Carystus

A hunter tries to kill me

At the campfire that night, dad announced that we would have a 'friendly match' between the campers and the hunters' tomorrow evening. At least now I had a chance to payback that Zoë girl for burning the Hermes cabin to the ground three years ago. I was starting to think of the boy with the black hair-Nico Diangelo- as a little brother (don't ask me why) and I was seriously missing Percy Jacksons Cyclops brother, Tyson… But, anyways, um, back to the point: We where going to get beaten to a pulp by the Hunters tomorrow, no matter what.

The conch horn blew and our decoys sprinted into the left side of the woods, immediately attracting a bunch of angry hunters. I glared at the back of Silena's picture perfect hair and told her (in my head) to run faster for about the 50th time in a row. She glanced at me over her shoulder and yelled to be heard over the sounds of metal crashing against metal to our right.

"Don't you have, like, some type of random prank your dad made? Anytime would be fine now."

I stared at her blankly.

"What," Another member of our team asked, while gasping for air, "A child of Hermes doesn't have any pranks with him?"

I hoped against hope that we would just get moving, already. But noo. We just had to stand there for two friggin' seconds and wait for one of the Aphrodite kids to untangle her hair. Did I just swear? Okay, you get the point: I was stressed out. This was like a battle to the death. The only thing was that none of us would admit it…yet.

I heard an unmistakable whipping sound to my left and leapt forwards, knocking Silena, Jason, and Connor Stroll onto the ground in an ungraceful heap. Travis quickly threw a wind-up toy into a bush, causing them to rustle while we got as far away as we could before the frog exploded in a shower of sparks and foul smelling gasses. We could all hear the hunters gagging and chocking from a mile away. I pulled the arrow out of the tree, where the Aphrodite girls nose had been a moment before, took on glance at it and nudged Jason, pointing to the arrow with my free hand. Jason stared at it, then said,

"Okay, guys, and um, girls, I guess," this earned him about twenty or so angry remarks and playful shoves, "Either theses girls are trying to kill us, or they accidentally used an arrow drenched in hydra venom."

"Probably like, the first choice?" The Aphrodite girl muttered, while checking her nails for smudges. This got a lot of nods and agreements for her.

Something flickered to my right, and Silena yelled "SCATTER" at the top of her lungs. I picked up a semi-sharp stone, leapt over a trip wire and quickly climbed a tree as soon as I was out of earshot. I did have to push a hunter down from the second branch of the tree, and steal her weapons, but that's a long story.

The view from the top of the tree was amazing, and I got this nagging feeling that id been there before. I climbed around to an area of the tree that kept me hidden, but every one in my sight and notched an arrow as soon as I saw one of the hunters jabbing an arrow into one of the twin's helmets. The Stroll brother, the one without the arrow in his helmet, was already in a crumpled heap on the grassy clearing. I let the arrow fly, and a fart-arrow exploded right in front of the girls' feet, causing her to recoil, drop her knife (which she probably would've used to kill the twins.) and sprint into the woods, yelling at the world that they had a traitor in their group. I just sat at the top of the tree for a good five minuets, shooting down people whenever possible, but then, suddenly, I felt a dagger pressing into my neck.