A/N: So sorry about the wait! But I haven't abandoned this story and it's no where near finished. Enjoy!
Two weeks.
That's how long it took for Anna and Apollonia to begin to have problems in their relationship. At first it started out with bickering that didn't mean anything. Then it quickly escalated to full on screaming matches between the two girls. Of course, Apollonia ,nor has Elsa, told anyone about their kiss on the night of the capture the flag game. Or about the many others they shared in dark corners of the cabin or in the confinement of their rooms when everyone was asleep.
"YOU'RE ACTING SO SELFISH! HOW COULD NOT WANT TO GO?" Anna yelled from her upstairs room. She was alone with Apollonia and they were having another one of their screaming matches. Their room mates didn't want anything to do with it so they stayed down at the living room, trying to distract themselves from the screaming, even though it was extremely difficult.
"OH I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE BECAUSE WE'VE LOOKED AT THE STUPID STARS FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS AND I'M GETTING SICK OF IT!" Apollonia screamed. Elsa cringed when she heard her voice. She wasn't used to hearing Apollonia's gentle voice being used to yell at anybody.
"OH! SO NOW YOU'RE SAYING I'M BORING?"
"That's not what I meant, Anna! Don't twist my own words just to make me look like the bad guy!" The Italian girl's voice was lowered and the girls were grateful.
"Hell has to be just like this." Becca mumbled, rubbing her temples. Her room mates mumbled and nodded in agreement.
"Out of all the days they have to argue. . . they just had to pick our only day off!" Victoria huffed in exhaustion.
More screams came from the young women as their argument skyrocketed to an even bigger screaming match. Nicole, Victoria and Becca had enough of all the nonsense so they felt the cabin, saying they would go insane if they had to listen to another argument. Elsa stayed behind and went to her room and waited for the fight to end. "Well when you're ready to apologize to me, I'll be at the lake!" Anna yelled, going down the stairs with a pair of sneakers in her hands.
"Why do I have to apologize? You're the one who's taking this thing too seriously!" Apollonia emerged from the red head's room and watched her girlfriend leave. Sighing, she went straight to Elsa's room and was greeted with the blonde sitting on the edge of her bed with a seductive smile plastered on her face. Whenever Apollonia and Anna had a fight, they would always separate. Anna would usually head to the lake or the woods and Apollonia would go to Elsa's awaiting arms and lips.
They were in a heap of kisses and moans. Hands roaming over each other's bodies and tongues pressed together as they laid on the blonde's bed. Elsa was always the dominant one so she liked being on top of her raven haired lover. As much as she loved her "private meetings" with Apollonia, Elsa wanted to ask questions involving the night of the capture the flag game. She was especially concerned about this "list" the young man from the opposing team mentioned. What exactly was it? A piece of paper with the names of well equipped trainees? A list of names with people who supposed get an award? What the hell was it? The blonde couldn't take this. She pulled away, earning a whimper of protest from Apollonia. "What is the list?" Elsa asked suddenly. The brunette took a moment to register what the blonde had asked but understood when she repeated.
"Oh . . . that's not important. Let's just get back to what we were doing." Apollonia lifted her head to meet Elsa's lips but the blonde sat up and moved away from the younger girl.
"Apollonia," Elsa said, "I know when you're trying to hide something so what is it?"
"It's nothing you should worry about. It's a camp thing and you wouldn't understand."
Elsa looked at the brunette dead in the eyes with a serious look in her own blue orbs. "What's so complicated about it? It seemed very important to those campers and to you as well. So what is it?"
"I'm not sure I can tell you," Apollonia sighed. "Only campers and counselors are supposed to know what the List is but those stupid campers let it slip."
Elsa was a lot more interested now. "Why can't I know?"
"Because you're not an official Camp Half-Blood member. I'm sorry Elsa, but I just can't tell you."
"Alright, then," Elsa said, "then I guess I'll just find another way to get it out of you." Before Apollonia could question her blonde mistress, Elsa pounced on the younger girl and attacked her lips. Soon enough Apollonia asked for entrance to Elsa's mouth but the blonde refused. "Not until you tell me . . ." Elsa said, kissing down Apollonia's neck. The blonde sucked on the sensitive part that made the younger woman moan and writhe in pleasure. Oh, how the Snow Queen loved seeing the brunette squirm by her own actions.
