4. Graduation

Story Start: Camp Half Blood: One Week Before End Of Time Dilation

The air was filled with the roars of monsters and weapons fire. Squadrons of warriors faced the invasion with grim determination while noncombatants hid in the coliseum under an extremely strong barrier. Up in the air, Percy watched with Chiron as their students fought a whole range of monsters from the smallest imp to a single massive cyclops that was easily the size of Thalia's treetop while NOT standing on the hill of said tree. Correction, there HAD been a giant cyclops until a line of explosions blew up not only its chest but its arms as well in a perfectly executed Time on Target strike. The cyclops let out one last roar of defiance before it shattered like glass briefly revealing a set of joined logs underneath for a brief second before they too vanished in a smoke cloud and the fighters who had just imitated an artillery group began focusing on slightly less demanding threats.

Chiron shook his head and said "I must say Mr. Uzumaki, your seals are as impressive as they are terrifying. An invading army of monsters almost perfectly imitated and the only thing that gives them away is the removal of their housing units from the battlefield. In all of my years of teaching, I have never seen such a realistic Op-Force for a combat drill."

Percy grinned and said "What can I say, when I do something, I do it to the best of my abilities."

"Quite." Chiron said in approval before they fell silent as a flight squadron of four Pegasi with riders on them shot by just underneath where they were hovering in the air and began dropping bombs of Greek Fire down onto several packs of hell hounds that had tried to charge a squadron's position.

Ten minutes later, the last of the thousand seal golems Naruto had made for the combat drill was 'killed' and the battlefield was silent for a brief moment before the campers all let out cheers. Naruto and Chiron ignored them for the moment, instead taking in all of the damage to the area the invading army had been in and Naruto tsked as he said "If this happens for real this whole place is going to get trashed since an army won't stick with only one battle line."

"An unfortunate fact of war I'm afraid." Chiron said logically even as Naruto activated a series of earth moving seals that worked off of a 'snap shot' of the scenery the seals had taken when they had been first activated and the battle damage to the camp grounds was repaired leaving patches of bald dirt as the only indications of the battle that had just taken place.

Finally floating down, the two stood on solid ground once more and Naruto gave a sharp whistle that grabbed his students' attention and he said "Alright, listen up! You guys did extremely well just now but there's a few things we still need to address."

Time Skip: Two Days Before Time Dilation Ends

Any former campers who had decided to pay a visit to the camp would have been flabbergasted at the sight that would have met them. In the open area between the dining pavilion and the colosseum were several dozen desks of various shapes and sizes with a good portion of the camp's population sitting at them. Even Chiron was at a desk, pen stuck between his teeth for a moment before he wrote something down in the rather large packet of paper that was kept together in a three ring binder. The packets varied between campers depending on what classes they had taken over the year, something that had had Athena cabin to a camper scrabbling for the notes they had taken when they learned that Naruto was testing EVERYTHING in one go much to his amusement. (The evil cackling was NOT appreciated by the Cabin of the Wise) Cabin Five had been even more displeased, the Ares' children to a camper despising the fact that they had to take a paper test, no matter how big or small.

Speaking of size, the only one with a bigger test packet than Chiron was Annabeth who on top of all of the stuff Percy had also taught Grover was a beginner's seal user test, the Cabin Leader still interested in knowing HOW seals worked even if she couldn't actually used them. Not that the size of her packet changed the fact that her pencil tip was all but smoking as she blazed through her packet with the sureness of a master blacksmith making a simple axe head.

When the campers finished their test they would stand up and the clone that had acted as their desk in order to prevent cheating would drop their transformation and grade the test packets either marking a red x or a green check in the space next to each question for that purpose. Any wrong questions would have the proper answer added (not that there were many, Naruto had been nothing if not thorough when he taught his classes)

When all of the tests were done, and surprisingly, it was an Apollo camper rather than Annabeth to be the last one to finish, (Alright, it didn't surprise Percy at all) Percy and them walking into the dining pavilion where everyone else was and said "Alright guys, tomorrow is the day before we drop the time dilation field and there's one more test you must complete."

There were several groans before one of the harpy students called out "What more could you possibly have to test us on?!"

Naruto's answering grin did not inspire confidence. And yes, this was most definitely Naruto, prankster king from hell and not Percy, Demigod who kicked Gods' backsides before lunch. Giving an evil cackle that sent shivers down the students' spines, even CHIRON'S, he said "Why the trap portion of your learning of course."

Several faces paled at his words and Naruto heard more than one whimper from his students which only made his grin grow before he said "We'll begin testing after breakfast in the forest. We'll be going by Cabins then Camper Staff so make sure you check the schedule that I'll post on the pillars facing the forest. Dismissed."

The students began shuffling out of the pavilion in a dejected manner, those who hadn't taken the trap making class comforting the ones who had. Chiron stopped by Naruto and said "Mr. Uzumaki, could I possibly request that you limit the amount of paint traps you use? It's just that it's so hard to get out of fur."

