Heart Pierced - Kayla Knowles (1)

III. I Honestly Want To Kill Tantalus

(A/N: Imaginebooks probably feels the exact same way Colton will feel about Tantalus. I mean, her female version of Percy (Andi) does. Because seriously Zeus, you really are one dumb person. Like, I am of the opinion that the PJO fandom just exists to shit on Zeus and I don't care at all. Like, I just accept that as a head canon for the fandom.

Plus shout out to AO3 user laurellins, whose fanfic "Tales from Camp Half Blood" (particularly the parts about The Sea Of Monsters, plus the stuff about Clarisse and Chris.. I'm using a basis for what goes in the first part (Sea Of Monsters) and the second part (Battle Of The Labyrinth) - mainly skipping over The Titan's Curse due to the fact that aside from the scene with the hunters at Camp Half Blood, there isn't much there I want to depict. This is a fanfic dedicated more towards the campers (through Colton and Kayla) if anything in addition to Kayla Knowles fans, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense if I added in Percy's stuff from that book into this.

Also warning, major language and rage in this chapter because.. Colton snaps and his fellow campers aren't prepared for it.)

The minute Tantalus was in Colton's view for the first time, he swore he could immediately smell trouble. Just looking at the man, he could tell that this man was bad news. In his defense, having a man in an orange jumpsuit instead of an orange t-shirt looking like he spent time in prison  was not exactly a sign that someone was friendly.

Then again, those eyes.. the way they look unhinged with a wild anger and rage inside of them didn't exactly inspire much confidence either. No matter how one sliced it, this guy was a threat and Colton knew it.

Sitting down at his cabin's table with Kayla on his left, also suspicious and uneasy about the guy in the orange jumpsuit and with Clarisse on his right, with Sherman across from them, he made his opinion known immediately.

"Hey sis.. I don't exactly trust that guy in the orange jumpsuit. He gives me the creeps" Colton said, eyes full of suspicion, as he couldn't stop looking in Tantalus' direction.

Clarisse stopped eating, looked up at Tantalus for a few moments, and then turned to Colton, her brunette hair swaying in a rather Clarisse-like fashion as she did so. "Yeah, I don't blame you at all. Doesn't help that the guy is Tantalus, Chiron's replacement.." she said back to him, causing Colton's eyes to go wide. He had heard the myth and he felt sick to his stomach knowing that man was in camp with them. His other siblings must have heard her too, because he was pretty sure that every other person at the table stopped eating as there was a general cessation of eating noises around him, aside from Clarisse.

"Holy hades!" Colton hissed back, keeping his voice down, even though Kayla could still hear him. "You mean that one ancient king who cut up his own son and served his as food to the gods who then sent him to the fields of punishment is our new activities director? Are the Gods insane?"

A tug on his sleeve indicated to him that Kayla had heard that, and really did not take it well. Clarisse turned to look at Colton again. "I don't know what in hades they are even thinking, but you're right. I don't trust him either.." she replied. "Best you two keep that to yourselves."

Colton nodded, but still, it didn't seem right at all. As consolation though, the sight of Percy and Tyson getting along well, to the point that Percy made the Apollo table quiet after someone must have said something he didn't like with a fierce glare, was rather nice, in his own opinion.

Even so, it was also sad that he and Tyson had to sit by themselves. Even Sherman noticed this, and like Colton before him, didn't hesitate to express this. "Camp rules are dumb sometimes, like look after what Jackson did for Clarisse, why not let him sit over here, along with that Cyclopes?" he said, and some of his siblings just looked at him funny.