"Y'know if you keep sucking you'll leave a mark." Apollonia managed to gasp out between her moans. The statement only made Elsa suck and nibble a little harder. "All of this just because I won't tell you?"
"Mhm,"
"You're just giving me a lot of pleasure so maybe I shouldn't tell you a lot of things." Apollonia squealed in a slight pain when Elsa took a good bite on the most sensitive place on her neck. And the young queen held on with her pearly whites until Apollonia caved in.
The blonde sat up with a satisfied smirk and watched as Apollonia rubbed the ,now tender, love bite. Her smirk only widened when she heard the brunette cuss under her breath. "The List is a program, that was recently created by Mr. D and Chiron, to determine who is ready to join their parents in Olympus."
Elsa narrowed her blue eyes in question. Apollonia went on to say, "Meaning that if your name isn't registered into the program, then you can't leave to join the gods unless you are claimed or invited."
"And if you do land in the program?" Elsa asked.
"Then you have the choice to either go to Olympus and live in the mortal world or you can stay as a year round camper and work as a counselor." Apollonia shrugged her shoulders as if it the simplest thing.
"Is that why campers that are older are still here?"
"Well, if Mr. D believes they're old or responsible enough to live a normal life without attracting too much attention to themselves then they can leave. But until he makes that decision, they have to stay and learn how to protect themselves."
Apollonia's cellphone rang on her nightstand when she was covering Elsa's love bites on her neck. She barrowed some make up from Becca but her friend raised a questionable eyebrow when she wanted to ask why she needed water proof make up. The brunette stopped her friend by saying, "no questions asked," at the end of her request. Becca reluctantly handed over the cover up but still gave Apollonia strange looks.
"Hello?" The Italian girl spoke into the cellphone.
"Apollonia," her father's strong voice came out of the speaker. The young woman was a bit taken back. She wasn't expecting anyone from her family to call during the beginning of the summer. "Your mother wants to know if you and your friends will be coming home for your birthday next week." The man said.
"Oh, right. Yeah dad, we're be there and I made some new friends I'd everyone to meet." Apollonia said.
"A new boyfriend, perhaps?" Her father asked with a great deal of hope in his voice. 'Oh, if only you knew, dad . . . if only you knew.' She wasn't proud of it, but Apollonia's family wasn't aware that she was bisexual. Or that she already had a girlfriend. She never spoke about her sexuality because she knew how closed minded her parents were. If they knew, who knows how they'd react. The brunette didn't even want to know what her siblings would do or say to her. That was a nightmare she never wanted to have.
"No dad, their girls."
She heard her father sigh and say a farewell before hanging up.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
A fist colliding with the wooden door made the Italian girl drop her phone. She opened the door to find Becca dressed in her capture the flag armour but without the black and blue mask. Before Apollonia could ask why she was in such a way Becca interrupted saying, "Get your armour, the camp's under attack." Then ran out the cabin without further explanation.
"Jesus Christ," Apollonia whispered under her breath as she saw the damage done to the beloved camp. Many of the cabins were burned to ashes by fierce blue fames, twelve year old campers ran around the camp trying to find some sort of shelter, the oldest members fought against the attackers with any weapon they could get their hands on. There were large objects flying through the skies at such great speeds. When one of the creators flew past Apollonia, a large series of scrapes were made against the metal protecting her stomach. She reached down and felt the curly, metallic peels of the metal that hung off the deep scratches and scratches formed on her armour. What on earth could do that? The sounds of glass being shattered made the young woman turn her head to the mess hall. It was over run by . . . lions? No. They were too big to be regular lions and she was certain that lions didn't have black and red fur.
The over grown lions had to be at least seven feet tall and eleven feet long. Their black manes had streaks of red running through it and moved as slick and lethal as the animal it was on. Their paws looked to have been to be strong and big enough to crush a person's head under its weight. The face of the lion was the color of pure black but it's eyes were a neon blue and they seemed to have glowed under the harsh light of the summer sun and there were at least ten to fifteen of them in that building. To anyone else they would've looked like an ugly and horrific version of a lion that came from a child's mind. But to Apollonia, they were almost enchanting and she didn't know why she thought they appealing.
"ROAR!" Apollonia turned to her left and came face to face with one of the many lion like creatures attacking the camp. It's shining blue orbs watched the brunette with so much malice that it was enough to make her quiver in her skin. It watched her and waited for Apollonia to make a move but she only stood in a battle stance with her arms at her sides, elbows bent and her left leg bent in front of her as her other leg was out stretched to her right. If she could get the lion to turn away from her, even if it was just for two mere seconds, then she could burn the strange animal to a crisp by summoning her fire through her finger tips. But how could she get it to turn away?
