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p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="eop"In the last five years I had learned a few new things about the Olympians, they suck. Okay maybe not all of them but that all had huge problems, Athena was a prideful ass, Zeus was the same, and it seemed like none of them even cared about all the demigod children THEY had had. I mean come on do you know how many people are crammed into the Hermes cabin like 25 and it is not big enough for that. Plus, how much effort did it take to claim someone it seemed like getting a godly voice mail or text message. My day started off okay with breakfast then sword practice with the Hermes kids, then I went to say hi to Beckendorf in the last few months he had been helping me to forge a trident, in turn I was helping him set up his first few dates with one of the Aphrodite girls Selina Beauregard they both had liked each other for the longest time when I convinced him to go for it. Anyways my trident had turned out well, a 6-foot ling three-pronged spear made of bone steel, razor sharp points and beautiful mosaic-esk patterns were hand engraved into the whole weapon and it could shrink to a small watch which I wore all the time. Initially Beckendorf had been curious as to what the metal was and where I had gotten it, but eventually I convinced him that it was a special variety of Celestial Bronze. Him and Selina who I very much liked were getting along greatly they had been dating about three months now, about how long it took me and Charles to finish my shiny new trident. Today was the day though it was capturing the flag, I had been here for a while and we played weekly so I had gotten rather good at It, however I was especially exited for tonight's game even if I was not exactly sure why, I just had a gut feeling something was gonna happen and I wasn't sure it would be good or bad. The sides had been decided it was Hermes with Athena and apollo against Ares with Hephaestus, Dionysus, and Demeter, the Aphrodite cabin was sitting out not that that was new. After dinner, the whole camp went to the arena to prepare for the game, I was still skinny, and my bronze armor was loose, but it would still protect me from accidentally dying. I had been told that I would be on border patrol by Luke who was leading our team assisted by Annabeth the newly appointed Athena counselor. So, I stood by the creek waiting for something fun to happen when Clarisse came out of the woods carrying our flag in her hands, following her were 4 other Ares kids. I ran forward swiping the flat of my blade at the fist wrapped around the flag she dropped it and yelled in pain I quickly picked it up and tried to run but I felt a zap in my back, and my legs bucked I landed kneeling in the creek bed I started to feel reenergized like someone had just plugged me in and electricity was flowing through me, my legs still numb somehow supported me then Clarisse yelled "Cream that punk and get that damned flag" ugly number one ran at me and I ducked under his sword swing and punched straight up into the bottom of his chin so hard his feet left the ground and he landed on his back unconscious, ugly two and tree came at once I quickly presses the large button on my watch and my trident appeared in one hand /spanspan class="normaltextrun"span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;"Skofnung appearing in my other one I swung my trident at Ugly 2 and he crumpled ugly three swung his sword at the hand my trident was in and a large gash from my elbow to my shoulder started to leak blood, I parried his next strike with my sword and slammed the pommel into the side of his helmet knocking him out as well. I felt like I had just reached a boss fight, Clarisse and the last dude ran at me I dropped Skofnung and picked up my trident in my good hand and we began to fight it was hard two against one especially one of them being Clarisse. She jabbed me in the ribs again with Maimer her electric spear and I felt dazed. Quickly I kicked the other guy fighting with her back and he tripped on one of his "Sleeping" comrades and his head slammed into a rock and he stayed still, hopefully not dead. Clarisse ran at me again, but I side stepped her spear thrust and brought my trident down on the shaft a powerful overhead strike. Her spear was broken, she looked at me in complete disbelief, "You bitch, you corpse breath piece of shit" I spun and slammed the butt side of my weapon like a bat hitting her in the side of her head effectively silencing her. I picked up the flag and planted it next to a tree by the river, the second I stepped out of the water I felt exhausted and in pain. my arm was almost completely covered in blood but none the less I stood there and waited for the game to end "I guess I was wrong this game has been a shit show" I muttered. Suddenly, I heard cheering a whooping as Luke Annabeth and few other Hermes children came running out of the forest and across the boundary line by this time I was back to standing in the water as I no longer needed to guard the flag left forgotten on the ground in the shadows. Then Chiron spotted me in the creek with my hand covering my shoulder as it bled profusely, he came over and had me take my hand off the wound, when I did blood came out faster than ever and I stumbled to my knees then out of the blue the pain in my arm seemed to lessen and my strength returned to me, a large glow filled the darkness of the woods, from right above me. It was the same symbol on my sword a circle with eight tridents jutting out around it, there were two others circles in the middle and one on the outside like rings and on the last layer there were word in old Norse, but I could not read them at the moment. I turned to look at everybody and Chiron knelt "All hail Perseus Jackson son of Aegir, king of the seas, master brewer, the Norse personification of the ocean." Everybody was kneeling and the second Chiron finished talking the biggest lightning bolt I had ever seen came down from the sky striking the ground a few dozen meters in front of all the campers and when it cleared a man stood there, dressed in a light blue Greek chiton he had a beard that seemed to change colors the same colors as storm clouds. His eyed matched the sky's color exactly and just by looking at him I could tell he was not human. "You should not be here, for this insult you must die." Zeus. He opened his hand and a lightning bolt appeared there, a meter long bolt of arching electricity, all the demigods present ran and dived for cover and Chiron tried to speak "Lord Zeus he is only a chi." but the rage the god held was evident, he threw his bolt and I closed my eyes waiting for death, I didn't come./span/span/p
