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Beaming with a cheery smile as Alannah congratulated on the lopsided skeleton. Oh, Athanasia was certain that she could do better but for her first time was not too shabby. Noting in the back of her mind to inform Andy and Arthur about this Camp Jupiter she turned her gaze towards the Ares campers who had yet to notice them. Which was all well and good! "Surprises are always fun." Athanasia remarked and gestured towards the hapless boys. The shambling skeleton teetering towards the campers with a toothy grin.

Eyeing the earth with a speculative look, Athanasia considered if she could perhaps call forth others as well? Practice made perfect after. "What missus? You gonna start a mob of skeletons to sic on them bruisers?" Cackling the skull as slim fingers hooked the eyesockets. Drawing the sword from beneath, Athanasia hoped she would not need to use it. "Hey, I didn't mean anything by it!" "I know, Chatters." The pale child smiled sweetly at the skull. "But I want to be able to throw you at thme. Oh, la! Anyone else?" She called to the earth once more in hope another would appear, demanding that another protector would. These kids were by far larger than she was and far meaner looking, and, like a fool, she was scampering after Alannah towards them. Her skeleton charging full tilt at the fighters, and what was one skeleton with a single arm going to do against three campers? "Don't kill them! Or hurt them too badly! Oh, la! I need more of them!" Athanasia muttered to herself as she sent a few orders after her shambling pirate, or as she liked to think he had been a pirate.

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Bryan and Ezekiel were making decent progress, with the obstacles they had hit, Ezekiel felt they were doing quite well and now the flag was in view. His excitement wavered when Leda showed up. She fired off a warning shot, as she called it and Ezekiel laughed out right at Leda. ”Right, and let you win? Have you and everyone else comment about that for the rest of my time here? I don’t think so rainbow girl.” Ezekiel was lucky those rainbow blasts kept missing him. One had completely taken out Bryan. Who knew rainbows could pack a punch. ”No, I think I will take our flag back from you and take yours as well.”
Ezekiel shifted and bent the sunlight that was available to his will and was able to direct it into blinding Leda temporarily. Ezekiel smiled, a bit smug that he was able to do so to her. It wasn’t that he hated Leda it was just that after the quest he almost seemed to dislike her more so being able to take that out on her, was lovely. He drew an arrow after, a blunt one meant to knock out rather than harm and fired it at her. It managed to knock her down but not quite knock her out. Ezekiel would have to take the momentary loss of ability and run for it. As he started to run he saw Desdemona with the flag and she was right near her own flag. It would be a hell mary if Ezekiel could claim both and then run them back to his camp, without much trouble. Ezekiel didn’t see this happening but he was at least going to try. For the glory of it. As he ran, Ezekiel notched another arrow and took aim at Desdemona in an attempt to knock her out and stop her from getting the flag all the way home. The arrow hit her well enough but just to simply knock the flag from her hands. Ezekiel narrowed his eyes and pushed a bit harder to he could retrieve the flag quickly.

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Jackson came running towards him, fist cocked and ready to strike, figures an Ares kid would telegraph his moves. Demetri leaned back to avoid the hit, but in a last second switch, Jackson stopped his punch and instead went for a kick. He feigned a punch, the Ares kid actually used some form of tact. This should prove an interesting fight after all. Having been off balance from his dodge, the kick sent Demetri down onto the ground and skidding a bit. He watched as Jackson slowly backed up giving him the chance to stand up and fight once more. Demetri got up, pulling his pants up slightly and then patting his ass free of any debris that may have clung on from the fall. He got into an defensive position, looking for the best angle of attack against a kid of war and decided that the best defense is a good offense. Celestial Bronze seemed to be just as deadly to the children of gods as it was to the monsters that hunted them, good to know.

