Jacob:

Despite the little rest he got, Jacob was super energetic to get some private training from Felicity. There was a sight hop to his step to stop him from running all the way to the training grounds, making people snicker a little, but he didn't mind.

The sun was starting to creep down the sky, casting shadows down from the trees. He reached the training grounds, which was almost completely empty due to people wanting to relax in the afternoon. To the far right there were targets set up at a shooting range with stacked bows and quivers full of arrows. To the left there were dummies with hacks and slashes in them from the sword training that people do. In the middle there was a huge rock wall that seemed to have moving mechanics that Jacob was terrified to find out what they do to give rigorous training to demigods. It was by this rock wall that Felicity was standing, sharpening her sword and in her Ares armor.

Jacob felt a little underdressed, wearing only his bracelet, a black t-shirt, and jeans. As he neared, Felicity stood up and gave that little flattering smile that seemed like she was showing it to the world, and he smiled in return.

She called out to him. "You ready for some special hardcore training?!"

"Guess we'll have to see, hit me with your best shot!" he replied, he instantly regretted it because she drew her sword and charged with the speed of a charging bull, going to strike him, which he staggered back making the strike barely miss.

He gawked, "What the hell?! I thought we weren't starting until I drew my weapon!"

"There is no time in a time of war! Prepare yourself cause an attack can happen at any time!" She continued to slash and stab, which kept barely missing due to Jacob flailing about and doing his best to dodge. After a slash of where Jacob ducked, he got a face full of a boot kicking him, sending him sprawling yards away.

He could taste blood in his mouth and he spat it out, grinning. Whispering to himself, "I think its time to fight back", he stood up and felt a surge of power going through him and a voice popped into his head, the same voice as the man who sent him here. "Use the bracelet ya little crap. I gave it to you for a reason."

Jacob looked down at the bracelet, not really sure how it works, but he somehow knew how to use it. Felicity started charging once again and Jacob actually leaped over her this time, making her have to slow down before stumbling into a tree that dotted the field. When he hit the ground, he rolled and stood up. There was a strong energy around him that gave a dark aura. He looked back at her and he smiled, "My turn."

He lashed his arm out that had the bracelet on it and everything seemed to happen at once. A dark mist came pouring out of it that covered his entire body, making him disappear. Then it started forming into his shape, molding itself to fit his body. When it was done it attached directly to him, solidifying into a somewhat light armor but chinked like scales for optimal protection. In his hand now was a short sword made of a black metal and a bone grip and guard. He was beautifully terrifying in how he held it, but what brought it all together was the weapon strapped to his back. A long handle that went above his head that went all the way down his back ending in the head of a black scythe engraved with the sign of Hades, showing how Jacob was the child of death.

When the transformation was complete Jacob seemed different, he leaped into the air higher than he could before and ran as fast as a jaguar and as silently as the shadows themselves. Without thinking he lunged into the shadows of the trees and disappeared. In a split second he reappeared directly out of Felicity's shadow, pinning his short sword to her back and the scythe was in his other hand with the head at her throat, making her useless to fight without getting killed.

She gasped, "Amazing…"

Once he knew he had defeated her with this knew power that he discovered, he lowered his weapons and sheathed them. In a blink of an eye he had won the fight and was now studying his light armor that seemed to be made of a dark fiber. It moved with his body, enhancing his movements by giving him extra speed, jump, and acrobatic abilities. After testing his armor he starting studying his new weapons. On further inspection of the short sword, it seemed to have ancient writing, probably Greek, written up the blade of it and radiated a mysterious dark power. When he focused on it, it glowed a dark purple and he felt the urge to slash it, which he did.

As he slashed down, a dark rippling energy slashed out of the sword and when it hit its target, which was a tree in the distance, the slash went straight through the tree and dissipated. After some silence, the tree slowly slid on the cut and fell, creating a huge crashing sound that could be heard throughout the entire camp, but no one seemed to care.

Jacob went wide eyed, "Holy crap! I never even thought I could have this much power in me."

Felicity was also wide eyed and standing still. "This is the power of a child of the big three…"

After the slash, Jacob was hit with a huge wave of fatigue and his armor dissipated along with the weapons. Each part evaporated into the same dark mist as before and sucked towards his wrist and solidified into the bracelet.

He staggered a bit but kept his footing, out of breath. It took a bit to stand upright again but he was soon back up to his full height and turned to look at Felicity, but she had disappeared. She must have been scared by my power… he thought to himself. So he decided to head back to his cabin because the sun was getting low and he was exhausted. He walked back with a cloud of shame because he didn't want anyone to fear him but people seemed to stay away from him.

Halfway back to his cabin a familiar voice came from behind him.

"Oi! Why the darkened face?"

Jacob spun around only to get a fist to his chest, winding him. When he looked back up he saw the smiling face of Collin, who looked a little exhausted himself.

Jacob couldn't help but smile in return. "Maybe its cause I'm black, but looks like you also had a rough day of training, huh?"

Collin couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah, I wanted to figure out what powers I could possess, kinda like that dark aura of yours that showed. So I went off on my own to train myself."

Jacob wondered now. "Did you figure out anything?"

Collin kept smiling, "Guess you'll have to find out. Anyway, have a nice good rest with no dreams."

And with that Collin booked it to his cabin by the water and Jacob shook his head and walked back to his cabin to sleep and continue to think about his newfound powers.

