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Chapter 4: Super Undercover Mission Time!

"We better win," Thalia grumbled as we walked over to the forest. She truly hated the Hunters. She had been telling me all the reasons for the past half-hour we have been gathering campers to play capture the flag. I still do not know what they did, but she surely has a huge distaste for them. Just like I have distaste for horses.
"We will, but does it really matter. All it is, is a silly game,"
She did looked like I said nothing that made sense, "Trust me, it is no silly game," we arrived at the forest and people were already preparing. Surprisingly, the Aphrodite cabin seemed to be the most eager to fight. I guess they did not like the fact that the Hunters thought love was useless. And I would never mention out loud that love is somewhat useless and can disable you in battle. Your opponent can use it as a weakness, which is why I do not really see the benefits of it, but I will never say that out loud. I honestly don't need to be cursed by them.
Thalia and myself began gearing up in armor—I learned that it is smart to use it. Also, apparently the Hunters were supposed to be merciless. They seem like my type of people.
"Hey are you ok with being defense?" Thalia asked as she strapped on some chest plates on.
I however was finished, sitting on the ground, and playing with a blade of grass. I looked up at her, "Considering I find this game somewhat confusing, sure,"
She looked at me weird, "What is so confusing about capture the flag?"
"I do not know, but it is,"
She laughed and sat down next to me, "How confusing is the fact that there is a flag on each side—side A and side B. Side A needs to capture side B's flag, and side B needs to capture side A's flag. When one side gets the other side's flag over to their side, they win. Now is that confusing?" she was smiling. Thalia found my unknowingness very funny. It is not really funny for me.
"Uh, somewhat,"
She rolled her eyes and got up, "Here," she held out her hand and pulled me up.
"Thanks, now I just guard our flag, and not let anyone touch our flag. May I shot them if they try?" I pulled out my bow.
"Sure, just don't do that again. That is so weird with the bow/dagger thing," she shook her head.
I laughed and put it back in my pocket then took it out, "Is it confusing?"
She punched my arm, "Jerk,"
"That is one of my names,"
"Will ya tell me the others?" she asked.
"You do not want to hear them," I had always gotten many names from various people, monsters, gods, ext. Usually something in the lines of Demon Child. Off in the distance I heard a rumbling of some sort. Something in the forest was brewing. "Did you hear that?" I questioned Thalia.
"Hear what?"
"I will be back in a second," I started heading off into the forest. There was no one, but I knew better. Something was in this forest, and I was going to find it. I must have gotten to the edge of the forest before I heard another noise. The trees creaked and the ground seemed to move under my feet.
It was she. She had found me. Child… The ground seemed to be talking to me, but I knew better. Do not ignore me, child. I am surprised to see you alive.
"You and me both," I told her and leaned against a rock and sat down.
It is nice to know you are well, but if you are well… she trailed off. Even Gaia, the mother of the Earth, is afraid of him.
"I know, I must find him," I told her. The determination in my voice was strong. Hopefully strong enough.
You must. As much as I would like to watch Olympus fall…if he were to lead Olympus…
"The world will end in chaos," I finished her sentence.
Although, if you were to lead Olympus…
"Gaia," I scolded.
Sorry. You are wise, child. There is hope to find him though. My children, Kronos and Atlas, might know where he resides. She offered her help and advises.
Unfortunately, there was a problem with it. "Gaia, you understand how much they both detest me. If they were to learn…" I found myself losing my voice.
True, they would like to kill you, or they would spread the word of your survival. She tried to fill me with hope with the second idea, but I quickly shot it down.
"You know if word spreads of my…uh…survival…there would be some very upset gods. You know as much as me that Zeus and Ares would like nothing more than to for Ares to shove a sword through my heart, and for Zeus to electrocute me," I started to play with a leaf.
I believe that would be called shish-kebab. She mused.
"What?"
Sorry, a new word I learned. You must find a way to get Atlas and Kronos to trust you with the information. Maybe I could help…
"I should go as a spy, I will join his army," I murmured.
It was almost if the ground was nodding, Yes. Smart and wise, child. No wonder Athena always protected you.
"She only protected me for herself," I almost ripped the leaf at that.
Curiosity rose in Gaia's voice. You still do not trust the gods?
"Years of learning not to trust them just does not fade," I answered looking at the sky. Looking at the ground was basically looking at her.
I understand, child. I have pretty much given up hope on my son. He is ruthless with revenge, and it fears me. As much as I distaste Zeus for punishing all the titans and not just the ones who fought against him, I still think Kronos is wrong for pursuing this idea of his.
"Where do I go?" I asked her.
If you want I can just get you there easily. She offered.
I knew it would be a ridiculous way to travel—trust me I have traveled her way—but it would be fast. "Fine,"
Good. Child, the day after tomorrow you will leave. Now go back and have fun with your capture the flag game. The earth was now teasing me, but I abruptly ignored it.
"What am I of to tell the campers?"
