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The next few days were really weird, but it soon became routine that mythical creatures were teaching Markus and Percy. Well, more for Markus than Percy, but whatever.
Each morning, they would go to Ancient Greek class, where they learned the Greek Language from Annabeth. Ghidorah had told Markus that he knew many languages and would teach George them, and also gifted Markus with the ability to understand Earth-based languages like Greek, French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Latin, and so on.
Then after that and breakfast, they would participate in outdoor activities. This is where both boys separated to find out what they were good at.
Both tried archery class with Chiron. That turned out… bad for Percy. So badly in fact that Percy got an arrow stuck in Chiron's rump. Markus on the other hand was pretty good. Maybe not as good as Apollo's kids or Artemis and her hunters, but he was still good.
Later on, Markus and Percy did some foot racing with the wood nymph instructors. They left Percy in the dust, so did Markus, but he lost too. Markus told him he was used to running from thugs and police officers.
The nymphs told them not to worry about it. They'd had centuries running away from lovesick gods. However, Markus wasn't satisfied with that. He just kept on challenging them, eagerly wanting to get faster.
For wrestling, Clarisse seemed to enjoy beating Percy into the mat, whispering stuff to him. For Markus, Clarisse outright charged at him, wanting revenge for humiliating her. She seemed to fail at every turn, either with Markus slipping out of the way, or him charging head on and beating her down also. Huh, seems watching bums fight each other and participating helped a lot.
Afterwards, it was lessons with Grover, who taught both boys about gods and monsters.
At other times, Markus went to the stables to hang out with Silena, or learn pegasi-riding, getting the chance to learn more about the daughter of Aphrodite.
When Markus wasn't doing any of these things, he found a suitable and private area in the forest to start training with Ghidorah, who taught him how to use the dragon's power of lightning and storms. It was slow, but Markus was making progress. Ghidorah told him that he'd have to grow stronger than even gods if he wanted to survive in the world of gods and monsters.
Having recently finished a mental training session with Ghidorah, who wanted Markus' mental defences up and strong in case there's a being that can invade someone's mind and rip it apart, Markus was now walking towards the camp store to buy some water bottles since he was sweating from the heat as well as the training.
As he was walking, he saw the Stoll brothers, two sons of Hermes who happened to be identical to each other, harassing a girl with warm brown eyes and long black hair. The Stoll brothers, Conor and Travis, were stealing from the camp store, with the girl yelling at them, trying to shoo them away.
Feeling pity on the girl and knowing how much of a hassle the Stolls could be, he marched up, yelling, "Oi! Go bother someone else boys! Shoo!", acting as if both boys were cats.
The Stolls looked up, grinning when they saw Markus coming towards them. "Why hello, Markus," Conor, or Travis, said happily, still looting the camp store. "How may we help you today?"
"Yes, Markus," the other boy, who Markus assumed was Travis, replied. "How are you on this fine day."
"Peachy," Markus said dryly. "Now can you leave the poor girl alone? We wouldn't want someone to get pranked later on, now would we?"
Both boys grinned challengingly. "Ooh, we have a prankster on our hands?" Conor asked gleefully.
"Possibly," Markus replied. "But let's deal with that later on, okay?"
"Fine," Travis sighed dramatically. "But we'll hold you to that promise, alright?"
"Yeah, yeah. Just move on." Markus grumbled, probably going to have to deal with this later.
Thankfully both boys left, probably to prank some unfortunate victim, leaving Markus alone with the girl.
"You okay?" Markus asked.
The girl scowled, then sighed. "Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks for helping me."
"No problem. I know how much of a hassle they can be."
"You have no idea." The girl scowled cutely. "They are so annoying. And they never stop."
"Well, I'm about to suffer for defending you later. So your welcome."
"Thanks." The girl reached out, offering to shake my hand. "I'm Katie Gardner."
"Markus Reeves." He shook her hand in return, feeling how rough it was. Which surprised him; he didn't expect a girl like her to have hands so rough, but then again, it wasn't right to assume things.