"Hey, fur ball!" A silky female voice yelled from the side.
The lion turned its gigantic head to the source and it's glowing eyes landed on Elsa. She was wearing her armour too and carried her shield and sword as well. "What, are you too stupid to attack!" She threw a snow ball and it landed on the lion's eye. It roared in frustration as it shook the remains of the snow ball off. It charged toward the blonde and opened its mouth to reveal a glowing ball of fire forming. It was the same color of its eyes and it grew more and more as the lion came closer to Elsa. Right as the ball of flames was about to be fired, Elsa raised her arms to the creator and kept the lion back as the Snow Queen kept threw a gust of frost from the palms of her hands. The icy winds were as strong as the winds as a tornado and it certainly kept the creature back but it didn't freeze.
Apollonia was still in shock as she watched her blonde lover stand up to such a large creature. The brunette wasted to time as she pulled her sword out of the scabbard that was latched on her back and ran full speed to the black creator. It was still struggling to get through Elsa's icy powers. Apollonia pulled her sword back and made a clean swipe down the lion's neck. The body had fallen and stopped running against the tornado like winds and Elsa ceased her powers as she saw the now headless body fall on the ground with a thud. The sight should've appalled Elsa to no end but she wasn't. She stared at Apollonia in amazement as the brunette stood straight with her silver sword clasped in her hand. Blood dripped off the blade and a few drops ran down to the handle. "Nice cut." Elsa commented. She heard a quiet thanks from the brunette before she grabbed Elsa's hand and ran to find shelter.
The camp's emergency alarm was finally set off as the two girls hid behind the auditorium. "What do we do?" Elsa asked.
"We don't do anything. You're staying here, I have to protect the camp." Apollonia said. She stood up and made a move to run but the blonde had held onto her arm.
"You can't do this by yourself. I'm going, too!"
"I'm not by myself. My friends are out there, fighting to keep this place standing."
"Apollonia, I'm coming with you, like it or not." Elsa let the brunette's arm go but she didn't let her gaze soften at the hazel eyes.
"Fine," Apollonia said. "you look for Anna and head back here and wait for me to arrive."
"What will you do?"
"I'm going to look for my friends. Please, be careful, Elsa." The blonde leaned down and pressed her lips to Apollonia's and held the brunette close against her. She released the younger girl and headed to the lake and kept herself hidden in the woods.
Apollonia watched as Elsa disappeared into the depths of the wilderness and started to wonder if she was truly ready to fight in an such intense battle. 'She'll be fine. She knows how to handle a sword and she's been improving on her control over her powers.' She wanted to believe that Elsa would be ready but deep down inside she knew the Snow Queen didn't have enough training. Apollonia quickly turned on her heels and ran to where the blonde headed but stopped when she heard an unhuman screech. She looked to the smoke ridden skies and saw large objects circling over her head. Scaly skin, long spike covered scale, long slithery neck with a large head with jagged teeth and cat eyes. 'Dragons.' She thought.
Without hesitating, she ran to the pegasi stables and did whatever she could to dodge and duck every fireball the dragons blew at her. Apollonia did have the ability to summon and control fire but that just meant that she couldn't be burned by her fire, not one of a dragon. She lunged toward the open door but a ball of fire caught her leg and quickly traveled to her thigh. She discarded her leg's armor and threw some snow over it to stop the fire from spreading onto the stables. The pegasi stomped their hooves and bucked against the stable walls as they were startled by the commotion. The young woman calmed them down and brought out the strongest looking Pegasus she could find and flew took the skies, ready to fight and protect.
As Apollonia and her Pegasus soared through the skies, she looked below and searched for any campers that could be roaming the camp aimlessly. Her landed on a limping figure trying their best to hide under a fallen cabin for protection. She directed her Pegasus to the figure and found that it wasn't one person, it was two. It was Becca with unconscious Victoria on her back. Once Apollonia had landed on the ground, he rushed to her injured friends and helped Becca pull Victoria on the Pegasus's back. "What happened to you?" Becca asked Apollonia. The Italian girl gave her friend a skeptical look.
"Happened to me? I just avoided being barbequed by a dragon! What happened to you? And where's Nicole?"
