Logan:
She stalked towards the river and Landon was still on the branch moving his notched arrow back and forth along the river. Christina decided to change her mind and then she turned around to the nearest bush and shook it slightly with her huge front paws. Landon heard the sound and was about to whirl around when Christina slunk to the river quickly and used her tail to swipe water downstream and making it make a loud splash. He rapidly turned and shot his arrow. It landed on the ground and he knew that he hadn't hit anything obviously. He jumped from the tree and moved toward the sound where the water hit. As he got closer I could see Christina moving behind him in the trees, still in tiger form. Finally she emerged into the moonlight, let out a loud earsplitting yowl and leaped at him bowling him over from behind.
"Accccck!" he screeched. He rolled over and I was thinking Christina was a goner when she slipped to the side just in time. Landon jumped up and was about to reach for an arrow when he realized that Christina had knocked the quiver off his back and the bow out of his hands. He grabbed his fallen sword and swiped. She dodged it.
"This isn't fair Christina!" he wailed. "Turning into a tiger! This isn't fair!" He was about to take another swipe when she reared up on her hind legs, batting and swiping at him. Then Landon's faced turned red again and swiped the second time only at her chest. Christina used her claws, which were an four inches long, and deflected the blade (yes I know, those are some long claws but its true, a tigers claw is four to five inches long). Landon looked at the tiger in front of him with surprise and backed up quickly.
"What the?" he said. Christina growled and she came charging, her claws glinting in the moonlight and she leaped right up and over him and into a low hanging tree branch, with so much leaves it covered her. A quick millisecond later she jumped out in human and Landon turned around rapidly and she slammed him down with her shield.
"No!" I yelled. I ran up behind her and was about to swing my sword downwards when she grabbed both my hands from behind and swung me up and over her, so that I came flying down onto the stones right flat on my back. I yelped and when I did, my voice was an octave higher. I got up groaning. Some of the older campers were looking at Christina in awe.
"Dang. Can you hurt me anymore?" I questioned.
"Logan, don't fight her," groaned Landon. "She'll defeat you easily."
"Do not try to defend him again Landon," growled Christina. "If he wants to fight me, let him. Let him show what he's got. It'll at least prove something." The other campers standing around murmured in agreement. Some of them were cracking smiles like they knew I was going to get my butt kicked and as if they had been in my shoes before. I locked eyes with her. She had a cold glare in her gray eyes. Wait. Gray eyes? I thought she had sea-green eyes. I looked at her hair. It was honey blond and not black with brown streaks. But I couldn't focus on that now. I had to fight her.
"Its ok Landon," I replied. I feigned a strike to the leg so that she would jump and was about to hit her rib cage with the flat of my blade when she saw what was happening and met my blade. I backed up and swung towards her and she deflected. I struck sideways and again and she used the same move she had used on Landon which was swinging it around so it was facing the dirt. She turned which made her close to me and with her right shoulder, bumped me back hard.
"Whoa!" I yelled instinctively because I was not expecting that. She swung her other arm around and I backed up so I won't get punched all the way across the stomach but had to duck because she sent her sword whirling in a head-cut motion. I went back a few paces and she smirked.
"Congratulations. You've just survived a minute of fighting me."
A few kids chuckled.
I swung my blade up and she met me, and thank the gods I had a gear on because she then kneed me in the stomach. Then she used her sword and kept going one way. Meaning she would swing her sword from her other shoulder out towards my stomach and I would have to keep deflecting it. On the third time she did this, I jumped back and swung my blade down sideways with her sword and she yanked out. She struck and I tried to deflect it by putting it on my forearm since that was were her sword was heading but that was a bad mistake because the next thing I knew she pulled down on my blade and cut me.
"Ahh!" I yelped. I had been meaning to say 'ow' but I guess it came out as 'ahh!' instead.
She then brought her blade and swept it at my upper right leg and I fell to one knee.
"Stand up and fight…hero," she smirked.
