The Child of Phobos

Little Fear, Big Problems

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Saige's P.O.V

I woke up to the sound of my alarm. It seemed more annoying than usual, probably because I still wanted to sleep in. But I begrudgingly turned it off and managed to drag myself out of bed.

"Ugh, why do I gotta get up so early. Can't they just let us sleep in?" I groaned. I hated getting up early, mostly because it cost me precious time that could be spent sleeping. But I still did it anyway, for breakfast.

Once I shook the remaining sleepiness off my body and fully woke up, I got dressed and put on one of my orange Camp Half-blood tees and a pair of dark blue jeans, straight cut of course.

I brushed my teeth and combed out my messy, black hair. I decided to just tie it back in a simple ponytail today, but I still brought along an extra hair tie in case I needed it. Before I headed out the door, I put on a pair of plain white socks and slipped on my pair of black, slightly beat up, Chuck Taylor's.

"Oop- can't forget my sword." I said. I then walked over to my nightstand and picked up my black watch. Now you must be thinking, "I thought you were going to get your sword?" Well, this watch is my sword. If you look closer, you'll see it has an inscription on it in greek written in purple.

The inscription reads "φέρνοντας φόβο", or "Bringing Fear." I like to think of it as "Bringer of Fear" rather than "Bringing Fear," but that's just me. Since both names are kinda long, I just call my sword "Slasher." As for summoning it, I just have to turn the watch clockwise. I recently found out that I could also summon a shield if I turned the watch twice. Anyway, I slapped my watch on my wrist and headed out for breakfast.

"Wonder what's for breakfast?" I thought as I made my way over to the Dining Pavillion. Then I stopped, something felt...off. I looked over and realized I had stopped near the climbing wall.

There stood a line of campers around it waiting to climb. "That's odd..." I said to myself. "Most people are usually too afraid to even go near it." That's when it hit me. What felt odd about it was the fact that they weren't afraid. I felt no fear coming off of them... something was wrong, very wrong. I'll have to go see Chiron after breakfast and ask him what's going on.

I arrived at the Dining Pavillion and went to check what was for breakfast. "Mmm. Waffles and eggs today. Looks delicious." I sat down at my cabin's table with my other cabin mates, me, myself, and I.

Yeah... so I don't actually have any cabin mates because I don't have any siblings, not even one. Dad doesn't get around much, not after what happened with my mom... I would kill for a sibling, though.

I don't have any direct demigod cousins here at camp, just cousins twice removed (like Percy), aunts, and uncles. Most of them were either dead, didn't have kids, didn't have kids at Camp, were too young to have kids, or were too busy. Uncle Deimos had a demigod son once. I never met him, but apparently something horrible happened to him. Uncle Deimos didn't have any more kids that, not after what happened to his first...

My thoughts were cut short at the arrival of my best friend, Kenneth McKane, son of Hermes.

"Morning, Saige."

"Good morning, Kenny."

He then sat down next to me and began eating his serving of waffles and eggs.

"That's weird..." I said.

"What's weird?" asked Kenny.

"Usually, you're too scared to sit down immediately. You always worry that my dad is going to plague you with nightmares if you sit at his cabin table without permission." I replied. "I have to convince you just about every day that nothing bad will happen."