Sons of Hopes and Dreams

Chapter 3

I woke up back in my bed in the Hypnos cabin. It was empty except for a slumped body sat on a chair.

"B-Butch?" I said, my voice cracking a bit. The head of the body lifted and it sat forward into the dim light from the window. His pale, peirced face came into view.

"Clovis, are you okay?" Butch asked, his voice laced with concern. I relaxed a little when I heard and saw him.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. But where did you go after Rachel said the prophecy? Where you-"

"Kissing Nyssa? No. I don't really swing that way, if you know what I mean. Chiron took me away from the crowd to ask me if I'd lead this quest. I said yes, of course, but he told me I had to find two more people willing to come with me by the end of the week." He stated.

"Oh." was all I could say back.

"And two more things. Not a single word of what that kid said was true. You're not fat, you're not lazy, you're not weak and you're not an idiot. I will stay beside you no matter what, and if you do like guys? So do I, I'm definatly not judging you." I blushed after he said that. It was one of the nicest, most genuine thing anyone has probably ever said to me.

"Second thing: Would you possibly want to come on the quest with me? I-I mean, it's cool if you don't but-" I laughed at this huge dude stuttering at his words.

"I'd love to! Who else is going?" I said, now suddenly full of excitement and energy. The thought of finally going on a quest was awesome but the thought of going with Butch was even better.

"I was thinking maybe Lou Ellen or Malcolm. Possibly Mitchell. I haven't asked them yet; I wanted to ask you first." He stated.

After a few hours of talking about nothing, I decided that I wanted to get up and see the pegasi. I had to admit that I was slightly scared that I'd meet the boy again, but I felt safe with Butch. While we were making our way to the stables I looked at the boy (well he was more of a young-ish man) next to me. He had a white vest, which revealed some muscles, and some blue jean shorts. He had an eyebrow and lip piercing on his left side, and multiple ear ones too. There was a small scar on his right eyebrow, which made a small gap in the hair. The rainbow tattoo on his arm somehow looked manly on him, not many could ever pull it off like he did. He towered above everyone at 6'2" while I stood at a mere 5'10". He was, in my opinion, very attractive. I blushed when I thought that to myself and I had to check that I hadn't said it aloud. Finally, when we had just about reached the stables, Butch spoke up.

"She missed you, Arke did. Two days without her new best friend is a long time." he chuckled after that.

"Aw, that's really sweet. Also, was I really out for two days?!" I asked with suprise. To be honest I wasn't too concerned as I'd slept longer than before, but I had thought I'd just learnt to control it.

"Yeah... But she wasn't the only one who missed you." Butch mumbled, looking at his feet.

"Huh? Why would anyone miss me?" I said, kind of shocked.

"I missed you Clovis. You're my closest friend at camp, but then I've never really had that many friends. Almost everyone's scared of me for some reason, but you weren't" He said, looking into my eyes. I don't know if I should regret doing what I did next but it didn't matter. I hugged him. See? Not that bad.

"You're best friend too" I mumbled into his vest. He quickly hugged me back and we continued to the stables.

When we finally arrived I rushed straight over to Arke's stall and saw her standing there. I beamed and started stroking her warm muzzle. She whinnied and shook her head, which Clovis took for a greeting.

"She says that it's nice to see you again"