Chapter 8

The beginning and being of hate

The capture the flag for the day had begun. Every one was in high spirits. Percy and Bekendorf had been eyeing Annabeth and Silena the whole day nervously , but half way through the game , the four of them vanished.

Davis decided to protect the flag he was assigned to by Annabeth.
He kept true to his word to his Uncle Theus and didn't let even an iota of information about his life and powers slip out.
The day had been painfully long for Davis. From running from red cross academy to coming to this new camp , to learing about Greek Gods ( not surprised after visiting new Rome) to the orientation to the putting in Hermes cabin to getting a post during capture the flag.
It had been only 8 hours since he arrived in this camp but it felt like 8 years to him.
He had stayed around Percy the whole day and was able to avoid one called Clarisse from the war god's cabin.
He had hit off with Percy pretty well and knew instantly that the dude would never abandon his friends and that Davis could rely on him too.
After a hundred years of only having his Uncle as a friend , Davis felt blessed with the sudden change of events. Maybe his uncle wanted him to make friends finally.
And since no one had tried to take the flag for the last one hour , Davis decided that he could climb the nearest tree to the flag and take a nap.
He instantly entered a dream . He understood what these dreams were after almost a hundred years and how to control them to show you the correct thing.
But he didn't expect to see a beautiful lady ( he was sure she was a goddess )
standing in the middle of a red dyed pond and staring into it. He didn't know what to do so he decided to approach the lady. As he approached her he noticed that she was wearing a black greek style dress with long flowing black hair and a red coloured halo over her head.
As he approached her , he could make out what her eyes looked like. And once he saw her eyes clearly, a sudden wave of this particular emotion washed over him.
An emotion he had only felt a handful of times. Fear.
Her eyes were the colour of dried blood. With only one emotion being reflected in them. Hate. But Davis steeled his nerves , and walked to the edge of the pond.
What he saw inside the pond almost made him want to puke.
There were scenes of people protecting other people, but being killed for protecting the other, in horrifying ways.
The lady over the pond slowly raised her eyes from the pond and looked at him in the eye.
Davis felt a sudden feeling of nausea wash over him.
And in the blink of an eye he felt and saw the pain . He saw good innocent people sacrificing their selves to protect what they loved. He saw a blond haired guy stab himself under his arm .
"Hate " the lady spoke to him. Her voice sounded like two women were trying to talk at the same time but at different octaves.
It was soothing , in a dark way. "The thing they felt the most before dying. Was hate.
Hate towards this world, towards what they did, towards what happened to them for doing it, towards the fact that they couldn't survive to see the person they protected with their life, survive.
You! Son of Time! You think that this world is simple and people come and go?
You think that everything is born to die?
Well . Not everything there is love, there will always be hate. Hate is born from an act of love, an act of kindness, from the will to protect.
You want to know what gives strength to people?
To beings who want to protect what they love or avenge what they loved? Hate. Hate gives birth to determination . To betrayal . TO loyalty . TO EVERYTHING! "

"But why are you telling me all this ? what do you want with me ? what do you want to tell me? "

"Ignorant fool. Ignorant of your own destiny. But here me out . The sea gods son shall be filled with hatred .
For his hate is required for the survival of this world.
But listen demigod,
you know who are considered to be the strong ones in this world of hate? Ones who accept hate as a part of them! Ones who pursue their morals , ones who walk together with their darkness and still pursue the light . Together with their hate.
And you too shall soon know, what hate is."
She faded away into mist with the last words, which echoed through the surface of the pond, making Davis even more uneasy.
Davis couldn't process a word she said or make sense of anything he saw, but the longer he stayed at the edge of the pond, the stronger he felt the hate she was talking about inside him.
It was almost like a being inside him, trying to crawl its way to the surface from a deep dark hole, trying to free itself from the chains of his restriction .
Davis blinked and in that instant the pond disappeared.
But instead of a pond , now lay a huge dark hole the size of the pond infront of him.
A sudden gust of wind blasted out from the hole with an ear piercing inhuman scream.
Davis felt like his blood was going to freeze over due to fear. But he still dared to look inside the instincts told him to fuck this shit and run, or wake up or whatever. But his body was already in motion.
What he saw made no sense to him. His eyes widened in utter shock to what lay in the hole.
He felt as if he was close to all his unanswered questions .
As if he was close to the reason why he existed .
Even through the pitch darkness of the whole, he could see it clearly , like looking at a dancer in the spot light.
The face , the mouth the hair . He could see it all, but it didn't make sense.
He saw himself in that hell hole. Tied down by chains as thick as his arms. The being which looked like him was kneeling on the floor,
not like it looked like it had a choice with all those chains binding him,
And its head was bowed. But slowly it rose its head and looked Davis right in the eye.
Davis , when he saw the beings eyes was affirmative , that whatever it was just resembled him, but was pure evil of the highest order.
It smiled cruelly at Davis, almost in a mocking manner. As if it knew all his dark secrets.
And suddenly . He fell.

