Ben pouted, crossing his arms and sticking his tongue out at Joshua. "You traitor!" He complained overdramatically, before just grabbing his backpack and taking out another pack of marshmallows. "We can both win." He told Alex, smiling as he sat back down. Then, with a smirk, he turned his back to Joshua, and said in a mock-upset voice. "But you? You will not be forgiven."
Vivi face palmed. These guys were ridiculous, but she missed all of them so much. It was times like these when she wished demigods could have phones to talk when they weren't in camp. Standing, she plucked the bag Ben had in hand from him, watching his jaw drop. "Never let your guard down, Carter." She told him with a joking wink, referring to him by his last name.
Joshua snorted, putting Alex back down. "With all the sweets you vacuum up, I'm surprised you're this light," he joked good-heartedly, then stuck his tongue out at Ben.
Alex laughed a bit as he was put down and saw Vivi pluck the bag from Ben's hands. Raising his own, he touched Vivi's bag, jokingly exclaiming, "Cheers!" He was so glad to be back at the camp, this was his real home in his eyes. Not to mention, he also had found somebody willing to help him understand some of the more difficult things in medicine.
Finally managing to regain her composure and stop snickering, the girl nodded, but a large grin was still on her face. Of course they were prepared. This wasn't the first time this happened. "Should I take a bag over there so we have some left when they're done?" She offered jokingly with a glance towards Ben, Alex and Vivi's Great Marshmallow War nearby.
Vivi laughed, cheering with Alex and touching the marshmallow bag to his, still smiling. Then, her eyes widened, and she jumped up. "I forgot to tell you something!" She said, looking at Joshua. "I know this is far off, but when this summer ends, I'm going to start staying the entire year instead of just during the summer." She was so excited for it as well. While she figured that being cooped up for so long would be a bit annoying, she loved it at camp and wanted to be there as much as she could.
Ben, humming innocently, saw Vivienne become distracted and grabbed back the marshmallow bag. He smirked, taking a one out before putting it back on her chair, knowing he probably shouldn't have too many. "Who's the sneaky one now, Brooks?" He looked so pleased with himself, it was a bit hilarious.
Joshua laughed at what Andrea had said, but shook his head. "Nah, unless you wanna. Alex is satisfied with one bag usually. He's not mean enough to eat all of our marshmallows~" Then, he turned to look at Vivi, broad grin appearing on his face at her words. He felt unbelievably happy at the thought of another person being at the camp the whole year with him. "That sounds amazing~ We can gossip about Ben when he's gone." He said the last part jokingly after watching the Apollo camper look way too pleased with himself.
Alex, meanwhile, had sat back down with a grin, munching on his marshmallows with a satisfied laugh.
Ben placed a hand over his heart, turning up his nose and visibly trying to stop himself from laughing. He pouted, saying with mock confidence, "Pfft, what are you going to gossip about? I'm perfect." His tone was clearly joking, not to mention how his facial expression looked like he was about to burst out laughing.
Vivi rolled her eyes, grinning. "Don't worry about it, Ben. We'll find some reason to talk about you. Maybe next time we'll even make bets on who's going to win the marshmallow fight, right Joshua?" Her icy eyes were sparkling, and she was pretty sure she hadn't been this happy since camp last year, and when she thought about it, that was kind of a long time. She just fell into place when she was here.
Joshua nodded with a grin. "Sure~" he chimed. "I'll stop by after we're done with dinner, then." He still had a book in his cabin, but that was just a novel, so he could continue that at a later time - it wasn't like Sanaa needed the books back anytime soon.
Satisfied, he put his fork and knife down, watching the other campers a bit. He couldn't see too many new faces yet, but there also weren't that many campers at the pavilion yet. He did wonder what was going on with that, but figured that it would have a good reason, considering he couldn't see Percy and Alex yet, either.
