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Chapter 4: Capture the Flag

The next few days both Naruto and Percy settled into a routine that felt almost normal, they were getting lessons from satyrs, nymphs, and a centaur, well mostly Chiron but Naruto was already inform by his mother and was excused and did whatever the hell he does but does it anyway since he was basically ordered too.

Each morning Percy took Ancient Greek from Annabeth. They talked about the gods and goddesses in the present tense, which was kind of weird to Percy. Percy discovered Annabeth was right about his dyslexia: Ancient Greek wasn't that hard for him to read. At least, It was not harder than English.

The rest of the day, they rotate through outdoor activities, looking for something they were good at. Chiron tried to teach Percy archery, but he found out pretty quick that he wasn't any good with a bow and arrow. Foot racing? No good either. The wood-nymph instructors left him in the dust. They told him not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice running away from lovesick gods and whatever the hell that was chasing or trying to kill them. But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree. And wrestling? Forget it. Every time he got on the mat, Clarisse would always pulverize him. The only thing he really excelled at was canoeing, and that wasn't the kind of heroic skill people expected to see from the kid who had fought with the Minotaur.

And Naruto was just the opposite of Percy; he can shoot bulls-eye if every arrow he shot, not that surprising for a child of Artemis and not to mention a shinobi. He was extremely fast and seemed that he didn't even sweat. Wrestling, let just saw that all his opponent was humiliated and destroyed, even though Naruto was good at canoeing and swimming, for some reason unknown, Percy always seem to beat him but Naruto really didn't care.

They both soon later met the camp director Mr. D who was that man with the chubby face and wearing that tiger-striped Hawaiian shirts and purple running shoes. But here's the thing, he was really Dionysus the God of Wine, Madness, Parties, Ecstasy and as well as Theater. He didn't like Percy due to the fact that Percy due to him being a hero and the fact Percy unintentionally pissed him off. But for Naruto, they seem to be neutral and the fact Naruto was willing to share his cigarettes as long as he doesn't tell his mother about his smoking addiction, and needless to say they got along just fine and even to the fact that Dionysus respects him.

Then there was the horn that went through out the camp and Chiron voice was announced through the camp.

"OK everyone time for lunch; please go to the mass hall please."

As everyone was heading except for Naruto and he just stopped Mr. D before going.

"Mr. D, you mind if I can just skipped lunch and go for a smoke and I just be by Thalia's tree," said Naruto.

"Go ahead boy, do what you like," said Mr. D with a bored tone.

"OK thanks, but by the way, is my mother watching us now?" asked Naruto.

"Well she can but right now, I think it's the time that she and her hunters are going hunting so if you want to smoke, I suggest you smoke now if you don't want her to find out," said Mr. D.

And just like that they went to their respective destination as Mr D headed towards the mass hall while Naruto headed to Thalia's tree to smoke and chat with her as he promised Thalia to come by once in a while.

~Mass Hall~

As Percy enters the mass hall and notice a few campers staring at him like they did when they all saw him and Naruto. They heard that Percy managed to survive and wound the Minotaur while Naruto came and saved both him and Grover from the Minotaur and killed with a single sword slash. He got a box with the Minotaur horn in it and was told that every time a monster is destroyed, it leaves something behind as a spoil of war and got looks off respect and admiration from campers and looks of jeal by using anousy from big and burly kids.

During the past few days, Percy managed to make a few friends like the Luke, Annabeth, the Strolls, Katie Gardener, Silena Beauregard, Lee Fletcher, Michael Yew, and Charles Beckendorf. But Naruto managed to get alone with them and they all had this feeling that Naruto doesn't seem that social or even that interactive and didn't show any type of emotion at all and just remained like a mindless boy. They wanted to know what is with Naruto and going to get it.

"Excuse me, Chiron," said Annabeth and Chiron looked at her. "Do know what's going with Naruto and why he seemed to be so emotionless."

And everyone in the mass hall just stayed quiet and looked at Chiron if he's going to answer and every camper was curious about the son of Artemis which was still weird to them. Chiron and Mr. D looked at one another and Mr. D nodded and Chiron sigh and started to explain.

"Did Naruto told you any of you of his worlds," asked Chiron and Annabeth put up her hand and everyone just looked at her.

