I had tons of time to think about how I would die.
Chiron must've sensed something was bothering me, because he started talking to me.
"If you're worried about dying, don't be." Chiron reassured me, "The sword pit is a place were demigods train against straw dummies, and sometimes other demigods. The keyword is Training. No one at this camp wants you dead, and if you were to die at camp, it most certainly wouldn't be because of a practice duel. I have maybe lost one or two campers in the past Centuries due to injuries sustained here. We have very good doctors!"
It didn't really calm me down. Knowing my luck, I'd be the third.
Finally, after a good ten minute walk, we arrived at our destination. The Pit was a massive flat area, covered in sand. A few straw dummies were standing in one corner, while Others were gutted, with straw spilling out of their Ripped, orange Camp Half-Blood T-Shirts. I hope they don't put bad demigods inside training dummies.
We didn't stop there, instead Chiron led me to a table packed with armor and weapons. He gave me a sword and I grabbed it lightly, already getting ready to swing it like in those medieval movies. As soon as tried doing it, it flew out of my hand, past Sophia's head, missing her by a few inches, and sticking a dummy in the head.
"Nope, too unbalanced." Chiron muttered to himself. Yeah, it was.
Sophia glared at me.
I waved my hand in apology, and looked at the still wobbling blade, a quarter of the way into the poor test dummy's head.
Chiron plopped another sword into my hand, and I nearly dropped it in surprise. I looked at the blade, and realized it was a bit shorter than the last. It looked like a cross between a knife and a sword.
"Hmm, this looks interesting." I muttered, and swung it in the air.
I saw Sophia flinch, but this time, thankfully, it didn't fly out of my hand. It still felt a bit heavy and hard to control, which wasn't to my liking.
"It could be better..." I said.
"It's the best I can give you for now. I don't have any more short swords, but don't worry, I'll get the Hephaestus kids to make you one." Chiron Said.
"Thanks then, I guess."
"Now on to the next part." He said.
Without even giving me time to think, he dumped a shield into my arms.
"Okay, to test the shield, I have to do something."
"And what is that?"
"Brace yourself as well as you can, and put your shield out in front of you."
I did as told. No sooner had I squatted down lower, I heared a giant clang, something smacked against my shield, and a massive jarring pain went up my arm. I dropped the shield.
"What the fuck?" I hissed, grabbing my arm.
"No, it's too heavy, you can't hold it."
"What did you do?"
"I kicked it."
"You what?"
"Shush, and try this one."
Sophia snickered behind me.
I ignored her, and braced myself again, this time ready for a kick. I counted to ten, and nothing happened. For a brief moment, I thought he had walked off on me. Then my shield jarred, and though it still hurt a bit, It wasn't as bad as the last one.
"Great! This is the shield for you. We don't always use shields, but we train our demigods for every situation."
"Anything else you want me to try on?"
"Yes, of course. This is a lengthy process."
"Great..." I muttered.
"Helmets!"
He smacked a helmet onto my head.
"This should do just fine."
"Chiron, can I help?" Sophia asked.
"Fine, come here, you do it."
"Thanks!"
"What does she want to-"
Sophia ran up, and hit me on the head with a hammer she had grabbed from the table.
"Jesus. What's your problem?"
"Nothing." She giggled, before walking over to Chiron's side.
I shook my head to stop the ringing.
"Your breastplate will be hand crafted by the children of Hephaestus, so there is just one final thing to give you."
"Please, just no more tests."
"Don't worry, there will be no more tests." Chiron laughed. He handed me a spear.
There were red marking for where the hands should go, and I placed them there. I thrust forward the tip. It was perfect, except for one thing. When I brought it back, then handle went right into my groin.
"Argh, Shit." I moaned, before falling down onto the floor, clutching my nether regions.
"Why do you do this to yourself?" Sophia sighed.
"He just needs some training. Help him up Sophia."
"Fine." She grabbed my forearm, and lifted me up.
"Thanks..." I hissed.
