Author's Note: Hey guys! Are you ready for Chapter 2! I sure hope you are. Because here it is. I'm introducing the rest of the OCs here, so then we'll all be introduced! Anyone up for Capture the Flag?
Evelyn laughed as she, Percy, and Annabeth walked toward the clearing for Capture the Flag. Two of Annabeth's half-sisters were walking with the trio as well. Elizabeth and Emerson. Emerson was about the same age as Percy and Evelyn, and Elizabeth was only about a year younger. Evelyn liked both of them. For one thing, they were like the three E-Letter Named Musketeers. (It's Elizabeth, Emerson, and Evelyn to the rescue! Catchy, right?)
Also, Emerson was similar to Evelyn in the way that they were both incredibly sarcastic, loved pegasi, and both laughed at really inappropriate times. Emerson loved when Evelyn translated what the pegasi were saying for her.
Elizabeth, too was incredibly sarcastic. She was also a total klutz, which made Evelyn feel better about being completely accident prone. The only weird thing about the little brown haired girl was that she had a panda pillow pet named Paco. But Evelyn could look past that, especially since she loved pandas.
Soon, everyone was assembled for Capture the Flag.
"Attention heroes!" Chiron shouted. "Ares and Athena are the team captains! Ares has made an alliance with Demeter, Dionysus, Apollo, and Aphrodite! Athena has made an alliance with Poseidon, Zeus, Hades, Hermes, and Hephaestus!"
Evelyn looked at Percy and smiled. In exchange for being on Athena's team, they had made Annabeth give them first showers. Hey, get what you can get.
"Sicomba will be on Ares' team!" Chiron added.
Evelyn and Percy's smiles disappeared. No doubt Sicomba would be guarding the flag. And that kid was hard to get around. He was a… special case.
Evelyn remembered the day that Sicomba had come to camp.
A tall boy walked up the hill and down to the big house. Evelyn watched him from the porch. She was playing pinochle with Mr. D at the time. He didn't look scared or confused, like most demigods without a satyr with them. He obviously didn't have monsters on his tail. He just looked so… sure. Like he knew what camp was. But Evelyn knew he had never been to camp before.
He walked up to the porch, and looked down at Evelyn with bright blue eyes, the color of the sky in a storm. His black hair was windswept. Evelyn and Chiron exchanged glances.
"Hello." The boy said. His voice was slightly accented. He held a hammer in his hand. "I am Sicomba."
"Hello, Sicomba." Chiron said somewhat skeptically. "How did you know to come here?"
"My father guided me." The tall boy replied. He looked somewhat angry at this statement. Evelyn understood that. Godly dads sort of sucked sometimes.
"Who is your father?" Chiron asked.
Suddenly, an image blared to life above the boys head. It was a hammer, but it was not the hammer of Hephaestus. Instead of being surrounded by flames, the hammer was surrounded by lightning.
"Holy Zeus!" Evelyn exclaimed.
That was no Greek symbol above Sicomba's head. Sicomba was a son of Thor, Norse god of Thunder.
Sicomba proved not to be mysterious all the time. In fact, he was quite the typical teenager. He liked Adventure Time, which Evelyn totally approved of. They sometimes rocked out on electric guitar together. He was a cool dude, Sicomba.
But he was a cold-blooded warrior in battle.
Hence the disappearing smiles.
"Nico, Jade! No shadow-traveling straight to the flag and back! Same goes to you with water-traveling, Miss. Jackson."
Evelyn glanced over to her friend Jade Vega, daughter of Hades, and they both laughed. They had made it a habit of simply using their powers to travel straight to the flag and end the game within seconds. You see, the same way children of Hades could travel through shadow, Evelyn could travel through water. Sometimes she turned into a rainbow when she disappeared, just to be awesome. Yep, Evelyn could evaporate. That was the main difference between Evelyn and Percy, Evelyn got awesome water travel powers, and Percy got awesome storm summoning powers.
"All other magic is allowed!" Chiron shouted. "To your stations!"
Percy and Evelyn grabbed their swords and ran over to where the rest of the kids were congregating. Annabeth grabbed her knife and followed them. Elizabeth grabbed her bow and hurried right behind as Emerson took off her sapphire ring which immediately morphed into a sapphire hilted knife.
The minute they got over to the group, Evelyn looked over at Thalia:
"Can you take care of Sicomba? We'll send people in to watch your back."
Thalia smiled.
"This lightning battle is on."
Thalia looked over at Jade, who was her best friend.
"You coming with?"
Jade smiled her wicked smile and hefted her Stygian Iron knife. Her dark brown eyes swam with the excitement of battle.
"Let's do this."
Annabeth also sent a Hephaestus camper in with them. Okay, Sierra, Ben, you guarding?
Bens blue eyes flickered with excitement as he lifted his katana. Sierra's eyes flickered with fire. That usually happened when she was excited.
"I'm going all Harry Potter on this." Sierra smiled.
That was why Sierra Davidson was one of Evelyn's best friends.