Make up a story. I have to go before anyone gets suspicious. Good luck, child, Althea
I went back to everyone. I took my spot next to Thalia. She looked a bit suspicious. Then, everyone then began to crowd around us, and Percy took his place beside Thalia—I was on the other side. "So basic defense plans: archers in the trees and guards all around the flag. Silena why don't you take some from your cabin and draw some Hunters away from their base? Keep an eye out for Zoë; she will definitely try something, so be ready. Is everything all right with this? For all on defense Percy and Althea will be leading you," Thalia smiled mischievously.
My mouth fell agape, "But I do not understand this game fully! I cannot lead on such a confusing thing," I argued.
"Yeah, I know. That's why I'm making you do this. Now you can learn," she smirked.
"Stupid child," I grumbled.
"Excuse me?" she glared at me. I shrugged, "Fine get to your places," she ordered. I went and returned to my previous thing of sitting on the ground.
Someone sighed from behind me, "Is that how you lead?" Lee asked from behind me.
"Yep," I popped the 'p'. "Oh, and goodness does she sound like her father? All ordering and such," I grumbled.
"You don't like being ordered around, do you?"
"What gave you that brilliant idea?" I huffed.
"The fact that you usually don't listen to people and if you have to listen to someone you get really angry,"
"That was a rhetorical question,"
He smirked, "I know,"
I stood up and looked at him. "I am going to go into that tree," I told him.
"Nice job narrating your life,"
I climbed up the tree and he followed. "Now it is time for boredom to strike," I pulled out my bow and held it up, but I hesitated. "You can keep a secret, right?" he looked confused, but nodded. I sighed; I trusted him, yet I know I should not trust anyone. I wanted to tell him everything, but the dangers in that are immeasurable. I took a chance though, "This is not a regular bow," I started.
"Really? I thought every bow could turn from a sword-to-dagger-to-bow, and mine was just defective," he joked sarcastically.
I laughed, "Well, this is actually a gift, and a super special bow,"
His brow furrowed, "And how is it special?"
"By this," I answered. A hunter was a couple meters scouting the perimeter. I put my bow up and wait a second—to make sure no one was watching. There were many choices of what to do, but I went with a harmless one. My eyes locked onto the small creek that ran through the forest. A small spout shot out from the creek and raced on the ground. It circled around the tree, and finally made its way to me. It ran around me and made an arrow for my bow. I shot it, and it spiraled and hit the hunter girl in the face soaking her from head-to-toe.
His jaw dropped, "Oh my gods…" he kept of glancing from me to my bow. "How is that possible?" he seemed completely shocked that such a thing could happen.
I shrugged, "It is a magical item," then I got the strangest feeling we were being watched. All the hairs on my arm stood up, and I got a chill. "Do you feel anything?" I asked Lee.
He looked at me confused, "No, why?"
I shook my head and jumped down from the tree, "I do not know. Something just is not right," I glanced around me. The last time I had this feeling… "I feel like someone is watching,"
He jumped down beside me and looked around, "No one is,"
Percy then ran up to us, "Are you two ok with guarding for a while?"
"Sure—" a flashing light cut me off. Everything seemed to dim out and I was somewhere else. I was on what it seemed to be a ship. I could feel the presence of the ocean beneath me, and the rocking of the waves against the boat. The room was odd to me, but it was probably because of all the new architecture made me find it odd.
"Gaia," a sharp, painful voice came from the other side of the room. Immediately I turned my attention that way. Gaia stood in front of what seemed to be a sarcophagus of some sort. "Mother, why do you not join me? Do you honestly believe the gods will prevail?" the voice was coming from the golden sarcophagus.
Gaia looked hesitant. She glanced back at me. She knew I was here, and she must have summoned me from my dreams to witness this. Why? "Kronos, I do not want to get involved in another war," she sighed.
"Why not, Mother? We will win this time. I promise you that," the voice sounded so confident it almost shook my own position.
"Do you not understand that the children will always prevail over their parents? You of all people should understand that," the pleading edge was very prominent in Gaia's voice.
"I do understand that. That is why I am recruiting some demigods, so that the gods' children will be fighting against them. All I need is those two to join our side… Gaia, you seem distracted. Is there something you would like to inform me of?" Kronos could sense how Gaia was distant and distracted by me.
"No," she answered quickly. Too quickly. Kronos became suspicious of Gaia's actions, "It just makes me feel anxious when there could be a war going to happen," Gaia quickly made up.
Kronos did not seem convinced, but he accepted, "Fine, will you at least considering joining me?"
"Maybe. I have to go," she disappeared into sand.
A voice came from the back of the room, "The plan is set…"
When I came back to reality my head hurt. I rubbed my temples. "Ow my head," I grumbled and fell backwards. Lee caught me.
Worry crossed on his face, "Are you ok?" he asked.
Percy looked stunned, "Your eyes," he stumbled along his words. "They went all cloudy and grayish. How?"
I shook my head, "I do not know, you better get going if you want to capture the flag," I shooed him off. I tried to walk off, but Lee caught my face.
"Tell me what happened," he ordered.
