Percy Jackson & the Olympians
God Ball
I HIT THE GROUND EXPLAINING
I dived but I missed the ball and sent myself skidding into the dirt, cursing.
"Come on, Seaweed Brain!" yelled Annabeth, "We've got to win this, or do want Clarisse to win?"
I groaned, and raised myself off the ground.
Okay, I've got some explaining to do. Basically, the gods had decided that they wanted entertainment, which was no big surprise, as the gods get bored very easily, and they wanted it half-blood style. Normally they would watch capture the flag or volleyball but as Mr D put it volleyball was "wimpy" and that capture the flag just involved "Perkins" (Me, but Mr D forgets campers names on purpose) "standing by the creek splashing around and Annie thinking up some massively over the top plan, but still end up winning anyway,"
As none of us wanted to do full on Olympic games, Chiron decided that we would play "God Ball," which is basically a game where you have to get a ball about the size of a small soccer ball into a small goal. The only catch was that there weren't any particular rules about how you get it in there. In fact the only rules were that you could not punch, kick maim or injure.
Anyway, we were training, our team being me, Annabeth, Tyson, (who was taking a holiday at Camp Half-blood), Thalia and Travis and Conner Stoll, the Hermes cabin twins. I thought we had a good chance but up against three campers from Ares cabin, including my rival Clarisse, two campers from Hephaestus' cabin, one of them being Beckendorf, the Hephaestus Cabin captain, and finally a Apollo cabin member, who was not very strong, but I new would be able to throw the ball extremely accurately.
It would soon be game time.