Rey sat in Hermes cabin as always, it had been three weeks since he had arrived. Things hadn't gone as smoothly as he hoped. Each girl he seemed to like never gave him the time of day, recently he thought one was giving him the time of a day. But she was only laughing cause he had gotten mustard on his shirt.
Music was a gift he had also when he felt isolated or uncared for he'd walk and make amends with some Apollo kids to borrow a guitar. When he was little his mother always told him playing an instrument would get him far in life.
His taste in guitars made him a weird kid, while most kids liked Slash's guitars. Rey liked Kurt Cobain's Fender Jag-Stang, mostly cause of the lightning and the feel. However, one day while he was playing guitar, the speaker lit on fire. His mom said that there was an overflow in the circuits, so Rey out of fear never touched a guitar in the house. He stuck to mostly acoustics,
The day felt young. He wanted to try and make a friend or two for once, so he put on his best shirt. A plain white tee, with some black stripes that complemented his leather jacket. His hair was messy, but that was the style these days, at least that's what he told himself,
As he walked out of the cabin one of the many girls who had rejected him had said he looked nice. By this point and time he rolled his electric blue eyes, he had given up.
Throughout the capture the flag, while kids were being picked. He was last, even one of the most out of shape kids were picked before him. He got thrown into the team with fewer people, there was a boy named Connor. He had seen him in the cabin multiple times, but he felt they wouldn't mix.
When capture the flag began, Rey had a strategy. He had been thinking of ways to finally be in the spotlight to be claimed after three weeks. He had decided, to be a lone wolf for once.
As the others were fighting it off brainlessly, he had managed to trick the other team into believing he was one of them. It was some of the benefits of being an outcast. The girls didn't recognize him, he had looked nice for once.
He had told who was supposedly the leader of the group that he'd watch the flag. "Make sure no one even manages to see it." The leader said,
Rey responded with "Aye Aye captain, " Then winked.
Agius sprinted through the woods, slamming the flat of his blade into as many enemy helmets as he could, rattling their senses without truly hurting them, he came upon the enemy flag,
The only thing standing in his way was a stream and a black haired boy who looked like he would rather be anywhere else in the world. The leader of the group had been watching the two.
Rey had two choices, either allow him to get attacked by the leader and the rest of the group or, put up a fake fight and then run as fast as his legs could carry him. So Rey did the option no one ever would think of. He screamed at the boy, "Run! I can give you at most 5 seconds so use your time wisely!"
He then proceeded to launch the flag at Agius.
As this happened the leader screamed "Imposter!"
And in a matter of seconds Rey pulled out a small staff, a Hephaestus kid had given it to him for a favor he made. Rey's small staff suddenly grew a couple feet longer making it a meter long. It was him, an unclaimed demigod against a group of around five people.
He closed his eyes and held the staff like Aang from The Last Airbender did.
He was called out from one of the girls after they recognized him, "He's the lonely boy from our cabin, you can take him!".
This only made Rey angry, and for the first time in his life, he felt he needed to do something or else he couldn't live with himself. He waited until he was surrounded then he swung his staff and squatted. Sweeping all of their legs, he then aimed the staff at the leader, and told him "I can easily knock you out, call off your friends."
The leader spat at his shoes, then called him off. Rey pressed the button on the staff, then shoved it in his pocket. Before hopping over the defeated group and walking to his flag.
Agius ran across the area desperately, the enemy team's flag clutched in his right hand, and with a grip so tight it turned his knuckles white on his sword in left hand he panted, hopping over tree roots and dodging flying arrows and spears, just as he reached the edge of the creek three arrows made their presence known to him by way of lodging into him, one in his upper arm and the other two in his back,
He screamed out in pain before falling and sinking into the creek. Sinking into the water for roughly two or four seconds, he came to a stop as he reached the bottom of the shallow body of water, immediately upon contact with the water, energy flowed through him, his eyes were closed as his breathing although slowed, never seemed to even slow despite being completely submerged in water,
Feeling his strength return in waves, he quickly rushed to his feet, and pushed off the creek's floor, quickly breaking the surface of the water and with renewed vigor began slashing away at his attackers, he felt invincible, untouchable, he felt like a god!
That burst of power quickly vanished the moment he stepped out of the water, and he fell to his knees panting in exhaustion.
Rey sprinted back in the direction of the "new kid" as he dubbed him, berating himself slightly for what he did,
"Good job Rey, letting the kid barely three days into camp take the enemy flag by himself." He muttered to himself, as he took a moment to pause in his dead sprint to catch his breath, he was a few steps from the creek, and as he looked up to continue running he saw the new kid be shot down, falling face first into the water.
"Γαμώτο!" He cursed out in greek and made to help him only to grunt in pain, as an arrow pierced his shoulder.
A small group of around seven Ares campers surrounded him with menacing smirks on their faces, before the one that seemed to be the leader of the brutes spoke out in a gruff voice, "Heard you tried to get the drop on us, we ain't' like that all too much, so we're here to teach you a lesson, punk."
Rey stared at him in defiance as he grit his teeth and broke the arrowhead off in his shoulder and ripped the wooden shaft out, spinning once and flicking his staff out to its full length he said: "C'mon, try me."
They rushed him, surrounding him and attempted to overwhelm him, he fought well for what felt like hours but was only a few minutes, as he was caught off guard as one of them bashed him in the face with their shield, he was hauled up by two of the boys as he stayed there dazed before a rough backhand brought him back to reality,
"Welcome back, now where were we?" He asked mockingly,
Rey glared harshly "Leaving me alone." He spat out,
"Nah, I think we'll have a little more fun, no one will miss the little outcast unclaimed kid, no wonder your dad didn't want a runt like you, bet that's why your mother sent you here, too busy spreading her legs for some random stranger to deal with a bastar-"
That was as far as he got before he was kicked in the gut, sending him back with a pained grunt and wheeze, Rey's electric blue eyes seemed to glow as he spoke slowly his hair shadowing his face "Shut up."
He said it once more, his head snapping up, his face one of pure rage, "Shut up! Don't you dare talk about my mother like that!"
As if in response to his anger dark clouds began to form overhead, before moments later a colossal bolt of lightning arced down striking Rey where he stood, blasting everything around him back, the trees shook slightly and were slightly blackened but the boys were sent flying like meaty ragdolls,
Rey stood there panting and slightly hunched over, his body steaming and the air around him smelled of Ozone,
He was completely unharmed and began to walk towards the creek, to see Agius burst out and start slashing away like a madman possessed, only to fall like a stringless puppet the moment he stopped making contact with the water,
Putting two and two together, he walked back to the creek and slowly rolled Agius back in, the water rushing over him, filling him up with strength once more, he rolled to his feet, still in the water, before Rey spoked up to him
"Don't get out of the water, just stick the flag on that side of the creek so we can win the game." Agius did just that, leading to cheers from their teammates as they walked out of the treeline, only for all of them to gasp, as Chiron walked over with a scared look on his face as he slowly bowed along with the rest of the demigods there, above Agius' head was a slowly spinning holographic sea green trident with waves around it
"A-all hail Pelagius Blake, Son of Poseidon, the storm bringer, Earthshaker, Father of horses, and Lord of the sea!" more gasps were drawn from the bowing crowd, "All hail Reginald Clover, Son of Zeus, Lord of the sky, God of lightning, thunder and flying creatures, King of the Gods!"
A holographic representation of Zeus' master bolt appeared spinning slowly above Rey's head as stood there exhausted, barely standing. The birth of two new heroes was done, Sons of the Sky and Sea.