”Awhlright then, suppose I shouldn’t use that then now should i?” His british accent slipping a little as he became more focused on the task, and a bit more relaxed. His parents each had a posh accent that carried onto him from years of hearing and learning from it. A trait he’s tried to suppress at times as most kids at school either swooned over it or hated it. He backed up a few more paces, gaining some distance between the two. Demetri’s stance grew wide, similar to a sumo wrestler as one leg spread and then the other. He began to rush towards Jackson, his form taking longer to shape until finally he shifted into a rhinoceros. It’s thick hide armor should be a good defense against Jacksons blows, while its charge and horn can do some damage. The rush continued as it evolved into a full on charge, swinging his head to the side of Jackson and hitting him with enough force to knock him down on the ground. The black beast skidded to a halt as dust and dirt was kicked up into the air, nostrils flaring as it stared at Jackson, legs digging into the ground ready for its next charge.

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"What Kirsten?" Mary said with a slight laugh, giving her a bit of a smile. "I honestly find this hilarious and I love it!" She found the entire situation somewhat amusing, so of course she was going to just sit there and not let go of her with the vines. That would make things way too easy for the group, and why would she make things more interesting like that? It made no sense to her, but that didn't really matter, all that mattered was that she wasn't going to let go so easily.

She then glanced over at the other two in order to see what they should do now, when her eyes grew wide slightly, seeing Arthur knock Andy to the ground. "Now why the hell did you do that?" Mary asked Arthur, before she moved slightly on the branch she was on, keeping a grip on the branch so that she didn't fall out of the tree and she looked down at Andy. "Hey Andy! Are you okay?" she asked her, looking down at her from the tree.

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Arthur hadn't pushed her that hard. She thought as she fell backward off the tree. Reflex took over and she threw her arm back to catch herself and found nothing but air. Time seemed to slow a bit and she understood for a second that this was the ADHD kicking in. She scrambled but it was too late. Instead of grasping anything off the tree her arm crunched under her body as she hit the ground. It didn't hurt, not at first, and then the pain was coursing through her. It was like her arm was the beginning point for a bolt of lightening burning each of her nerve endings. Andy didn't have time to cry out when everything went black. She wasn't unconscious long, but she hadn't heard either of Arthur or Marygold asking after her health.

There was a lot of pain. Not just the physical but the disappointment in herself. The embarrassment. It all bundled up inside her and she directed every ounce of that pain at Arthur. Not that Andy actually wanted to hurt him, he was her friend...right? But a bolt shot from her to him and she finally let out a noise. It was a cry and tears spilled hot from her eyes. There was no way she could have explained what exactly she was crying about. Andy was, after all, only ten years old. She had never had someone explain emotions to her and she lacked coping skills and self-awareness. She still thought it was stupid. She had been hurt before, sure she hadn't broken a bone before and her arm was definitely broken, but Andy had been hurt plenty.

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Jade thought about what she could do with this new information, seeing as she was now assured she could date somebody if a special person came along. But that was something for later, as much as her teenaged mind defaulted to romantic stories of summer love at the camp. Her mind was captured by the idea of some boy at camp coming by and sweeping her off her feet, not even caring for the fact that she could not see. Enough so that she was closing her eyes and humming slightly at the fantasy playing in her thoughts. A sweet, innocent little melody before she opened her eyes and realized this wasn't the case.

"What about you? Do you have a special someone at this camp?" She asked the oracle, a friendly little smile on her face as she seemed to have decided that Rosie was a newfound friend. Intent on just getting to know her new friend as a person as opposed to an oracle, or pestering her further about the camp. As the girl figured that it would get pretty irritating to constantly be pestered about how the whole camp worked. So she opted to not bring up anything this time around.

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Bryan was out cold, having hitting his back up against the tree due to Leda's rainbow blasts, though Scarlett was pretty close by seeing the flash of light Zeke had made. And quickly ran over seeing that Leda was slightly disoriented, she smirked looking over at Zeke as she cracked her fingers a little bit being a child of Nemesis she was usually good at getting retribution. Seeing her teammate getting attacked wasn't good either. "Looks like you are about to loose anyway." Scarlett said as she drew out her sword, and then lunged forward knocking Zeke on his ass.

