Rodrigo's bunk

Rody's little corner of the steel cabin was the typical bunk for a child of Hephaestus, a complete mess. Personal belongings and tools alike had been scattered around the area along with a small puddle of oil.

Rody hopped into the Hephaestus cabin through the mess and toward his bunk. Why was Rody hopping?

Well....operation ''smear weapons with butter when the Ares cabin starts training'' hadn't gone very well and as a result Rody found himself bound and gagged with his own steel wires.

''mmmmm'' Rody sighed as he dropped himself on his bunk. He hoped a trusty cabin mate would come cut him loose soon.

OOC: Sorry for the late reply!!

BIC: A rectangular panel of the wall slid down, and Sawyer's bunk glided out like a CD player drive when you press the eject button. The brawny Latino girl jumped off her bed, which folded itself back into the wall and stretched a bit. Her neck and shoulders were sore from the working out and tinkering she had done in her private room. She had almost finished painting her armor in the metamaterial goo she had engineered with a girl from the Athena cabin. It was a very tricky thing. Sawyer was about to get out when she heard a very distinctive "mmmmmm" coming from the side and turned around.

"By Artemis, what happened to you?" she asked in her deep, masculine voice, shuffling over to Rodrigo's bunk. The poor guy was totally bound and gagged in steel wires. Sawyer grabbed a pair of tongs and metal scissors from a shelf and came over, one knee on his bunk as she took one wire between the tongs and cut it cleanly.
She wiped her large, dirty hands on her white muscle shirt and resumed cutting until he was free.

"Dude, what happened to you?" she said, her Texas accent poking through as she placed the two tools back on the shelf. Her messy, greasy hair was bound back with her U.S. army bandana, and she had a red plaid blouse over her tank top and boyish denim shorts with hiking boots, her large axe strapped to her back.

It had been hours that Rody laid there on his bunk, bound and gagged, only capable of loudly ''mppp'ing'' for help. When finally someone came it was...a girl.

''hmphhh'' Rody whined as he saw his savior. Why did it have to be a girl? What if she thought him a wimp? or a loser or ugly or...oh wait, it was that Sawyer girl! She was kinda alright...for a girl.

The startled Rody relaxed ''hemph memh'' he requested and soon Sawyer gather the equipment needed to cut him loose. It took a bit but eventually the wires were removed from Rody's hands, feet and mouth.

''Ah! Thank you Sawyer!'' Rody yelled out, stretchered his numb limbs ''I've been there for hours! started to loose all hope of getting free before dinner!'' His trademark smile formed on Rody's face ''Your the greatest! High fi...n-no never mind'' giving a high five was Rody's first reaction but that meant touching a girl which he...couldn't. He didn't take six steps backs like with other girls though, that would be ungrateful.

''Oh? you wanna know what happened?'' Rody asked ''The usual, Ares kids are all jerks!'' It really wasn't out of the ordinary to find Rody wedgied, tied up, tossed in the lake, stuffed in a very small closet or whatever the Ares kids could think off to punish him. Of course if Rody wouldn't prank them for every time they called him short those things wouldn't happen

''I was just minding my own businesses when those braindead idiots shoved me to a girl! An daughter of Aphrodite! a HOT one! Well as you can imagine i reacted how any man would to such a provocation.....but they cough me''

Sawyer almost high fived Rody, but then he withdrew his hand. He could be a bit weird. Like c'mon dude, I'm your sister. Cough, half-sister. Still, we're family.

"The Ares again, huh?" she grumbled, standing over him. She dwarfed him with her six feet three inches -- there again, she dwarfed most people at Camp Half-Blood with her wrestler/basket ball player built. The brawny Latino girl leaned against the wall, her large biceps rolling under her copper skin as she crossed her arms. "As long as it's only them p*ssing you off, I guess you're cool. They ain't that inventive. All Chiara can do is bash skulls in, spray graffiti, and slash through stuff."

OOC: Chiara's my daughter of Ares. (Very short. Red curls. Loads of freckles. Pretty aggressive.) She's sometimes considered the leader of the Ares bullies; I took her into this post because I don't know if people'd be alright with me talking about their character like that xD

BIC: Sawyer sighed. Aphrodite girls, huh. Not exactly her type. She had kept as much distance as she could from the life-sized Barbie doll house called cabin ten ever since one of the girls there had charmspoken a guy from the Hermes to flirt with her as a punishment for a prank he had played on them. It had kind of been the point of no-return for her, the point where she had just stopped caring. She had been bullied ever since she had set a foot in school because of how ugly she was, so of course it had continued at Camp too, but now she just didn't give a single harpy dung. Even if she told them how the huge burn on her face had happened, she doubted it'd change anything.

