Dravius coughed and shook his head like a dog as the waves of stench washed over him like a foul tide. " Whatever it is, it needs a major bath..." He gagged, hands clapped over his mouth in disgust. " He slowley pulled a long bronze knife from the sleeve of his shirt, blade glinting menacingly in the filtered evening light.

 ((Rat-spyyyy!))

((XDD))

"We've got to get rid of it...", Leena moaned, "It might be evil and It might attack the other campers..." She drew her own blade, a gold-tinted one that glowed like the sun. It had been a gft from her father. It was longer than a dagger, but not yet a full-length sword. It was made from celestial bronze, of course.

Sam was chatting away with Aura as they followed the large group. He was paying no attention to what was going on in front of him until the stench reached him. "Never before have I smelled something so bad, and trust me, I've smelled plenty of bad things." He said, narrowing his eyes at the group ahead. He noticed them pulling out their weapons but he held back, not quite sure what was going on.

Ooc: Sam's just hanging out in the back, letting everyone else take on all the trouble. XD

Alex nodded, slightly worried about Juniper and hoped she would be able to fight. As soon as he thought that though, he shook his head. Of course she can fight... That's what they were all trained for. Stop worrying! He made a quick prayer to his mother for strength and fingered the necklace with Hestia's symbol on it; the sacred circle and flame. His eyes flashed for a moment, looking more red now than the brown they usually appeared to be. He tried to block out the foul odor. It seemed to get worse and worse as they drew closer to it.

Zalla was frustrated that she hadn't brought a dagger of the sort. But she would have been worse with it than without. Her bow was the only thing that was ever any use in her hands. As far as weapons went, that is. She stepped back, shaking her head.
"I don't think I'll go further. I would be in the way, more harm than help, without my bow. I wish I could go on, but if it gets violent, I couldn't help. If this...thing...goes away, I can continue into the forest, but..."
She shook her head again.

Aria tensed, and took out a long dagger from her boot as she was to close to use her bow, laying that and her arrows down. She stepped closer and gagged, then saw what this creature was. It was a giant rat! She heard voices from its other side, recognising some.. "Dravius! Juni! Zalla! Its a giant rat!"

((Because she is insanly magic, yes, she does.))

Dravius cocked his head at Aria's cries and yelled back, "Hang on! We'll come get you!" He gagged as he said this, as he had taken his hands from his face to speak. Losing it completly, he dropped to his knees and promptly purged himself of an entire chicken, retching and coughing. Straightening up, he said, "Ew."

"Gross..." muttered Alex. His stomach turned funny, and he was glad that he hadn't eaten that much at dinner. The rat itself, if possible, was worse than its smell. It had sharp teeth and red eyes that seemed to nearly glow in the dark. Alex touched the sacred circle and flames on his necklace and said to himself "Hestia." Instantly the necklace disappeared and instead in his right hand was a sword with a wickedly sharp blade. He charged the monster and while Juniper attacked its back, Alex tried to get a hit in wherever he could.

"Im perfectly capable of taking care of mysel" - and she too lost her lunch from the smell.

Gettin back up, she seized the moment of its tail whipping an inch past her face to quickly slash with her long dagger and cut off two-thirds of the rat's long tail.  

((xD I totally didn't realize that happened.))

The beast heaved over, gasping for breath from obviously now-torn lungs, not having enough energy to retaliate. However, it was a monster, and soon that wound would heal; this was no ordinary giant-rat-monster. Camp Half-Blood had found that when three campers were killed by it a year back. Juniper ran over to where Leena lay in a heap, completely p*censored*ed out. Tilting her head back, Juniper poured some emergency nectar into the girl's mouth, hoping she would come-to for some ambrosia.