The Demigod Games

Chapter 7

"What's wrong?" Piper asks as she sees me sit up in my sleeping bag.

"Nightmare. But I have this feeling that I have seen the people in it before," I reply, desperately willing my memory to function again. I tell her about the giants and what they were saying.

Frank is also up too. He hears the dream and stares. 

"I had the same dream too," he gasps.

"How is that possible?" Jason says as he props himself against a pine tree.

Frank shrugs. "Anyway, your turn to sleep," he says as he walks over to Piper and Jason.

They nod and crawl into the sleeping bags. Frank and I sit against the pine tree. An owl hoots somewhere in the distance.

"You know, we could try to just get out of here," Frank says. "Run away. Find the border of this place. Dig a tunnel. Whatever."

I consider the possiblity of this. We don't even know how big this "arena" thing is, or whether there is some sort of thing keeping us in. I shrug. Frank reaches over and places his hand over mine.

"We could do it, you know, the two of us. You're good with the blade, I'm good with the bow, we could hunt for food," Frank continues.

"What about Jason and Piper?" I ask, gazing over at them huddled in their sleeping bags.

"Bring them," Frank replies. "I don't know if I can trust them, but I feel that I've trusted them before."

I know I have met them before too. Maybe Frank had more traces of his memory. Anyway, I had to trust that he wouldn't backstab me.

"Not now. Maybe when we know this place a little better," I say, and he nods.

We continue to keep watch for a few hours. Frank goes to wake them up as the first light appears on the horizon.

"You let us sleep too much!" Piper protests.

I smile and roll up the sleeping bags.

"Breakfast time," Jason says and gets the last bit of rabbit out of the packs. We each grab one chunk and gobble it down. The sun is just up as we pack up and head off to explore the pine forest. Our water supply is getting low and we go to the lake to fill the bottles up first.

Frank tells them about the escape plan we had discussed about. Jason and Piper both agree with me that we should wait till we know more, so we decide to do it with at least a week's wait.

The pine forest gradually becomes a mountainous area, with steep uphills and downhills. We soon stop halfway as Piper was limping too much. She collasps onto the ground and Jason does her bandages again. The wound isn't that bad now, and the blood is all dried up.

As we rested on the slope of the mountain, I heard a roar echo from the peak. A humanoid figure appears against the midmorning sunlight. It lumbers towards us. In its hand is a huge stone club, covered in spikes. A single hard blow from the thing will kill us. I retrieve my sword from my belt, and leap to my feet as the thing breaks into a run.