Hello everyone! Thank you so much for the reviews! Here is the next chapter to BOTW! Haha, I hope you guys like this little acronym I made up, figured the name was a bit too long! Enjoy!
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"You step down as King," Percy looked at Triton straight in the eyes.
The male in front of him narrowed his green eyes and snatched his hand back, as if the touch from Percy had burned him.
"Are you crazy?" Triton stepped back from Percy. "Why would I ever do that?"
"You told me to name my price. That's it. I want you to step down." Percy squared his shoulders.
"No."
"Well then leave me the fuck alone."
"No."
"You can't have it your way always. Either we make this bet or you leave me the hell alone."
Triton looked at Percy as if he'd grown a second head.
"My god, you really are crazy."
"Well those are my conditions." Percy crossed his arms.
"And if, by some miracle I do lose, who will be King?" Triton raised a single eyebrow at Percy, a taunting smirk on his face. "Will it be you?"
"No. I don't want to be King."
"Then who?"
"Me." Nico stood up, interrupting and making everyone turn to him. "The King will be me."
"As if," Triton snarled.
"No it won't," Percy said.
"Are you fucking joking?" Nico asked incredulously.
"You acted no better than Triton, why the hell should you be King?" Percy turned on him.
"Because-"
"Because it was your right?" Percy asked him, "not gonna happen."
"Well you need the manpower to fight in the tournament, I could give that to you if you promise me the title as King." Nico crossed his arms as he glared at Percy.
"How about I choose who gets to be King without being biased about it." Percy suggested. "If I see that you're not as bad as the first impression you gave me, I'll think about it."
"Hell no!" Nico growled in frustration.
"Nico think it through," Margo huffed rolling her eyes at Nico's childish way of acting.
"I see you picked a side then Margo," Triton sneered at her. "To think you would choose him over-"
"Leave it alone." Margo cut him off. Triton stared at Margo maliciously.
"Do we have a deal or not?" Percy snapped, getting fed up with everything and just wanting to go home.
"Pick out your men in one hour and come by the fourth floor so we can sign a contract." Triton rolled his eyes as he extended his hand. "We have a bet."
Percy shook his hand, looking Triton straight in the eyes. "Good."
Triton and his men left without uttering another word and suddenly the group was left to themselves.
"So," Grover spoke up, breaking the silence that had settled, "who are the 9 other people fighting?"
"I am." Margo spoke up first.
"So am I," Nico pushed back his hair as he straightened his black jacket.
"If Nico's fighting so am I." Luke grunted.
"Same here," Reyna stood straight.
"Me too." Piper glared at the floor, "I want revenge."
"Me too," Jason groaned out as he tried to sit up straight.
"Jason, don't strain so much," Piper was back at Jason's side.
"This is 7 in total." Margo counted, "including Percy."
"I'm in." Frank said, "now it's 8."
"Fine, looks like I'm going in too," Grover shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
"I guess I'm going in too," Will crossed his arms, a thoughtful look upon his face. "Question is, who will be fighting who? For sure, Percy and Triton are going to be fighting but..."
"We'll know when we get to Triton's office in one hour," Margo muttered. "I have a feeling that Triton's seven Kingsmen are going to be fighting... plus Triton that's 8 people fighting... and his Kingsmen are tough... maybe even Tartarus would be fighting as well, he's like Triton's little pet and all."
"So that's 9 in total... I wonder who the last person is...?" Will questioned.
"My question is," Nico spoke up drawing everyone's attention, "who the fuck do you think you are?" He said pointing a finger at Percy. "You won't pick me to be King? You have to watch me like a little kid and if I'm good, I'm King? You're out of your fucking mind."
"Well right now, you're not acting any different. And the first impression you gave me didn't sell me at all. You acted snotty and fussy and you're doing it again. So yes, I will be choosing who gets to be King whether you like it or not, I'm the one who made the deal, I'm the one who has to fight Triton, deal with it." Percy rolled his eyes at Nico and looked away.
Nico huffed in frustration, crossed his arms and looked away. He couldn't stand to see Percy at this minute.
"We should get back inside, I could go to the nurse's office and get a first aid kit?" Will suggested.
"Sounds good, Frank, help me carry Jason inside." Luke moved to where Jason was and started to slowly lift him up. Frank came over and once Jason was upright, he put one of Jason's arms over his shoulder while Luke did the same on the other side.
Slowly they made their way inside the building, using the elevator to go up to the fifth floor. Once the doors opened up to reveal the fifth floor, they all stepped out, Piper fussing over Jason and telling Frank and Luke to be careful.