Lucia nodded, face turning a little bit more serious, though she still seemed to buzz with determination. Getting into position, she called, "Alright, go!" then started running. Nathan was a few inches taller than her, which made his legs longer, but the Zeus camper wasn't about to lose because of that. However, one could be sure with Lucia that she wouldn't use dirty tricks to win.
Sanaa picked another fruit off her plate. "We should have the Hades cabin on our side," she said. "Ria and Lucia want to make the teams as even as possible. I'm just not sure yet if it's only Prue in there, or if the Hades cabin got new people. I guess that'll be revealed by the campfire." She was secretly hoping that at least one more person was in the cabin again, but that chance was slim, seeing as he hadn't been to camp in years.
But even if not, she was sure they could win regardless if they put their minds to it.
"Looks like Jarvis wants to join in too! Hah! And while it doesn't hurt, don't try to hard Afterall it'd just leave you dissapointed" Alethea shouted just as got to the pavillion. "Score 1 for alethea score 0 for you!" Alethea added waiting for henry to get to the pavillion.
He gave a nod, she seemed to be taking it well enough. "Alright, hopefully that didn't put a damper on you for the tour. I would still love to be friends and show you around~" He put back a cheeriness in his voice, though in his head he mumbled an 'after food.'
The red-head let out a sigh, dropping the conversation as Sanaa and him reached the campfire as they couldn't talk about Alex and Asher with one of them being so close.
Oliver let out a scoff, "We'll see how that goes." It wasn't obvious, but that was a threat in a way. Someone sleeping in the same room with the black-haired kid holding a grudge wasn't exactly the nicest thing. You might wake up to find an unpleasant surprise, the package being different depending on the situation.
Basically most people are at the campfire by now, tiny, if you want to interact))
Joshua laughed as an answer, then pointed at Alex. "My bets are on Mr. Sweet-tooth over here in a marshmallow fight," he joked, grinning wider when Alex gave him a thumbs-up while chewing. He was really enjoying the campfire so far, and waved at Percy and Sanaa as he saw them. "Hey, Sanaa! Hope you don't mind that Ben and I started the campfire."
"No, that's fine," she said, sitting down next to Alex and beckoning Percy to sit down as well. "Alexander Bishop, that's not dinner," she said, glancing at the bag of marshmallows he was eating.
"I'm aware," he replied cheekily after a small wince because she had used his full name.
"Of course~" she sang, smiling. She wasn't about to give up that easily, but she'd wait until she knew who she had to deal with. She'd wait until she saw the girl he was together with, and then make sure to be better than her. There had been a commotion at the campfire with lots of laughing, but she simply raised an eyebrow at that.
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"I mean, I'm your best bet to learn the abilities the kids of death have, so hey, finishing me off before that would be kinda bad, don't ya think so?" Nick said with a laugh, obviously not taking Oliver's threat too seriously. His sleep was very light, so he doubted Oliver could hurt him in any way. Not to mention, Nick was hoping he would at least open up a bit over the time. "You are aware what children of Hades can do, aren't you?"
Ben crossed his arms over his chest. "That's only because you cheated!" He whined, although there was a huge smile on his face, and he waved at Sanaa when he saw her come over. Then, he seemed to look around for a moment, before asking, "Hey, wait. Where's Riley?" He shrugged, figuring she wanted to change into something warmer since it had gotten dark, and assumed she'd be there in a few moments. "I actually think she went to--"
"Found her!" Vivi yelled, seeing Riley walk up, bundled into a hoodie and beanie, just like Ben had been expecting. He waved at his sister, Vivi doing the same as she came and sat down on Ben's lap, making him sigh.
"I can't escape it. I'm always being attacked." He looked pointedly at Alex. "Sometimes for marshmallows." And, okay, maybe Vivi burst out laughing from where she was sitting.
"Heh, you have no idea." Nathan laughed lightly awhile walking up to the cabin, "Of course! I'm always up for sparring with you." He said with a smile on his face as he made it sound like a flirty remark but it then again sounded like something a friend would say which to him he knew it was both, the swan that was lazily on the roof literally hopped down once the aphodrite camper held out the collar.
