Well here's the newest chapter. I thank you all for the reviews so far Reyna is a definite. I also put up a poll on my profile for the Harem so check that out. I'm not exactly good with romantic stuff so I may need some ideas for that. Without further ado here's the next chapter.
The following days seemed to flow together as they passed. We would get up, eat, train, eat some more, train some more, eat and then go to sleep. When we got bored we would actually follow the schedule and do other things.
Revan, Sam, Colin and I would often head into the woods after darkness had fallen and looked around that old bunker Sam had told us about. It seemed to be from the civil war era though what had the demigods constructing a bunker was beyond me.
We had searched through it and came up with virtually nothing, apart from some broken down furniture and a table with a map of camp half-blood. It looked like one of the maps military commanders would have for planning an operation or keeping track of troop movements.
The table was intact and still good so we kept it. We got rid of the broken and bad furniture, and when I say got rid of I mean Revan started a bon fire and threw anything he didn't like into it, any way we cleaned it up and put some torches around on the walls since we couldn't get electricity up and running yet.
So by day we trained by night we set up a base of operations. I came into the bunker Thursday night and found Revan standing next to a long metal table about twenty feet long. He had his duffle bag and back pack on the table. "What are you doing Revan?" I asked Revan. "Taking inventory." He said simply.
A knock came from the door of the bunker and I went to get. I opened the metal door to find Sam and Colin there with a flat cart on top of which was a large box and a bunch of wiring. "What the hell is that?" I asked as I moved aside so they could get in. "A surprise now come on and help us set this bad boy up." Colin said.
I sighed and descended deeper into the bunker following them. I helped them find a place in one of the spare storage rooms. "Alright now what is this?" I asked annoyed I had yet to get a straight answer from either of the two.
"A generator and wiring for lights and other things." Sam explained. "Now let's get to work." We all started to get to work setting it all up. "Where the hell did you even get this?" I asked as we unboxed the generator. "Well we found this place down the road a ways and they had this for sale and so we bought it snuck it through the borders, then we carted it all the way here." I sighed. "You guys are going to get us caught you know that?" I asked. 'Well with all these gods and things we're sure to be caught one of these days so meh." Sam said.
He was true we couldn't hide forever but we could hide for a while at least. We managed to set up part of the generator before calling it a night and heading out. We came to what we had dubbed the commons and found Revan still there but was pulling weapons and gear from his packs and putting it on the table.
The room had three different ways out. One went to the surface, the second went to a living quarters, the third went to an armory/storage area. We had moved some cots here that we had managed to pilfer from the surrounding area.
We came near Revan to see what all he was doing and found two bandoliers on the table and a few knives. "Well Revan what all do we have?" Sam asked as he sat down in a folding chair next to a card table.
"I'll tell you once I figure it out." Revan said not even looking up from his task. "By the way I need to take inventory of everything that includes your stuff so bring it over here once you have the chance."
"Yeah, yeah I'll bring it by." Sam said, Colin just nodded his head and then laid his head down on the card table content to just pass out there. After about twenty minutes Revan called us over to the table now covered in weapons and equipment.
"All right so here's what we got to work with." Revan started. "Three M1903 Springfield bolt action rifles with about twenty celestial bronze rounds each, a bow, five sword, ten daggers, three celestial bronze hand grenades, a double barrel twelve gauge shotgun with both steel and celestial bronze shot, my webley revolver, a M1911 pistol, two spears and some other steel weapons. As well as two assassin hidden blades." Revan listed off pointing at the weapons he listed as he went.
"I have two night vision goggles, four gas masks and radios, about six canisters of tear gas and a few spare pistol holsters, a sniper scope, a range finder, and a few more items." Revan listed. "Damn Revan what are you doing with all this shit?" asked Sam.
"I go with the motto of 'better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it'." Revan said sorting the items around the table. "Sam Colin and I will bring our stuff here either tomorrow night or the night after. Agreed?" I asked. The two nodded their heads in affirmation.
"Now come on we need to sleep and be prepared tomorrow's activities. Apparently they have capture the flag it's just not as violent as ours on Friday so we have about three days to prepare." Revan groaned and started to pack a few of the items he had taken out. I chuckled at him, he always loved the capture the flag games we held around the mansion.
We all made our way to the Hermes cabin and decided to sleep outside instead of the cramped cabin. I climbed up one of the many oak trees around the cabins as did the others. I settled myself down in the branches and started to drift off to sleep.
The next three days went by rather quickly with Revan, Sam, Collin and I planning on how to get to the underworld and what challenges we would face once down there. During the day we all took lessons from Satyrs, nymphs, and a centaur. Annabeth helped a little with ancient Greek with Revan.
We also talked of the gods and goddesses. We found one odd fact, that was Annabeth was a child of Athena, when Revan had asked about how that would work seeing as Athena was a maiden goddess. Annabeth had told us that children of Athena were born from their mother's thoughts and imagination.
When she was out of ear shot Revan turned to me. "Well that takes being mind fucked to a whole new level." We all agreed to that. Chiron had decided to find out who our godly parent was. He first tried us at archery and found it to be a giant colossal failure.