"Where are we?" Percy asked they all made their way into the classroom that belonged to the Wolves.
"You're in the Wolves' territory." Nico said over his shoulder.
"Are you in this?" Percy turned to Margo and she looked away.
"Um... well... now I guess I kind of am..."
"Oh. right because I dragged you into it... because you're gonna be fighting and it's my fault." Percy shook his head and Margo bit her lip, shaking her head.
"No, Percy, look-"
"I'm sorry Go, I dragged you into this and now, you painted a target on yourself." Percy walked away leaving Margo feeling guilty.
"I'm sorry..." she whispered lowly to herself.
Everyone made their way inside and five minutes later, Will appeared with a first aid kit in his hand.
"Got it, okay now set him up on the couch please," Will asked Frank and Luke.
"Whoa, what happened?" A girl with black hair, peach skin, blue eyes that were light and playful and a nice smile asked the group as soon as she caught sight of the them. She had been sitting with an African American boy with short hair that was cropped and light brown eyes, he was muscular and tall.
"Jason was beaten by five of Triton's guys, but... this guy here saved him." Piper looked to Percy in gratitude. "I never said thank you... so thank you."
"It's okay, I just... I couldn't stand to let it happen.."
"Whoa, you took down five guys? By yourself?" The African American guy who was with the blue eyed girl asked Percy.
"Yeah."
He whistled lowly and stuck out a hand from Percy to shake, "Charles Beckendorf, but just call me Beckendorf."
"Percy Jackson." Percy said shaking his hand.
"Hi, I'm Silena Beauregard." The girl introduced herself.
"Hey."
Soon enough, Grover, Juniper, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Will, and everyone else introduced themselves to Percy.
"So, what happened?" A girl with reddish brown hair that was a bit stringy spoke up behind them. She had brown eyes that looked mean, she was a bit bulky and looked like she could beat a guy to a pulp. Her name was Clarisse La Rue.
"Triton and Percy fought, and in the end neither of them lost. Triton and Percy made a bet, sort of, a tournament is going to be held, 10 people fighting, The last fight coming down to Triton and Percy. Whoever wins, well there's a prize involved." Will started to explain. "If Triton wins, Percy has to join him, if Percy wins Triton has to step down as King."
"And you really think this shrimp will be able to beat Triton?" Clarisse said, gesturing to Percy.
"Didn't I just finish saying how Percy and Triton fought while making this bet? Neither one of them landed a punch on the other. I will admit, Percy," Will said looking over at the sea green eyed boy. "You've got some fast reflexes and even though your fighting skills are a bit crude, they seem to pack a punch."
"Thanks man," Percy nodded his head at Will.
"So, who's fighting?" Clarisse asked everyone.
"It's Percy, Nico, Margo, Will, Frank, Jason, Piper, Reyna, Grover and me," Luke told her.
"Whoa, hold up, I wanna fight too!" The girl exclaimed, "sign me up! I wanna kick some ass!"
"We already have the ten that will fight." Luke furrowed his eyebrows.
"That's not fair, I wanna fight too. Those stuck up, snotty Lions gotta pay for the things they've done, I wanna fight," Clarisse's lips tilted down.
"If she wants to fight so badly, she can take my place?" Grover offered up.
"So it's settled, I'm taking over for Grover," Clarisse relented.
"Okay, fine, does anyone have a problem with that?" Luke asked, looking around the group.
"Nope, seems just fine to me," Reyna spoke up.
"Good, now that everyone is caught up-" Nico began only to be interrupted by Hazel.
"Almost is everyone, remember we still have a few members missing out on this important nugget of information. Like Cecil, Lou Ellen, Katie, Chris, Ethan, Octavian especially, Thalia; oh man Thalia is going to be pissed when she finds out what happened to Jason. She's going to want to fight too... and you guys already picked your ten and it's not like Triton will just add more in..." Hazel chewed on her bottom lip as she looked to Nico.
"Well she's going to have to deal with it." The brown eyed boy grumbled. "Now that's settled," he began again, "we gotta figure out who Triton will pick to fight. As Margo said, obviously his Seven Kingsmen will most likely be picked and then there's the possibility of Tartarus going in... who would the last person be?" The raven haired male looked to Margo, silently asking her for answers.
"It could be anyone really," Margo answered Nico honestly.
The brown eyed boy let out a puff of air, "great."