Chevy made a beeline for the campfire which already had some campers surrounding it, "Oi, ya better have saved me marshmallows too!" She yelled in a happy matter once she skipped over as she hadn't been to camp in what, two years at least and she already missed throwing those awesome late-night parties or celebrations with her friends, her violet eyes were full of wonder and delight to see them all again and newcomers too which would make this year even more amazing as she hoped they didn't forget about her? She was too awesome to be forgotten like that.
(Is it okay if Chevy here tackle-hugs a camper at the campfire?)
(Olive, Alethea and Henry could go ahead and go to the campfire)
"Hmm...my favorite memory? I have too many to count,but i guess, it would be the memory of meeting all you and making friends here on the forums. :3" ”One day I’m going to sit down and make a list of all the books that I finished reading....” “It's going to be a long list...”
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Aug 17, 2016 19:17:21 GMT -5
Serena sat with her group at the campfire, twitching her leg and smiling happily. She wondered inwardly if anyone would be claimed tonight, knowing one or two unclaimed kids in the Hermes cabin.
Valentine didn't really want to be at the campfire--she'd rather be reading a book by the ocean--but there she was, yawning and blinking in the bright light.
Post by Cloverheart ✿ on Aug 17, 2016 21:27:24 GMT -5
(( ahh sorry for the double post, but I made a character I really like--he's a boy from Hermes; I can't handle roleplaying three characters, does anyone want to look over his form and see if they want to? ))
Aaah, sorry, but I rather rp characters that I created. But maybe somebody else wants to?
Also I'll post a few things in the rp pm later on, just a heads-up for everybody pfft.
Oh yeah, Lily, if you're looking to tackle hug somebody, all of my characters who are at the campfire would be open for that. x'D))
Alex sneakily waved the bag around as an answer. "Be glad we don't have brownies here. I would sacrifice you for them, Ben," he teased with a laugh. Brownies were his favorite food, but sadly enough, he usually didn't have them during the time he was at the camp. Though, he was already forming plans to get Nick to shadow-travel him to New York to get some - maybe he could make him agree on Alex's birthday at least? Ah well, that was something to think about at some other time.
"Alex, I'd appreciate you not sacrificing anybody - save for maybe Asher," Sanaa said nonchalantly from the side, and Alex hated to admit it, but it made him snort. Sure, Asher was his boyfriend, but that didn't mean that Alex had to defend him in this case. At least not when it came to his sister. Said sister reached over, ruffling his hair affectionately. "Punishment is that you'll have to sing with me~"
That, however, made his eyes widen a bit. "Wait, wait, wait," he replied, a bit horrified. "You're not being serious, right?"
"Sanaa looks pretty serious to me," Joshua piped up with a mischievous grin. "Don't worry, Alex, we're all singing off-key, save for the Apollo cabin and maybe a few other campers."
Lucia blushed a bit, though she pretended like she didn't, turning to the swan instead. "For whatever reason, I feel like this summer is going to be hilarious," she told him with a smile. "But watch out that the twins don't get hold of your swan. That wouldn't end well." She wasn't even sure if she was more worried about the swan or the twins, but probably the swan. Freya and Brooke were really hard to deal with at times, but that didn't mean she'd ever lose her patience with them.
Freya stopped as she came closer to the campfire, looking back at Brooke with sparkling eyes. "Brooke, Vivi's back~!" she cheered excitedly. "Let's surprise her!" It was already clear that whatever she wanted to do as a 'surprise' wouldn't be a good idea.
Andrea was about to reply, but she turned her head when she heard another voice nearby. It's owner caught her attention almost instantly. Wow, her hair looked really cool! Andrea wouldn't mind trying out some highlights herself, but she admitted silently that she probably couldn't pull off the look. She caught herself staring for half a second before giving the stranger a friendly wave. "Marshmallows this way!" She called over to Chevy, continuing to wave so she could catch her attention.