"Those oversized cats attacked us when we tried to rally up all the archers, but then the lions swooped down and started firing blue fire at us! Tori and I ran for shelter but Nicole led everyone the other direction. We lost them in the smoke and I think Tori passed out by all the shock." Becca's leg had a big ugly bruise that started on her thigh and ended on her ankle. The bruise was a mixture of purple and black and her bone was visibly sticking out against the skin. Apollonia winced at it and helped her friend on the Pegasus.
"Did you happen to see Anna?" Apollonia asked, securing her friend on the magical creature's back.
"I think I saw her by the lake-"
"You think?! What do you mean you think?"
"Well I'm sorry but your girlfriend was the last person on my mind when I was trying to get myself out alive!"
Apollonia groaned and ran a hand through her black locks. "Ok, just get Tori somewhere safe. I'm going to look for Anna and Elsa."
Before Becca could protest, her friend ran into the woods with her bronze sword in her hand.
While heavily breathing and walking as slowly as she could Elsa led Anna to the only safe looking cabin they could find. Anna was visibly trembling and clung onto her older sister's arm for dear life as she looked out for any unwelcomed monsters. She felt like a child, depending on someone to protect her while she hid behind her savior. 'How could I be so stupid?' She thought. 'Abby was right. I make everything into a big deal and storm off as soon as I get the chance. Why do I always have to act like a child? I'm almost nineteen and I'm the one acts like the responsible one. That'll change as soon as Elsa and I get out of this mess. Then I'll apologize to Abby and make up for all the stupid things I've done.'
Elsa opened the cabin door and rushed inside when she heard a blood curdling roar off in the distance. While the cabin was empty of any other people there were many beds and large boxes stored inside. The sisters quickly started to barricade the door with all of the heavy objects and soon stepped away when they were certain nothing could get through. "Elsa?"
The blonde turned to Anna. "We are getting out of here alive, right?" There was her child-like behavior the princess was known for.
"Of course we are. We just have to be ready to fight." Elsa reassured. The Snow Queen knew Anna was a young adult but she was still her baby sister and she was going to protect her. No matter what.
They waited and heard nothing. Assuming the worst was over, Elsa slowly started to take apart their barrier. One box after another and soon the wooden door was all that was left between her and Anna and the outside. Slowly reaching for the door knob, Elsa's pale hand started to tremble as she flicked her wrist and cracked the door open. She poked her head through the small opening and looked around. 'It looks safe.' She lifted her gaze. 'There's nothing flying in the skies.' Opening the door all the way, she saw nothing pop out or heard anything. Elsa turned to Anna and gave a calm smile. "I think we can-"
"ROAR!"
The blonde snapped her attention to the outside and was greeted by another large lion. 'Why do all these things look the same?' Elsa thought. The lion stalked its way inside the cabin and Elsa slowly drew her sword, never taking her eyes off the monster. "Elsa, what do we do?" Anna whispered, hiding behind her older sister. The redhead heard a crackling noise and looked down to see Elsa had formed a sword out of ice. Without further explanation, Anna grasped the sword, swallowed the lump in her throat and stepped out of Elsa's shadow. The lion didn't seem to be fazed by the sudden appearance of the redhead as it continued to stalk to the sisters. Anna started to lose control of her breathing as the monster came closer and closer.
The lion opened its mouth and formed a blue fireball, then it released the blast. Before Elsa could throw a barrier up, a thick wall of stone shot out of the cabin's floor and completely blocked the blast. The sisters heard a loud scuffle outside of the stone wall that consisted of roars and fire blasts. Then it all went silent. After a few minutes of silence the wall slowly started to dissolve and go back into the earth. Elsa looked over the cloud of dust that the wall felt behind and saw-"Abby!" Anna ran to her girlfriend, who was holding her blood covered sword, and gave her a the most passionate kiss she could muster. Elsa stood and impatiently waited for Anna to finish but her jealousy took over her better judgment. She loudly cleared her throat which made the girls break apart.
Apollonia went over and hugged the blonde, ignoring the shocked looks by both the girls.
"Let's get out of here." Apollonia mumbled and left the cabin.
