Introduction (Nick's POV)

The moon was bright tonight. I can hear the Ares cabin already coming for our flag. They have to be about three or four meters away or less. I see Justine and Brian on my right.

"Alright here's the plan, Nick, you shadow travel to the right, Justine your coming with me to the left and we are going to cause a distraction for Nick to capture the flag." Brian whispered.

"Alright let's do this." Justine agreed.

I just tilted my head in agreement and shadow traveled. I can hear darkness around me, closing in on me. I feel it touching me, but then I realized that the flag was right in front of me. I grab it and dashed. I was running through the forest with all my might. Even though I was tired I knew I could push myself harder and harder. Then I saw our flag. I also saw Justine fighting Hannah (my second cousin). Man she's getting stronger every day, then I saw Liam yelling at me.

"C'mon Nick let's finish this already!" Liam yelled.

I ran towards the flag and saw two enemies charging right at me so I pulled out my sword made out of Stygian Iron and waited for them to attack me. Right then an arrow shot right by my head and I heard the "whoosh" sound it made. I knew who it was one hundred percent. Her hair is as black as my sword, her skin tanned but not too much. It's Luna daughter of Artemis (she's a mind child similarly to Athena's children but she doesn't have a father). She almost hit me right in the face but the wind moved the arrow a little to the right, passing right by my ear. The two guys were still coming towards me. The first one swung his sword up but I dodged with ease then I stabbed my sword and hit him hard enough to make him go down. Next was the second one who swung her sword and got slash across my cheek which started to bleed but I ignored it. I grabbed her arm and pulled her towards me and knocked her out with the hilt of my sword. The person was Luna who was right behind me. She tried to stab me but I grabbed her arm and tripped her. I tossed the flag to Liam and told him to run. Within seconds he was gone. Luna then pulled me to the ground before I could say or do anything.

"If I go down you go down with me." She whispered.

"Oh, well at least I'm still better than you." I answered

She looked so beautiful, her eyes glittered in the moon light. My body just reacted and I pecked her on the lips. Before she knew what was happening I had jumped up and ran off. She was still on the ground still but wasn't mad just blushing. She got up and yelled,

"Where are you going!?"

I didn't answer, just kept running. I was running towards our base blushing the entire time. When I got there I saw Brian leaning against a tree and lots of kids on the ground out cold. When I was about to say something to him the horn sounded the end of the game.