WILLIAM
It had been over a year since the battle at Bon Echo, It was December now.
So much had happened since Bon Echo. A few weeks after the battle, The forgotten legion moved south, and Chiron decided to evacuate the camp. Now the demigods of Camp Half-blood were being hosted by Camp Jupiter. They had also built a new flying ship, the 'Hercules', it hadn't seen action yet, but it would only bee a matter of time. William John had participated in many battles. John and William, as well as Zoey and Harley, had been assigned to a mixed company of Greeks and Romans called W lochoi ,the Omega Company. Omega company did all sorts of missions scouting, raiding, and capturing various locations were only a few of the things that William had done with Omega company. One time, Omega company had been scouting when they stumbled across a huge Forgotten Legion camp. forty Demigods had defeated five hundred gecko-men, and a hundred Elite Lizard-men. William had been wounded in the battle. The commanding officer, Centurion Bill Dean, had been killed in the battle. John had been made the locharch, the captain of Omega company. Right now John was up north somewhere with part of Omega company, he'd been gone for over a month now. William, Zoey and Harley were among those that stayed behind. John should have been back earlier that morning, but when you are a demigod, things never go as you plan.
William was supposed to meet Harley later that night, the two had been dating for almost a year now.
William was walking toward the new wooden palisade that protected the newest of camp Jupiter's barracks, a long and short stone building, with two marble pillars on either side of the door, above which was carved a Greek Omega W. The barracks was the home of William and the rest of Omega company. For the last month, only a few campers had lived in the barracks Including, Zoey, Harley, Sophie, Sunshine and a few Roman campers. Miki and lived there too, but she had gone with John, wherever he was. It was getting late, the campfire had just ended and William was going to bed, at least for a while. He and Harley were going to go for a walk after everyone else was asleep.
William entered the Barracks, and walked toward his bunk, which was directly underneath John's. He pulled off his sneakers and pulled his shirt over his head before lying down on top of the sheets, he knew that if John were back in the morning, he would expect everyone's bed to be made perfectly before muster; better for William to save himself the trouble and not sleep in the bed.
William hadn't noticed himself falling asleep until he awoke to the sound of heavy boots on the wood outside. He opened his eyes, he knew those boots. The door to the barracks opened, and several demigods walked into the barracks. Leading them was a boy wearing a long red cape over bronze greek battle armour, on his left wrist was a bracer with an owl on both the inside, and outside of the wrist.
John was back.
"John?" said William, through a huge yawn.
"Hello William." John replied.
John looked different than the last time William had seen him, his hair was a bit longer, and he had several bruises on his face, as well as a new long jagged scar on his jaw.
"I'm tired." said John, pulling his cape from his shoulders. "We can talk in the morning."
As the demigods of Omega company removed their armour and went to bed, William couldn't help but notice the empty beds.
In the morning, William was awoken by the sound of John yelling.
"Omega company up! Now!" John shouted from where he stood by the doorway, already dressed in his Greek battle armour, with a his slightly tattered red cape over his shoulders. John had remembered that tonight there would be a war game. "Everyone up, I want you outside and ready for muster in five minutes!" John pulled his bronze Greek Locharch's helm onto his head, before leaving the building.
William got up and dressed, and pulled on his armour, before shuffling outside.
Five minutes, and about two seconds later, Omega company was assembled in neat ranks off to one side of the Twelfth Roman legion. On the other side of Omega company, the Demigods of camp Half-blood were assembled. In front of the combined Demigod forces, stood Percy, Jason and Reyna
After roll call, the Demigods went off to the mess hall for breakfast.
William was sitting with John and Harley, as he dug into his scrambled eggs, William wondered what had happened to John in the last month.
It seemed that John could read his brothers thoughts.
"We were sent to see if Uncle Carl's old house could be used as an outpost for some of our forces." he paused and gulped down some Kool-aid. "We were ambushed, lost some good Demigods." He said solemnly. William nodded; since the war began, they had lost plenty of good demigods, it was sad every single time someone died, and it never got any easier. William continued to pick at the food on his plate, before noticing John looking at something behind William.
William turned and followed Johns gaze. Zoey was sitting with an ares guy, his name was Jacob, William recalled, he was Roman, William didn't like him much. Zoey was laughing at some joke he had made.
"They're dating." said William to his brother.
"For how long?" asked John.
"They started going out a few days after you left." said William.
"Oh." said John.
The rest of the day passed routinely. After dinner, the Demigods assembled on the fields of Mars. The defenders for tonight game were the First, Second and Third cohort of the Roman legion, and the attackers were the Fourth and Fifth cohorts, with Camp half-blood and Omega company.
