Hi remember this is my sixth fanfic so whatever you do don't kill me, beat me or send an angry mob after me. I do not own PJO or Next Avengers.
James's POV
As Pacifica and her brother pulled us down the hill I could see the entire place, numerous cabins that were large enough to be mansions, stables, arenas, archery ranges, climbing walls, farm fields, bathrooms, showers, villages, creeks, ponds, lakes, armory, beach, shops, 2 huge houses, councilors, campers, magicians on;y way I knew was because of their staffs and wands, winged horses, teenagers and kids chasing each other around, and all kinds of creatures walking among them. Half way down Pacifica stopped and said, "Okay something you should know, outside of the Savage Lands I am Pacifica, but in them I am Jenna and Jaden is Phobeus. Now anyone we introduce you to knows both our names now don't be surprised if they call us 2 different things."
When we got to the bottom of the hill, Jenna-Pacifica took us straight to the archery range where a girl with black hair, freckles, lighting blue eyes, and silver clothes shooting arrows at the center every time. She didn't even look at us when she said, "Hey, cous, how are you and what's with the group of newbs?"
"Fine, Thalia, and they are well here to be away from Ultron." Pacifica answered while picking up a bow and notching and arrow. She pulled the string back, released, and the arrow hit the target smack in the middle.
"I could do better than that." Hawkeye said while walking up to the marker. He took a bow and arrow from his quiver and fired. The arrow met it's target, but was slightly off.
"A boy could not do better than a girl, especially a girl that is part of a hunt. Now why don't you run along and play with a stick and try not to hurt your self." The girl, Thalia, said while maing another bull's eye. This made Hawkeye stare at her with his mouth open.
"Look, Thals, he's new. Cut the kid some slack, he didn't know that the girls have the superior advantage in archery. Also, that most people here can tell when they've lost before the battle has begun. Now why don't I show you this technique that my mother taught me as a kid." Pacifica said while taking a new stance. She then leaped into the air while spinning, when she stopped the wind was pushing her back and her arrow was notched while her feet were in a landing position. When Pacifica did release the arrow was going at an insane speed which made go through the target and into the ground behind it. Her landing was also perfect since the air seemed to be lowering her down gently. Thalia then clapped while showing that she was impressed with Pacifica's trick.
"You do know that now you will have to show me that move." Thalia said while grining at Pacifica. Then Pacifica gave a nod to her cousin and brother while motioning us to follow her. We started to walk for a while when 2 people, one boy and one girl, came running in front of us then stopping. They looked a little like each other, the girl had shoulder length blood-red hair, sea blue eyes, light skin, and long canines that made her look like a vampire while the boy had short coal-black hair, sea blue eyes, light skin, and long canines that made him also look like a vampire. Both of them had orange shirts, beige shorts, white sneakers, and they had full quivers slung across their backs. Also, they both hugged Pacifica and hoisted her in the air with just upperbody strength. Pacifica put her hands on their heads and ruffled their hair while pushing each head down. She turned towards us and said, "Guys, these two people are my younger siblings, Red and Black. They are twins without a doubt, you will rarely find one without the other. Red was born before Black making her the 5th oldest and bro here the 6th oldest. Anyway they were just playing arrow tag, death-defying, but fun. Although it comes in second to Capture the Flag. Anyway have you two finished the battle plans?"
"Yup! It will be epic, the others won't see wants coming at them. Now we better run since Serena and Klaus are beating us and they are younger than we are, who knew that the 7th and 8th oldest would be beating us? Well, bye, sis." Red and Black said while running into the woods with loaded bows. Pacifica then continued to lead us further into the camp until we came up to a wolf and a man in a wheelchair. She then kneeled in front of them and we followed her quickly, hey here we are just like anyone else.
"Lupa, Chiron these people seek training, sanctuary, and a new home. May we grant them that?" Pacifica asked them while coming up to her feet. As soon as we tried to get up she motioned us to stay down and we did. I could feel Pacifica and the team were holding their breaths to see what will happen.