I stood up and tried a head-cut of my own but it was a terrible one. She leaned back, struck my hand leaving a nice-size cut and then ducked side ways and swiped the back of my leg so that I feel to both my knees. She got behind me and pushed me down with her foot. I landed on the stones which wasn't a comfortable landing.
"Go to the water, Logan. It'll heal you and give you strength," said a man's voice in my head. I jumped, wondering who was talking to me but I didn't matter. If I wanted to stay conscious, I needed to do as I was told. Even if it was a weird, unknown voice in my head.
Out the corner of my eye, I saw Christina look back and watch me as I began to claw myself towards the river. I stuck my hand in the water and could feel the cut on my hand closing up and all the other cuts closing. I began to feel stronger and my senses opened up. I got up and looked at Christina and saw her eyes were wide. There were some Ares and Apollo kids behind her and an Ares kid ran towards me and I knew what to do. Our blades clashed so hard that I had time to use my elbow and hit him in the helmet. He fell just as a second warrior came. This time it was an Apollo kid. He swung and I went the same way his blade was going only forcing it to go faster. I used my elbow just like Christina had and struck in between his neck and shoulder. Another Apollo kid ran towards me, obviously wanted to avenge the fact that I had knocked down his brother. But he didn't have time to swing his sword because I knocked hard off his feet so he went flipping, landing on he shoulder. As I ran forward, a kid named Dominick Martin who was a son of Ares came forward.
"Ahhhh!" he screamed. He swung out and I decided to knock he sword farther out and so I did and the impact was so hard that he tripped. Everybody looked at one another in surprise.
Then a kid came forward and we met blades and I got behind him, using my own shoulder to push him down. I was using some of the techniques Christina had used when fighting the Ares kids in the arena. I don't know how it happened but it felt good.
I came forward and swung my blade just as Christina came forward so that it was a foot away from her chest. She stopped and looked down at the sword and then looked me in the eyes, studying me. Everybody was watching silently and then she used a quick move. Christina swung her blade around and battered my sword away from her chest. I ducked out of the way as she brought her sword down diagonally as if she was going to slice my face. She then went sideways with her sword in a full circle just as I stood up and when I struck downwards, her sword came up and met mine. But she brought her blade up and then straight down and I had to yank my sword out fast.
"Ahhh!" I yelled.
I quickly brought sword up and we clashed but we hit so hard that they both went down the other way. She brought it back fast the same way and so did I. As soon as the swords met, I used my other arm and tried to knock her arm that was holding the sword. I managed to move her arm somewhat at the same time I was moving my sword. I tried to use the butt of my sword and hit her in between the shoulder and neck but her free hand came out of nowhere and stopped me. Christina then did her favorite move which was the head-cut. I ducked quickly and tried to swipe at her but she parried away my blade, swung the shield off her back and slammed me in the chest. I hit the dirt hard right next to Landon who was now getting up.
"Oh, so now you're going to fight me Landon?" Christina said.
"Yep. You're probably tired so maybe I can beat you now," he replied. He swiped at her chest and she jumped back right into the river. I knew automatically that the river was going to give her strength like it had to me. They began fighting and after a few minutes, Landon tired out for some reason. I guess it was because she was pressing him with so much force. He made a head-cut and she crouched down and as soon as she stood up, their blades met and she used both hands and yanked out of his grasp and spun around and stuck his own blade behind his neck and her own blade and inch from his chest. There was some silence. Some people were murmuring about how that was one of the best moves for taking down someone.
"I won this battle," she said.
Landon gasped for breath and managed to say, "That wasn't fair. You turned into an animal earlier. I keep forgetting that you can but its still not fair. You attacked indirectly and not in human form."
"Who said anything about changing into an animal? I didn't hear in the rules, 'shape changing is not allowed.' And besides, I'm not in animal form am I anymore?"
