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2. The Start and Kidnapped

1937: Camp Half-Blood

Chris was anxious. Actually, anxious doesn't even begin to cover how he felt. If you were to take anxious, multiply it by a thousand, add in the possibility of your mother hating you; then you might be near how Chris felt. Today was the day that his plan would be out into action. And, well, Chris wished that he could just go back to bed, then sleep for approximately twenty years. It also help that last night at dinner Mark interrogated him on his plan. No pressure right? Chris could hear Chiron talking (probably explaining the rules) therefore he turned his focus back to the old centaur who was explaining the rules to the campers. It's not like they hear them every game or anything along those lines.

"Okay everybody listen up!" Chiron started. "The two teams this week will be the Blue Team and the Red team. The Blue Team consists of the Athena, Apollo, Demeter, and Zeus cabins. The Red Team consists of the Ares, Hephaestus, and the Dionysus Cabins. Also the children of Hades. The creek is the boundary between…" the centaur continued his harangue.

Chris started to daydream. In his daydream there were two kids standing on, what looked like, the dinner pavilion. One had jet black hair and startling green eyes and looked about 13. The other boy looked about 11 or 12, he had black as night hair and brown-almost black- eyes. The two boys looked like they were arguing over something; whatever it was it must've been something major. The younger if the two looked down right murderous all of a sudden the younger one stomped (or slammed) his foot into the ground, opening a pit that looked like it went straight to the underworld. From it, skeleton warriors came out and came close to attacking the older boy. The older boy shouted something to the younger one, but he (the younger one) had already bolted off toward the forest.

Just when Chris became interested in the dream, Chiron's harangue snapped Chris out if his thoughts. "And finally, as always powers are allowed but use them wisely." He finished that portion of the rules.

"Really? Demigods. In capture the flag. Using their godly-ish powers wisely?! Chiron had to be joking around." Chris thought to himself. Too bad the centaur never made jokes about these things.

"You can maim another camper, but refrain from killing. I really don't want to tell anymore parents." Chiron finished. Chris remembered how last time a child of Aphrodite (His name was Richard) was accidentally killed because he walked into a pit that was rigged to help kill a few of the monsters. Upset would be putting it nicely on how Aphrodite reacted to finding out considering the fact that Richard was one of her favorite children. Let's just say that week was horrible for everybody's love life.

The old instructor once again interrupted Chris' thoughts. But this time he was yelling the word "go", causing all the campers running to their respective sides of the creek. Chris' anxiety shot toward the sky like a rocket when his team reached their "base". Mark slowly unrolled the plans, Chris felt like his heart was going to beat right out his chest. Mark's eyebrows scrunched together when his eyes read over the risky part of the plan. He slowly raised his gaze to Chris, who could barely disguise how badly he was freaking out as Mark looked at him.

"Chris, this might just work," he said in a leading tone. Chris let out a breath that he hadn't known he was holding, feeling like the weight of the world was removed from his shoulders.

"I wonder what it feels like have the literal weight of the world on your shoulders." Chris thought.

"Okay, I need three archers in the trees above and around the flag, but also near the creek so you will have to move around. The rest of you lot, find a partner and guard their back with your life. Alex, you will be sniper above the flag. Shoot anyone who gets too close, but quickly move to a new spot before they have a chance to react." Mark quickly gave out the instructions. The people who had orders frantically ran to their assigned spots.

"I need poison ivy and oak around the flag," Mark looked expectantly at the Demeter cabin. Three campers stepped forward. And with a nod and a look from Emily, they took off with the flag and Alex. Chris didn't know the three demigod's names, but being a child of Athena, naturally he wanted to know. Mark then looked at Emily.

"Emily, take you three best siblings who are quick at growing traps on the spot with you and patrol the area. Trap up anyone the enemies with vines and roots. Make sure that they don't get past you." She nodded and quickly chose her companions. Soon they were off into the forest. The rest of her cabin was to team up with one member of each of the other cabin. Half would go across the creek to try and get the other flag, while the rest would help protect their flag.

"Zach, you are going to fly through the air to get the other flag. The others on the ground will help you. If they get to the flag before you, shock any person who tries to stop our team," Mark told the lone Zeus camper. He nodded and took off into the air. Much like superman would.

Not a moment later, the horn blew. Signaling the start of the game. Since the rest of the team had gone off, the only two left were Chris and Mark. They were to guard the area around their flag.

"I seriously hope this works," Mark says.

"Me too. Me too." Chris replies.

All of a sudden, they heard people crashing through the traps to their right. The noises were getting louder and quickly coming towards them. The two brothers raise their weapons.

Then they saw what was causing all the ruckus.

Somewhere in New England

SNAP.

Cassie immediately took off in the opposite direction of the twig breaking. The sound only meant one thing. A monster thing was on her tail again.

See what she means about not getting happiness?

Recklessly jumping over the fallen trees,blindly sprinting, and not paying any attention to what was chasing her is what got her caught. While she was blindly crashing through the New England forest, she felt something, very heavy, strike her skull. The impact was so hard, that she was out cold before her body hit the ground. As she was lying on the ground, an intelligent monster emerged from the densely packed trees.

"Ah! Dinner!" the monster exclaimed with glee. Shortly after that, another monster appeared to the left of the first monster.

"MA! YOU GOT FOOD!" it cried out with joy.

