Yep. It's me.

I just couldn't wait to write the capture the flag chapter. Yay more fighting!

Anyways.

And yes that is what I always say to change the subject.

Anyways.

I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 6

Iggy's pov

After Leo and I talked to Percy, we pretty well sat around and did nothing until the games began. Sorry if you find that boring, but that's what we did. Reyna called us all together at the Field of Mars. It was cohort one, two and three against four and five. According to Leo we were in the fifth. We were outnumbered but I've seen Leo and Frank fight before; they're pretty tough. Come to think of it so am I, but I could tell just by the way some of these kids looked that they were pretty mean in battle. This wasn't going to be a walk in the park.

Leo and I had been nominated to guard the flag. We set up in a good spot that worked well for defense. I pressed the button on the side of my glasses and was immediately clothed in armor. Then there was a sound like some kind of horn and immediately I noticed all the kids charging; on my team and the opposers. Capture the flag had officially begun. I saw several kids clashing; fighting with swords and gladius as well as other weapons. But back here there was no action. In fact, the only reason I could see anything going on is that my team, when preparing the fields for the battle, had put up a nice high up place for us to put our flag. So pretty much Leo and I were just standing there doing nothing.

"So really what's our job? What are we supposed to do?" I asked Leo. He just shrugged.

"We make sure no one takes the flag. Just like kill anyone that comes up here."

"Kill?" I asked confusedly. And if I'm going to be completely honest, shockingly.

"Well no. just like injure. Well really intentional maiming isn't aloud… we're just defense?" I just nodded. His explanation was nothing if not confusing, but I got his point. Defend the flag. I looked around again. A random person on the opposing team ran up and attempted to attack but was knocked out quickly by me. Now he just kinda laid there on the ground. I looked at him for a moment and shrugged.

"Good job bro!" Leo said, followed quickly by, "He's not dead, is he?" I just shook my head no and tried not to laugh.

"So you have wings?"

"Huh?" I said replying quickly.

"That's what Percy said. He said you had wings. And then you said he hadn't been hallucinating, so you have wings. Right?"

"Yeah. I do."

Leo's Pov

"How did you get them?" I asked Iggy. Iggy suddenly looked a bit uncomfortable, but he answered.

"Basically somehow when my mom was pregnant with me, these messed up scientists we call Whitecoats found a way to get avian DNA into my little embryo self. When I was born I was kidnapped and I was raised in a dog crate at an awful place called the School where they did messed up experiments on me and stuff. So pretty much, besides being a demigod, I'm also a mutant freak."

"So you're like 40% human, 50% god and like 10% bird?"

"Well it's two percent bird, but same concept, yeah."

It just got kind of quiet after that. After sitting in silence a couple of moments I noticed that there was a slight eeriness in the air. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck raise and I set my hands on fire, prepared for a battle. Iggy closed his eyes and tilted his head slightly like he was listening. When he opened them back up, he looked slightly nervous. He also got into more of a battle stance. Looking into the distance I noticed a small battle where I assumed the opposing team's flag might be, but it definitely wasn't even half of their warriors fighting back.

And then of course all of Hades broke loose.

Gazzy's Pov

We were well on our way towards rescuing Iggy now. We've been flying for about three hours straight. I hear my stomach rumble; I was hungry. I looked at Angel and she nodded and rubbed her stomach as if she had read my mind and knew that I was hungry. Actually knowing her she probably did. She spoke up next to me.

"Hey Max, I'm hungry, and so is Gazzy."

"I am too," added Nudge next to me. Max glanced at Fang and he nodded.

"OK," said Max, "We can stop somewhere for food."

"Oo do you think we could go to a buffet? Or maybe to like a McDonald's or something? They have good side salads. Or maybe we could go to like Sonic and have smoothies but really that wouldn't be very filling and then we would all still be hungry later. Or maybe we could go to McDonald's and Sonic so we can get both, but doesn't McDonald's have smoothies now too? I don't know, what do you guys think because I'm not really sure but I'm hungry and really wanna eat! But it has to be somewhere with salads or something like that or fruit because I don't eat anymore since we say those hawks and Fang tried to make me eat rat and why did you do that Fang? That's just horrible, and anyways I'm just really hungry!"

I let out a sigh of relief when she finally finished talking. I mean I love Nudge and all, but that mouth of hers never stops moving.

Eventually we settled on McDonald's. And yes they do have smoothies.

Sorry It's been so long since I updated. I went out of town for a week and then my cousin from out of state visited for a week. The amount of time I could have been working on this in between was used up in writing my original story. Check it out on fiction press. I have the same username there so it shouldn't be too hard. I HAVE GREAT IDEAS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER! What do you think is going to happen?