Well dear reader here's the second chapter I hope you all enjoy it! I would like to thank the people who wrote reviews they are greatly appreciated. I was starting to lose hope that someone would want to read this story in its entirety. I hope you enjoy this next chapter. Now on with the show!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own the Percy Jackson series but i do own the OCs and the plot they follow.
Days had passed by, Xander had a service, and honoring ceremony. Soon the children had gotten accustomed to the "Half Blood Life," and another girl had come, she was personally escorted by her father… Ares. Her name was Madeline Hart, a twin daughter of Ares, though the other child was nowhere to be found. Even so, "Maddy", as Rose called her, never dwelled on it. In fact, it seemed as though she was content with her sister's status as M.I.A... until you talked about it to her face.
When Madeline had first met the trio, Rose laughed and started talking as if she knew her and her sister. These actions made Madeline snap, but she never explained why. She sucker punched Rose before storming off to her cabin mates in a rage. Lolita and Hunter ran to Rose to see if she was okay, only to find her still smiling and looking at the sky as if she had already expected the reaction. . Its not surprising to say both Loita and Hunter were VERY confused.
The next day Chiron announced to the Camp that today they'll be having Capture the Flag. It seemed exciting when it was first mentioned, but that would soon change. This day was going to be put down in history. For Greeks at the very least.
When the night had arrived the games started. The Aphrodite cabin ended getting represented by Lolita, and Hunter because they were the only ones who cared enough to show up and play. They were teamed up with the kids in the Hermes cabin, the Hephaestus cabin, and the Athena cabin kids. They were ready for this. At least the they thought they were. There was maybe ten kids in the Hephaestus cabin, in the Athena cabin there was twelve, and in the Hermes cabin, enough to form a tribe of people, plus Rose.
When the goods made their oath to the son of Poseidon no one really expected it to last,and though some gods still honour the promise made that day, many have forgotten. Good ol'e Percy Jackson, of course is long gone, in Elysium with Annabeth.
Shots had already been fired by the time the cabins settled down enough to plan their victory. The game had begun. A daughter of Athena, about the same age as Lolita, twelve years old, named Marie Henson, drew her sword and ushered Hunter to follow her. Hunter looked at Lolita with a silent question of trust, and she nodded her head. Hunter drew the daggers he used in training and left for the woods with Marie. Subsequently, another group left, this time it was a group of three Hephaestus kids, and four Hermes kids, and two Athena kids. Once the last group departed, it left Lolita, Rose and four other kids to guard the flag. Lolita had a spear in her hands and she walked around Zeus's fist . Everyone told her it was an odd weapon for an Aphrodites girl to wield. Such a large weapon, hard to handle with such pristine doll hands. She simply ignored them.
Rose climbed a tree, and hung upside down on one of the branches. She practiced her shooting, and was just as terrible as she suspected. It had to be the glasses Chiron gave her.
"He must've enchanted them," Rose said. She gave no emotion from her face or voice, but she was happy, however hard it was to tell. "Fine horse-butt, if you want to play that game, I just won't see at all! I'll just use my other senses dummy! I can still smell and hear!"
"What's wrong Rose?" Lolita called from across the base.
"The stupid horse man. He gave me enchanted glasses so that my aim isn't as good, it's no fair!" Rose whined, as she started to pout. As this happened the whole atmosphere changed. It felt like it became more agitated, stressed, and even a little foggy.
"Why don't you just take them off? Toss them down, I'll catch em." Lolita said, growing stressed by the change of environment.
"No Chiron said I can't." Rose whined, and clouds began forming a blockade around the sun.
"But Ro-" Lolita was cut off by a snap in the woods
"Did you hear that?" Rose said as she her normal spirits came back, the fog dissipated and the sun returned.
"Yeah" Lolita replied she was concentrated on listening but not enough to not notice the weather revert back to its previous state. "Hey Rose… Did you…"
The conversation ended between the two when the Ares cabin came charging at them. They then realised that all the other guards disappeared when they were talking. The Hecate kids had steered them away, with their magic.
"FREEZE!" Lolita yelled at them, they all stopped. Charmspeak you just gotta love it, gotta hate it, depends on whose side you're on. Lolita, and Rose stared at them. Frozen in place by the charm of the Aphrodites kids they made fun of.
"Uhhh...hmmm, Lola…" Rose said with uncertainty lacing her voice. her brow was scrunched up as if she was trying to concentrate.
"Yeah Rose?" Lolita said just as uncertain.
"Can I shoot them now? Please, I'll only kill one! Maybe… well, it depends. Yup! It all depends on who gets in my way."
The Ares kids started sweating, when suddenly Madeline came plowing through the children with her eyes glowing blood red, she glared at Rose, and yelled "If you're SO GREAT WHY DON'T YOU SHOOT ME!"
"Ok, but don't cry when you can't walk." Rose said with smirk. It was hard to take her seriously though, a seven year old hanging upside down on a tree, with frizzy, curly hair, and glasses. The Ares kids had to hold back their frozen snickers.
Rose aimed at Madeline, and missed completely. Everyone in the Ares cabin couldn't stand it any longer and started to laugh at her, and Madeline called her some unspeakable things. Though with every word that the aggressive war-child dropped, the temperature slowly began to decline, until the air bit your bones. The smile on Rose's face had vanished as well, though the other campers seemed more worried about the instant climate change.
In a blink of an eye, the young girl propelled herself from the tree and landed safely on the ground on both of her feet, and before Madeline could say anything else. Rose threw her glasses on the ground, they cracked when they landed. She then proceeded to shot Madeline in her knees. Disabling her. Rose then continued to shoot in all directions, becoming a flurry of bullets.
With fear coursing through Lolita's veins she screamed to the charm spoken children, "RUN! ALL OF YOU!" Being lifted from Lolita's charmspeak the Ares kids ran in all directions, no one touched the flag either they just tried to make sure that they lived. Lolita ran to Madeline, dodging a flurry of celestial bronze bullets, she swiftly hoisted her on to her shoulder and ran to safety. She had Chiron in mind. As Lolita ran from Rose, with the crying warrior on her shoulder, she noticed a bow and arrow appear above Rose's head, and smoke began to pour from her mouth.
"CHIRON!" Lolita screamed from the woods
After the flurry of bullets ended, the bow and arrow sign above Rose's head disappeared, and there was no more smoke coming from her mouth.
"Two kills," Rose said before collapsing
Hunter, and Marie emerged from the woods, they had the flag in hand, it was easy to find and capture as everyone seemed to have fled from the forest. The arrived to an almost eerie silence. Looking around they saw the shell casings that littered the ground and the slumped form of a body with frizzy hair. "Rose!" Hunter called out but she didn't respond.
"What happened here?" Marie whispered, almost too afraid to speak. Hunter ignored her in favour of running up to the prone form of his friend. He pushed her onto her back and looked for any wounds. When he couldn't find any he gently tried to put Rose on his back so he could carry her.
