A/N: Warning, this is a semi-long chapter! This is the first half of Capture the Flag so it's gonna be long. I couldn't shortened it so I just split it. Readers, are in for a surprise but I won't say where in this chapter. You have to read and find out for yourself. It's somewhat long, I know but I think I liked both of the Capture the Flag chapters. :)

Logan:

I woke up the next morning feeling fresh and content but something was bothering me though. To be precise, a dream. In my dream, I had seen Christina, only it was hard to recognize her because she looked like a little kid. She seemed to be running away from something huge in a forest with a girl that looked oddly familiar. Anyways, they were running away from something huge and they looked like they had just woken up, like as if they had just gotten out of bed. I could hear Christina yelling at the girl to run faster. They both began to gain speed but whatever was pursuing them was twice as fast. Then the horrifying thing had appeared right in front of them and tried to grab them. Christina yelled something at the girl and when the huge hand swiped again, they both dived out of the way and the thing roared in anger. Christina and the girl began to taunt the thing and I had sensed something, like the thing was going to attack. Of course in my dream, I had tried to do a stupid thing. I tried to warn them but my voice hadn't worked in the dream. I guess Christina and the girl sensed it too but Christina had sensed it quicker than the other girl. The huge, massive hand swung out of nowhere and grabbed the girl by the neck. The girl screamed and kicked and pummeled the hand but she might've been hitting a pillow.

"Put my sister down you stupid oaf!" Christina had yelled. The thing whirled on her and began closing in. However, Christina closed her eyes, murmuring and trying to focus like she was doing something and then all of a sudden a huge sword-like bolt thingy hit the monster from the sky. The whatever-it-was bellowed in pain and then crumbled like sand being smashed underfoot, dropping the girl. They both stood up shakily, took deep breaths, and then kept on adventuring. Then my dream dissolved. And now I was sure that the other girl in the dream had been Christina's sister, Lillian.

I went to my first sword lesson and I also did so the following days. I began to notice details like how everyone wore a necklace that had clay beads that they got at the end of each summer for surviving another year. We had golden coins called drachmas with Olympus stamped on one side and a picture of a god on the other. As Tuesday melted into Wednesday and as Wednesday turned into Thursday as quick as a bird spreading its wings, Capture the Flag neared.

I found out that I was actually really good with a balanced sword but I needed to keep my guard up. This was actually something I understood. I practiced and practiced with Landon, went to archery lessons even though I kind of sucked at it and I did all the other activities. Finally, Friday night arrived and all the campers were excited. As from what I had heard over the past few days was that Capture the Flag was the best and greatest activity there was. The Athena cabin had made an alliance with the Ares and Apollo cabins. They also included one girl from the Zeus cabin. Her name was Alethia Aquila. Aquila was Latin for "eagle" which was the symbol of Zeus. The Hermes cabin made an alliance with the other cabins. The teams were uneven but Landon told me they couldn't be dramatically uneven.

Good enough for me, I thought.

"Are the flags always made by the Athena cabin?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Not always. We switch out," he said matter-of-factly.

"Oh."

Just then, Christina walked over in full battle gear carrying her sword that she had used earlier in the arena and when she was fighting the hellhounds. Under her other arm she had her helmet which had a red plume meaning my helmet was going to be a blue plume one.

"You ready?" she asked.

"No," I answered urgently. Christina chuckled and said, "Don't worry. You'll do fine. But we'll win."

"Uh-huh. We'll see about that," piped in Landon.

"Pretty good challenge, but I'll steal that flag right out from underneath your nose."

"Yeah right."

"Ha-ha," I laughed. "You just got burned by Landon."

"Don't you wish. And I wouldn't be the one to talk, Logan," she joked. I was silent, trying to think of something smart to say. But I didn't have any luck. Zeus Almighty, she was good.

"Anyways, have you assigned him his place yet?"

"Nah. Soon though," Landon replied. I began to strap up my armor but I realized that I was having a hard time because I was beginning to become nervous as the time neared for us to start the game. Christina looked over and saw me trying to fix up my armor. She smiled and helped me, strapping it correctly on and fixing the straps until they were adjusted properly and were a perfect fit.