Chiron looked at his watch.
"Oh gods, I need to go. Archery lessons are starting soon." He trotted off, muttering something about the Jackson siblings.
"Bye, I guess." I muttered to myself.
"Let's go see if other campers are having sword lessons. You can join them."
We walked over the sand of the training grounds, and somewhere off to one corner, a group of students stood in a circle.
"That's them, you should go over there, I'll let Samuel take over training from there. I'll be sitting at the spectator stands if you need me." She said, before waving a goodbye and walking off, taking out a book from her bag I hadn't noticed before.
I didn't even wave back, knowing she wouldn't notice anyway. I started walking towards the others, in my gear, when suddenly I felt something.
It was a tingling down my spine. Something bad was about to happen.
"Hey, look guys it's the dude who pierced our basketball." Said a voice.
I turned round to see three people. They were probably those Apollo dudes I nearly killed during archery practice.
"Look, I'm sorry. I'm still new around here. I'll buy you a new ball somewhere, if that's what the big problem is." I said.
"We don't care about the fucking ball." The tallest one spat at me.
I felt a sudden pain in my stomach and doubled over. I only figured it out seconds later that the guy had punched me.
"Are you too stupid to have noticed that, new guy?" Said another kid.
"Leave me alone!" I Shouted, pushing them away, and standing up.
"Hey Guys!" The Leader of the Group said, "Looks like the New Kid's Angry! Let's Have some Fun while we're here!"
These Guys were dicks, I figured as such.
I decided to spit back a remark their way.
"Oh yeah? If you think you are so tough then why don't you fight me? I've never heard of someone who was a good fighter from the Apollo cabin." I told them, hoping to anger them. Maybe they had heared about the Ares Cabin and their toilet trouble.
It worked! The Face of the Leader turned as Red as a Tomato.
"You Dare Talk to us like that?" He said.
"Yes, actually, I do dare. What are you going to do about it?"
I thought for a second that his anger would overwhelm him and he would charge at me. He seemed to cool himself off in the last second.
"Hey Phil?"
"Yes, Toby?"
The Face of this Toby Guy turned red with anger once more.
"I told you to call me Boss!" He then took a deep breath, "Anyway, Go take care of this guy. And Make it entertaining."
"Right away... Boss."
The guy stepped forwards, until he was right in front of me. I saw a fist come flying straight at my head, and I ducked. I felt the guy, Phil, Stumble with surprise. This was my time to strike. I punched upwards, hitting his nose. I felt it crunch underneath my fist, and a sudden gush of blood came from his nostrils. I then punched him in the stomach, and I ended the fight by kicking his legs out from underneath him.
Phil fell down to the ground, unconscious.
"I got a lot of use out of you, Phil." Toby tutted angrily, "Come on Joe, Let's finish this guy off."
They both closed in on me.
"You may be good at fighting, but you only took down the weakest person in our group. Me and Toby have been fighting for years. You are going down." Joe Snarled.
"Fat Fucking Chance" I Muttered.
I steadied myself, and clenched my fists. My sword was currently laying in the sand beside me, having dropped it when I had first been punched.
Joe tried to strike me in the stomach but I jumped back. I grabbed his now outstretched arm and twisted it with all my strength. He screamed with pain, but I didn't care. I let go, and went in close. I kneed him in the groin, and he went down whimpering.
"Gods of Fucking Olympus, why do I have to have such an Idiotic team of people?" Toby Muttered to himself, "No worries, I'll finish this myself."
He kicked my leg, which caught me by surprise. I fell to the ground. Toby laughed, sensing his victory.
"You're going down, New Guy." Toby Said. He aimed a kick at my head, but I grabbed his leg and punched the other one out from underneath him. Jumping up quickly, I stepped on the edge of my sword, making it flip up into the air. I caught it handle first, surprising even myself, but I didn't show that to this Ass. Let him see what I was capable of.
Toby had composed himself too, and we were both standing once more.
