Nico Pov
A few days passed and it was Friday. Apparently on Fridays there is a capture the flag game. Hades cabin teamed up with, Zeus cabin, Hephaestus, Demeter,
Dionysus, Aphrodite, and of course Ares cabin. Athena, allied themselves with Apollo, Hermes, and Poseidon. I am worried to say the least Percy is a master strategist,
as well as an expert swords man. Now most people are worried about Athena's strategies but I am almost certain that this plan will be Percy's. Our plan is to have
more than half the team charge up the middle and overwhelm the defenders. The rest will defend. We will have to be quick though. All of Ares cabin is charging along
with half of Hephaestus cabin, all of Zeus, half of Aphrodite, and half of Hades. I am one of the defenders. Thalia gets all the luck she gets to charge of into battle.
Percy Pov
"Okay any ideas as to how we will do this." asked Annabeth.
"I have an idea." I said.
"Really a Poseidon kid has a plan, that is a first." said one of the Athena campers.
"In my plan, I will lead a distraction up the middle. My self, a couple other campers from each cabin will lead a distraction up the middle. Luke and Xander will each lead
two other people on opposite sides and head for the flag. It will seam like we are trying to divert there attention from Luke and Xander's groups. But really they will
both attack the flag from opposite sides. The rest except Annabeth will defend. Then Annabeth sneaks in with her cap and grabs the flag. Is there any way it will
become invisible?" I explained, then asked.
"Yes if I grab the flag it will become invisible." Answered Annabeth.
"Good. Any objections?" I asked. There weren't any. I liked this plan because Xander would not reject it because he had an important job, same with Luke and they
seem to have a lot of influence in this camp. We all got prepared. A conch sounded signaling the beginning of the game.
Thalia Pov
The game just began and the group I was in started forward. I do not think this plan will work, but did not feel like objecting because I am not a great strategist. Percy
probably worked out some ingenious plan to kick our asses. We moved forward, we crossed the creek into enemy territory. Once out of the creek we met with
resistance led by Percy. They had about half the amount our group did, but that did not make me any more confident. However I knew there was more to this plan.
Percy would not just lead a charge up the middle. I started looking around and I saw Malcolm, one of the Athena campers, run into our territory. I turned around about
pursue him when I realized the creek stopped moving, like dead stopped, not even the fish were causing motion on the surface. I turned back around and saw Percy
smirking
"Where do you think you are going?" he asked.
"You had this all planned out didn't you?" I asked
"Of course, we have only lived together for five years did you expect anything less.
"Wait you know what is happening?" asked Clarisse, the counselor of Ares cabin.
"I just figured it out. I saw Malcolm running across the boundary, this is just a distraction."
"Then go back to the flag and warn them." she said.
"I can't look at the creek, no motion, if we enter that creek we will not come out. Besides that is not all. Percy would not have a simple distraction. I think this is a
distraction from the distraction. Malcolm, and whom ever he is with, are supposed to seem like the capture group. But really they will be a distraction for some Apollo
kid to shoot the flag with an arrow attached to a string then pull it back and win. Or something like that." I said.
"Not bad Thalia you were pretty close." Percy said "Now enough small talk" as he said that the creak rose out of its banks splashed us with enough force to knock us
all over, then returned back. Then Percy's group charged forward and captured us. Such a small group defeated us. We had almost doubled them.
Nico Pov
The conch sounded and no more than five minutes later we were attacked, only six people attacked, but it was lead by Luke and Xander. We fought for about two
minutes, and me and the rest of the team had an obvious advantage. Three were unconscious only Xander, Luke, and Malcolm were left. Thud, never mind only Luke
and Xander. We had them cornered. Luke smirked and I had no idea why. I turned around to check on the flag only to see that it was gone. Damn, how did no one
notice we had like triple the amount of people someone must have noticed a new person entering. Then it hit me. Annabeth didn't she say something about owning an
invisibility cap. She could have walked right in and no one would have noticed. The conch sounded signaling the end of the game. We had lost. Leave it Percy to have a
distraction for a distraction.
AN: What did you think R&R also annabeth will be more prominently displayed in the future chapters.