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p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="normaltextrun"span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI opened my eyes to see another man in front of me, "Ya all right Perseus, your father sent me just in time I see" he was huge about 6' 5", he had broad shoulders reddish brown hair and his eyes were blazing spheres of lightning, he wasn't wearing a shirt so I could see the tattoos that came up from his waist to chest then down his arms, he had a cloak of sorts hanging of his back he had fairly regular pants. But around his waist was a wonderous belt one fit for a god. It had a disk of a bronze-colored material it was intricately designed with all sorts of detailing; it went down his thighs on both sides and radiated power. He also had gauntlets on each hand also elaborate and beautiful they were golden and silver with runes carved on the backs of them, the different plates of metal blended together remarkably well, however the most impressive thing was then man's hammer it was huge and about 2 and a half feet long, with a rectangular head on top runes and Norse words were engraved in the sides and I noticed a lightning bolt was also imprinted on either side , it was deadly I knew it Zeus knew It everybody was well aware that if this god wanted to, well… He was staring at me waiting and I realized I'd been stating at him with a look of shock on my face, I decided respect was key "thank you Thor long time no see he looked impressed "Yes young demigod, ehh demi-giant?"/span/span he whirled around to face Zeus who was literally sparking and yelled "what the hell is wrong with you, you can't go around killing the children of gods much stronger than you, next time you try to harm this child there will be serious consequences do you understand me." Zeus was literally shaking in anger, but he left all the same./p
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p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"Thor then turned to me and for the third time he spoke "I bring a gift from your father, he would have come himself but water and lightning don't mix well, he is very strong but it wouldn't have been wise for him to come here" "I understand Thor, what is it you have for me then" he pulled out a key chain with small metal boat on it, "When the right word is said this will expand and become a suitable home for you, or so I'm told. The activator is Knarr" "I will have to test this out later, but first, I must speak with Chiron, thank you for your help so much lord Thor, I hope we meet again on a happier note." span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/p
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p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="eop"In the last five years I had learned a few new things about the Olympians, they suck. Okay maybe not all of them but that all had huge problems, Athena was a prideful ass, Zeus was the same, and it seemed like none of them even cared about all the demigod children THEY had had. I mean come on do you know how many people are crammed into the Hermes cabin like 25 and it is not big enough for that. Plus, how much effort did it take to claim someone it seemed like getting a godly voice mail or text message. My day started off okay with breakfast then sword practice with the Hermes kids, then I went to say hi to Beckendorf in the last few months he had been helping me to forge a trident, in turn I was helping him set up his first few dates with one of the Aphrodite girls Selina Beauregard they both had liked each other for the longest time when I convinced him to go for it. Anyways my trident had turned out well, a 6-foot ling three-pronged spear made of bone steel, razor sharp points and beautiful mosaic-esk patterns were hand engraved into the whole weapon and it could shrink to a small watch which I wore all the time. Initially Beckendorf had been curious as to what the metal was and where I had gotten it, but eventually I convinced him that it was a special variety of Celestial Bronze. Him and Selina who I very much liked were getting along greatly they had been dating about three months now, about how long it took me and Charles to finish my shiny new trident. Today was the day though it was capturing the flag, I had been here for a while and we played weekly so I had gotten rather good at It, however I was especially exited for tonight's game even if I was not exactly sure why, I just had a gut feeling something was gonna happen and I wasn't sure it would be good or bad. The sides had been decided it was Hermes with Athena and apollo against Ares with Hephaestus, Dionysus, and Demeter, the Aphrodite cabin was sitting out not that that was new. After dinner, the whole camp went to the arena to prepare for the game, I was still skinny, and my bronze armor was loose, but it would still protect me from accidentally dying. I had been told that I would be on border patrol by Luke who was leading our team assisted by Annabeth the newly appointed Athena counselor. So, I stood by the creek waiting for something fun to happen when Clarisse came out of the woods carrying our flag in her hands, following her were 4 other Ares kids. I ran forward swiping the flat of my blade at the fist wrapped around the flag she dropped it and yelled in pain I quickly picked it up and tried to run but I felt a zap in my back, and my legs bucked I landed kneeling in the creek bed I started to feel reenergized like someone had just plugged me in and electricity was flowing through me, my legs still numb somehow supported me then Clarisse yelled "Cream that punk and get that damned flag" ugly number one ran at me and I ducked under his sword swing and punched straight up into the bottom of his chin so hard his feet left the ground and he landed on his