"They may stay here and we will welcome them with graciousness. Now we must talk to their... caretaker. The rest of you may go to the cabins and settle down." Said the wolf, who I guess was Lupa. Then the man, my guess Chiron, started to get up from the chair and when he did we all saw that he had the rear-end of a horse. Pacifica gave a gentle nod and walked up to Tony.
"Rise now. You must go with my mentors to speak about the abilities of your team. In the mean time I will take care of them, now go we will be safe." Pacifica said while helping Tony to his feet since he had Vision in his hands. He started to walk towards Lupa and Chiron while Pacifica ushered us towards a ring of cabins. She lead us to one near the end that was blue, one level, two doors, and a patio with 9 chairs, then she lead us in, inside was even better than outside. There were waterfalls on each wall, the floor was transparent with an ocean scene, two halls lead off in opposite directions with 2-3 doors on 2 of the walls in there, 9 beds in here, a wall went down the middle, there was a dome in the middle of the wall, and there were dresser at the foot of each bed. As soon as we went in the wall went down and divided the room to have 4 beds on one side and 5 in the other, Pacifica pushed us into the dome room and said, "Wait here until I come back. If anyone comes in then don't fight them, they either live here or want to talk to us. Now I will be right back, I just need to get out of my war gear and into my camp clothes."
She closed the door and we waited, Azari and Pym were looking around, Torunn was sitting down while looking at the fish, Hawkeye was fixing his arrows which seemed to fall apart after what happened earlier today, and I for Pacifica to come back in. I just kept looking at the door, prepared to ask her every question I had, although I was so caught up in my thoughts I didn't notice Hawkeye come up behind me and put me in a head lock... again. Last time I flipped him, but this time I bit his hand until he let me go. He smiled at me while I glared at him, yet some how I think I knew how my dad felt when Clint bugged him. Then he asked, "Okay, now I can see why you like her. She has a lot of skill, she can go up, shoot an arrow with insane speed and accuracy, and make go through the target. If you don't ask her out, I will even if she has a hot cousin."
"I thought you liked Torunn. What happened?" I asked him while taking a look at my shield
"I guess I found someone who is tough like me, stubborn like me, and who likes to shoot things with arrows like me. Now why don't you just go and ask her out." He said while nudging me towards the door
"No way. She changing, there is no way that I am going to go inside there now. B-Besides she told us to stay here." I said while trying to hide my red cheeks from him. Then Pacifica walked in with an orange T-shirt, dark blue jeans, white sneakers, a jean jacket, a full quiver slung across her back, a sword strapped at her hip, her hair had 4 small braids going down the rest of her hair that lowed down like a waterfall, she had sunglasses on her head, and a sun/moon amulet. If it was possible then she was no longer cute, pretty or beautiful, she was gorgeous. Pacifica came up to me and lifted my chin so that way she could close my gaping mouth.
"Close your mouth before flies make a home there. Now there is no need to get dumbfounded before Capture the Flag. You guys are on my team since your new. Okay let's make a plan, right girls." Pacifica said while 2 more girls came in the room along with Thalia and Red. Then the girls snapped their fingers and 4 boys came in along with Phobeus and Black. There was a boy fighting with Black with his bow pointed at him. He looked younger than Black, but they were the same height.
"Look I pinned you to the tree with one arrow. Red and Serena saw me do it, now take it like a warrior." Said the younger boy with the bow
"Well, I'm older and I am telling you that the arrow only grazed my shoulder. Right, Percy? You were racing with Anns when Klaus tried to get me with the arrow, then I climbed the tree." Black countered while holding his left shoulder.
"Both of you, stop fighting. Unless you want us to lose the game then you better aim the weapons at the Ares cabin and NOT each other." Pacifica said while literally jumping between the two boys. She put her hand on Black's cut and it disappeared. "Also, just to settle the score the cut was a small graze, but it did take some fabric with it, so you were slightly pinned for 10 seconds making Klaus correct. Sorry, bro."
"You know what. It's okay. Sorry about the lash out, little brother. We good?" Black said while holding out his hand
"You know it. Now the next time we play I will not hold back." Klaus said while taking his forearm and it looked like he tightened his grip. Then Black spun Klaus while putting him in a head lock while giving him a nuggy. When Black released him, Klaus gave him a small punch on the arm like true, brothers that rarely fought.