"Yeah he told me that he was from another world where there are ninjas or shinobi as he described have unimaginable power by using an energy source known as Charka which is the mixed of physical and spiritual energy," answered Annabeth which left a lot of stunned look from the campers, a fascinated look from the Athena campers, and excited look from the Ares campers since now they have someone to fight that is strong and worthy to them.

"Well your half right Annabeth, the world he came from is also ruled as well as Japan in this world by Izanami and Shinto Gods," replied Chiron and to which it got more shocked looks from the campers except for Percy who had no idea who Izanami and who the Shinto Gods are and got and asked Chiron.

"Chiron, who is Izanami and who are the Shinto Gods?" asked a confused Percy and a few campers were curious themselves.

"Let's see, the Shinto Gods are basically the Gods of Japanese culture and mythology or history. They are said to be more powerful than the Gods and Titans themselves and could rival the Primordial," said Chiron as he said which got an even more shocked look from everyone, something is more stronger then the Gods and Titans and could rival the Primordial, that's unheard off and Chiron just continue.

"But I will now explain who are the Shinto deities are. First there is Izanami the Primordial goddess of creation and death and her powers are equal to Chaos the creator of our universe and she is also known as Kami or God in general and former ruler of Yomi and passed it down to Susanoo. Next is Izanagi, the Shinto Primordal of Creation and Life and former ruler of Heaven. And then came the big 3 in the Shinto religion, Amatersu the Goddess of the Sun and the Universe but also the ruler of heaven who is the current queen of the Shinto religion after the throne was passed down from Izanagi, next is Tsukuyomi the Shinto God of the Moon and Night who was Amatersu brother and ex-husband after she annulled their marriage, and the youngest brother one and also Naruto's grandfather Susanoo the trickster God and also the God of the Sea's and Storm and former ruler of Yomi when he passed the throne to Yomi to the Shinigami who is the current ruler of Yomi and is the God of Death and Suicidal Desire or basically the equivalent of Hades," explained Chiron.

"But wait, why did Izanami passed the throne over and why was Tsukuyomi and Amatersu marriage was annulled," asked Percy as he and others want to find out.

"Well the Shinto Gods believed that the throne should be passed down to generation to generation like Chaos passed the throne to Erebus and Nyx and passed it down to Ouranos. She believed that if you continue to be in the throne and not pass it down then it would change you to something obnoxious and arrogant like Ouranos, Kronos and sadly Lord Zeus when they would do anything to keep their throne, even if they have to kill innocence to do it and Lady Izanami doesn't want that to happen to her. And to answer your question on why Lady Amatersu marriage was annulled is because Tsukuyomi killed the food goddess Uke Mochi out of disgust on how she served Tsukuyomi and when Lady Amatersu learned what happened, she was so angry that she refused to ever look at Tsukuyomi again and deeming him an evil God, forever moving to another part of Heaven and their marriage annulled. And that is the reason that day and night are never together. Does that satisfy your answer Percy?"

As Percy nodded and a few campers as well agreeing with Izanami choice on passing the throne like Chaos and Erebus did and as well as agreeing with Amatersu annulling her marriage with Tsukuyomi and had every right to do that.

"Anyway back to Naruto's situation, they are actually shinobi or ninjas who are there to fight and kill if they are ordered too, they are extremely dangerous and some could rival the Olympians or Titans and they are S-Rank nins or over like the leaders of each village but some can be more powerful than the Olympians or even the big 3 and they are SSS-Rank Shinobi and one particular is Naruto's father Minato Namikaze the 4th Hokage who bet Zeus," explained Chiron and received a lot of disbelief from the campers and they all thought 'impossible' or 'no way' and some would have 'wow, that is truly amazing, a mortal or demigod has defeated the king of Olympus'.

"To answer why Naruto is the way he is, it's because he was a member of the Root Anbu of Konohagakure," Chiron said with a dark look and Mr D couldn't help but also have a dark look as well while drinking a diet soda. The campers were confused on who were this Root Anbu's and why both Chiron and Mr. D did had that look and it couldn't be pretty, so Annabeth decided to ask.

"Who exactly are these Root Anbu and are they connected to way Naruto is?"

