?Natasha's POV:
The kids led us to a big beach on the edge of a forest. There were a few other kids sitting on the sand and in the water.
"Okay, this looks like a good place," Frank said.
"Yup, we're on sand so Leo can't set anything on fire, by water for Percy, and around a lot of precious metals for Hazel," Will said, nodding.
"I have no clue what any of that means, but okay," Peter said.
Annabeth chuckled. "It'll make sense soon," she said.
"So, who wants to go first?" Conner asked.
"I will!" Leo exclaimed.
"Sure," Jason said.
"Okay, so I'm a son of Hephaestus, and my mom who wasn't a god, but she totally would've made an epic god, but one of my powers that isn't really a power but I'm going to say is a power is that I'm really good with machines," Leo said.
"How good?" Tony asked, probably wanting to have a competition with him later on.
Leo pulled a paperclip, a rubber band, and a pipe cleaner out of his toolbelt, and in only two minutes he had created a tiny helicopter that had spinning blades and could actually fly.
". . .I think I have my answer," Tony said, astonished.
"Yup," Leo said, smirking, "Oh wait. . . oh no. . . AAAH!" Leo exclaimed, and without warning his shirt and hair set on fire, and he rolled around on the ground making noises that imitated what a dying pterodactyl would sound like.
My eyes went wide, and the rest of the Avengers started panicking, while the kids just stood there with amused smiles.
Steve and Bruce rushed down to the water and tried to scoop water up with their hands to put the fire out, which was pretty useless, and Bucky and Tony fanned the fire, in hopes of putting it out, but that was a really stupid idea because the flames just rose higher.
All the while, Leo was also smiling for some reason, I had no clue why though, seeing as being lit on fire was probably pretty painful.
"Your friend just lit on fire? Aren't you going to do something?" Clint asked them, panicking.
And that's when the kids all lost it. They doubled over in fits of laughter, including Leo, who was still on fire.
"Did I forget to mention I can also manipulate fire, and am immune to it?" Leo asked, after they all stopped laughing, and the fire died down.
"YES!" Bucky exclaimed.
"Oops," Leo said, smiling innocently.
"Okay, who's next?" Frank asked, still smiling a little bit.
"I can go if no one else wants to," Hazel volunteered politely.
"Yep, you can go," Frank said.
"Alright, so I'm the daughter of Pluto, Hades's Roman counterpart, and I can sense precious metals, and summon them from the earth," Hazel said.
"Really?" Steve said, fascinated.
"Yeah, and I can demonstrate, but you can't touch whatever I bring up," Hazel said, warningly.
"Why?" Bruce asked.
"Because I can only summon cursed jewels and metals," Hazel mumbled, clearly not very or proud or excited about the talent. "The last time someone touched something I pulled from the earth, I never saw them again."
"Oh," Bruce said, with wide eyes.
"Yeah," Hazel said. She closed her eyes and made a weird motion with her hands, and suddenly a small chunk of Osmium popped up from the ground.
Hazel picked up the precious metal, examined it, and chucked it into the water. "Hopefully I didn't hit any naiads," she said. "Who wants to go next?"
"I'll go," Percy said.
Hazel nodded.
"Okay, so I'm a son of Posiden, his only known demigod child since world war two," Percy stated. "And since I'm a son of the sea god I can manipulate water, talk to sea life, create hurricanes, and start earthquakes. But I'm only going to manipulate water right now because the last time I created an earthquake I made a volcano erupt while I was in it, got trapped on an island for a week, and then ended up walking in on my own funeral."
Annabeth rolled her eyes and the rest of the Avengers and I just stared at him in disbelief.
Percy pointed his finger at the water, and a small sphere of water came floating over to him. The water seemed to follow wherever he pointed his finger. Eventually, he pointed at Leo's hair, which still had a bit of fire on it, and the water dropped, making Leo soaking wet.
"Hey!" Leo complained.
Percy rolled his eyes. "Frank can go next because he has cool powers, and I've been trying to get him to admit it for ages, but he's stubbornly modest and keeps insisting that my powers are cooler, so you guys need to make him say it," Percy said.
"Okay. Frank, what are your powers?" Peter asked, curiously.
"Not much, they're really not that great," Frank mumbled. "I can just do this," he said. After he said that he shapeshifted into a tiger, then an eagle, then a beaver, then a squirrel, and finally into a dragon. It all happened so fast, I barely saw it.
Clint made a small choking noise in the back of his throat. "Not that much? Not that much?" he asked, in disbelief.
"Umm, yeah. That's what I said," Frank said, clearly self-conscious.
