Dustin Graves

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Dustin Graves

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The sun had yet to come up and Dustin was already out in the woods with some of his brothers. He had promised them before he called lights out that he would go for this fun run as they called it. They had built a little course in the woods so that they could practice more. Each having a little something that they needed to work on, Dustin at the moment was working on his hand-to-hand with his brother who was getting ready to be in his class. He huffed a couple of times as the other boy hit him in the side and ended up noticing the sun popping up in between the trees. He grabbed his brother in a headlock and told the others that classes were soon going to be starting and to hurry back and get ready for them. He gave his brother, that was in the head lock, a nice messy hairdo and let him go. Both of them ran to the class that he was set to teach in about five minutes. 

By the time he got there he had already taken off his sweat-covered shirt and had it thrown over his shoulder. His body was sweaty as well as he walked into the front of the class as he stretched out his arms. "Right," he said looking at everyone. "For those of you that don't know me, I'm Dustin. I'll be the teacher for this class. If you have any questions, just ask." He told them as he ran his hand through his hair, messing it up a little more than it was. He noticed MK there and smiled at her along with Zoren, though he honestly hadn't really spoken to him much at all. He answered the questions that people had and then started the class. "You all should get stretching, don't want to pull anything and have to have to go to the big house," he told them as he put himself on the ground to stretch out his legs. 
 

SPHINX
 

Dustin had always been impressed with the Nike children. Most of all McKayla because he had gotten to know her better than the others. He smirked when he noticed his cheering was causing her to do better. So he keeps going. Cheering as loud as he could, because who was he if not the person that wanted to be up against the best? It had been a part of her personality since he was young and he first picked up a sword. He watched as she picked up the sword and shield and began to get things done. "Hell yeah." He cheered but he couldn't help but chuckle a little more at her as she fought the hay monsters. She had quite the imagination that one. "Get those monsters MK." he chuckled as he placed his hands on his hips as he watched her a little more. This was going to be the most fun training he had in a while. 

He flinched when she called his name. He knew that she was trying to not laugh at him, and honestly he couldn't blame her. He was still very much a teenager and being the son of Ares, he allowed his emotions to rule him. Mostly his anger. He couldn't help it anymore than the next Ares kid. She brought up the fact that he was a cabin leader and he frowned more. Now feeling a little more disappointed in himself. "You're right," he muttered letting his head down. "I should think before I act, I've been trying to work on it, really I have." 

He bit his lower lip as he sighed again. This time it was because he knew that he had pissed off more than a couple of people in the cabin. He, however, couldn't help but chuckle a little as she told him that he needed to work on curbing his anger in the moment. "That is easier said than done." he chuckled out. "I'm a child of Ares. You think its easy for any of us to do that." He teased knowing that she was right. If he could do it then it would be easy for his siblings to do it as well, and well you seen how they acted more than half the time. 
 

He watched as Lilythe's eyes widened at him. He knew that this would cause some issues with her. He let his head fall a little. Knowing that he would get a slashing from her once she was ready, but when it didn't come he blinked up and watched her curiously. What had he done? Maybe he should have gone to one of the Apollo kids to help him out. He had nodded and went off to the storage room, grabbing things to help him. He knew this was going to go around the camp soon enough, and he only hoped that it didn't cause a lockdown for others that wanted to go out. 

She was quick with what she was doing, having been back into the kitchen within record time. She asked what did it and he sighed hard. "It was some Karpoi," he told her as he hissed a little, but didn't make a move. Knowing that it would be done within the moment. He turned to her as she handed him the nectar and nodded as he took a sip of it. It tasted just like his meatloaf, which he always thought was strange because meatloaf in liquid form couldn't be good. He put the cap back on and placed it in his pocket before looking back at Lilythe again. Noticing that she was lost in her own thoughts. 

"Lilythe.." he started as he as he watched her carefully, knowing not to touch her because he could be hit and he didn't want that at the moment. Hell, he didn't want to be hit by Lilythe at all. It wasn't on his bucket list ever. "I... I think something else happened as well.." He said to her hoping to bring her out of her thinking. "I was fighting alone for the first bit of it..." He started before he blinked and fixed his statement. "Me and the guys were playing truth or dare, and they dared me to go into a graveyard," he told her again. "That's why I was alone, we thought nothing of it. It was truly a stupid thing." he would admit that but what happened shocked him to no end. "When I was fighting, some of the skeletons came out of the ground and started helping me." He said with a curious tone in his voice. "I know Ares can do it, do you think he was helping me?" he blinked but shook his head. "There isn't any way he would help out right..that had to be me..I summoned them.. right.." his voice began to go a little higher at the moment. He hadn't shown any kind of promise for an ability that was his father's let alone one like that. He had to be given it by his father right or is that how it worked? He began to fidget with his shirt and waited for her to say something back to him. He had learned his lesson. He could have very well not come back to camp tonight if he hadn't well, he didn't want to think about it.