The medical ward was, surprisingly, almost empty. Despite the damage done on the camp, there was only less than a handful of people who were injured. The worst injury the doctors had seen that day was Becca's broken leg. The young woman was disappointed that she would miss out on most of the celebration party her friends were throwing outside of camp. Mr. D gave permission to the older and less injured campers to go as long as they didn't come back drunk and disoriented. He gave Becca permission to go as long the doctors gave the go ahead. They agreed, but they gave Becca a wheelchair and a full leg cast. As for Nicole, they discovered that she and the group of campers hid in the woods until it was safe.
"This sucks!" Becca yelled. She and her friends were throwing the celebration party at Apollonia's family vacation home that was near the coast of New York. "How am I supposed to teach Elsa and Anna how to twerk if I'm in this?" Her Italian friend stopped in her tracks. 'Elsa and Anna . . . twerking. That'd be interesting but they're too innocent.' Apollonia thought.
"You are not teaching my girlfriend and her sister how to twerk!." Apollonia said, setting her friend in the living room.
"Fine, but it's your loss. I think seeing those two shake their butts would've been pretty interesting." Becca teased.
"Whatever." Apollonia scoffed.
Hours later, campers sixteen and older came to the party, ready to drink away their worries. Apollonia had no idea how her friends got a hold of alcohol but they managed to bring kegs, liquor, beer and shot glasses. No matter how, everyone did seem to appreciate the alcohol, especially Elsa. While she desperately wanted to hug Apollonia and shower her in kisses as a thanks for saving her, but she couldn't. Because she was with Anna at the moment and it seemed that the poor girl couldn't shake the redhead off her. The couple was sitting on the living room couch while Anna was snuggled against Apollonia's arm. The blonde sighed and sipped at her drink as she stood up and walked outside. She needed some fresh air.
As the Snow Queen was enjoying the warm summer breeze in the outdoor chair, she heard the squeaking of wheels coming closer and greeted her temporarily handicapped friend. "Hello, Becca."
"Hey, Blondie." Her wheelchair stopped besides Elsa's seat. "What are you doing out here?"
Elsa shrugged. "Oh, just thinking about all the things that are wrong with me."
"Why are you doing that?"
Elsa didn't know if it was the alcohol speaking or the desperate need to get all the pressure off her shoulders, but the next thing she knew she was breaking down in front of her room mate. Becca didn't know what was wrong but she wrapped her arms around the sobbing blonde and tried to calm her down. Eventually when Elsa managed to stop herself, she wiped her eyes and apologized for her sudden break down. "I'm sorry," Elsa sniffed. "It's just that . . . I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been sneaking around with a girl who I really like but she's probably too embarrassed to say that we're together because she has a perfect life with perfect friends and I'm just her dirty little secret. But that's not the worst part, I might be falling in love with this girl and she is probably just using me for a good time." Elsa then broke into tears again.
Becca remained silent as she tried to form the right words to comfort the blonde. After all, it wasn't every day she had to comfort a crying drunken girl. But then she thought back to what Elsa had told her and realized that Elsa probably wasn't planning to fall for the girl. Maybe this was the closest thing Elsa had to a relationship, considering she was a queen and had to wait until a potential suitor would come along and propose. Then Becca knew exactly what to say to comfort the girl.
"Then she doesn't deserve you." Becca said.
Elsa looked at Becca with an astonished expression. "Why would you say . . ."
"Elsa, if this girl is too stupid to appreciate what she has with you, then you are too good for this girl. You don't deserve this and you know it. You deserve to be with someone who would introduce you to everyone she knows and introduce you as her girlfriend, with pride."
Elsa humorlessly laughed. "Like who?"
"I don't know, someone . . ." Becca paused to chuckle. "I guess someone like Apollonia but she's dating your sister." Just the mention of the name broke Elsa's heart into smaller pieces. Why did she have to fall in love with a girl who was with her sister? Sensing her discomfort, Becca went back inside saying she was getting Elsa another drink. After Becca returned with two cups, Elsa's memory blacked out.
The morning sun peaked through the window of one of the guest bedrooms in the house. Elsa uncovered her face but immediately regretted her decision when the light practically blinded her vision. She looked around and tried to piece together the events of last night. 'How the hell did I end up here?' She thought, bringing her hands up to message her temples. She was sore and felt sweat stuck onto her body.
Suddenly she heard a groan beside her and Elsa froze. 'What happened last night?' She slowly turned and saw a big lump under the covers. Then she saw hair. Black hair. The blonde removed the sheets and saw the sleeping form of . . . Becca?
'What the hell did I do?!'