Percy's POV
"Wow," I said. I was amazed and a little bit jealous. "What does that have anything to do with my question?" I asked. " Well the next day," Annabeth began, " The Hermes cabin went to sword fighting, and while you are gone Marcus teaches sword fighting. He singled out Jeff and told him to draw his sword. "Um I'd prefer to use wooden swords," Jeff had responded, while rubbing the back of his neck shyly. "Why," Marcus sneered, "Are you a wimp?" "No, I just have a tendency to smack fingers," he responded curtly, "But if you insist I'll fight with a real sword." So they began, and after a few blows Marcus dropped his sword and clutched his hand."
I was amazed. "Where is Jeff now," I asked. "Over at the sword fighting arena," she answered. As I walked over the entire Ares cabin, fully armored and everything, rushed by. I stepped in the entrance just in time to see the Ares campers surround the demigod furiously hacking the practice dummies into pieces, when he was done he looked up and saw the people who surrounded him. "Wooden swords or real?" He asked with a smile on his lips. "Real," Clarisse said, after a moment's hesitation. "Are you sure?" He taunted, "Just ask Marcus how well that worked out for him." "Dude you are so dead," I thought. Clarisse growled and the Ares cabin converged, like a group of piranhas.
When the first guy reached him he ran, jumped then kicked off his stomach to the guy right across from him, and kicked off that guy's face, making him go out cold. The demigod, or Jeff I guess, flew over the first guy, and as Jeff came down he slammed the pommel of his sword down on his opponent's head, dropping him like a sack of flour. He picked up the unconscious demigod's shield and threw it Captain America style at another Ares camper, it caught her across the face and she spun 90 degrees then collapsed. Without even looking Jeff caught someone's wrist when she swung at him with her sword, and used the cross guard of his sword to knock her out to. Jeff proceeded to deal with everyone in a similar fashion, only using his sword when he had to. Soon there was only Clarisse left. She jabbed at him with her electric spear, Maimer, he batted it aside with his sword, he flinched and mumbled a curse under his breath. Clarisse swung the butt of her spear, which he grabbed and tore the spear out of her grasp, using the momentum, he threw the spear across the room and brought the tip of his sword to Clarisse's neck. "Now you are going to leave me alone," His voice had turned deadly and icy, "Otherwise I'll have to thump you over the head too." Then he turned to leave.
As he walked to the door he saw me, he broke out in a grin, revealing a row of teeth. "You must be Percy," he said with a strange accent that I couldn't place, "Your girlfriend, the pretty blond one, Annabeth, told me a lot about you." "She's not my girlfriend," I replied. "Shame," He responded then shrugged and walked away. Clarisse then walked up to me. "He needs to be knocked down a peg or two," she growled through her teeth, "challenge him to a duel tonight and I'll arrange with Chiron a little surprise for the camp." I didn't know why but I was jealous. "I'll do it."
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At the campfire I stood up after roll and spoke, "The Ares campers have asked me to challenge Jeffrey to duel on behalf of their honor, I accepted." then I sat back down. Chiron spoke "The Ares campers and I talked, on Friday, instead of the annual capture the flag they'll fight and we'll watch." The crowd started murmuring. Jeff stood up, "I accept your challenge, but I insist that we fight with wooden swords, so I won't accidentally remove your fingers, right Marcus?" As Jeff said that last bit he broke out in a wide grin while Marcus growled. "Anyway if you need to weight your wooden sword so it feels right then go ahead." Then he sat back down.
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The next day I went to the Hephaestus cabin to get a weighted wooden sword. I handed my sword to Beckendorf and he weighed it, when he saw the weight his eyes widened and he mumbled some pretty impressive curses under his breath. "What Beckendorf," I asked. "This weight is a complicated one," he responded, "Go train, I'll give you the sword tonight."