"At least we got almost 98% of who is fighting, am I right?" Will tried to sound optimistic.
"Yeah I guess so..." the brown eyed boy's lips tilted down.
"We have 30 minutes left," Margo looked at her phone, "right now we need to tell Percy who is who so, Kitty," Margo turned to Percy, "time to introduce you to the Seven Kingsmen."
"Okay...?" Percy looked at Margo in a questioning way.
"So, in the Seven Kingsmen there are two girls and five guys. You have Atlas, Orion, Circe, Medea, Chase, Mark, and Regal," Margo listed as she moved to the blackboard and started to hastily write the names down. "Now, Orion is a pro swordsman; well as pro as he can get, Atlas has a good rep as a street fighter, Circe is known to be a good fighter in taekwondo and Brazilian ju jitsu, Medea is a pro at Krav Maga, Chase has a liking to fighting with knives when he street fights. Mark is extremely good at kickboxing and Regal has a really good rep in boxing. You already know what Triton is made of and Tartarus; he's kinda like a Jack of all trades, he doesn't have a single one specialty. We have one more person to consider before we choose who fights who... so... wanna do it now? Or wait till later when the last person is revealed?" Margo looked from Nico to Will to Percy to Luke.
"Let's do it once we know who the last person is... we don't know who that person could be or what type of fighter that person is," Reyna spoke up, her hand rubbing her chin absentmindly.
"Agreed." Nico nodded his head.
When the time came, all ten fighters made their way to the fourth floor, and suddenly Percy was starting to doubt himself. Not because he thought he couldn't win in a fight with Triton; although it was debatable just how tough Triton was, not to mention his reflexes were really good, but Percy wondered if the people from Tribecca Prep saw Percy fight. He was constantly being watched and monitored by those people.
"Well," Margo pushed through his thoughts, "are you guys ready?"
"Yeah, let's go." Nico pushed through and walked through the open door.
They walked into the classroom on Triton's side, that had a lot many students sporting something red, and the classroom was made to look like... a courtroom? Percy looked around and in the center of the room was a throne; how they could fit that in a classroom or even thought of bringing it in school, was beyond Percy.
"Welcome," Triton lounged on the throne, he smirked at the small group as they made their way in. "So, I'm betting that the ten of you that showed up are the ten that are fighting, correct?"
"Yes, you're correct." Margo spoke up and Nico glared at her.
"Well, here are my nine." Triton gestured to nine people all lined up against the wall, they all stepped forward. "Seven are my Kingsmen, then there's Tartarus, and finally, Lycaon. Then of course, there's me."
Margo stepped closer to Percy, "Lycaon is a extremely, extremely good at kick boxing and street fighting, not to mention he loves fighting dirty," Margo whispered the information to Percy.
"So, who will be fighting who?" Triton sat up straighter in his throne.
"Percy will obviously be fighting you," Nico spoke up.
"I'll be fighting Orion." Margo stepped forward.
Orion, a guy with black hair that curled at the ends, fair skin, brown eyes and a muscular build grunted in response at Margo's statement.
"What? Go, why don't you fight one of the girls?" Percy touched Margo's shoulder, "and we saw him fight that boy, we saw how he brutally... he-"
"Perce it's okay, I can handle Orion." Margo smiled a small smile at Percy.
"I'll be fighting Circe," Reyna held her head high.
"Oh really? Can't wait to wipe the floor with your pretty little face," Circe sneered. She was a girl with dirty blonde hair, dark green eyes and peach skin.
"I'm going to fight Medea," Piper announced.
"Oh, honey you can't handle me," a girl with black hair and dark brown eyes, and a really skinny frame smirked at Piper.
"We'll see," Piper shot back.
"I'm gonna fight Atlas," Clarisse grunted, crossing her arms a scowl on her face.
"Are you sure you want to little girl?" A guy with a bald head, blue eyes and a very muscular body asked Clarisse.
"Let's talk with out fists, not words trash," Clarisse said, the scowl on her face deepening.
"I'm gonna fight Regal and Jason is gonna fight Mark," Frank stated, he shouldered Jason on his left side as he glared at Triton. It had been completely unfair that Jason had been caught off guard and taken down like that.
Regal only nodded his head, he was a male of blond hair, so blond it was almost white, and gray eyes. Mark was a male of green-gray eyes and light brown hair, he smirked up at Frank, seeing the angry expression and the way the blond was being handled because of the little... fight.
"And I'm going to be fighting Chase," Will squared his shoulders.
