Outsider (Story about Camp Halfblood)

Chapter 26

I had a major headache from this journal. Clarisse's scribble was barely legible and the ripped pages were smudged and aged. Most of her notes were of battles the Romans have fought and the styles they fight. As I was reading though, I realized that these were from a millenia ago. Yes they would be fighting like this, but we need a more recent document to find a weakness. Because I doubt any odd weaknesses would come in handy, like a navy. Romans didn't really use a navy and that won't help us here.

I sighed and rummaged through my stuff to find a pen and wrote a note about what we should try to find.

I got up quickly and got my armor and made my way down to the arena with the journal. I didn't run into anybody on my way down and thankfully no one was in the arena when I got there. I went over to the loose stone near the training dummies and placed the book there. While I was there I should practice something so I just didn't walk in here for nothing. And if anybody saw me, they wouldn't be suspicious.

Pulling out dummies, I arranged them around the arena to where I wanted them. Taking those dummies out was more work then I expected, my arms were sore before I even began. Still I slashed and sliced the dummies until they were no more. The afternoon sun beat down on me, heating up my armor making me sweat more then I already have.

Roughly thirty minutes later, I was tired and disgustingly gross. I walked out of the arena, taking off my helmet and carrying it under my arm as I made my way back to my cabin to shower. I saw Clarisse beating up some kid on the basketball courts. I rolled my eyes and decided not to bother with what she was doing, it wasn't really worth it.

I walked into my cabin and stripped off my armor, grabbed a change of clothes and made my way to the bathroom. I stepped back out in a camp shirt and khaki shorts. Pollux was sitting on his bunk, doing whatever.

"Hey." I greeted and sat at the foot of his bunk.

"Hello." Pollux said, not looking up at me.

"What?" I crossed my arms.

It took him a few minutes to look up, but he eventually did once I cleared my throat.

"Oh sorry, just lost in thought." Pollux looked up quickly, then away.

"What is it?" I sighed.

"Oh nothing, just talked to Will and heard his side. Just weird that my half-sister is dating my best friend."

"Things happen." I shrugged and walked to the door. "I'm going to find Darcy, I'll see you later?"

"Yeah okay." I left Pollux alone with his thoughts and walked across the commons the the Hermes cabin. I knocked on the door only to be pulled in by a mysterious arm.

"Ow! What was that?" I complained, rubbing my wrist.

"Hush up!" Darcy clamped a hand to my mouth. "We are in the middle of a prank! We don't want anything to go wrong."

"Then why did you pull me in here so fast? Everybody is going to assume you guys did something." I rolled my eyes and received glares from other Hermes kids. "What?"

"Mia, don't say that. We like to think that we aren't suspected. Anyways it makes us work hard to achieve a perfect prank." Darcy explained. Her siblings nodding.

"Alright, so Connor and Travis leading?" I asked, getting nods in response.

"Yeah, if they successfully do this, then we get and alliance with the Ares cabin again for the upcoming capture the flag game tomorrow night." Darcy said, hardly containing her excitement.

"Oh. That makes sense. What do you guys have to do?" I asked.

Darcy opened her mouth to explain, but a little boy piped up. "Darcy! Can I explain? Please!" a small kid, about eleven asked.