"You can literally shapeshift into a dragon. A FLAPJACK FLIPPING DRAGON!" Clint exclaimed. "That is awesome."
"See Frank! Awesome!" Percy said.
Frank rolled his eyes.
"So, who hasn't gone yet?" Jason asked.
"You, me, Will, Annabeth, Conner and Travis, and Nico, although he isn't here right now, but we can call him down here later," Piper said.
"Right, well I guess I can go," Jason said. "I'm the son of Jupiter, the Roman counterpart of Zeus, and I can summon lighting and fly," Jason said.
"Kinda like Thor," Tony mumbled.
"Well, Thor would probably the Norse equivalent of Zeus, so that would make sense," Annabeth said.
Bruce nodded in agreement.
Jason started walking up a flight of stairs, but incredibly, the stairs weren't there, and he just looked like he was waking up stars, but in reality, he was flying. Then he put his hand up in the air, and a bolt of lightning came out of nowhere and struck the sand.
"Whoa," Bucky said, with wide eyes.
"yeah, Piper, you wanna go next?" Jason asked, coming back down to the ground.
"Sure," Piper replied. "So, I'm a daughter of Aphrodite, and despite from being annoyingly pretty, my power is charmspeaking, which basically means, if I charmspeak you you're put in a sort of trance and you have to do whatever I say," she said.
"Really?" Tony asked.
"Yup, but sometimes if someone has a really strong will, they can resist my charmspeak," Piper said. "Who thinks they have a strong will?" she asked.
All the Avengers and raised our hands.
Piper smirked. "Spin around three times in a circle, and do the chicken dance all the way through twice," she said.
And for some odd reason, I had a strong desire to do what she said. And almost against my will, I did what she asked. It was a strange feeling. It was like I really wanted to do what she said, but somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew I was in a trance, and I wanted to stop doing what she told me, but I did what she said anyway.
After we all stopped doing the chicken dance for the second time though, were put out of the trance.
"That was. . . weird and terrifying," Steve remarked.
"Yeah, I try not to use the power that much, but it does come in handy in a fight," Piper said.
"Can we go next?" Travis asked.
"Mhmm, sure," Piper said, nodding.
"Do any of you have watches on or anything?" Conner asked.
"Umm, I do," Steve said.
"So do I," Bruce said.
The brothers looked at each other, grinning. "Okay, look at Annabeth's nose for five seconds," Travis said.
Steve and Bruce looked a little skeptical but did as Travis told them.
Five seconds later, when they looked away from Annabeth's nose, they noticed their watches were gone.
"What? Where did my watch go?" Steve asked.
"Right here," Conner said, tossing the watches back to Bruce and Steve.
"How?" Bruce asked.
"We're sons of Hermes, god of messengers, travelers. . . and thieves," Travis said.
"Now, Will or Annabeth, it's only you two left," Conner said.
"And Nico," Travis added. "But he isn't here."
"I can go," Annabeth said. "I'm the daughter of Athena, she's the goddess of wisdom, so her children don't really have really cool powers, but we're all really good at battle strategy, and. . . uhm. . . I make good decisions." she said.
"Yeah, I think she has the best power out of all of us." Percy said.
"Pfft- yeah, we would've all died by now without her." said Leo.
"Damn right," Annabeth said.
"Well, I guess that just leaves me," Will said. "I'm a child of Apollo, and I don't really have any cool powers per se, but I can curse people to rhyme, and I can heal people, and I think I'm pretty good at playing the ukelele," he said.
I nodded.
"He's also like a human glowstick, except you can't bend him and crack him or he'll die," Leo added.
Jason rolled his eyes.
"Now, I'm going to call Nico and tell him to come down to the beach," Will said, pulling out his phone from his back pocket.
"Hello!. . . yes, this is very important. . . Ugg, no . . . WHAT? You know what? We can talk about that later, right now you need to get over to the beach so you can show the people your powers. . . No, I can't. how am I supposed to show them your powers? . . . *sigh* just get down here," Will said, then he hung up.
"He'll be down here any seco-"
"AAAH!" Clint yelled, cutting Will off.
Nico stepped out from a shadow that was cast on the ground from the forest. He rolled his eyes.
"Oh. . . hi Nico, I didn't see you there," Clint said.
"Clearly," Nico grumbled.
"Okay neeks, now's your time to shine!" Will exclaimed.
"You sound way too excited bout this," Nico said. "Also, I don't shine, in fact, I do the opposite, I get darker, I melt into the shadows. But anyway, I a son of Hades, technically I was born in the 1930s, but I was trapped in time, so I'm sixteen currently, bu that's the short version of the story. Also, I can teleport using shadows, and summon the dead."