"Oh, so we're playing this game now, are we?"
He unsheathed his own sword and immediately swung it at me. I parried the blow, which only made Tony angrier. I struck next, but he parried it. It was a stalemate position, every strike aimed at each other was parried. Then came the dirty trick. Joe grabbed my leg, which surprised me, and Toby smacked my face with the pommel of his sword. I went down like a sack.
"Argh, Shit." I muttered.
"It looks like I'm on top. Let's give you a scar to remember this day." Toby snarled.
He pointed his sword at my neck, and I couldn't do anything about it. My sword was too far away.
I was just about ready to except my fate, when a new blade smacked the sword right out of Toby's hand, making it fly around ten meters. The tip had just nicked my chin, which stung a bit.
"Who the-"
Toby looked up, and saw a man standing in front of him, pointing a sword at Toby.
"It's not fair to point a sword at someone who's on the floor." The man said.
"Fine, you win Samuel."
"Now Fuck off, or you'll regret it."
"Watch your back, New kid." Toby growled at me.
For a split second, I could swear his eyes were literally burning with miniature flames. That scared me.
"GO!" This new man shouted.
Tony walked off, leaving his two goons lying on the floor. Joe stood up as best as he could and waddled off, clutching his balls.
"Are you okay?" The Man asked, turning towards me. He had a scar running over his nose, and he had sky blue eyes with blonde hair. Apart from the slight difference in eye color, he had the exact same complexion has someone who was the Demigod Child of Apollo.
"Yes, thank you."
"Those were awesome fighting skills, with a bit of practice you'll do even better. You taught these Apollo kids a lesson they will remember. My name's Samuel. I'm a son of Zeus, and the Sword Training's Instructor at camp." He said, stretching out a hand.
"Daniel James Greenfield." I said, grasping it.
"What was going on here?!" Sophia asked, breathing raggedly. She had probably ran down from the spectator stands, once she had looked up from her book.
"The guys from the basketball court attacked me."
"Are you sure?"
"Yep."
"That's Strange. I've never seen them act like this before. They're show-off pricks, but they've never attacked anyone like this. Where did you learn to fight so well?"
"I don't know, it just came to me."
"And that's why he's going to become such a great swordsman." Samuel interjected.
"Yeah, yeah. Fine. Anyway, I should probably tell Chiron about this incident later." Sophia said, looking down at Phil.
"HEY! WAKEY, WAKEY!" Sophia shouted. Phil didn't react.
She kicked him in the ribs. Still no reaction. Sophia Looked at him for a second longer, before turning back to us.
"So anyway, yes. I hope this doesn't mean that Daniel has missed sword training."
"Of Course not. Come on Daniel, follow me. Let's go."
As we walked back to the original spot where Samuel and the campers were, I couldn't help but smile at the look the others gave me. Sophia, in the background, tried waking Phil up, but he was out cold. She dragged him away, holding him by the legs.
I had one question to ask Samuel.
"How come you're a grown-up here at this camp. So far, it's just been kids around my age."
"Most people go to New Rome or out into the world to live their life after they reach a certain age. I decided otherwise, and instead, I now teach swordplay to campers. It's a good job most of the time."
"Cool."
Hello my readers. Another chapter done. Sorry this is so short but I promise that the next chapter will have much more in it. We've already stepped past the 150 marker in views. Thank you to everyone who read this story. It really means a lot to me.
AA/N So This is me, Rewriting everything. I've rewritten all of the chapters, but I haven't uploaded all. Turns out that I still have a shit ton of mistakes in every chapter. So I'm going through each chapter thoroughly. Because This is a shorter Chapter, I am writing everything down here. So first things first, A new cover will appear for this story, in about, a month or so. You see guys, I have a friend who is very good at drawing (I'm Shit.), and I asked her to draw me Daniel, from the story. It will be in an Anime type style, and I hope it will be awesome. Keep checking back every few days because I'm continuously re-uploading the chapters of Son of Chaos.
Goodbye for now
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