A/N: Hey guys! This chapter is a little more graphic than the others, but that was why I changed the rating. I knew that if the story was to develop, I needed to right outside my comfort zone, so I did. Believe me one part is WAY outside my comfort zone. Anyway. Enjoy Chapter 7 of Demigod Mouth
Chapter 7
Stella's POV
I heard Mo scream and ran as fast as I could to where I heard her. I stopped upon an unbelievable sight. There lying on the ground was an unconscious Ray Beech, and surrounding him were dogs, but that were bigger, with glowing red eyes, and leathery black skin instead of fur.
"What the... OLIVIA!" I turned to look at Olivia on Charlie's back, probably because she was feeling so woozy. "What are those things?" I screamed, pointing at the dog things.
"Hell Hounds." Olivia said. "Charlie, I need you to put me down." Olivia said tapping Charlie on the shoulder.
"But you've been so woozy; you nearly fainted a while ago." Charlie said, trying to reason Olivia out of doing this. I didn't know what Olivia was going to do, but I knew she wasn't going to give up easily. If there was one thing I knew about my girl, it was that she was stubborn.
"CHARLES DELGADO YOU PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT OR I SWEAR TO GODS YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO FEEL YOUR HANDS FOR A MONTH!" Dang she was could. Charlie put her down instantaneously, probably from the fear of not being able to drum for a month. Olivia hopped off Charlie's back, whipped open her hair clip, and ran at the hell hound things. "HEY HELL HOUNDS! YOO HOO! OVER HEAR! COME GET SOME NICE TASTY DAUGHTER OF APOLLO!" The hell hounds looked up from Ray, and over to Olivia.
"OLIVIA! What on earth do you think you're doing?" Wen screamed frantically at her.
"Giving them a distraction! You get Ray to the infirmary. Stella! I need you to help me!" Olivia looked over at me.
"What do you need girl?" I asked looking over at her jumping up and down waving her hands.
"When they start chasing me, I need you and Mo to run after them and kill two; I'll take care of the third with my arrows." She said, "You got that Mo?"
"I got it!" I looked over and Mo already had her whip and shield out. "You ready Stella?"
I whipped open my sword and shield, "I'm ready Mo. Let's do this!"
"You guys are crazy!" I looked over and saw Wen and Charlie holding up an unconscious Ray.
"Maybe." I said, "But it's too late now!" Olivia bolted, and the hell hounds sure enough ran right after her. I nodded at Mo and ran right after them.
Mo whipped her whip around the neck of one of the hell hounds and jumped onto its back. "Stella!" She reached out her hand. I grabbed her hand and she swung her arm and I jumped onto the hell hound next to her. I stayed standing, because I was going to have to jump on to Mo's hound soon. I reared up my sword, stabbed the hound, twisted my sword, and then pulled out my sword. The hound reared up and I jumped just as it tripped. I landed behind Mo, grabbed her hand and did the same thing to her hound. Mo whipped a tree branch and we both jumped. We were swinging from the tree branch, and jumped down to the ground, since we were only a few feet off the ground.
"OLIVIA! SHOOT IT!" I screamed at Olivia. Mo and I started running after the blonde mass of hair. "DON'T WAIT! SHOOT IT!" I yelled again. Olivia turned around, bow poised ready to shoot, still running, and when the hell hound reared up ready to attack her, she realised the arrow, and shot straight into the hell hounds chest. We looked over at where the other hell hounds should be, and all we saw were dust piles.
"OLIVIA!" I heard Mo scream. I looked over and saw Olivia swaying back and forth. We ran over and got to where she was just in time to catch her from fainting.
Wen's POV
"OLIVIA! What on earth are you doing?" I screamed, as I saw her getting the hell hounds' attention. Never have I been so worried for anything. Not even when Georgie nearly got hit by a car, I mean yes I was worried, but this topped it.
"Giving them a distraction! You get Ray to the infirmary. Stella! I need you to help me!" Olivia looked over at Stella.
"What do you need girl?" Stella asked looking over at Olivia jumping up and down waving her hands. What did she need? What was going through her head right now? This is insane!
"When they start chasing me, I need you and Mo to run after them and kill two; I'll take care of the third with my arrows." She said, "You got that Mo?" START CHASING HER! No I wasn't going to have this! I started to walk over to them, but Charlie held me back.
"I know you're worried dude, but you have to trust that she knows what she is doing." Charlie said.
"But aren't you worried about them! It's not just Olivia, but Stella and Mo!" I said looking at him.
"I am worried, for the hell hounds. Now let's get Ray." He said nodding over to the unconscious blonde boy.
"You ready Stella?" Mo screamed.
Stella whipped open my sword and shield, "I'm ready Mo. Let's do this!"
"You guys are crazy!" I screamed at them, as I was putting Ray's arm around my shoulder. Dang it he was heavy.
"Maybe." Stella said, "But it's too late now!" Olivia bolted, and the hell hounds sure enough ran right after her. Stella nodded at Mo and ran right after them.