The sun was setting and of course, it was that time again. Time to get to the get the campers claimed. Well, the ones that could get claimed. He was a little worried about the two youngest ones that arrived at the camp. He didn't like that they were getting here so young. He frowned as he took a cup of something to the bonfire and sat next to his siblings. He was curious as to see if they were going to have any other brothers and sisters coming into the cabin again. He enjoyed seeing his new siblings get the shock of their life, being claimed by the war god. They all had that daddy issue though. The first claim was an owl above a girls head. He blinked and watched as Lilythe had told her to go to cabin six. He clapped with the rest of the group and started looking around the group to see who was going to be claimed next. The girl named Kenna was the next to get claimed. A fiery hammer and he smirked. A Hephaestus child. The claims seemed to be coming faster and faster when he noticed the two younger kids come in. He waved over to Octavia and Derrick as they both settled down with the rest. He was worried about them. Though he knew Lilythe would welcome them into her cabin if they weren't claimed. However, as he was thinking a lullaby began to play and Dustin yawned. Shit, he thought to himself as he used his finger and thumb to rub his eyes. Hypnos children always had that effect on everyone. However, it didn't end there. Another child of Hypnos was claimed and he cursed under his breath once again. Dude, don't claim anymore. I have things to do. He thought to himself, that he knew that was going against everything that they had fought for. Once they were all back from the sleepiness that Hypnos had caused he watched a light flicker above Octavia's head. It caused him to jump to his feet, curious about how this little girl was getting claimed at the moment. When he saw the four-leaf clover above her head, he couldn't help but smile over at James. The girl was cute and had stolen his heart while he was helping save her from the monster. He clapped and cheered with the others in her cabin as he grinned, though his attention went to Derrick. If she got claimed then surely he would as well right? His eyes never left the young boy as he soon had shadows clinging to him. He smirked, he had known from the start where this child was going. It was up to his mom to claim him. He clapped for him and nodded his head to him. Those two kids were going to be pretty strong if they were already here and claimed. Now, who was next? 

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Name:  Dustin Graves

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Dustin only deadpanned when she asked what the girl did. Honestly, he wouldn't lie to her but the only thing she had done was look at him wrong at the moment. He hated that it bothered him the way it did. He wanted to be like everyone else and get along with everyone but there was just certain kind of people that got on his nerves and people like her did that to him. Now, was she a good girl? She could have been but from where he stood at the moment that was a big no from him. He looked away from Lilythe because honestly, it was now embarrassing to even have had it go this far. "She didn't say anything." He told her as he once again crossed his arms. "She just looked at me with that look of hers." Yeah, he was being a little baby-ish but he couldn't help it. Honestly, it was all that he could do from snapping right then and there. It was something that Dustin did a lot. When he was up and already pissed at the world he would go fight one of his brothers. At the end of that, he always felt better, even the other person normally felt a little better. 

He took a deep breath before glancing at the door again. "Do you think I pissed some people off?" He questioned as he glanced back over to Lilythe. "I'm sorry." He said to her, this time it wasn't a mutter or anything it was pure. He didn't want to cause Lilythe to feel any type of way. Though he knew that being a child of Ares meant that he could very well do just that. Anger mainly. It was interesting to say the least when a couple of his siblings were mad he remembered half the camp was on edge. 

The trip out of the graveyard had been a pretty easy one and once they got to the street and sidewalk that they were on, they all felt a little more relived about the whole thing. However, they still held their swords closer to them as she made their way all the campsite. Once they passed the border, Dustin headed right for the big house as his brothers left for their cabin. Dustin knew that Lilythe was still very much working at the moment. He walked up the stairs and into the big house with a small frown on his face. He knew that she was going to be worried about everything that happened. It was mainly one of the reasons that he didn't go out in the first place. He walked into the kitchen, holding his shoulder as he gave her a small smile. "Think you can heal me up?" He asked as he placed the sword down against the counter.
 