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It was the day of the fight, and I had been training all week, sometimes Jeff was in there too and the more I watched the more I wanted to back out. Watching him made me think of my mortal enemy, Luke, last time I saw him he was lying broken on the stone after falling off a cliff, and Luke was no slouch when it came to the sword. There was one thing giving me hope, is that Jeff's swords seemed to be heavy to him, including the wooden sword. After dinner we went to the sword fighting arena. Everyone one was there, except the Hermes cabin. "Maybe he chickened," someone yelled. "I've been here the whole time," said a voice from the shadows. He stepped away from a wall covered in shadows. He wore a green cloak and under that he wore all black, he flipped his hood back, unfastened it, and threw it to the corner. "I thought you were going to back out," He said with a grin, "Not 'cause I think you're a wimp, but I've seen your expression when you watch me train. As he spoke the Hermes cabin showed up with Chiron. "Begin," Chiron told us.
I charged him and swung, instead of blocking he dodged my blow and stood ready with his sword I kept at this for a while, he'd only use his sword if he couldn't dodge and all the while his grin never left his face. Without betraying the motion he swung, a slow swing that I parried easily. After that he started to pick up speed every time I blocked his blow till his sword was as fast as mine. Every now and then his sword would smash my fingers, making me growl and wince. "Y'know my entire life I wanted to go up against someone and use my full strength," he stated,his grin never faltering, "Still hasn't happened yet." So I picked up the speed and and he matched it, I went my fastest and he still matched it, his grin widened. Suddenly Annabeth started cheering, "Percy, Percy!" Soon everyone was cheering my name yet still his grin never left his face.
Back and forth, left and right, we battled I attacked and he parried, he attacked and I parried. I feinted toward his feet and he bought it, sort of, his blade met mine before I could bring it up and he pushed against it and I pushed as well. Our faces were inches apart, My face was drawn back in a growl, and he was still grinning. Faster than the eye could follow he brought up his sword, and in the same movement he twirled around me and slammed his hilt into my back, making me stumble he raised his sword and brought down so fast I only barely blocked it. The audience stopped cheering. We kept attacking each other, and he kept grinning. Then Clarisse started jeering, not at me, but Jeff. Soon the entire Ares cabin joined in, then all but Annabeth and the Hermes cabin. It was inevitable that the Hermes campers would start jeering, but when they did Jeff's grin disappeared. As the jeers got louder Jeff's face got angrier. Soon his lips were pulled back in a snarl, but there was something in his eyes, something behind the anger, I couldn't read it, as his snarl got fiercer, his sword got faster, all trace of the heaviness gone. I could barely see his blade and I could only just, stop it, his blade would occasionally nick me, leaving welts and bruises.
Finally he swung toward my legs with a sense of finality, like he knew this was going to let him win, he left himself entirely unguarded, but that sense made me scared and reckless, I jerked my feet back and brought my sword down to protect my legs, making me bend halfway over as a result. Quicker than I have ever seen anyone move before he brought his sword up and slammed it into the small of my back, pain shot down my back and I collapsed on my face. I lied there trying to recover, when I flipped over, Jeff was looking down at his feet as if he were ashamed, Annabeth was there, her mouth wide open. I groaned as I tried to get up, but fell on my back when the pain proved to be to much. Jeff walked over to me and offered his hand giving me a small warm, friendly smile, instead of the wild grin he usually had. Now that he wasn't attacking something I could really see his features, he had an angled jawline that made him look like royalty, he had forest green eyes, this little crinkle right below his left eye when he smiled, and kindness and sorrow in his expression. I took his hand and he hauled me off the ground with little effort. "I'm sorry,"I tried to say. "Don't be," he responded, I know that you weren't in control of your emotions and was jealous, anyway I'm the one who should be sorry, I let my anger get the best of me." It seemed like we were destined to become friends.
The next week my mom was going to take me to a high school her boyfriend, Paul Blofis, taught at, so Saturday I packed up my stuff and was walking down to my mom's car when Jeff ran up to me. "Percy be careful of who you trust, remember Annabeth," he spoke solemnly, as if my very life depended on those words.
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Thanks for reading guys it means a lot to me cause this is my first fanfic so... Anyway if you don't think I did good job please tell me how to fix those mistakes and I will take what you say and feel into account. Again thank you for reading