"Root Anbu is led by the current Hokage of Konoha, Danzō Shimura," Chiron said his name with venom. "The Root Anbu carries out missions that Danzō believes will benefit Konoha but to us, it was something that would benefit him. These Root Anbu were trained to have no emotion or any sense of humanity or take it away in them, they would carry out missions like murder, assassination, torture and even kidnapping. Lady Artemis didn't like on what happened to Naruto and decided to take him here, hoping that we would regain his emotion and gain some friends," Chiron finished explaining as he looked around the mass hall, he saw that everyone had a look of anger and rage even the Ares campers. How could they do that to Naruto and if they ever meet this Danzō Shimura then he would be sorry.

"Buy why?! Why did this Danzo do this and to Naruto?! Why him?!" roared a very angry and disgust Annabeth.

"Because Naruto is the jinchūriki of the Kyubi," which got the campers confused again and he sigh and explained. "They are humans that have tailed beasts sealed within them. They exhibit extraordinary powers due to the immense chakra reserves they possess. Jinchūriki are typically lonely and miserable people, as they are often shunned and discriminated by their fellow villagers, who view them as the tailed beasts themselves and not as the keeper of the beast," and it got some look of fear but no one didn't believe that Naruto was the Kyubi itself but as the keeper of it. But overall, no one couldn't believe these villagers and couldn't more disgusted with them.

"And to why Danzo took Naruto as a member of Root is because Danzo wants Naruto as his weapon and to be his emotionless lapdog and Naruto could have begun full on emotionless if Lady Artemis didn't take him, then you would have become full on emotionless and just have no mind or sense at all. Now Lady Artemis requested that you all try to befriend him. He may might seem interested or really care but I can tell that he needs a friend and Lady Artemis hopes that you could help him regain his humanity and emotions if you are willing to do it?" said Chiron as he looked around the campers and they were all nodding and immediately agreeing on being friends with Naruto and Annabeth stood up and looked at Chiron and began to say what the whole camp is thinking.

"Chiron, we will befriend him. We will promise you and Lady Artemis to help him regain his humanity and emotions and be there for him as friends and we will continue even if it takes months or years to do," announced Annabeth as she looked around the mass hall and shouted "Right Guys?!"

And immediately the whole camped cheered with a "HELL YEAH?!" or "You got that right."

Chiron and Mr D couldn't help but smile at that response and willing to do that for one suffered soul.

"Aright everyone since everyone has finished their lunch, please get an hour break before you head to the field for capture the flag," announced Chiron as all the campers got up and left the mass hall getting ready for capture the flag. And now it's just Chiron and Mr D alone in the hall and Chiron faced Mr. D.

"Do you think they can help Minato's son?"

"Time will tell Chiron, time will tell."

And with that, Chiron left the hall and Mr D just stayed there finishing his diet soda before flashing out of the mass hall.

~Limbo~

As Naruto is currently in limbo with Thalia and did promise her to visit at least once a day. He is currently telling her about his world and his life to her. She was fascinated with his world and the power they use. She has learned that the element nation contains 5 land and each has one village as its capital and learned that Naruto was from Konoha, the village hidden in the leaves. She also learned about Shinobi or Ninjas are the main military power in the Element Nations. He has described to her their roles, rank and power. She learned that they use an energy called Chakra where it is a mixture of spiritual and physical energy which allows them to manipulate it to any shape and nature manipulation where they can use the 5 elements in any way they can.

As Naruto was telling her about his story as a Root Anbu agent where he was used as an emotionless tool and weapon to his leader, Danzo Shimura the current Hokage of Konoha and also learned that he was something called a jinchūriki where a person has a tailed beast inside of him and was the container to the Kyubi. At first she shocked that Naruto was a jinchuriki but didn't showed any fear because she sees him as the container and not the beast itself. She was also disgusted and angered towards Danzo on the things he did and to what he did to Naruto but her anger towards Danzo increased when Naruto said he didn't committing all these acts and didn't show any emotion to it. She was really glad that Lady Artemis took Naruto with her, away from Danzo.

"...and then I came here and was claimed by my mother and grandpa," said Naruto as he finished explaining the story of his past to Thalia and then looked at her in the eyes. "Well that's my story Thalia, so do you see me differently Thalia?"

"Naruto, I don't see you as a monster or as a killer, I see you as someone that can be saved. I don't know if I'm the right person for this but I will support you in anyway and I would do on what Lady Artemis would me to do, save you."

"But that's the thing, am I worthy of being saved? Am I worthy of regaining emotions, I have them inside of me but I can't show or express them in anyway. Do think I deserve to have this second chance for me Thalia?"