"Thanks, Christina," I blushed. I hope that she didn't see me blushing because if she did, knowing how pretty darn smart she was, she would know that I liked her. And this time, my luck held out.

"No problem. Well I've got to go and give the places that they'll be assigned at."

"Ok."

"Remember. I may be nice now, but I'll be vicious in the game so you better watch out and I'll win."

I pretended to act scared. "Ohhhh. I'm so scared."

"You should be especially when my team attacks," she said mischieviously.

I snorted.

"Like Landon said, we will win."

"Mmmm. You guys keep believing in that," she answered. She waved at us and went back to her teammates, assigning them their jobs.

"What's my job?" I asked Landon.

"Well, you're going to get a really important job," he said, smiling maliciously.

"I don't suppose its guarding the flag. As much as important as that job is, you're making it sound like its going to be a bigger and more important job."

"It is. You're going to come with me, and help capture the red teams flag," he answered.

"What? Are you serious? Me, help you capture their flag?" I said, astonished.

"Yup!"

"Ok. So how are we going to Capture the Flag?" Landon gave me another malicious smile. "Just follow me, ok?"

"Sure thing Landon," I answered grinning like crazy.

Just then, Chiron pounded his hoof against the marble floor and everybody turned their heads in silence.

"Heroes. You know all the rules. The creek is the boundary line and the forest has to be fair game, or else," he said shaking his finger at a few Hermes kids. All magical items are allowed in the game and the banner must be placed visually into view and you are permitted to have only two guards, no more than that. Prisoners may be disarmed however, they may not be bound or gagged. Understand? Because we've had some incidents with not following that rule. Also, there is no maiming and most importantly, no killing. I will serve as the battlefield referee and medic. We will give you time to set the flag before we blow the conch horn. Good hunting everyone!"

Then Landon shouted at the red team, "We call South Woods!"

Then he took off with me and his team into the warm night while the red team yelled and shouted taunts at us. We reached a pile of rocks which was called Zeus' Fist and set the flag there at the top. We assigned two guards just like Chiron said and then our team waited while the red team got ready in the North Woods.

"So who usually leads the teams?" I asked Landon.

"Christina. If she's the opponent, then she usually leads that team. If she is an alliance, she still leads the team. Everybody respects her because she is the best fighter here, best runner, best archer and all that other stuff."

"So I've heard," I answered as the conch horn sounded in the distance.

We ran forward and as we neared the creek, we could hear the red team yelling and pounding their way through their forest. As soon as we were near the creek, I saw them burst out of the trees and bushes and slamming into our team. Christina, just like Landon had said, was leading them. She came flipping off a rock and at the same time, slamming into a blue warrior. Several blue warriors lashed out at her but she defeated them quickly. I followed Landon and we ducked swords, dodged campers until we were out of the fight.

"I think we're good for now," Landon panted. "Just remember keep your eyes open at all times and don't get killed. Not literally," he added because I shot him a worried look.

But Christina had a little surprise for us. Some enemies attacked us and I thought Landon was a goner facing most of them. As soon as Landon used his foot to knock down the warrior in front, the one behind took Landon's helmet off which made him mad. Landon turned around and slammed him down hard. One guy came and I slipped and fell on my back, having to roll because the guy slashed down. He was going to strike but he was way too close to a tree so when he swung, his sword got stuck.

"Ha!" I exclaimed as I kicked him, still on my back. I got up and started running, hearing Landon following me.

"Whoa! I'm coming buddy! I'm coming! These are the sons of Apollo! Bows and arrows are just as dangerous as they are!" Just after he had finished his sentence, a camper jumped from off a medium size rock in front of us, flipping twice and landing on his feet while he thrust out his sword.

Landon pulled me back in time saying, "Holy Zeus, that's a sword! That's a sword!"

At the same time, a camper came down from out of the trees behind us and then two more did on our left and right.

"Whoa, you guys take camp way to seriously," I said, flipping my sword in my hand and looking around.

The four campers snickered. The one on the right said, "Did you think you were going to go after our precious flag so easily?"

"Hmmm. Let me think. Yeah, because you guys are just plain out idiots!" Landon said.