"I will consider it, but you know, the best way to keep paint out of your fur is to disable all of the traps." Naruto said with a raised eyebrow.

Chiron's shoulders slumped and he said "I was afraid you would say something along that line." The centaur walked out of the pavilion and Naruto smirked as he heard the Eternal Teacher say to the Satyr students waiting outside the pavilion "I tried my friends." He saw all of their shoulders slump as well, especially Grover's, and they all trudged away.

Naruto shook his head in amusement at the sight before he took off for the forest. He had a reusable obstacle course to make after all.

Time Skip: The Next Day

There was beautiful music coming from the forest right now, and had been ever since breakfast. Well, beautiful to Naruto's ears. The sounds of cursing and the few yelps of surprise from his students as they laboriously worked through the minefield of trip wires, pressure plates, pit traps, and even a buried mock Bouncing Betty that let loose with paintballs instead of ball bearings had the camp population who were sane enough to NOT take Naruto's trapping course stare into the woods from the edge with conflicted looks wondering whether it would be worth their sanity to go in and laugh at the others' misfortunes.

Still, for all that the satyrs and Chiron had dreaded his paint bomb traps, none of their fur was painted and overall everyone was doing extremely well so far. He was confident that none of his students would have any problems disabling run of the mill traps and could at least detect locations where higher tiered traps could potentially be used.

"AIIEE!"

"Or not." Naruto sighed as he watched a daughter of Demeter get snagged by a snare and shoot up into the sky. The girl flailed for a few seconds before she remembered her flight seals and quickly stabilized herself. As she came back down to land by Naruto he sighed and said "Daniele, why is it that the snare is always the one you miss?"

The girl gave a sheepish chuckle as she rubbed the back of her head and said "Sorry Percy. I'll try to look out for them in the future."

"That's what you said the last fifteen times." Naruto pointed out causing the girl to blush and duck her head before he sighed and said "Go start over."

"Yes sir." The girl said and quickly shuffled to the start of the course where her fellow classmates who were waiting for their turn gave her a little bit of ribbing mixed with encouragement before she took a deep breath and began the test again.

"The snare curse strike again?" Annabeth asked walking over to stand by her teacher, an apple held in one hand with a half eaten banana in the other.

Naruto accepted the offered apple and said "I'm beginning to think it's an actual thing." He took a bite into the apple and chewed before swallowing and said "Grover have any luck with that riddle you gave him last night?"

"Nope." Annabeth said with a smile. Taking a bite of her own fruit, she swallowed and said "And I'm willing to bet he won't for a while either."

"Not with me you shouldn't." Naruto said with a grin earning a laugh before the two turned their focus back on watching the students work their way through the trap course.

Time Skip: The Next Day

To a man, the campers had all became used to seeing the blue shell of the time dilation field around the camp. So when it suddenly disappeared, everyone felt a jolt of 'something's wrong', then a few campers figured out what was going on and word quickly spread: They were back in sync with the rest of the world.

The cheer that the camp let out was understandable but paled in comparison when not twenty minutes later when they were called to lunch they found that some time in the six hours before he dropped the time dilation field Percy had sent a clone in his middle aged Naruto form to get pizza, and not just a box for every table but a personal pizza just how each camper liked it, even for Cabin Five. For those who could spare the thought between eating it really brought home both just how much money Percy was capable of gathering in a short time AND his information gathering skills since this had come straight out of left field. And then they saw the still steaming forty bowls of ramen the son of Poseidon had instead of pizza and was steadily working his way through and sweat drops began to grow while jaws steadily dropped.

Percy ignored the looks his meal garnered with the ease of experience though he did pause three quarters through his meal with noodles hanging in his mouth as an Iris message formed on the opposite side of Poseidon table. Slurping the noodles in and placing his chopsticks on top of his current bowl, he said "Lady Iris, what can I do for the Operator Overlady?"

The winged and rainbow wearing lady gave a raised eyebrow at the nickname though she also had a small smirk on her face before she became serious and said "Mr. Uzumaki, I have been ordered by the higher ups to allow you to watch a…discussion that is about to begin."

"I see, guess I should save the rest of this for later then." Percy said sealing away his ramen even as he continued "Do I need to go somewhere private for this?" He was getting quite the bit of attention from everyone else in the pavilion after all. Curiously enough, Mr. D was actually nervously sweating a little from where he was not even bothering to be subtle while listening in.

"That will not be necessary, please stand." The lady of rainbows said and when Percy stood up the Iris message window grew around the table before shrinking into nothing taking Percy with it and leaving the whole camp looking at each other wondering just what their teacher was getting into now.

End

Author's Notes: First off, I'd like to apologize for how long this took. Work was a bit hectic and I had trouble writing the end of the Time Dilation period. It took so long that I actually decided to hold off on writing the second part but considering that part is pretty meta I think I'll save it for the next chapter.

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