I'm getting some progress! Anyways: We finish going around the Greek Camp and start Capture the Flag! What will happen? Let's find out!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Percy Jackson series or Hetalia.
Alice gagged as she opened the door to the Aphrodite cabin. There was so much perfume it was suffocating. The campers inside stopped and stared at her. She walked in ignoring everyone and walked up to the familiar blonde French boy who was straightening his hair.
"Frog we need to talk." Alice dragged the protesting Francis out of the cabin as all the cabin mates started wolf whistling and shouting "You go Francis!"
"Mon Cher, if you want me you could've just ask-" He was cut off by Alice's fist in his face.
"THAT IS NOT WHY I DRAGGED YOU OUT HERE PERV!" Alice shouted. Francis scowled and crossed his arms.
"Then why did you bug me?" Alice rolled her eyes.
"Capture the Flag." Francis groaned and started to walk away.
"Don't walk away from me frog!" Alice grabbed his arm.
"Look, I really have no care for this game and neither do my siblings. It gets us dirty, sweaty, and most of all it cuts into our manicure time. So leave me alone." He stormed off and left Alice standing behind, for some reason unable to go after him. She scowled and headed toward Hecate's cabin where there was a boy trembling on the roof. She looked up.
"Umm, excuse me? Do you know where I could find Toris?" She shouted up. He grinned and jumped down.
"That's me. Wow… I don't usually get visitors!" Alice smiled nicely.
"Actually, Eduard sent me to discuss Capture the Flag." Toris paled and dragged Alice into the cabin.
"What was that for?" Alice asked, irritated because everyone on her team seems to be freaking out.
"Natalya saw us. She's Russia's creepy sister who tries to spy on the Athena cabin to figure out our strategy." Alice laughed
"Well, she's won't be able to cheat this year, I'm the one who came up with the plan and we never wrote it down." Toris grinned and relaxed.
"Ok we have a chance. So, explain to me the plan." As Alice explained, Toris smiled even bigger and nodded.
"Great! We can use a spell to make the runners go faster! I'll get on it right now!" And with that, Alice left the excited teenager to his duties. Alice looked around trying to figure out which cabin was Demeter's when she was shoved out of the way of another camper, one with long blonde hair and a black bow.
"Hey watch where you're going!" The girl turned and scowled. Alice backed away as the girl stormed back.
"YOU shouldn't have been standing there idiot! For a daughter of Athena you're an airhead! I'll have fun tearing you apart tonight!" The girl smirked and left. Alice scowled and stuck out her tongue at the back of the girl.
"Wow! Nobody EVER has talked back to Natalya before!" Alice jumped and turned around to see a smiling blonde boy wearing a white beret. He had a scary tall blonde behind him.
"Umm, not to be rude but who are you?" Alice was intimidated by the Taller of the two.
"Oh! I'm Tino Väinämöinen, you can call me Tino. I'm a son of Demeter. This is Berwald Oxenstierna, but you can call him Berwald. He's a son of Nemesis." The taller blonde nodded.
"Oh I was looking for you! I have the plans for Capture the Flag and before you rush me off to hide from Natalya at least tell me where we're going." Tino laughed at the last part.
"Well, we can go out to the Strawberry fields! I love it there and not to mention Natalya is banned since she ruined the crop from last year." Tino shuddered at the memory. The trio walked off to the strawberry fields where there were satyrs playing pipes, campers picking strawberries, and overall it was pretty peaceful. Alice sighed in relaxation and looked up at the clouds.
"It's pretty peaceful here. So, Capture the Flag plans are actually a surprise to the enemies this time?" Alice nodded and told the two about the plan. Tino laughed and clapped and Berwald even cracked a grin for a millisecond. But Alice caught it.
"Yay! Maybe now the Ares cabin will get dishes duty now!" Tino laughed and walked off with Berwald. Alice took one last glance around at the strawberry fields before walking back towards the Athena cabin when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Comrade Alice, may I have a word?" Alice paled as she realized it was Ivan and before she could protest, he dragged her to the lake.
"Now comrade. I hear from my little sister that you have been secretly making plans. That is not nice, da? Makes it too hard for us to win." Ivan had a strange aura that was freaking out Alice. Alice wanted to run, but Ivan still had a firm grip on her wrist.
