Chapter 7: I (Accidentally) Piss off Camp Jupiter.

After I killed that hellhound who chased me yesterday, I had decided then and there that I'd become a monster hunter. My powers were basically made for the job so that was a plus, and not to mention everyone who usually did monster control duty was already spread thin so they needed all the help they could get.

Right now I was sitting in the mess hall with Percy and the others, while Hayden and some other kid from the Apollo cabin, Will, tended to my most recent wounds from a fight with a particularly nasty Manticore, who I just barely was able to kill with my Staff. And it was not as fun as it sounds, trust me.

"So why exactly didn't you use Rebellion against the manticore again?" Percy asked.

I rolled my eyes as I downed by fifth shot glass of liquid ambrosia, which was supposed to help with healing, but apparently had a lessened effect on me compared to Demigods.

"Because kelp for brains, using Rebellion for too long too many times causes too much strain on my body, not to mention it'd make me become too reliant on it and my powers won't grow naturally." I said, hissing in pain as Will dabbed a stinging disinfectant on a claw mark on my arm.

"Sorry." Will said as he wrapped bandages around the cut after placing gauze on it.

My previous statement seemed to shut Percy up, but seemed to have piqued the interest of Annabeth, who was right next to him, lucky me…

"So in other words you can only use its enhancing capabilities sparingly?" She asked.

I nodded with a sharp 'ow' as Hayden tightened the bandages around my head, then proceeded to move to my other arm.

"Still think you should consider upgrading your bo-staff." Nico pointed out. "I mean, no offense but blunt force trauma doesn't exactly work on all monsters."

That nearly set me off, what? Did he think I didn't know that? "No one asked you shorty, so but out." I growled, taking yet another shot of liquid ambrosia, which finally took effect on my bruised ribs.

Only for Will to take it away. "That's enough. If you have too much of this, you will turn to dust, Demiprimordial or not."

I just sighed and held my sides in pain. "Whatever." I let the two finish up as Hayden left me a cup of lavender honey iced coffee she made for me to drink.

After that, with Percy's help I took my drink and we both slowly limped to the Poseidon cabin, where Percy sat me in my bunk and fixed my pillow for me.

"T-thanks." I wheezed, trying not to talk too much.

"Anytime. I'll let you get some rest, Chiron said he'd swing by after his run so just sit tight." The black head told me.

I looked at him. "Don't have much of a choice do I?" I then coughed pretty hard after saying that. "Where are you going?"

"To the gate, we're expecting visitors from camp Jupiter, our sister camp." Percy explained.

I took a sip of my iced coffee. The name did sound familiar, I think Piper mentioned that her boyfriend went to camp Jupiter and tended to visit regularly. Pretty sure his name was…

"Jason." I ended up finishing my thoughts out loud.

The son of the sea looked at me in confusion. "Huh?"

I blinked for a second, realizing what I just said and cleared my throat (which caused some serious pain) before continuing. "...piper mentioned she had a boyfriend from camp Jupiter, his name was Jason...right?" I asked.

Percy nodded. "Yeah, Jason Grace, old friend of mine. Blonde, blue eyes, has a scar on his lip, and sometimes wears glasses."

I chuckled. "How'd he get the scar?"

"Dunno, never asked. Piper might know though." He replied. "Well when you feel better, come say hi to everyone."

I drank more of my coffee as I laid back in my bed. "Sure, will do…"

I slowly woke up at the sound of something clacking on the floor of the cabin, I turned on my side and saw it was Chiron, I groaned and yawned but then winced in pain from the sudden movement.

"Hey Chiron." I rasped, my throat was dry, so I took a swallow of my drink, which had watered down a tad.

"No, please, stay there, there's no need to move. You are recovering after all." The centaur told me.

I groaned as he walked in, ducking around the door. "Fuuuck me!" I groaned as I felt a headache coming on. "Where's Advil when you need it?"