Rosie smile faulted a little bit and shook her head slightly, signing up to become an oracle you'd pretty much have to swear off boys, and any kind of romance, just like the Hunters of Artemis. "Sadly being an oracle you'd have to sign off on any kind of romances and stuff." Rosie answered as she shrugged slightly looking back over at the screen, she would have loved to dated someone, but she had given it up the game was about pretty much won at this point which was good to watch as well. The Athena kids just needed to get the flag down in their flag spot as well.

Alannah watched as Ash tried to summon another skeleton, but sadly it didn't seem to be working at the moment either, but the Ares kids turned around. Seeing a skeleton bum rushing them, one of them was actually freaked out and ran off to scream to his parents probably, he was closer towards Ash' age. Though the other camper turned around glaring at the Skeleton as it tried to attack him, he managed to side step, with his own sword. Seeing an opening he managed to chop off the other arm as it fell to the ground, the skeleton looked surprised if it did actually have a face, before being decapitated.

Somewhere Just Outside of Kansas City: 7:10PM

Jackson groaned a little bit as he slowly got up, having the wind knocked out of him by a fucking rhino he wasn't expecting at all, looking down at himself. He dusted himself off slightly and cracked his neck a little bit, he sadly wasn't able to shift like Demetri could which sucked. But he got back up again his sides did hurt a little bit as well but he'd shake it off later and maybe take some ambrosia or nectar later. "Well that's not really fair you can change." Jackson said, when the Hepheastus girl decided to chime in and smirked a little bit. "Since when did an Ares kid play fair?" She said smirking just a little bit while watching the new kid and looked towards Aster. "Any bets on whos going to win?"

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Kristin watched as Arthur ended up knocking down Andy out of the tree, wincing slightly as she could hear the cracking sound once Andy had hit the ground, something did end up breaking. But she was still held down thanks to Mary's vines looking over at her for a moment, wondering if she'd come down to check if Andy was alright or not. Eva watched as Andy had fallen down out of the tree thanks to Arthur doing his playground bully move. She quickly climbed out of the tree with no problem at all and made her way towards Andy as well, but managed to get out of the way when Andy sent a bolt of lightening directly at Arthur.

The bolt of lighting flew straight at Arthur, he'd certainly be feeling that in the morning, Arthur would lose his balance as well getting a few burns as well as falling out of the tree. Arthur would land on his ankle, but luckily for him he would just come out with a sprained ankle and no broken bones surprisingly. Though his hair would be sticking up and he'd be smelling like a Kentucky fried chicken. Kristin would see that all unfolding as well, looking over at Eva. "I have some ambrosia cubes in my pocket, i'd help but you know being tied up, give them to the two of them?" Eva would nod as she made her way towards Kristin and pulled out the bag of ambrosia cubes, and made her way towards Andy first and gave them to her. "Take these it will help heal." Eva said, as she went towards Arthur and would do the same as well.

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Kiera watched as the game was getting really closed to the end now as well, looking over at the others, when an arrow came flying, and managed to hit Mona's hand which knocked the flag out of her hands. The Ares kids were close by now but she wasn't able to see them from where she was at right now either. Kiera ran over and picked up the flag whether Mona was going to pick it up or not they needed to finish the game as soon as possible. She wasn't sure if there was anyone else nearby either but Kiera didn't take the chance either, as she ran over to their flag.

With the Ares team flag now with theirs then ahorn came out signaling that the game was now over, which everyone in the play field would hear, Kiera smiled a little bit before backing away hearing the horn. She looked over towards Mona she was going to let her classmate take the win of course, since she did carry the flag the entire time. The Athena kids that were nearby started to cheer now that they game was finally won.

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Mona didn't know what to expect with the offer of transportation. Given the fact these kids all had abilities granted by the gods she was sure it was going to be something weird and out of the ordinary. So it was much to her surprise when she was picked up and ran across the field at top speed. Before she could even begin to process what the hell had just happened, she was mere feet away from their own flag.

However, Mona was disoriented. She nearly dropped the flag and fell to her knees, dizzy and unable to catch her breath. She felt sick, but not to the point where she would puke all over. It was more like she was on a roller coaster. It took a minute to process it, but she felt a hit on her hand, causing the flag to drop from her hands. Before she could react, Kiera grabbed the flag and ran to their own.