"Speaking of idiots," said the same guy. He looked at me and just sneered. "This one is just as much as an idiot as you blue teammates are."

"Got proof over that, thick head?" I snarled.

Nice comeback Logan, my brain thought.

Shut up. I'm about to get sliced to pieces so come up with battle moves, I told it.

"Better watch your mouth or I'll skewer you," said the one in front of us.

"Make me. And I'd like to see you try with Landon here."

"Ohhhh. Your sooo asking for it." We stood there for a moment, me and Landon back to back. There was another moment of silence.

"GO!" Landon yelled suddenly.

He deflected the guy who was in the front sword and the deflect was so powerful, it made him stagger back giving Landon enough time to hit the guy behind me. The one on the right came running and I ducked in time just as he shaved part of my blue plume off. I stood up quickly and with my sword took a swipe at the same guy. He jumped back and when he attacked, I was doomed because just at the same moment the guy on the left attacked me too. I couldn't defend both of them at once. I had barely learned that in sword classes. Thankfully, Landon intercepted him and they began to fight. When the same guy who was on the right attacked ferociously, I was thinking about just fighting him when a strange image popped in my head. I don't know why it had but it was a quick image of Christina when she was at the arena and had met one of the Ares' kids sword swipe and then quickly yanked downward and swept that kid off his feet. I thought about using that move until I realized that that was a move I hadn't learned.

Then I thought, What the heck? This warrior is going to eventually outmaneuver me. So I tried the technique. The camper swung. My blade met his. I was held in a standstill. Then like Christina, I yanked down and swept him off his feet.

"Nice one. Where'd you learn that?" said Landon. He had just finished off the other warrior leaving the camper whining in pain.

"It was one of Christina's moves that she had used when she was fighting the Ares cabin in the arena the first day i was here. But I haven't even learned. Guess it came naturally."

"Figures. She's the best with those kind of techniques and she's the best with coming up with new ones for everyone so we can improve. Now let's go and get that flag."

We began sprinting through enemy territory and by the time we reached the flag, we were panting like dogs.

"Mmmm. No kidding. Now what?"

"Get down!" hissed Landon. "The guards may see us and we'll lose our chance!"

"Oh, sorry." We peered over the bushes but the guards didn't notice us. Then out of the blue, they left the post and charged toward us. I figured we were dead and had been spotted since they were running right our way. But instead they passed us by.

"Weird. Guards should never leave their posts because that gives the enemy a quick and easy chance to steal the flag. I'm mean its like, hello? It's like their thinking, 'lets leave the flag because we're so stupid and let the enemy team take it! Hooray!'" Landon said. "But since our enemies is the Athena cabin, then there is some kind of trick that's going to be played. And Athena being the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy…you'll have to be really careful."

"Right. Well, why don't we just go up there and swipe the flag quickly and run?" I reasoned.

"Because I sense a trap that's going to be sprung," he answered grimly.

"Well I don't care. If you don't mind, I'm just going to go up there and snatch the flag."

"Fine Logan. But if a trap is sprung, don't say I didn't warn ya," he sighed. I looked at him and moved out of the bushes. As I neared the flag, I didn't hear anybody except for the fighting in the distance. I touched the silk gray flag with a barn owl painted in the middle and was about to ripped it down and run when a snarl sounded behind me. A sleek black panther was there, its lips drawn back revealing gleaming white fangs and its tail was lashing back and forth. I thought it was some kind of joke and was the reason why the guards left or it was here guarding. At that same moment, Landon came out of the bushes his eyes bulging.

"I thought the forest was only full of monsters and not just any ordinary animals!" he said astonished. The black panther growled and Landon took a swipe at it. It retreated quickly behind a tree. I looked at Landon and was about to rip the flag down when Christina emerged from behind that same tree.

"Rip that flag down and I will kill you. If you think you'll be able to take the flag and run, you're wrong," she said, smiling coldly.

"Logan, get back. I'll fight her myself. You're not trained enough to fight someone like her," Landon answered still keeping his eyes trained on Christina.

"Defending him are you? I be surprised if you can beat me. But the doubts of that are very high."