"Yes Naruto, yes you do. I believed that everyone deserves a second chance, even you," said Thalia with a assuring smile. "But let me ask you something, did you ever regret on killing those people?"

"I don't know, personally I never really wanted to kill the people I was assigned too, but they were ruthless killers that seek only things for themselves and I know that with them dead, innocence from my village or even outside of my village would be safe and live in peace but it doesn't changed the fact that I have blood in my hands," answered Naruto in a calm clear voice but still with an emotionless expression.

Thalia just went up to you and hugged for comfort and Naruto just lowered his head to her shoulder and patted him in the back.

"Naruto it's OK, either it was the right thing or not, it's really up to you on how you see it. I won't judge you Naruto and I'll be there for you if you need it, and you know why Naruto," asked Thalia and Naruto shakes his head. "It's because I am your friend Naruto and that's what friends do for each other," finished Thalia with a kind smile on her face.

Even though Naruto couldn't express the emotion, he was glad and relieved that Thalia didn't hate him or condemning him for the things he has done. He couldn't help but hug her back with his head still on her shoulder and then whispered, "Thank you," to her and stayed like that for a few minutes and Naruto decided to let go of the hug and time to return to reality.

"Thalia it's time for me to go, capture the flag is in an hour," said Naruto and Thalia responded with a pout but nodded since he can't stay with her forever. "But don't worry, I'll visit again tomorrow OK Thalia," said Naruto and Thalia smiled sadly and nodded again. And with that Naruto faded away.

~Outside of Limbo~

As Naruto wakes up and looks around is back in reality, he look around and still see he is still leaning on Thalia's pine tree and on the hill, as he look around and saw at the bottom chatting with each other and heard that capture the flag is in one hour and decided to take a quick nap rest for a bit.

~Flashback~

In a massive forest where it shows couple of Kiri nins screaming in agony, as they were being killed very quickly but was very brutal as well. One Kiri nin was tossed to very far distance and landed in the ground. He has long, brown hair, a long beard which he wears in strands adorned with beads and his lips are also noticeably dark in colour. The top of his head is wrapped in bandages, and he has an eye-patch covering his left eye, sprouting from under his Kirigakure forehead protector. This was Jinpachi Munashi one of the greatest members of the Seven Swordsmen of Kiri and greatest wielder of the Shibuki, the Explosion Blade.

As Jinpachi was laying face down on the floor with half off his face is covered in blood and coughing out blood and his sword was out of his reach. As he looked up and saw a Fox masked Konoha Anbu with a kanji on the mask or in this case Naruto as Kitsune all covered from his victim's blood was heading towards Jinpachi but stop when he notice that one Kiri Nin was still breathing.

As Naruto headed towards the Kiri Nin and when Naruto was in front of him, he started to continue stomping on his head multiple times leaving the Kiri Nin to scream in agony, and then to one final stomp where the Kiri Nin's head splatted everywhere leaving more blood to be on Naruto and the crushed brain of the Kiri Nin crushed to pieces around the dead nin.

As Naruto return his attention back to Jinpachi and slowly headed until he was in front of Jinpachi and unsheathe his katana.

"Any last words Jinpachi Munashi?"

"Yeah. Fuck...You...Fuck...You. You think I gonna beg and plead for my life, well your fucking wrong. Yagura-sama and Kiri will have your head for this. I...do...not...regret...anything...in...my...life. In fact I enjoyed every single bit of it including killing my brother. So go ahead. Kill me," as Jinpachi finished his last words while still coughing out blood.

"Very well if that is all, may you find peace. You were a worthy opponent Jinpachi Munashi but I have orders to do," as Naruto finished and stabbed Jinpachi in his left hand who just screamed in pain.

As Naruto performed a hand-sign with his left hand while still holding the katana in his right hand.

"Raiton (Lighting Style): Transmission Shockwave"

As pure electricity was coming from Naruto and headed towards his katana and going through Jinpachi's body and nervous system. As he began to scream in full on agony and trashing around for a few minutes then twitched for a few times and then stopped completely. And Naruto took his katana out of Jinpachi hand sheathe his katana back and began to walk away from the pile of dead Kiri Nin's.

~Flashback End~

As Naruto began to walk up a little bit sweated after re-visiting his mission with Jinpachi Munashi and a couple of Kiri Nin.