Collin:

After all the events that happened that morning, Collin really just wanted to be alone and just sort out all the stuff that he wanted to figure out. So he decided to head off to the sound and take a boat out to where no one could bother him.

When he finally got a good distance away from the shore, he put the oars into the boat and he just sat there, focusing on the sounds of the lapping water and the birds above. Even though there was a lot of noise coming from various sources, he seemed calm and able to block everything out while he thought about how he got to that point in time and where he might be in the future. While thinking about all of this there was a loud bump on the side of the boat and water splashed in, catching Collin by surprise and shaking him out of his meditative state, but when he looked over the edge of the boat, there was nothing there. Then another loud bump happened on the other side, making him look the other direction. While his back was turned, however, a jet of water sprayed him in the back of his head, soaking him. He could hear a gurgling laughter as though the water itself was laughing. When he turned around there was watery figure, made up of water, whose upper body was out of the water but the rest seemed to just fuse with the rest of the sound.

He never had seen one, but he read of them. A water nymph. She was smiling behind a hand and she sprayed another jet of water right into Collin's face before shooting under the water.

Collin wasn't sure why he did what he did next, but he dove off the boat. When he hit the water he was shocked by how cold it was, but yet it really didn't seem to affect him. He expected the water to be murky with mud but somehow he was able to see straight through it all as though it was as clear as a clear sheet of glass. His main worry was breathing, but when he finally gave in and sucked in, he felt no water clogging his system but what felt like a fresh breath of air. This made him smile a little more than it should've because he couldn't have even dreamt of having these kind of abilities. Though he had a feeling that this wasn't the end of what he could do.

The nymph was swirling around, doing flips and having fun. Collin started swimming towards it but the nymph stopped him and started speaking.

"Child of Poseidon, you have no need for that kind of physical activity here. Use the water to your advantage, this is your home turf." And with that it dissipated without a trace of being there to begin with.

Collin had little to no idea by what the nymph meant by that, but he decided to take its advice. After some focusing, he started to feel the rush of water surging at his fingertips, like a marionette. He was the puppet master of the water and now he started testing each part of it. By shifting the currents, he was able to make his own currents to move him without even trying. Using these new abilities, he was able to move faster than any Olympic swimmer and more agile than an eel. He decided to travel long distances to keep testing and as he went by a school of fish he heard talking, making him stop dead in his currents. He looked back at the fish and he heard so much chatter.

"Who is that?"

"He doesn't have gills"

"Im hungry, can we go eat some algae?"

"Mommy, why is there a land dweller down here?"

He didn't believe it at first, but then he realized. He could talk to the dwellers of the sea. In ancient mythology Poseidon could control the sea and its dwellers and how he created horses out of the foam created. Meaning that he could talk to horses, fish, anything that Poseidon had created.

Despite all the chatter that the fish were doing, Collin couldn't help but smile at the fact that he could talk to animals of the sea. He decided to head back to camp.

It didn't take that long for him to get back, thanks to the water. He decided to have some fun and walked directly out of the water onto the land, scaring the sunbathers (Mainly girls from the Aphrodite cabin) and any who were sword playing on the sand. Every eye on the beach turned to him and he didn't care, only laughed.

That's when he felt the tugging sensation to push his limits and break through. He asked one of the sparrers to fight him 4v1. They were warried at first, but they thought why not, if they beat up a child of the big three then they would be the talk. So they circled around Collin and took up arms and shields.

At first they were beating the ever loving crap out of Collin. Then suddenly things changed.

After one of the pommels of the sword hit Collin in the head, he glowed brightly. As bright as the sun off the water. He had used it once before but only barely, but this time it felt different.

He felt the warm feeling from the ring jus like from the time on the train, so he decided it would be worth a shot again. So he activated it by clenching his fist, by doing so the ring spread. Like coral on the sea floor, it grew into a round shield with the trident snuggled in the arm piece, but it didn't stop there this time around. It kept growing, spreading up his arm fast and then going around his body, forming different pieces of armor. When it had finally spread all the way, the coral broke apart, showing the armor it had created. It was a form of heavy armor with plated pieces making it more moveable. The gauntlets had the heads of tridents where the handle went all the up to the shoulder. The breastplate was decorated with the palace of Poseidon and waves that went all the way down the legs. It was all polished and seemed to be made of a blue granite, but it moved as though it was a river bending with the river bed.

Instantly he turned the tides. When the sparrers hit his armor with a blade, parts of his armor would chip but it would instantly grow back, not even making a difference. Collin drew the rod and shook it out and the trident appeared, in all its glory. Now that he unlocked some of his powers the trident was now glowing a low blue, which caught the curiosity of the onlookers.

Collin smiled, "Lets test the power of the sea."

When he said that he swung the trident around and the water from the sound swirled into the air and formed a ring around him, a perfect halo that was leveled at his hips. Once the water stopped coming, Collin slammed down the trident and the water ring went outwards in a shockwave of water that had the force of a strong wave, knocking over anyone who got hit by it.

When the shockwave had finally dissipated, Collin was the only one left standing. He helped others get back up and thanked the sparrers (even though they were upset) for letting him train with them. After that he decided to start heading back to the cabin, where along the way he saw Jacob, breathing heavily. Collin called out to him and they joked around for a bit before finally heading to their cabins to get some well deserved rest.