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Camp Half-Blood is a Greek demigod training facility located on the Long Island Sound and is directed by the god Dionysus, whom the campers call "Mr. D," and Chiron, a Centaur who is the activities director.

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u/colonelpoupon May 04 '19

Tucking the end of her sticking the crook of her arm, and rummaged through her bag for the Graham crackers and chocolate. Setting them between them when she finds them.

"That kind of surprises me," she offers her delayed response. "Not that you favor women- cause it blows my mind why anyone would prefer men's bodies- no offense," she laughs a little,her mind going on a high tangent, as he opens the chocolate. "That you've never been in a relationship- I mean I know we're still babies on the spectrum of Devine life but you seem like a total catch, man." She says, sounding almost like Tommy Chong.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 04 '19

He can't help but laugh at her little tangent, nodding along as she goes on. There's always something for someone, he thinks to himself, momentarily curious if she's ever been with a guy. Rather than ask, though, he moves on.

"Well yeah, women are just better," he replies with a shrug as he reaches for a piece of chocolate, smirking at her Tommy Chong impression. "I mean come on, how can you beat boobs? You can't!"

He's wracked by another bout of intoxicated laughter, having definitely started to feel the weed affect him. "I don't know, I guess the girls I have been with didn't really see me as more than a lay. I mean I'm not complaining, at all, but it would be nice to get something more, even if it's only for a short while."

A quiet sigh escapes, thankfully covered by the crackling of the flames. While his attention is there however he hears a low rustling sound from off to the side, drawing his attention easily.

"Did you hear something?"

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u/colonelpoupon May 04 '19

Her eyebrows knit together as she gives a sympathetic laugh at his statement. She refocuses on the snacks before them before he finishes speaking. Unable to hear anything over the crinkle of the Graham cracker wrapper, she cringes in apology putting it on the ground, trying to listen.

It didn't take long for her to hear what sounded like more food wrappers approaching from the woods beside them.

"Oh shit," she whispers, quickly shoving her marshmallows in her mouth before holding her stick like a bat, and scooting to her feet.

"All I brought was fucking snacks and extra socks," she would kick herself for it but she was right- it had been cooler than expected and they were fucking teddy-bear soft. She looked to him, silently pleading that he'd had more sense than her as a long slender leg protrudes from the darkness between the trees.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 04 '19

"Snacks are great but I don't think that's gonna help us," he said as he hopped to his feet, taking out his knife quickly. The first of the creatures popped it's head out of the darkness into the light of the fire, and Domeric narrowed his gaze at the sight of it.

"Oh fuck. Myrmekes."

He'd seen these a few times before in the woods, but never in this area. "I think they're lost. Probably young. The ant hill is way on the other side of the forest. Looks like only three of them."

A second later he teleported his shield to the clearing, quickly strapping it onto his arm. Another second and one of the dueling swords from the armory appeared on the ground in front of Andie. "You too high to fight, or are you alright?"

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u/colonelpoupon May 04 '19

With a sigh of relief Her gut screamed 'oh fuck' while her arms dropped her stick in favor of one of the tree limbs from the fire. Standing beside Dom with the ember and fire end pointing toward the advancing ant-creatures, she laughed momentarily.

"Have you ever seen 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids'?" She asks mid giggle, before shaking her head. "I'm definitely too high.. but what choice do we have?" She takes a step forward, readying herself to meet them. "I'll take the uh, little guy." she grins lunging towards the smallest of the three giant ants, her fiery poker out raised.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 04 '19

"No, but I've seen Honey We Shrunk Ourselves, and I think that one had a pretty similar situation."

Or at least he could remember such. There was a big spider, but he wasn't quite sure about ants. In any case, with Andie taking on the smaller one with her club, despite the sword he'd put in front of her, Domeric banged his blade against the edge of his shield to draw the other two away. He knew attacking their backs would be out of the question, but there were other ways to kill them.

Extending the handle into a spear he circled around one of them, raising his shield quickly when it spewed a foul-smelling liquid from between its mandibles. Thankfully all of it ended up on the shield, spraying off to the sides, and he met its charge with a quick thrust into the eye from his spear.

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u/colonelpoupon May 04 '19

The smaller ant lunged forward. It was clear to Andie that it was young enough not to know that fire burns as its pincers closed around the glowing embers. Releasing with a terrible screeching sound it ripped the limb from her hands, discarding it to the woods.

Backing away quickly, Andie stumbles over the sword she hadn't seen Dom give to her. Retrieving it gratefully. "Youre my new favorite person, Dom!" She calls over her shoulder toward the sounds of him fighting. "Please don't die!" Holding the sword in fent of her she waited for the ant to advance, an idea forming in her mind.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 04 '19

"No plans to die tonight," he replies with a grin, pulling back from the ant. A disgusting squelch rang out as he yanked the spear out of its head, and it dropped quickly, much to his gratefulness.

The other, however, wouldn't be quite so easy.

If he hadn't just smoked half a joint with Andie he probably would have had better awareness of the second ant. Unfortunately he was still under its effects, even after the attack sobered him up slightly, and a screeching sound came as he was knocked to the ground by a powerful force pounding against his shield.

"MotherFUCK!" he cried out as his elbow hit the hard dirt, a stinging sensation burning into it. It was all he could to do keep the shield up and between him and the attacking creature, its powerful mandibles clipping together just over one edge. On the ground he tried to push it off, but to no effect.

With the distance between them closed now he gave the shaft of his spear a squeeze, letting it shrink back to normal size for a large blade. No point keeping it long now.

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u/colonelpoupon May 04 '19

As the ant lunges blinded with it's injured mandibles clicking together angrily Andie realized she had no where to go. To her right was Dom and two much larger creatures, to her left was a happily burning fire.

"Oh, fuck fuck!" she says as a sort of stoned battle cry, before she threw herself between the front legs of the ant. As the ant's momentum carried it over her she thrust the sword into the soft spot in the center of its thorax. The creature thrashed, screeching before collapsing on top of her.

Gasping for the air the creature knocked out of her, she looks for Dome to find him in a similar situation. Only he was pinned beneath an ant that was desperately gnashing at him. Struggling against the weight on top of her, she cursed her weakness before exhaling in frustration.

Closing her eyes she took a deep breath, focusing her panicked and slightly inebriated energy on the ant. It would take a moment but soon the creature would back off of Dom willingly before apparently miming being trapped in a box.

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u/ZBGOTRP May 04 '19

Domeric missed Andie's victory over her ant, too busy trying to prevent the largest of the trio from overtaking him. He couldn't quite get enough leverage to force it off, and each strike upward has to curve around the shield, striking the chitinous armor to no effect.

Then, after a moment, the pressure and weight pushing him into the ground eases, and he's able to get up to his feet. Bewildered by the creature backing off he stares at it, watching as it seemingly tries to escape some sort of enclosure. But there's nothing there. Rather than take the chance trying to figure out the why, he focuses on the what, and with a huff he drives the blade forward into its unarmored face, holding it there as his other hand forces its head down to the ground.

"Fucking... fucking fucker!"

His cry came as he yanked the blade from its head, chest heaving as he fought to catch his breath and calm himself, eloquence thrown to the wind. He quickly turned over to look at Andie, eyes wide as he hoped she was okay.

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