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Chapter 4: Silena and Charles Beckendorf

Charlie was taking a nice slow ride on Festus, the famous Cabin 9 dragon, with Silena over the forest. Silena had her arms wrapped around Charlie and had her eyes closed as they soared through the sky. Suddenly Charlie was struck in the head with a water balloon. Along with the surprise and the ice cold water on the spring day it hit with such force that it almost knocked him along with Silena off of Festus. Luckily working in the forges and battle training had caused him to gain some muscle that easily held him up. "What the fuck was that?" Charlie asked while he scanned the forest floor for the culprit.

"You're asking me this? I had my eyes closed the entire time, but I think it might have been a water balloon," Silena replied.

"It was just a general question, not really pointed at you, but it definitely felt like one," Charlie explained and rubbed his head where a bump was starting to form. "And it hurt."

"And you think someone else can hear and answer your question," Silena scoffed and kissed the slowly forming bump on his head. "Does that feel better?"

"Now that I think about no I don't think anybody can hear me and yes it does feel better, thank you," Charlie replied.

"No problem," Silena said and kissed him on the lips.

Bam! A balloon hit Silena in the side of the head and by the taste of the water that fell into her mouth it was salt water. "Ahh! Salt water! I just got new highlights! The salt water is going to ruin the color! As soon as I get my hands on the person who did this I am going to tear them to shreds. On second thought I will do that in a few days I just got a new manicure as well and I don't want to ruin it kicking someone's ass," Silena said while looking at her nails.

Charlie brought Festus lower to the ground to see if he could find the person throwing the balloons. He opened Festus' control panel to turn his vision to infrared so they could find the people who were shooting the balloons. Suddenly he saw something fly up out of the corner of his eye, thinking it was a bird he dismissed it but suddenly there was water and a broken balloon lying on Festus' control panel. "Fuck! Damn it! Silena do you have something that I can dry this panel with?" Silena looked up from her nails.

"Yes but don't get grease all over it," She pulled out a glasses cleaner that she used for her sunglasses and gave it to Charlie but some damage was already done and he knew no matter what that it was going to rust.

Then a thought came to him, 'Who would sneak out past a dragon, Argus, Chiron and harpies to get balloons?' His eyes narrowed and all he was thinking is 'I am going to kill those Stolls.' With this in his head he flew towards the Hermes cabin to wait for the Stoll brothers. After hours of waiting at the cabin and no Connor or Travis in sight he decided to go put Festus up and walk Silena to her cabin to get cleaned up before dinner.

When Charlie went to dinner he saw the Stolls joking around with their brothers and sisters as if nothing had happened. At the campfire Travis and Connor sat towards the front to mess with the singing Apollo kids so Charlie couldn't go pull them away without a few people seeing. After the campfire Charlie hid in a bush that Connor and Travis would have to pass to go to the Hermes cabin. As soon as they passed the bush Charlie jumped out and grabbed the neck of their shirts and pulled them towards the forest. Once they reached a clearing Charlie sat them on a rock and asked "Why the hell did you mess with me, Silena, and end up making my dragon's control panel rust?"

The Stoll brothers looked confused at this, "We haven't messed with you guys in over a month so why bring it up now?" said Travis.

"Don't play dumb with me, I know you were the ones that shot water balloons at us," Charlie accused

"You are probably referring to the balloons that were stolen from us a few nights ago so we didn't do it, do you really think we have enough accuracy to hit you on a flying dragon?" Connor asked.

"Well now that I think about it I not completely sure if it was you or not but you guys are still suspects," Charlie said and walked to his cabin. He thought about the situation in his lair for a while, played some video games, and then fell asleep.

In the morning Charlie got up early to work in the forge before the sun came up and it got hot. While working he kept thinking about all the new campers. There weren't that many to go through thanks to Kronos. Charlie was pretty sure it was a new kid because all the old campers knew that you shouldn't take the Stoll's pranking tools, it doesn't end up well. He was mostly thinking about the new pair of Apollo kids and the new Hermes kid that looked like he was pretty good at archery the other day during class with Chiron. The new Apollo kids' names were Zach and Sean Ivo. The new Hermes kid was named Angelina Miller. The Apollo kids didn't seem like trouble makers so that brought it down to Angelina. He laughs at how her name contradicts her father's reputation.

He knew Angelina was a good thief because he had experienced it first hand when she stole his wallet without him noticing then pulled it out of her pocket a few minutes later and started counting the money right in front of him but was she good enough to steal from the Stolls. He was still wondering this at breakfast when he heard the Stolls mumbling and since they were only two tables away and barely anyone was awake this early on a Saturday morning he could hear what they were saying.

"Angelina took the water balloons, I know it!" Connor yelled in a whisper.

"No, you don't know that even though she seems like the only person who would take them," whispered Travis.

"This is getting boring I like messing with many people not just one, can we please just tell him," Connor pleaded.

"Fine, Beckendorf can we speak to you for a sec?" Travis yelled.

"What the hell do you guys want?" Charlie yelled back.

"We just wanted to say that we were actually the one's that launched the balloons at you with the help of training from one of our good friends from the Apollo cabin!" Travis replied and then rolled onto the floor laughing along with Connor. "I can't believe… you thought we were… telling the truth… when we said someone… took the balloons! No one in their right minds… would do that!" Travis said between laughs.

Charlie was fuming he was just about to walk towards the twins and do Gods knows what to them but just then Chiron comes into the pavilion, gives the twins a curious look and says to Charlie, "It's time." Then Charlie gets all the stuff together, goes and gets Percy and they go on the monster ship in which Charlie dies in the explosion and never gets revenge. Poor Charlie.

A/N: I know lame ending but I leave tomorrow and I wanted to get this updated and with writing block I couldn't think of anything else. I will do better on the next chapter I promise! Don't hate me I have been preparing for my trip to France tomorrow well actually today considering its 2 A.M., I have been working a lot and I had major writer's block. So I will be in France and won't be able to post again until at least July 31 but I will be working on it on my Ipad. This is set a few days before Beckendorf dies. This will contain nothing against Silena. Remember when Leo found Festus and his control panel was all dirty and rusted well this is the story of why beside the fact that he was old.