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Camp Half Blood Campers' Correspondence a Year Later-
[Angus Mondeigo to Dad]
Dear Father,
Camp is excellent and I have just returned from one of the biggest reasons why. What you are about to read may surprise you, but we just had the greatest, most intense, most epic game of capture the flag anyone has ever had in their lifetimes ever. It was huge. There was some fierce, fierce bargaining over who was going to be on what team, and there even a lot of bargaining to get certain people to sit out. For example, we have one kid here who can't be hurt and is basically invincible. A lot of kids, even ones on his own team, tried to talk him out of playing, but there was no way he was missing the first Capture the Flag game of the summer. Our team won, of course. No one, except the Ares cabin, wanted to go near the kid simply out of respect since he kind of won us a war last year, according to the orientation video.
We had the Poseidon kids and the Hades kids on our team and the Zeus and the Ares kids were on the other. Only three kids from my cabin joined the fray. Athena was on our team and the colossal Hermes cabin was on the other team, along with their Counselors so they put up a fight. They had the wind cabin too, so they were sending up air-scouts. They didn't stay up there too long, but it was crazy that they had them. I was put on boarder guard 'cause I'm big so I got to see all this cool stuff go down. There were these Dionysis kids were on our team too, and they were fierce. They totally took this group of Apollo kids trying to sneak over the river by surprise but then the War-Train cabin bailed them out. The Hepheastus kids had to break in and clean up after the fray. It was awesome.
The Zeus team had a good strategy, though. They put their Morpheus kids by their flag so anyone who got within range got really tired and got wrecked or passed out. After many failed attempts, including the loss of our invincible kid, we managed to get our Hecate campers up there to distract the guards long enough for the Hades kids to send in a zombie guy to get the flag for them. Of course, the camp director said that we couldn't use zombie people in the future, but we still won. It was awesome. I was decked out in armor and everything.
But I was careful and stayed close to Agnus.
Having a great time,
Angus
Demeter Cabin – Cabin 4