Hey everyone so I forgot to mention a few differences between my story and the book, it's nothing major I believe but you might get confused if you don't know. As much as I liked Riordan's explanation for ADHD and dyslexia I decided to leave demigods without that characteristics. There's probably more that I'll remember later on but I can't recall any other changes I made to the original plot. I debating whether or not to incorporate the original story arc of PJO into my story or not so let me know what you think of that. Also there will be a love triangle between Percy Bianca and Thalia and haven't really decided who Percy should be with just yet so that's why I'm changing the pairing marked in the summary. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter although I felt like it was a little choppy in parts and that displeased me. Let me know what you thought please.

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It was the start of the week of training for Percy's group, who had been dubbed squad 312. Since it was just the first day, Thalia had voted to just work on swordplay, although she allowed the use of any weapon you were comfortable with. Since squad 312 had nine members and Hellfire had 11 members with Nico being gone, each squad had one member left over. Percy and Thalia being those people agreed to train against one another. Thalia was planning on taking it easy on him, thinking that some child of a minor god could never beat a daughter of the Lord of the sky. She even decided to use a sword instead of her spear.

They stood a few feet apart, Percy bowing a little. She disliked all his bowing it was getting on her nerves so she made the first move intending to teach Percy not to bow before a battle but he saw the attack coming and side stepped. Percy stayed on the defensive, dodging or parrying any attack Thalia made.

Percy could tell that a sword wasn't natural to her; the fighting style she used was slightly more crude and undisciplined. So he had no intention of fighting full force if she wasn't either.

Thalia's irritation slowly intensified until she was trying to kill the little pest that thought he was so good in front of her. Percy continued to dodge and parry hardly breaking a sweat. All other battles had stopped, every other person wanting to see what was happening between the two leaders. Cheers started to arise from the members of squad 312 as shouts of anger and encouragement came from squad 286. The fight ended with Percy's first attack, which disarmed Thalia.

She was stunned and humiliated; she had lost to the person who had just entered the military while she had been a part of it from a young age. Not to mention that her whole squad had seen her blunder, excluding Nico of course. What made it worse was when Percy tried to offer advice while picking up her sword.

"Your anger made your moves sporadic and meaningless. You had a better chance against me when you were taking it easy." He lifted her sword up, hilt facing her. "Don't under estimate an enemy daughter of Zeus, it could very well be your down fall."

Clarisse wasn't just going to except and insult against their leader and made a move to punch Percy only to have Bianca slap her and away and raise her sword in defense of Percy. The two squads were about to break into a fight when both leaders told the others to calm down.

Thalia looked back to Percy once the others had been separated to opposite sides. "You're right of course that was my mistake," she drew her spear and shield. "But it won't happen again, let's see what you're really made of."

Percy grinned, relieved that Thalia was finally going to take training with him seriously. "Good." He readied his sword with a calm expression covering his features.

"Twenty bucks on Thalia!" someone shouted from the group, most likely one of the Stroll brothers. Soon everyone was shouting how much money they placed on either of the two fighters.

Thalia was once again the first one to strike, trying to bash Percy with her shield and then use her spear to try and get his neck, next to his neck of course, she wouldn't kill a potential ally. Percy took the shield bash and raised his sword to knock the spear off course. He retaliated with a sweep at her feet, which she jumped over. He came up spinning and trying to get a winning strike. She blocked the strike with her shield and made multiple jabs at him with her spear. Percy's calm expression never faltered as he dodged each of them as he slid his blade along her spear going in for a finishing strike. Thalia gracefully dodged it and slammed her shield against the shaft of her spear to trap the blade of the sword. She jerked her hands away ripping the blade from Percy's grasp. She thought she had won but Percy processed this quicker than she expected and swept her feet out from under her. He grabbed his blade as she fell and kicked her shield away to tear it away. He pointed the tip of his blade at her neck only to find her spear at his throat in return.

There was silence from the crowd until one of them muttered, "Thalia disarmed Percy first, and I would say she won…"

"No way, did you see that awesome move Percy pulled? It was obvious enough to me that he is the winner here."

