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Chapter 1
The darkness swept across the sky as I looked into the stars, the brilliant lights flickering like a candle, I sat up off the ground and found myself alone, that would have been fine except for the fact that I was in a field I didn't recognize and the others tents were gone. I looked around for anything that could tell me where I was only to see a soft blue light floating off in the distance bobbing and weaving between the trees. I got up and walked towards the edge of the forest wary of the light, nothing good ever came of these types of things.
I walked into the dark woods slowly looking towards the light but also inspecting the surroundings if my life taught me anything it's that nothing is as it seems. The rough bark on the dark brown trees scratched my shirt where it was unfortunately too close to the trees. The light bobbed over a fallen tree and disappeared at the crest of the log. I approached cautiously knowing something was going to happen. I kicked the log breaking off a chunk of the dead wood exposing the rotting sapwood and the many creatures that inhabited the wood. I looked over the wood and saw what the wisp was leading me to, a package was sitting there wrapped in an oiled cloth tied up in a light brown twine. I picked it up weighing it, the heft fit the size of it, the three-and-a-half-foot box sat on my lap as I sat down. I pulled out my knife, a small blade only a couple of inches long, and cut the string reviling a box which was promptly opened to reveal a sword, the blade sat strapped to the bottom but as I grabbed the hilt the leather fell away leaving little resistance. I got up and swung the sword getting a feel of the new blade, I was surprised at the balance of it, it hummed as it cleaved the air before me, I sat back down and looked to the box discarded against the moss-covered ground. I flipped the back of the box over but I couldn't find any markings to tell from where it was from, I grabbed the cloth and wrapped the blade in it and trudged back to the clearing hoping that I could find my back to the others.
I walked back almost at the edge of the woods when a bright flash overtook me and I was suddenly by the tents again as if nothing had just happened. I looked for the cloth and was surprised to still find it and the sword sitting next to me by the edge of a stump. I stood up and looked at my watch and found it to be 11:00 and time for the next shift, I walked up to the front of the green canvas tent and wrapped on the metal pole that held it up calling the sleeping person awake.
(POV change)
I shot up in the sleeping bag, the knocking from the outside signaled it was my turn for watch, I wiped the sleep from my eyes and got up out of the confining yet comfortable bag that surrounded me, I stood up and quickly changed calling out so Percy would stop knocking. Walking out the door I found him standing a few feet off waiting, "Hey" He said greeting my probably messy appearance, "Umm, I got a new sword" He finished nodding to the wrapped item sitting on the floor by the tent, "Where?" I asked not knowing if we can trust it, "Honestly I don't know" He replied expressing my worst fears, "Can we trust it, what if the gods sent it?" I asked worried that he just screwed up big time. "It wasn't like that, a light brought it to me, a blue one." He said adding the last part knowing I would get the significance of it, the prophecy that caused this whole mess was at work yet again. "Well, umm how about we discuss this in the morning?" I asked knowing that the others would have some input on this as well. "Fine" he said as he walked past smiling at me as he walked into his tent, picking up the sword as he waked by. I sat down on the stump and thought this mysterious sword appearing form nowhere, I sighed and relaxed knowing that Percy wouldn't have brought it if he didn't trust it.