Sierra was unclaimed, but everyone knew she was a child of Hecate. That was mostly because she had unleashed her magic fire on just about everyone in the camp at least once, but you know, there were other reasons. Evelyn felt bad for Sierra, she knew that she probably would've been claimed already, but Hecate wasn't big on the gods. Evelyn thought that was stupid because she was one, but people make their own choices.
Percy handed Ben the flag:
"Okay, go. Zeus' fist."
Sierra pushed her glasses up on her nose, and ran toward Zeus' fist with Ben. Her almost black hair streamed out behind her as she ran her flaming sword lighting up the dusky light.
"Amy, you don't mind taking border patrol, do you?" Evelyn said to her sister with a smile. Their matching green eyes brightened with anticipation.
"Not at all, dear sister." Amy replied with a smile. Normally, border patrol was one of the worst positions. Not, though, when one of the Poseidon kids was there. Most people didn't like having 150 gallons of water dumped on their head.
After Annabeth had assigned the rest of the campers to offense and defense, they took their positions. Thalia, Jade, and the Hephaestus camper Evelyn couldn't really remember the name of (She thought it started with an N) disappeared into the woods. Nico, Evelyn's bestfriend, summoned his skeleton sidekick. Nico had wanted to name it Stormaggedeon, but Evelyn had named his Bob instead, and now that's all he answered to. Amy took off toward the river, her long, brown hair bobbing through the trees.
Percy, Evelyn, Emerson and Elizabeth took their offensive positions. Suddenly, Chiron's voice boomed out from some distance away:
"Begin!"
Let's do this.
Evelyn smiled and ran into the woods. She met a few campers along the way, but she hit them in the head with the butt of her sword and hurried along. Suddenly, a flash of metal appeared in front of her. Evelyn barely had time to block the attack. She looked at the face in front of her.
Louise.
Evelyn sighed in disappointment. It would take her a few minutes to get past Louise, and she had wanted to get to the flag. Ah, well. Win some lose some.
Louise and Evelyn parried, rolled and lunged for about a minute. Evelyn looked around, hoping to see a puddle or something on the ground. Nothing. Dang. Louise kept going at her with fury. As nice as Louise was for a daughter of Ares, she was still a total warrior in combat.
Louise swiped toward her face and Evelyn ducked, rolling out of the way before the sword came crashing down where she was lying not half a second before. Evelyn jumped up and avoided another attack.
"Seriously Louise?!"
Louise simply shook her brown hair out of her face and grinned. Evelyn sighed. Louise was good, really good. Evelyn could beat her, but it would take a long time and probably a bottle of water. Suddenly, a blunt arrow hit Louise in the forehead, and she fell back, stunned. Evelyn looked back to see Elizabeth standing there, her bow held out.
"Liz, you are the best!" Evelyn shouted as she started running, trying to get away before Louise got up. She faintly heard Elizabeth's voice before she melted into the trees:
"I know."
Evelyn rolled her eyes and ran, finding no one, until she hit the clearing. People were fighting everywhere. She saw Percy fighting with Clarisse, and he didn't look like he was getting out of that any time soon.
Maybe I should go help…
Haha, nah.
She knew Percy could handle himself. Besides, it wasn't like he was in mortal danger. She looked to her left and saw Nico and Bob taking on three Ares kids, and winning.
You go, Ghost King.
She looked to her right, and saw the coolest thing ever.
Thalia and Sicomba were standing in front of the flag, battling. Lightning and thunder raged around them. Wind was whipping around their bodies, but they took no notice. Evelyn's ears popped and she was 100 feet away! Jade rode around on her pet hellhound, knocking down any enemy who dared even get close. Then Evelyn saw it, behind Sicomba, a break in the defenses. If she could get through there and sneak around, she could get the flag and get through the woods no problem.
Evelyn started running.
No one took any notice of her, and she was glad for it. Suddenly, though, her feet slowed down, and she found it harder to run. Evelyn looked down and saw, to her horror, weeds lashing up around her legs, keeping her in place.
"DALIA ROSE I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" she shouted.
Evelyn saw Dalia laughing as she walked toward her. Evelyn lifted her sword, to cut the weeds away, but Dalia raised her weapon and a gust of wind blew the sword out of her hand. Unfortunately, Dalia had inherited more weather and plant powers than any other Demeter kid Evelyn had ever met. Demeter kind of favored her. Evelyn fumed in anger, but she couldn't move, the weeds just kept piling on until there was a solid wall of green up to her waist.
Then, Evelyn saw a flash of movement from where the flag was. Evelyn saw the dirty-blonde head of Emerson standing behind the flag. In a graceful movement, she grabbed the flag and disappeared into the woods.
Evelyn smiled. Emerson was a good kid.
"Hey Dalia, missing something?"
Dalia's jade colored eyes widened and she whipped her head around. Evelyn laughed out loud. The weeds around her legs disappeared and she ran toward the border line. There, she saw Emerson crossing it through the woods, and the flag she was holding changed from the red boar of Ares to the grey owl of Athena.
Their entire team erupted in cheers. Evelyn smiled and walked over to Emerson.
"You go, kid."
Author's Note: Okay, all OCs have been introduced. *Applause* Yay!