grow in my chest, and as much as I wanted to throw insults at all, I decided to follow Silena and I I shut up and kept my cool. But not before you read the truth.

"It's him, not you, Adrian can decide on his own, he does not need a selfish and bad girl to decide for him." My words seem to have the desired effects because his face turned red and she was furious.

" how dare you…"

"Did tell any lies?" I smiled at his petrified expression. Which soon changed to maximum rage.

The movement was so fast that I did not even notice when his hand rose until it hit me in the face.

I kind of froze at that moment. And I was not the only one. Drew realized what he had done but did not care.

"that's what you get for being an idiot, you've always been a jerk. a plague of hades, will always be the most hated here, after all you're the real evil here, the kronos envoy to destroy us, I do not know what Silena and the others see in you to be such idiots to be your friends. You should never exist, will put the lives of all here in danger at some point and when that moment arrives, no one will defend you. or my brother again, never again. "she said with hatred in her voice.

Hearing those words I felt angry but also with sadness, I ... I really should not exist? Was I as bad as she thinks?

But is she right in part, I am and always will be the most hated in the camp for who I am? The son of hades?

"As if I wanted to be near you, Drew, you are the most horrible person in the camp, you say a daughter of aphrodite but you have no love in your heart." my words were very cold, I know

I do not care if she was insensitive or not, what she said hurt me more than she imagined.

I pulled away from her quickly after those words, trying my best to hold back the tears as I ran to the hut of hades as fast as I could.

Sometimes I wanted to be invisible.

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Next day I stayed in Hades' hut, unable to have the mood to go to breakfast.

I sat on my knees in bed as I stared out into the nowhere in Hades' cabin.

I remember the time when I was with Aunt Arya, an agent in the kitchen talking about school, watching movies while eating popcorn, sometimes we argued about why I was not one of the most partners. It was nice to be there. No one looked at me like I was an atomic bomb.

I eat exception of my friends of course. And give clarisse, that at least I saw myself as an adversary and not a traitor or something.

I wish I was there . Too bad I can only visit it when it's time to go back to school or on special holidays like Christmas.

I heard the knock on the door, but I did not move to open it.

"Alain?" Was grover, but I just sat there expressionless.

"Can I come in?" I heard again. But I did not answer, realizing that no one answered, he came in and saw me sitting on the wooden floor near the bed.

"Alain? Are you ok?" He approached me but I stopped him before he saw my face.

"Grover, I want to be alone, okay?" I said trying to sound strong, but there came a lone, weak whisper.

"You're not well." he said.

" what happened ?" He asks.

"Nothing ..." I tried to use my strong tone again but I failed even more. I felt angry at myself for looking so vulnerable in front of someone.

I should be strong, I should not feel sad.

'Look at you, lowering yourself like that, you're stronger than that, stronger than those feelings that make you weak. ' the deep voice of kronos sounded in my head.

Shut up…

'How can you be the son of Hades? If one fears the rejection of mere demigods, it is not by accident that my son did not claim it. '

"Dude ..." he tried to approach her again.

" get out..."

'you can be much more, with me you will be unbeatable, think of it, without dirty looks and hate, without prejudice with who you are son, with you by my side us. ... '

"Get out of here!" I yell. I heard his step falter.

"Alain calm, it's just me." I calmed down when I heard grover.

"Grover, please, please just leave me alone a little, okay? I ... I need time to cool my head ok, I'm not feeling well today." I say pleading, trying to keep myself from breaking anything.

"Okay, but if you want I can stay ..."

"I know, just give me some time, I need to cool my head." he heard me and walked away.

"Okay, I'll go then, just ... anything just call me ok?" I nodded.

'Weak. '

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( following day )

I left the hut of hades after a whole day inside, Silena, Lee, grover and even Luke came to visit me, wanted to know if I was okay. but about Luke, you're not sure if it was a real concern or just trying to manipulate me, even though he did not show any manipulative action.