Chiron rummaged through his saddle bags and pulled out a two pack of Advil. "Here you are, Nigel."

I took the pills and washed them down with my drink. "Thanks…"

Chiron closed his bag and then looked at me. "Nigel, I don't mean to pry, but why are you throwing yourself into these dangerous situations?"

I looked up at the ceiling for a second, then closed my eyes. "Well, my powers are pretty well made for killing monsters, so I figured I'd give it a shot."

He was quiet for a moment, before he placed a hand on my bandaged leg. "I understand that you wish to help the others and gain their trust, but you should know that you don't have to constantly put your life in danger to do it. You don't have to prove yourself to everyone."

I let out a shaky sigh. "Alright, Whatever."

Chiron nodded and then left without another word. I sat there for a couple more minutes before drinking the rest of my coffee, then I noticed that there was a set of crutches next to the bed.

'Must be from the Apollo cabin.' I thought as I sat up. Deciding to try and get myself moving i slowly got down from my bunk, each movement making me feel even more sore and uncomfortable. And then grabbed the crutches once i got to the bottom. Then I hobbled my way to the mess hall to get something to eat.

Once I got there I saw several different demigods in purple shirts who contrasted the usual sea of orange Camp Half Blood shirts. Which I assumed was the kids from Camp Jupiter.

As the crutches made a clicking noise on the floor the room fell silent and everyone turned to where I was, which really wigged me out.

Pretty much everyone from Camp Half Blood gave me looks of concern as I hobbled to my usual seat, while everyone from camp Jupiter looked at me in a mixture of curiosity and somehow, pitty.

I sat down at my usual seat with Percy and the others as a guy with blonde hair introduced himself.

"Hey, So you're Nigel right? The monster Hunter?" He asked.

"Yeah." I nodded.

"Cool, I'm Jason, Son of Jupiter, or Zeus." He told me as I shook his hand.

I was pretty surprised, but I guess I should've seen it coming. "Cool." I replied.

"So, I heard you fought a Manticore. That's pretty cool." Jason said, trying to make conversation.

I just laid my head down. "If by cool you mean a sure way for my to get my body pulverized like a piece of choice veil, then yeah, it was cool."

This caused the boy to cringe. "Yikes, sorry." He apologized.

"Forget about it." I said, head still down.

Then I heard another person sit down. I didn't bother to see who it was, but I knew it was a girl based on the sound of her voice.

"Jason, why are you trying to talk to this boy? It's obvious he's ignoring you." The voice said to Jason.

"He wasn't ignoring me Reyna, besides, he's obviously not in a very talkative mood right now, so cut him some slack." Jason told the person.

"Really? Why? Because he's in pain? Seems like a poor excuse." 'Reyna' said.

That pissed me off like you wouldn't believe. Though that could have been because of the fact I was still sore as hell. "You do realize I can still hear you, right?" I grumbled with my head still down, trying to ward off another headache.

"Oh, I'm sorry, it looked to me like you were asleep." Reyna said in a sarcastically stoic tone.

I cracked one eye open and looked up, the girl I saw was pretty smokin to me, real easy on the eyes, kinda reminded me of Wonder Woman almost. But she also looked like she was the stoic 'slow to trust' type. Which was the last thing I needed right now.

"Well obviously I'm not sweet cheeks, so would ya mind shutting up? My head is killing me and you aren't exactly helping things." I said without really thinking, that's one problem I have, when I'm in a bad condition or am sick or really injured, I tend to not have a filter, which I swear is gonna be the death of me some day.

The girl just stared at me with a glare that could have cut me in half if it were a sword, but I didn't care, I was so pissed off that I just gave her my best 'piss off' glare with my one open eye and just went back to laying my head down.

That's when I heard the distinct sound of a sword being drawn before I heard Reyna speak again. "Get up. You just made me mad, and now, you're gonna pay." She growled.

I groaned again and as I banged my head on the table. What did I just get myself into?!