The Son of Neptune
IV
Percy
Inside the tree was strange theirs no other word for it. I saw a beach which was imposable because we were in a tree. As we were walking I herd one kid suddenly yelp in surprise then I felt a backpack on my shoulders. Cool I thought magic backpack. They led me past about twenty tree houses to a giant red wood and led me through a door down some halls and into an office. When I entered the office I yelped in surprise. Inside was a wolf, a wolf the size of a fairly large bear with eyes that seamed to glow silver and a coat that was chocolaty red. I didn't stop staring till I felt a sharp poke in the leg.
"Show some respect!" Reyna hissed then I saw that everyone was knelling before I could react the wolf said.
"Reyna stand down he dose not know. Greetings Half-Blood I am Lupa." She said turning to me "What's your name?" To avoid being poked in the leg again I hastily reply.
"Percy, Percy Jackson"
"I see were do you live?"
"I don't know. I can't remember anything."
"Really well try, concentrate." She ordered so I obliged I concentrated. I briefly saw a city sky line then a strawberry field. Then I felt the pain in my temples so I brought myself back to reality everyone was staring at me.
"Well" Lupa pressed.
"I saw a city sky line it went past to fast for me to tell what city and then I saw a strawberry field." She looked at me like she was trying to X-ray me. Then Gwendolyn stepped forward nervously.
"Lupa that's not all inside his backpack their was…" She stopped mid sentence and nodded to me and I handed her my backpack and she pulled out the strange objects. Lupa just stared at the pack for the longest time when I felt the pack on my shoulders she finally spoke.
"Jason, Bobby, Reyna, Gwendolyn, Dakota and Hazel you may go. One of you go get Ginny." They all nodded and left. I just sat there for what felt like for ever when finally a girl about 11 with fiery red hair waked in and said…
"You wanted to see me Lupa?"
"Yes Ginny…" she replied "… would you be so kind as to show Percy around camp and kindly inform him about this evenings 'events'." I had a felling that she wanted to say something different then events.
"Yes Lupa" she replied and she ushered me out the door. When we where out of the tree I asked Ginny.
"So what's tonight's event?"
"Well every new for lack of a better camper is tested to see if there worthy of joining Legion."
"What happens if we fall?" she looked at me harshly and said.
"Percy it's not the kind of test you fail, win and live, lose and die. It's the rule of life here." She said bitterly at the shocked look on my face.
"Don't worry no one's died in a wile"
"And the last time?" I pressed
"Look I have to go." She ran but not before I saw tears in her eyes. You know how they say time files when you're having fun well the same goes for waiting for your doom. All too fast evening came and I stood in an amphitheatre preparing to battle the camps top fighter Jason. I didn't here a word that Lupa said, I just kept hearing Ginny say: win and live, lose and die. It's the rule of life here. Before long a shield was thrust into my hands and some one shouted go. In the first thirty seconds Jason managed to get my shield out of my hands, I was about to go get it when I herd a voice in my own head say.
"No! Percy you don't need that!" The voice wasn't mine it was high and whimsical like a girls.
"And why don't I need it?" I asked
"You've fought more battles than I can count."
"Than how did I get my shield out of my hands so fasted?"
"I didn't say you won all of them." She said trying not to laugh. "But look we've talked for 30 seconds and you been wining this fight." I saw she was right Jason was sweating and has a cut on his arm this continued for several minutes with no conversation from my mystery companion when Jason got the upper hand with one move he got my sword out of my hand. That's when the conversation started again.
"Hey you still there?" I asked
"Yep I'm here." My mystery voice replied.
"What should I do about this problem?"
"Doge the sword" She said helpfully
"I meant about my sword!" I said impatiently
"Nothing, look it's gone it comes back to you, like the backpack." She finished nervously and it through me for a loop I was confused enough with someone else inside my head but how did she know about the backpack I was so in my own mind that I didn't Jason charge at me. I did see his sword bounce off my skin I pulled out my sword but I herd the voice say…
"Percy that won't help, not with the lighting." Lighting I hoped that she was joking but sure enough Jason had throne away he's sword and was summing lighting.
"You got any ides" I said very unhopefully
"Don't worry Percy, Athena always has a plan. Water is a terrible conductor of electricity. Just concentrate on the power of the sea… …and don't look at me like that!" that last part came from the face I was making but I tried it anyways. I crossed my arms and closed my eyes and thought of the sea. I honestly can't tell you what happened next but Jason was soaking wet so I lunged at him my sword at his face when she spoke to me for the last time.
"You need to tell him to yield."
"Yield" I said trying to put force in my voice. I let Jason up and everyone stared inattentively at me. I had no idea what everyone was waiting for when suddenly I was bathed in green light I looked up to see a shimmering trident floating above my head. With a pain in my head suddenly I was in the middle of a forest with a crowed of people all frozen in time. Standing in a creek with the same sign above there head was… me. It was me but younger about 12 I tried to recognised the surroundings but I felt the pain in my head so I came back in to it. Lupa was saying some thing but I herd nothing I looked around and a girl all transparent brown hair with and aquamarine blue strip in it and she had startling grey eyes. She was crying, smiling but crying all the same I herd her say…
"Good job Percy" Then I saw flashes of people flashes of places some went by fasters than others the pain went past uncomfortable my brain it told me to turn it off. But I hesitated this was my life I could tell but… then the pain was too much then I felt my knees hit the ground and my voice screaming in pain.