"How about you tell me the plans, da?" Ivan had the same smile on his face as before, but his eyes were cold. Alice was terrified and quickly thought up a plan.
"We're attacking straight through the middle since you wouldn't be expecting us to just rush from the beginning and that way you'll be caught off guard because after all the key to winning is the element of surprise PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" Alice squeaked the last part. Ivan smiled and let go of her wrist.
"See comrade, when you cooperate, everything is easier da?" Alice gulped and nodded. Ivan then left to go inform his allies of the plan. Alice let out a breath she didn't know she had held and walked back to her cabin. When she entered Eduard turned smiling, frowning when he saw her trembling.
"Did something happen Alice?" Alice nodded and nearly burst into tears.
"I-Ivan c-caught me on the w-way back t-to the c-cabin since h-he figured o-out I w-was informing e-everyone a-and he forced me t-to tell h-him the plan…" Eduard's face fell and the other campers groaned. Then Alice grinned and everyone stared, confused at the sudden change.
"But then I told him the complete opposite of what the actual plan was. I said we were rushing straight through the middle." Eduard let out a laugh and the other campers looked relieved.
"Well, it's time for dinner so let's go and pray to the gods for help."
At the Dinner Pavilion, Alice was shocked by the sheer number of campers there were. There were tons of tables filled with campers all talking and eating different food. She looked down at her scones. Eduard looked at her meal as well.
"Are they supposed to be black underneath?" Alice scowled at her now-laughing siblings.
"They are the kind that Mum and I used to cook… Oh My God! My Mum! She probably thinks I've been kidnapped oh god!" Eduard laughed at Alice's freak out.
"Don't worry. Chiron probably got it all figured out. Just relax and eat your….whatever those are. Seriously what are those?" Eduard stared at her plate. Alice took a sip of her tea.
"Scones. Popular in England. Rather delicious, would you like some?" Eduard tried a bite, then gagged and chugged his milk. Alice laughed at his reaction and finished her meal.
"Gah how can you EAT that?" Eduard gasped out. Alice shrugged.
"I dunno, I just do. It's like how Americans eat McDonalds." Eduard laughed at this and quickly silenced when Chiron stood up and banged his hooves on the table for silence.
"Campers, as we know Capture the Flag is tonight! Please proceed to your bases and prepare for the games!" Everyone cheered and quickly cleared out the Dining Pavilion. Alice met up with Alfred and they walked to the base together.
"Hey, how was your 'mission' Alice?" Alfred grinned. Alice rolled her eyes.
"Francis was being a perv and Ivan nearly gave me a heart attack but otherwise perfect." Alfred frowned at the last part.
"Ivan? What'd he do?" Alice explained the Lake Incident and Alfred scowled.
"That bastard I'm going to kill him!" Alice grabbed his arm and held him back when he tried to rush ahead.
"No! Think logically! He's a son of Ares, the war god. It'll be revenge enough if we kick his bloody arse in this game." Alice smiled as Alfred grinned with the thought of Ivan losing.
"Ok, so what do we do again?" Alice face-palmed.
"Wha- You were with me when I told Raivis! Ugh. Idiot, we're defending! Now, Eduard said that he and Raivis would help us with putting on armor so let's go." They ran off to the armory and were quickly equipped with armor. Alice sheathed her dagger and Alfred put his pen in the belt.
"Ok, so everyone knows the plan? Ok, let's go!" Everyone cheered and split up. Alice and Alfred went over to the flag and looked around. It was in the middle of a clearing, with trees surrounding it. There was a bush by it.
"Ok, well I'll be up in the tree so I can be scout and you can stay down here in case I miss someone." Alfred nodded and Alice quickly climbed one of the nearby trees. She could hear fighting from other parts of the forest. Mainly the center. Apparently Ivan believed her. Alice smirked as she noticed a lone camper running towards the flag. Yao. Alice jumped down in front of her and Yao froze.
"Alice! What are you doing here aru? Ivan said nobody would be defending!" Yao was surprised and Alice loved it.
"Yea, I lied. Tactics, sorry." And with that, Alice was off, diving in and out to slash at Yao, who blocked every hit. Alice knew Yao was fast, she showed that with the skeletons, but she didn't realize just HOW fast Yao was until she actually fought her. Alice heard a noise from her left and dove out of the way as a knife imbedded itself in the tree where her head use to be. Alice yelped and ran out to the clearing where Alfred was.