"If you think you can handle me pretty boy," a guy with green hair and a pair of vivid green eyes to match taunted Will.
"So, that leaves me with fighting Lycaon," Luke grunted.
"So it seems," Lycaon smirked at him. He was a male with black hair, dark brown eyes and pale skin. He sported a small scar above his eye and a few piercings in his ears.
"I'm fighting Tartarus," Nico narrowed his eyes at the boy who was known as Triton's right hand man.
"Well then, we've seem to come to an agreement, so, Percy, I'm going to need you to sign this little contract here..." Triton gestured for Percy to step forward to the desk beside Triton's throne. On it, a piece of paper could be seen.
"Wait, let's read it first." Margo stepped forward once Percy started to make his way to the desk.
Triton glared at Margo but allowed her to come anyway. The red head picked up the document and started to read it carefully.
"Okay, I see no problem," Margo gave the document to Percy, "so you can sign it..."
"Thanks Go," Percy smiled at her.
Percy signed the contract and put it down, then he made his way to the group.
"April 20 is the date of the tournament, the fight will be held at the school gym, in the span of two days the fights will be held. Five fights the first day and the second the other five, both Nico and I will pick three judges, together of course to make it fair. They will judge and monitor the fights, and they will be the ones who pick the winners after each fight." Triton told the group the plan.
"Wow, so you can be fair," Luke snorted and Triton narrowed his eyes at him.
"Percy, you're part of the Wolves, for now... I hope you all prepare." Triton smirked at them.
"We'll see you then," Nico said, "Wolves, let's move out."
...
"So, why did he give you all like... seven months?" Silena asked the group of ten who had just fifteen minutes ago come back from the meeting with Triton.
"Not sure..." Nico rubbed his chin.
"So that we could train I'm guessing," Margo paced the floor.
"Why would we need training?" Luke scowled at her.
"Because, no offense but you guys are not exactly on par with some of those guys, maybe with the exception of Nico, Clarisse, Reyna and Percy and maybe even you blondie, but Piper, do you even know how to fight a person who knows Krav Maga?" Margo asked the brown haired girl.
"I could learn..." Piper shrugged her shoulders.
"Exactly, we need to hone our skills... we need to learn how to fight differently... It's the start of October, we have seven months, maybe six to learn to how fight like pros... so, let's get started." Margo smiled at the group.
"Are you calling us amateur fighters Red?" Clarisse pointed a finger at Margo.
"No, but, we do need to learn a few things about these... different fighting styles. You guys, I want us to win, so let's fucking win." Margo's voice was filled with determination.
"Go's right, I don't know about you guys, but street fighting doesn't seem like it's going to be enough to beat Triton, I need to learn how to fight like he does and street fighting isn't going to cut it. Triton's got different styles of fighting that I can't even compete with..." Percy spoke up.
"But you were doing so good when you were fighting him outside," Piper's brow furrowed.
"Yeah, but that's mostly because I got lucky, and my reflexes aren't bad, if it weren't for that I'd get my ass handed. I need to learn how to fight differently."
"I think that both Percy and Margo are right, we need to learn how to fight the fighting style of the person we're up against. Chase likes to fight with knives, so Will, you're gonna need to learn how to adapt. Richard is a boxer, Frank, you're not. Medea is knows at Krav Maga like the back of her hand, Piper you need to take lessons. I don't want any of you getting hurt... well fatally anyway." Nico looked the group seriously.
"Okay," Reyna stood up from where she was sitting, "now, how exactly are we going to learn all of this?"
"Oh, we hadn't er... thought of that... had we?" Percy rubbed the back of his neck.
"I did, which is why I had suggested it." Margo smiled at them.
"So, where are we gonna learn this stuff Red?" Clarisse asked Margo.
"Really? Red?" Margo shook her head. "Anyway, we are gonna go to my grandfather's house, he trained me how to fight with a sword and he knows a lot of different fighting styles. We go to him and he'll teach us."
"No way, you know how to fight with a sword?" Percy asked in awe.
"A katana to be precise." Margo nodded her head.
"Is it safe to even go there?" Nico narrowed his eyes at Margo, not fully trusting the girl.
Margo looked directly in Nico's eyes, " yes, it's safe."
"Okay then, that settles it, we're going to Margo's grandpa's house." Percy looked at the group of people.
"Okay," Will said, "I guess we're learning how to fight...for real this time."
And so, that's a wrap guys! Sorry this chapter was so short, but I promise I'll try to make next chapter a bit longer. Until next time! Toodles!