Before Landon could reply there were whoops and yells on both sides of the creek. Then we saw the red team running with the Hermes flag towards the creek while some allies covered the retreat as the blue team tried to get to the flag. The person who had our flag, was Alethia. Her helmet was gone, obviously knock off. Christina smirked, her arms crossed. It was pretty obvious that her and Alethia were really close and that they depended on one another and that Christina knew she was going to follow through. On our side of the creek, the blue team had the red teams flag and same thing was happening only opposite. The person who was leading it was Jasper Weaver and his twin brother, Casper, recovering his retreat with some other blue allies. Everybody around the creek watched in amazement as both teams with both flags crossed the creek at the same time. Both sides exploded into celebration and then realized that the opponent team was celebrating.
"Wait a second. Why are you celebrating!" yelled a red enemy to one of my teammates.
"Because we got your flag!" he shouted back.
"Well we got your flag and crossed the creek first!" the red enemy shouted.
"HEROES!" thundered Chiron. "It is a tie between both teams! Both teams got the flag and crossed the creek at the same time! This is the first time that we've ever had a tie! So instead of fighting, lets celebrate both teams getting the flag and this being the first time for a tie!" There was agreement between both teams and then they all got together like one big happy family and started walking out of the forest and to the amphitheater, cheering and patting one another on the back. I caught up with Christina who was talking to Landon.
"Hey," I said. "Awesome fighting."
"I told you I would win. And I also told you that I may be nice then but in the game, I'd be vicious."
"Yeah, you said it all right. So, why did you tell me that I was hallucinating when you turned from that black panther into human?"
"Because if I did, that would've ruined my plan and then Landon would be keeping an eye out for any regular animal," she responded matter-of-factly. Landon snorted.
"Right. So, um, you're not going to be vicious anymore are you?" I asked nervously. She laughed and said, "Nah. You don't have to worry about me turning into an animal anymore.
"Good. You know you could've killed me, Landon or anyone out there with the way you were fighting," I said. Landon had moved ahead of us and began talking with other kids. After a minute of silence she answered.
"No. Were not allowed to kill anyone in the game."
"Oh. Right. But I mean, the way you were fighting could've done some damage and send someone to the infirmary who could, like, die of injury a few days later or something like that."
"Ohhhh you haven't seen me fight. And I highly doubt that would happen to someone here especially since we are here to train and fight monsters, not battle one another to death."
"Not exactly reassured," I suggested. She just looked at me and rolled her eyes but there was a small smile.
"Hey, I have a question," I said.
"Hmmm," she answered.
"Why was your eyes gray and your hair blond when I was fighting you?" I asked. Her hair color and her eye color had changed back; black hair with brown streaks and sea-green eyes.
"Because my mother Athena, the children all have honey blond hair and stormy gray eyes. And Poseidon, it's the sea-green eyes and the black hair. Since I'm a mix, my hair color changes whenever."
"Oh. Makes sense." Me and Christina walked in silence. When we had finally reached the amphitheater, Christina still hadn't talked and I hadn't come up with something to say. Once everyone was inside the amphitheater, the celebration automatically began. Campers ate and drank water and other kinds of drinks. Wood nymphs prepared and brought food and people talked. We were all having a great time until something went wrong. The fire that was in the middle of the amphitheater, exploded. It hurled medium pot size balls of fire all over the place. Campers and wood nymphs began screaming.
"Get out of the amphitheater!" I yelled. I could see that the Apollo cabin and Christina were trying to get campers out of the amphitheater quickly. We need water, I thought. I watched as campers ran from the amphitheater. I grabbed one camper who had fallen, picked him up and handed him to one of the buff Ares kids who where helping on picking people up who had fallen.
I was wishing that the naiads would bring water. I was so focused on wishing we had water that I felt a painful tug in my gut. Then all of a sudden one of the small creeks nearby that branched from the canoe lake exploded and water came rushing in. The water neared me, passing campers as if they were huge stones in a river, and beginning churning behind me and not going any farther ahead of me. I then realized that I was controlling the water. I was freaking out but my mind was more focused on putting the fire out.