The two groups surged forward ready to fight again, the two leaders trying to get their groups under control. After both groups were ordered to return to practicing, Thalia and Percy shook hands agreeing that the duel was a draw and Thalia accepting Percy was not a person to take lightly. He walked to a nearby water cooler to rest while she went to monitor the others in her group.

. . . . .

The week passed with days worked on fighting and days reserved for tactics, but at long last the game of capture the flag had arrived. Since most people didn't feel like walking all the way to Long Island Sound to have an occasional game of CTF, they built an indoor arena that most people use today. Each group placed their flag on opposite sides of whatever terrain they wished for. Thalia had chosen jungle because that was what she was accustomed to fighting in. She couldn't very well lose to a new comer in a game like this; it would be a huge embarrassment to her squad.

Anyone was allowed to come and watch the game; apparently word had gotten around how strong Percy was and quite a crowd formed in the stands surrounding the battlefield. The crowd mainly consisted of military troops, nature spirits, and satyrs because mortals didn't care about the games demigods played. Capture the flag games had become almost as popular as any sporting event and depending on who was fighting sometimes citizens from all over Elpída would come to watch the fight. There would be a spectator fee for anyone willing to watch two or more squads fight, which would help fund the city and the war effort.

Percy had allowed her to maintain her full squad even though they had two more members than he had on his squad, saying that it would be pointless not to practice as a full team because that would ruin the point. Each team separated to their assigned sides. Percy's squad had been given armor that was outlined in blue; Thalia's squad had armor outlined in red and both flags matching said colors. A three-minute countdown began to signal the start of the game, which meant that you had three minutes to make a plan and set defenses before the other team could cross the midpoint of the battlefield. Thalia decided to leave the strategizing up to Annabeth, who decided to leave four people on immediate defense, four people would float around the middle helping with defense or offense accordingly, and three would be left with only offense. It was their usual strategy, but Percy had never seen it before so it should work well. Zoe, Clarisse, and Thalia would be on offense; Castor, Pollux, and the stroll twins would be the middle floaters; leaving Annabeth, Jake, Chris, and Micheal on the defensive line. Annabeth knew that Percy was their strongest fighter so she expected him to go straight for the flag; she alerted everyone that he would have to be taken down quickly for an easy victory. The other worry would be Bianca because she was a child of the big three. They didn't know how much of her power she could use but shadow travel could destroy their defensive line. She wanted Lee to stay in a tree somewhere where he could monitor everywhere around the flag. The others should be relatively easy to take down so just stick to what they normally did.

Once the entire squad was set up there was only fifteen seconds left on the clock. The tension began to rise as the last few seconds clicked away. Three… two… one… and then a loud horn sounded signifying the start of the game. Thalia's group dashed off, Zoe heading to the right and Clarisse going down the left. Thalia went straight down the middle, but encountered relatively no resistance. At first she was relieved thinking this might be an easy win and she could go home, but the relief quickly turned to fear as she wondered what Percy had planned. She made her way carefully through the forest until she found a clearing, the flag was visible a little ways away from her and so was Percy he was waiting patiently holding two swords in his hands.

"Hey Thal's, you about ready to start or what?" He asked as he readied himself. Thalia smirked this time she wouldn't lose; she would beat Percy, get the flag, and make it back over in no time. She hefted her spear up and charged.

Clarisse was bulldozing her way across the forest, her only goal was to find someone to crush in a fight, and then she would worry about the flag. She finally saw someone in full armor running away from her. She laughed and increased her speed catching up to the fleeing person. The figure stopped and turned, it was Beckendorf. He raised his war hammer and blocked the quick strike Clarisse had attacked with. He stayed on the defensive, just keeping her in one place, she was wondering what this punks deal was when in the background she heard the faint sound of a pan flute being played. She cursed and looked down but it was already too late. Large vines sprouted from the ground and started to entangle her, they left only her head open for her to breath. Beckendorf smiled and knocked her out with a hit to the head. A large buzz sounded letting everyone one a warrior had been defeated. A tired Grover and Katie came out from behind some foliage and high fived at what they had accomplished. The two then retreated to help on defense while Beckendorf started moving forward to assist with offense.