A horn sounded, signaling the end of the game. Mona shook her head, finally coming back to reality. "We won? We won!" It was the first time she had ever been excited about a sport.

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Aster laughed every time Jackson hit the ground, giving the new kid a rousing round of applause for the recovery and the amazing transformation. Watching Jackson hit the ground time after time was music to his ears and Aster made no effort to disguise that. “Aw, what would dear old daddy say if he knew his little kid was pouting over fair? Aster cooed at the Ares kid. The idea of anyone from the Ares cabin playing fair made him rolls his eyes. They were notorious for wanting to win at any cost and pushing fights and conflicts farther than necessary just for the fun of it. Maybe it hadn’t been such a good idea to rile him up and throw him at the new kid. Very rarely did Aster regret his actions but he could see this going sideways very quickly, even if the kid could change shape at will.

“I’m hoping the new kid wins this. I want to be able to tell everyone when we get back." Aster grinned at the girl. "And for the record, I take no responsibility if Jackson gets his ass flattened--well, it can't get much flatter but you know what I mean--by the new kid. I was unaware we'd have rhinos trampling around. But with how excitedly he jumped into the fray, I think he might find more than a few friends among the brutes."

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"Urgh, I'm blinded by assholes!" Leda complained, instinctively bringing her hands to her eyes. While her mother was the Goddess of Rainbows, that didn't mean Leda was immune to the effects of light flares to her eyes. That would have come in handy. Maybe there was some way to learn how to do that with her own rainbow powers? At any rate, the temporary blindness caused her to not see the arrow Zeke shot at her coming and she was knocked back, falling to the ground hard. For a moment, she briefly wondered whether or not this was what life was like for the new blind girl, Jade.

It took a little bit for her vision to clear and she got back up to her feet, just in time to see Scarlett knock Zeke down. She smirked slightly. "Ha, ha, ha," she taunted Zeke, speaking each time she took a step forward. The horn sounded soon enough and Leda knew there was no way that the Ares team had won. "So what were you saying about taking our flag and getting yours back, huh snail?" she taunted. Sure, she didn't always treat people like this but Zeke was an exception. After going on a quest with a person, you ended up either becoming a family with them or wanting to drive an axe through their skull. Leda certainly didn't feel the former about him.

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Excitement and adrenaline coursed through the child of Zeus as he watched Jackson get pummeled to the ground. Pride began to fill him as he noticed that all his monster slaying and forest practices weren’t for not. That is, until Jackson began to comment on the unfairness of the match. If Demetri was being honest, he had thought the match was unfair from the beginning, but not because he could shift. No, it was due more in part to the fact that Jackson was a child of war who has been trained enough to go on missions and most likely had way more combat expertise than Demi had. This small victory was quickly followed by a feeling of remorse and uncertainty now eating away at him as he wondered if Jackson even had powers to use in a fight; that is, until the Hephaestus girl and Aster spoke up and essentially reprimanded Jackson, stating that Ares kids rarely played fair, so why should he this time?

So it is that Demetri figured, if you got it, flaunt it. Flaunt he did. His nostrils flared as his eyes narrowed down onto his target, grunting noises could be heard coming softly from the rhino-boy as the hot breath of the creature kicked up small tufts of dirt into the air. His right hoof began to tap against the earth, preparing for another charge. Head held low, eyes darted upwards as he let out another grunt and began his canter into a full charge. He used his armored shoulder to drive straight into Jackson, tossing him down once more, kicking up dirt into his face as he continued past him, turning and sliding into a halt. Dirt was flying in the air, the nights breeze blowing it past them to reveal the Rhino still staring Jackson down, his ears flapping to help keep away the dust. He charged once more, this time using his bowed head and horn to lift Jackson off the ground and toss him up as he continued past him finishing his second charge. Surely the kid of Ares should know to concede at this point.