But right now I'm massacring a wooden dummy, kind of literally, slaughtering myself.

One blow I snapped one of the wooden arms.

One ripped out another arm.

I knocked out a blow and struck a heavy blow that cut two of them.

Another cut off half of the trunk, which almost fell.

I breathed heavily as I held the black sword in my hand.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and sighed, needing this to cool my head a little.

I heard a branch break and in seconds I pointed the sword directly at the intruder's neck.

I looked at him with cold eyes.

"Luke, what do you want?"

Luke swallowed and remained calm in his expression.

"nothing ... it's already the third dummy destroyed, and there are people wanting to train as well." he pointed behind him and really had three demigods waiting.

"Why did not anyone tell me before?" I ask irritably.

"Well ... .you kind of smashed two dolls and three counting on that one, there were only pieces of wood left, so I guess they did not want to be the next ones.Incidentally, there were more people waiting, but they kind of got scared." oh I ... I think I overreacted. I looked at the wooden puppets and there were really only a few small scattered pieces left, what was left of the first two dolls? Oops.

"I ... it was bad, I did not want to destroy them, they can be comfortable, I'll train elsewhere." I say, moving away with the sword in my hand.

I have to try to keep control of the anger.

No wonder everyone thinks I'm bad.

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"Alain ..."

I rolled over on the bed and grabbed the pillow and pulled it to my head to try to muffle the call.

"Alain wakes up." I ignored her.

"If you do not get up now I'll call the boys to get you out of there." the female voice insisted.

Silena.

"Another five hours." I mumbled with my eyes closed.

Silena did not accept it.

"It's already nine o'clock in the morning, you missed breakfast, you idiot, are you aware of this? It's lucky I took another plate for you." I was not really sleepy, actually I could not sleep, I was trying harder I can not because Simple, nightmares. Horrible nightmares, not counting kronos who are always pissing me off. And crises of growing rage.

I did not tell Chiron.

Still.

"I'll go ..." I said still in bed, and really I plan to get up ... of course.

"Then get up!" she shouts, swinging me by the arm.

I sighed and pulled the pillow off my face, sat down against the head of the bed.

I looked at Silena.

"Thanks, but you did not have to do this, I'm not hungry." I say.

"Of course I needed it, you eat later when you feel hungry." she said without expression.

"Should not you be there, doing things at the camp?" I ask.

"Yes, but I've decided to see if it's okay, you usually never miss breakfast, and it's three times that I do not see you at breakfast or camp activities."

"So what?" I ask confused, she rolled her eyes and sat on the bed beside me.

"So what's wrong? Has anything happened?"

"No, just sleep." I replied.

"You're not hiding anything, are you?" she asks suspiciously. I shook my head.

"Alain if there's something wrong going on, tell me, I'm so worried about you."

"I'm fine, Silena, really." I said.

But he was not.

I did not want to worry her about my problems.

But the truth was that I was scared, afraid of the nightmares I've had lately.

And he was still shaken by recent events.

I also dreamed constantly of losing the people I care about, including Silena.

Kronos is making things even worse.

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I tried to stay awake for the next few hours but it was not working too much, I walk through the camp half as sleepy as I head for archery training when I accidentally hit someone.

I almost fell off so sleepy that I was but luckily the other person stabilized me holding my arm.

"Alain?" I glanced at who I accidentally hit, guess who it is, Luke Castellan. Great.

"Are you ok?" surprises me with his tone of concern, I'm not sure if it's pretense or he's really worried because he seemed very genuine. I was so focused on staying awake that I had not paid attention where I was going.

"Yes ..." I said trying to keep myself from falling, his expression of concern still did not come out, and he pulled me by the arm.

"Come on, let's go to the infirmary, you do not look okay." I tried to pull away from the squeeze but it was useless, I was very sleepy.

We arrived at the infirmary. And now Luke was taking me by the shoulder.

"Help here?" Luke shouts, at once a red head appeared, the son of Apollo rushed to stand beside me and help me carry me to