The New Generation (Percy Jackson Fanfiction)

13 - Weakness

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Now that that's done, CHAPTER START!!!!

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After dinner and the campfire, I walked over to Riven's shooting range. When I got there, Riven wasn't there. No one was.

I sighed and laughed to myself. Why did I think that I would have any actual friends here? I should've known I was and am always going to be alone.

I was walking out, when someone grabbed my hand. I turned around, and it was Riven.

"Why did you do that?" he asked. I looked at him in disbelief. He was really there? He didn't just trick me into coming there?

"Earth to Kim! Hello?" he said, waving a hand in front of my face.

I pulled my hand away. "It's nothing," I said, "Why did you make Avon tell me to come here?"

I know Avon said that Riven wanted to apologize, but I wanted to hear it directly from Riven.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry for punching you and knocking you out," he said, "I just did it because I thought it would be easier for us to treat you."

"What did you even do?" I asked, "I woke up with bandages on my stomach and arm."

"Will has this cream Dad made especially for bruises, so we put it on your bruises and wrapped them up."

I smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Who's we?"

"U-um, me."

Riven was tomato red, and I decided to mess with him.

"So you put cream on my stomach, wrapped it up, and did the same to my arm?"

"Y-yeah," he stammered.

"Calm down," I said, "I'm joking."

Riven looked relieved. He then looked like he had an idea.

"Hey Kim, come with me," he said, "I want to show you what I've been working on."

I nodded, and Riven led me further in the forest. He stopped at a tree that had a sun carved into it. He started climbing and said, "Kim, follow me up."

I nodded and started climbing. After we were really high up in the tree, Riven stopped and looked down at me.

"This part's a little tricky," he said. I sighed and followed him up. Soon, we were at what looked like a very carefully placed treehouse. I looked at it in awe.

"That is really cool," I said, "Why do you have this here?"

"Sometimes, I just don't wanna go back to the cabin."

"Is this one of those times?"

"Yup."

I looked at him, trying to look like I was asking why. Luckily, Riven understood what I was questioning.

"Sometimes I get in arguments with Will and my brothers and sisters. More like I get them mad at me somehow."

I motioned for him to continue. "Today, Will got mad at me because I didn't want to help lead the sing along."