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-Smarty
Chapter 7 - Electrocuted
Annabeth POV
I was thinking about how Cammie, Bex, Macey, and Liz were the first demigods Id ever seen who didn't have ADHD and Dyslexia. I mean, I'm pretty sure that each one of them except Liz has it, but they didn't seem to have dyslexia. Even children of Athena have Dyslexia. I saw Cammie, Bex, Macey, and Liz walk out of the Big House. They were startled. I laughed, knowing that their lives' had just changed. For the better or for the worse, I didn't know.
"Hey, Cammie, Bex, Macey, Liz. " I walked up to them, greeting them. "I was wondering. I know that you guys are demigods, and I know that demigods usually have ADHD and Dyslexia, but It doesn't seem that you have it." I started.
"I have ADHD." said Macey, Bex and Cammie.
"And I have a lighter form of it." Liz said, and looked down at her shoes while Macey, Bex, and Cammie stared at her.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US!" They all screamed. Liz's cheeks turned red.
"Umm, I was embarrassed." she replied sheepishly. Then she looked straight at me. "I had Dyslexia, too, but my parents made me read so many books that I eventually got over it."
"Same here." replied Macey, Cammie, and Bex.
"Oh." I said, nodding. "Well, tonight's Capture the Flag, so we'll need you to get weapons and armor." I started leading them to the armory, when Liz halted us.
"Wait. You said 'weapons and armor', right? Why would we need weapond and armor for Capture the Flag?" she asked, confused. I smiled evily.
"It's Camp Half-Blood rules." I replied. The Gallagher Girls looked at each other warily, then finally started to trudge after me. This was going to be fun.
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It was a couple hours after I had settled Cammie, Macey, Bex, and Liz into the unclaimed cabin. It was time for dinner and then Capture the Flag. They got their meals and looked like they were going to dig in when they saw all the other campers walk to the fire and dump a little of their meals into the fire. I got to their table and told them that we were making offerings to the gods. They walked to the fire to do what every other camper was doing. After we ate, it was time for Capture the Flag.
It was Athena, Poseidon (yippee!), Hades, Hephaestus, and all the minor gods/goddesses and the unclaimed except for Hypnos versus Ares, Zeus, Aphrodite, Hermes, Demeter, Apollo, and Hypnos. Athena and Ares had the flags. I quickly explained the Camp rules to the Gallagher Girls just before Chiron made his usual speech.
"The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. All magic items are allowed. The flags must be prominently displayed and can have no more than two guards. Guards aren't allowed to stand within ten yards of the flag. Prisoners may be disarmed, but may not be bound or gagged. Killing or maiming is NOT allowed." Chiron finished up. Cammie gulped. Bex was incredulous.
"Good news os that tonight's the most likely night that you will be claimed." I added as an afterthought.
"Killing or Maiming!? What are you guys, crazy?" Bex yelled. Thunder rumbled.
"Bex, be respectful! No one has been killed in a long time. But many people have been threatened with their life. Don't take it seriously." I responded, trying (and failing) to calm her down. She kept quiet, but she was steaming, looking incredibly nervous. Cammie, Macey, and especially Liz were nervous, too.
I went to the center of the group and explained the battle plan. The battle plan was: get the experienced campers into two groups. Send one down the right and one down the middle, the middle being bigger and the right being smaller. While they were distracting most of the group, a small third group of untrained demigods -*cough cough Gallagher Girls cough cough*- and I would wait for the woods to clear a minute or two and then descend down the left flank, were we thought the Ares team put their flag. Percy would stay here and would make a wall of water so that nobody could get out of our side once they got in, making sure that he could make a small opening for the camper who got the flag. Nico would make a huge army of skeletons, making us have a lot more player than the other team did, and they had the two biggest cabins on their team.
And so, the match began.
Cammie POV
The right flank left first. They were swamped by seven or eight of the other team's campers, but managed to defeat them before being attacked again. The middle started to run, so much of the attention on the right flank was was diverted to the middle team. The woods started to clear up a bit in two minutes, so our group left quickly and quietly. Nobody paid attention to us. We had concealed Annabeth, anyways, so it looked like a pretty weak group. According to Annabeth, all was going as planned.
Of course, things started to go awry. We got to the flag, and Annabeth jumped out and easily defeated the two guards. She grabbed the flag and we ran. When we got to the creek, a big girl was waiting for us, bloodlust in her eyes.
"Clarisse." Annabeth growled.
"You got our flag. Now, I take you down!" Clarisse snarled. Then, she charged. Annabeth took out her knife and started to fight Clarisse. The flag was knocked out of Annabeth's hands. Annabeth was closer to the flag, but she was locked in combat. I picked up the flag and started running to the gap that Percy had made. Clarisse ditched Annabeth ad ran after me. Damn, she was fast. But not fast enough, and she knew it. She pointed her spear at me and threw it. I was only six yards from that gap when the hit the back of my armor. It didn't pierce my skin, but I felt the electric shock it gave me. I screamed and I rolled into the creek.
