A/N So here's the second chapter, I hope you all like it! (:

A rivalry:

Sam had only been at camp for a week and things were already going bad for him. He got his back all burned up on the rock climbing wall which was a surprise to him because he could always climb it without getting hurt. Zoe hasn't been talking to him. He wasn't sure if she was just busy or if she was avoiding him. And most of all Ricky has been getting under his skin. Ricky is Clarisse and Chris Rodriguez's son. They hated each other ever since they first met. Sam hated him at first because his parents didn't like Clarisse that much. But over time he found traits in Ricky that he didn't like. Ricky was arrogant, thought he was all that, cocky, and was a good sword fighter. Over the past many years Sam and Ricky had got in many fights but they were both just as good as the other so, they couldn't beat each other. This bugged Sam a lot he just wanted to crush him in front of everyone and he was hoping he'd be able to do it in the capture the flag match coming up tonight.

Sam got out of bed and immediately went to take a shower. After he was out he brushed his teeth and shook out his hair, he didn't brush it because he liked it to look messy. Then he realized that he didn't bring any clothes in with him. He cursed silently and pulled a towel around his waist. He walked out the door and ran straight into someone. He landed on top of the person and quickly grabbed his towel to make sure it was still on. He looked down and saw that it was Zoe! She was starring dumb struck at him with her hands on his fit body.

"Oh my god Zoe what are you doing here." He said as he quickly got off of her.

She lay on the cold floor for a few seconds before getting shakily to her feet.

"Um…I was coming to get you. Your late for breakfast and everyone was wondering where you were. Sorry I shouldn't have just walked in." She quickly explained.

Sam could feel his cheeks burning very badly and so were Zoe's.

"Oh I slept in." He muttered.

He started fumbling around with stuff on his bed and shoving personal things into his night stand.

"Uh I will just go now." She said quietly.

"Wait!" Sam Called after her.

She halted at the door.

"You haven't talked to me all week. How come?" Sam asked her.

"No reason, I've just been busy." She told him than walked out the door.

Sam quickly went to find some clothes. He put on a black pair of basketball shorts with a green shirt that brought out his eyes and tennis shoes. He hurried over to the dining pavilion and Chiron gave him the look for being late.

"Sorry we didn't wake you up, we thought you needed your sleep." Adam, Sam's sibling explained to him.

"It's fine." Sam told him and started shoving bacon into his mouth.

He ate the rest of his breakfast in silence and as he got up he noticed Ricky glaring at him he glared back.

"You know you two really need to stop." Katy said as she joined him.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Sam muttered as they walked out of the pavilion.

"You don't need to get into any more fights with him." Katy told him, sternly.

"Ok mom, I won't." Sam said, sarcastically

"Ha-ha very funny." She told Sam.

"Zoe!" Katy hollered at her.

Zoe saw Katy and started to come over but then she noticed Sam and quickly went in the other direction.

"What's up with her?" Sam asked Katy, Annoyance leaking into his voice.

"I don't know." She mumbled.

Sam doubted that. Zoe and Katy have been best friends since they were kids. If there was something wrong with Zoe, Katy would know.

"Tell me." He pleaded.

"I can't. It's not my place to tell you." She told him.

They just arrived at the sword arena.

"Then who can tell me?" He asked.

"Zoe." She said, simply and walked away.

Sam grunted and walked into the sword arena. He pushed the jewel on his ring and he was holding his sword. He started hacking away at a dummy while thinking about what was wrong with Zoe.

After about an hour of practicing he was interrupted by Lewis.

"What's up?" Sam asked him.

"Everyone is going down to the beach, come on you need to take a break." Lewis told him.

Sam was really hot and was sweating from the practice.

"Fine, I'll go get changed and meet you down there." Sam said as his sword transformed back into a ring.

Sam rushed down to beach now that he was wearing his swimming trunks. Lewis was right, everyone was down there. They didn't have any lessons today so naturally they'd go swimming.

Sam spotted Lewis hanging out with a couple of Aphrodite girls and Sam went over to join them.

"Hey Sam!" Nikki, the cabin leader of Aphrodite squealed as Sam came towards them.

"Hey."

