While sitting in her cabin, Katie heard people begin to shout, "Fight! Fight!"
She brushed her brown hair out her eyes as she put her gardening book down. She was reading about the best conditions to plant a willow tree in because she had accidentally almost killed her last one.
"This better be important." Katie muttered to herself as she opened the door leading to outside her cabin.
The sight in front her was the most shocking thing she ever expected to see in Camp Half-Blood. There was almost every single person in Camp gathered up around the arena. They were all chanting except for a select few who were as confused as she was. The campers cheering were mostly all screaming and had creepy smiles on their faces. The ones on the outside were trying to get to the center and see what the big commotion was about. Katie saw a few Hermes kids collecting bets for who would win.
Katie slowly stepped down from her doorstep, closing her red wood door to her cabin. She was in such shock Katie didn't give it enough force so it swung open again, but she did nothing to stop it.
Katie then proceeded to begin to push through the crowd. As she was getting closer to the middle, she was roughly shoved by a camper and fell on the ground. She looked up and realized that the person had ever-so-kindly pushed her to the front.
What she sees shocked her to no end, there was Mark Phillips in front of Conner Stoll who was on his knees. Conner has a split lip and a bruising cheek, but nobody seemed like they were trying to help him.
Katie looked around the arena and noticed that they people surrounding her has either menacing smiles on their faces or looks of fear. The Aphrodite girls were too scared to even look Conner's way.
Mark has blood on his fist that he was lifting to give Conner another punch. Katie could only assume the blood was from the split lip or the bloody mouth that now revealed itself when Conner let loose a cough.
As Mark was swinging to give another punch, Katie noticed Travis on the other side of the arena. He was too far away to make out his face but he immediately jumped over the wall and stormed over to Mark.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the big brother." Mark sneered at Travis stopping the punch mid-hit. Katie saw the slight look of relief on Conner's face when Mark lowered his fist. By now the chanting had stopped and everyone could hear Mark.
Travis didn't even respond as he reached Mark. Without a second though, Travis gave Mark a perfectly executed upper-cut punch. Mark staggered back, it was mostly from surprise but also a little from the punch. It looked like Travis was stronger than he let on.
Travis didn't say a word as he strolled over to Mark confidently and stood in front of him. Mark bends over from pain. He was grasping his chin like it was broken, which it likely was. Travis didn't move as Mark gathered himself and stood up.
I had never seen such a look on Travis' face. This day was full as surprising things because Travis had no emotion on his face. It was completely unreadable.
"You can get as mad at me as you want and go on a rampage all over camp, but the moment you touch Conner it becomes a whole nother ball-game." Travis says in scarily quiet voice that had no doubt in what he was going to do. Katie didn't know what he's going to do, but she's still scared.
Travis then reaches up, braces one hand against Mark's back like he's going to give him a hug. Then places the other on his forehead and pushed backed against his head in a forceful motion. A crack sounded and Mark's head was thrown back. He then collapsed on the dirt with Travis standing over him.
Shock rippled through the crowd as Travis walked over to Conner, lifted him up bridle style, and walked out of the arena leaving Mark lying there.
Before he leaves, Travis says in the same quiet voice, "Don't worry. He isn't dead."