'Why did I re-lived that, did I regret killing them, no I do not regret killing him or those nin, they deserve to die after what they did in the Bloodline Civil War. I have 30 minutes left before the game, better get my gear' thought Naruto as he got up and headed back to his cabin.

~Playing Field - 30 Minutes Later~

At last, it was time for capture the flag.

When the plates were cleared away, the conch horn sounded and we all stood at each tables.

Campers yelled and cheered as Annabeth and two of her siblings ran into the pavilion carrying a silk banner. It was about ten feet long, glistening gray, with a painting of a barn owl above an olive tree. From the opposite side of the pavilion, Clarisse and her buddies ran in with another banner, of identical size, but gaudy red, painted with a bloody spear and a boar's head.

"Ah, so those must be the flags." Percy stated.

"Yeah." He heard Luke say.

"Ares and Athena always lead the teams?" Percy asked.

"Not always," Luke said. "But really often."

"So, if another cabin captures one, what do you do— repaint the flag?" Percy asked.

Luke grinned. "You'll see. First we have to get one."

"Whose side are we on?" Naruto asked.

Luke gave them a sly look that combined with his scar, made him look evil in the torch light. "We've made a temporary alliance with Athena. Tonight, we get the flag from Ares. And you and Naruto are going to help."

The teams were announced. Athena had made an alliance with Apollo and Hermes, the two biggest cabins. Apparently, privileges had been traded—shower times, chore schedules, the best slots for activities—in order to win support.

Ares had allied themselves with everybody else: Dionysus, Demeter, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus. From what Percy has seen, Dionysus's kids were actually good athletes, but there were only two of them. Demeter's kids had the edge with nature skills and outdoor stuff but they weren't very aggressive. Aphrodite's sons and daughters they weren't too worried about. They mostly sat out every activity and checked their reflections in the lake and did their hair and gossiped. Hephaestus's kids weren't pretty, and there were only four of them, but they were big and burly from working in the metal shop all day. They might be a problem. That, of course, left Ares's cabin: a dozen of the biggest, ugliest, meanest kids on Long Island, or anywhere else on the planet.

Chiron hammered his hoof on the marble. "Heroes!" he announced. "You know the rules. The creek is the boundary line. The entire forest is fair game. All magic items are allowed. The banner must be prominently displayed, and have no more than two guards. Prisoners may be disarmed, but may not be bound or gagged. No killing or maiming is allowed. I will serve as referee and battlefield medic. Arm yourselves!" He spread his hands, and the tables were suddenly covered with equipment: helmets, bronze swords, spears, ox hide shields coated in metal.

"Whoa," Percy said in surprise. "We're really supposed to use these?"

Luke looked at him as if Percy had gone crazy. "Unless you want to get skewered by your friends in cabin five. Here—Chiron thought these would fit. You'll be on border patrol."

While Luke was fitting Percy with Greek armor, but didn't know where Naruto was.

"Hey where's Naruto shouldn't he be here," asked Percy but before Luke can someone interrupted, "I'm right here," as they both looked at the direction of the voice and so who they were looking for.

Naruto was standing there wearing a black t-shirt and black cargo pants, his hands and whist taped with white bandage and wearing grey light durable armor on his chest, shins and arm with his katana strapped on his back.

"While that is an awesome armor your wearing Naruto."

Before Naruto could answer, Annabeth came over yelled, "Blue team, forward!"

The group cheered and shook their swords and followed her down the path to the south woods. The red team yelled taunts at them as they headed off toward the north. Percy though wondered why his blond friend did not take out his weapon, not that he knew that Naruto was armed tot the teeth.

Percy made his way to the Annabeth without tripping all over his armor and said, "Hey." Though she just kept on marching. "So what's the plan?" He asked. "Got any magic items you can loan me?" Naruto noticed that her hand was hovering over her pocket when Percy asked that. Quirking an eyebrow, he decided to get in more to eavesdrop.

"Just watch Clarisse's spear," she said. "You don't want that thing touching you. Otherwise, don't worry. We'll take the banner from Ares. Has Luke given you your job?"

"Border patrol, same as Naruto, whatever that means."

"It's easy. Stand by the creek, keep the reds away. Leave the rest to me. Athena always has a plan." She said as he pushed ahead, leaving him in the dust.

"Okay," Percy mumbled. "Glad she wanted me on your team."

"C'mon, let's get started," said Naruto as they head to their roles and job.