"You can raise the dead?" Peter asked.
"No. I can summon the dead, I can only call upon them, and bing their souls up from the underworld, not bring them back from the dead, there's a difference," Nico explained.
"Oh," Peter said, a little disappointed.
"Nico, can you summon Micheal Jackson?" Leo asked.
"Yes, I can, but I won't," Nico said.
"I'll get you a happy meal," Leo offered.
"No," Nico said.
"Yes," Leo said.
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"NO!"
"Yessssss."
"N. O."
"YES!"
"Ugg!"
"Ha!"
The two's arguing was interrupted by a loud noise that sounded like. . . a conch horn?
"Aww yes! It's dinner! And Katie told me we were having pizza!" Percy exclaimed.
"Pizza?" Leo asked.
"Pizza," Percy confirmed.
The two looked at each other, smiling, and then sprinted off, back to the camp.
Piper rolled her eyes. "It looks like it's time for dinner, come on," she said, walking back to camp.
We all followed her. These kids have crazy powers. I thought.
?Tony's POV:
We all walked back along the dirt path that we came to the beach on, occasionally taking a few turns. (Well, except for Leo and Percy, they sprinted off after Percy said they were having pizza.)
Finally, we came to a big outdoor dining pavilion. It had a huge fireplace and twenty-one tables, each lined up about a few feet from each other except for the big table which was place horizontally facing all the other tables.
The tables also all had Greek words written on the front of them, which I'm assuming is the name of all the kids who sit at that table's godly parent.
"Why are there twenty-one tables if there are only twelve Greek gods?" Peter asked.
"Oh no, there are a lot more Greek gods than just twelve," Annabeth replied. "At Camp Half-Blood we have children of the minor gods too, such as Nemesis, Hypnos, Iris, Nike, and a lot more."
"Oh. What about that one I learned about in school, like. . . umm, what was her name? Oh! Hestia?" Peter asked.
"Hestia's a maiden goddess, so she doesn't have any kids, although we do have a cabin here for her, just as a symbol of respect," Piper answered.
"What table would we sit at, seeing as we're not children of any gods?" Natasha asked.
"Hmm. . . good question," Jason said. "Well, I would say Hermes, but they're a little crowded at the moment so. . . go sit with Percy!"
"Hey!" Percy complained from his table.
"Don't act like you weren't just complaining about being alone at your table two days ago," Annabeth said, rolling her eyes.
Percy sighed. "Fine," he said and beckoned for us to come sit at his table.
We all walked over and sat down on the opposite side of the table from Percy while the kids went and sat down at their own tables with other kids.
I noticed that some tables were completely full, others only had one person sitting at them, and some were completely empty. "Why are some tables empty, and some tables crammed full of kids?" Bruce asked Percy.
"Well, the reason some tables are empty is because some gods don't have kids, but we still have their cabins and tables, just kinda as a symbol of respect. And for the tables that crammed. . . I guess some gods just have more kids than others," Percy answered. We all nodded in understanding.
Before any of us could say anything else, Mr. D stood up from his place at the big table facing all of the other tables. (I still don't know to feel about that guy.) He cleared his throat. "There are a few announcements," he said.
Everyone quieted down to hear him.
"First of all, Zeus told Piper it was okay for her to tell a group of mortals about the Greek Gods and let them into camp, so let's welcome our new visitors: the Averages," Mr. D announced.
Percy snorted, trying to contain his laughter.
"Um, it's actually the Avengers. Spelled A-V-E-N-G-E-R-S," I corrected.
"Don't sass me, I know what I said Tiny Steak," Mr. D said.
Clint and Bucky burst into laughter, along with Percy, Conner, Travis, and Leo. I sighed, a little bit offended. Why does everyone have to make fun of my name?
"In other news, capture the flag is tonight one hour after dinner, so get your weapons ready, and make sure your armor is intact," Mr. D said, and then at down, signaling he was done with his announcements. Everyone started talking again.
"Why would you need weapons and armor for capture the flag?" Steve asked.
"Capture the flag is a little bit more violent here," Percy said. He laughed when he saw our concerned faces. "Don't worry, we don't kill each other, just mildly injure."
"Right. . ." Natasha said.
Suddenly plates of Pizza and empty cups appeared out of nowhere right in from of all of us.
"Ah!" Clint yelped in surprise.
"Why are the cups empty?" Peter asked.
