I turned around and saw the butt of a spear coming straight at my face. I ducked at the last second, only to get a knee in the stomach from a big Ares kid, Ryan. I fell to the ground and mumbled, "Gods, I hate capture the flag against Ares."

"Come on Johny! Get up you little thief!" Ryan taunted me.

See, I'm a Hermes kid and as most of you know, he is the God of Thieves, and I am probably the best thief in the whole Hermes cabin. Well, I stole something from Ryan; his boar head necklace, and he's been waiting to get revenge ever since then. I would have gotten away with it except one of the Athena kids ratted me out because they're scared of Ryan and his friends.

I stood up now and thought I might have a small chance to get away from Ryan unhurt, but then all that hope faded when his three friends Logan, Dante, and Jerome, who everyone called Ram. (Don't ask why I have no idea.) Well anyway they are all from the Ares cabin, over six feet tall, and they all hated me for some reason. "I'm dead," I muttered.

"Damn right you are!" Dante spat at me. It didn't even seem like they wanted to go for our flag, which wasn't too far away from where we were, but they just seemed like they wanted to kill me.

I knew they wouldn't actually kill me because this was capture the flag and we were all camper's, but they wouldn't show any mercy when it came to beating the crap out of me. Right when they started to move in on me, I pulled out my sword and dagger, but I put them back right away when I remembered I had a few tricks up my sleeve.

They all seemed confused when I did that, but they didn't see anything strange, they just saw an easy target. I knew I would win this fight now, because before we started the capture the flag game today I pick pocketed a small container of Greek Fire from a Hephaestus kid. Also me and my best friend, Avery, had a simple plan; she was up in the trees with a her brother Brad, and if I was in trouble I could whistle and they would come lower a rope and pull me up.

So I whistled and pulled out the Greek Fire. A couple seconds later just as the Ares kids were about to reach me, the rope dropped down in front of me. I jumped and grabbed onto it and dropped the bottle onto the ground so it would break and start burning. They all jumped away from the fire and glared up at me.

They knew they wouldn't be able to get me when I was in the tree so they found a way to get me down. They went after the flag. I knew I couldn't let them get it, and when Avery and Brad looked at me, they knew what I was about to do.

"Thanks for getting me out of that guys," I said regretfully, "But I think all our efforts were in vain."

"We're coming with you Johny!" Avery said and Brad nodded his head in agreement.

"Thanks but I got myself into this mess by stealing from Ryan, now I need to face my punishment for it."

And with that I lowered myself down from the tree and when I was about to charge Ryan and his buddies I saw something reflecting the sunlight in the grass. I bent down and picked up what looked to be like a golden drachma, but instead of the usual symbols it had a capital H on one side, and a caduceus: Hermes symbol. I figured it could be worth something so I kept it and put it in my pocket.

I'm not sure if when I put it in my pocket I felt stronger for some reason, or if it was just my imagination. I saw Ryan pick up our flag and all of them turned around and saw me with my sword and dagger drawn. Even though I'm only 5'3 and they're all almost a foot taller than me, I could tell by their eyes that I looked pretty intimidating. With my shirt and shorts singed from the Greek Fire I threw, and the sun reflecting off my armor and weapons it looked like a scene from a movie.

Right as I was about to charge, I heard a large group of people running through the woods towards the clearing. I turned around and saw Drew, the leader of the Apollo cabin, burst into the clearing with the other team's flag only to stop when he saw I was about to do. Most of the people from both teams came in chasing him, and also stopped and stared in awe as I charged.

Ram came running at me and I could instantly tell he was off balance, so I dove to the ground and rolled into his legs making him fall. I hopped to my feet and kicked him as hard as I could in the helmet making him lose conscious immediately. My team behind me cheered me on, but I didn't stop to listen as I had three more enemies to go.

Now Dante charged at me with his battle axe and shield. He swung at me which I blocked easily, and countered with my dagger making him step back. We fought like that for a few seconds until he stepped back. He made a move towards me but I saw him loosen his grip on his axe as if he wasn't going to use it and noticed he put his shield forward as if he was going to ram me with it.

I braced myself for the hit and grabbed onto the shield when he tackled me and we rolled over and over each other. Finally we stopped rolling and I jumped away. I had lost my dagger and couldn't find it but noticed he lost his shield to. I looked up and saw him running at me so I dove over to Dante's shield picked it up and threw it like a Frisbee. It hit Dante in the head and knocked him out as well.

Instead of hearing cheers from my team, I heard Avery shout, "Johny behind you!"

I instantly turned around and threw my sword up. I barely blocked Logan's double sword attack, and tried to recover but couldn't because of his lightning fast attacks. I finally jumped away and recovered. I then went on the offensive. I charge Logan, and swung my sword cutting his, swung again cutting his arm, kicked him in the chest and swung the butt of my sword into the side of his head causing him to fall dazed and confused.

Finally I turned to Ryan. He smiled wildly at me and said, "You somehow got lucky against those three idiots, but not against me." And he pulled out his dangerous spear and shield.

We'll just see about that I thought but didn't have time to say it when he charged. I started blocking his strikes left and right. After a few minutes of that it became too much and I lost the grip on my sword. It flew away into the Greek Fire that was still burning. I was left weaponless and defenseless.