"So, Katie," Markus said, wanting to start a conversation. "Uh, who's your godly parent?"
She smiled, as if it were obvious as to who it was. "Demeter, goddess of agriculture." Oh, so she belonged in cabin four. That explained the calluses on her hands; from working in her cabin.
Then Markus opened his big mouth. "Well, that explains the name." In his defence, he spent too much time with Percy and caught his in-ablility to shut his mouth.
Thankfully Katie didn't look offended. Instead, she giggled. "Well, I guess that also explains it." Markus was just thankful that she wasn't angry.
"By the way, I need some water bottles." Markus said.
"What for?"
"The heat."
Markus then went on to train with swords with Luke, and Markus managed to keep up with the son of Hermes despite a couple of fails at first but he got there.
It was Friday afternoon and Markus had just finished the climbing wall.
He got singed a bit but managed to make it to the top. He definitely wanted to try that again.
It was free time and Markus was in the big circular arena, fighting off several Ares children with a sword.
After the sword-fighting lesson with Luke yesterday, Markus went up to him to ask for more training. Luke questioned why, but Markus said that he just wanted to improve.
So most of the times it was one-on-one with Luke or against Ares children. With Luke, he sometimes won the spars. With the Ares cabin, he won because of several tactics used that ended with each kid flat on his face.
Sometimes he sparred against Clarisse, who was eager for revenge against him. With each fight against her, he learned two things: one, despite her rude manner, she was a very good fighter. Markus lost several times, which ended with him being almost shish-kebabed and electrocuted. Oh, and two, her damn spear was electric.
He did however win against her sometimes, so that was a bonus. It was evident that Markus was getting better with a sword, but he wanted to be better. He went to the Hephaestus cabin at some point, and got a bronze shield for defence. He easily picked it up since Ghidorah told him his strength was increasing as his body was adapting to Ghidorah's power and the strength that comes with being a dragon.
At other times, he was practicing with lightning and managed to shoot beams of it out and also do tricks with lightning much to his amusement and Ichi and Ni's exasperation.
Other times he talked with Silena or Katie or Annabeth. With Silena he went Pegasus-riding, just talking to her. With Annabeth he talked about reading Ancient Greek and battle tactics. While this did bore him, he was more interested in learning how to fight than tactics, which she helped him with. And with Katie it was just random stuff, either about camp or general life.
As Markus was walking around, he saw Percy and Grover by the pier. He waved, with Percy waving back and Grover responding weakly.
That night after dinner, there was a lot more excitement than usual. It was time for capture the flag.
Markus was sitting out of this one as he had no interest in competing in some boring game about a flag being captured. He'd rather have a Halo game and play Capture the Flag.
'Much as I like this place, as soon as the opportunity arrives, I'm leaving and doing my own thing. To hell with Zeus' paranoia. I can't risk people interrupting me when I'm training with your power.' Markus told Ghidorah.
Markus soon found himself in his mindscape on the mountain, standing before the 3-headed dragon himself.
"A good idea." Ichi nodded at the reasoning. "Here at this camp? We're too exposed and we don't know if the Olympians are watching us. When the chance arrives, hide in the city and find somewhere for us to call a home and we'll go from there."
"Yes, we need no distractions right now." Ni said in his usual aggressive voice. "And that includes your attraction to those girls."
"Will you shut up?" Markus blushed at Ni calling him out on being attracted to Silena, Annabeth and Katie. He was a developing boy with hormones, give him a break.
Markus soon came out of his mindscape and opened his eyes as Silena walked up to him. "hey, didn't you hear?" She asked him.
Markus frowned at her. "Hear what?"
"Percy got claimed." Silena told him. "He's the son of Poseidon..."
And that's it for this chapter.
Harem so far: Silena, Annabeth, Katie, Thalia, Zoe, Bianca, Piper, Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hestia, Persephone,