"We'll see about that." Landon was about to attack when we heard whoops and yells. Some of the red and our team, the blues, came streaming out of the trees and surrounded us in seconds. I was guessing that the other part of the red was attacking the blues who were defending our flag. And I was guessing the red team around us now was the trap and the my team members had chased them down until this point.

"I better not be fighting all of the enemy campers," Landon growled at Christina.

"No. It's going to be a one on one challenge and you, Landon, are going to lose."

"Yeah right."

He charged Christina and tried to make a head swipe. She ducked and Landon chuckled. Holding out his hands on either side as if welcoming her, he said, "I hope you're going to lose because if you do, that means I win and you've lost for the first time in all the years you've been here playing Capture the Flag every Friday night."

Christina growled and she slashed her sword downward across the palm of his hand and he backed up quick but not quick enough before she slashed her sword again across his cheek.

"Ow! No maiming," he manage to say. She smiled a cold one, an evil glint shining in her eyes.

Landon eyes reduced to slits and he swung his sword. She deflected it off the side of her sword and pushed downward but not hard enough. She backed up against the tree so when he swung, she jumped up high and his sword got stuck pretty hard. She landed on it chuckling. I was surprised at that move but what surprised me even more was how the sword was even holding her weight. He yanked out and she jumped off. He turned around fast, bringing his sword with him and he stabbed forward, as if trying to stab her face. As fast as thought, she grabbed his hilt also and bent back, as the blade passed over her head and came back. We both gawked at her but Landon swung again and her arm went downward so her blade was facing the dirt and deflected his strike again.

"Out of practice much?" she smirked.

"Ohhhh. You haven't seen what's yet to come," he admitted. This time he feinted his sword to another head-cut and Christina ducked but he quickly changed course and went for her legs, trying to knock her off balance but she jumped.

"Oh you want to play hard do you now?" she questioned him. "Then lets see if you're any match for my skills." With that she swung her shield onto her back and leaped up the nearest tree, clinging from the hole in the tree.

"Come catch me if you can," she taunted. She began leaping from limb to limb, tree to tree with amazing speed and Landon followed her, copying the same thing. At one point he managed to catch up but she tried to slash him and he ducked. She snarled and leap to the next tree. Then I realized something, we were nearing the creek and nobody had even grabbed the flag because they were too interested in the fight. We all emerged as she leaped into the tree nearest to the river and started climbing up, swinging and jumping from branch to branch like a monkey and a leopard. She reached a strong branch that was hanging slightly over the river and that's when Landon arrived behind her on the same branch, thinking he had trapped her.

"You're trapped. Nowhere else to go, huh?" he said, grinning.

"Oh I'm not trapped, you're the one who made it easier for me," she replied.

"What exactly do you mean? We're suspended right over the river basically and I'm blocking the entrance from you leaving!" he said matter-of-factly.

"Yes, but have you forgotten who my father is?" she asked quietly. The thought struck him and his faced turned red.

"No. No. NO! That's not fair! Shit!" he yelled. He swiped at her chest but she turned and his blade slammed against the shield on her back. Christina was really smart about putting that on her back.

"See ya. Have fun trying to find me," she chuckled. She flipped her sword and it turned into a golden gleaming key and she pulled out a necklace that had Greek words across it. As soon as she had put it around her neck, she jumped from the tree and cannon balled towards the river. As she fell she turned invisible and landed with a splash. Landon cursed and then grabbed a bow and arrow out of nowhere. He notched the arrow and prepared for any sudden movement. Then I saw Christina, swimming in the river. Well I didn't actually see her, I saw like the outline of her swimming in the water sort-of. Kind of like I can see her and can't really see her.

After swimming about fifteen yards upstream, she appeared next to a bush, her necklace disappearing. What happened to her next made me think I was hallucinating again. But I wasn't. Because when she appeared, she changed into a glossy-furred Bengal tiger.

A/N:
:O :O :O :O
Yep! She's a shapechanger and the only one! :) Surprised much?
Part two of Capture the Flag is the next chapter. Enjoy it. It may be long but if you really wanna know who Logan is the son of, deal with the chapter being long probably. If not, don't read it then. :) Readers, enjoy.