Hey guys here is Chapter 3 of Daughter of Poseidon and I would like to say thanks to Miss Hourigan for adding my story to her favourites list and I hope y'all had a good Christmas
Chapter 3
I spent the rest of the afternoon unpacking and then that evening after dinner it was time for Capture the Flag. I was on the Blue Team with Percy, Hazel, Nico, Reyna, Frank, a son of Dionysus called Pollux and the Athena, Nike, Nemesis, Hermes, Hepheastus and Apollo Cabins. The Red Team consisted of the everyone else and was led by the Ares Cabin who were a dozen of the biggest, loudest and crudest kids I'd ever seen. We were led by Athena and I had been given the very important job of protecting the flag. I suppose it made sense because it was my first day but I was still disappointed I was missing out on the action. When I saw the flags my jaw dropped because they were both huge. One flag was blood red and had an image of boar's head on it while the other was silvery grey and had an image of an owl on it. Everyone wore Ancient Greek armour on except Reyna, Frank and Hazel who wore Roman armour. Everyone also carried a sword except Thalia who had a long spear and a shield with and image of Medusa's head on it which made me want to curl up into a ball and cry, Annabeth who had a long bronze knife and Frank also carried a longbow with a quiver full of arrow on his back. Percy pulled out a ballpoint pen from the pocket of his jeans and when he uncapped it I was surprised to see it turn into a metre long bronze sword. Chiron stamped a hoof on the floor of the dining pavilion and said "Before we begin I must go over the rules for our new campers. The creek in the forest will form the boundary line between the teams, the entire forest is fair game, all magical items are allowed but killing and maiming are not, prisoners may be tied but not gagged and the first team to get the enemy flag back into their territory is the winner. I will be serving as referee and battlefield medic" as we all moved out I caught up with Percy and Annabeth who was carrying the flag. "You nervous Amelia?" Percy asked with an encouraging smile. "A little I've never heard of a Capture the Flag game like this." I replied.
"Don't worry, your ADHD and armour will stop you from getting too badly hurt." Annabeth said. "How will my ADHD help?" I asked probably looking as confused as I felt. "Your ADHD is what gives you your battlefield reflexes and your Dyslexia is because your brain is hardwired to read Ancient Greek." Annabeth explained. I kind of understood the ADHD but I didn't get how having Dyslexia means I can read Greek when I can barley read English. Chiron then trotted up to us and said "Amelia I've chosen a Camp T-shirt for you, I'll give it to you after the game." "OK, thanks Chiron." I replied as the centaur trotted away. In the forest we came into a clearing and Annabeth planted the flag in the middle. "Alright everyone know the plan?" Percy asked and everyone except me nodded. "Alright then let's move out!" I was left in the clearing with two guys and another girl about my age. "Wait what's the plan?" I called out but didn't get an answer so I sat down on a boulder near the flag and huffed as I heard a horn followed by the sounds of fighting and shouting. "You new here?" one of the boys asked. He was about 15 and athletic with a southern accent and long light brown hair. "Yeah, I just arrived this morning." I replied holding my hand which they all shook.
"I'm James, son of Hermes."
"I'm Brad, son of Nike." the second boy said. He was a black guy of about 16 with a Texas accent. "I'm Zoe, daughter of Nemesis." the girl said. She was a Native American with shoulder length brown hair. "I'm Amelia, daughter of Poseidon apparently." I said at which they all looked awestruck "So, you're Percy Jackson's sister." Zoe said amazed like he was some big celebrity.
"Well yeah, what's so special about that?" I asked with a shrug as they all shared a look like there was something I should now. "I heard he fought in both the Giant and Titan Wars." James said. "I heard he fought Medusa when he was 12 and he fought the Minotaur twice." Brad added. "And I heard he fought Hyperion and Kronos during the Battle of Manhattan." Zoe added. I was shocked and as I opened my mouth to speak I heard something moving in the trees behind me so I stood up, turned around and drew my sword.
As I looked at the others they drew their swords nervously. I rolled my eyes and took up a fighting stance as three red plumed warriors emerged from the trees on the edge of the clearing. Two of them had swords but the third had a long spear that seamed to crackle with electricity and I couldn't tell if they were guys or girl because of the helmets "Come guys there's only three of them and four of us we can take 'em." when I didn't get a reply I looked around to see they had already legged it. "Oh C'mon really?" I said as the three warriors continued to thunder toward me. The warrior with the spear lunged at me but indistinctively parried the head of the spear just missing my chest. The other two attacked at once and I struggled as the spear warrior went for the flag. Eventually I broke away form the warriors with swords and pulled the flag away from the reach of the third warrior who tried attacking with her spear again and I could feel the electricity as I dodged and parried I planted the flag in the ground behind me and the three warriors came at me at once.
