Chapter 1

For some reason...

For some reason (the war), the Hunters of Artemis are visiting camp. I guess that means that we have to play them in Capture the Flag. Not fun.

I still can remember last time the hunters came here. It was not good. That's when we got the prophecy to rescue Artemis, and to me, Annabeth. Oh yes, the Oracle just had to take a stroll.

I sighed. Things were getting so boring around here. There are two topics. War or the Hunters visit. Do people not have lives?

"Hey Seaweed Brain"

I turned around to see Annabeth with a smile wide on her face. I knew that she was happy because Thalia was coming to visit. They haven't seen each other since we rescued Artemis and her. Even when that happened, they only saw each other for what? Five hours?

"Hey Wise Girl."

I must of not sounded very happy, because she looked concern.

"Is something wrong?" she asked.

"No," I said. "Kronos is rising and the Hunters are coming. I'm nervous about the Capture the Flag game, since they have Thalia now, but we have you."

Annabeth looked a little surprised.

"You're scared of a Capture the Flag game against the Hunters?"

Just then, Thalia appeared at her tree, with a group of girls, ranging from 8-18.

"Hi Annabeth," she yelled, running to us the rest of the way. She crashed into Annabeth with a Thalia hug, which is very painful.

"Thalia!" Annabeth managed. "Stop shocking me."

"Oops," she responded. "Sorry about that."

Then she turned to me. For a second, I thought Nico would become prophecy kid.

"Hi Percy," she said, giving me a weak smile.

What was up with her? I didn't think the Hunters would change her that much that she would not even like me.

"Come on, Thalia. Let's go talk," Annabeth said. Was she trying to distract us?

Thalia turned around to the Hunters.

"All right, girls. Set up camp and I'll see you at dinner. You may do the camp activities, but please try not to get into any fights." The hunters nodded their agreement, starting to get to work. Thalia and Annabeth also took off to who knows where.

I headed back to my cabin to pass the time. When I got there, I got a surprise.

"Percy!"

That's all I heard before I got a giant bear hug. Also known as a cyclops hug.

"Tyson?" I asked in surprised.

Of course, being Tyson, he had to say something way more important.

"Like the fish ponies?" he asked me.

He didn't wait for my answer though. He ran of, probably to find peanut butter or Annabeth.

I wasted time in my cabin until there was two hours until dinner. With war coming closer every day, I thought I'd go train at the sword arena.

When I got there, Annabeth and Thalia were fighting. Thalia was using her old spear and Aegis. I wonder how well she could fight if she didn't have it?

As I watched, Thalia started to try. I guess she wasn't before. Static came out of her and made Annabeth's hair fly up. Thalia shoved Aegis right into Annabeth's face. Annabeth hesitated a little bit, but that was enough. Thalia's spear came out of nowhere and hit Annabeth's knife, making it go flying out of her hand.

"Dead, but good try though," Thalia said, smirking.

I don't know why, but I got angry. Maybe it was the way Thalia smirked at Annabeth. Maybe it was because she was a daughter of Zeus. Later, when I look back, I'm pretty sure it was both.

"Oh yeah, Thalia? Bring it on" I shouted across the arena.

Thalia looked over at me, seeing who was stupid enough to challenge her. Of course it was Seaweed Brain.

"You sure you want to get creamed?" she asked.

I gave her a death stare, which made her laugh, so it wasn't that good.

"Bring it, Thalia."

"You're on, Kelp Face."

Thalia's bow appeared along with her arrows. She started to fire rapidly.

Quickly, I pushed the Stopwatch button and my shield came out just in time to block the arrows.

At the same time, Thalia got out Aegis. All of a sudden, I was looking at a Medusa, except I wasn't stone. Just to see what would happen, I slashed at it. Thalia was so surprised I had the nerve, it went flying. I guess she forgot I'd fought against the real Medusa.

However, Thalia wasn't done yet. She got out her spear and started firing lightning at me while she backed up to get her shield.

I started to back up, so that I could get the advantage of the ocean. I told the water to splash Thalia, which after a few seconds, it did.

Thalia started firing arrows (again), and this time one hit me on my sword arm. It started bleeding, so I soaked myself in water.

I had backed up so far now that I was in the ocean. I could feel the extra power it gave me. Creating a wave, I sprung over Thalia, hoping to get a slash on the back.

As I flew over her, she stuck her shield up, disarming Riptide from my hands. Then swung her spear around, knocking my shield out.

"You're dead too, just like Annabeth."

I wasn't surprised. Thalia was what? Seven years older then me? But that didn't mean I couldn't try.

"Not quite," I told her. "Let's finish this at Capture the Flag."