I slipped out of his grasp, "No," He was about to protest some more, but about ten feet from us was a girl running for our flag. Immediately, I took after her. She easily jumped up the rock/Zeus' Fist and jumped down without a lot of people noticing her.
I met her halfway in between her and the boundary line. She rammed into me trying to knock me down, but I dragged her down to. We went down rolling. She tried to get me off, but I stayed on. She looked annoyed and then another flash of light hit my eyes. She took that opportunity to push me off. I managed to shot one more arrow at her making her all wet.
She made it across right before Percy made it across. Oh no, he was suppose to be defending, and he was obviously not defending like Thalia had told him to. Lee gave me an oh-crap-he-didn't look, but apparently he did. We both ran towards where everyone was crowding around. "PERSEUS JACKSON!" Thalia screamed. She came running towards Percy looking completely and utterly angry.
I have seen anger my whole life, but well I think she wins the 3rd angriest person in the world—right behind Kratos and her father, Zeus. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE GODS WERE YOU THINKING?" she got pretty close to his face yelling in it.
"I got the flag," he shook it in her face, which I laughed a bit at. "I saw a chance and took it!"
"I WAS AT THEIR BASE!" she continued to yell in his face. "But the flag was gone. If you hadn't butted in, we would've won."
"You had too many on you!" Percy protested.
"Oh, so it's my fault?"
"I didn't say that."
"Arg!" she pushed him, and a shock—I could see it—went through his whole body sending him ten feet back into the creek. My jaw dropped. Honestly, I found this really amusing. Some people gasped, while I was with the Hunters trying not to laugh.
Thalia turned pale, "I didn't mean to—" she tried to apologize, but Percy would not hear it.
A wave erupted from the creek getting her wet from head to toe. Percy stood up, "Yeah, I didn't mean to that, either,"
"Enough!" Chiron ordered, but really who would listen to him.
Thalia held up her spear. "You want some, Seaweed Brain?"
Something seemed to click in his eyes like he was angrier than ever. "Bring it on, Pinecone Face!" Percy shouted. He tried to protect himself, but Thalia basically threw a lightning bolt at him before he could get up.
Once Percy started to rise the whole creek up was enough for me. I don't get wet. I especially don't get wet when I am wearing armor. Do you know how hard it is to get this stuff off? It was going to get all of us. I did the stupidly brave thing to do, which is run out, get in between them, and try to stop them. "STOP!" I yelled.
They did not stop.
Soon I found myself doused with a bunch of water, and then getting a lightning bolt thrown at me. The water made the lightning bolt about ten times worse.
Both of them began to turn pale as the looked at me. Pain rippled through my body. "As much as I would like to see you two rip each other's heads off it is not the time! We are already crippled against Kronos' army, do you really want to help him?"
They both looked down, "You would, traitor," Thalia mumbled under her breath.
Anger raised in me. My blood began to boil with how angry I was. That was the word Ares called me before I almost decapitated him. I raised my bow and shot her. The arrow went sailing through the air. This time the arrow was a bit different: it was not just a regular water arrow. I had spiked the arrow with electricity. As soon as it hit her she went flying back into a tree. Blue electricity flew off of her in sparks.
"Never. Call. Me. That." I growled.
Yes…don't call her that… something hissed in the wind. A gust of wind blew through the forest.
Everyone looked around curiously. Except for Thalia who was just glaring at me. She was deafened by her own rage. " HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" she got up and got closer to me.
"I DON'T KNOW? WHY DON'T YOU ASK YOUR BROTHER?" I had to admit it was stupid of me to yell that, but I was too angry to care.
"What?" she asked completely lost.
"Why do you even care about what I can do?"
"I want to know!" she yelled exasperated.
"Well too bad!" She glared at me and threw another lightning bolt at me. It shook me, but I still stood. "Is that all you do? Use the gift Daddy gave you?"
She threw another, but I deflected it. She looked shocked along with everyone else, "How…?"
"I do not know, go ask some one else," I huffed and was about to walk away, but then I ran into someone. The oracle. I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw her. I had never seen such a dead looking oracle.
Her eyes locked with mine and I believe she mouthed something like "Remember the Oracle of Athens," but I could have just been paranoid and crazy. She went and stood in front of Zoë. Green mist started to come out of her mouth as she spoke a prophecy.
"Five shall go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall be lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan's curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent's hand."
When I saw Artemis in chains I got really angry, if that was possible. Artemis had saved me, and now she was in trouble. Now I knew what I was going to do.
Chiron ordered Percy and Grover to carry the Oracle back up to the attic. I have to admit I feel bad for them. They started carrying her back, while everyone just stood there awkwardly. "Well, I believe it we should call all the cabin counselors for a meeting. Althea, I would like you to come too," he looked me in the eye. If he was not suspicious before, he definitely was now.
Everyone started walking away while I just stood there. Lee came by my side, "Uh, I think he's either angry or suspicious,"
"Yes, I believe he is both, well let us go," we both went to the conference room and sat around the Ping-Pong table. I sat in between Lee and Travis. Soon everyone was at the table and the discussion began.