Abigail's POV
I didn't have to do archery since I excelled at it, but Kace… He was actually kind of good, unfortunately. Chiron had stopped me to let others have a turn, so I watched as Kace nocked an arrow and sent it flying into the target dummy, directly in the eye. Forget what I said that he was good. He was excellent. Ugh. I got bored, but I had nothing to do. Then, Chiron told me that I could read, or do something that normal teens do, so I ran back to my cabin to grab a few books, and plopped down under a tree. When it was time for lunch, I followed the rest of my cabin in, but I wasn't exactly hungry. I just asked for some sushi and dumplings that I slowly began to eat. When I was done, Malcolm came over and said, "Next thing is free choice. You can choose to do canoe races, arts and crafts, or the climbing wall." I smiled and thanked him. I knew what I was going to choose, the Climbing Wall. I had to do it. And, better yet, I knew that Kace was going to as well. This was going to be the perfect competition.
Kace's POV
"What is the climbing wall like?" I asked. "Well, it's mostly like a regular climbing wall-" "Eh. Sounds kind of boring." "It has lava and poles to knock people off." I looked at him to see if he was joking or not. "Did you say… lava?" He laughed. "Yeah, but it's not too bad… you get ambrosia afterward." I thought of the delicious ambrosia squares that tasted like my mom's special barbeque.
"Yeah, I'm going to do the climbing wall." I decided. "Yeah, me too, I guess. The canoe races got boring and Annabeth is definitely going to do architecture in arts and crafts so… I need company. Plus, I get to show you the pain of doing it!" Percy said. I shook my head, and I heard an ear splitting shriek in my head. I cursed. "Damn it." "What?" Percy asked. "Abigail's in my head again and I think she just made me deaf…" I replied, angrily. Abigail, WHAT THE HADES WAS THAT FOR?! I thought. Sorry, it's just that you're doing the climbing wall! More competition! She said, excitedly. I sighed and shook my head. "Ok, lets go, Percy before Abigail makes me deaf for real." I said.
Percy wasn't joking. The wall must've been about 70 feet high in the air with lava spewing out of it. I noticed that the lava only spewed when a camper was close to the top. "Are we allowed to use abilities to help ourselves?" I asked Percy. A camper next to me heard my question and said, "Yeah, all though Mr. D is going to make you clean it up." I nodded, "Thanks. Also, who's Mr. D?" "Oh, he's the camp director. He's also Dionysus." Percy said. I gaped, "Why is Dionysus here?" "Yes and why are you here, Kyle Sawdust?" said a voice that came from neither Percy or I. Percy sighed and turned around. "It'd help if I knew who KYLE SAWDUST is." Percy said.
I tensed and sent Percy floating in the air, just in time for him to miss the grapevines shooting towards him. The grapevines changed course towards me and I summoned water to blast the vines away and morphed my sword to start slashing at them, but they kept coming back. Finally, after what seemed like forever, I missed a beat and the grapevines wrapped around me and Percy fell to the ground, and he drew out Riptide to slash at the vines, only to be wrapped with the vines as well.
On a desperate attempt, I tried using gravity, but the vines wrapped around me squeezed so tightly I thought I'd black out. Percy and I were reeled in and I saw that Annabeth and Abigail were also stuck in the vines. I turned to see Percy's reaction just to see him glaring at a figure in the sky. I looked up and glared as well. The grape vines that we were entwined in were looped around his wrist. He had a chubby face, a red nose and curly hair so black, it looked purple. He was wearing tiger-striped (or leopard-spot) Hawaiian shirts and purple running shoes. I stared at him. "Who the-" I asked, before Percy cut in, "Mr. D" I sighed and completely gave up on trying to escape. I knew that this must be Dionysus.