Percy Pov

I made it to the forest entangle and saw every camper standing in front of Chiron, wearing full bronze armour, and wielding and assortment of bronze weapons. I reached the group and was pretty off put at the many stares I had. It seems that the only weapons in this camp were bright, glowing, bronze, leaving me as the odd one out with dark, shadowy, platinum. After Chiron recovered he resumed explaining the rules.

"All magical weapons and powers are allowed, however killing and maiming is strictly against the rules. Anyone caught purposely causing harm will take stable duties for a year, or worse. Prisoners may be disarmed but not bound or gagged. For any campers new to the game here is how it works. Two teams will bring their flag to their side of the forest, divided by the creek. The flag must be easily seen and out in the open. Any guards must be at least ten feet away from the flag unless they are chasing somebody holding it. I will serve as referee. First team to cross the other side with their opponents flag wins."

I began to think about many things like what team I would be on, if I was with Ares and Hermes would they force me to be the bait. A lot of other thoughts swirled through my head as I continued to wonder about how I could help and if people would want me too. Luckily Chiron brought me out of my thoughts by talking again. "Who wants to take Percy on their team"? He asked a group of people at the front. I assumed they were the cabin leaders, though I could be wrong. Only Silena raised her hand, causing the others to looked shocked, some disgusted. Chiron nodded at her and smiled before he began to talk again. "Very well, of to your positions". I caught up with Silena and thanked her for taking me.

"Thank you Silena, I really appreciate it". She just smiled and nodded before moving up and talking to another girl and guy. We reached a small mound of dirt, and one of the lead boys I recognized from the arena put the flag on top.

"Annabeth, battle plan". He stated. After he said that the girl I saw training with him in the arena stepped up.

"Oh right, sorry Luke". Annabeth said, breaking out of her daydream. "So half of the Aphrodite cabin lead by Silena will stay back here, along with half of the Hermes cabin, led by Connor and Travis. The other half of Hermes lead by Luke will flank the right side, and my cabin will flank left. The other half of Aphrodite, lead by Piper will go straight down the middle as bait, and the Ares cabin will follow behind to charge in and take the flag. If anything goes wrong, I will put on my cap and take the flag to the creek."

"Uh-what do I do"? I asked trying to be as polite as possible and not piss of the other two cabins on my team.

"You can go with Piper". She answered, I saw the girl she was talking about wave to me and I remembered seeing her in the arena. She was the one sparring against the Ares cabin leader Clarisse, and boy was she hot, no matter how much she tried not to be. Plus she almost seemed to look better in the armour. We heard a conch horn blow and I walked up to Piper.

"So we are just going to be holding off soldiers until the Ares cabin takes the flag"?

"Pretty much"

"That's stupid". She looked at me with a playful smile.

"And why's that"?

"Because clearly they keep letting the more war related cabins get the flag like Athena, Apollo, Hephaestus, and Ares. Why not do the unexpected and let a lesser respected cabin win". After I finished, she just looked at me like I said that we should kill all the mortals and take over the world. "I'm sorry, that was stupid".

"No! That was amazing, you're the first person to point it out. Also, how did you know Apollo was getting the flag with Hephaestus? They usually flank around and distract for them". She looked at me curiously.

"I just assumed they would send half of them for backup. Leave the others on defence, throw Dionysus at mid. It's what I would do". I answered. "That and I saw a few kids with bows out walking off to our left a bit ago". She stayed silent until we reached a creek in the middle of the woods.

"This is where you have to bring the flag to win. Not that we'll be doing any of that". She sounded bitter, and I couldn't blame her. I would be pissed if I was forced to purposely lose to the enemy for nothing.

"I wouldn't bet on that". She looked at me shocked before smiling.

"You're really different you know that". I just smiled back. We walked for about another 10 minutes until we reached Zeus' fist. Piper held out her hand to stop us. "Nobody move." Her voice now at a whisper. As I was about to ask what's going on, a rain of arrows flew at us. Piper didn't have a shield, so I quickly took mine out of watch form and blocked the arrows for her.

"Holy Shit! You just saved my life!"

"It was nothing, now let's focus."

"Right...Lucy, you take the cabin and charge at the defence. Be on the lookout for traps, we know Demeter and Hephaestus really like to screw us over with them."

"What are we doing Piper?"

"We're going for the flag"

AN.So...Its been a while hasn't it. Well im back and am going to be updating more ftequently on this and my Roman story. After getting those two in a good flow i'll update the O.C story and maybe the other stories I have in mind. But for now, this is my kinda return. I wrote this like a year ago but never updated it. I promise the next chapter will have more action and have better grammer and be all around better.