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Chapter 3: Questions Answered

Percy's POV

I stared at the two surrounded by the young demi-gods. The small fight replaying in my mind. The fight was basically over after a few minutes. I started to over hear conversations that came from the crowd. "She's awesome!" "Where did she come from?" "She beat Clarrise that easily?" "She's so strong." "I wonder how she became that strong. She barely comes to the camp."

'She barely comes to camp?' I apparently thought out loud, seeing Annabeth nodded.

"It's rare for her to come. Especially after two years ago." Her voice was soft, but somewhat stern.

"What happened two years ago again?" Jason ased.

"The battle with Kronos.." I answered quietly but made sure it was loud enough the them to hear. "But why would she not come after that?" I asked turning to Annabeth.

She looked hesitant. "It's not my place to say. All I can tell you is she was really close to the people that died then."

There was a silence as I silently nodded and turned my head back towards Liz and Clarisse. Even though that explains why she didn't come after that, I still wonder why I haven't seen or heard of her before then. It's weird though, I've never seen her until now, but I feel like I have. Maybe I crossed paths with her before? I'm not sure.. Maybe i can talk to her one day about it..

"Percy!" I hear a voice call out. I look towards it to see Liz motioning me to come to her. I see the kids around her smiling widely at me, while Clarisse looks at me with a smirk and Liz with a nervous smile. Seeing such a sight makes me worried that I'm either going to get pranked or killed.. hopefully neither. I hesitantly make my way over to them.

When I got there Clarisse, suddenly and surprisingly, wrapped her arm around the back of my neck. "So, Jackson. These young demigods here want to ask you something. So, be nice."

"Ask me what?" I question, struggling to get out of Clarisse's grasp.

The little demi gods looked at Liz, who sighed and nodded at them, before looking back at me. A little girl with caramel brown hair walked towards me and asked in a small and quiet voice, "C-Can you teach us how to fight with a weapon like you do?"

I stopped struggling and looked at the young girl. I don't know what made me melt more. Her pleading look along with the other kids that surrounded us. The small excitement that was in her voice. Maybe it was just hearing the rest kids saying 'Please.' Whatever it was, I just smiled at them and said, "Sure, I can."

The answer made them smile and cheer. That sight made my smile grow as i feel Clarisse's grasp released from me. I stood up straight and felt a sharp pain on my back. I jump at the pain and turned and frowned at Clarisse, who just smiled. "Good on ya! You didn't make the little kids cry!"

"They would've cried-?"

"Plus you get to work with Liz. Can't wait to see how you guys do!" She said, interrupting me. Wait-

"Liz is going to teach them too?" I asked and turned towards her.

She laugh nervously, "Yeah. They asked me if i could teach them how to fight like i do." She looked at me with a smile.

"That's really nice of you to do." I told her.

"It's the least i can do for the Camp." She said with her soft smile. Soon she turned her head towards the excited kids and clapped ber hands. "Alright, It's to see all of your eagerness, and it's extremely cute." I chuckled at the comment. "But save your eagerness and energy for tomorrow. Because you asked two kids of Poseidon, who both fought for a long time, to teach you. It's going to be a while for us to come up with something that's both easy and difficult... and also fun. So after today, i want you all to rest up and get ready, okay?"

"Yes ma'am!" the kids shouted.

"Good. Clarisse, we're going to Chiron's to inform him about it." Liz turned to me, grabbed my arm, after she said that, and practically dragged me to Chiron's.

When we were mid way, Liz stopped and looked at me, with a sorry look. "I'm so sorry for that whole thing." She said with a small bow. "I didn't think they'll try and get someone, but they do need to learn how to fight with a useful weapon."

"You don't fight with them?" I ask, tilting my head.

"Not really no," she chuckled, "It's a little difficult for me to use a sword or anything with my primary hand. The best thing for is a bow, but that's for long ranged combat." She explained as we started walking again.

"But you also used-" I paused as a realization came to me. "where did you learn to do that with the water?"

Liz looked at me and thought for a bit. "Hmm, i don't know how to explain it without giving a demonstration..." She looked around and went towards a bunch of flowers next to us then told me to come here. "Water is basically in everything we see, feel and touch. Heck, we're mostly made of water. So if there's no proper water soucre for me to use I use the next best thing.. I borrow."

I raise an eyebrow at her.

She laughed softly. "It does sound silly doesn't it? Feel one of the flowers."

I looked at her strangely before doing so. "It just feels like a soft flower."

She nods, "That shows that it has water in it. So when I know that..." She trailed off as she raised an open hand over the flower i touched and closed her eyes. After a few moments, some water came out of the flower. She closed her hand as there was about a teaspoon of water hovering above the flower. "I borrow the water by taking some out of it," She turns the water around in her hand "Not too much.. not too little."

"What happens if you take too much or too little?" I ask, looking at her.

"Well, if it's too little it'll be harder to work with. If it's too much than you'll kill whatever you got the water from. Which would turn 'borrowing' into 'taking.'" She explained as she, somehow, putting the water back into the flower. Liz looked at the flower a smile and muttered a thank you before getting up.

"Well, that explains that, but how did you freeze the water?" I ask, getting up.

She hummed, "I honestly don't know. I just can."

I look at her, with a raised eyebrow. She notices the confused look and shrugged. "That's weird."

She chuckled and nodded, "It is, but it's me."

We walked the rest of the way to Chiron's in silence. Well, mostly silence. Liz stared humming a strangely familiar tune on the way. The thought of me knowing her before this comes back to me.

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