Daughter of the Earth Shaker [ #Wattys2015 ]

Chapter 4

Janessa

Jenny woke up in a startled fluster with all my other siblings and I bolted to the screen door. Swinging it open I took off for the Apollo Cabin. I didn't even bother to knock when I got there. I looked in the bunks and went to Leon's bunk. He was thrashing and muttering words but his siblings are used to it. Being a child of Apollo, you get nightmares faster and easier. They are worse because being a child of the god of sun, they get afraid of the dark.

I start to shake him awake and saying his name in his ear. His eyes flooded open and he bolted straight up. He looked at me with sweat on his face. I sat on his bed and grabbed his hand and started rubbing his hand. It was a thing we made up when we first met each other to calm each other down. "What was it about?" I said softly. He just shook his head and slumped down so his head was on my shoulder.

We sat in silence until his breathing slowed and he was snoring quietly. I set him down gently on his pillow. On my way back to my cabin I got a little side-tracked because I saw a pair of gold eyes. I saw an eidolon. I walked slowly back the cabin and grabbed my own dagger when I got inside. When I got outside I checked to see if the glowing eyes were still watching me. Having a white knuckled grip on my dagger, I moved closer to it.

"What do you need?" I spat out. It didn't do anything but as I got closer to it was a camper. He looked familiar and that's when it hit me. He was Arthur Randolph from the Hephaestus cabin. He ran towards me and I was frozen with fear. He reached over and gripped my face and I let out a yelp with my dagger falling to the ground. I stared into his eerie gold eyes that switched between brown and gold. "H-help m-m-me!" Arthur said while squeezing my jaw bone harder. I thought he was going to break it but he turned around and started running towards the forest. "Wait!" I said I taking off after him with every ounce in my body telling me not to. I was close in pursuit until he stopped abruptly and I ran into him falling to the ground."GET AWAY FROM ME!" He said in voice I didn't recognize. He turned around and took off in the forest again.

Cold air puffed out from my mouth on my way back to the cabin. My shoulders were bare and I was wearing cotton blend shorts and the weather was brutally cold for the middle of summer. I was shivering when I reached the familiar screen door of Cabin Three. It squeaked when I opened and awoke the always watching Jenevieve. I scrubbed her head and told her to go back to sleep. Launching myself to the top bunk I knew that sleep wasn't on my agenda. My encounter with Arthur was with his changing eyes.

----------------------------------------------*the settings belong to Rick Riordan*