"So you can choose what you want to drink. All you have to do is hold your cup, and say what you want to drink," Percy explained. He picked up his cup. "Blue Diet Coke," he said. I didn't think it would work, since blue Coke isn't a thing, but a few seconds later, a blue liquid appeared in his cup.
"No way, you can also choose the color? that's awesome dude!" Peter exclaimed.
"I know right?" Percy said.
Peter picked up his cup. "Red Orange Juice," he said, and a red-colored liquid filled up his cup.
Soon enough we all had weird colored drinks, well except for Bruce. Bruce just got regular water because he's boring.
"Thor and Loki would probably like this place." Natasha mused.
"You mean the Norse ones?" Percy asked.
"Yeah, it's too bad they couldn't come, they're on Asgard," she said.
"Asgard?" Percy asked.
"Don't you know what Asgard is? Since you're part of the mythology world or whatever you'd call it?" I asked.
"I know all about Greek Mythology, but I know virtually nothing about Norse mythology," Percy answered truthfully.
"Well it's basically the home of the Norse gods and a lot of Asgardian demigods," Natasha said.
"Oh. Cool, and I'm guessing Agairdian s the term for someone who lives on Asgard." Percy said.
"Mhmm, and they refer to our world as Midgard, so we are Midgaurdians," Natasha explained.
Percy nodded thoughtfully. "Ever heard of the Backyardigans?" he asked. Clint spit out his drink, laughing.
"No. . .?" Natasha said.
"Well, it's a show where these animal thingys called the Backyardigans go on adventures and stuff," Percy said. "Wanna hear the theme song?"
"No, that's okay," Steve said.
"Too bad, I'm going to sing it anyway," Percy said. "Hi, I'm Pablo." He sang in a squeaky voice. "My name's Tyrone, I'm Uniqua, I'm Tasha, And my name is Austin, And we're..."
"Your backyard friends, the Backyardigans!" Leo sang, loudly.
"Your backyard friends, the Backyardigans. Together in the backyard again. In the place where we belong. Where we'll probably sing a song. And we'll maybe dance along. We've got the whole wide world in our yard to explore. We always find things we've never seen before. That's why every day we're back for more. With your friends, the Backyardigans!" They finished together in squeaky voices.
Conner and Travis erupted in whistling and clapping. "Encore, encore!" Travis yelled.
Conner wiped a fake tear from his eye. "So beautiful," he whispered.
Leo and Percy stood up and bowed. Nico stood up and left.
"Thank you! Thank you, everyone! Except for Nico," Leo yelled.
"Sit down," Mr. D called out to Leo and Percy.
Percy smirked and sat down.
All the campers slowly started to finish up their Pizza and leave until it was only the Avengers and me. We had finished a while ago, but we didn't know where to go so we just kind of sat there.
Finally, after about fifteen minutes of awkwardly sitting there, Will ran up to us. "I was looking for you!" he exclaimed. "I thought Carisse tried to dunk you in the toilet of something."
"Oh, uh. . . nope. Just. . . waiting for. . . something," Peter replied.
"Well, I'm sure whatever you're waiting for can wait because you need to get weapons and stuff for capture the flag, I'll take you to Annabeth's cabin, come on," Will said, running off.
We all got up and ran after him, he was really fast, just like Nico and Annabeth, we almost lost him, but managed to follow him all the way to a pale-ish yellow-colored cabin with a big owl symbol hanging above the door.
"Alright, let's go in," Will said.
"Oh wow," I whispered once he opened the door.
?Clint's POV:
"Oh wow is right," I said in astonishment.
Two of the walls were lined with bookshelves filled with books of all different colors and sizes, one of the walls had a big whiteboard with equations, maps, and battle plans written all over it, and the last wall had two triple-decker bunk beds and a small desk pushed up against it. The desk had a microscope and a few test tubes on it, along with a few random papers. The walls were painted a shimmery grey color, not that you could really see it though with all the things on and pushed up against the wall.
Kids were sitting on their bunk beds, putting their armor on, and sharpening their swords and arrows, which, I'm not gonna lie, kinda freaked me out.
There were also some kids huddled by the desk, probably discussing game plans or something like that.
"Alright, does anyone have some armor these peeps can borrow?" Leo asked, examining a book sitting on a bookshelf.
"Why are you calling me a marshmallow?" Peter asked. "I don't think I taste like marshmallows. . . or do I?" Peter licked his arm, then gagged. "Nope, just dirt."
Natasha facepalmed.
"He means People, Peter," Tony said.
A brown-haired boy with amber eyes who was about 14 glanced up from a book titled '10 Best Ways to get revenge on someone without killing them' and said, "I've got two shields and a spear they can borrow. Aren't these those Average guys?"
