Scarlet's POV
I woke with a start when I heard a scream ring out around the camp. The scream stopped abruptly. I looked around my cabin; no one seemed to hear the scream. What the Hades, I thought, am I really the only one who heard that? Eh, oh well. As I lay back done in bed I heard another scream, this one seemed to be closer. Everyone in the cabin heard it this time. They jumped to their feet, securing to find their weapons. My brother, Hunter, ran over towards me with Susie in tow. "What in the gods name was that?" Susie questioned. Her brown-blonde hair messy with sleep and her blue eyes still misty with sleep but still strangely alert. "Its prob-"I was cut off by a ball of light passing by the windows of the cabin. "What the hell" I heard Hunter mutter under his breath. "Hey!" I yelled to get my other siblings attention "the rest of you stay here. Okay? Hunter, Susie, and I will check it out" I heard some reluctant yes' and whatever's from the crowd.
When we stepped out of the cabin we froze in shock. The big house was engulfed in flames. The scene in front of me didn't seem real to me. I saw Chiron and some Poseidon kids trying to put out the flames, but it was no use. The flames were expanding. "Go inside and tell everyone to get out now! Just get away from here, but stay inside camp boarders." I yelled. My voice sounded scared and panicked even to my own ears. Without even looked behind me to see if they listened to my directions, I ran towards the big house. While running I saw Lilly, behind her were some of her younger cabin mates.
"Scar! What's going on?" she yelled when I reached ear-shot. I saw her eyes sweep around the camp. Seeing the chaos. "Lills, I have no idea." I saw one of the youngest Nyx children, Karla, age 3, tug on Lilly's shirt. Lilly picked up her up, giving her a tight hug. Lilly looked back at me then to Karla. Lilly's eyes seemed to say 'I can't let anything happen to her'.
"Tell them to follow my cabin they're taking the younger ones away from here, Lilly." She looked at me as if I were crazy. "Lills, they'll be safer away from here." That seemed to get her attention. She set Karla down and turned to the rest of them "Guys," she said in a strong firm tone " go into the woods, to the left of Zeus' fist there's a cave, hide in there until me or scarlet goes and gets you ,okay? Now go follow Apollo's cabin there going to stay with you guys." They ran towards Susie, when they reached her she looked straight at Lilly and I, she gave us a nod as to reassure us that they'd be safe.
As we, Lilly and I reached the big house I saw that the same Poseidon kids, Mayra, Lisa Shay and Lisa Tamon, were trying to put out the flames. "How long have you guys been at this?" I screamed trying to be heard over the pained yells of the other campers. "To long," Mayra said exhaustedly "I don't know how much longer we can keep this up" looking at all their faces I'd say they had less than half an hour left in them. Before I could answer them, the earth shook so violently that it knocked us off our feet. Without Mayra and both Lisa's keeping the fire somewhat under control the flames expanded. They now engulfed the Apollo, Hermes, Hephaestus and Aphrodite cabins.
As I stood up I felt an arm wrap around my waist and a cold dagger pressed against my throat. I tried to escape, but only succeeded in getting the dagger pressed further into my throat. That's when I felt my blood trickle down my neck. It hurt like hell! I heard a soft chuckle. "Oh look what you did to yourself." Said a voice I knew all too well. Demetri Vosmus. "So do you guys like what I did? I put enough effort in to it, don't you think?" he said it in a thoughtful tone. I didn't reply, knowing that if I did I would get myself killed. You see, pissing off ANY Hades child is bad, but pissing off Demetri WILL get you killed or injured so severely that you WISH you were dead.
"Hm, well I guess I should go now. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of each other." And with that he realest me shoving me roughly to the ground. I sat up, looking for the others. Lilly, Mayra, Lisa S and Lisa T were both looking at me with a mixture of fright, and sadness. I stood and looked around the camp. All the fires were gone. The only evidence that there was a fire was the ash and soot covering the ground and cabins.