Chapter 2
My Battle Plan Goes Wild, Literally
After Laura's introduction it was time for the old fashioned game of Capture the Flag. I mean the old fashioned way with swords, spears, magical items, and shields. Yeah, it's that much fun.
Anyway, the Celestial bronze colored ring I found was really mysterious. It looked legendary and ancient. It was definitely ancient Greek because it had the word Earth on it in Greek. I slid it into my jean's back pocket and headed towards the forest.
I teamed up with Athena (of course), lots of minor god cabins, and lastly I got Demeter and Ares. Ares was filled with campers. You could walk into the Ares cabin to have a pillow fight and get hit by a camper instead of the pillow.
Well, the game was about to start and Annabeth and I was captain as always.
"Alright, I'll lead the Morpheus and Hercules cabin up to attack. Annabeth, could you and your siblings take mid-offense?" I commanded. I knew Annabeth hated being in the middle or defense, but I had to.
"Uh… Sure," she answered awkwardly.
I acted like a commando pro for the rest five minutes. I didn't mean to show off or anything, but when you were the leader of a major battle the year before? Yeah, you get used to it.
"Percy, I'll have half of my cabin taking mid-offense and half in complete defense," Annabeth recommended.
"Alright, we were short of defense anyway," I lied. "Okay how about the---"
"Percy, I'll take it from here," Annabeth interrupted. "Alright, Iris cabin will do border patrol because there are only two campers."
"Got it," both of the half-bloods nodded, giving her a thumbs-up.
"Are we all set? Alright, let's move!" Annabeth barked the orders.
"You're Percy Jackson, right?" a familiar voice asked. As I turned around I saw a girl my age with her brown hair sticking out of her helmet.
"Yeah, I am," I answered. "Your name is Laura right?"
"Laura Aqua. We barely talk in school." Laura said.
"I had no idea you were a demigod, especially a child of Poseidon,"
"I knew I was a demigod ever since I was seven. Poseidon was hiding me from Camp Half-Blood because he knew about a war that was going to occur."
"You're lucky you weren't there," I joked.
"Hey! Jackson! C'mon!" Clarisse shouted.
"Coming!" I called. "Come on Laura, time for your first ever Camp Half-Blood Capture the Flag game,"
We had the blue helm on our helmets and the opponent's side had the red helm.
Annabeth and I had a little trouble with the arrangement. It turned out Annabeth told the other minor god cabins to attack and defend the flag whenever you can. It wasn't a bad idea though. Well, for a child of Athena, she must have something in her mind.
Chiron gave the signal to start and we did. I led the charge against the red team. About fifty of my side followed me, including Annabeth.
I first checked the trees for Apollo campers but there were none.
"STOP!" I screamed. "Retrace your tracks and move backwards!" they did as I told them to do. In about three steps back, smoke arrows were fired from every direction. It seemed like the world turned gray all of a sudden.
We waited and waited for the smoke to clear. I could hear the red team's footsteps coming close to us. Annabeth had calmed the other campers down. Some fainted on the spot.
"Annabeth, get the other campers ready," I told her.
"What are you talking about?" Annabeth asked.
"I'm going to command an attack. Get the rest moving towards the flag. I'll handle the Apollo campers."
"I hope this works,"
"It will, even though it is the dumbest thing I've ever done in a battle,"
Thank gods the other campers understood. I held my ground and disarmed every Apollo camper. I was proud of my work, but I had no time to admire it. My invulnerability helped me out a lot. I didn't get injured anywhere.
Suddenly a metal rope wrapped around my legs like what a string would do if you spin it on your finger holding one end.
I landed on the grass face first with a thud. The metal rope was getting tighter and tighter every time I struggled.
"I wouldn't move if I were you," a voice said.
"Chris?" I asked.
"Yup," Chris Rodriguez answered.
"What is this thing?" I complained.
"Oh, that? It's something I stole from the Hephaestus cabin."
"I rest my case," I sighed.
Chris kept me as prisoner near an oak tree. The tree nymph in there looked disgusted for having me sitting on her root.
"Look, my root, my property. Understand?" the tree nymph told me.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to---" Before I could finish she went back into her tree.
"Hamadryads, they're so… annoying." Chris complained.
"I heard that!" the tree nymph shouted showing her head cursing in Greek.
I just waited for the game to end. It was pitch black now and I couldn't even see Chris's face that was standing right next to me.
"WE GOT THE FLAG!" a camper shouted in the distance.
"You better check that out," I told Chris.
"Hmph, you can't distract me,"
"I'm not joking, man,"
There were stomps coming towards us. The sound got louder and louder until I could see Annabeth with the red team's flag running towards our side as fast as she can. I could see the Morpheus campers were putting the red team members into sleep. Some tripped on a sleeping Aphrodite girl and they shouted in anger.
I looked to my right shoulder expecting Chris to be there, but he wasn't. I looked everywhere for him with my eyes. If I couldn't find him, I couldn't get this metal rope off me.
Suddenly a sort of brilliant idea popped up in my head.
I searched my pockets for Riptide. Thank the gods it was in there. I uncapped it immediately and the glow of the Celestial bronze lighted the darkness. I quickly slashed the metal ropes and thank the gods again that the rope was cut.
I sprinted towards my side hoping the flag was safely captured. I finally spotted the red flag swaying in the air on the blue side of the forest. The game was over, the victory going to our team. I joined the other campers quickly.
While I was cheering with the rest of the blue team, I felt something in my back pocket of my jeans. I slowly took it out and noticed it was the ring I found this evening. It was glowing faint yellow. Suddenly it shocked me and I dropped it on the ground.
(A/N: I hope you liked it. You have to compare it between the Door of Death! Please tell me anything I need to improve on your review. (^^)