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Athanasia winced as her poor skeleton had his only arm chopped off, thankful at least that one of the campers had run from the fight. Then again, the boy had been about her own age and if Athanasia had a terrifying skeleton coming at her... Well, she wouldn't have run! A one-armed skeleton wasn't really that terrifying. It was like the joke a mummy looking for its mommy. Funny, but really not all that great. No, what concerned Athanasia was the fact that the other Ares camper had hacked her skeleton's other arm off.

Then his head. "Oh, la! Now that's just rude!" Exclaimed the pale girl looking rather crossed with the much taller boy. "He was lacking arms and you could have just left him be, but no! You just had to cut his head off." Tutting she shook her head. It had been excessive on the poor old bones. A horn jolted her from her thoughts and Athanasia shot Alannah a confused look. "What was that? Did someone capture the flag already?" She hoped so despite herself. Then she could see how Arthur and Andy were doing.

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Arthur's first clue that Andy wasn't doing alright was her failure to respond to his inquiry, and his second, much more obvious one, was the massive bolt of lighting getting thrown at his face. Watching the bolt start to form in his fingertips, he knew a lot of pain was coming, and he was helpless to stop it, or even really brace himself. The first thing he noticed was the fact that he was no longer under the tree anymore, and was now floating in midair, as his skin charred from the raw energy coursing through it. He'd scream, if he felt able to move, but the electricity made it very difficult to do that.

Crashing onto the ground, he was lucky to not hear any of his bones cracking. As he was grounded, he briefly felt angry, but he was quickly conflicted on that. He really shouldn't have pushed her out of that tree, and he could understand her response. Still, he hurt, bad, and his ankle was throbbing. Right now, he had to avoid talking to Andy, or he was likely to explode on her. Looking weakly up at Eva, he nodded weakly. Apparently, Andy wasn't the only thing pissed at him, since that did just about nothing. "Can we try that again please?" He coughed, and when he was given his second, he gulped it down quickly. Feeling his burns and sprain fade away. He hobbled to his feet. His face was red, embarrassed not only from his injury, but from everything about the situation.

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Ezekiel’s triumph at taking out Leda was short lived. Scarlett came out of hiding and knocked him out before Ezekiel could get much of a defense up. He glared at her and stood, ready to bounce back when the horn sounded. Ezekiel groaned and placed the arrow he held back into it’s quiver and strapped his bow on. Leda’s taunting laugh went in one ear and out the other. With the end of the game, Ezekiel took off the “I’m going to kick your ass because I’m better than you” hat and put on the “healing, I’m a bit better than you still” hat. He walked over to Bryan, ignoring Leda and tried rousing him. Luckily he succeed. ”Hey man, can you walk?” Bryan attempted by the looks of it to Ezekiel but his brother shook his head. Ezekiel chuckled and slid arms underneath his brother. ”Not to worry brother, you saved my ass a couple of times today, guess I could do it for you.” He stood with Bryan and turned around and glared at Leda. ”How about you use that quick mouth and feet to go around and bring anyone who can’t move to the medical tent,” he spat before walking away from her and the winning team.
Ezekiel managed to get Bryan all the way to a medical tent set up around the Capture the Flag perimeter. He set Bryan down on a bed and started to remove his weapons so he could offer assistance. Other than a sore ass, Ezekiel was fine. Ezekiel didn’t mind the work at the end of games like these or after people came back from a mission. He tended to zone out the world while he was helping and healing. It was a different type of face paced. He became a different type of cocky here because he knew he was good at this and wasn't the overcompensating ass he knew he was in every other situation. Ezekiel was almost bearable here. Almost.

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Mary's eyes grew wide slightly, seeing Andy send a bolt of lightning at Arthur. In her mind, the kid did sort of deserve it, he had kind of shoved her out of a tree. What else was she supposed to do to retaliate? Sit there and yell at him? Sure, there were probably a few people around the camp who would have done that, but she certainly was on Andy's side. Though considering how young Andy was, she could also understand why she would be crying in this sort of situation. Mary dropped down out of the tree and went over to Andy, "Hey, it'll be alright Andy," she said, giving her a smile.