"Of course you idiot! Now drag the demigod to the cave, so we can cook it for dinner!" the first monster replied with even more glee than before.

Soon, Cassie's body was being drug, quite literally, through the forest. Meanwhile, the second monster was humming something that resembled "Happy Birthday" as it drug her. Obviously something had hit that monster on the head serval times while it was a baby monster. Shortly after, the group arrived at the so called "cave". The opening to the cave was so small that any other person who didn't know about it would walk right past it. In fact, the monsters could barely squeeze their large bodies through the small entrance. The structure wasn't very large to begin with, but with the stalagmites and stalactites everywhere the cave seemed even smaller. There was also a miniature side camber at the back of the cave. That is where the duo tossed the limp body that was the young demigod.

The first monster told the second one to tie up the young demigod. It put the celestial bronze chains around her wrists to keep her from running off. But it failed to tie up her legs, which was a fatal mistake that would cost both the monsters later on.

Three hours later...

Cassie began to wake up. She felt so tired and had a little pity party for herself. She pitied herself for making herself miserable by thinking about her past. Once that pity party was over, she began to take note of her surroundings. She was in a small side camber of a even smaller cave. There was some sort of smoke that was burning her eyes and nostrils. That meant there was a fire nearby. But where? And how close is she to it? She could see that there were two monsters that were stroking the fire. She decided it was best to observe them if she wanted to make it out of this situation alive.

The first one was obviously the leader of the two. She called it Thing Uno. While the other one (Thing Dos) was quite dim minded. They were apparently arguing over whether or not if they should cover her in Tabasco Sauce when they roast her. "So that's what the fire if for," she thought.

Man her head hurt. At least She no longer felt tired.

Cassie now felt extremely groggy.

"So how did I get here?" she thought.

She remembers something striking her skull. She slowly tried to raise her arm up to feel her head.

But she couldn't, something was restricting her arm. She looked down and (oh joy)…chains were holding her back. She was chained to the cold stone wall. The monsters also took away her fork. Now, don't be judging her; she has lasted this long with it. But now she doesn't have it. Her only weapon against these monsters was gone.

Cassie was no longer groggy, she was now very pissed off about the monsters taking her fork. And nobody was going to enjoy the outcome of this act.

For one thing:

It. Was. Her. Fork.

Nobody was going to take her fork away from her and get out alive with it. She was planning how to slowly kill them off.

One.

At.

A.

Time.

They were going to SUFFER for doing this to her. Cassie let her more diabolical side take control of her emotions. While she was planning her capturer's deaths she heard a voice slowly approaching her. Apparently, they had settled the argument. Cassie wondered what the outcome was while she pretended to be still knocked out.

"MA! THIS MEAL ANIT ALIVE! WHAT YOU WANT ME DO ABOUT?" Thing Dos yelled. There was a muffed reply back, but she couldn't understand it. "MA! WHERE THE SAUCE? IT NOT BE-"his statement was cut short but Cassie sweeping him off his feet. His head hit the ground so hard that he was out like a broken light bulb.

Apparently, the idiot had her fork in his hand. Now, is when Thing Dos was going to pay.

Now she was looking at pissed off in the rearview mirror. She stretched her legs out and grabbed the handy utensil, used it to pick the lock on her chains, and with one fluid motion sliced the monster's throat;making it dissolve. Before it could, though, she saw one big round brown eye. A Cyclops.

"One down, one to go…" she thought.

Cassie slowly crept around the edge of the cave, attempting to find a good spot to attack Thing Uno. Unfortunately, Thing Uno saw her first.

"Ah! The demigod awakes," it exclaimed. Slowly, it realized that Thing Dos was not back yet. And she wasn't tied up any longer. "Where is my brother? Why are you not tied up?" Thing Uno questioned her loudly and obnoxiously.

"When would monster learn that being loud is not always scary. Are they taught that in 'Monster. 101' or something?" Cassie thought angrily. "Your brother was stupid enough to not tie up my legs, so he is dead as a result. So since I killed him, I am obviously not tied up anymore." Cassie said out loud. Her mind, however, was going a mile a minute. "What is a demigod?" "Why did Thing Uno call her that?" "Why are Cyclopes alive?"

WAIT.

CYCLOPS' ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE REAL.

Cassie felt like her mind was on overdrive. Luckily, Thing Uno kept her mind off the subject of mythical creatures that are actually real.

"Be prepared to die demigod." Thing Uno charged at her with a tree trunk help high over its head. Cassie rolled left while the Cyclops kept going straight. Cassie really wasn't in the mood to fight anything, so instead of dragging on the monster's death, she quickly ended its life.

She dashed behind Thing Uno and stabbed the back of its knee with the fork, causing it to fall to the ground. With not a molecule of pity in her body, she brought the fork down in one fluid motion. The hideous monster turned to dust immediately. She slowly made her was out of the cavern to the darkening forest. Nightfall. The first thing she noticed was that she was covered in some sort of golden dust. She then looked up and stared at the big, round, silver, full moon.

When Cassie was younger, she used to believe that a beautiful woman would guide the moon each night across the beautiful night sky. But now, she knows that the idea was just another silly children's idea thanks to the imagination. She saw some lights in the distance and decided to head towards them.

After about a Thirty minute walk, she arrived on the outskirts of Katonah, New York.

A/N: Tell me if y'all see any mistakes, let me know. Happy Saturday!

Stay awesome,

Mahoney16