Chapter 2
As mike ran outside, he saw Luke and stammered, "Who are you? Why do you look like me?"Luke did not respond but he was smirking at something above our heads. When I looked above Erik's head I saw a sun, Mike's head a caduceus and mine was an owl. When he saw me looking at the signs he said, "Join me in our quest to destroy the gods or die in a painful way." I was pretty confident that he couldn't take us all in a fight so I said "No" he didn't look very happy about that but I didn't care. He all of a sudden took out a sword I took a step back at the sight of it was made of bronze. At least that's what it looked like it. Under my gritted teeth I said "fight us with no weapons only fist," "No" he replied now he was angry then three giants bye the look of it came out from behinds us and grabbed us. I had to submit, they were squeezing my brother and best friend to death." Fine we will join you." I said sadly. "Good" He said then the giants stuffed us all in a black car we drove out of town where we stopped at a hotel in Las Vegas. He apparently owned the place because all the other people whom I thought were half-bloods. We went to the basement or so I thought. It was a big sand-floored room with swords spears and bows on there. While Erik was healing up, Luke (who was in a metal box to be away from us) was telling us we were going to be testing different weapons. Mike and I tried spear, neither of us were good at that, then we tried bows, I was okay at that, then I tried swords and shield I was very good at that. Mike could have been better. He was muttering to me "I should use a curved sword like a samurai sword because I used those in tea kwon do." "What was that? " Luke said on an intercom "nothing, nothing I said he just wants a curved samurai sword!" I yelled back to him. "Oh alright I will get right to it" he yelled then Mike went out and a Minotaur came out and yelled for a challenge. "What!" I exclaimed, "I want you to kill this with the sword and shield" Luke said over the intercom "Fine, fine," I said. Then the Minotaur charged at me I knew that he would be fast. When he was 30 yards away I charged it. When he was 10 feet away I slashed upward. He made a wild grab for my sword arm but he ended up denting my shield and getting evaporating.
The next day we drove to San Francisco. When we got there we got our stuff that fitted perfectly and mike's sword. For the next week, I thought of several ways to get away from the place. I ended up thinking of mike stealing our stuff at night. (They took our stuff away at night)He would set Greek fire up to blow up in thirty seconds while Erik and I get some pegasi ready. The next week or so I learned new things like new sword fighting moves and I learned the most important thing the attack on camp half blood.