Tony let out a loud groan. "No, we're the avengers. Your camp director guy just got our name wrong."
"Nope," Leo said. "That is their actual name, they just decided 'Avengers' sounded cooler than 'Averages', but that's their real name."
Tony glared at Leo, while Leo just stood there smirking at him. "Ooooookay. . ." the boy said, not really sure who to believe. "Anyways, just go downstairs, also, don't they have weapons already?"
"Yeah, but they don't have any armor, and that might be a problem when there are twenty arrows flying towards them at ten miles an hour," Will said.
"Wait, what?" I exclaimed. "Arrows?"
All the Athena campers looked at me as if I was a bit strange.
"Oooooookay..." Will said. "Well, let's just head on over to the armory then."
"What's so bad about arrows?" One of the younger Athena campers yelled after us.
"THEY CAN KILL YOU!" I yelled!
"Yeah, and what's so bad about that?" they asked, confused. I stared at her, trying to figure out if this was some kind of joke.
"I AM SO JEALOUS OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T MET YOU, CONNER!" Some random kid yelled from the campfire.
"Uhh. . . welp," Will said and led us outside. We followed him until he stopped at a large black and red building. We stepped inside.
Wowza. Spears, swords, shields, daggers, and every other weapon imaginable lay scattered around the room. Will examined a huge spiky ball on a stick with critical eyes. "Get yourselves swords and shields. Maybe a dagger or two if things get really bloody."
We stared at him for a second, then at each other.
"Heck yeah!" Peter decided for us.
For the next ten minutes, we sorted through arrows, clubs, and axes.
"I think I'll stick to my shield," Steve said, after looking through all the weapons.
"Yeah, sure. I guess you can use a shield as a weapon, but he, can't use his laser suit thingy." Will said, looking at Tony with accusing eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. I know," Tony said, rolling his eyes.
"OH DON'T ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME, YOU BOYFRIEND-STEALING FEMALE DOG!" Will yelled.
"Female do- . . .Oh," Steve said.
"His language senses were tingling," I said with a snicker.
Natasha facepalmed.
"Yes, in fact, they were Clint," Steve said. Tony snorted.
"Why do these nunchucks have spikes on the ends of them?" Peter asked.
"Why not?" Leo asked.
"Good point, you have flawless logic," Peter said.
Natasha facepalmed again.
A few more minutes (and a lot more facepalms) later, we all came out of the armory, with armor on and weapons. Most of us just kept our original weapons, but Bruce got a spear, Natasha borrowed (Read stole) a few more throwing knives, and Peter picked those weird spiky nunchucks.
"Alright! ready to go capture a flag?" Leo asked, practically bouncing up and down with excitement.
"Uhm. . . sure?" Bruce said.
"Was that a question or an answer?" Will asked.
"An answer. . .?" he replied.
Will rolled his eyes.
"I do not like the idea of fighting children," Steve said.
"Well, I mean, if you want to just. . . not fight, that's fine, but you'll probably get pulverized," Leo said.
"Who's team are we gonna be on?" Bucky asked.
"We'll find out at the campfire in a few minutes," Will answered.
?Leo's POV:
"Okay, campers! Welcome to capture the flag. You know the rules. Prisoners may be disarmed but not bound or gagged. The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. Flags must be prominently displayed. No killing or maiming is allowed." Mr. D announced. "And also, since the Avocadoes sat at the Poseidon table during dinner, they will be playing for the Poseidon Cabin."
"Oh sweet!" Percy exclaimed. "Hear that everybody? I've got superheroes on my team!"
"Avocadoes," Tony whispered. "He called us the avocadoes. That's worse than the averages!"
Natasha facepalmed.
"Uhh, Natasha?" Clint said.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Your forehead is red from facepalming. . ." he said.
She sighed. "Maybe I should stick to just rolling my eyes."
"Uh, yeah. That would probably be a good idea," Clint agreed.
"Alright everyone, now here are the teams," Mr. D said. "The Blue Team is: Zeus, Poseidon, Iris, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Nike, Hephaestus, and Hebe. The Red team is: Hermes, My wonderful cabin, Hades, Demeter, Hypnos, Tyche, Aphrodite, Nemesis, and Hecate."
After he said that, we all grouped together with our teams. I was really happy I got the Ares and Athena, now with my traps we were sure to win, well, that is if Mr. D let me use my traps.
I mean, I don't see why he wouldn't let me set up very painful traps around the woods.
"So," I said once all of the teams were grouped together. "What's the plan?"