I was just wondering since Pollex wasn't cut out for it I was hoping that you would be able to help out, what do you say Drew?
What would I get out of it?
Communal Mike and Ikes.
No.
You would also get to insult people.
I'm in.
The next day I was the first to get up, six o'clock on the dot, I started to wake up the rest of the cabin and helped them get ready for cabin inspection that was after breakfast. If I remembered correctly this time around it was Clarisse so it wouldn't be that hard to get a good rank compared to everyone else Athena's cabin was almost always ranked at least first or second, only Aphrodite was able to pull ahead of us sometimes in terms of cleanliness.
Yeah but you're all a bunch of dorks, so we basically always win.
Seriously go eat the Mike and Ikes.
Can't.
Oh right, you're probably concerned about the ingredients.
What, no idiot, Pollex ate them all.
Fine, here's five dollars, go buy another box.
Thanks.
She won't be back, I just blew five dollars.
Whatever, we got second, what can I say, the Ares and Athena was still going strong. That day Annabeth was late to show up our cabin and instead arrived with Chiron and Dionysus still in deep conversation with both of them. As she made her way over to our table I made room for her and asked how the boy was doing.
"He is fine," she responded as she started picking through her eggs, "He somehow managed to kill a minotaur and was mainly just exhausted and in shock as Grover said he just witnessed the minotaur kill his mother."
"Ouch." I grimaced thankful that at least my mortal parent had a job where he knew how to deal with a little danger, still against a minotaur even working as a lawyer with a group of police wouldn't be helpful if they had no celestial bronze bullets.
"Has he woken up," I asked concerned for this new camper.
"Multiple times," Annabeth said as she reached for reached for her orange juice glass, "but then he goes back to sleep."
"Are you going back to look over him or lead the cabin in our activities today." I asked concerned over the cabins usually predictable schedule.
"Chiron asked me to help make sure he doesn't choke on vomit or blood, so I guess that makes you counselor for today." Annabeth said as she rose from our table.
"So I guess that also means archery is off"? I asked.
"Yeah," she responded leaving for the big house, "Chiron said you would be qualified to go over javelin technique though." she added looking back at me. With Annabeth unavailable it fell on my shoulders to go over ancient Greek with some of the newer campers, mainly two sons of Apollo, and a daughter of Hermes. Normally whenever it came to teach campers ancient Greek I got a group that were a bit more experienced but not so much that they would be able to point out some of the finer details, so it was a challenge trying to teach the three younger demigods, or at least calm them down to a point where their not so annoying. Eventually I was relieved by Selina, who had way more patience than I, and was sent, with the rest of the Athena cabin to polish the armor for the upcoming capture the flag game.
As we all headed to the equipment shack I gathered the rest of the Athena campers and set up groups part of us would polish the armor while another would hammer out the dents the third would sort out the equipment, according to if it was in good enough condition to just polish it, hammer out the dents, send it to the Hephaestus cabin for further repair or scrap the material all together.
I floated in between all three groups supervising and helping where I was needed. I mainly stuck with the group that was hammering out the dents making sure that the campers didn't make new dents. As I was straightening a broadsword that if I remembered correctly was stepped on by a hellhound after it sent the camper flying, I should probably go check on him in the infirmary after this, I thought to myself.
The rest of the morning flew by, we finished the armor with three minutes to spare, and after that it was time to go to the javelin arena, most of the Athena cabin were proficient enough with a javelin so all I was there for was to give little pointers and call someone from the Apollo cabin in case someone got injured. Taking over for Annabeth in mythology was easier than literature as the campers she taught were usually more experienced and mature so I went through it with relative ease.
Lunch was good I suppose, it's hard to destroy or celebrate something as basic as lunch but at the end I announced to my cabin to start the wrestling practice without me while I made a stop at the big house to check in on the injured camper, William I think his name was.
