Normal typing is Malcolm's narrating, underlined Italics is will be Pollux's Commenting, Italics will be Malcolm's response.
It all started the day Annabeth arrived, after the service for Thalia, and Nick, at the end Dionysus came out and as a reward for surviving all of those attacks gave the honor of being head counselor to Annabeth, I swear he was sneering at me when he said it.
"And now since the troubling events of today have robbed us of a veteran camper and a promising newcomer it is only fit to name the replacement of Nick Bottom, my thoughts are the that Mr. Bottom helped save his own replacement, that new Athena cabin girl." Dionysus said smiling.
"Annabeth" Chiron said cutting in.
"Whatever, potato, patato."
While the rest of the camp broke into overwhelmed cheers I smiled and clapped politely thinking that this was my punishment for last year when I challenged his leadership qualities, it wasn't even me who started it, Charles Beckendorf said that he could make a better… oh, shoot, my bad.
The one saving grace was that the power didn't get to Annabeth's head all at once, it came in small bursts like when she made us reorganize our cabins Library from Dewey to Metis, I mean I know Metis is named after our grandmother but still Dewey is much better,
Right Pollux.
Dude, I really have no comment at this point.
but because it was after our mother and Annabeth was the one who suggested it the entire cabin ate it up. Another time was when she tried to make training focus more daggers and less on formation fighting with spears and shields. Her logic was that we could each do more damage with a fast, stealthy and fluid like weapon when fighting in formation protects more people resulting in less casualties, but no the idea was given to us by the prodigy of Athena so we all switched our training to knifes.
Now normally this wouldn't have been a problem more training in how to wield knives can be seen as how to defend yourselves with limited supplies, however what didn't approve of was some of our older campers got rusty with their old weapons.
But it really started getting bad after Luke came back from his failed quest which resulted in a temporary ban on other quests, however I never really understood that sure Luke could handle himself well in a fight, but he was nowhere near as skilled as Jackson's recount makes him look.
He was still pretty good.
Whatever, anyway Annabeth started acting even more like the lone dictator of our cabin, forcing people whom she knew Luke could beat to pair up with him in the sword fighting arena just to get her old crush back to his Cheery go lucky self.
And trust me, this isn't just me being angry over the success of one of my juniors, trust me if that was it, I would never have been worthy of being named a son of Athena.
I remember it clearly, where our story begins,
Good, because up until now this this has been about nothing other than how my father made a bad call putting Annabeth in charge of your cabin, and your bashing of your sister.
No one asked for your input Pollex.
I'm Just pointing out that if I hadn't stopped you from ending a couple sentences ago this would have been two chapters of how you hate someone with no plot,
All right I get it, just let me get on with it.
Sure, I'm just here because of your supply of free Mike and Ike's for the duration of your…
Alright, alright I get it, jeez. Next time remind me to get Gardener or someone.
Anyway as I was saying, it all started the day Jackson arrived.
Cue flashback
Cue flashback
Cue flashback Pollex!
Oh, yeah, right, phwish.
Phwish? Whatever we'll just roll with it.
"Malcom get the cabin together, we're all going to train together." My twelve year old half sister shouted back to me as I had just sat down to reread Sun Tzu's Art of War for the Fourth time.
I put the book down and studied the doorway that Annabeth left open when she dashed out of the cabin towards the fencing pavilion.
I sighed thinking that the two of us were the exact opposite, Annabeth was The leader that never ran out of energy, she was the first one up and the last one to hit the cot, she was always ready to practice whereas I went to sleep early and woke up late and preferred going over drill as opposed to training.
"Everybody, you heard Annabeth fall into order and head to the fencing arena."
As soon as I organized the cabin and got them to the arena I noticed that Annabeth wasn't there, I was confused but I quickly assumed that she was again trying to convince Chiron to let her leave the camps boundaries, and decided to drill the campers until she returned, it would be a good use of time while I waited for her to return.
After a half hour of having the cabin march back and forth in phalanx formation it was time to give them a break and go find Annabeth.
"Alright guys, find a partner and go at each other with all you've got, I'll be back in a little bit with Annabeth to continue you lesson, Jacob, you're in charge." I said as I sprinted out to find the lead counselor.
I looked towards the horizon, the sun had already set but even if it hadn't the outside world was quite dark, it was storming all around our camp making it hard to hear anything over the constant thunder and rain. Eventually I made my way to the big house, assuming Annabeth was still trying to convince Chiron to let her explore the world like her old days with Luke, Thalia and Ethan. Instead I found her talking to Chiron with a stranger on a bed and with Argus in the corner.
I arched an eyebrow at this, pointed to sleeping boy and asked who he was.
Chiron responded that he was an undetermined who he was teaching at a school called Yancy Academy.
I looked closer at the kid, not a son of Athena I decided.
"Annabeth," I said returning my attention to our evening training, "we should get back to the arena, I set them up against themselves but we should get back and assist the training."
Annabeth looked at the unconscious kid and then at Chiron who nodded his head.
Actually Malcolm, give them the night, I still have to ask Chiron something."
Assuming she was joking I waited for the punchline but as I studied her face I realized she was being truthful.
Thinking back on it I should have known that something was up when Annabeth wanted to skip out on evening training.
