Nobody's Safe
A Percy Jackson and the Olympians Story
Chapter 3
Written by: SlntLullaby
Anyone could be the killer. You have to learn to trust no one but yourself.
Everyone looked shocked at Nico's response. Then, they all started whispering to each other with wide, scared eyes. Nico just rolled his. He didn't mean for everyone to take what he had said so harshly. He crossed his arms and stood up, looking down at what he was wearing. A black, white, and gray checkered flannel, a black t-shirt, black skinny jeans, and black low chukka Vans with white lining. He sighed, for people claimed he had the "emo" look, but he still refused to believe it. I mean, he didn't think he was totally "emo" despite his shaggy black hair, almost black eyes, and dark clothes. Nico snapped his thoughts back to reality and then cleared his throat. The others glanced up at him.
"Well, I'm gonna get going. Bye," he said abruptly, and turned to walk away.
"Wait!" a voice behind him called. It was rather annoying and it belonged to Rachel. Ugh, what the fuck does she want? Nico asked himself in his head. He turned back around to face her.
"Yes Rachel?" he asked her.
"So, you just suggest that all of us aren't safe, and now you're just leaving? Doesn't that sound a little bit suspicious to you?" she asked. He scrunched up his face, because that sentence kind of got him angry for some reason.
"Not really, no. Why the hell are you suggesting it Rachel?" With that, he walked away, ignoring Rachel's remarks. After he left, others started to leave as well.
"I should go check on my brother. I'll see you all later!" Bianca called out as she walked into the direction of her cabin.
"Well, I'm gonna get going too. Liv, do you need me to walk you back to the cabin?" Silena asked.
"No, it's fine. Katie and Destiny told me they would walk with me, so you go ahead," Olivia replied. Silena smiled brightly at her friend, seeing as though Olivia was doing better.
"Alright then. Well, I'll see you guys later, at the campfire, yeah?" Silena asked and everyone nodded their heads yes. She started walking in the direction of the woods. It was her thinking place. After Silena left, everyone else dispersed.
"Bye Wise Girl," Percy called out to Annabeth with a smirk as she was about to walk into her cabin.
"Bye Seaweed Brain. I'll see you later dork," she said, smiling, and then disappeared inside of her cabin. Percy kept on walking ahead to his cabin.
Silena walked silently through the woods, thinking.
"Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now," Silena sang softly to herself. Suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around quickly, but she saw no one. It's just my mind playing tricks on me. I'm just paranoid about this maybe murder. Vanessa probably wasn't even murdered. It had to have been an accident, Silena kept thinking to herself. Then she heard the footsteps again, getting closer. Her heart started to race, despite her telling herself to calm down and that it was nothing. She started to walk faster, and so did the thing behind her. So she started jogging. And so did they. So Silena ran. Whatever was behind her was catching up to her, so Silena jumped up into the nearest tree she could find, and climbed it fast. Then, she looked down and saw a dark figure with a knife approaching her. Silena widened her eyes and screamed.
"Shut up!" the figure hissed.
"No, get away from me!" Silena yelled, kicking her legs at the figure below and then screamed again, even louder this time. And if you knew Silena, you knew that when she screamed, well, she screamed. And you could hear her from every perimeter of the camp. So you could say that everyone was pretty much alerted, and her group of friends ran towards the scream.
"No! Ugh, I will get you," the figure whispered menacingly, and then ran off. A few moments later, her friends came running up.
"Silena! What happened?" Grover asked, out of breath. Silena stared down at them, her heart still racing. And then it sunk in. Someone just tried to kill her. There was a murderer at Camp Half-Blood.
"Silena?" Thalia asked, very concerned. "What's going on?"
"I think I'm gonna fall," Silena said hoarsely, and then she did fall. Luckily, Beckendorf caught her.
"Hey, Sil, what happened?" Beckendorf asked softly. Silena took a deep breath and shut her eyes tight.