When she heard the horn, she just rolled her eyes before looking over at Kirsten. "No hard feelings right? Anyway, since the game is over, might as well let you go," she said, before waving her hand a bit and the vines retreated, letting go of Kirsten. Once more she turned her attention back towards Andy. "You did a great job, especially since you haven't been here for very long and are still learning how things are. You did really well."

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The girl's facial features turned from a more positive, interesting expression to a sadder expression as Rosie talked about being kept away from romances by being an oracle. "Oh. That kind of sucks, I'm sorry to hear that." She said softly before thinking of another little thought that might cheer the girl up. Leaning over to bump shoulders with the Oracle, Jade gave her a very friendly smile. "Well, being an Oracle definitely didn't have anything against making awesome best buddies right?" She said as she hoped to bring the positive vibe back to the conversation. She didn't like to see others feeling down or upset because of stupid rules like what the oracle was apparently having to deal with.

With that being said, the girl had fallen silent as she seemed to run out of things to say to Rosie to try to improve her mood. Unfortunate as it was, it wasn't really like Jade had much experience in that field. Most people didn't really bother to look at a blind girl as potentially romantic material. Seeing her as if she were damage or something of the sort. It was a bit of a sore point for the girl, but also not particularly one which she was overly fond of speaking about.

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Andy cautiously placed the square in her mouth. It tasted like chicken soup, specifically the soup that one foster family had made her when she was maybe six years old and very sick. That had been one of the few foster homes Andy had liked, but she had gotten into a fight with one of the other kids and shocked him. While no one could explain what had happened she had been shuffled out of the home. She wanted to cry all over again. Andy both wanted more ambrosia and to never have it again.

After sitting up Andy leaned against Marygold. Her face cold and wet from crying. The game was over. She wanted to apologize to Arthur, and he certainly looked like he took a nasty hit from her. His hair was standing on end. But she couldn't bring herself to do it, not yet. She still hurt, though it did appear her arm was no longer broken. What Andy really wanted was just to go to bed, but she knew what her cabin looked like. Andy was frustrated in ways she couldn't express. "Can I go to my cabin?"

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Scarlett smirked and shook her head slightly towards Zeke, after hearing the horn going off the game was now over and done with crossing her arms over her chest letting out a slight sigh. "Wished I could have kicked his ass a little bit more." She said turning over to look at Leda and gave her a slight smile. "You did pretty good." She said, as she watched the other campers who had participated in the game were all starting to return to the camp proper now. "Anyway see ya at the camp fire tonight." She said towards Leda before running off to catch up with some of the others.

Bryan sat up slightly as he started to shake off some of the dizziness after being blasted by Leda looking over towards his half brother as he started to treat him. Though he could have done it himself he did spend time with in the infirmary tent as well throughout the day, and after games like Capture the Flag and the Chariot Races that went on throughout the summer days. "Thanks man, i'll help you out with the others now." Just as Bryan had said that, about twenty or so campers were all starting to file in now as well. "Looks like we have a full house here." He said patting Zeke on the shoulder.

Alannah was about to get ready to attack the two ares kids when the horn went off, closing her eyes and sighed a little bit and rubbed the back of her neck slightly. She turned to look over at Ash and nodded towards her, usually the horn did go off whenever the game was finished. "Yep, looks like we won though." Alannah said smiling towards Ash, looking at the two Ares kids as they grumbled mostly to themselves. They looked at the two of them for a moment before leaving and heading on over towards the center of camp for the rest of the night for their little camp fire. "Lets head over towards the camp fire, the singalong and stuff is going to be starting pretty soon." Alannah said patting Ash on the shoulder. "You did great." She smiled towards her.

Rosie simply just shrugged a little bit, she didn't really mind or care now anyway at this point, as she heard the horn going off, and watched as some of the campers who participated were all either heading towards the camp fire, or the medical tent for some treatment from the fighting as well. "I wouldn't mind hanging out, nothing against having friends around either." Rosie said, smiling towards Jade as she stood up and stretched slightly. "Do you need help moving around or anything?" Rosie offered towards Jade.

