APOV:

"Okay, knife fighting is difficult. Honestly, it is probably one of the most difficult kinds of fighting there is." Malcolm said as soon as Annabeth had walked away. "But, once you know how, sword fighting and unarmed fighting are a lot easier."

"Okay." I said. I really didn't care. The only reason I hadn't ran away was because it was like my favorite book had just come alive. And the character I thought was hot in the books, is even hotter in person.

"So, you hold it like this..."Malcolm took my knife, "Wait, you're a righty, right?"

"Yeah." He put the knife in my right hand and adjusted it a bit. I had to say, it was pretty easy to hold.

"Now, I want you to come at me. I won't hurt you, I just want to see what you can do..." I rolled my eyes. I hated when people went easy on me, time to show him what I got.

I played around with him a bit, just making little jabs which he easily deflected, then I stopped thinking, and let my mother's side of my genes take over. Jab. Fake to left, spin, jab. Kick. Punch. Knife to neck. And it was over.

I had him pinned to the ground underneath me. Well not really pinned, but I was stateling his hips, and he couldn't get up. In fact if he moved his head a bit, he would get cut by my knife.

"Give up?" I asked, "Blink once for no, twice for yes." Two blinks. After all, he couldn't move his head.

I got off of him. We both stood up, "How did you do that?" were the first words out of his mouth.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"How did you do that? You were amazing!" He really was amazed.

I felt my face grow hot, "It was nothing. I just stopped thinking."

"Whoa!" He grabbed me around the waist and pulled me into him. I turned and where I had just been standing, was a guy in Greek Battle armor, on the ground, a girl towering above him.

The boy swung his legs around and knocked the girl to the ground. They were both on their feet in seconds.

"Percy! Annabeth! Watch out!" Malcolm yelled at the two figures who were in the middle of what looked like a deadly rehearsed dance.

Once I got over the fact that I had almost been tackled by probably the hottest guy in camp (in my standards), I realized, I was still pressed up against the second hottest guy in camp, (once again, by my standards). And my face, it got hotter than both of them combined...

"Umm... Sorry. I didn't think Chiron would be happy if I let you get squished..." Malcolm said, unwinding his arm from around my waist and taking a huge step backwards. He looked cute when he's embarrassed.

"It's okay." I said, but my voice sounded weird.

At this point, Annabeth tried to jab Percy with her knife, but he jumped out of reach. He came back, grabbing her arm, the one with the knife. He spun and had her pinned to the ground. He put a knee on her back, holding her down, his hand pinning down her knife arm. Gods, for her boyfriend, he's pretty rough, I hope he isn't abusive, that would ruin my image of him as the hottest guy in camp.

He leaned down so that he could say something in her ear. Her response was throwing her head back, which hit him. He stumbled back, She turned and pinned him with his back against the ground. She climbed on top of him and pinned his arms with her arms and his legs with her legs.

"No I do not give up." She said, "How about you?"

I think I saw Percy roll his eyes, but I couldn't tell since he had his helmet on... "I don't know... I like this position an awful lot." He slid his hands from under hers and pulled her closer to him. He moved his hand slightly so it looked like he was moving it to her butt.

What the hell is he doing! What a perve! I was about to run and tackle him, (I had seen a lot of girls used then thrown away, I didn't want Annabeth to be that girl) but quicker then I thought humanly possible, Percy had her pinned like she had had him pinned, both knives in his hand. Wow, that was all an act? He's good...

"Number one rule of battle strategy: never let your opponent distract you." He said. That didn't sound like something Percy would say. That was an 'Annabeth Rule'.

"Shut up seaweed brain!" She tried to get him off.

"Only if you surrender..." He hardly budged.

"No." He didn't move, "Percy..." She whined. Still he didn't move. "Fine I surrender. You jerk of a boyfriend." Percy stood up and took off his helmet. He put the two knives in it and held out his hand to help Annabeth up.

"You know you still love me." He said. She rolled her eyes and took his hand.

She slid off her helmet and kissed Percy lightly, "I don' think I have a choice." She kissed him again and a bunch of her guy siblings wolf-whistled.

Aww... That was so cute! They make a good couple!

"Okay, children of Athena and guests." Some guy said from the front of the crowd. These are only kids of Athena? Holy crap! These gods are busy... if you know what I mean. "We, the gods, Chiron, and all counselors, have a surprise for you and the rest of the campers..." He paused, "Capture the flag..." his voice was grave, I could feel the tension in the air, "Is canceled."

"WHAT!" It was Percy, "You're kidding right Luke?"

"'fraid not Perce." He said. "KIDDING!" He yelled happily after a while.

"You are so going to get it!" Percy yelled, and for the next few minutes, we watched Percy chase Luke around, then we couldn't see them anymore, but he was still being chased...

"Percy is in love with capture the flag." Annabeth said, suddenly next to me, "I'm almost jealous..." She laughed. "They should be back soon..." It took five minutes before the two boys came back, with that girl...what was her name...I forget, anyway, she was Percy's sister... Anyway, she was pulling them both by an ear.

"You're a mean girlfriend!" Luke yelled. She was Luke's girlfriend? What the hell is the age difference.