Sam sat down on the hot sand and couldn't help but stare at Nikki. She had the perfect body! She was fit, tan, looked amazing in a bikini, and had a pretty face. The only thing missing was her eyes. They're a dull brown, defiantly different from Zoe's, whose eyes are electric blue.

"Sam you're starring." Nikki told him as she giggled with her friend.

"Oh right." He mumbled.

"What are we waiting for let's get in the water!" Lewis hollered.

They all laughed and got up with him. As Sam walked into the water he felt his body regenerating and giving him strength. He loved this feeling.

Before swimming off Nikki splashed him and called "Catch me if you can."

Sam grinned it would be all too easy to catch her right now so he gave her a few seconds head start before swimming after her. In a matter of seconds he was pulling her by the waist towards him. Nikki had a huge smile on her face as Sam pulled her closer to him. Then Sam quickly let go of her and splashed her than swam off in amazing speed. As Sam stopped swimming he noticed Katy and Zoe laying out on the beach. Sam swam towards them and once out of the water walked over to them with water dripping all over him.

He sat down and shook out his hair.

"Sam!" Zoe complained, while Katy laughed.

"What's up guys?" He asked them with a smirk.

Sam noticed Zoe starring at his body and he couldn't help but feel happy about it. Then he started starring at hers. Sam thought that Zoe was a billion times hotter than Nikki, even though every guy at camp thought Nikki could be a goddess. Katy cleared her throat loudly and they both quickly acted like they weren't looking at each other.

"Nikki's glaring over at us." Katy told them.

Sam looked over his shoulder and saw Nikki giving Zoe the stink eye. He wondered why that was…

9 hours later:

Sam stood at the edge of the forest with the rest of camp. Chiron was helping some new kids with their gear.

"Ok our two cabins who have the flag are Ares and Poseidon. Pick your teams. Ares you can pick first." Chiron told everyone.

"Zeus." Ricky said loudly.

Sam cursed in his head. He always picked Zeus's cabin first. Ricky did that on purpose.

"Hades." Sam declared.

Sam picked hades because the hades kids could conjure up their own soldiers which helped out a lot and made up for the very little cabin members.

"Hermes." Ricky told them.

Obviously he's not smart, Sam thought. If he was smart he should have picked Athena.

"Athena." Sam said with a smirk.

"Apollo."

He was going for numbers not strength. Sam was starting to get a little worried. He had a lot of numbers but Sam chose the strong cabins. He wasn't sure which was better.

And so they went through and picked the rest of the cabins.

"Alright Poseidon gets the north half, Ares the south. You know the rules. On the sound of the horn you start. Now go on." He told them.

As the teams separated Sam got with the head of Athena, which happened to be his younger sister, Allie.

"So sis what do you think we should do?" He asked her.

"I think we should set up the hades kids at the border where they can conjure dead soldiers. Have the Hephaestus cabin set up traps around the flag; they can stay there with half of my cabin. Also have the Demeter cabin put up a bunch of thorn bushes around the flag. I want your cabin, Demeter, Hypnos, Aphrodite, and some Hephaestus kids around the right side. I'll take half of my cabin, Hecate, and Iris around the left for a diversion. The rest will just run straight forward. I want your side to go get the flag. Understand?" She told Sam in a rushed tone.

"Yeah that sounds brilliant." Sam said in awe.

"Thank you. I'll go tell everyone." She said then walked off.

Sam could never get use to how smart Allie was. Yeah he had a part of Athena in him but he never felt that smart. That's why he chose to be part of the Poseidon cabin and he was always good at his water powers.

The horn sounded and everyone knew what they were doing. Sam took his group and headed off to the right.

"Hey Sam." Nikki said from his side.

"Oh I didn't know you would actually play." Sam told her.

"Yeah I decided I would." She said with a smile.

Sam was used to playing this game with Katy and Zoe but they were both on the other side. Katy's apart of the Hermes cabin, even though her mom was a daughter of Aphrodite. She hated the Aphrodite cabin with a passion.

"Sam look there's a group behind those rocks." Jade, the leader of Demeter told him.

Sam looked where she was pointing and saw that she was right. They already made it over the border without any trouble so of course they'd eventually run into someone.

"There's only about eight. We can take them. We'll try to sneak up but if we get caught it doesn't matter." He told them.

They all nodded. They crept forward as quietly as they could. They were about 30 feet away when they got spotted.

