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okay everyone i have decided that i will try to put in a few more chapters about what happens for the rest of the summer. if you have any ideas that you think would be good please review them to me because i'm hitting a wall about what to do next


Chapter 8: Capture the Flag Again

At the end of that week there was another capture the flag game. The teams were Blue team: Camp Half-Blood, Red team: Hunters of Artemis. There were about thirty hunters so there were thirty campers. Among them was: Annabeth, Percy, Clarisse, Chris, Marie, Travis and Connor Stoll, five campers from Apollo cabin, five more campers from Hermes, four more from Ares, four of Annabeth's brothers from Athena, two of Marie's sisters from Aphrodite, one of Chris's sisters from the Eris cabin, the head councilor for the Hecate cabin, and me.

This game was different from others because this time Marie was on offense instead of defense. Marie had told Annabeth and Clarisse that she could get the flag as long as the hunters' were split up in several directions. "They'll never see me coming and they wouldn't think I would be worth the trouble." She had said. After discussing it Annabeth and Clarisse agreed that Marie could do it. The game was about to start and Marie was waiting for all the diversion parties to go ahead. After the last diversion group went, Marie waited a minute and crossed the creek.

The girl from the Hecate cabin, the Stoll brothers, and I were left on defense. After half an hour we had 3 hunters that we had captured and we were chasing Thalia who had gotten hold of our flag and was running to the creek when suddenly there was a commotion and Marie was running towards the creek with the silver flag in her hand and dodging a few arrows. Thalia ran faster but not fast enough because Marie jumped over the creek and collapsed on the ground panting and still holding the silver flag before Thalia could get within five feet of the water. Cheers exploded from our team and the hunters looked murderous.

Thalia looked shocked and surprised but she just looked at Marie. Marie was still breathing hard and Percy, Annabeth, and I went over to her to make sure she was okay. "I'm… fine…" she said while still panting but after another minute she started breathing normally again.

Marie looked at Thalia and Thalia finally asked, "how did you do it?"

Marie took a few more deep breaths and said "you and your hunters were over confident, and the hunters easily overlooked me because they knew i was a daughter of Aphrodite. You were to sure about yourself so when you left only one hunter to guard the flag all I had to do was wait until her back was turned. None of the hunters were near enough to stop me so it became an easy get away."

Marie was then surrounded by all the campers on our team getting pat on the back and hugged by her sisters and Annabeth. Chiron came up and said "Camp Half-Blood wins!"

The cheering got louder and then died away as Thalia went up to Marie and said "you'd make a great hunter of-" Marie cut her off.

"No."

Thalia repeated what Marie had said, making it a question "No?"

"No. Not because I'm a daughter of Aphrodite. But because I have someone in my life who means a lot to me and nothing in the world could make me want to give him up. Not immortality, not eternal youth, and defiantly not a chance to go around the country as a hunter." Marie smiled and then said "in my opinion. If I can't be with the one I want to be with for the rest of my life," she looked at me "then my life isn't worth living."

Marie then ignored Thalia and walked up to me and kissed me soft and sweet. I could hear the cheering of the entire camp, they had probably wandered into the forest to find all of us, but to Marie and me, the cheering was just background noise, we heard it but we didn't care. I kissed her back and pulled her closer to me.

She smiled against my lips and whispered,

"I'm yours for as long as you'll have me."

I smiled as well and pulled away slightly to look into her eyes and reply

"You're going to be stuck with me for the rest of time then."


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