Leo pov
I was at the dining pavilion with Nico, it's been 7 minutes and Ariel still wasn't here. It was just me and Nico, don't get me wrong, he's great but I don't really know him.
Also, Travis and Connor aren't here, neither is Katie. Travis and Connor thought it would be funny to prank Katie. I heard she tied Connor and Travis to a tree upside down, and was currently beating them with rocks and sticks.
"Sorry, I am late." I turned my head, and there was Ariel, looking really red. "Hey… WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!" I yelled. What would you do if you came to the table with bruises, just healing wounds, and red faced!
At my outburst, many people looked at me and Ariel. My face started feeling warm and I was positive I was blushing.
"What happened?" Nico's voice snapped me from my embarrassment. "I tripped." Ariel said blankly. "I need to get my lunch." She started walking away, when I grabbed her hand.
She flinched at the contact, and frankly I was shocked I grabbed her hand. "Sit down." I told her. "But-" Ariel tried saying, but I cut her off, by taking her glove off.
She widened her eyes, while I looked at her hand and suddenly flipped it over. She winced, and I found out her hand was covered in indents, like little rocks hit it recently. I sighed, and she sat down next to me. "Nico, can you get some ice." I said.
He nodded and left. "I am sorry, Leo." Ariel said. "Not your fault, I think. Here, come on, you can have some of my food." I said. She looked at my plate, which was loaded with good old fashioned burritos!
"What! You never seen a burrito before!" She shook her head, "Buuurrrriiitttoooo. No." "You haven't TRIED THE BEST MOUTH WATERING THING YOU WILL EVER TASTE?!" I yelled.
"Never mind." I said quickly after seeing the strange looks I was getting. They really need to get a HODDIE!
"Okay." Ariel said. "Ariel," I whispered, "If someone did this to you, you would tell me, right?" She never answered. "At least think of a better lie, like I was shocked by Leo's hotness that my body just couldn't handle it."
She turned into an interesting shade of red before she turned her head, and made an "hmf" sound. I looked down; does she still not trust me? I looked at her, and put a fake smile on my face, vowing one day I would help her.
And I would start by helping her deal with her trust problems, I think more people would like her if she just opened up a little more. I'll call it 'MISSON ONE! TRUSTY RUSTY' This is soooo not going to work. Especially with that stupid name.
Ignoring that I looked over to see Nico with the ice pack, "Here" He said. "So, what happened?"
He asked, and handed the pack to Ariel and she began her story. "Well, you see, I was whisked away by the tooth fairy and she blinded me with a rag. Then, she took me to her tooth castle, and according to her, I was the next in line for the tooth fairy kingdom, only I glanced around to find the fairies as slaves. I down right refused, saying that fairies should be free and that the kingdom should transform into a democracy. But the tooth fairy was angered and promptly beat me up. She forgot that I had a dagger and I stabbed her. The fairies claimed me as leader and took me back to Earth in a carriage. And I was like ) itches be trippin."
I sat there dumb founded. "Leo is that the story you craved? Oh, did I use the phrase itches be trippin right, I heard one of the children of Ares use it after they beat a fellow camper up."
Ariel watched us as if expecting praise, Nico and I shared a holy-hell look before looking at her again.
I opened my mouth to speak but Nico beat me to it, "I'm sorry the word is bitches." My jaw fell open, while Ariel tilted her head,"Leo what does bitches mean?" This was going to be a LONG day.
Ariel pov
After Nico and Leo helped me on my improving up to date language, we all just made conservation and went to our classes after lunch.
According to them bitches is a bad word for bad people, only everyone says this 'bad' word. They stopped attempting to teach me through because I told them how is it possible for the word to be bad if it a common word used in the English language.
My other two classes were not as eventful. In gardening everyone just ignored me and scolded me if I harmed one of plants and monster learning class, is where I fell asleep.
Throughout the rest of the day, I had this ugly feeling in my stomach, I assumed it was guilt. I have read about this guilt before, it occurred after someone has done something wrong. I understand why I have it, but it was the only thing I could have done.
If Leo found all he would have done is tell on the children of Ares for doing that or on the nymph. But I have not found out yet if I am insane or not yet, so it has to wait. It does not really matter through.
When the sun set I finally got out of my monster learning class and headed to my cabin. When I walked in there sat Nico, "Hi Ariel." "Hello Nico." He yawned, "You going to bed?" "Sorry I am not, I have manga to read."
He chuckled, "Okay, night." "Sweet dreams." I replied. After one hour of reading I looked over to see Nico fast asleep. I got up of my comfy bed and walked outside to the Ares cabin.
I shivered in the cold especially since my clothes were not ones appropriate in the fridge air. I felt my mind start to wander, should I tell Leo?
I shook my head, no not ever. I glanced up and saw the Ares cabin, I sighed and knocked on the door. In an instant Clarisse opened the door, "Oh it's you."
She ushered me in, "Now, death girl, I must say you surprised me, showing your punk ass face in this room where pretty much everyone here wants to beat the living crap out of you."
I nodded my head, "I was not aware of the beating you all wish to partake in, but I came merely to collect weapons in order to polish." I asked honestly.
All the children of Ares were now staring at me as if I had announced I wanted to kill them all, which was impossible since they are the best fighters in the camp. In order to change the subject I asked, "May I start polishing?"
"Gods NO! Do that in the forges!" Clarisse shouted, I bowed and put my arms in the front of me waiting for the weapons.
She then gave me a basket filled to the brim with swords, daggers, and items that appeared to be medieval torture weapons.
"Oh and Ariel, you do know you have to sleep in the forges. You can't go walking around in the middle of the night. Just give our weapons to us in the morning." Clarisse warned me with a somewhat evil smile.
I sighed but politely as I could I left the room and headed to the forges. For hours I polished each and every weapon, while listening to my IPod. After I finished I turned my head to the huge clock, it read 1:00AM.
I gave a tired smile and searched the room for a blanket, until I found a huge drying cloth covered in old grease. I went to the corner of the forge and curled up in the 'blanket'.
When this is over the children of Ares will forgive me mother. Only I wish I could forgive myself. I am so sorry. I shuffled through my IPod until I found the song I wanted. Rin's and Len's mixed version of 'Kokoro'.
Singing softly to myself I fell asleep, holding my IPod close to my heart. I opened my eyes and glanced at the clock, 7:00AM, I jumped, "Oh no, oh no, oh no." I whispered.
I took the cloth and threw it where I found it, then collected weapons in the basket, and high tailed it to the Ares cabin. I prayed to all the Gods on my way, Please let Leo and Nico be sleeping!
Let the children of Ares be awake! So far so good, no one was awake. When I got there, I knocked loudly on the door, when it blew open.
"WHAT!" Misa opened the door, she blinked a few times when she saw me, "What are you doing here with our weapons?"
She asked. "I thought you were aware that I was polishing the weapons last night." I answered getting nervous. "Who set you up to this?" She growled, "It no problem, please believe me, I must do the leaving. I am sorry." I handed her the basket and fled.
I made a bee line to my cabin and opened the door and slipped inside. I scanned the room, Nico was sleeping soundly, and I started calming down and took my clothes for the day and headed to the bathroom.
I took a shower and changed into black jeans with a neon blue t shirt. I then proceeded to dash to my room, hopped into my bed and grabbed a manga just before Leo entered.
I felt this 'guilt' in my stomach again, but I took one glance and I knew I was not going to tell him, I mean look how happy he is. "Let's go Ariel!" He looked at me with such sprite I smiled despite how exhausted I was. "Yes Leo we shall go."