I looked around for something that I could use as a weapon. I found something right when Ryan started charging. I dove away from his attack towards the flag he set in the ground. The pole to the flag was made of hard solid wood, and could easily block a sword or spear strike.

Ryan looked at me like I was crazy and smiled but I had a plan. When he came running up to me I threw the flag, still holding onto the pole, into his face so he couldn't see and yanked his spear from his grip. Pushed him to the ground and putting my foot against his throat so he couldn't move.

Everyone stared in awe at me. I just realized what I did. I, a small average 14 year old Hermes camper, defeated four senior Ares campers in a matter of minutes.

Finally Drew broke the stillness and walked up to me with the flag. "I think you deserve the honors." He said and handed me the flag.

I walked over to where our flag used to sit, and raised the other team's flag into the air and slammed it into the ground. Everyone, even most of the other team started cheering and crowding me shouting, "Johny! Johny! Johny!"

I felt awesome and it was the coolest thing ever, that moment, but I couldn't help but wonder how I did it. Almost none of the camper's, especially me, could take down our Ares kids at once. I suddenly remembered the coin that I picked up before the fight. I took it out of my pocket and suddenly felt exhausted. I put it back in and felt like I could take on the entire Ares cabin.

I didn't know why, or why me but Hermes placed this coin where I found it, knowing I wouldn't be able to resist keeping it, and it somehow made me stronger and a better fighter. I'm going to find out why Hermes gave me this coin, I thought to myself.

That night, like we usually do after capture the flag, we had a party. At parties like these I normally just hung out with Avery, Brad, and a few other kids I was close, but tonight everyone seemed to want to hang out with me. Even some of the Aphrodite girls who always acted like I didn't exist were surrounding me, saying to their siblings, "I saw him first," or "Omg! He's so cute!"

I didn't really understand it but when I finally got away from the crowd, I went looking for Avery and Brad. I found them sitting around the camp fire with Brad's secret crush Elizabeth, daughter of Aphrodite. Avery and Brad were both children of Apollo, and were my best friends even though Brad was two years older than me and Avery.

"Nice of you to finally join your real friends Mr. Popular!" Avery said angrily.

"What?" I replied wondering why she was acting this way. "I've been trying to find you ever since what happened during Capture the Flag!"

"Oh, yeah right! Your just happy to have more popular and pretty friends in the Aphrodite cabin!" She said acting like I didn't care about her.

What! I wanted to scream. I wasn't going to lie, the Aphrodite girls were pretty, but they so much time trying to be pretty when Avery was effortlessly beautiful. With her long golden hair and beautiful blue eyes. I snapped out of it and said something back to her but Brad saved me here.

"Come one Avery you know he didn't want to be in that situation. We're his best friends, he wouldn't leave us, and you know all the guys at camp think you're one of the prettiest girls here." Brad said everything I wanted to but couldn't say myself.

"That's exactly how I feel Avery." I said trying to make her believe me.

"Yeah Avery," Elizabeth jumped in, "My sisters' all think he's cute and most of them like him, but they know not to try and take him. We all think you two would make a perfect couple!" She was smiling widely.

Me and Avery both looked at her like she was crazy until Drew came over with his girlfriend, Riley. Drew, who is the leader of the Apollo Cabin, is about six feet tall, ripped, with messy blonde hair, and blue eyes. Let's just say, all the girls love him. Riley is the leader of the Athena Cabin and she is tall, skinny with a model body, long blonde hair, and those misty gray eyes, and they were both 18. Let's just say all the guys love her, and the Aphrodite girls were all jealous. In a way they were perfect for each other.

"Mind if we join you?" Drew asked sitting down without waiting for an answer. "You know Johny that was probably the best fighting I've seen in a long time!"

"Thanks," I said embarrassed, "but it was probably just luck."

"Maybe, maybe not, but I do know one thing: you really pissed the Are's Camper's off this time. I know it was in Capture the Flag and it was fair, but you bested four of them at once. That's not going to fly so easy with them."

"So if they try and fight me I'll just beat them again." I said putting my hand in my pocket and feeling Hermes's coin.

"I don't think so." A voce behind us made all of us jump. We all turned around to see my smiling cabin counselor, Dustin.

"You scared the Hades out of me!" Riley shouted at him. "And were you eavesdropping?"

"Yes. Now be quiet and listen. Johny, what you did today was amazing, but you said it yourself: it could've been luck. And if they were to attack you again, I doubt you would be able to beat them. And if it wasn't luck and you could beat them again: Would you be able to beat the whole cabin?"

Dustin, who is about 16, is usually laid back and doesn't have a care in the world, seemed very concerned about me. And what he did say made sense. I wouldn't be able to beat them. "No." I said weakly.

"Right now I'm gonna have to ask you to do something you won't like. I want you to be close to me, or Drew, or Brad or some of our siblings for the next few days until this whole thing blows over."

He was right. I didn't like that. Reluctantly i said, "Fine."

"Okay, good." Dustin said, "Now the bonifres just about over lets head back to the cabin."

End of chapter 1. I'm gonna try and upload the next chapter by either tomorrow or Monday.

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