The capture the flag had been going in team Athena's favour. But the leader of the Athena cabin had gone missing with her "boyfriend" Percy Jackson.
Every one knew they had a thing for each other. It was not like Annabeth and luke ; where she liked Luke cause of his maturity and a childhood bond.
The Like Annabeth had for Percy was somewhat more , deeper. A bond made by destiny.
But ofcourse the two blockheads were too busy to see that.
And who would know this better than Susan. Daughter of Apollo.
This time Apollo cabin was with the Poseidon cabin. And since Percy disappeared , The Apollo campers decided to get the flag on their own as the Hephaestus cabin tried to hold off the Athena and Ares cabin.
So things led to other things and through some fighting , arrows flying and impaling the ass, and healing a few of the fellow campers, Susan reached the unguarded flag of the opposing team.
She couldn't believe her luck, that she was infront of the flag, And it was unprotected, and she had a chance to win against the Athena cabin and rub it in their face for all eternity.
But of course she knew how crafty the Athena cabin was .
So she carefully approached the flag, taking one step at a time and tapping the ground infront of her with her halbard to check if there were any traps in the ground and she was surprised to find none.
As She stood infront of the flag, she didn't wanna take a risk so she spun around expecting an ambush, Her halbard ready to impale anyone in her way. But again There was no body around.

'Well , to hell with caution'.She went to pick up the flag, and her fingers were just centimetres away from the pole, when she heard the falling of leaves , as if someone or something was in the trees.

Susan's senses were on high alert. Her heart was pumping at a million miles per hour as she turned towards the direction of the sound. Her halbard was in ready stance, she could not let this opportunity to win slide, She could feel the pulsing of her heart in her mind, her palms became sweaty and her breathing quickened and when she saw the source of the disturbance , she couldn't believe her eyes.
There he lay , on top of a branch like a freaking pigeon , sleeping like the world was free of conflicts. The new kid. Davis.
She suddenly felt rage building up inside her. She felt mocked, after that adrenaline rush , to find the newbie perched on a tree and asleep.
Did the Athena cabin loose their minds to keep such a dud for flag protection, alone?!
She couldn't take it anymore so she strapped the halbard to her back and removed her bow .
Her aim was third best in the whole of camp, and she aimed for his shoulder.
She saw the arrow leave the bow with glee, and when it hit the newbie , he toppled and fell over from the branch, screaming like he was going to die from the fall. Well , she wished he would.

Davis met the ground with a painful thud. And the first thing to come out from his mouth after that were a series of curses, He got up and faced the tree, trying to stare it down to death, when he suddenly heard laughter.
He noticed an arrow tail sticking out of his left shoulder, and pulled it out.
The cut wasn't deep, nothing compared to the kind of pain and wounds he had endured in the past.
He turned to face this intruder and he noticed a figure standing next to the flag. A sudden realization hit him like a fright train. HIS duty! He slept too long ! long enough for the enemy to be able to reach the flag. But he only saw one person. The figure looked that of a girls.
His vision was a little blurred cause he was still half asleep but he started to walk towards the her as his eyes cleared up.
"WHAT THE HELL! " he scremt at her face, and she started laughing harder.
"oh-'laughs'- gods-your –'laughs'-face!"
He couldn't help the smile that forced up his face cause , though he was mad, it did seem funny to him to now.
But never the less he approached her and was finally face to face with her.
And boy was that the wrong thing to do.
The girls cheeks were flushed because of all the laughing. She had hazel coloured hair, cascading down to her shoulders which made her face more prominent. And boy was she beautiful.
Her skin was a light peach colour. And her eyes, they were a soft and innocent blue, with a bright twinkle of mischief inside them.
They both kept staring into each other's eyes but Susan suddenly blushed and looked away.
She couldn't help but notice that he was handsome. With his messy blond hair and scarlet eyes, she felt like she would fall in a trance if she kept eye contact anymore.
His eyes kept scanning her face up , as if he was trying to memorize every detail of her face so he could paint it down.
But she steeled her nerves and bottled her emotions up.