@ Lilythe Rayne

It was a young summer night, the sounds of the night life were starting to come out and be alive. The presence of people were also starting to wind down as well. Mostly the only people left were the night owls and the people that were heading home, like Dustin and his brothers at the moment. He had ended up talking some of his brothers into going out of camp for some fun at the arcades but in the end they all ended up wanting to watch the newest scary movie that had just came out. The movie had ended up scaring some of them, even Dustin had jumped a few times at some of the jump scares in there. However, after the movie, the boys were off walking back to camp. Goofing off and Dustin even had one of his brothers in a headlock just playing around when one of the brothers ended up stopping and suggested that they play a fun little game of truth or dare.

Some of the boys thought that it was a silly game to play and one had even piped up and said that was a game for a party with girls all around. However, Dustin voiced his opinion about how they were just scared to play it because they couldn't handle being teased. Well, that statement got them to shut their traps pretty fast and soon they were walking again and either picking a truth or a dare to do. The first time around Dustin ended up picking truth because as much as he wanted to trust his brothers he didn't at the same time. They ended up making fun of him for it since he had made it so apparent that they were being sticklers for it. That he had told them the next time he would pick dare to show them how a real man played. They all laughed at him and playfully shoved him around like boys their age normally do.   

It didn't take long for the game to reach Dustin once more. "You said you were picking dare this time D, no going back now." One of his brothers said and Dustin only laughed a little at his comment. He knew that he couldn't go back on his promise as he didn't want to look like a scaredy cat. "Alright, alright." He muttered under his breath. "What is it that I have to do?" he asked questioning them on what it was, since he had no idea. However it didn't take long for the boys to come up with a plan for Dustin. "You have to go in that graveyard for five minutes." one said and the others began to talk and argue that it wasn't manly enough to just do that. Dustin however, didn't care. It was getting later at night and he was ready to just get back into his own cabin and rest for the night. "Fine." He said causing the boys to stop arguing. "I'll do it." He stuck up his hand and looked at his watch. "Be back in five." He said as he turned to look at the place that the boy wanted him to go into and his face dropped a little.

The darkness screamed at him from the inside of the graveyard and he couldn't help but take a step back to get a better view of it, or rather that was what he was telling himself. He hadn't ever been a fan of graveyards as they hosted things from the dead there. This was a place for the child of Hades not him. He swallowed hard as he glanced over at the boys who seemed to have faith in him. "Right, here I go." he said as he made sure that the sword he brought with him was still hanging tightly to his back. They all had gotten permission from Chiron to bring them just in case they were to get into some kind of trouble, which trouble seemed to always come Dustin's way. It was because of their scent. The boy could attracted the worst of monsters at the moment, but that didn't seem to be going through any of their minds. They were just there to play games and all. 

Dustin moved to the gate and glanced back at the boys. They didn't seemed to be nervous at all for him, hell, he had no idea what he was feeling this way. Maybe it was because it was getting later at night and the sun was going down which meant that there wasn't going to be enough light for him to see anything. But he kept on going. Thinking that there would be a win for him in the end. As he walked forward he began to read some of the tombstones that were there. Some of them had died long ago and some had the reason they died. Some were soldiers and some were doctors. Others just had beloved father or mother on there. It was nearly all the same. 

It didn't take long when he walked into the graveyard to start hearing noises. There were some that he could figure out and there were some that he couldn't. Some birds called out and fluttered their wings which made Dustin's heart flutter right along with them. He could have sworn that they were going to attack him but nothing happened. They just ended up going up through some trees, making some of the leaves fall to the ground. He pulled the sword from his back for a just in case, when he heard another noise. This time it didn't stop and he was a little worried. He glanced around the place once again and this time his eyes found some green spots in the back of the grave yard. Now normally, Dustin would have called out to the guys and had them enter the place with him, but he wasn't sure at the moment if they were heading this way or if they weren't.

However, it didn't take him long to realize that he was getting ready to be in trouble. The green dots soon turned into toddler looking things that had rolls of fat. The greenish hue of their skin now gave away to what they were. Karpoi. "Guys a little help here!" he called out to his brothers but they laughed at him calling him a chicken. It was a hard thing to bare when you were playing a game and end up being in real trouble where no one believed you. He pulled his sword in front of him and got into his fighting stance. He knew once his brothers heard him fighting they would run in and help him out. As the first one got to him, he slashed out his sword in a smooth motion and cut one of the Karpoi in half. He watched as it turn into some grains he realized all too well that he was pretty hungry now. As soon as the other got to him he noticed that he was outnumbered by a lot. He stepped back a little, letting his sword drop to the ground. The guys hadn't come yet. "There's monsters." He called out again. This time he heard the noise of his brothers coming to him. Though they were still pretty far away from him. 

