CHAPTER 4
KAREN JACKSON
Finally it was Wednesday. The much awaited day was here. Hazel had already called to let us know that they would be reaching in another half-hour. Half-hour! The camp was in a total chaos, as usual. Everyone was running around, preparing to meet the Romans. We were having the Zhang's at our house. Their daughters were so cool. I went to talk to Dahlia who was arguing with Andrew at whose house the barbeque would be.
I grabbed her and she kept muttering about how annoying Andrew could get. My little brother was really irritating. But he couldn't annoy me because I knew one of his secrets and he didn't know any of mine.
Just then Chiron announced "The romans have arrived!" The entire camp went up in cheers. I felt my heart beating twice as fast. Two black SUV's rolled in through the magical barrier. Leo was the first one to get down. As soon as he did, he shouted "Super Mcshizzle man bad boy supreme is in the house!" I felt myself grinning. He winked at Dahlia and went to meet my dad and Jason.
Dahlia was giggling. We went up to them and gave everyone a hug. Soon everyone was seated in our living room and were chatting incessantly. In the end everyone departed, saying that they were tired because of the travel. The Grace's and Valdez's went to their house and we cleaned up ours and slept peacefully.
The next day was great. Everyone from camp kept visiting to meet the Romans. Chiron had also come to tell us that there would be an honorary game of capture the flag at twilight (not the movie). Most of the afternoon was spent chatting, getting to know each other and reliving old memories.
We gathered in the arena for the rules and announcements blah, blah. Usually Andrew was in the Poseidon cabin and I was in the Athena and Dahlia was In the Aphrodite cabin while Dean was in the Zeus cabin.
So the teams were as follows. In the blue team the cabins were-Poseidon (naturally), Hades, Apollo, Aphrodite, Nemesis, Hephaestus in one team while Zeus, Athena, Hecate, Hermes, Ares and Dionysus were in the red team. Both the teams were equally good. Even the Romans were divided equally. Emma and Edith were with me and Charlie and Lacy were with the blue team. I led the team toward our secret hideout. This was going to be very interesting.
DAHLIA GRACE
I was in the blue team stuck with fish face! He kept muttering about how he loved blue and that it was not a coincidence that he was in the blue team. Claire and I were leading the way while Lacy was flirting with Andrew in the back.
It hadn't even been a day and she was upto flirting. UGH! I resisted the urge to punch her in the face. I don't know why but I felt a twinge of jealousy, but I quickly pushed the thought aside and focused on winning. I watched the Apollo cabin hide the flag and Aphrodite cabin covering it with ton of makeup. The flag now looked like a really badly painted teddy bear. (I don't know why I've written that but anyways…).
While the others were hiding the flag, I helped Claire and Kristen (head of the Hephaestus cabin) to strategise. In the end it was decided that Andrew and I would search for the other team's flag, the Apollo and Hephaestus cabins would distract the other team and the rest would guard the flag. It was a good plan. I and Andrew set off towards the small stream as that was their usual hiding place. We silently crept up and stopped when we were sufficiently close.
The Hecate cabin was busy hiding the flag using charms and spells. Just then Andrew whispered into my ear," better snatch it up while they're still hiding it". I nodded and flew up and landed on a bark of a tree. I watched intently, waiting for a chance to take the flag.
I was just about to fly down when Mr. oh-so-smarty pants a.k.a Andrew sneezed. I felt like strangling him to death. But actually that helped. The Hecate children surrounded him and left the flag all alone. They were commenting about how the blue team was dumb enough to send Andrew alone. I quickly flew down before they averted their attention. I snatched the flag and coughed. Immediately they turned and I said," did I just hear you calling our team dumb? You'll are the real bozos!"
One of the campers said," But you'll never be able to make it to the border."
"Never underestimate a flying demigod." And with that I flew out carrying the flag with me.
Naturally we won. I loved it when I did that.