"Katerina! Let go right now or I'll tell dad!" Percy yelled. That's right! Katerina!

"Tell dad what?" A middle aged man with black hair and sea green eyes walked into the arena, flanked by two other man of the same age. One had black and gray eyes and the other had black hair and eyes... the big three were standing in front of me.

"Lord Poseidon. Lord Zeus. Lord Hades." Everyone bowed slightly, except for Annabeth, who gave a small wave, which Poseidon returned with a small smile.

"Tell him Percy." Katerina yanked Percy's ear.

"Ow!"

"Katerina." Poseidon scolded.

"Sorry daddy. Percy, dearest brother of mine, tell him, please." She said, batting her eyelashes.

"Luke said there was no more capture the flag... and I chased him around the camp, and we kind of set off one of Hephaestus's toys... and it almost blew up a couple cabins, but we got it into the sound in time, and I willed for the giant wave to stay down. And Katerina was in the water, so she was pissed and you know how she gets when she's mad... so we ran, she chased us, caught us, and here we are." Percy exlpained.

"You almost killed my cabin!" Zeus yelled, at the same time as Annabeth's "Percy! You almost blew up the cabins!" It was hard to tell who looked angrier Zeus or Annabeth, but it was obvious who looked scarier, Annabeth wins hands down.

Poseidon and Hades both looked as though they were trying to keep smiles off their faces.

"Zeus, brother, calm down." Hades said, placing a hand on Zeus's shoulder.

"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN!" Zeus yelled, a huge lightning bolt lit up the sky, it seemed to split in twp, one aiming at Percy, the other at Hades.

Hades, being a god, easily deflected his. Percy on the other hand, couldn't direct lightning, at least not to my knowledge, but somehow, the lighting flew back up into the sky.

"DAD! What did I say about tourching my friends!" Thalia yelled, right in front of Percy, both hands directed up at the sky.

"Not to... but I thought Luke was a lying, backstabbing ass hole." Zeus mimicked Thalia's voice perfectly. Luke? I thought he was aiming at Luke. Oh well, they were standing next to each other...

"Yeah and then he saved the gods' butts." Thalia yelled back. It amazes me how casual these kids are with their parents who are gods!

"And..." Zeus asked looking bored.

"Uncle Zeus, that would've hit me too you know..." Katerina spoke up, using a little girl voice.

"No it wouldn't have sweetie." Zeus told her, his face kind, "It would only have hit Percy and Luke, it would have avoided you..."

"But Luke's my boyfriend, I don't want him dead..." She whined.

"Too big of an age difference." He said dismissively.

"Says the man who has affairs with women thousands of years younger than him..." Thalia grumbled, her arms crossed over her chest.

"Fine, he save my life up on Atlantis..." Katerina said, covering for her cousin, adding a puppy-dog face.

"Fine..." Zeus grumbled, calming down visibly.

"PERCY!" Annabeth yelled.

"Ow! Annabeth! Two things! Thank you, for making me deaf in one ear! And second! I don't think people in CHINA heard you!" I yelled facing her.

"Gods. Little Miss Attitude!" She yelled at me, then stormed over to Percy.

She grabbed the ear Katerina wasn't holding, "Do you mind if I 'borrow' him?"

"Are you going to cause him pain?" Katerina asked.

"Possibly..."

"Be my guest." Kat released his ear.

"Kat! I'm more scared of her than you!" Percy yelled as Annabeth pulled him off towards the cabins.

"I know!" She yelled back, releasing Luke's ear and wrapping both arms around his arm. "So what were you coming here for?" She addressed the gods.

"Well, we were here to see how training was going...but it looks like that was happening..." Hades spoke up.

"Anyway, we've decided to have some fun with capture the flag..." Poseidon said. He seemed to lead the gods more than Zeus... just saying... "Instead of only playing on Friday, you will be playing every other day, excluding weekends, so Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And this Friday, before we leave Sunday, we will play a game of all the campers, against the twelve Olympian gods, plus Hades, Hestia and Persephone."

"I don't see why you don't just make it the fifteen Olympian gods... we seem to be included in everything..." Hades started, but Zeus cut him off with a glare.

"Anyway, next Friday, it's gods versus demigods." Poseidon said, with a bit of a challenge in his voice.

"ANNABETH! WATCH THE BACK!" Percy's voice sounded from the cabin area.

"Should I go find out what that's about?" Poseidon asked, worried.

"Ask Aphrodite... She's in control of anything you have to worry about..." Hades said, grinning like crazy. Which on the god of the dead, a smile is a pretty rare thing.

"I think I'd rather not..." Poseidon said, shaking his head and walking away, towards the big house, Zeus beside him.

"Better get training, if you're going to defeat the gods..." Hades said, turning to walk away, only to go in a full circle, "Oh and Thalia, thank you for helping Percy prove children of Hades are the best out of the big three..."

"DON'T ENCOURAGE HER NICO!" Percy's voice yelled again.

"Um... Lord Hades? I think Nico has just prevented that statement from being true..." Thalia said, looking over her shoulder at the Poseidon cabin.