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After being ran over by Rhino Demetri a few times, Jackson slowly got back up to his feet he was looking pretty bruised up right now, and had a few scraps and cuts on his arms as well. He was about to charge forward, when the girl sighed a little bit and stood up standing in between the two of them. "I think that's good enough now, we don't want either one of you to die or anything." She said before turning around and looked up at the sky the sun had just set now and it was dark now as well. "We should get ready to rest, Aster take the first watch like you said earlier." She said as she walked over to where she had set up her little tent and started to call it a night.

Jackson looked towards Demetri and grumbled about kicking his ass more, but he was pretty sore now at his point as well and didn't want to put up any kind of argument. "Fine." He said looking towards the Rhino boy, and gave him a slight nod, and started to make his way over towards his own tent and started to get ready for sleep now as well.

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Kristin rubbed her wrists a little bit once Mary had removed the vines from her and gave her a slight smile and a nod. "It's all just a game after all." She said, looking over and started to help Andy back up to her feet as well, seeing that she was crying either from the pain or a bit humiliated she wasn't really sure. "Lets get you checked up atleast first at the medical tent, and I can take you off to your cabin. And we can hangout in there for a bit if you'd like." Kristin offered as she started to take her over towards the medical tent, even if the injuries were healed she wanted to make sure she was alright as well still. Once she was there Kristin helped Andy into one of the beds to get treated.

Eva looked towards Arthur and smiled a little bit, though she didn't like that he had shoved Andy out of the tree, a real playground bully move it had happened to her when she was really little at a local playground. "Just wait till next Friday for the next round then." Eva said, seeing that he was alright for the most part, but like Kristin she wanted to make sure that he was alright. "Taking you to get patched up real quick first." Eva said as she helped escort Arthur as well towards the medical tent putting him in the bed next to Andy.

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Kiera was actually smiling that they had actually won the game, was the campers near all of them cheered, they were high fiving each other and talked amongst each other for a little bit before turning and heading back towards the cabins as well. She hopped off and walked over towards Mona to give her a high five as well. "You did really good out there." She said towards her classmate just as Tammy and Thresa came up to the two of them, Thresa gave Mona a hug.

"Some of us in the Aphrodite cabin are going to hangout by the beach if you wanted to hangout with us after the campfire singalong." Thresa offered to Mona if she wanted to join them or just crash in the cabin for the rest of the night was up to her. Tammy walked over towards Kiera and gave her a slight nudge and smiled towards her, they all did pretty well together over at the Ares flag post. "Lets head out then shall we?" Tammy said, and Kiera nodded as she looked towards the others and started to follow everyone else out back towards the cabins.

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Being led to the medical tent, Arthur didn’t have much to say. He was really working on processing his own emotions and getting himself to a point that he wouldn’t explode the next time he was in a confrontation with Andy. He knew he was in the wrong a good bit, the pushing was too far, but so was electrocuting him that badly. If he could go back and do it over, he wouldn't have, but that wasn’t quite how things worked. He’d need to admit that he messed up, and get himself to be able to apologize for his actions. That wasn’t gonna be the easiest thing in the world though. Fortunately, or unfortunately, he was given the opportunity to do so, being seated in the bed next to Andy. It was everything he had not to glare at Eva, but he contained himself. Resting on the bed, he gave a quite look over to Andy, unsure of what to say. Tapping his feet on the side of the bed, he finally settled on. “So um. How’s your arm?” His tone was dry, almost free of emotion, not quite able to let himself feel things at the moment.

Andy was irritated and tired and her arm hurt. It did hurt less at least the weird food square that had tasted like chicken soup had worked. But Kristin was insisting Andy get checked out at the medical tent anyway. She trudged along and sat on the bed accepting this even though she only wanted to go to her stupid empty cabin and curl up in that musty sleeping bag. She looked up at Arthur when he spoke realizing he was there. ”Not broken.” Andy said through a half sniffle. She had mostly stopped crying. She was mad at Arthur still and wondered why he was there for a second before realizing she had hit him pretty hard with the electricity. Andy looked back down at her hands. She felt like she should apologize but he had hurt her first.