Day had turned to night by now as Naruto and Percy were stationed next to a little creek that gurgled over some rocks, then she and the rest of the team scattered into the trees. The two stood there for a little bit and groaned.

Naruto knew he and Percy were going to be left in the dust since they were new so he made a Shadow Cone just as a horn sounded and they heard whoops from enemy territory. While he left a copy to watch over Percy, he went into the forest to observe the campers.

He was watching campers beating the crap out of each other until his memories of the clone he left with Percy, it dispelled itself right as Clarisse attacked Percy. "Hmmm, I wonder what she has against him." He wondered aloud as he shunshin to where Percy was, only behind a tree so he could surprise them. Climbing to a tree branch, he watched as Percy did his best against Clarisse and her friends.

"Give him a haircut," Clarisse said. "Grab his hair."

Percy managed to get to his feet. He raised his sword, but Clarisse slammed it aside with her spear as sparks flew. Now both of his my arms felt numb.

"Oh, wow," Clarisse said. "I'm scared of this guy. Really scared."

"The flag is that way," Percy told her.

"Yeah," one of her siblings said. "But see, we don't care about the flag. We care about a guy who made our cabin look stupid."

"You do that without my help," Percy growled out and he instantly regretted it because it was probably the dumbest thing to say at the moment.

Two of them came at Percy. He backed up toward the creek, tried to raise myhis shield, but Clarisse too fast. Her spear stuck his straight in the ribs. If he hadn't been wearing an armored breastplate, he would've been shish-ke-babbed, it still hurt like hell because the point got htrough and shocked him.. One of her cabinmates slashed his sword across his arm, leaving a goodsize cut.

"No maiming," Percy got out, feeling dizzy. Now Naruto had enough, he took out something to end this.

"Oops," the guy said. "Guess I lost my dessert privilege." They then pushed Percy into the lake, which was a mistake for them.

Before the Ares kid could strike Percy, Naruto jumped down and kneed that Ares kid to the face knocking him out.

""WHAT THE HELL!" another kid yelled as all of them moved back abit, but when they looked up, it was Naruto standing next to Percy.

"Where were you!" he heard Percy, who looked all healed up now.

"Observing every single thing in this game." Naruto said with an emotionless face.

"Damnit!"one the ares kids said. "Charge!"

Naruto decided to fight them all on hand to hand combat.

'Let's see what they are made off.' thought Naruto

Two Ares kids rushed to Naruto but Naruto just kicked one in the chin(Superkick) making him fall to the ground and he focused back to the other Ares kids and then elbow smashed the running Ares kid to the jaw knocking a couple of teeth out.

As Clarisse decide to take Percy and the other Ares kids decided to take on Naruto. Big mistake. One tried to punch behind and Naruto just simply ducked and he hit another Ares kid to the face knocking him down and Naruto grabbed that kid from behind and reverse DDT him to the ground. Two more tried to get but Naruto just combat rolled away from them and then Enzuigiri Kick an aware camper from the back of his head, making him fall in front. Naruto got backed up and went back to the two Ares camper and Enzuigiri Kick one of them who was charging at him. And the other tried to get Naruto from behind but he simply got kicked in the stomach, holding it in pain and Naruto hold him in a three-quarter face lock and jumps backward and performing a back flip in the air, and landing face down, driving him back first down(Skywalker). Naruto saw one of the Ares campers he knocked down early was trying to get up and simply ran up and stomp him in the head, pushing his head to the ground(Blackout Stomp), knocking him out cold.

"Well that was pathetic," thought Naruto as he finished knocking out and beating all his opponents.

He saw Percy managed to break Clarisse's spear and were still fighting until they heard yelling, elated screams, and they saw Luke racing toward the boundary line with the red team's banner lifted high. He was flanked by a couple of Hermes guys covering his retreat, and a few Apollos behind them, fighting off the Hephaestus kids. The Ares folks got up, and Clarisse muttered a dazed curse.

"A trick!" she shouted. "It was a trick."

They staggered after Luke, but it was too late. Everybody converged on the creek as Luke ran across into friendly territory. The blue side exploded into cheers. The red banner shimmered and turned to silver. The boar and spear were replaced with a huge caduceus, the symbol of cabin eleven. Everybody on the blue team picked up Luke and started carrying him around on their shoulders. Chiron cantered out from the woods and blew the conch horn.