I raised my hands and the water behind me responded, raising up into a wall of water. I shoved forward and the water rushed on either side of me, dousing all the small flames and dousing the biggest flame. Then the pain in my gut shut off and most of the water retreated, sloshing back towards the creek it came from and leaving evidence of little puddles here and there. Another thing I realized, I wasn't even wet, not even a drop of water on my clothers but everybody else was except for Christina of course. Being the child of Poseidon I suppose means you can't get wet unless you want to. I also noticed nobody had been swept away from the water.
"What. The. Hell?" I exclaimed, freaking out. I was beginning to hyperventilate.
"Logan? What did you just do?" snarled Christina angrily.
"I don't know what just happened. Honestly," I replied shakily.
Then everybody suddenly gasped. They were looking up above my head and I looked up. Above my head was a spiraling, glowing green trident; just floating over my head. I didn't need to ask what was happening because Christina had explained it when we were doing the Climbing Wall (which caused me to fall almost because I didn't focus on climbing, more on listening to her). It meant I was claimed.
The trident began to fade away until it was gone and then people looked at me and than slowly to Christina. When I looked at Christina, she had a look of outrage. And I understood why. If she was the daughter of Poseidon, and the trident only belongs to Poseidon, and I was just claimed by him, that meant she was my sister. I had gotten my 'godfather' and my crush finally in a nasty way that I didn't expect. Then Chiron spoke.
"Logan Moore has been claimed!" he announced.
"Great. Now I'm stuck with Christina," I said kind of quietly.
Chiron continued though he gave me a pointed look that said 'shut up for now'.
"All hail Logan Moore, son of Poseidon, Lord of the Seas and Creater of Horses!"
Campers began to kneel, bowing their heads in respect. I didn't it was possible for horses to kneel but Chiron folded his front legs; a horse's gesture of bowing. But Christina didn't.
She was staring at me with outraged. Then she looked at the sky and muttered a nasty curse. It thundered loudly. Campers were staring at Christina. I guess she cursed the gods a bunch but whatever she said, some campers were cowering in fear from her.
Instead of saying something, this time I blushed red and when I looked at Christina, I blushed even more red and she smirked. And I knew that she now had figured out I liked her and that I was her brother which made it nasty that I had liked my own sister without even knowing it.
"All right everybody!" Chiron shouted. "To bed! It's eleven, an hour past your bedtime. Move it now unless you want to be eaten by the harpies!"
Campers began leaving for their cabins. The ones that were wounded were rushed off the infirmary for medic care. Every single time a camper was going to pass next to me, he or she would look at me cautiously and then go far around me as they could as if expecting me to hurl water at their faces. Chiron and Christina stayed behind.
Chiron clip-clopped up to me and said with a grim face, "You will automatically move into the Poseidon cabin with Christina right now. Christina, will you show him the cabin and help him feel at home? And also, you will be teaching him for training." Christina looked at Chiron and glared, giving him the Evil Eyes she gave me a million times a day.
"Whatever," she said harshly. Then she added to me, "Come on idiot."
"That's nice to hear from you," I snapped. A snarl began to form at her lips and I backed away a bit in fear.
We walked toward the cabins in complete silence. Christina made sure she stayed ahead of me and I could tell if I tried to talk to her, she would either turn into an animal and rip me to pieces or she would just grab her sword, kill me and act as though nothing had happened tonight. Or as if something did but she would pretend to not know about it. I could also feel the tension crackling between us. It was as much as a shock to her as it was to me that we were brother and sister.
Finally we reached the cabin and she showed told me that I got the bottom bunk and she had the top bunk. She also told me that she'd explain some 'rules' that went with this cabin in the morning, or when she felt like it. That didn't reassure me. She was probably going to make some up while she slept or she was just saying that to scare me. Anyways, she climb up to the top bunk and fell asleep immediately. So much for her making me feel at home in this cabin. Finally, I fell into deep slumber, still in major shock.
A/N: Holy Zeus! He's the son of Poseidon! No way! :) I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Review and subscribe please! XD
