SORRY GUYS FOR BEING LATE? I HAD BEEN READING MANY BOOKS WHICH ENDED WITH ME NOT BEING ABLE TO POST. AND THERE ARE OTHER FICS I'M WORKING ON (4) THOUGHT ONLY TWO ARE ONLINE WHILE ONE IS JUST STARTED ON MY COMPUTER BUT IT'S IN MY VIEW THE MOST INTERRESTING AND THE LONGEST AND THE OTHER ONE IS OVER BUT ONLY IN MY HEAD J SO IT'S ANNOYING FOR ME AND WORKING ON 4 DIFFERENT STORIES OF THE SAME BOOK HIS HARD.
Chapter 10
The day was smiling on our little demigoddess as she found her mother waiting for her just on the door of her cabin, apparently she had a message to give her but Zoë knew that she only wanted to spied on her to see if she was in bad shape she probably learned about my midnight training she thought. When her mother told her that she looked more athletic in the short amount of time she had been here Zoë told her the truth. Even if her mother wasn't pleased by what she heard she reluctantly told her daughter to always give her best and didn't dwell on the subject probably because her father refused to stay with her on her island. She sincerely didn't know what to say anymore with who, it seemed like her father's good looks forced her to watch out what names came out of her mouth whenever she spoke because some names and allusions were sore subjects to many.
Her mother informed her of the capture the flag game that will be set later after dinner telling her that she would watch out for the results of her training reminding her how her father won his first which she said was the tradition of the Jackson clan in camp Half-blood. After making her offering to her dad which was blue pancakes (to bribe him) and ask for his good fortune, Zoë ate her blue pancakes with blue coke. Later she went to see which cabins wanted an alliance with her seeing that she wasn't leading. She was so excited for the games, to show her parents how much she was good that water around her boiled or shook at her passage or presence which annoyed some people.
The hatture the flag arrived. It was the first time they were having the game the present summer. Damian Martin the son of Zeus had accidentally destroyed a tree when showing off his powers which caused the Satyrs and wood nymphs turn furious that they did not allow any camper into the woods. Martin apologized but they were not accepted. No means of negotiations had worked. Zoë went to the dryads and offered that each cabin would plant a new plant and take care of it themselves which softened them and the campers were allowed into the woods once again after having Damian Martin plant three saplings that he had to take care of by himself until they became big enough.
The Ares cabin and Demeter cabin had a rift over some matter which led the two cabins to be leading the hatture the flag. Ares cabin got the help of Athena, all the minor gods cabin and the Zeus cabin. The Demeter made alliance with the rest. The Aphrodite cabin sat this out. Zoë made alliance with the Demeter cabin and she was asked to guard the flag. Due to huge number they had it was decided that there would be five people guarding the flag. Alice Shaw was the leader of the Demeter cabin who with the help of Apollo cabin leader Robert Strange and Hephaestus cabin John Larkin made a strategy for the blue team. Zoë was to be the one with protecting the flag. She had Edward, Sarah and two other members from Hephaestus to help her. With almost all from the Ares cabin wanting a chance to attack Zoë it was concluded that the daughter of Perseus should stay and guard the flag. Zoë was practically undefeatable in sword fighting which had got the Ares campers pissed. Even the Athenians had a hard time letting go. Damian was hell bent to get his way. With Damian on the opposition there was no doubt that he would be amongst those coming for the flag. Zoë stood along with her friends waiting for the hattures to arrive.
When Chiron gave the signal the teams got going. Zoë and friends waited for the action. Good half an hour went by and they could not find anyone or anything approach them. Zoë was using her ability to sense the presence of a person to locate if anyone was coming their way. The plan had been good and Zoë was sure that their team would have already reached the flag of their opponent. Suddenly Zoë could feel people approach.
"Guys, I think we are going to have company. Better be alert but don't show it, we will take them by surprise." Zoë said.
Zoë looked casually in the direction opposite to the opposition's arrival but with abilities she was probing the attackers. There were at least seven of them. Zoë was sure that the one leading was Damian as like most of the heroes he would try to take their flag to show their power. There was one Athena camper and the rest were Ares' kids. Edward readied his bow when Sarah had her spear and shield in her hands. The Hephaestus kids had their swords at ready. A lighting blot raced towards Zoë who had sensed it coming ducked to avoid the blow. Damian and team charged. Zoë stayed where she was and waited for them to arrive. Edward shot an arrow and sent an Ares camper packing. Sarah made a small plant to sprout and the son of Athena lost his balance and hit the ground hard and this made him lose consciousness because of the device planted by the Hephaestus carbines. Zoë had asked her team to place a small bucket of water for her. When Damian got close she made the salt water drench Damian who smirked.
"What that was supposed to do water girl." He taunted. Zoë looked really troubled, Damian's grinned. He concentrated on the sky and summoned a lightning. His plan was to make the lightning to come to him and then shoot the blot through his sword. The moment the lightning touched him the salt water being conducting the electricity flowed to meet the earth, he tasted his own medecine. This threw Damian six feet backwards and he hit a tree rendering him unconscious. The five Ares campers charged and were met by Zoë. With one swift motion she sent the first weaponless and the second one unconscious. The Hephaestus kids were quick to join the party; the two of them got together and took the smaller one of the Ares camper hattive. The one who had lost the weapon quickly got it back as Zoë defended herself against the two buff fighters. They both carried swords and were using all the skill and strength in facing the young daughter of Perseus. Sarah and Edward stayed near the flag as they were instructed so as to stop any other attempt from another person.
Sarah quickly made a vein pop and made the Ares camper stumble which gave the blacksmiths enough time to hatture him. The two who were fighting Zoë soon had themselves disarmed. Both were arrested. Damian regained his consciousness to find that his team had lost and was hattured. He was smart enough not to try to summon the lightning again. He could hear the commotion from the other end of the forest telling him that their flag was already taken and in only a few minutes his team would be losing. He charged at Zoë who had seen the son of Zeus get up. Damian made a wide slash at Zoë's head. Zoë used her palm to meet the flat of Damian's blade and pushed it upward. This made the camp leader to lose his balance and he stumbled forward. Zoë used her training with Annabeth and kicked Damian as hard as she could. Maybe that had too much force because an audible crack was heard from the backside of the rib cage where Zoë had kicked him. Damian yelled in pain before he passed out. A horn sounded announcing that the blue team had won which meant the first victory for Zoë in her first capture the flag game which only appealed her even more.
That they she was thankful to Annabeth for training her so hard and pushing her when she wanted to sleep, she made a vow to thank her personally whenever she would see the daughter of Athena. That night unfortunately for her there was no meeting with Annabeth which she didn't complained because she was dead tired, her night was dreamless well maybe Morpheus took pity of me she thought before drifting in a deep slip.