"Just don't bother too much with it," she told Rody, her voice deep and hoarse. "The more you bother, the more they're gonna do it. Trust me on that, I speak from experience."

Rody smiled big at his big(huge) sister ''Oh, i know you speak from experience, i made them pay for it....which they made me pay for but whatever'' Rody really liked Sawyer and considered her his favorite sister and the girl he felt the most comfortable with, though he still didn't feel fully comfortable around her. She was always nice to him, punched a bloke that wanted to hit him that one time and often bailed him out of trouble. Anyone giving Sawyer a hard time had a nasty prank coming their way.

''Soooo what can i do for ya Sawyer?'' Rody asked ''You saved me after all so i got to reward you with something, want some of the stuff i just made or do you just want to hang out doing?'' He smiled at her again. Provided Sawyer kept at least some distance Rody could function like a normal little brother around her ''We could go work on stuff or watch some tv or whatever, sounds fun right?''

I was very in the mood for some combat training but...hehe yeah lets not embarrass me'' Rody smiled. He was so much smaller then Sawyer he feared he would be knocked out cold if she but sneezed in his direction ''As my savior its really up to you what we are going to do'' Rody said ''We could go swimming, go to the forge to make some cool stuff OR we can put on Hephaestus TV! I dunno why but i have the feeling dad is finally going to air my idea'' Their father most definitely would NOT but to be fair there would have been a market for a show about Hera fighting the Hydra with chainsaw's, dressed in a hot dog outfit....his idea's were weird.

''So whatever you want to do sis, i'm up for it'' Rody smiled ''Oh and..um'' The Spanish boy took a deep breath, closed his eyes and raised his hand. It would seem he would be giving his high five after all.

Rody had been dressed in swimming Trunks depicting his favorite movie of Hercules, the Disney one  The lower parts were grey and represented the face of Hades, the upper part was blue which resembled his blue fire hair. On his feet were sandals with the markings of ''The one ring to rule them all'' and on his black towel stood the phrase ''Six seasons and a movie'' Rody really loved his TV.

''R-ready'' Rody peeped....jealous. Why wasn't he this buffed! Not only was he dwarfed by his sister but his frame was much, much lighter. Now that he was only in swimming trunks it became apparent his ribs case was pretty visible and muscled Rody was not....at all! Rody clearly very unhappy about his build when brought up so most people were nice enough not to point out and (not counting the Ares Cabin) most less nicer people remembered a particular nasty prank planting the phrase ''Shup up or else'' firmly into their minds. It really was a sore spot for Rody.

''You fool! you got snaped! Your not a real fighter! Death makes you die, it just make my brights brighter!'' Rody, naturally knew the rap by heart and gladly took the challange ''You ass is like Gringotts, everyone leaves a deposit, we all know you've got more then a boggart in your closet!'' He rapped happily ''Haha! get it? Because he's gay! Miss R said so herself!'' The Spanish boy said proud to know that fact not mentioned in the books.

''But i must say i prefer my AWESOME pants over my shoes!'' Rody smiled proud of his Hades swimming trunks.

''ALL of them of course! Except the lion king because real man don't cry! which i didn't do'' Rody said truthfully. He hadn't cried when Sinbad's dad died at all! He had bawled.

''But my favorite remains Hercules for obvious reasons'' Rody smiled ''Can you imagine how much happier everyone would be if that's how the myth went? Plus that Hades is a lot more fun then that big old gloomy we have to make due with'' He said with dangerous amount of disrespect to one of the most powerful gods, he didn't seem to realize it ''Plus if he took that immortality we would have gotten to meet Herculus! Ah, well i suppose that's what fanfiction is for''

''I did not cry!'' Rody declared putting on his best ''manly face'' before it broke thanks to his big smile. He really loved having someone to talk to about his beloved TV stuff whether it be Disney or their fathers reality TV.

Their spot on the lake was far removed from the more popular campers which Rody was grateful for. He feared the Aphrodite children would just laugh at his small frame and the one from Ares? They would love seeing how small their ''enemy'' really was..