The game was over. They had won!

The boy were about to join the celebration when Annabeth's voice, right next to them in the creek, said, "Not bad, heroes."

Percy looked around but should not see her. Naruto, however, did. She took of the cap she was wearing and said "Where the heck did you learn to fight like that?"

Percy was at first shocked before he pointed to Naruto. "You set us up. You put us here because you knew Clarisse would come after me, while you sent Luke around the flank. You had it all figured out."

Annabeth shrugged. "I told you. Athena always, always has a plan."

"A plan to get me pulverized."

"I came as fast as I could. I was about to jump in, but ..." She shrugged. "You didn't need help, Naruto came in pretty quickly and destroy the Ares campers."

Annabeth then looked at Percy's arm. "How did you do that?"

"Sword cut," Percy said. "What do you think?"

"No. It was a sword cut. Look at it."

Naruto noticed it as well since it is already healed up.

"I—I don't get it," Percy said, shocked. The blood was gone. Where the huge cut had been, there was a long white scratch, and even that was fading, it turned into a small scar, and disappeared.

Annabeth was thinking hard. She looked down at his feet, then at Clarisse's broken spear, and said, "Step out of the water, Percy."

"What—"

"Just do it."

Sighing, he got out and looked bone dry. He also looked to have the adrenaline rush gone that he had when fighting. So he fell, but Annabeth quickly supported him.

"Oh, Styx," she cursed. "This is not good. I didn't want ... I assumed it would be Zeus..."

Naruto looked at her oddly before he got it as well, but he did not have much time to voice his thoughts because he heard a growl before a loud howl ripped through the forest. The campers' cheering died instantly. Chiron shouted something in Ancient Greek, which He and Percy somehow knew it was, "Stand ready! My bow!"

Annabeth drew her sword.

There on the rocks just above them was a black hound the size of a rhino, with lava-red eyes and fangs like daggers and it was looking straight at Percy. Annabeth told him to run but he was froze in fear at this beast, so she stood in front of him. That didn't do much for him because it just jumped over her and landed right in front of Percy. He fell on his ass as it slashed at him and snarled, showing its many teeth to the young boy and charging towards him.

Naruto opened his palm and a ball of energy formed in his hand and charged at it.

"Rasengan" and hit the dog knocking it a good distance back.

Jumping away, he cursed as he saw the wound on the beast was healing up. Naruto did a hand sign and sucked some air in and said, "Suiton(Water Style): Severing Wave" as high pressure of water came out of Naruto's mouth piercing the dog through its body and the dog stopped on it tracks with golden blood coming out of it, and Naruto moved his head vertically up with the high pressured water until the water is no longer in contact with the dog, splitting it in half.

"Whoa…" said one of the younger Ares campers. There was a murmuring of whispers on how the heck Naruto had done that, so this is the power of a shinobi and especially of a Root Anbu level shinobi.

Chiron trotted up next Percy .

"Di immortales!" Annabeth said. "That's a hellhound from the Fields of Punishment. They don't ... they're not supposed to ..."

"Someone summoned it," Chiron said. "Someone inside the camp."

Luke came over, the banner in his hand forgotten, his moment of glory gone.

Clarisse yelled, "It's all Percy's fault! Percy summoned it!"

"Be quiet, child," Chiron told her. They watched as what remain of the body of the hellhound melt into shadow, soaking into the ground until it disappeared.

"You're wounded," Annabeth told Percy. "Quick, Percy, get in the water."

"I'm okay."

"No, you're not," she said. "Chiron, watch this." Percy was too tired to argue. He stepped back into the creek, the whole camp gathering around him. He instantly looked a lot better and the cut on his chest healed up like nothing had happened.

"Look, I—I don't know why," He said, trying to apologize. "I'm sorry..." But they were not watching that, He saw that their eyes, where above his head.

"Percy," Annabeth said, pointing upward. "Um ..."

By the time he looked up, the sign was already fading, but he could still make out the hologram of green light, spinning and gleaming. A three-tipped spear: a trident.

"Your father," Annabeth murmured. "This is really not good."

"It is determined," Chiron announced. All around mehim, campers started kneeling, even the Ares cabin, though they didn't look happy, about it.

"My father?" Percy asked, completely bewildered.

"Poseidon," said Chiron. "Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God."

'Well things have just got interesting' thought Naruto.

OK Chapter 4 is done.