"They tried to kill me," she whispered.
"Who Silena?" Destiny prompted.
"I- I don't know. I couldn't see their face," Silena said, as Beckendorf gently put her on her feet. Silena eyed the rest of her friends coming towards her. The stragglers, she supposed.
"What's going on?" Rachel asked dramatically, as soon as she and the rest of the others had reached Silena.
"Oh stop being such a drama queen Rachel," Annabeth said, which earned her a glare from the 'Red Headed Nightmare,' as Annabeth called her. "Someone tried to kill Silena."
"Are you kidding me? Please Silena. You were probably making it up. It was most likely a figure of your imagination, because you were so paranoid over the discussion we just had about there being a possible murderer, which there most likely is not. And because Nico, over there, so kindly said nobody is safe, which just got everybody worked up for no reason, so thank you Nico, thank you," Rachel ranted. Annabeth rolled her eyes and turned to her, with her arms crossed across her chest.
"Oh, just shut up Rachel. Just go like, bury yourself in a hole, and never come back, alright? It'd make all of us happy," Annabeth said, a cocky smirk on her face.
"Oh, but it wouldn't make everyone happy. I'm sure Percy wouldn't be too thrilled that I was dead, and on your own behalf too, Annabitch," Rachel shot back smugly. That was it. She went too far. Annabeth was, simply put, going to kill her.
"Alright, you know what, you wanna fight?" Annabeth yelled, lunging at Rachel. Percy, reacting quickly, grabbed Annabeth around her waist, and held her back.
"Let. Me. Go," Annabeth said though gritted teeth.
"No," Percy said, and kept a tight grip on her. He leaned down and whispered into her mess of blonde, curly hair, "Shh. Just, calm, Wise Girl. I know you don't like her, alright? But Silena's really freaked out right now, so let's try and help her, yeah? And if it's any consolation, I'd take you over her any day." Her body relaxed, and she looked back at him and smiled.
"You mean it?" Annabeth asked softly.
"Of course," Percy replied, and placed a light kiss on her cheek, and then released her from his grip.
"Now, Silena, tell us what happened," Annabeth said, acting as if nothing had just happened between neither Rachel or Percy. Silena sucked in a good amount of air, and then told them what happened.
"That's damn creepy," Bianca said once Silena had finished. "We need to find this person. And fast."
"I second that," Katie Gardner said.
"We third it," the Stolls voiced, sticking their tongues out at Katie.
"Idiots," she mumbled, and rolled her eyes at them. "Real mature, Stolls."
"Well, I still don't think there's a murderer," Rachel grumbled out.
"Holy shit, just shut up, stop trying to deliberately fight with Annabeth just because you're in fucking love with Percy, and realize there's a murderer, Rachel," Nico said in a tone that sounded clearly annoyed and pissed off at Rachel. Most of them stifled laughs as Rachel stood with her mouth open in shock.
"I do not love Percy!" was what she said back. Wow, good comeback. Should I applaud her? Come on.
"Right. And that's why you drool over him every day. Get it through your head, you demon: Percy does not and will not ever love you! Stop trying and move on! Get a life!" Nico shot back right away.
"Nico..." Bianca said in her warning tone. She didn't want him to start a big fight. Nico was a really nice and sweet kid, really. But sometimes he just got worked up, and he really just hated Rachel, so it took less time for him to get pissed off at her. "Come on. We've got a murderer to catch. Everyone, get along."
"Fine," Nico said, grudgingly. The horn for dinner sounded, and everyone glanced at one another.
"We'll talk about this later. Let's all just go get something to eat," Destiny said. They all walked toward the dining pavilion, unaware that the murderer's presence was within them.
Please review (:
Well, I think I made Nico a little OOC. I didn't really mean to, but I think I did. I made him quite mean and sot of bitter. But he's really not. Just to Rachel for some unknown reason :P But, yeah. I'll try and update sooner. I'm getting really busy though, so I'm trying (: