Chapter 3 C:

Disclaimer:

Wizard : Jackie- no- own anything- except- EXPECTO PATRONUM!

Me: I don't own that spell…. I only own Ella, Ivy, and Luna.

Malcolm POV

I was bored. Extremely bored. It was 2:30; and everyone was doing something. Except me. I saw Luna talking to Ella. Who to talk to? Leo? (LEO! :D :DDD) Nah, he's probably in the forges or working on the Argo II. Screw the Argo II. Annabeth was STILL giving Percy lessons; Pollux was playing Piccolo with Chiron, Dionysus and some satyr. Grover- was with Juniper. Thalia- was away with her Hunters. Jason- was with Piper. The Stolls were playing a prank on the Demeter cabin; and Katie was busy yelling at them. Everyone was BUSY. Unlike me. I thought about what I could do.

Well; I could re-read the Harry Potter series…

Or I could talk to Nico. Never mind- He's with some girl named Ivy.

I groaned; heck, I would even suit for boring lectures. Yeah , I said boring lectures. Got a problem with that? Then it hit me-

I could talk to Hestia. I walked over to her and sat crossed-legged next to her.

"Hi" she said softly. Hestia was the kindess god(ess) without a temper. She was a maiden goddess of the Hearth that appeared to be about 8; and red hair that reached to her back. She had light freckles. She reminded me of Rachel. I couldn't talk to Rachel either- Apollo was giving her some important lesson on Greek stuff. Apollo was her personal tutor, which was pretty cool.

"Hello Lady Hestia" I said.

"Is everything all right Malcolm?" she asked quietly, poking the hearth with a stick.

"Nothing. That's the problem. Everyone has something to do."

"Yeah, Chiron is buzzing around, organizing things for Capture the Flag tonight. I needed to talk to him, but he's to busy; between new Demigods and Capture the Flag" It's good Hestia felt the same way.

"Capture the Flag? I don't even know which side I'm on…." I said. I wanted to be on the blue team though- because the blue team had cool looking blue horse plumes while the red team had Red horse plumes.

"Oh, Demeter leads the Red team and Poseidon with the Blue team, of course it's only Percy but… Poseidon and Athena have an alliance tonight along with Hephaestus, Zeus, and Hades. Red team leads all the rest. "

"How did you know?" I asked. I wondered; she wasn't a stalker or anything but… well; whatever.

"Chiron." I thought for a moment, Luna and Ella were against me tonight.

"Thank you, Lady Hestia. Excuse me, I have sword practice to attend to" I said standing up. I bowed.

"Okay, see you around, young hero." She was really modest- she didn't mind us calling her Hestia, but we did it anyways. She chose to stay at camp. The rest of the gods didn't. Dionysus only stayed because of some punishment. I walked to the sword arena, and from the sleeve of my shirt; I took out a silver knife. I practiced alone. I sighed as I slashed the dummy's head off.

"Mad at someone?" I voice asked from behind. I spun around with my knife at hand. It was Luna.

"No. Just no one to practice with…" I sighed. She took out a bow and arrow.

"One on one?" she asked. I nodded and grinned. I deflected her arrows with my knife, and every time I deflected an arrow; I moved closer to her. She didn't notice. She was to busy firing arrows. To be exact; she had the sound arrows like Michael Yew and Will Solace had during the Titan war. Michael had passed during the war. She was pretty bummed about it- he was her favorite brother. I suddenly noticed she had a headband on her forehead; looking like a hippie. She was very pretty- just not my type. She hadn't dated anyone after some Aphrodite kid had broken her heart. I gave the kid a good punch in the nose. Hey; she was like a sister to me. Sorta like the Luke/Annabeth/Thalia relationship. Finally; I disarmed her, my knife against her throat. I grinned ear to ear.

"Show-off" she muttered. Suddenly; Ella entered. Luna excused herself and went to help Chiron for fixing his library.

She held up her Knife smiling at me. She wanted to go against me. The girl probably had no experience whats so ever; but she wanted to try. That was good. I took my stance, and allowed her to make the first move. She nodded nervously and slashed at me. She was actually pretty good. I forgot- Dionysus' kids were especially good athletes. I was never fast in sword fight. Or good for that matter. She swiftly made her move and pushed the point against my throat.

"You can play" she raised her eyebrows at me.

"Sexist much?"

"No! I didn't mean it that way!" I pleaded.

"Okay, I forgive you," that was nice- it usually took forever for girls to forgive guys about that stuff.

I smiled and held out my hand to her. She took it, and shook it.

"K, bye! I agreed to help Rachel organize her room!" She yelled as she skipped away.

"Bye" I whispered. I knew she couldn't hear me but she wouldn't either way. Percy walked in with a goofy smile.

"You like her! Malcolm likes the new chick!"

"Shut up!"

"One on one?"

