The Questers: Unbroken

Missing Piece
Ava woke up and realized she wasn't in her cabin. She shot up and realized she was in the HQ. She sighed with relief and checked to see if anyone else was there. Kyra was lying asleep on the kitchen counter, and there was about forty empty pizza boxes lying in a stack by the table. "That was definitely Zack..." Ava said and shook her head. After a long day of training, he could eat a drakon and not complain. She walked by Kyra and flicked her on the head, causing her to stir, but not wake up.

Ava sighed and just decided to let her wake up on her own. She glanced at the clock and groaned. Five-thirty in the morning. It was then she realized she had no recollection of the previous night. She scanned the building quickly. "Ok, I was on the couch and not in the cabin, Kyra was here, probably not a good sign, and Zack was hungry. Never a good sign." She said to herself and stretched. Well, she thought. Might as well go find him and ask. Zack was normally up around this ungodly hour doing some form of training. She checked the climbing wall, to find no one there. She went and checked the arena, and found nothing had been stirred. It was about then she started to get confused. Only after she went and peeked in the Ares cabin window (something she dearly regretted afterwards), did she start to get worried.

She started to get especially worried when he didn't show up to eat his mini-wheats and mars bar breakfast combination. Immediately after breakfast she went and found Michael. "Have you seen Zack?" She asked him. "Not a clue where he is. You see Kyra lately?" He asked her in return. "Yeah, she's passed out on HQ's countertop." She answered. He looked relieved. "Thanks. Zack wasn't at the climbing wall?"

She shook her head. "The arena?" She shook her head again. "Slipping fire ants into Nico's bed?" He suggested. "That was him?" She asked, surprised. "You didn't hear it from me." Michael immediately responded. "Ask Nat?" He suggested and Ava went to do so. She found Natalie training in archery, who stopped when she saw her approaching. "Hey, Ava. Kyra wake up yet?" She asked. Ava shook her head. "Wait, you were there?"

"Yeah, I left after Zack finished the thirty-fifth pizza, even for him that just isn't right." Natalie said and put an arrow in the target's red ring. "You know where he went?" Ava asked. "Last I saw him he was eating the thirty-sixth while Kyra was throwing up in the sink and you were trying to eat one of the boxes." Ava gave her a look, but Natalie just shrugged and put an arrow in the yellow of the target. "He's probably off terrorizing the daughters of Aphrodite or something." Natalie said, and Ava had to admit, that made sense. They all mainly avoided that particular cabin, unless Zack decided to slip car grease into their hair gel bottles. That day should have been on the camp bead that year, was the belief held by a good chunk of the camp.