A blush emerged on Rody's cheeks as the tall girl essentially called him her brother ''Well we did come here for a swim Hermana so of course i'm going....h-hey w-wow'' Rody gulped as a girl touched him, a girl....touched him...why would she ''HEY WAIT A MINUTE!'' Rody wasn't stupid and quickly realized where this would lead to.

''Oh come on Hermana!'' Rody peeped ''N-no need to toss me in!'' With the smaller boy already in the larger girl's grip there wasn't much he could do against it though.

"Haha, why not, scaredy cat?" she laughed, "wrestling" with him a bit. "One, two, three!" and she tossed him in.

OOC: If you are not okay with her pushing him into the water (because it's power-playing), then I can of course edit. I just wrote it because you seemed okay with it when you said this: "there wasn't much he could do against it though". So yeah, just tell me if you want me to cut it out.

BIC: Sawyer chuckled, took her U.S. Army bandana off and jumped in after Rodrigo, raising big waves from her bodily mass's impact on the water's surface. There was no her entering water silently, it always made big splashing noises. For several second, her whole body was under the water, her eyes closed and her hair floating up, then she pushed her arms down with strength and broke the surface, her hair sticking to her face. Rodrigo was some meters away and she swam over to him. The first seconds, the water always seemed ice cold, but now her body was starting to get accustomed to it.

"Refreshing, huh?"

(Oh that's allright)

''H-hey! c-come on don't toss MEEEEEEEE!'' The struggling Rody was effortlessly picked up and tossed several meters into the lake.

Oh, what else did he expect. In what movie did the big guy ever not do this to the little guy?

Rodrigo came up from under the water pouting like a child ''Ha-ha! very funny'' He mumbled ''Pick on someone your own size would ya''

Rody's pout turned into a smirk as he saw Sawyer coming closer. He would have vengeance! ''Venganzaaaaa!'' Rody roared and started flailing his tiny arms around to splash water in Sawyer's face.

Okay...perhaps that wasn't the smartest thing to do.

''Ha! don't dish out what you ca=oh crap! eeek!'' Rody, not wanting to be tossed again made a run...eh, swim for it, splashing back at the girl swimming toward's her which in turn caused her to splash back.

''haha Wow! o-okay! hahaha argh! cough! uncle! uncle! haha cough! you win! mercy!'' Rody splashed back with all he got but every time he did a much bigger one returned in his face, usually his laughing mouth again and again. The poor shorty couldn't keep up and raised his hands in surrender ''Haha s-see? you win Hermana''

''Well we always win the machine fights!'' Rody said ''Those suckers have nothing on us when it comes to metal...except those from Hermes because they just steel it''

''Have you ever noticed how many stereotypes we have running around here?'' Rody asked ''Each cabin member is always great with the same stuff as their mates and they are all bad at the same stuff as well'' It really was arranged like that. Their cabin was obsessed with machine, those from Athena were all nerds or at least smart, children of Ares were mostly bullies and daughters of Aphrodite walking beauty salons.

''SO! here is what i've come up with!'' Rody said glowing with pride ''I'm going to ask Chiron to contact dad and suggest a reality show where we are all taken out of our comfort zone! Those book-lovers will be put behind the forge and the Aphrodite cabin can go out stealing while the Hermes kid's can go take the place of the Ares cabin in the fighting pits! It would be comedy gold!'' Of course they would be forced to do something they were bad at as well but that was only fair.

Rody pouted again ''Well i still think my idea was really awesome and so would dad, i think he's going to air it'' He wouldn't, ever.

It actually took a while before Rody realized he was being touched...by a girl ''So i thought about it and decided to place the Apollo kids....with....with...em...WOW!'' A loud peep came from Rody's mouth when he noticed he had been pulled this close ''S-sorry its just....you know, ahem'' After several deep breath's the boy calmed done again ''C-come on big sis t-time to let go''

Rody did feel bad about rejecting this display as affection from his huge sister but he really just couldn't help it so he gave Sawyer a hesitant pat on the head to make it clear she was still cool to him.

''Hehehe well....have you..no never mind, I'm still working on it'' Rody smiled ''A certain guy from that cabin had a little run in with me before so I'm in the process of paying him back with a little prank, and I'l be careful this time!'' The boy was quite clever in coming up with schemes to embarrass those that wronged him but...well, the way Saywer found Rodrigo was telling enough about how successful he was at actually pulling them off.

''And actually....I have dad to thank when i exercise my revenge....and the Aphrodite cabin...If i dare go speak to them at least''

''But you'l see that plan when its done, I'l bet you will be proud of me'' Rody smiled