"Nooo way Percy. I suck at sword fighting; you know it. I'm only good with calculators." Percy shrugged and put his back to me as he started ripping apart dummies. Fluff came out. My jaw dropped. Percy was always the best swordsmen. Even better then Luke. I remembered he disarmed Luke on his second day-with an unbalanced sword. He had also beaten the King of the Titans- single handedly, a few gods- Hades and Ares himself, and like 50 hellhounds at once. The dude had skill. I was pretty afraid of him. Be honest- the kid could summon 50 ft waves; beat a titan, a few gods, Medusa, the Minotaur, and probably more he hasn't told us about. I walked away, and for a moment, I considered helping Ella and Rachel. I shook my head. I also considered helping Luna. Chiron had always creeped her out for some reason and didn't like being alone with him. But she also didn't like it when people helped her. Great; I was back to square one: alone and bored. Wait: Annabeth was back from teaching Percy. Hurray! I walked back to find her on her laptop. Unhurray! Even my own sister found a non-living thing more interesting than her brother. I sighed. She didn't even look up. What was she searching? I mean, the war had passed, and there probably wouldn't be any more some time now. I walked out. I entered the Apollo cabin. I wanted to talk to Will.

"Luna's out, helping Chiron" Will said automatically.

"Nah, I want to talk to you" I said. Will rubbed the back of his head; we had never really talked before unless it was life-or-death kind of stuff.

"Well….Who's dying?" Will half-joked.

"Nah, no dead people. I need to ask you a question"

"Shoot" he said making a finger gun at me. I grinned.

"Why does Chiron creep Luna out?" I asked

"When she came into camp er- I don't want to continue…"

"EW!" I screamed. Will shuddered then nodded. I saluted him and walked out. I understood now. I actually felt bad for her. When I walked out; everyone was back. The Stolls- Leo, Piper and Jason, and everyone else I mentioned earlier. I sighed. Why was it when I had found something to do was when everyone was back. Marvelous. Leo walked up to, smiling. He had a huge grease smuch on his nose. I laughed. He pouted

"HEY! I don't laugh at you…." He said. I suddenly remembered all the times Leo laughed at me. Ha, YEAH RIGHT!

"You wish!" Leo smiled. Ella came up.

"Hey Leo?" she panted.

"Hmmm?" he asked.

"Rachel said if you can help us. You can to Malcolm." She added the last part. I nodded. Leo shrugged and followed her along. Along the way; we talked about chocolate. Yup, chocolate. Then we talked about cupcakes. Hey! We like food….Don't blame us…

"Here we are!" Ella announced gesturing to the cave. I knew Rachel had gotten a cave but I had never been to it. I entered; at first expecting green stuff and wall carvings.

I was wrong.

There was like a house in there. Spotted rugs covered on area were a bookshelf, and a table with a laptop stood. On the opposite side, stood a couch and a HUGE plasma. She had a few easels around, sketches about. Art splatters and paintings crowded the walls. This-was-wicked. I rushed over to the bookshelf- of course. Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Hey…Can I borrow this book?" I asked holding up a copy of a book named Julie. Based on the back; it was about a girl raised by wolves (I've read it! It's a real book!) Rachel shrugged.

"Sure. I don't read anyways. Apollo thought it would be a good filler for that corner." I gasped. I was offended. Who didn't like to read? Okay…So a lot of kids disliked reading…. Ella smiled, amused by our expressions. Leo shrugged and began staring at the laptop.

"Oooooo! Cool! These wires-"I stopped listening to him there. He was on crazy mechanic mode. On crazy mechanic mode; he talked about the base and how the construction was magnificent. Blah; blah; blah. I smiled apogetically at the 2 girls who were kinda surprised Leo was some crazy mechanic dude. Rachel, Ella, and I began dusting everything. I sneezed.

"Gods bless you" Rachel muttered. I thanked her and continued on. Rachel's phone rang. Rachel was one of the only ones with a cell phone. Particularly because she was mortal and her dad still needed to call her for stuff. The ringtone was Today was a Fairytale; set for Apollo. I fell on the floor laughing. She like Apollo! Rachel smacked the back of my head and glared at me. I calmed down, but when I saw her serious- death glare face I laughed again. My contagious laughter spread, and Ella and Leo started laughing to. Rachel grinned to; and joined us. Apollo popped in…with a toy car?

"What's so funny?" he said in a childish/serious voice.

"You" I said shortening the real answer. Rachel smacked my head again.

"Trying to rid of me are you!" I said in a fake crazy voice. This time, Apollo laughed with us. Rachel had been so busy glaring at me; she had forgotten to pick up the phone. I clutched the book in my hands, and if it was alive; it would have choked and died. That sounded violent didn't it?

I settled on a chair and began to read at least until they stopped joking. Ella sat on the opposite chair of me. I looked up; she was staring at my book.

"What?" I asked her.

"Nothing" she said quickly, switching her gaze to my eyes. She had intensity in her eyes, or it was probably just the violet shade of her eyes.

"Hey Malcolm?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm against you in Capture the Flag, right?"

"Yeah; why?"

"Oh…No reason!" she said standing up. One word: weird….Luna walked in and waved at Ella, Rachel, and Me. She bowed at Apollo. She came over to me and messed up my hair. I sighed.

"Lunatic; I'm trying to read. Is this book invisible or something?"

"That's a book?" she scoffed. She was a very picky reader and usually liked reading strictly long books. About fantasy. And Julie, was well; short.

"Yes Lunatic; this is a book"

"Doesn't look like it…." I rolled my eyes. She shrugged and walked over to Rachel. Apollo came over to me.

"Ohh! You're that Malcolm kid! You like kicked Hellhound-butt in the war! You're also my daughter's best bud!" Did he just realize? Well; it was an honor him knowing my name and stuff but…. Well, weird…. I nodded. I gave a forced smile and went out the door.

Okay! Soorrry I ended it there!
JACKIE (Jack-o-Lantern)