"Wha- Alice what are you doing?" Alfred realized there were two enemies coming and drew Riptide.
"Alfred too Aru?" Yao was even more shocked than when she saw Alfred with Alice.
"Who cares? She lied to big brother so she must pay!" Natalya walked out, drawing another knife. Alice's face paled and Alfred scowled.
"I thought there wasn't any maiming or killing!" Natalya laughed.
"I wasn't going to do any PERMANENT damage, just a little cut here and there. Nothing Nectar and Ambrosia couldn't fix." Natalya dashed in and Alice blocked her knife with her own.
"If your brother didn't cheat all the time then I wouldn't have had to lie to him!" Alice spat as she blocked another one of Natalya's stabs, a strange dance between the two.
"So, you admit to lying comrade?" Everyone froze as Ivan stepped out. He had the strange aura again. Alice paled.
"I don't like liars, comrade." Ivan frowned and took out his pipe. Alfred scowled and stepped in front of Alice protectively. Ivan smiled then.
"Ah, Alfred. I see you use Riptide. It will do you no good, as I doubt you can take me on." With that, Ivan rushed at Alfred, who blocked the pipe with his sword. Yao joined Natalya in attacking Alice, ignoring the flag completely. They all fought for a few minutes, nobody winning and nobody losing. Suddenly, a scratching noise was heard. Everyone froze. They turned toward the flag. Alice screamed as they saw a giant spider.
"SPIDER!" Alice ran behind Alfred and hid. Ivan gripped his pipe.
"Monsters shouldn't be here. Comrades, look there are more." Indeed, three more spiders came out of the woods. They all seemed to be focused on Alice.
"They are after Alice! She is the daughter of Athena!" Yao warned as she dove into action, Natalya following in suit.
"Alfred, protect Alice. We will finish this later, da?" Alfred nodded and Ivan followed his allies into battle. There was another scratching noise and Alice screamed. Alfred turned to see Alice covered in Spider silk.
"Alice!" Alfred quickly cut her loose from the strand of silk attaching her to the spider. Alice was near tears by now and Alfred was angry. He turned to the spider and shouted with anger. The clouds rumbled and a lightning bolt shot down and the spider was incinerated. Alice stared as Alfred quickly shot lightning at the other four spiders and they disintegrated as well. The others turned and gaped at Alfred. A shout of victory was heard and Raivis ran through the woods to their location, Chiron and the other campers behind him.
"Wha- what happened?" Raivis stopped and stared at them. It was an odd sight, Alice was covered in Spider silk crying, Alfred, Ivan, Yao, and Natalya were all worn out with weapons out, the flag hadn't moved, and 5 piles of disintegrated monster dust was smoking.
"S-spiders…" Alice was sobbing and Alfred was hugging her.
"Oh gods seriously! I'm sorry you were here alone with that!" Eduard ran over and used his knife to cut the rest of the spider silk off. Chiron looked at the dust.
"Monsters don't usually break through the barrier, even spiders." He looked at Alfred, who looked considerably more worn out that the others.
"Alfred, is something wrong?" Alfred looked up at Chiron and gulped.
"Chiron, Alfred defeated all the monsters by himself aru! We weakened them of course, but he caused lightning to blow them all up aru!" Yao exclaimed, backing away from Alfred. Chiron paled and suddenly, there was a loud rumbling. All the campers gasped and backed away from Alfred.
"What? Is there something on my face?" Alfred looked up and jumped. There was a lightning bolt shape above his head.
"All hail Alfred Jones, son of Zeus, lord of the sky." All the campers knelt and soon everything was silent. Alfred was about to say something, but then passed out.
"ALFRED!" Alice was the last voice he heard before he faded to black.
Not bad, not bad at all! So yea, spiders. For those that don't know, children of Athena are stalked by spiders and are on every spider within a 1 mile radius' radar. It's because of Arachne and Athena. Basically Arachne was a jerk lady who thought she was better than Athena at weaving, so they had a challenge. Arachne made fun of the Gods in her weave-thing and Athena showed what happened when Mortals thought they were better. Athena was mad and caused Arachne to kill herself. Then Athena was all aww I feel bad and turned her into a spider. Hence why spiders are "Arachnids". So yea, America is the son of Zeus. Makes sense? Because he's the Hero! :D anyways, onto the Romans next chapter!