Thank you so much to all of those you have followed, reviewed, and favorited this story. It means so much to me, especially since I've spent so much time on this. I have a pretty clear idea of how this will end, so you can contribute battle plans or ideas but they may not be used. However, if you want a character to appear, like Lou Ellen; I will take definitely requests like those. From here on out, the chapters are going to get longer, like the last one. This chapter, I have decided will have flashbacks of the battle and follow Katie as prisoner.
Enjoy!
Katie felt stupid. Really? She had to say- "I'm alright! Don't worry, Miranda's in charge while I'm gone! And when I come back, if I see any chocolate bunnies on my cabin's roof- Stolls you're going to wish the Romans got to you first!" The Romans probably thought that she was crazy, if they didn't think that already. She had refused any food or water that they had offered her, and wouldn't tell them her last name. The Romans could hunt down her father if they wanted big revenge. And the food and water was probably poisoned or infected with that truth telling stuff.
Katie's mind wandered back to winter break and school. She had decided to become a summer camper last year, to give it a try with her dad. It hadn't been that bad, in fact- Katie shook herself out of it. She was a prisoner, literally in a cell hung seventeen feet above the ground so there would be no "plant business" (A kid named Octavian had the mercy of telling her that.) She couldn't stay on the past. However, she did think back to the battle, it went great actually. It was easier than fighting in the Titan War and Katie was wondering if the historians got it wrong with Romans conquering Greece, etc., etc.
Katie was never that good about fighting, she didn't have dyslexia or ADHD like her siblings which meant she had to train extra hard because she didn't have the reflexes like others had. At first, Chiron was probably wondering if she was a demigod and not some monster in disguise. (As was everyone else.) She was terrible at Ancient Greek, good at English, and stunk at sword fighting lessons. She had improved, she concluded. Maybe that battle was easier because I've improved.
Katie started to think about the start of the battle. It was foolproof; her plan had countered everything the Romans did. She had sent Drew to charmspeak the kidnappers; Pine alerted them to a demigod stumbling through the forest "Like no Greek would." She had sent Lacy to round up her. Katie smiled in spite of herself, she had become the leader. A daughter of Demeter becoming a leader instead of gardening or screaming "cereal!" Demeter's kids had evolved over the centuries; she concluded again.
Katie had sent the Hunters and Cyclops to distract the first wave of Romans at the top of the hill with Thalia and Tyson leading the charge while half the campers got into Testudo Formation with the new shields the Cyclops and the Hephaestus cabin had been laboring on. She had put Connor and Travis- the prophecy had basically said to out them in charge on something to lead the other Campers in an attack formation by Cabins and attack the Romans.
She remembered seeing the new Cannonballs that Cabin Nine used, enchanted by the Cabin Fifteen Kids. They had worked well, her Cabin had grown plants and also shifted the ground, a new technique Katie had taught them. They grew vines undergound, or other plants then made the plant move. Therefore, the earth would move. It worked to make the Romans lose their footing, but they couldn't cause earthquakes or anything major.
She remembered how she was doing good, until a Roman had cut her in the arm and in the ankle, they were both deep cuts and the Romans hadn't tried to heal them it once she was taken captive. They wasn't bleeding anymore, but Katie still felt a little woozy from the blood loss. She had a hard time concentrating after the cut and eventually got herself surrounded. Then again, maybe she hadn't improved. She had worse injuries in the Titan War. However, in the Titan War she was able to use nectar and ambrosia, something she couldn't do as they had no breaks and in the middle of the war, it wasn't the time because if she took a break, a worse injury than the ones she had could follow.
Katie shook herself to present day and looked around her cell, she was being lowered, she could feel in. They were going to do something to her, but she had no clue what. As the cell hit the ground, jolting her bad ankle and arm, the door swung open like in the movies. The kid was medium height, black hair, but what struck Katie the most was the blood. It was all around his mouth. She shrunk back into the cell, even when the guard told her to stand up and move.
The guard sighed, a took a swig from his water bottle- or blood bottle and went into the cell, which was small and there was almost no room for both of them. He had to hunch as he walked in and whispered. "My Name is Dakota. Come with me. I know Percy." The words "I know Percy." Were a fact, he wasn't lying; Katie could tell. But just because he knew Percy didn't mean that it was a good thing. He could have tried to kill Percy.
As Dakota noticed her wounded ankle and arm, he fumbled with a little velvet bag that he had pulled out of his armor and gave it to her. "It's a healing thingy." Dakota whispered. "Reyna instructed me to give it to you- secretly." There was an undertone meaning- "If you tell anyone about this I will personally make you wish for chocolate bunnies.
Katie took it, it was a healing herb, she could tell and wasn't poisoned. It was natural, which explained why Katie could tell information about it. Nobody had put anything bad in there; so Katie out in her her mouth and chewed. It quickly dissolved and Katie didn't feel any wrenching pain which proved that maybe this Dakota person was alright; but the blood...
Once Dakota saw that Katie finished, he quickly stepped back and motioned for Katie to get up. Before she could, a voice yelled "Dakota, get the girl and stop drinking Kool Aid!" Katie froze, Kool Aid? Oh...
Katie stood up and numbly walked out of her cell, the plants around her were calling to her, begging her saying that they could get her out of this miserable place. (No, that was just Katie's imagination. The plants were not really calling her.) But Katie said a mental "No!" Because she wasn't going back to Camp without the other demigods. Greeks stuck together. And she wasn't going to trade her freedom for theirs. If she escaped, that would make the Romans torture the other prisoners more. She looked up as Dakota nudged her up some steps and realized that she was going onto a platform. A crowd was below, cheering and yelling in Latin. The Teddy bear killing kid, Octavian had a goblet filled with something white. Octavian smiled, a smile that was pure evil and said "And here Daughter of Ceres is where you'll meet your fate."
I'm going to go back and rewrite some of the chapters because I feel like they weren't my best. Anyways how do you like it? Next chapter will be from Travis's POV or Thalia's POV and then maybe Katie's. (I'm feeling evil today) Until next time!