He swung his sword a couple more times, barely getting the monsters and not enough to do any real damage to them as he was just trying to keep them away from him. But that wasn't working as he was really outnumbered by the whole group of them. He started to worry about everything. His brothers were on their way but they were taking their time. He had worried about if he was going to make it out of the place alive when one jumped on his back clawing at him, causing him to get cut on his shoulder and down his back a little. He let out a scream as he normally wasn't used to pain like this. It was then when the ground started shaking. Causing Dustin to look down as well as the monsters. The ground started to come apart which caused Dustin to freak out a little more as he wasn't ready to fight something coming from the ground. However, he then noticed a hand that came out, but not just any hand it was a skeleton hand that grabbed his attention and it wasn't just one that was in front of him. They were all around him. The Monsters seemed to freak out a little more as they seemed to move away from the hands that were coming out of the earth. 

Soon the hands became arms which was starting to not scare him as much as he seemed to understand where this was coming from. It was coming from him. He knew that his father was able to do it a little. However, he thought a little more as he looked over to where one of the skeleton's were coming out and he noticed the tombstone saying he was a solider. So this was really him. It was at that time most of the skeletons were out of the ground, wielding swords of their own. He smirked and stood up straight just as his brothers got there. Which they stopped when they noticed the new crew as well. He turned to his brothers and smirked. "Well, don't just stand there fight." He said as he lifted his sword a little but wincing at the cut on his shoulder. His brothers charged at monsters with a manly yell and the skeleton charged on as well. He was left there smirking at the family and of course his new crew as well before he joined into the fight with them. 

With all the skeletons and his brothers there fighting with him he knew that it wasn't going to be hard fighting them off. He rushed into the battle, swinging his sword and killing as many as he could. He watched some of the skeleton get re-killed, if that was what you would call it. They ended up turning into dust once they died. Once all the monsters were gone, Dustin ended up dropping to the ground and grabbing his shoulder. He listened to his brother yell and cheer about how well they had done and how they kicked the monster's ass. It only took them a moment to noticed that their brother was on the ground hurt. They rushed to him making sure that he was going to be okay before the helped him up, telling him he had won the whole truth or dare and game. 

The trip out of the graveyard had been a pretty easy one and once they got to the street and sidewalk that they were on, they all felt a little more relived about the whole thing. However, they still held their swords closer to them as she made their way all the campsite. Once they passed the border, Dustin headed right for the big house as his brothers left for their cabin. Dustin knew that Lilythe was still very much working at the moment. He walked up the stairs and into the big house with a small frown on his face. He knew that she was going to be worried about everything that happened. It was mainly one of the reasons that he didn't go out in the first place. He walked into the kitchen, holding his shoulder as he gave her a small smile. "Think you can heal me up?" He asked as he placed the sword down against the counter.

He couldn't help but cross his arms and sigh hard at the comment about letting Ash get to him. He honestly couldn't help it. He didn't know why he let it happen maybe it was a trait that he got from his father. He doubted if he was going to be able to just let it go. "That is easier said than done." he said as he sighed harder. Honestly, he would if he could but something about the girl just bugged him and he honestly had never said anything bad about to her or back at him for him to act this way. He just.. well he didn't know. It made no sense to him either. 

He went to protest her statement but he couldn't because look where he was at the moment and look what he was doing. Being rude and things like that. He put his head down and in defeat and sighed letting all the anger that was in him out as much as he could possibly do. "I'll try and do better." he told Lilythe as he glanced around the room and blinked but looked back at her when she said that she would try and talk to her about it. "Yeah, maybe that would work too. I'll try and make sure that I don't cause any issues with her as well.. better yet I'll try and stay away from her." 

Dustin honestly couldn't help but laugh at her comment about the Aphrodite boys. "Too true." he mused with a chuckle. It wasn't that he hated the cabin, they were always fun to play with. Especially the girls there. But he couldn't stand having them on his team when they were playing capture the flag. He sighed thinking about for a moment and shook his head to get his mind on something else. He caught her looking at him and couldn't help but smirk. He was always catching girl looking at him. Hell, he knew that he looked good, he just couldn't help himself. 