The fort for tonight game was actually more like a fortress. The large, outer palisade wall was surrounded by hundreds of pointy wooden stakes, and on the inside of the wall,large mounds of dirt were piled against the wall, so that defenders could climb up and shoot at the attacking demigods.
Inside the first Wall was a second wall, which was twice as high as the first, inside this wall was a tall two story building, which would hold the defenders flag. Technically he shouldn't know anything about the fort, but Harley had done some 'recon' earlier that morning.
The attacking army assembled itself on the field, with the three Cohorts assembled together, camp half-blood to their right, and Omega company to their left. John returned from talking with the Centurions, a slightly annoyed expression on his face.
"Omega company is ordered to go first with camp Half-blood to soften up the defences." He said.
"Why don't they send Fourth cohort first?" Someone shouted from in the formation.
"I didn't say we were going to go ahead with the Greeks." said John.
"Not all of us anyways." He said.
"William, Harley, Zoey, and Sunshine, be ready, as soon as we get to the gate, the five of us are going find an alternate way in. Miki, and Sophie I need you two to lead the rest to the gate, draw attention toward the front gates."
"Alright." said Miki.
It was a few second later that the horn signalling the beginning of the game sounded.
"Omega Company, Turtle!" Yelled John.
Omega Company moved into a tight formation, and raised sheilas above their head, and slowly started to march toward the heavy wooden gates of the fortress before them.
Arrows, rocks, and other various flying objects bounced off of the wall of shields, as Omega company advanced toward the gate. Halfway to the gate, Omega company met up with the Greek company, who were bringing a battering Ram up to the gate. After what seemed like forever, they had made it to the gate, without a single loss in Omega company.
So far so good. Thought William.
"Zoey, Will, Harley, Sunshine, follow me!" He said, running as close to the wall as he could off to the left. The Demigods jogged in silence, the wall sentries hadn't spotted them yet. They ran around the corner, so that they were now running around the fort, William guessed that John would have them run all the way around the fort, the wall sentries would not likely be watching the rear.
It appeared that William was right, for they ran around behind the fort, toward the middle of the wall. John stopped and leaned against the wall panting. John stepped away from the wall, and looked up toward the top of the wall.
"Only a few sentries," he said quietly. "Sunshine, do you have any more of those stun arrows, or whatever they are?"
"The concussion ones? Yeah why?" Sunshine said.
"Can you hit those two sentries up there with it?" John asked.
"Of course." he said stepping away from the wall. He knocked an arrow and let it fly, there was a loud Bang as it impacted the top of the wall.
"Sentries, gone." said Sunshine.
"Okay my turn." said Harley, pulling what looked like a duct-tape reenforced Grappling hook out of a pouch on her belt.
"What do you have in there?" asked William curiously.
"Duct-tape, extra strength Duct-tape, Waterproof duct-tape, fire retardant Duct-tape, and camouflage duct-tape." Harley said.
"Why don't we just call you Duct-tape girl." William asked his girlfriend. She shot him a look that said, If you call me that you die.
"Sorry." Said William.
"Will you too stop flirting so that we can win?" said Sunshine.
Harley threw the grappling hook up in the air, and it disappeared over the top of the wall.
Harley tested the rope with her weight, and when it didn't budge, she began to climb up the rope.
When she reached the top, she gestured for the others to follow.
After he got over the wall William could see that the majority of the roman demigods were defending the gates, and that only a few were patrolling the fort, although no one had spotted them yet. Sunshine climbed over the wall last, and when he landed beside William he sighed.
"That was easy." He said a little too loudly.
There were now about a dozen Romans charging toward them, William watched as John pulled his celestial rod out of his pocket, and his hand and a half sword was now in his hand. William followed suit, and was soon wielding his six foot long spear.
John smashed the short gladius from the first Romans hand, and whacked him with the pommel of his sword, sending him sprawling back toward his comrades. Zoey's blade arched above her head, and she broke the head off of the next roman's pilum. William Jabbed one roman in the thigh, and then twirled his spear like a staff before whacking another roman upside the head with the butt end of the spear.
One of the Romans was able to stab Sunshine in the side though. After Harley had Duct-taped the last roman to the inside of the wall, John checked on sunshine.
"I'm okay, but I'm out." Sunshine said through gritted teeth.
The four remaining demigods made their way to the inside wall, where Harley led them to a small door that would take them directly into the small keep.
"How did you know this was here?" asked John. "Or did you find out the 'Hermes way.'"
The rest of the battle was a blur, the demigods had somehow managed to get the flag. William vaguely remembered being lifted up on some shields and being carried to a party where the drinks consisted of Coke, Kool-aid, and William may have possibly drank some Roman wine.
The next thing he knew William was getting ready for bed, it had been a good day.