I had half a mind to run right after them, but I knew that Charlie was right. I had to trust them. Charlie and I held up Ray and started walking towards the infirmary. Scott followed behind us.
"Scott, why didn't you try to stop Mo?" I asked, because I was curious. I mean he did date her, none of us know if it was genuine or not, but still.
"I knew she wouldn't listen, so I didn't bother. She's still pretty mad at me." Scott said looking down at his feet. Something about him seemed off, I didn't know him that well, but he was in the band. I looked him up and down; he was wearing the same clothes that he was wearing last night. His hair was all messed up, he hadn't even bothered to gel it.
"Dude don't you care about her?" I asked looking at him.
"Of course I do, but she doesn't believe me. She thinks I only dated her to keep tabs on you guys." Scott said looking up at me.
"Well then dude, you have to prove to her that actually care about her." I said to him.
"I don't know man. Something tells me she won't listen to me. I have to go; need to watch the younger Mr. D's." Scott ran off.
"Dude, why are you trying to help him?" I looked over to Charlie. "You know I like Mo."
"I know, but really it's up to Mo. If she likes you, then she'll go for you. If she likes Scott, then she`ll go for Scott. Nothing you can do about it man." I patted him on the back.
"I guess you right. Let's Bee…I mean Ray here to the infirmary. This 'liking Ray' thing is going to take some work." Charlie said.
"Olivia never said we had to like him, only that we had to put up with him." We walked the rest of the way to the infirmary in silence.
By the time we got to the infirmary, Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Thalia were all waiting for us. "Hey, what happened to Ray?" Thalia said pointing to the unconscious boy.
"No idea, but we're guessing 'moon sickness'. At least that's what Olivia said." Charlie and I handed Ray over to Percy and Grover. He was a lot heavier than he looked.
"That actually explains a lot. He'll only need a couple minutes in the light and he'll be fine." Annabeth said as she followed Percy with her eyes.
"Guys! You might want to come see this!" I heard Grover yell from inside the infirmary. We all looked at each other and piled inside the infirmary as fast as we could. I walked over to Grover, "Look at this." Grover moved aside and we saw a large gash down Ray's back.
"That wasn't there before. I swear no blood whatsoever." Charlie said looking down at the large gash down his back.
"Hey, wait. Look at that scar on Ray's arm." I pointed to a long scar that ran down the length of the outside of his lower arm.
"Doesn't Olivia have that same scar?" Charlie said looking at the scar.
"Yeah, but she always said she has no idea how she got it." I looked back down at the scar. My eye was caught by another thing, another scar to be precise. "Look at that one. Under Ray's lip. Olivia has one there as well. She said she fell in the second grade and cut her lip so bad that she needed stiches."
"Ray always said he had no idea how he got it. He just woke up with a cut on his lip that was so deep it scarred. He didn't need stiches though." Grover said pointing at the scar. "He got that one on his arm from when he was a kid, he was climbing a tree and his foot slipped and he cut his arm." I gave him a questioning look, "My friend was Ray's protector. He told me this."
"WEN!" I looked up at the sound of my name and bolted out the door. It was Mo. She was carrying and unmoving Olivia. I ran over as fast as I could and took her from Mo's hands.
"What happened?" Mo looked hesitant to tell me, "MO! WHAT HAPPENED?" Mo took a step back, I rarely yell, "I'm sorry, what happened?"
"When she killed the hell hound, she turned around and, when it fell down, the claw scratched her back. There's a huge gash." My eyes went wide. Something wasn't right. I ran to the infirmary and placed Olivia on the bed next to Ray's.
"Look at this." I lifted Olivia's head and turned her onto her stomach so people could see her back.
"That's the exact same cut." Stella said looking between the twins.
"Yeah this is weird." I looked between the two cuts. Olivia's cut was deeper than Ray's. Olivia's cut on her lip needed stitches, but Ray's didn't. The scar on Ray's arm is more noticeable than the one on Olivia's arm.
"Rose!" Annabeth called over to the girl that had helped us when Mo got that cut on her head a few nights ago, "You need to look at this." Rose walked over and nearly gagged from looking at the gashes, not that I could blame her.
"Why is no one dealing with this?" Rose screamed looking for others to help.
"No Rose, look at the cuts, they're the exact same, and they have the same scar on the right arm and beneath the lip. I'm sure if there is any other scar, they would both have it." Annabeth said pointing down at the two of them.
"Wait. There might be one. Olivia has only told me about this one. You can't tell her I told you." I said looking at the others. They all nodded. "You know how when her Dad, or Step-Dad, was put into jail when she was 12? Well she went through a couple other tough times. Olivia's Step-Dad and her Mom actually had a son, just a year younger than Olivia. Well he was hanging out with a couple friends, in the wrong neighbourhood, and well his friend pissed off this one guy, the other guy pulled out a gun intending to shoot his friend in the shoulder, but he jumped before he fired, and it ended up killing Olivia's brother. His name was Max. Her Step-Dad then went after Max's friend, and beat him up which is how he ended up in jail. Olivia got so depressed that she resorted to some, well desperate measures." I walked over to Olivia and pulled up her sleeves. "Can I have a wash cloth?" Rose handed me a damp wash cloth. I gently rubbed them up Olivia's arms to take away the makeup and reveal the rows of cutting scars.