"Right, go on boss lady." he mused as he teasing her back. He stood back and watched her get ready to go jet off. She was one of the few people that could keep up with him and it wasn't often that he said people were good. However, he would tell her in a heart beat since it was true. He counted in his head and as soon as he hit one she was off to the first obstacle and he watched with his arms closed. So far it didn't look hard. He moved to watch her get off of the wooden pole. He clapped his hands, cheering her on.

@ McKayla Johnson

Dustin watched the younger boy a little more and he nodded his head as well. "Honest, I hope that you get claimed as well. However if you don't you still will be placed in a cabin." He told the boy. Though he hoped that the god or goddess who had them just went ahead and claimed him tonight. Though what they boy said next kind of shocked him. "You just wanna walk around by yourself?" He looked at the kid with confusion as well he couldn't have been any older than ten. "Well I at least have to show you where to meet up later so after that you can be claimed." He told the boy with a small shrug. He walked to the back waving to the boy to follow him as he went to show him were to meet up. 

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Dustin couldn't help but give a chuckle to the boy. "Yeah, that was my first reaction to it as well." Dustin shook his head thinking about his first day. It was hard to get into the swing of things at first, but as the weeks went on they got better. Surely Derrick would have a better time with it. The child question brought him out of his own thoughts and he smiled a little. "Well, we have a claiming. Normally happened at our campfire get together." He said as he moved the glass around the table. "Your mom, or dad depending, will claim you with their symbol. It will appear above your head just here." He said as he moved his hand over the boys head just were the symbol would be. "The gods had made an agreement with someone years ago to claim their children at thirteen but some have been claimed younger." He said as he thought about his father claiming him. Sure it was a little hard on him because he got into a cabin that was filled with people would was scary to him. Now, he knew. He was one of the younger ones to get claimed as well. "Of course it's like a nightmare. The world is a scary place. We have to learn how to work around that."

Dustin was pleased that he seemed to want something to eat. He could remember that he didn't eat anything once he got into the house. He hadn't believed it neither. It was hard for him the first couple months until his siblings started showing him what he needed to do and how things went around the camp. He soon found his way. Just like Derrick would soon find. "Good choice. Lilythe makes the best. You'll get to meet her in time." he said bringing the plate over to the table before getting him some water as well. Once he sat down and started to explain things to the now young camper he couldn't help but notice his face. Here was the time that he had to be careful. "They are, surprising, I know. I was sitting where you are about your age too." he told him in honest. "You're not dreaming, I mean you can pinch yourself to see if it hurt." He said with a small smile. The person who helped him when he first came had him do the same thing. It was something he always told the new campers. "The gods and goddess, well they..." he stopped and put his face in his hand. How was he going to tell a kid that the gods liked to have their fun with mortals? Damn it where was James or Lilythe at when you needed them? "They like to come down and fall in love with mortals leaving them with babies." It was the best he could do honestly. "That monster you fought out there seemed pretty real did it not?" he questioned him, the feeling you have wanting to get revenge for Forest, does it feel real?" he questioned the boy, hoping that he would understand that. Though the more he talked the more he had a feeling who his godly parent was. Though not sure and it wasn't often that he was right because he never really thought about it. However, it wouldn't shock him with this little one. 

It was turning out to be a pretty good day and having her here, well it only made it that much better. He had been itching to have a little fun and for some godly unknown reason, she made him want to train and try harder with almost everything. Honestly. He still didn't understand it himself. Regardless, he was pleased to see her here. Once he got to her, he huffed a little and ran his hand through his hair. It was almost like old times with them. Training, she said. He grinned and looked over to where she was looking and smirked. "You know the way to a guys heart, I must say." he mused teasingly at her. "You know I'd never say no to that." he grinned as he pulled his shirt from over his head and threw it to the side. "Alright boss, What do we have to do?" he questioned her with a bright smile, he was ready.

Dustin couldn't help but smile as the older boy got to him. "Not much man, just training, you wanna have a go. I think I'm a bit rusty." he shrugged with a small laugh thinking about it. It had been a little bit, if he didn't count the whole fight with the monster trying to save one of the newest campers. Which brought him to think about the young girl. She was eight. However, that had been a little thing that wouldn't stopped bugging him. "How's Octavia?" he questioned a little, hoping that the girl was doing fine now. He had wondered what it was that made him so protective over her. Was it because she was so young or was it that he got to play hero and was able to help save the girl from dyeing? He wasn't sure. He looked at the older camper once more before his mind began wandering again.