"Yes? "
for the first time, Davis of at a loss of words. He didn't know what to say to this beautiful brat. He had met many beautiful ladies before, but this feeling this emotion , this atmosphere , everything was new to him. He felt like a new born baby.
But he noticed that she was trying to hold back her laugh at his loss of words and so he emptied his mind and spoke to her.
"Why the hell Did you shoot my shoulder?! What have i ever done to you?! "

She couldn't hold it anymore and burst out laughing again at his whining. Once she calmed down again she faced him.
"its capture the flag you dud. Rise and shine, you are the enemy."
Her voice was like a lullaby to him, making his mind void of any thoughts.
The expression of dumfounded ness on his face was so adorable that she couldn't help herself and she flicked his nose.
Davis blinked like a baby seel and she burst out laughing again.
"Oh so you think this is funny?" Davis was caught up in the mood. He had a huge smile on his face, and he wanted more of this new emotion he found. He felt like he needed to protect her from the whole world , like if something ever happened to her , he would go insane. But this was ridicules . He just met her. But they both were on the same frequencies. They matched together as two pieces of puzzles fitting perfectly with each other.
"want a piece of me? " She mocked him, while she removed her halbard from her back, forgetting about the flag. She still had a smile on her face, with a tint of red on her cheeks.

Davis, too caught up in the mood, materialized his sword.
Susan swung her halbard it aiming for his mid section but Davis blocked the move with the blunt of his sword without taking his eyes off her face. Yes . He was that badass and good.
Susan was surprised to see the show of skills from this featherless dodo .
She had originally thought that he was a dim witted son of Hermes but he didn't get claimed yet and he was definitely more skilled than most of the Hermes cabinmates of his.
She tried again with more concentration now that her smile had gone and a determination to win and taken its place on her face. She jabbed at his legs but Davis flipped over her head spinning three times in the air before landing gracefully like a dancer. And he didn't move his eyes away from her face even once.
But Susan tried again, not ready to admit defeat, she threw her halbard at him, which he side stepped easily , and used her powers to light up the area with blinding white light.
Davis got caught off guard and became blinded for a while but that wasn't a problem for him since he could sense and manipulate the space in and around him and sense the presence of living beings, but nobody but him knew that right? Right.
Susan quickly removed her bow and arrows and fired three arrows at the same time towards him but Davis jumped and spun diagonally in the air avoiding all the arrows and rushed towards her.
Susan was too surprised to move and suddenly she felt Davis jump on her and they both were rolling on the ground trying to gain the top position and ened this battle.
Finally they hit a tree nearby and Davis ended up on top of her. Both of their breathing were synchronized and their eyes locked into each others gaze.
All Davis's mind processed was how beautiful she was and how red her lips were.
HE started to lean in , and Susan , so mesmerised and lost in his gaze waited for their lips to meet.
Davis's lips were just centimetres away from hers, their breathing mixed together and they could feel each others heart pounding hard.
Davis was not ready to break eye contact and Susan had no complains with that.
If Davis would lean a little further , their noses would touch , their lips just millimetres apart, the suspense was driving Susan crazy. Another half a second and their lips would mee-

"Ahmmm! " Davis realised what was just going to happen and jumped away from her. Unfortunately hitting the tree tripping over her and falling on the ground again.
Susan quickly got up and retrieved her halbard and looked at the intruders.
It was Annabeth , Percy and Clarisse. Annabeth had dirt all over her face and clothes . Her mouth was hanging open and her eyes wide, which quickly turned into an evil smile.
"It seems we have disturbed you two. But the game of capture the flag is over. "
"WHAT ! and I was this much away from getting the Athena flag ! Its all that blond haired Pigeons fault! "
Davis got back on his feet and his mouth hung open.
"Bu-bu-but it was my job to not let you take it!" At that all of them but Susan and Davis started laughing out loud.
Percy was barefoot for some reason and had a huge smile on his face.
'Something must have happened between him and Annabeth ' Davis thought .
And Clarisse was holding the Poseidon flag.
"Well all this flirting will make me sick, the four of you get a room. I am outta here" Clarisse grumbled and walked away to her boyfriend who was waiting a little further for her.
All four of them blushed and quickly looked anywhere but at each other.
"Well.. " Annabeth started out awkwardly " I need to carry this seaweed brain back to his cabin so.. later guys!"
Annabeth quickly grabbed Percy's hand, without noticing the huge blush and smile on his face and speed walked away with Him whining about his feet hurting cause of the ground.
There was an awkward silence between Susan and Davis so Susan broke the silence
"Ahh mm, I think i need to go, need to be back in the cabin before curfew . See you later Davis" Susan ran away from the forest without making any eye contact with a huge blush and a small smile on her face.

Davis's mind was still blank . He couldn't comprehend what just happened clearly.
One moment he was with some scary lady the other moment he was fighting with the most annoyingly beautiful girl he ever met.
Well HE had had it. Too many things for just one day. IT was time to sleep.

But ofcurse not in the Hermes cabin. That place had no place at all. He decided to use his space powers and alter a tree into a house.
IT tired him out even further but well the result was his own beautiful tree house. Literally. With that he went into the house and crashed onto the bed made of leaves and wood. And fell into a dreamless slumber, excited about what tomorrow will bring for him in this new way of living where he wasn't restricted by anything.