Zoe was running through the forest dodging arrows, the two sons of Apollo found her and had been pursuing her for the last couple of minutes, she heard the buzz indicating that a warrior had fallen and could only hope it was one of the opposing teams members. She jumped behind a tree as an arrow flew past her.

"It would seem that thou art trying to kill me instead of knock me out!" she yelled to the treetops.

"We could never be so cruel." One of the brothers replied, Zoe smirked he had just given away his position. She drew her bow and fired a few shots from where his voice came from. "Got to be quicker than that!" Came a reply from the opposite direction. Zoe dodged a few more arrows and started to run again.

"Gods, where is the back up from the mid lines…" she mutter. She heard the crunching of footsteps behind her and drew her hunting knives. The mortal girl, Rachel, was the attacker. She had a sword and shield but Zoe was more proficient with her hunting knives than Rachel and her swordplay. Zoe was about to strike the final blow when an arrow stuck to her back and a large amount of electricity flowed through her body. She collapsed on the ground unconscious and the arena rang again indicating another fallen competitor, while Will and Lee jumped down off of the trees they were hiding in.

"Come on Will, she almost beat me there, couldn't you have been a little faster? And she's all right, right? I don't really feel like being a sixteen year old murderer." Rachel said while nudging the unconscious body of Zoe.

"Sorry Rachel, we were just having too much fun watching you fight Zoe. It was all like, 'Hyah!' and 'Clash!' and man oh man were you losing!" Both Will and Lee started laughing until an enraged Rachel punched them both in the shoulder. They eventually settled down and went to go help Bianca and Beckendorf on offense.

Bianca had taken two of the members in the middle and led them away from their side acting as if she was going for the flag. Luckily the Stoll brothers fell for it and chased after her. Once she was a good distance away she stopped and turned to face her opponents.

"Just remember what Percy said, breath and be calm and just imagine exactly what you are trying to do." she muttered to herself and took a deep breath before extending her hand outwards. She had always had trouble with her power but Percy had been trying to help her at night, she just hoped she could do this. "Serve me…"

Three skeletal figures broke through the surface, clawing their way into the daylight. They were each armored and went to work on attacking the bewildered Stoll brothers. Bianca was so happy with herself she did a little triumphant cheer, then she recalled what was going on and helped her skeletons knock out the two sons of Hermes. Two more sirens sounded when they were sleeping heaps on the ground. Bianca let out a sigh and sat down to regain her bearings but she sent her skeletons to go help Beckendorf. She thought to herself proudly, 'I did it Percy, wish you could've seen it.'

Beckendorf was struggling against the twin sons of Dionysius fighting two opponents at once was difficult enough but the twins worked in tandem, using one another's moves to open up places to strike in the targets defense. Beckendorf already had many cuts and bruises along his arms from their tag team fighting style. They knocked his hammer out of his hands and forced him against a tree ready to make the finishing blow. They raised their swords together when there was a call came out from behind them.

"Charlie!" Silena through her sword into the air for Beckendorf to catch, while the brothers made the mistake of looking behind them. Beckendorf caught the sword used the base of the blade to hit the back of Pollux's head. He went down as his brother turned around to face Beckendorf again. What he saw was Beckendorf's perplexed expression. He wouldn't fall for that dumb trick so he raised his sword again only to have another blade hit the back of his head. The three skeletons looked at the body before them, then bowed and sunk back into the Earth.

"Well looks like Bianca was able to use some magic… Good for her." Beckendorf gave Silena a hug and she started laughing.

"You should've seen your face it was priceless. Are you okay Charlie? Looks like you got a couple scratches on your arm." She lifted his arm to examine the damage and frowned at him. "Silly, why did you have to go and hurt yourself?"

"Silena, I really don't think this is the time to be worrying about that, we still have to go capture the flag than we can discuss my damage, okay?"

"Fine." She nodded her head and both of them continued onwards towards the flag.

