The sun shines through the windows of the cabin; the room faces the rising sun. Michael, Sage, Sayers, Karl, Bridgette, Aaralynn, Amber, Okan and Iren sit in their normal seats facing the television. Iren made fresh French toast for everyone, but Karl is the only one eating them. The discussion is sour, and no one did this before, only Percy Jackson and Annabeth
Chase but he had some of the gods on his side. Sayers stood.
"Alright, we need one of you to make up a story for our disappearance from camp, and someone to send us annual updates for each monster we bump into. We've got the car, though, I don't think the coach would be pleased with us taking it, but oh well. We need every weapon in the book, even guns, bombs, and poison darts. So who is in this mission aka magical mystery tour", he announces.
Everyone shifts uncomfortably, and tries to avoid eye contact, but the most unlikely person raised their hand.
"I'll go, and I won't go crazy with the skittles. I'm fast and smart, I'm willing to help", Karl shouts.
Sayers looks surprised, "Oh, okay, great so Karl, Me, we need three more, people", he insists.
"Well, if Karl's going then I'll do the damage control. I'm also pretty skilled when it comes to poles", Amber states.
Okan begins to snicker, but stops when he sees Amber standing in front of him, "You got something to say, gutter boy", she presses.
Okan doesn't say anything, but stares at her knowingly, "Yeah, didn't think so", Amber states.
Michael gives her an encouraging smile, "Fine, I'll go, I'm not much of a fighter, but I've got a butterfly knife, and of course these", she states with a light frown on her face as she picked up her Red and blue monogrammed SlushO bag. She pours the contents onto the table. There are all sorts of fire crackers, handmade grenades, and bottles of alcohol with cloth guarding the entrance, dynamite attached to a clock, and bags of explosive elements. Everyone's mouths drop.
"What the hell are you a terrorist", Karl shouts in fear.
Sage scoffs, "No, I'm a pyromaniac, I enjoy making explosives for fun. Now some of these explosives are actually harmful against monsters, so during break today, before capture the flag, I can make some more bombs hazardous to monsters but I'm going to need some celestial bronze or anything that is harmful against a monster", she explains
"I can help you with that. We have all sorts of discarded weapons that demigods don't use anymore. Alright, one more, people", Sayers announces
Michael looks at Sage, he remembers the conversation they had in the morning, and he takes a deep breath,
"Well, I have to keep an eye on you four, and I'm good with the axe, so I'll go", he states.
Aaralynn grins, "Iren and I will give you as much information as needed. Be safe, stay off the beaten path", she encourages.
Bridgette is busy stealing something from Okan's pocket, but Sayers' gave her the warning glare, "Oh, Okan and I can lie to the coach barge; he won't see what's coming until you five get home safely", Bridgette states with enthusiasm.
Sayers grins, "Alright, our meeting is adjourned, the mission will start midnight, Eastern Time, and we are heading to Coney Island, New York to find Glaucus. He's helped Michael in the past", he explains
Okan grabs Bridgette's hand as if he were a viper, "Wait, what about Nereus", he asks in a thick Irish accent.
Michael tries not to laugh, "Well he's in California, and he wouldn't help us at all, trust me", he replies.
Everyone begins to stand and stretch their legs and arms, "Well, let's eat some breakfast, I'm getting sick and tired of Iren's French toast", Okan suggests.
"HEY", Iren shouts from the kitchen.
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The day went off as if nothing happened, Sayers and Michael have to jog up and down the beach with their group, and Karl and Sage have to learn basic battle strategy by Okan. Sage learned how to block with sword, but she proved better with her butterfly knife; she was good very good. Karl was getting a little better, but Okan suggested that he couldn't trust him, even with a stick. Over the lunch period, Sayers and Sage made more bombs and had a total of at least six hundred including the ones in Sage's bag. They put them into some back packs and hid them in the trunk of the car that they were going to steal. Michael took some weapons from the armory while Karl distracted the coach. Bridgette and Okan analyzed the escape route that the five needed to use and Aaralynn and Iren looked up every monster in every book in the library at the camp. By night fall, everyone was ready for the plan; everyone knew what they had to do, and what they were looking for.
At night the capture the flag game begins and with it the unsettled rivalry between Apollo's kids and Ares' kids. Apollo's kids want Athena's cabin, and Hecate's cabin but they got Hephaestus cabin, Hermes cabin, Poseidon's cabin, and two cabins from the Bellophon cabin Amber's cabin and the Plastic Beach. Sadly, Ares cabin got all the rest of the cabins, and that included the Demeter's cabin. Everyone fears Demeter's cabin now because they found out that they can poisonous plants grow into your skin which made you have seizures.
Mr. D stood in front of the podium and looked down at the two teams, "Alright, these are the games, blah blah blah, no maiming and what not, blah blah, and you know the drill, begin", he states.
"Yeah, fight to the death, ya'll bleeding heathens", Bourdain shouts.
Mr. D rolls his eyes and the campers shake their heads in disappointment.