When I opened the door I was met with the same scene as the last time I was in the big house, the black haired boy was still out and my sister held a bowl of Ambrosia in her hand with Chiron looking at the scene silently.
"Annabeth, Chiron," I said nodding at both of them in greeting, "unconscious kid."
"To what do I owe the pleasure of your visit Malcolm." Chiron asked turning his attention away from the scene going on in front of him.
I was wondering if William was up and about yet."
Chiron pursed his lips and responded, "His mother came and brought him home yesterday, she said it was for his own well being. I was planing on telling everyone today at lunch but as you can see I have other duties to attend to." Chiron said pointing to the kid.
"Still, I don't know it just seems like a mistake taking a son of Ares away from a place where he can train and learn how to properly defend himself in these types of situations." Annabeth said looking up from her patient.
"Alright," I said looking around I should probably go back and join in the wrestling training," I said opening the door to head back out, "will you be joining us anytime," I asked Annabeth turning around in the doorway.
Annabeth looked over to Chiron who smiled and said, "I believe Argus and I can handle things from here on out, thank you for your help though Annabeth, and trust me, I'll let you know when your patient here wakes up.
"Thank you but that won't be necessary." she said before she stood up and we headed towards where our cabin had gathered trying to practice wrestling.
"So what do you think about the new camper." I asked.
"Troubled kid, probably does poorly in school and gets in trouble a lot, he seems pretty clueless…" she continued to ramble on before I interrupted her.
"I meant his parentage," I said.
"Oh, well obviously not Athena, his black hair and clueless nature ensure that." she said looking back towards the big house.
I chuckled, "He just realized that Greek mythology exists, go easier on him, I doubt you were any… sorry." I said remembering her story.
"It's fine." she said, refusing to speak any further on that subject.
And so that was it, the next day the camper regained his consciousness and was given a tour by Chiron that was finished by Annabeth while I trained the campers again after Annabeth got back from her tour she walked into the cabin dripping wet covered in water, I looked up from my what I was working on, carving a wooden chess board with pieces based after the two armies that clashed at the battle of Cannae with the one general I admired the most who I wasn't related to, and quickly looked back down to avoid upsetting her.
After she changed to a set of dry clothes she walked up to me and told me that giving the tour to the Newbie was interesting as she explained what happened.
"You know," I said, "this could help us in the Game Friday night." I said smiling at her. She thought for it a bit and she eventually broke into her own grin thanks bro, I knew I kept you around for some reason despite you being a huge prick. I'll get Jackson and Hermes and you can get another cabin." she said as she dashed out of the cabin.
"At least she acknowledges my contributions I thought to myself, "aw well, to the Apollo cabin." I said slipping my wood work into my duffel bag.
"This weeks capture the flag game was going to be a cinch," I remember thinking and I was right, Percy, the new camper was targeted by the entire Ares cabin which allowed for a mad rush across the border resulting in our side winning. I momentarily allowed myself to be distracted by the fact that our plan had worked, just long enough to have been distracted and was only made aware of the hellhounds presence after Chiron had shot it, I quickly made my way to the large group of campers that was surrounding Percy I managed to get there in time to see the holographic trident just disappear I was about to get on me knees when a voice whispered behind me "What's going on, what happened"?
I spun around my javelin still in hand but sighed in relief when I realized that it was just Lee Fletcher, he was panting and had a wild look in his eyes like he had just seen a ghost. As the others started to stand I quietly pulled Fletcher And asked him what was wrong.
"What, oh nothing I just used most of my energy healing a wound Beckendorf gave one of my cabin mates, boy is that guy strong, anyway what was all of that," Lee asked pointing towards the swarm of campers who were congratulating the new camper.
"Right, he was claimed by Poseidon." I responded looking over my shoulder.
Lee's eyes widened either from shock or he was trying massage life back into his body. "Yeesh, that's big."
"Yeah," I responded narrowing my eyes at the son of Poseidon "Very big indeed."