It was six on four for the battle of the flag, but Annabeth had plenty of time to set traps all around the area. With all the sirens blaring she had expected the worst and had Jake craft some devious mechanisms to help them with defending the flag. Lee was defeated when the branch he was perched on snapped from where it was cut. Then Micheal took him out with a well-placed arrow, and Silena and Beckendorf fell in a pit trap that was much too deep to escape; and even if they could reach the ledge, the weighted net on top would prevent them from leaving. So it ended up being Bianca, Will, and Rachel versus Annabeth, Micheal, Chris, and Jake.

"Aim for the daughter of Hades before she can summon anything!" Annabeth called out.

Micheal reacted by rapidly releasing the arrows in his quiver at Bianca. The last arrow he fired was an arrow filled with smoke, he then jumped down from the tree and drew a sword and charged along with Jake and Chris while Annabeth stayed back to defend the flag.

Forgetting about the flag Will and Rachel went over to help their friend. The warriors in Hellfire were talented but they didn't have as strong of teamwork as the members of squad 312. When someone would strike the other two would act as defense it might take a while to bring an opponent down this way but it also diminished the probability for friendly casualties. Will ended up knocked out because he was used to fighting from afar. But they were able to take down the three members from Hellfire. Annabeth was now in a two on one battle if she lost, the game was over.

The other two girls were a little overconfident and made a quick strike to get in close. Of course since Annabeth wielded a knife close combat was her specialty. She grabbed Rachel's arm and pulled her forward. With the forward momentum Annabeth slammed her weapon to back of Rachel's helmet. Rachel crumpled to the ground groaning in pain as Annabeth turned her attention to Bianca. They waited for one another to make the first move, so at first it was just an intense starring eye contest. Annabeth made a slice with her dagger than tried to move in close to get the advantage but Bianca deflected the attack and moved away. Bianca closed her eyes and tried to concentrate and summoning more undead minions, but when she opened her eyes she was behind Annabeth.

"What the heck happened…" she looked around confused. Annabeth turned around and refocused on her enemy.

"So you do know how to shadow travel… but why not do it in the beginning of the match? That makes no sense."

"Shadow travel, what are you talking about…" Bianca collapsed on the ground, she's never been the best at using her abilities and it tires her out fast. With Bianca out of the fight only three warriors were left on the battlefield: Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth.

. . . . .

Percy and Thalia both were on the ground breathing heavily. One of Percy's swords lay somewhere in the woods and Thalia's shield was sitting at the edge of a nearby lake. Percy had a large cut on his right leg and Thalia had a sprained left ankle. Percy clothes and armor were blackened from multiple blasts of lightning. Thalia had many gashes across her arms and chest from Percy's swords. Thalia clenched her teeth and stood up, Percy had put up quite the challenge but she had been counting the sirens, if she was correct three were people left. If you removed Thalia and Percy because of their stalemate, that left only one person. She was confident her team had beaten his, but it still amazed her that he had been able to take down the majority of her squad. Hellfire was ranked number one out of all the groups so to achieve this meant that they definitely deserved to skip training. She yelled and charged Percy stood up and jumped to the side dodging the attack, but landing on his bad leg made him wince. Thalia swore she saw Percy's eyes flash a brilliant gold for a second and then he brought down his sword on the shaft of her spear… The force snapped the bronze shaft in half and the magical energy contained within the spear discharged with extreme force basting both of them back. Percy crashed into the rock where the second half of the spear had landed and Thalia hit a tree on the far side of the lake.

Thalia shook her head clearing her head of disarray. She looked down at her broken spear, saddened to see it in such a state. It was the first gift her dad had given her when she had graduated the training academy. She had blocked many attacks with the shaft of her spear before but it had never broken or even dented, she wondered how Percy had managed to spilt it in half. That reminded her that she was technically still engaged in a battle. She looked around to find Percy gripping his head and shaking it all around, he then stood up and rubbed the back of his head and his lower back. When their gazes met Percy's eyes widened in fear and he made his way quickly to her side.

He looked over face before shaking his head in disbelief. "You don't even realize your bleeding right now do you?"

"What are you talking," he grabbed her hand gently and rested it on her side. A warm liquid started to coat her hand making her gasp aloud; judging by the speed of the flow the wound was deep.

