Chapter 10: Zoë Nightshade Plays With Fire
"Zoë, I have there flag! Bring ours back to base!" called a Huntress from behind the Demeter cabin where the Huntresses obviously had their base at.
Zoë took off running and put her flag down behind the Demeter cabin. She sat down in front if her flag and pulled something out of her silver arrow bag. It was a pack of matches. Zoë stood up and lit the match as easily as opening a wrapper. She held the lit match and swiftly dropped it onto the blue flag.
The fabric burst into flames and soon was more of a brown flag than a blue one. Just as fast as Zoë lit the match the brown-blue flag toppled over and the grass on the roof of the Demeter cabin burst into flames.
Its one thing for a cabin to catch on fire but it's another thing to go and burn down a cabin when you don't even go to the camp!
"Luke, go get Dionysus and Chiron." I said. Luke followed my order.
The Demeter cabin burned and burned. Zoë had gone way too far this time. When the Demeter cabin was just about done for a big burning ash flew and hit the Ares cabin, which too burst into flames.
"ZOE NIGHTSHADE, I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU TORCHED MY CABIN!" I turned around to see Clarisse La Rue screaming at Zoë.
Just when the fires were about dying down another giant burning ash flew from the Demeter cabin and onto the Poseidon cabin, which of course just had catch fire too.
Silena fell to the ground and wept. It reminded me of when I'd almost lost Luke to the dragon. "Th-That was m-m-m-my favorite place in Th-the w-world and n-n-now it's just g-g-gone. J-j-just like th-th-that." Silena tried to make a complete sentence while she sobbed.
I knelt down next to her and rubbed her back. "Everything's going to be okay, Silena. Chiron will rebuild your cabin."
"Yeah, you can feel better– your cabin isn't on the ground!" Silena tried to be mad be it just wasn't her nature.
I don't know if this was karma for leaving home or what it was but an ash flew from the Poseidon cabin onto my cabin but it didn't catch fire. Since it didn't Zoë re-lit the flag and threw it through the window next to my bed and my sheets caught fire.
"ZOE NIGHTSHADE!" called a deep rumbling voice. I turned around to see Dionysus, Chiron, and all the other campers including Luke.
"Yes, Chiron?" Zoë asked innocently although she was holding a box of matches.
"GET OUT OF HERE AND NEVER EVER, EVER COME BACK HERE EVER IN YOUR IMMORTAL LIFE OR I WILL HAVE YOU BLASTED TO BITS!" Chiron was very, very, VERY angry. With that said Zoë gathered up the Huntresses and tore out of there as fast as she could.
"Chiron, what are we going to do?" Silena asked once she stopped crying. Her eyes were red and puffy but no one asked her why she was crying considering the situation.
"First of all, was anyone in the cabins that didn't make it out?" Chiron asked.
Clarisse stepped forward. "James was in the Ares cabin with Kara."
"Clarisse, look through the burnt cabin to find them! Go now!" Chiron ordered.
The Ares cabin was the only cabin that didn't actually burn to the ground.
"Silena, Thalia, and Clarisse can sleep in the Hermes cabin until further notice," Chiron said.
"There DEAD!" Clarisse shouted from the cabin. Chiron ran over to get the bodies.