Karl looked at him with a confused look on her face, "What are talking about, Sir", he shouts in confusion.
Mr. D looked at her, "Just find the flag, Kevin"; he replies sarcastically and steps down from the podium.
Everyone gathers towards their teams then the game starts. Everyone runs inside the forest, Michael already starts a fight with an Ares' kid and Karl is running from a daughter of Aphrodite. Sayers has some luck; he goes looking for the flag.
Sage's armor holds her down as she runs through the forest, but thankfully she's in the deepest part of the woods where no one can find her. She stops and hides behind a tree, and tries to take a breather. She pulls out her butterfly knife, and fixes her new sword,
"Huh, there's gutter girl, boys", a voice states.
Sage turns to see Quanda, the girl who made fun of her at the campfire a night before with two stocky Ares' kids and a son of Demeter.
"Shit", she mutters
The four laughed, "Oh, shit indeed, let's get her", the Ares kid shouts in raw rage and tries to grab her.
Sage unfolds her knife with a flip and slashes at his leg and back. She then knees the other kid in groin, and punches the girl hard in the face. She turns toward Demeter's son and grabs her sword and bangs him in the head, and makes a run for it. The other two groaned in pain, but the girl and the Ares' boy chase her through the forest.
"You're so freaking dead", the boy shouts as he runs after her.
Sage starts to dodge some of the arrows being shot at her by them, but is unscratched. Eventually she gets to a fallen tree and crawled under it to hide from her attackers,
"Damn, where'd she go", the boy screams with rage.
"Shhhh, shut it, W-2b", Quanda whispers.
Suddenly Sage is dragged out of her hiding place, "AHHHHHHHHH", she screams, but feels a fist to her face and another in the stomach. She falls to the ground and is continuously kicked in the stomach by the two. Quanda kicks her in her face, blood pours into her mouth, and her right eye began to close up. Sage jumps up and starts swinging. With some unexpected success she knocks out Quanda and pulls out her ice pick from her back pocket.
"Come at me, Bro", she orders with a smirk. "I'll shove this knife up your ass and carve the Sistine Chapel. You don't know what crazy is".
The Ares boy unable to call for back up runs away, but Sage has her own plans of public humiliation. She chases him down and attacks him with unusual strength. Ironically, the boy starts to scream like a little girl.
Michael won the fight between the two children of Athena, he saw his friend, Sayers fighting Okan, but he didn't see Sage. He didn't see the two captains either, his face convulses with realization, and he runs into the darkest part of the forest.
Sayers continued to fight with Okan; he blocked some of the swings with his shield, but got a fist in the arm as well as a gash on his leg.
"Darnn", Sayers groaned in pain.
Okan swung another attack, but Sayers was able to flip his sword sideways and cut his armor deep enough to the skin. He was then able to knock Okan out with a head to face launch that broke his opponent's nose in the process. Okan fell with a huge bang.
"Ouch, sorry, mate", Sayers mutters.
He then turns to look for Karl, but he wasn't in the midst of the game at all. He figured that someone was looking for the opposing blue team's flag, and went off to find Karl.
Sage slams the boy's head hard into the ground. Shortly after kicking Quanda in the face, she limps her way towards the flag and picks it up.
"Hey, girl, get back here", Quanda screams in pain
Sage pulls a mysterious weapon's hook and throws it towards them, the two run away as fast as possible, but are still caught in a dangerous zone of the explosion. Michael runs towards the area where the fallen tree is and finds a pool of blood on the ground. He starts to panic, and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
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Everyone in the camp hears the explosion, Michael is knocked off his feet, and Quanda and W-2B are cut up and bruised by the explosion. Sage holds her stomach in pain and saw Michael trembling on the ground in shock.
"Sage, Oh My gods, what happened to you. What was that", he asks her,
"Oh, this. It's these two assholes, and that was a dirty bomb, the elements are harmful, but they'll only knock you out for a couple months", she replies in pain.
Michael gets up and helps Sage to her feet, "I need to get you to the infirmary", he states.
"Some game, huh. The flag", she groans in pain but has her clever smile.
He smiles in helps her walk to the opening of the forest. The moment the two arrived there were some gasps; even the opposing team looked shocked,
"Oh my gods, are you guys okay", Bridgette asks in concern.
Sage whipped the blood from Michael's forehead, "Yeah, we're be okay. Here's the flag", she shouts in excitement.
Sayers laughed "We won, finally", he shouted with pride.
Suddenly everyone gasps and stares at Sayers.
"I know right, let's see if the winning streak survives this time", Michael explains as he tied his shoes.
He looked up just in time to see what everyone was looking at, "You're on fire", Sage states plainly.
Everyone still looks at him in shock and surprise finally Michael tells him, "Sayers, you're the son of Hephaestus.
Sayers looks at his reflection in a puddle to see a fiery red hologram of a hammer floating over his head. He looks up to see Chiron and Mr. D.
"Oh hell no", he mutters.