She felt around and felt a sharp point sticking out making her gasp. Now that she knew about the wound it started to hurt more and more until pain flooded her mind. She grabbed the sharp object and with a painful cry slowly pulled it out. When it was in her hand she was crying but she could tell it was a part of her spear it somehow managed to lodge in her side. When she examined the bloody piece of metal in her hand she realized it was the tip along with a splintered part of the shaft. It didn't make sense how the part that was pointed at Percy somehow ended up in her side, but Thalia couldn't think about anything but the pain for now. She felt arms wrap around her back and under her legs and lift her up. The movement caused the pain to worsen and she tried to cry out for Percy to stop but she couldn't even whisper much less shout. She could barely make out the words Percy was saying, telling her to keep pressure on it and breathe. She felt cool water and figured she had been set down in the lake. She looked up to see the sea green eyes of Percy, a small sad smile gracing his lips as he laid his hand over the wound. Water instantly flowed over the cut and started to heal it. She could feel a cool relief start to spread throughout her body. The water was slowly sealing the wound, leaving just a fresh scar in place of the gory wound that was present only seconds before. She closed her eyes enjoying the relieving sensation flowing outwards from the wound, and when she reopened them she found herself on the land. She sat up and felt no more pain or tension anywhere on her body. She saw Percy looking pale sitting next her, she reached out and touched him. She didn't know why she did it but she did. It made her cheeks heat up, but the blush turned into anger when she put together what just happened. She grabbed both of his shoulders and made him look at her.

"You're a son of Posi-hmmm!" Percy had put a hand over her mouth, to cut her off. He just nodded but held a finger up to his lips. Then he let go and laid back down. "Why did you lie to me? It's not like it will get you arrested or anything."

"I can't really tell you why, something just told me I shouldn't reveal who my father was, so I didn't. I've learned to trust my instincts, which is why I'm asking you not to tell anyone, like your friend who is running this way."

"What about all people in the audience? Wouldn't they see what just happened? They will come to the same conclusion as I did."

"And how would they see us if there are trees blocking all view from the sides and we already destroyed any cameras in the area?"

Thalia looked around and saw broken camera's hanging from a couple of branches. "Well you thought of everything didn't you?" She looked away still angry that Percy had never told her of his true lineage. She blew out a puff of air and swallowed her pride. "Thank you by the way."

"For what?"

"Well you kind of saved my life, ya know? I was losing a lot of blood from that wound. I'm not really sure what would have happened if I had to be taken to the hospital; it could've taken too long and I might have died or something, as I said I don't know what would have happened."

"Don't mention it, it was nothing."

"You do realize you just said my life was worth nothing right?" Percy laughed at the realization. The laugh made Thalia smile because she had never heard his true laugh. Sure he would chuckle from time to time or laugh if it was respectful but nothing compared to his true sincere laugh. It was a little contagious and soon enough she was laughing and smiling right beside him.

Annabeth came into the clearing where they were sitting. She looked at both of them, Percy and Thalia laughing on the ground next to a big tree, both looking exhausted.

"Um, aren't the two of you supposed to be fighting or something… pretty sure the opposing teams aren't meant to be sky gazing together."

Thalia blushed and stood up. She looked down to find Percy dozing in the grass. "Wasn't he just laughing though?" He looked very peaceful laying there it made her smile again. "Come on Annabeth, I'm calling this a draw."

"What? But Thalia! We won, the flag is right there and their last fighter is sleeping in the grass! Come on Thalia!" Annabeth was dragged away by Thalia as they went to go pull the 'end game' lever. Nature spirits came out to help take away any injured player. Thalia watched each person get carried away to the infirmary for a checkup, tuning out Annabeth's speech about every logical reason they should've won.

So there is chapter two, I really do hope you enjoyed it and if you didn't you explain to me why so that I may improve my writing in the future. I hope everyone has been having a good day or month I should say, and that everything is going well for anyone reading. Reviews, follows and favorites are greatly appreciated but it won't kill me if you don't so no worries. Halloween just passed and thanksgiving is just around the corner so I hope everyone has a great November.