Sam hollered "Attack!"

They ran at them at full speed. Sam was immediately in battle with a son of Ares. The guy was huge and a good fighter but he didn't have speed. Sam quickly circled him and hit him in the stomach with the butt of his sword. The guy doubled over and Sam struck him on the head and the guy fell to the ground.

He looked around about five of his people were on the ground and six of the others. That left two still fighting. Surprisingly Nikki was still standing, she was fighting Katy and loosing very badly. She kept on getting hit and scratched. Sam made a quick decision. He ran over and deflected Katy's strike. To sum it up Katy was shocked and angry. Sam really didn't want to fight her but he needed to help his team. He striked down at Katy but she deflected it easily. He kept striking and pushing her back.

"Hurry up Sam!" Someone hollered.

Then all of the sudden a sword butt came out of nowhere and hit her in the head. Sam saw that it was Nikki that hit her. Katy crumbled to the ground.

"You didn't have to hit her so hard!" Sam spat at Nikki.

"Well we need to get going." She growled.

Sam started walking away and they all followed him. He could hear all the fighting coming from the left and knew that the diversion must be working. And the battle in the middle was still ragging on.

Then they stepped into a clearing and saw the flag there. They all stopped and looked around. Even though it didn't look like there was anyone here he knew there was. Then an arrow came shooting towards Sam, he wacked it away with his sword. Then about eight people came running out of the trees. Sam saw Zoe go straight for Nikki. He asked himself why Nikki had to keep on getting in fights with his friends. But he couldn't think about that anymore because Ricky came charging at him. Sam was ready and blocked his strike with full power and pushed him back. He advanced on Ricky, swinging his sword at him like a mad man. Finally he sliced his leg. Ricky buckled under it but remained fighting. Ricky slashed down at Sam arm and left a good gash. One kept striking, while the other blocked. This pattern went on for minutes until Sam kicked Ricky's legs and he fell over.

"Take the flag and get out of here!" Sam hollered to Jade.

She nodded and ran off with the rest. Sam saw Nikki laying on the ground, but that didn't surprise him.

"Zoe go after them!" Ricky hollered at her as he got off the ground.

Zoe tried to leave but Sam quickly got in her way.

"Sam you really don't want to fight with me." Zoe told him.

She was right. Sam didn't want to fight her, not because he was afraid to get hurt but he didn't want her to get hurt.

"Bring it on little kid." He said with a smirk.

Zoe hated being called a little kid more than anything. She's fourteen and Sam's fifteen but turning sixteen so he always thought he was so much older.

"Zoe this is my fight! Go after the others!" Ricky yelled at her.

"Shut up Ricky!" She yelled back.

"Go! Or we're going to lose!" He told her.

Zoe cursed loudly and gave Sam a nasty look before going after the others. Sam knew she wouldn't be able to catch up with them so they were good.

"Cute girl you got there." Ricky told him with a smug look.

"She's not my "girl"." Sam told him as they advanced on each other.

"Oh so you wouldn't mind if we got together?" He asked Sam.

"Stay away from her!" Sam spat at him.

"Yeah that's what I thought." He laughed.

Sam charged at Ricky with everything he got. He slashed at his right then his left then hit him in the head with the butt of his sword. Ricky fell to his knees holding his side that was bleeding.

Then the horn sounded, the match was over. Sam heard cheering from the North. They won! Sam smiled and walked away from Ricky. Suddenly he felt he fierce pain on his calf. He turned around and found Ricky standing there ready to strike. Ricky striked at his head and it grazed his face, leaving blood trickling down his face. Sam striked back and they were both giving each other everything they had. Ricky slammed the butt of his sword into Sam's side. Sam fell to the ground panting.

"Haha Sam you are so weak!" Ricky told him.

Sam tried to stand but he defiantly broke a couple ribs. He did the only thing he could. He concentrated on the stream that wasn't too far away from here. He felt the familiar tug in his stomach and water started rushing forward.

"What the!" Ricky yelled.

The water engulfed Ricky and thrashed him around. It knocked him into tree after tree. As Sam let the water drop Ricky lay motionless on the ground. He had a big gash on his head and scratches everywhere. Sam sighed and everything went black.

A/N The fighting scene was really hard to write so I hope you all enjoyed it!(: Please more reviews!