Welldear readers here's chapter four, sorry about the long wait, got caught up with a bunch of stuff IRL. but here it is. also to address a question i saw in the reviews:

just a randomnerd: don't you think that Nigel is a little OP?

to that I say, no. nigel's powers have very clear limitations and permitters, and unless it's enhanced by a specific type of weapon, there's little he can really do with them, so he has to rely on what combat training and experience he ha in order to really fight. plus theres never been a son of tartarus before in cannon so i'm allowed to take some creative liberties.

Chapter 4: Capture the Flag and a new power

The next day at camp I could already feel everybody's eyes boring holes into me. Reason why? They think I'm like those giants who nearly destroyed Olympus.

Personally I don't see the connection. Chiron said something about a prophecy involving a son of Tartarus like me, but he never really got into the specifics.

I groaned out loud as I ran a hand through my hair. I got some breakfast as I walked into the mess hall, I looked for a place to sit, then I saw Percy wave me over to a table he was at.

I went over to it and sat down. "What's up?" I asked.

"Just waiting for you. I see those new clothes fit you." Percy smiled.

I looked at the clothes I had on a T shirt with the camp logo on it which I removed the sleeves off of and a pair of brown cargo shorts. Honestly I didn't really care about the stuff, just as long as I had something to wear.

"It's fine I guess." I shrugged. Then I noticed the blonde girl, Anabeth was looking at me, which kinda both weirded me out and pissed me off at the same time.

I decided to make that clear. "Am I bothering you or something blondie?" I asked her as calmly as possible.

She gave me a death glare. "Don't call me blondie." She snapped, before looking at Percy. "What are you doing calling him over here Percy?"

"Give him a chance Anabeth, he's actually pretty cool, when he's not in a bad mood." Percy told her while looking at me.

"Hey." I warned.

Annabeth looked at me, then at Percy. "You're absolutely sure Seaweed Brain?"

Percy nodded. "Positive."

I snorted. "Seaweed brain?" I laughed. "That's your petname? Ha!"

The son of Poseidon blushed a dark red. "Yeah, So?"

I just kept chuckled as Annabeth looked at me again. Then she looked at Percy, again. Seriously what was this chick part parrot or something?

"You're absolutely sure we can trust him?" She questioned.

"As sure as I was with Tyson." The guy shrugged.

That seemed to do it for her, because then she shut up for the remainder of the meal. Which had me mentally shouting thank you to whichever Olympian helped shut her up.

After breakfast everyone went about doing different activities. Whereas I was roped into playing capture the flag with the Aries cabin and some of the Hermès cabin, I being stuck on team Hermès...lucky me.

So I was stuck being the guardian of the flag, so I whipped out Suppressor and waited for anyone to be dumb enough to come get me.

And sure enough a meat head from the Aries cabin came running towards where I was, he was about three times my size, and was built like a lumberjack.

I readied myself as I felt my power start to swell, so far all I can do with it is either block or absorb godly energy and absorb the life force of monsters I kill, but if I absorb godly energy I can only do it in small amounts, not in big waves like I did the first time, or I'll be in pain the next morning, and apparently it doesn't seem to work on kids of the big three like Percy. Real pissy if you ask me.

So the kid tried to swing a sword at me and I reflexively blocked it with my staff and deflected it before delivering a clean smack with one of the ends to his skull, sending him staggering back.

I twirled my staff and got ready again, only to have to dodge as the guy tried to take my head off. As I got up again I decided to get in close and use his size to my advantage, so I used Suppressor to pole vault over his head and hook it around his neck, slowly starting to cut off his air supply. As he tried to buck me off I tried to block his godly energy as much as I could.

I wasn't able to block much but it was enough to wear the guy stopped bucking around and then fell unconscious about ten seconds later.

After this I was pretty winded. But I didn't have time to get my bearings together because three more Aries kids were coming right for me.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me." I said as I got near the flag, the first two a guy and a girl, they both tried to jump me, which made me have to roll out of the way.

Then the third tried to get me from behind, but I was able to clock him in the head with my staff hard enough to make him fall over.

I got near the flag again as they started creeping towards me. Another thing about my powers apparently they can only work on one or two people at a time, and it has a two to three foot limit distance. So given that they were keeping a good four feet away, I was screwed.

But just as the biggest guy started running towards me I felt my vision start to darken and my chest started to feel fuzzy.

I dropped Suppressor as I reached for whatever was coming from my chest and then suddenly reflexes took over and I blocked the guys sword with whatever was in my hand.

As my vision came back I saw that I was gripping some sort of dagger, the edge of the blade was silver and the flat of the blade was purple, the blade itself was slightly wavy and the hilt was in the shape of a silver fan, the handle was purple and it had a silver pommel.

I swiped the dagger to the right and it deflected the blow right back at the guy, that's when I realized it, this thing amplifies my godly energy deflection. That's useful.

I walked back and stood up, holding the blade in front of me. I called Suppressor back and decided to just use this new dagger.

The two remaining Aries kids looked at their now unconscious friend and then at me.

"I know I don't know much about you and your powers kid, but I'm pretty sure you didn't have that ability last night." The guy said.

I looked at the blade in my hand. He was right, so far I've only been able to suppress, slightly deflect or slightly absorb the godly energy of others. This was definitely new.

"Hell if I know pal." I said as I let him come towards me.

As he swung his sword at me I bobbed away from the blade before ducking and delivering a solid uppercut to his chin before jumping while he was still stunned, twisting in mid air and delivering a solid punch to his face, causing him to fall down. And once he was down and I landed I kicked him clear across the field about three feet.

The girl was the only one left, so charged at her with my new weapon and started slashing at her while she did the same, and when one charged with her super strength hit me, I slashed to the side, sending the blow right back at her. Causing her to fall on the ground.

As I was about to finish her off, the horn sounded, meaning that my team got the other team's flag.

Then the Stoll brothers came up to me.

"Hey Nigel, good work guarding the flag." Conner told me. "Is that a new dagger? Neato!"

I looked at the dagger again, and I saw a tiny inscription of 'Rebellion' written on the blade. "Yeah, it came to me during the fight. I think I'll call it...Rebellion."