"Oh my Gods!" Mo gasped looking down at Olivia's arms. She started crying, and grabbed onto the person closest to her, which happened to be Charlie. He couldn't take his eyes away from the scars, but he did comfort Mo slightly, rubbing her arm soothingly.
"When did she stop doing this to herself?" Stella asked looking at the scars with an unbelieving look on her face.
"After she met us. She told me that she's never been happier." A small tear escaped me eye as I looked down at Olivia's arms. "If Ray has the exact same scars on his arms, then we know something is up."
Rose walked over and lifted up the sleeves of Ray's jacket and sure enough, the scars were there. "Now that we have this figured out, I'm going to have somebody dress the wounds. Wen can I speak to outside?" I followed Rose outside of the infirmary. "Ray and Olivia, they wouldn't happen to be twins would they?" Rose asked looking up at me.
"Yeah, fraternal. Why? What does that have to do with anything?" I asked.
"It's rare that twins are born of God blood. When they are, there tend to be consequences. No one knows what those consequences until the twins meet, since they are usually separated at birth for safety. This must be their consequence."
"What? What is their consequence?" I asked, my temper slowly rising.
"Whenever one twin gets hurt, or hurts themselves, the other twin will feel it, and get the exact same injury. This explains how they both have the same cutting scars. Look I heard about you guys getting a quest. My assumption being that you five are going, I want you to take good care of Olivia and see to it that she doesn't get seriously hurt; we don't need multiple trips from Ray Beech "mysteriously" breaking his leg while sitting down eating breakfast. No one but Gods, Chiron, and infirmary people know about the consequences of twins. We don't need the whole camp worrying about if they might have a twin somewhere in the world, then they start acting so cautious, that they lose every battle instinct they have and they all end up being in the infirmary. Can you make sure she stays as safe as she can?"
"Yeah I can do that. In fact I can do better, I won't take her. The prophecy said five of shall travel to the place we call home, so we can take Scott instead."
"Then I suggest you leave as soon as you can, don't tell either one what you are doing. Wait until they get better at least, so they know you are there for them. When they are better, I suggest you five leave, no goodbye, not even a note. They'll follow you." Rose said.
"Fine I'll let the others know. How long should it take them to heal?"
"12 hours maximum. We have some pretty strong stuff, not to mention we're children of Hermes, we can heal people by will."
We walked back into the infirmary. Ray had regained consciousness, but Olivia was still unconscious. I texted the guys the plan.
From: Wen
To: Stell, Mo, Charlie, and Scott
Change of plans, Scott is coming with us instead of Olivia.
From: Mo
To: Wen, Stell, Charlie, and Scott
WHAT WHY!
From: Stell
To: Wen, Mo, Charlie, and Scott
Not happening
From: Charlie
To: Wen, Stell, Mo, and Scott
Are you insane!
From: Scott
To: Wen, Stell, Mo, and Charlie
Am I missing something?
From: Wen
To: Stell, Mo, Charlie and Scott
Turns out the whole Ray and Olivia being twins have some problems. When one of them gets hurt, the other one gets hurt the exact same way. Rose thinks it's best that neither of them come on the quest, because we don't want one of them breaking a leg, and then the other breaks it while sitting down doing nothing. No one knows about this twin thing. We need to take Scott instead of Olivia.
The others looked up at me in disbelief. I knew they weren't going to let this slide easily.
From: Scott
To: Wen, Stell, Mo and Charlie
You've got to be kidding me. I'm coming because you need to keep Olivia safe! This is ridiculous. There is no way I'm going with this.
From: Mo
To: Wen, Stell, Charlie, and Scott
Actually I think he has a point. If no one but certain people know about this, then we need to keep it a secret.
From: Stell
To: Wen, Mo, Charlie, and Scott
Even if it means leaving behind our best friend, making her think we ditched her. She's already self-conscious as it is, this will just make her think that we think she's not good enough.
From: Charlie
To: Wen, Mo, Stell, and Scott
Then we'll leave her a note explaining everything.
From: Wen
To: Mo, Stell, Charlie, and Scott
They'll follow us. Look we can stay here until she gets better but we leave the night she's better. They say it'll only take 12 hours since children of Hermes can heal people willingly. Are we in?
From: Mo
To: Wen, Stell, Charlie and Scott
If it means protecting Olivia, than I am in.
From: Stell
To: Wen, Mo, Charlie, and Scott
Fine, but I won't be happy about it.
From: Charlie
To: Wen, Mo, Stell, and Scott
I'm in.
From: Scott
To: Wen, Mo, Stell, and Charlie
Fine, but only because Ray is my best friend.
The next night, with our bags packed we met at the Camp gates, and we left. Olivia would be okay. Right?
A/N So there is Chapter 7. So leave a review and tell me what you think. What did you think of the higher rated content?
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