Well, she wasn’t damaged anymore, so that was good news. Apparently the magic squares healing abilities were well past anything the muggles have cooked up. Still, he looked away for a moment, simply saying, “Well, that’s good to hear.” He knew now was the time to put emotions aside, and act like the mature and responsible twelve year old he was, but that was difficult on account of him being twelve. Pursing his lips for a second, and started. “I...” Before exhaling, and murmuring. “Shouldn’t have pushed you. Sorry.” It came out muffled, if sincere. His lips were pulled taut to the side of his face, clearly not happy that he was in the situation, mostly due to his electrocution.

Andy blinked as Arthur apologized. ”I’m sorry I electrocuted you so bad your hair curled. I didn’t mean to do it that strong. I didn’t want to actually hurt you.” The apology came out in a blur of words all sort of jumbled and tumbling but it was the truth. She hadn’t wanted to hurt Arthur. ”I just,” She paused and took a deep breath. ”I put all the pain I was feeling into it and it made it really strong.”

Arthur looked back at her, now that both of their apologies were out there, everything was supposed to be better right? If that were true, why did he still feel embarrassed? He messed up, and even forgiveness from her didn’t really help the fact that he let himself get out of control, and ended up hurt because of it. “I forgive you...” He said quietly. And he really did, right now, he was more angry at himself than anything. Forcing a small, hopeful smile onto his face, he asked. “Do you forgive me?”

Relief washed over Andy as Arthur said he forgave her. It felt nice, a weight lifted off of her and she smiled at him. And when he asked if she forgave him it was an easy answer, though she paused for a few seconds before responding trying to get her words in order. ”I do. You didn’t know it would break my arm, and if it hadn’t I wouldn’t have been so mad.” She didn’t know how to explain everything else she was feeling about Arthur but at least they weren’t mad at each other anymore. They could be friends, and that would be good.

Arthur gave a sigh of relief, happy to have made it through his first day at demigod school without making a mortal enemy. Resting back on the bed, he relaxed, and said, “I’m glad, thank you so much. I promise I won’t ever do anything like that ever again.” He said, slowly returning to his more relaxed, proper demeanor. Hopefully next time they’d be playing on the same side, but even if not, he’d beat her properly next time, without the broken limbs.

One of the campers in the tent looked at Andy’s arm and wrapped it with an ace bandage. Andy looked over at Arthur and was smiling. ”I’ll try not to ever electrocute you again, but I’ll be honest I don’t have the best control over it.” That was very true...uncomfortably true. Andy decided she would be spending her time at camp getting that power under control. She didn’t like that it could hurt her friends and that she couldn’t control its strength.

Arthur returned the smile, “Hey, if you’re strong enough to shock me like you just did, you’re a lot more capable than you know. Proper control will come in time.” He said kindly. They were all in a horridly new and foreign situation, where certainty was a far off dream for them, and after his behavior, kindness was one of the simplest and most essential comforts he could offer to Andy. He hoped that it would bring some level of reassurance to her.

For a second Andy felt embarrassed and she didn’t know why. Her face was warm. She slid off the bed. ”Thank you.” How did he know exactly what she had been thinking the entire game of CTF? That she wasn’t good enough to be a child of Zeus. That she had so much to live up to and had no idea what she was doing. It seemed like the camp just expected them to step into the role of their birth and she didn’t even know what that meant really. ”Maybe I’ll save your life with the electricity someday.” She said mostly as a joke. ”I’m gonna go to cabin now. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

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It took Mona a minute, but sure enough, the game was over. They had emerged victorious. She met Kiera's high five, surprising even herself at triumphing over a camp game. It wasn't the game itself, she still hated capture the flag, but it was more that she felt in control of herself. More sure of who she is and where she came from. And her powers? They were useful. She could see how they could aid in a fight, potentially with more centaurs. Plus, she'd be lying if she said she didn't want to use the spear/sword/bracelet out more.

She accepted the hug from Theresa also. "Maybe. I just want to relax for a minute." She wasn't a beach person, per se, but perhaps spending time with her siblings would make it more enjoyable. Or at least, give her something to do. But for now she followed them back to the cabin for some well-deserved rest and relaxation.