So... sorry for not updating for ages. Hope you enjoy the chapter, though. It's Thuke, kinda...
"Di immortales," cursed Thalia as she tripped on a rock. She grabbed onto the nearest thing around her to steady herself. That thing happened to be Luke. "Sorry," Thalia muttered, blushing.
"No worries," Luke said, also blushing.
Nico rolled his eyes and muttered, "Well, while you two lovebirds carry on flirting, I'm gonna keep this tour moving."
"We were not flirting," hissed both Luke and Thalia. Nico rolled his eyes again and shrugged in a 'whatever' motion. Luke took Thalia and Nico around the camp, showing them the highlights and the views that the campers got.
"So this is the beach and the last place that I'm going to take you to. It's where we have the summer fireworks and lot's of people come out here to relax," Luke sat down as he concluded his tour. Thalia and Nico looked out toward the horizon, watching the sunset.
'Wow," Thalia breathed, "It's so beautiful..."
'I never knew that you were one for the sappy stuff, Thals," Nico grinned at Thalia. Thalia rolled her eyes. Wow, there's a lot of people rolling their eyes today, thought Luke, grinning. Thalia spotted Luke grinning and immediately pounced on him.
"What are you smirking at?"
"Umm, nothing," Luke said, a bit too quickly.
Thalia narrowed her eyes, "Just because you're my friend, that doesn't mean that I won't zap you with lighting."
"Umm, I was just randomly smiling," Luke answered. Thalia raised an eyebrow but left the subject alone.
"See, you're flirting again," Nico pointed out. He had to quickly jump aside to avoid a bolt of lightning. "Ok, ok, you weren't flirting, but let's go!" Nico ran off towards the cabins and saw a mob of campers surrounding a pure black pegasus.
"What's happening there?" asked Thalia, pointing at the mob.
Luke craned his neck to see, "I think that your cousin convinced the most stubborn pegasus in the whole Camp to let him ride it." Luke looked in amazement as Percy stroked Blackjack's mane. Thalia and Nico watched him, un-amazed. They had already seen Percy tame many wild horses and hippocampi, so it wasn't really new to them.
"Anything else new?" Nico asked, bored.
"Aren't you amazed or excited or something?" Luke asked, looking astounded that Thalia and Nico weren't showing any reaction.
"Nah, Percy's tamed loads of wild horses and stuff,"she paused, then added, "And we all have a special talent with at least one animal. Eagles listen to me and jackals are Death Breath's speciality." Nico rolled his eye's at the 'Death Breath' comment.
Luke's eye's widened. "Oh," he said. Thalia looked at Percy, who was busy explaining that he could talk to horses.
"Oi, Percy, stop showing off and let's go practice sword-fighting or something." Percy looked up to see Thalia, Nico and Luke watching him.
"Ok, let's go."
At the sword-fighting arena, Nico and Percy started sparring.
"C'mon," Thalia called to Luke, "let's spar." Luke unsheathed his sword, Backbiter from it's scabbard and faced Thalia. She had taken out her spear and was waiting for Luke.
"Let's do this," Luke grinned. Thalia smiled back and immediately started attacking him. Slash, jab, sidestep, slash again.
Thalia hadn't even broken out a sweat, yet. "You know, you're pretty good," she said. jabbing again. Luke just rolled out of the way in response. Percy and Nico had stopped their furious sparring session to watch Luke and Thalia. Percy chuckled as Thalia narrowly avoided being skewered by Backbiter.
"Stop laughing, Kelp Head," Thalia growled as she heard Percy.
"Whatever, Pinecone Face."
"Shut it, Kelp-for-Brains."
"Watch out, Airhead."
"Take a hike, Bubble Brains."
"Watch your mouth, Cloud Face." Thalia glared at him while sidestepping Luke's attack. The campers watched the banter between Thalia and Percy like a tennis match, their eyes flickering from one to another. Nico just rolled his eyes. Finally, Thalia managed to disarm Luke, with her spear at his throat. The campers cheered and clapped. All of then surged toward Thalia, congratulating her.
"Well done!"
"That was amazing!"
"Could you please teach us?"
Nico looked at Luke who was picking up his sword and dusting himself off. Nico walked up to Luke who had a disappointed expression on his face.
"Well done," he complimented, "You're a really good swordsman, one of the best."
"Not as good as you three," Luke replied bitterly.
"Still a match for the monsters," Nico pointed out, "Besides, we've been trained by the best." He paused, "If you want, I can ask Percy to teach you some tricks," Nico added.
"Could you, please?" Luke asked.
"Sure, I just offered, didn't I?"
- Children of the Big Three -
"Ok, so now lift your sword up like this," Percy lifted up his sword to demonstrate the move to Luke, "Yeah, like that and then you kinda slash and then stab." Percy did the move on a dummy. "Now you try."
"Ok," Luke said, getting ready to attack. He tried the move and managed to do it.
Percy clapped, "That was almost perfect! All you've got to do is twist your sword a bit more - it'll cause more damage and protect you if your opponent tries to attack." Luke nodded, concentrating.
"Let's do this." Luke tried the move again. This time, it was perfect.
"Awesome!" Percy praised, "Now let's try another move."
Percy and Luke spent the rest of the afternoon sparring and practicing sword moves.
"Did you want to do this tomorrow?" asked Percy.
"Sure, can you also teach me archery - I saw how good you guys were when I visited Olympus," Luke said.
Percy paused, "I could teach you, but I'm not the right person to ask - Thalia is. See, we all have specialties in different places. Here, I'll show you, it's our ranking for the three things that we train in," Percy handed Luke a pice of paper written in Ancient Greek. It said:
Sword-fighting - 1. Percy 2. Thalia 3. Nico
Archery - 1. Thalia 2. Nico 3. Percy
Powers - 1. Nico 2. Percy 3. Thalia
'Oh, so if I want to know something about sword-fighting, I must ask you, if I want to know something about archery, I must ask Thalia and if I want to know something about powers, Nico's the one to go to?" Luke asked.
Percy nodded, "Pretty much."
"Ok, then, I'll ask Thalia. See you at dinner," Luke called back over his shoulder.
"See you," Percy shouted back.
Percy walked back to his cabin to change his clothes and shower.
"Hey, son of Poseidon, can you help us?" called two mischievous looking boys. They had brown curly hair and sparkling blue eyes.
"Um, depends, what do you need help with?" Percy asked suspiciously. His hand was in his pocket, checking that he had everything, Riptide, some drachmas and a sand dollar. Something about these two boys made him check everything.
"Well, we want to prank Demeter's cabin. You see, we have this little thing with the head counselor of Demeter's, Katie," said the one on the left.
'It's a prank war, basically. She's pretty good at pranking as well..." the one on the right trailed off, think about something.
"Um, ok, before I tell you my answer, what are your names?" Percy asked, a bit confused
"Oh, how rude of us!' exclaimed the one on the right again.
"We are the Stoll brothers, sons of Hermes. I'm Connor and this idiot here is Travis," said Connor, the one on the left.
"So, will you help us?"
"Umm, ok? Uh, what did you need my help with?" said Percy, still confused.
"Well, we want to do a water prank... Are you in?" asked Travis?"
Travis and Connor are in the story now. Things might get a bit crazy!
Someone reviewed and said that I should stick to the storyline and that I suck. Do you think so? Should I stop? Do you like my story? Please review and tell me.
- Lizzy :)
