Chapter 3
I follow Nico until the armory, he didn't say another word until we reach where he was taking me. Like Chiron had told me Annabeth and Percy where there, both training. However, they stop after seeing both of us approaching them.
"Finishing talking with Chiron?" Annabeth asked.
"They did, she asked to bring her here. I think she might need some weapons." Nico replied.
"You don't have any?" Percy questioned.
"Well I do have the weapon that my Godly parent gave to me, but there are two problems, one I can't tell any of you who that is and the weapon would let you know who it is, and second, the weapon itself is not with me at all times." I explained. "So, could you show me where I can get a replacement for the time being?"
"Sure, come with me." Annabeth answered.
She walked closer to a storage and then open the doors, showing several types of weapons, going from daggers, passing through different swords and ending up with spears. Annabeth gave me some space so that I could choose. I look for a second before choosing what it would best suit me. I started with a dagger, and I end up picking a double-edged black dagger. I save the dagger on the holster at the end of my leg, you could barely notice it with my dark jeans. But I didn't stop there, I went to the swords next, why? Well if all my train ever taught me anything was to always have a backup, and the dagger was my backup. I had always one with me, but left it behind when I came here just as a precaution. Now choosing the right sword was a little more complicated, the weight had to be perfect, also not to long so that I would only need one hand to handle it. It took me a couple of minutes to find a good enough sword but I found one, still not good as my personal weapon but it would have to do for now.
"Those were nice choices." Annabeth commented. "I would love to see what kind of train you have."
"Me too." Percy said stopping his conversation with Nico.
"I can show you that, do you want to try and train with me?" I asked him.
"Sounds fun. First on the floor with no exit loses?" Percy suggested.
"Fine by me." I agreed.
"Then if I win, you will have to tell me if your Godly parent is your mother or your father." He said.
"You will need to win first." I teased. "Let's start then."
Annabeth and Nico stand on the side, giving us space. I had seen him fight before and I knew he was good, after all he had been able to injure Ares with almost no experience and that wasn't something easy to do being a demigod. However most of my training and been with the Gods and they had put me to the test with some of the tougher monsters from time to time. Even so, Percy was good and I needed to be careful to not give away who my father was, but I couldn't lose either.
Riptide was a good sword, way better than the sword in my hand. However, that didn't matter, they wanted to see what my training had made me, and I only needed to pin Percy to the floor to win. First, I had to make him think that he was winning, but not letting it be too easy, the blades of the swords were going back and forward, he attacked my side and I deflected with my sword counter attacking right the way, but with him being fast enough to block it. We were dancing with the swords for a few minutes, when he tried attack my side again I defended, but this time I let the weight push me down to my knee. That made Percy think he had me, he was focus on pushing me even further to the floor that his gravity point was on his sword. I had him where I wanted him to be, still I needed to act fast so that he didn't realize what was happening until it was too late.
I put weight one the knee that was against the floor, still holding his attack, and I use my other leg to push his legs from behind to push him out of balance while using the knee on the floor to rotate myself out of his attack, and while he was falling to the floor I let go of my own sword and grab the gagger, using that same hand to push him against the floor while he was still disoriented.
"I guess this means I win?" I said after seeing him blinking a couple of times.
"How in Hades did you do that? I had you for sure." He asked.
"Besides lots of training, also knowing how to bluff is very useful." I explained while helping him to get up.
"You need to teach me that." Percy requested.
"Maybe in the future." I replied while picking up my sword from the floor and saving in my belt.
"I can see that your training is nothing like ours." Annabeth said approaching us.
"No, it is not. However, I can't say much about it." I informed. "Well if you don't mind I would like to go around a little more before dinner comes around."
"I can show you around if you want." Annabeth offered.
"I don't want to disturb you, I will be fine." I said walking away.
It wasn't like I didn't want her to show me around, I just preferred to be alone for a little bit. Being around other halfbloods after living most of the time with Gods that barely pass time with you it's a little too much just for a single day to handle all. She didn't follow me so I guess she understood that I wanted to be alone.
I walked around, stopping at the strawberry field for a while and then I went to check the lake, not staying there too long. I head to the cabins after. However, that wasn't a very good idea for someone who wanted to be alone, even if the campers weren't talking to me I could fell all the eyes on me. Chiron still hadn't told them why I was there, or even who I was. Everyone was waiting for after dinner for answers.
Before I could go anywhere else the sound that indicated that it was dinner time could be heard. Everyone had sit down at their respective table, and since I could sit in any of them I walk to Chiron and Satyrs table, I sat down beside Chiron and I still could fell everyone looking at me.
"Everyone is wondering about who you are." Chiron told me after I sat.
"I know. I fell a little bad for not being able to tell them the all truth, but there's nothing I can do for now." I said
"They will calm down a little after I explain why you are here now." He informed.
The dinner went by too fast, and when I noticed we were all in the amphitheater, all the campers sitting down, but with me and Chiron close to the bonfire.
"Before we go to our normal activities I would like to explain to you all why your friend Ula is here." Chiron started. "First, Ula will not be claimed by her Godly parent. That doesn't mean she doesn't know who it is. Lord Zeus requested for that information to be kept a secret for the time being. Second, she is here to help me around the camp, she will help with the trainings too. If you have any questions you can try and ask, However, you might not get an answer. In short, Ula is your friend you don't need to me afraid. We can trust her."
There was silence after Chiron finish, but I could see in their eyes that there were lots of questions they wanted to know the answer to, and I knew I couldn't not give it to them.