back unconscious, ugly two and tree came at once I quickly presses the large button on my watch and my trident appeared in one hand /spanspan class="normaltextrun"span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;"Skofnung appearing in my other one I swung my trident at Ugly 2 and he crumpled ugly three swung his sword at the hand my trident was in and a large gash from my elbow to my shoulder started to leak blood, I parried his next strike with my sword and slammed the pommel into the side of his helmet knocking him out as well. I felt like I had just reached a boss fight, Clarisse and the last dude ran at me I dropped Skofnung and picked up my trident in my good hand and we began to fight it was hard two against one especially one of them being Clarisse. She jabbed me in the ribs again with Maimer her electric spear and I felt dazed. Quickly I kicked the other guy fighting with her back and he tripped on one of his "Sleeping" comrades and his head slammed into a rock and he stayed still, hopefully not dead. Clarisse ran at me again, but I side stepped her spear thrust and brought my trident down on the shaft a powerful overhead strike. Her spear was broken, she looked at me in complete disbelief, "You bitch, you corpse breath piece of shit" I spun and slammed the butt side of my weapon like a bat hitting her in the side of her head effectively silencing her. I picked up the flag and planted it next to a tree by the river, the second I stepped out of the water I felt exhausted and in pain. my arm was almost completely covered in blood but none the less I stood there and waited for the game to end "I guess I was wrong this game has been a shit show" I muttered. Suddenly, I heard cheering a whooping as Luke Annabeth and few other Hermes children came running out of the forest and across the boundary line by this time I was back to standing in the water as I no longer needed to guard the flag left forgotten on the ground in the shadows. Then Chiron spotted me in the creek with my hand covering my shoulder as it bled profusely, he came over and had me take my hand off the wound, when I did blood came out faster than ever and I stumbled to my knees then out of the blue the pain in my arm seemed to lessen and my strength returned to me, a large glow filled the darkness of the woods, from right above me. It was the same symbol on my sword a circle with eight tridents jutting out around it, there were two others circles in the middle and one on the outside like rings and on the last layer there were word in old Norse, but I could not read them at the moment. I turned to look at everybody and Chiron knelt "All hail Perseus Jackson son of Aegir, king of the seas, master brewer, the Norse personification of the ocean." Everybody was kneeling and the second Chiron finished talking the biggest lightning bolt I had ever seen came down from the sky striking the ground a few dozen meters in front of all the campers and when it cleared a man stood there, dressed in a light blue Greek chiton he had a beard that seemed to change colors the same colors as storm clouds. His eyed matched the sky's color exactly and just by looking at him I could tell he was not human. "You should not be here, for this insult you must die." Zeus. He opened his hand and a lightning bolt appeared there, a meter long bolt of arching electricity, all the demigods present ran and dived for cover and Chiron tried to speak "Lord Zeus he is only a chi." but the rage the god held was evident, he threw his bolt and I closed my eyes waiting for death, I didn't come./span/span/p
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p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in; vertical-align: baseline;"span class="normaltextrun"span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanI opened my eyes to see another man in front of me, "Ya all right Perseus, your father sent me just in time I see" he was huge about 6' 5", he had broad shoulders reddish brown hair and his eyes were blazing spheres of lightning, he wasn't wearing a shirt so I could see the tattoos that came up from his waist to chest then down his arms, he had a cloak of sorts hanging of his back he had fairly regular pants. But around his waist was a wonderous belt one fit for a god. It had a disk of a bronze-colored material it was intricately designed with all sorts of detailing; it went down his thighs on both sides and radiated power. He also had gauntlets on each hand also elaborate and beautiful they were golden and silver with runes carved on the backs of them, the different plates of metal blended together remarkably well, however the most impressive thing was then man's hammer it was huge and about 2 and a half feet long, with a rectangular head on top runes and Norse words were engraved in the sides and I noticed a lightning bolt was also imprinted on either side , it was deadly I knew it Zeus knew It everybody was well aware that if this god wanted to, well… He was staring at me waiting and I realized I'd been stating at him with a look of shock on my face, I decided respect was key "thank you Thor long time no see he looked impressed "Yes young demigod, ehh demi-giant?"/span/span he whirled around to face Zeus who was literally sparking and yelled "what the hell is wrong with you, you can't go around killing the children of gods much stronger than you, next time you try to harm this child there will be serious consequences do you understand me." Zeus was literally shaking in anger, but he left all the same./p
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p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"Thor then turned to me and for the third time he spoke "I bring a gift from your father, he would have come himself but water and lightning don't mix well, he is very strong but it wouldn't have been wise for him to come here" "I understand Thor, what is it you have for me then" he pulled out a key chain with small metal boat on it, "When the right word is said this will expand and become a suitable home for you, or so I'm told. The activator is Knarr" "I will have to test this out later, but first, I must speak with Chiron, thank you for your help so much lord Thor, I hope we meet again on a happier note." span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/p