A Few Weeks Later
It was a few weeks since the Battle of Bobby Jones Warehouse. Not surprisingly there were other battles and other fights. Sadly we haven't been doing so good. We mostly ran away and retreated. My friends and I were all ok, but we became inactive, we train and train, but we barely get any missions. We once had to lead a battle against an enemy army near Arlington, Virginia. That was a good victory, but after that nobody won any major battles.
I walked back to my cabin. There were about Six other because the rest were at school or at battles. A note was lying on my bed. I opened it and read it.
Dear Ian,
Spies from Olympus have tracked an enemy army near New York City; I knew that this was a great spot to fight, near our capital and on friendly grounds. I need you to lead a small army to fight the enemy.
Regards,
Nike
Weird, Nike the goddess of victory sending me a message… Well she IS Athena's right hand… Um- Woman. I grabbed my sword and bow. "Guys! To battle!" I yelled, the Six Half-Bloods immediately raised their heads and quickly got up. I ran to the Ares cabin and yelled the same thing, then to Apollo and to Hermes. I was able to scramble about Fourteen Kids ready for battle. I got my gang, Ariella, Anthony, and Sabina. So Eighteen including me. We all got on our pegasi. We never seem to consult the Oracle these days, it was do it now or don't do. The pegasi started to run full speed down the fields and opened it's wings and started to levitate.
"So what's the mission this time?" asked Anthony yelling across the air.
"A battle at New York City." I yelled back. Everybody cheered. They loved New York City, but now they got the permission to go there and fight monsters. We landed at Ground Zero and quickly got off. I drew my sword and so did everybody else. We climbed down the rubbles of the fallen building. "Alright, we need to make an ambush plan. They are going to probably take a ferry, we can intercept them from the Statue of Liberty." Everybody nodded. We started to run through the streets to a ferry. We climbed aboard and waited for the ferry to undock.
"So are we really going to get to see and explore the Statue of Liberty?" asked Sabina. I looked around and spotted a ship. I blinked at it, suddenly I finally saw it, the mist was hiding it as a regular ship, but it was a Greek Trireme.
"No, no we aren't going to. HALF-BLOODS! ENEMY TO THE EAST!" I yelled. Everybody looked at me as if I was crazy, of course there were regular mortals. I grabbed my bow and loaded it with an Exploding Arrow and aimed and fired. THWICK! BANG! The mortals started screaming and ran away from me. All the other Half-Bloods knew what I was talking about. They grabbed their bows and fired at the enemy ship. We must've caught them off guard because they didn't shoot back until Fifteen minutes have passed. They started to fire. I saw them started to turn around to face their ship towards us. Wait a Minute, don't Greek Triremes have Battering Rams? OH CRUD! The enemy boat started to pick up speed and charged at us. "GUYS! BRACE FOR IMPACT!" I quickly grabbed onto the railing just in time for the Trireme to hit us. One of the Half-Bloods didn't brace for impact and fell off the boat. "Oh crud." They started to put their planks on our ship and ran in. I grabbed my sword and charged at them. SLASH! SWISH! CLANG! SLASH! SWISH! I only heard those noises for the next Five minutes. I shield bashed an enemy and did the windmill trick with my sword. I bashed another one with my shield on the face. I swung my sword as hard as I could. On the corner of my right eye, I saw a Half-Blood being overwhelmed and stabbed. I kicked an enemy soldier off the railing and into the water. I turned around to quickly inspect my army, another Half-Blood got overwhelmed and stabbed by two enemy soldiers. Soon the enemy started to retreat into their boats. I got my bow and aimed at their Hull. BANG! It felt like I was flying for a moment and I noticed the bang wasn't from my arrow. I fell in the water. I swam upwards and gasped for air. I quickly climbed back on the ship soaking wet. I ran to the other side of the ship, another enemy Trireme had rammed into us from the other side. I smacked my head, this was an enemy army not a patrol group, there would be more and more of them, but at the rate of our Half-Bloods dying, the battle was hopeless. I saw another overwhelmed. Suddenly time began to slow down and Ariella ran up to me. "Great timing for using the power." I said.
"Sorry, I was off guard when the first wave came in and surprised when the second came." apologized Ariella. I looked around just enough to see a Half-Blood die in slow motion.
"Quickly make the time go back to normal." She nodded and made the time go at normal speed. "HALF-BLOODS ABANDON SHIP! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" we jumped off and swam for our lives (Literally) to Liberty Island. The enemy Triremes were tailing us shooting arrows. When we were near the shore, the Triremes halted and allowed us the retreat. We got to the beach and we all fell down on the sandy shore. We were soaking wet and tired, I wondered what the Mortals saw, a ship wreck with many people dead? I guess because there were police officers coming to the shore.
"Hey kid! Are you alright?" asked the police.
"Yeah, I think so."
"Good." said the police, suddenly he grabbed his gun and lifted it. I quickly realized who the police was. I pulled out my sword and swished it through the body, the enemy dissolved into dust. The police was the police that tried to kidnap Sam and I a long time ago, he must've came back, but he is gone now, for now…
Anthony, Sabina, and Ariella ran to me with the rest of the other kids. There were four other kids besides us. Ten kids lost… This is a clear defeat… Now how do we get out? "Are everybody alright?" I asked. They nodded, but I knew they were shocked and knew that they were defeated. It's really hard for us to understand that we lost a battle because after all those years of training, we lost. "Let's get something to eat and get something to wear for now." I said, that seemed to cheer them up. We got into the Statue's snack bar and I bought a hotdog and wolfed it down without putting anything on. I stared at the box where my hotdog used to be. I suddenly had an idea. The monsters will allow food and supply ships to enter the island to make it look like this is not a big deal, but then when the ships leave we can board it and make the run for it.
I gathered the kids and told them the plans. They all nodded to it. We knew what to do. I decided to sleep on the sands, today was a clear defeat, but if we can escape it wont be a crushing defeat.
