Chapter 47.

The next fight is brutal. It's the muscular girl against the boy who must be two hundred pounds. I hear grunts and screams of rage as they both get thrown to the floor. In the end, the boy wins but the girl was close. They shake hands after the match- they're the first to do so. Then it's three of us left.

The lean boy, whose name is Dylan, and I are up next. He has cropped black hair, dark skin and forest green eyes. He's shorter than Liam but taller than me and we have a similar body shape. He won by tripping his partners, so I make a note to watch my feet. "Good luck." Liam murmurs before I go up

In the ring we shake hands. His hands are soft compared to mine which are calloused. "Promise not to kill each other?" He jokes.

"I hope you can keep that one." I laugh.

I get thrown onto the floor as he charges for my waist and I quickly roll onto my side. He's fallen just next to me and I kick him in the ribs to keep him down for longer. "Bro." He gasps before he gets up, a second after me. He aims for my neck but I catch his wrist and twist it as I pull him down. While he's bent over, I knee him in his face a bit too hard. "Sorry." I say quickly. Then I kick him in the stomach and he staggers backwards a few steps before tripping. I move towards him but he kicks me in my stomach. He's got longer legs than me. I then jump onto his leg which is still extended and thank the gods that his leg lands normally. "Ten seconds." Percy declares.

I offer him my had and he takes it. "Well done." He congratulates.

"Thanks, you're pretty good yourself." I smile.

"Next fighters-" Percy begins but I cut him off

"No thanks, I'm done." I say. "The others guy's won."

"You sure? There's a prize for the winner." He asks

"Yeah, I'm sure, I won't last another round." I laugh

Percy shrugs. "Well done Matthew, you're the winner." He declares, handing him a bar of chocolate. "Hang on, all but two of us got our backsides handed to us, for a dollars worth of chocolate?" Some one snarls

"Yeah. But you didn't win, so you get nothing anyways" he snaps back.

I rejoin Liam and Matthew comes to me. I'm actually glad that you forfeited because, not going to lie, you'd probably have me down in the first minute. Where did you learn to fight, I thought you're a new camper?" He asks.

"I have three siblings. And they're all idiots." I smile. Liam elbows me and we end up in a mini elbow war. "Yeah, she's usually the winner of the TV remote." He confesses.

"What's your tactics?" He asks

"Trip, punch, kick and pin. I'm a lot heavier than I look as well, so it comes as a surprise when they try to pick me up to throw me down or anything." I shrug.

"Yeah, I think I pulled a muscle trying to get you off Grace." He giggles.

"Lift some weights." I reply

"Eat some lettuce." He retorts

"You know lettuce has protein in it right, you could do with some of that." I cross my arms.

"Give me a minute," he pinches his lips. "let's go to my cabin."

On the way to his cabin, Liam explains how he runs a business doing other campers make up and hair and that. "Usually it's just for other things, like I'll straighten your hair and you give me a chocolate bar." He says. "You know that laptop I brought home once?"

I remember, one summer he came home and he had a brand new MacBook. "Yeah." I say

"Well, that was from a daughter of Hermes who had a date that night. She got it when she and her brother had gone on a stealing spree. It was hilarious, Chiron never found out."

"Nice, can I join?" I joke

"You'd probably put them to shame, I swear you're practically invisible when you want to be and many times I actually thought you were a daughter of Aphrodite because people would just give you things, it was like you had charm speak." He exclaims.

"One time when I went to that concert with Samantha and Grace, Grave and I had to get back in but you weren't allowed and the security officers were at the doors and all that. Grace got caught but I wasn't." I recall, grinning.

I hold the door open when we reach the cabin and go in spinning. "High five." He says on the way in. I hit his palm lightly and he jerks it backwards. "Control the electricity." He winces. "Sorry, I can't." I curl my fingers.

"Why is it only me?"

"Because you deserve it." I say. "Where's your bed?"

"Behind the curtain, the top one in the middle right." He says. I pull back the pastel pink curtain and it must be the boys section because it smells of cologne. There are two boys talking about something and Liam waves at them. They say hi back before going back to their conversation.

We talk about nonsense and time flies quickly. That night, I lay in the Zeus cabin and reflect over the past week. It's been a journey, that's for sure. It still seems so surreal. It doesn't feel real, but I guess when I go back to school I'll be giving everyone I touch electric shocks. At least I got answers. I turn around so that I am on my side, facing the room. I can't stand bunk beds the bottom bunk is like a box and the top bunk, which I'm on, feels too narrow. Either way, I fall asleep easily.