Percy's POV
After being shot down by my own wife, I simply lied in bed and talked with her, occasionally enjoying the comfortable silence. "Ugh, we had better get up Percy. Nico and Thalia will be over soon," Annabeth grudgingly muttered.
About a half an hour before lunch, Nico and Thalia dropped came in. When they appeared in the doorway with Nico's arm around Thalia's waist, Annabeth smirked knowingly, as if she knew all along that this would happen. Personally, I had no clue, but hey, once a Seaweed Brain always a Seaweed Brain.
After talking for a while we invited Nico and Thalia out to lunch. Thankfully, Marilyn was taken care of. A little visit from Clovis (hint *hint* wink* wink) had assured us that she would be having sweet dreams for a little while.
As we were heading down to lunch, I saw Josh and Megan coming down from the archery field and Maddison and Matt coming from the arena. It looked like my kids were having a good morning.
While we were eating Chiron stood up to make an announcement. "Alright I know that some of you have been asking or wondering about Capture the Flag, and why we didn't have our normal game last night." There was some nodding in response. "Well, we were a bit preoccupied last night." I let out a little laugh, which earned me an elbow to the ribs from Annabeth in addition to some strange looks from various campers. "But that aside, we will be having a special game this afternoon. All of you, who are visiting, don't worry; you'll be able to play too. We've decided to have campers vs. veterans of the war game." There was some cheering coming from the campers, while all of the veterans smirked. Chiron saw our smirks and laughed. "I wouldn't get so excited just yet campers. These veterans are some of the best fighters to come across this camp. Plus they have three Big Three kids, who are extremely powerful. So if I were you, I'd be training after lunch." All of the campers fell silent. "Alright, finish eating and go train!"
"Oh and one more thing do your best because the Gods are coming to watch." He said with a smile.
Maddison looked at me with a bit of fear but said, "Oh wipe that smirk off your face, old man!"
That just made me laugh and reply, "So you are saying that you're going to get beaten by an old man? Now that's just sad."
Her only response was to stick her tongue out. Of course, me, being the mature adult I am, had to do the same. This earned me another elbow in the gut from Annabeth. "Fine I'll stop… But after lunch." I pointed at her with my fork that had a meatball on it. "You and me, practice field?"
She rolled her eyes. "Ok, but I thought that you and Clarisse were going to fight after lunch."
I shrugged. "Oh well, I'll cancel. I'm sure that she'll just find one of her brother's butts to kick. It's no big deal."
"Alright you're on, and don't think that just because I've been out of action for nine months that I'll be soft." She leaned in real close and whispered, "Remember… I know your weak spot." Then she put her hand on the small of my back which caused me to feel like my whole body was on fire. I took in a sharp breath and close my eyes, whispering back, "But you wouldn't use it against me because you love me too much. Too bad I trusted you too much for my own good and told you where it's located."
She went back to her previous position. "True, but I can still kick your ass!"
"Language mother!" we heard Maddison say, not even looking up from her food.
I couldn't help but laugh and hold my hand up for a high five. She just looked up at my hand, rolled her eyes, and gave me a weak/half-hearted high five.
(A/N,I am skipping time because I don't know what else to put so I'm just going straight to the beginning of Capture the Flag and don't blame me if it suck because I don't really know how to write a battle scene so I'm going to make it short sweet and simple. )
In the distance I heard the conch blow, and I smiled. I turned back to my troupes and asked, "Everybody know the plan?"
They nodded and went to the stations. Annabeth appeared next to me and nodded, which I knew meant it was time to move out.
We started running to the borders but about twenty feet in front of us I saw three border guards standing by the river. Grinning, I flicked my wrist, and they were all thrown aside by a wave of water, clearing our path to their side. We ran until we met more of their defenses about twenty-five feet in.
We easily took care of them and moved on. Annabeth motioned me to follow her, and I so faithfully followed her. Mostly because she would kill me if I didn't, but she is usually right. I mean, she is the daughter of Athena.
It took us about five minutes to defeat the rest of the opposing forces. Then, directly in front of us was a clearing with the flag. "Oh yeah. We're good!" I whispered to Annabeth.
We stepped out into the clearing and I immediately got shot by an arrow. Cursing my rotten luck, I searched for the archer. Annabeth saw Megan and Josh in a tree overlooking the clearing. He was about to jump down to defend Megan so she could safely shoot from the tree branch.
"So Josh, ready to get your butt kicked by your own father?" I cockily asked.
"Oh, bring it on old man." Josh said with a smile.
"Come on! Just because I had kids at a younger age then most doesn't mean that I'm old! I'm only 36 for crying out loud!" I yelled, momentarily lowering my guard to throw my hands up in frustration.
"Yeah, but you're still older than me, so it counts. Now bring it on!" And with that he attacked.