Chapter 11:
I went to Minerva's cabin to look for Bobby but he wasn't anywhere to be seen. I knew something was wrong. Grover saw my concern, "He is probably with Lupa, after all he is going on the quest." I sighed and was about to go back to Mercury's cabin when I heard laughter. A laughter that had become familiar to me. I went to toward the group of people. When I finally got to the front I wasn't surprised to see Kit and some of the Mar's cabin. I was surprised to see they were cutting Bobby with a sword. They had him pinned to the ground and where torturing him. Kit laughed one last time and said, "Common wise boy, tell us what you found out about Jackson. I heard you perfectly when you were talking to Lauren. By the way why was she crying? If you had something to do with it I swear I will kill you." When he was done I was surprised to say real hate in Kit's eyes. Suddenly I understood everything. Kit liked Lauren and hated me because probably thought something was going on between us. That's why he took me out of the locker when she said.
I uncapped Riptide and ran to the center of the circle, the one formed by people watching. "Let him go Kit. You know you just want to fight me. Leave Bobby alone." I said with an angry tone. I was really getting mad that they would hurt Bobby because of me. Kit turned as if surprised to see me. "I thought you were talking with Lupa. Very well it's your time to suffer." I saw him smile and nod at someone behind me. I knew what he was doing but discovered it a second too late. I was pinned to the ground by one of Kit's half-sisters. Kit said in a triumphant voice, "Thanks sis, now you didn't see that one coming did you? Have fun you two." Kit turned around to leave and I suddenly got an idea. I just hoped it didn't get me killed. "Lauren was crying because of me." He suddenly stopped and without turning around told his sister to get me on my knees so that he could enjoy this better. She did what she was told and he went to me, I couldn't read the look on his face. He looked me in the eyes. "What did you do to her? Weren't you supposed to be his friend?" His sister pulled my hair and my head moved back. "I told her the truth. I told her I hadn't met her before the day that we came here. That apparently it had all been the Mist. I hadn't even met you for that matter." I was surprised to hear my voice. It was loud, steady and strong.
This surprised him so he said what everyone else that heard me was thinking. "YOU LIE! You make her suffer and I will make you suffer now. My father will be proud of me for what I'm about to do." I saw he was about to strike when I heard a voice say, "You won't be able to hurt me." I blinked twice and saw I said that. Kit took this as a challenge and said "we will see about that." And got ready to stab me. I closed my eyes waiting for the pain and when I heard a huge gasp I knew he had done it. The pain never came and I opened my eyes. The knife had shattered into a million pieces. I didn't even had a scratch and Kit looked angrier than ever. He took out another knife from his boot and tried cutting a small like in my cheek. Nothing happened. Kit looked at me with hatred. He stood up and left angrier than ever. Bobby was the next one to speak, "What happened?" I didn't know and was about to say so when I heard Grover's voice. "He bathed in the River Styx. He is almost invincible because of that. He has done many things you wouldn't even imagine. Many of you will start to mistrust him because he never said so. He didn't remember. If I were you I would trust him, for I know that he will never betray you."
Everyone was open mouthed but I ignored them. I had to get Bobby to the Apollo cabin his cuts were not severe but they had to be checked. The worst ones where on his legs so he couldn't stand up. I carried him in my arms all the way. To my good and bad luck the only person there was Lauren. She looked like she had been crying and I knew she had been. I heard Bobby grunt and this made me put my thoughts aside. Lauren saw Bobby and quickly got to work. "Put him in this bunk and give him some nectar." I did what she said and saw what she was doing. With a slightly wet cloth with medicine, she started cleaning his cuts. They where way worse than I had realized. She bandaged some and had to stitch some and after an hour she was done. Bobby had fallen asleep in the process and we both decided to let him sleep.
I don't know if she wanted to say something because I didn't give her a chance. "I'm so sorry Lauren. If I could change things I would but that's not up to me. I really consider you a friend and don't like seeing you like this. I hope you can forgive me someday." I looked up and saw her smiling. "It wasn't your fault," she said "It just took me by surprise. I really liked being your friend and helping you when the stupid of Kit did something to you. I'm fine, but should I ask what happened to Bobby?" I spoke truthfully "I don't really know. Apparently he was talking to you about me and Kit heard." I saw her shrug but continued, "He wanted to know what was so important about me and why you where crying. Bobby didn't want to tell him so Kit started to torture him. I went looking for him, because I wanted to ask him if he possibly knew how to get us to the destination." Lauren looked mad, she practically screamed when she talked. "AGAIN KIT! WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE SUCH A BULLY!" I felt bad for Kit. He was in love and even though what he did was wrong he had an inspiration. "Give him a try," I said "I bet someone like you could change him. After all he has known you longer than anyone."
She somehow got angrier, and by now she was definitely screaming. "Yeah well, I tried once. Two years ago we were actually together until that stupid boy cheated on me!" She started crying. Everything makes sense now. "What makes sense?" I tried to save myself and told her I hadn't spoken. She wasn't fooled and she forced me to tell her. "I don't think he cheated on you. That's why he hates me, because he thinks something is going on between us. Lauren he really likes you, I don't have to be a son a Aphrodite… uh Venus to know that. Just don't say I told you please." I thought her reaction was going to be annoyed or confused but it wasn't. Her face showed surprise and hope. "He didn't cheat on me? It had been a rumor?" tears rolled down her cheeks, but they were clearly happy tears.
I saw Bobby wake up and said, "Bobby, I'm so sorry you got hurt because of me. I went looking for you to tell you about a prophecy and then started fighting Kit or something like that." He flinched as if remembering the pain and then said in a serious tone. "I know what's going on. I knew something was off when you beat Reyna the first day but decided not to say anything. Your fighting style is different from any I have ever seen and the first day you knew all the gods but in their Greek names. I thought I was crazy but then I saw the figures in the beads of your necklace and I understood. Someone took your memories and put you here. You where not supposed to know anything but your necklace shows you knew about Neptune and that Olympus was on the Empire State building. So I have to theories either you where created by the hand of a Greek God but aren't really a human or there is a Greek camp just like ours and you trained there." As soon as Bobby said this I knew it was true, there was another camp Grover had told me about earlier but this time something different happened I remembered killing a Minotaur the way Kit did. I remembered the image of a trident over my head. I remembered Chiron, Nico, Thalia, Zoe, Anna… I screamed in pain, again. For the third time my head was killing me but this time it didn't go away. I was screaming my head off, my hands pressing my head while I was on my knees. This time it didn't stop so easily. I didn't black out. After what felt like hours but couldn't have been more than a minute I heard a voice. That voice sounded powerful but when I heard I knew I was in trouble.