Nightshade's Secret

Chapter 14

Marin

"Perhaps we should bring this up in the big house," Thalia proposed, Chiron nodded in agreement, not even looking phased from the life threatening events that had happened just moments before.

The group of campers started heading back to the big house, so I went to join them.

I ran to Aqua. "Don't ever do something like that again." I stated angrily.

"I'm sorry," she said sincerely, "I just panicked. I couldn't let them hurt Chiron."

I didn't say anything. If I was Aqua would I have done the same thing? What I let that hunter kill Chiron? Just the thought gave me a throbbing headache.

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A few minutes later everyone was again circled around the ping pong table, déjà vu.

Chiron cleared his throat. "Aqua, I told you to stay here." He stated.

Aqua hung her head. "Sorry," she muttered.

He sighed. "Thalia, would you come with Aqua and I for a minute?"

Thalia nodded, shouldering her backpack uneasily. The three disappeared upstairs.

The rest of the cabin consulars went back into the camp, going to settle down the other worried campers and continue their day as normal.

Well everyone except Asher.

The blonde haired boy sat a table off to the side of the room, a look of worried confusion spread on his face.

"You okay?" I asked carefully.

He sighed, "no," he whined, but tried to shrug it off with a laugh. He ran his hand through his hair anxiously.

I waited for him to say more.

"I don't think they're gone." He said. "What do you mean? They left, I-I saw them." I insisted, refusing to believe that he might be right.

He shook his head. "I don't think so. That girl left surprisingly without hesitation. Why would she leave so quickly? She seemed pretty determined to kill Aqua."

I waited for that to sink in. "What are you saying."

"I'm saying I think they're still here, and they never left." He stood, getting fired up.

"What do you think we should do?" I asked, feeling Nauseas and scared.

"I don't know. I think we should inform Chiron."

Asher started for the stairs, but I blocked him with my arm. "Slow down there cowboy, they're having a meeting. An incredibly serious one. Let's just take a moment and breath, figure this all out. They won't believe us if we rush up there now." I insisted.

His angry look softened. "Yeah," he exhaled, "your right. I won't go up there."

I sighed with relief. "But that doesn't mean I'm okay with murderers right outside the camp." He yelled firmly, and ran out the door before I could scream 'stop'.  

I gritted my teeth, angry at him for putting me in this situation. I'm going to get on him for this later.

Breath Marin I thought, just go find Asher. And once again I followed someone out the door, jogging to catch up to them, praying nothing bad would happen.

Aqua

"Zoë never told anyone." Thalia told us. "Did you know?" She asked Chiron.

The centaur simply shook his head. "When Aquila came to camp I had the suspicion of course, but I never thought that Zoë would even think about breaking her vows."