Rogue

Chapter 2: Capture the Flag!

Hey everyone this is starfish152… chapter two is UP! This is their game of Capture the Flag soooo…ENJOY! Once again I DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON! That honor belongs to Rick Riordian

PERCY'S POV

"Yawn." Man, I think, that was probably the best night's sleep I've had in a while, ever since I saved Olympus, the nightmares of my death and Kronos have stopped. Another day at camp… wait a minute, todays the day! It's the championship Capture the Flag day! I can't wait until 9:00. Wait, what time is it… dang it! Its 8:45! I'm going to be late. Again.

"Sometimes I think my head really is full of seaweed." I criticized myself, "I can't be late this time too, and Annabeth will kill me! So much for a great co-captain!"

I got out of bed and grabbed a pair of jeans and my cleanest Camp Half-Blood shirt and ran over to the sink and got ready for the day as fast as I could. I ran out the door and managed to put on my armor at 9:18 and sprinted over to the woods where I saw Chiron, the Athena cabin, and the Ares cabin waiting for me. Crap.

ANNABETH'S POV

"Finally! Where were you? You're late! AGAIN!"

I hit Percy on the shoulder and saw him wince. I don't know if I really hurt him or he was just faking. Whatever.

"Heroes," Chiron yelled, both to us and the rest of the camp, who were sitting in their cabins watching the show on Iris messages, "Today is the final day of the Demigod Games! As you all know, today's event is capture the flag and the two teams are competing for the Championship title! On the red team is… the Ares cabin!"

I looked and saw the Ares cabin yell out their battle cries and raise their weapons. I noticed Clarisse stare right at me, her electric spear crackling. I saw her mouth:

"You scared girly?"

I smirked and mouthed back "You wish!" Clarisse rolled her eyes and put her spear down.

"… and competing against them on the blue team… the Athena and Poseidon cabin!" as Chiron announced our team, we yelled out and brandished our weapons, Percy, being the big show off that he is, uncapped Riptide and summoned water from the lake to flow around him. Showoff.

"The rules are as followed: no maiming or killing, small injuries only. You cannot hide your flag with enchantments. It must be in plain sight. Two guards at the flag and four at border patrol. The rest are on offense. NO EXCEPTIONS!" Chiron glared at the Ares cabin, "Any rule breaking will be an immediate forfeit. The blue team will take the west woods, the red team: east woods. I will blow the conch shell when the game is to start. Now heroes, take your flag and get ready to start!"

Percy and I led the group into the woods, determined to hide the flag somewhere new, where it had never been before. "So Percy… have any ideas where the flag should be hidden? I have one but I want to know if you have any suggestions…"

"What?" he said, surprised, "you're the Wise Girl, I'm the one with seaweed for a brain, I know that you'll find the best spot!"

Dang it. I thought blushing He sure knows how to flatter me! "Ok then," I turned to the group and got them into a huddle, "I think the best place to hide the flag is inside Zeus's Fist."

"Inside it?" questioned my half-brother, Malcolm, "but isn't the entrance to the Labyrinth in there?"

"It was," I answered, "but when Daedalus died, he destroyed it! So if my hunch is correct…" We walked over to the Fist, and I looked in the crack between the rocks where the Labyrinth used to be, "it should be the perfect spot. We can place just inside this crack between the rocks, so that the rocks hide it somewhat, but it will still be in plain sight! How does that sound?" Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Alright then," said Percy, "Now for positions… guarding the flag will be Allison and Malcolm, on border patrol will be: Mark, Justin, Katie and Claire. The rest of us will be on offense." The group accepted their tasks and went off to our positions.

PERCY'S POV

We stood in our positions while Annabeth discussed strategies. Apparently I was to go around the left flank with Annabeth while the rest of the campers caused a distraction by going up the center and right flanks. Annabeth would stay under the cover of her invisibility cap, so she could get away if I got captured.

"You realize that's a worst-case-scenario." I said playfully and Annabeth glared at me. She opened her mouth to say something when all of a sudden the conch blew. The game had started!

Annabeth put on her cap and vanished from sight. The only way I knew where she was an invisible force pulling me in the right direction. All of a sudden a group of three Ares campers blocked our way. I swung Riptide just in time to block a strike to my thigh and used the shield that I had gotten from my half-brother, Tyson, to block another. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the third attacker crumple to the ground, with a large dent in his helm. Good job Annabeth I thought while slicing a large cut on one of the Ares kids, sending him to the ground. The third turned tail and ran… probably to get reinforcements.

"Good job Percy," Annabeth said, taking of her Yankees cap "just follow me and try to keep up!"

I smirked and followed her. I followed her through the woods, meeting a few campers but mowing them down easily, giving them large cuts and bruises, not enough to kill them, just enough to knock them out. The number of campers that we met was small, which meant our distraction was working. We searched for the flag throughout the forest, looking for the other team's flag.

"Where the heck is their flag?" I moaned, "We've been searching everywhere you would think to find a flag! Any what have we found? Zip Zilch Nada Nothing! What are we-"

"We need to think like Clarisse… if we were Clarisse, where would you hide it…" interrupted Annabeth

"Well there's the river, the swamp, the Rock Hill…" I started listing places that Clarisse would be, until Annabeth interrupted me and said:

"That's it! The Rock hill! I remember overhearing her talking to one of her teammates about it! That's where the flag is! C'mon we can sprint!"

Arriving at the Rock Hill we started scaling the rock face towards the top. Okay, wait. Let's backup for a moment. The Rock Hill is basically a cliff wall with razor sharp rocks below; there were rumors that a camper had died here a long time ago. Basically, if you fall, from any height, the rocks will skewer you into little bits.

"You're right. This is it." I said "pointing to a guard, "there is a guard now. If we're quiet enough, we can sneak up the Hill, get the flag and climb back down without them noticing!" Annabeth nodded in consent and we began to climb. Five minutes later, we reached the summit and saw the flag, rippling in the breeze. Just as I reached over to grab it, I heard a whistling sound and a cry of pain. Annabeth!

"Annabeth what-" then I saw what happened. Annabeth was lying on the ground, a huge cut on her legs, preventing her from standing up. And who was her attacker?

"Clarisse!"