Revan had fired an arrow that had somehow shot up in the air and curved backwards and got snagged in Chiron's tail. Next we found we were no good at wrestling well I wasn't I couldn't say the same for Revan. Each time I went up Clarisse pulverized me and whispered "There's more where that came from punk."
Revan though could take her on easily and beat up anyone in hand to hand combat. We also tried leg racing and we both were mediocre at it. The nymph had no problem and told us that they had centuries experience running from lovesick gods. But we had experience running away from people who hunted us like animals and they had tanks, helicopters and search dogs.
So Yeah we were okay at that. The only two things we both excelled at was fighting and canoeing that and setting up traps so really it was three things. We all knew that the senior campers and counselors were watching us trying to figure out my godly parent. None of them were having an easy time of it. They had narrowed it down a bit seeing as we could be as strong as an Ares kid, we had a little work with the Hephaestus kids in the forges and helped them a bit so we could've been the oddballs of the children of Hephaestus kids.
We could be as mischievous as a Hermes camper; we didn't really have a way with plants so that ruled out Demeter and Dionysus. Well anyways back to other things at hand. We all kind of liked camp. I enjoyed getting up and sitting on the beach when the morning fog covered it coupled with the sweet smell of strawberries from the fields.
Each day Revan, Sam, Colin and I would all scrape a small portion of food into the brazier, Revan and I asked our godly parent to claim us but guess what. Nothing happened, well except for this warm feeling of a warm smile for both of us.
Then after making the sacrifice we would climb into the branches of the trees and eat up there and watch the campers mull about. When we were done eating we'd act like we would be sleeping in the cabin then when everyone else was out of it we'd sneak out to the bunker and plot our trip into the underworld.
After about three days of being in this place my first sword fighting class was about to happen, well the first one at camp half blood that was an official class that is. All of cabin eleven gathered around the arena where Luce would be our instructor.
She had us start with basic stabbing and slashes using some straw stuffed dummies much to Revan's ire. Revan preferred to use live targets or automaton. Well we both knew the basics of fighting and beyond so we just watched with bored expressions. We eventually moved to dueling in pairs. I was paired with Luce.
"Good luck," One of the campers whispered. "Luce's one of the best sword wielders in the last three hundred years." I let a smile come up on my features. "Well she hasn't met me yet."
I walked towards Luce and stood in front of her. She at first smiled then frowned when she saw I was weaponless. "Percy where's your sword?" She asked as I stopped in front of her. "Right here." I said as I pulled out my pen. She looked about to argue with me before I thought of a sword and clicked the pen and it transformed into a beautiful three foot long celestial bronze sword with silver inscriptions running along the flat of the blade.
Her eyes widened for a second before nodding at me and attempted to show me the basic moves. I held up my hand and spoke once she stopped. "I already know how to wield a sword how about we duel?" I asked. She paused and scrutinized me with blue eyes then she nodded at me. I smiled and dropped down into a familiar stance.
Then I let all emotions drop from my face and waited for her to make the first move. She crouched low to the ground sword held out to her left side and stared at me a smirk on her face. Then she charged me and attempted a horizontal slash. I jumped back a bit then charged forward and our blades crashed in a shower of sparks.
We both were pushing against the other and we both were evenly matched. Finally I spun away and stood again facing her. I made the next move rushing her and attempted a series of slashes and jabs. She parried them all or dodged the others. We danced around each other each attempting to harm the other. I gained a few scratches and a slash on my right bicep. The blood from the wound leaked down my arm and into my hands making me have a looser grip on my blades handle.
Though I wasn't the only one with injuries. The daughter of Hermes had a small cut on her forehead that kept leaking blood into her eye. She wiped the blood out of her eye and then charged me. We both charged each other and clashed. Finally I grew tired of this and tried one of the harder tricks up my sleeve.
I pressed the flat of my blade and twisted putting all my weight into the downward thrust.
Clang was the only sound in the whole arena. Luce was kneeling in front of me with my blade an inch from her neck. I looked over the arena to notice more than just my cabin was here. They all just stared at the both of us in shock and awe. I turned back to Luce and dropped my blade from her neck and held out free hand.
She looked up at me and nodded before taking my hand. When her hand touched mine I felt a little shock run through it like static electricity just different in some way. I'd think about it later. I helped Luce stand and she nodded at me before picking her sword up from the ground.
"What the hell was that Jackson?" She asked. I shrugged. "I was taught well." Was all I said before walking away returning my sword to its pen form and putting it in my pocket. I looked over at Revan to find him standing near the bodies of about five unconscious people. Sam and Colin were both on the ground panting while lying on their backs both with about a dozen scratches.
Revan smiled at me then jogged to join me. His sword was three foot long and resembled a katana just it had no curve and no guard. Well the closest thing to a guard was the handle which was wider than the blade. The sword was double edged. The weapon was unusual in the sense that it was comprised of two pieces, first was an outer shell of celestial bronze and inside of that was mortal steel.
Celestial bronze couldn't harm mortals but the inner steel casing would take care of them. The sword then glowed in his hand and went to his left wrist; after the light was gone Revan was wearing a leather bound bracelet with a circular silver pendant on it with the letter L in the center.
Revan walked up to me and we both walked out of the arena and left ignoring the looks given to us by the other campers.