Third person POV:
It was a nice morning. Camp Jupiter was visiting Camp Half-Blood for the winter hollidays. Yesterday, at thae camp fire, Chiron and Mr.D allowed the campers to have a friendly game of Capture The Flag. The onlu rule was that team Camp Half-Blood was supoused to have 20 members, one from each cabin and two more that represent Hera and Artemis.
The morning seemed quiet except for the yelling coming from Cabin 7. Well not yelling. More like arguing. (That says April, but don't believe her. It was yelling. Ow!)
"No" said April.
"But you must" said the counselor, Will Solace.
"May I ask why?" The girl demanded.
"Yes, you may, sis." said the boy. The girl had a blank face which turned fast into an angry face.
"Don't call me sis, William." she said."And tell my why?"
"You're our best female archer." said the 18-year old boy. "Let's make a deal.I don't call you sis and you don't call me William." he held his hand in front of her.
April shook the hand. "Deal. But don't expect me to participate in this game."
"But you must. You are the best female archer in the entire camp, you represent the hunters and Artemis. You are perfect for the role"
"Fine. Who's going from our cabin?"
"Mike. By the way, can you wake him up for me. He's lazy these days."
With those words he left the cabin in order to check on his roman siblings.
April looked annoyed. She just arrived to camp, two days ago with her friend, Theodore, which apparently was a demigod, after a monster attack on her school dance.
April went to the other end of the cabin, close to another bunk.
"Wake up" she said." Mike, wake up, you're going to be late"
"5 more minutes,Mom" said the boy.
"Well, I tried to be nice" she muttered. Then she grabed the headphones that
were lying next to the bed, on the coffee table, took out her phone (wait, not a phone? Then what was it? A player. Fine) She took out her player, plugged the headphones, placed them on her brother's head and pressed play. What I forgot to tell you is that the volume was at brain-damage level, so the second after she pressed play, the boy's eyes flustered open.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" he yelled.
"You were not waking up" she said nonchatalantly.
"And why didn't you just wake me up?"
"I tried. But you wanted 5 more minutes. Now get ready, dress up. And do it FAST. Not like yesterday." said April.
"You do realize that I am 3 older than you?" aked the annoyed boy.
"And you do realize that I don't care?" said the girl. "Now hurry up. You're the last one awake. Everybody else is already outside"
The boy groaned, muttering something that sounded like 'Fine'.
The girl, on the other hand, went outside and sat on a bench, near her cabin, looking outside at he rising sun.
Althought it was winter the magic barrier did a pretty good job, 'cause inside the camp there was no trace of snow.
First she looked at the sun, then she bent her head and looked down at the solid ground, the grass gently touching her bare feet. With each touch the grass grew bigger and bigger, untill there were thick vines swirling though the air, making difernt green shapes at the comand of the 13-year-old girl.
"Magic" said a voice from behind. April turned, only to see her only friend at camp except for her siblings and Theo. The only one son of death, Nico di Angelo. The vines fell down, returning to their original state of grass, leaving no trace of magic behind.
"Never thought you were a morning person" said April.
"Still not. Just that your brother's scream woke all the remaining sleeping campers" said the boy , looking straight at her.
"That would be my fault. I kinda made him listen music at brain-damage level" said the girl with a smirk.
"You're getting better at magic" said Nico. April just noded.
"What is that smell?" said the girl while covering her nose. Nico simply shrugged. "When did you last shower, Nico?"
"Yesterday" he replied.
"You stink." she said firmly. Then her face lit up. "You need to take a shower"
His face had a horrid expresion. "Don't you da-"
SPLASH!
Nico was wet from head to toe and was glaring now at the young demigod.
"See you at Capture the Flag" said April. "I am on the team"
With those words she turned around and walked toward th Mess Hall.
_Time line to the game_
Everybody was gathered at the edge of the forest. Chiron and Mr.D were standing in front of the 40-people crowd.
"The rules are simple. No maiming, killing and try to avoid magical objects and abilities are permited. Team Jupiter takes the creek and Team Half-Blood - the forest" said Chiron. " Let the game begin"
The crowd broke appart and each of the teams headed to their territory.
Once Team Half-Blood arrived at Zeus' fist, the leaders started to asign the duties.
"I want to stay in defense" said April, breaking the silence.
"But you are a archer, you're good in offence" said Percy.
"That's exactlyt why I want to replace my brother in defence. If somebody comes, I can spot them" said the girl, wich was the youngest among the demigods.
"But your brother has years of practise. How much did you actualy practise?" asked a suspicious Jason.
"My whole life" she replied quietly, so only a few people had heard. Then louder "I've been trinig since the time when i coulde hold a bow or hunting knife in my hand." Some eyes widened and some remained the same.
"Hunting knives? "asked Mike.
April smiled and pulled two silver hunting knives. "You didn't think that I had only a bow and arrows, did you?"
"It's settled then. April and Nico defense. Lou Ellen and Katie Gardener, you will be decoy. The rest, spread around in groups of two and search for the Jupiter Flag. Team Half-Blood." said Annabeth.
A chorus of 'Team Half-Blood' went through the campers and they separated into small groups, looking for the flag.
The only two remainig demigods were April and Nico. They stood there looking around for anything moving, Nico still being mad with April, she drenched him after all.
Minutes had passed and there was no sound excepts for the wind and a small bug that kept flying around April's face.
"Stupid bug!" she yelled waving a hand in front of her face "Shoo!"
Nico looked closer. "That's not a bug, that's Frank!" he shouted.
And then there was Frank. "Hello, Nico." Then he looked at April. "Seems tha this time they had put small children in defense."
April scowled. "Why does everybody think that I'm a child?" she comlained. "Tell me, Frank, can a child do this?"
She raised her hand into the air and vines shot from the ground, wraping themselves around Frank.
"Wha-" tried to say Frank. In a matter of seconds he became a vine-mummy.
"Frank!" shouted Nico.
"Don't worry. He's alive. BUt he won't be moving from this spot until after the game. In short term he is unharmed" assured April.
MInutes had passed, but for them it felt like hours .But then there was a loud cheer and the demigods emerged from the forest. They were holding a purple flag in their hands. that meant only one thing. Team Half-Blood had won.
Then they saw the vined Frank lying o the ground.
"What is that?" asked Piper. "Release him!"
"Oh. You see, he tried to sneak up and steal the flag, soooo, I kinda mummified him in vines" explained April.
"What?!" cried all the demigods except for Nico and April.
"Relax. He's alive and unharmed. He's just unable to move at the given moment. " she said. Then the girl made a flick with her hand and the vines began to unravel themselves, leaving a perfectly unharmed Frank on the ground.
"Here" she said and gave him a flower. "Give this to your girlfriend"
"Um, thaks." said the Canadian. then he turned to the other demigods searching with his eyes for Hazel. "Has anyone see Hazel?"
April felt a strange sensation. Like something was leaving this camp with such a strong magic source that it could only belong to one thing. The Power of Death.
"She's gone" she said in a breath.
That's the end of the chapter people. You can comment and tell me what do you think of it and how do you think that the next chapter is going to be.
~A.N.S
April:
Hold on a minute! You din't tell them all they needed to know in the prologue. *Whatever*. Anyways, what this writer forgot to mention is that after a month after the Giant War, Valdez showed up with Calypso on his dragon and everybody was so happy that they made a reunion and that's when Camp Half-Blood lost their first point against Camp Jupiter.
This is all for today.
Auf wiedersein people
April Nightshade