"Good, now status report. Jason, Thalia, what's going on with the reds?" Pacifica asked while pulling up a map of a small part of the forest with landmarks and rivers.
"The flag will be put on the edge of the forest." Said a boy with blonde hair and a tattoo on his forearm, my guess Jason.
"Along with a third of their campers guarding it while Annabeth's whereabouts remain unknown." Thalia said while taking a red sticker and setting it at the far edge of the map
"Okay. Percy, what's your intel on blue?" Pacifica said while putting a gold sticker near a river delta
"They put their flag in the trees while the Apollo archers will be staying behind, guarding the flag." Said a boy with black hair and blue eyes, Percy.
"Great. Now the boys will go with me and head towards blue while the girls will go with Klaus and head towards blue. Jason and the others will stay behind and guard the flag from the two teams. The flag will be put in the trees right above the merging rivers, that should stop attacks from the ground and you guys can attack from above. All clear on the plan?" Pacifica said while looking up from the map and at us. I could tell that she wasn't planning on losing this game, it was as if she has played this game on a different environment. Still, it was clear that failure was not an option for her. Well there was no way that I was going to let her down.
"Clear." We all said. Pacifica looked at me and I gave her a quick nod, basically telling her that I wasn't going to give up the flag without a fight. Her smile was all I needed to know that she agreed with me and to make me want to send my shield flying through the weapons of the other teams now. When I came back to reality, I realized that Pacifica was just inches from me. I started to smell the ocean in the room, I looked for what was the cause of the smell when I saw that it was Pacifica. Pacifica looked into my eyes and smiled, she held out armor that looked ancient and possibly what Torunn would wear. She took the largest piece, put it over my head, strapped me in, and did the same thing for my wrists and ankles, then Pacifica held out a helmet and dropped in my hands. Before I could ask what they were for she said, "Unless you want to die, I suggest you leave the armor on and put on the helmet as soon as possible when we leave the cabin. Now do you have a weapon?"
"Yeah, my shield. My not look like much, but it helped me and my family defeat one of Ultron's robots. I wouldn't trade it for anything." I decided to not tell her about us defeating Ultron. Except when I said his name, Percy dropped his armor and stormed towards me.
"Did you just say Ultron?" He said through his gritted teeth and his death glare
"Uh, yes." I answered while getting my shield from one of the couches
"Well, don't say it again. If you do then I won't even hesitate to slice your head clean off. Now why don't you just keep polishing your shield, Captain America wannabe." Percy said while going back to putting on his armor. I took my shield by it's edge and threw at his head, when it was near its target Percy raise his sword and blocked my attack. Then it was heading back towards me, while Percy was sending me another death glare. "Look at that, Captain America wannabe, can actually throw a shield. Bravo."
"Look, no one makes fun of me or my dad now why don't you just go back to your village and say hi to your parents or something." I said while turning away
"I would take you up on that offer if my mother and step-father were alive. That's right because of the Avengers my family is dead. The reason I blame them is because Tony Stark, co-leader of the Avengers, built Ultron." Percy said while looking at all of us
"Glad we have something in common, our parents either died or left us because of Ultron. Now think that your not the only one who's parents died, so just suck it up like the rest of us." Hawkeye said while glaring at him. They were about the same height so it wasn't hard for him to give him a death glare.
"Okay, boys. I think it's time to stop fighting and starting working. Instead of channeling your anger at each other channel it towards your abilities, it will make you stronger. Now I suggest that we take a little break from the blaming and fighting and start getting ready for the game." Pacifica said while pointing both of them in different directions of the room. Then she came up to me and whispered in my ear, "It is best that you do not mention that name again since he took over New York, the home to 88% of the people here, with that the robot killed many of their parents and now they basically only have each other. Now I don't want to see you get hurt, so please stay out of trouble."
"Okay. I will" I said while taking the helmet again. Only this time when I took it Pacifica kissed my cheek causing me to blush. Then she walked away smiling at me.
Okay chapter 2 is up and ready. Also, sorry about making Percy sound like a jerk, but hey the kid loves and I mean loves his family so I thought why not. Now read, and COMMENT. It will help me write. :)