I still can't believe what happened next, it was like I was autopilot. I dodged, parried, lunged and swung my sword at my opponents faster than I had ever moved before. I was knocked to the ground once but I immediately rolled away to avoid the spear. They kept attacking me as I tried getting to my feet but eventually I stood up. As I blocked on sword I tried twisting mine and forced the warrior to drop their sword and then I punched them hard in the gut causing them to double over as they fell to the ground. The second sword wielding warrior attacked so furiously I could barley keep up. Eventually they slowed down which gave my an opening to disarm them and whacked on the head with the pommel of my sword. The warrior with the spear looked impressed as they walked toward me. "You're good girlie, but you won't beat me as easily as you beat my brothers." the warrior said and I was surprised at the fact it was a girl because she was almost as muscular as Frank.
She attacked me vigorously and I could feel myself slowing down as I blocked and parried but the adrenaline and natural reflexes kept me going until I dodged and broke off the end of the girl's spear with my sword as I heard cheering coming from the trees. The girl screamed in anger as she threw her broken spear to the ground. As I felt myself come down from the adrenaline rush I said "How the heck did I do that?" to myself then I felt a sharp pain in my left arm. I looked down and saw a long cut just below my elbow bleeding freely. I figured it must have happened when I was fighting one of the girls brothers. As they got to their feet I heard Percy shout "Amelia!" a few minutes later he came out of the trees carrying the other teams flag which now looked like ours. He was closely followed by the rest of both teams and upon seeing my arm he ran forward and said "Are you OK?" he sounded genuinely concerned even though he had just met me this morning and I was taken aback after hearing what James, Brad and Zoe had said. "Yeah, it's just a scratch, luckily I didn't need any help." I replied glaring at James, Brad and Zoe. Chiron came over and handed me what looked like a square of white chocolate. I took a bite and it tasted like the chocolate cake I used to make with Mam when I was little. I looked at my arm and as I ate the cut on my arm closed and faded to a barley noticeable scar. Percy took a bottle of water from Chiron and poured it over my arm to wash away the blood. As soon as the water hit my skin I felt energised and once the blood was gone I noticed my arm was totally dry and the scar had faded to nothing. "What was that stuff you gave me?" I asked.
"Ambrosia, food of the Gods. A little can heal injuries but too much can burn up a Half-Blood literally." Chiron explained and I wondered what he meant by it literally burning up a Half-Blood but I was too nervous to ask. "And let me guess not getting wet is a child of Poseidon perk too?" I asked looking back at my arm. "Yeah, water can also heal your injuries and you can probably create small hurricanes and earthquakes too like me." Percy replied. My eyes widened as I said. "Hurricanes and earthquakes?" Percy nodded in confirmation and I said. "Cool."
"So she's your sister then Prissy?" the buff girl asked as she removed her helmet. She has small eyes a, pig like nose and long stringy brown hair held back by a red bandanna. "Yeah I am, Amelia Rutherford, daughter of Poseidon."
"Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares and former head counsellor of Cabin 5." I shook her hand and she said "I got a say I'm impressed you held your own against three of us." gesturing to her brothers who had also removed their helmets then looked at James, Brad and Zoe who looked down embarrassed. "Honestly I surprised myself, I've never used a sword before." looking down at the weapon which lay dormant in my hand. "Well with a bit of training you may be as good as Prissy here one day, he's the best swordsman the camps seen in 300 years." Percy shrugged at the compliment as if to say I'm not that good. "What else are you not telling me?" I said sounding playful but I was totally serious. "Not much." Percy replied but I was sceptical but before I could say anything else Chiron took out a folded orange T-shirt and handed it to me saying "Amelia here is your Camp T-shirt, now it's late so everyone back to your cabins."
Back in the Poseidon Cabin I had a quick shower and then got changed into my pyjamas in the bathroom after trying to use my powers to dry myself. I got changed in the bathroom because I would have felt uncomfortable getting dressed in front of Percy and Annabeth who were already laying in one of the beds together. As I lay down in another bed they both said "Goodnight Amelia." "Goodnight" I replied and my last thought before I went to sleep was Do I really have some kind of war hero for a brother?
So that was Chapter 3 and just a quick note to say that after the Giant War Athena went down to Tartarus and brought back Annabeth's knife and Daedalus' laptop which Leo helped Annabeth repair.