God of war
I entered the cabin and I see the cabin filled with beds. "gods! how many times did Hermes made love!" I muttered as I see eyes and heads peering at me. "uh, hi, I'm Mario a new camper." I introduced myself to the cabin. "Are you undecided or Hermes?" a kid asked me, he has a elfish face that gives me a expression to be careful with people like him. I shrugged, "undecided." I gave my answer and the rest of the cabin groans, don't really know why. I walk down the pathway and a couple of Hermes kids showed me a place to sleep. I thanked them and I see Xavier walking to me, he looks stronger and better fit than our fight, he sees me and smiles. "Mario! you're awake finally!" He walks to me and I laughed. I asked how long I was out, He said I was knocked out for a week, 5 days to get here, 3 days sleeping.
I chuckled and said I'm sorry for scaring him. I scratched my head and thought, "hey, what day is it?" I asked him, he looks at me and ponders for a second and answered "today is Wens day tomorrow will be your first practice day and I'll whip your butt in sword fighting." I laughed and joked "hey! not if I get you first." the night rose and we talked, I told him about Lexi and he smiles at me and nudges, "You like her do you?" I looked at him. "sorry?" I asked, "you like her!" Xavier said in a hiss. I retorted and shouted, "What! can't compliment a girl?" Xavier cracks up laughing.
After that we followed the Hermes cabin to the mess hall and ate. I looked at Xavier and whispered "have you used your pencil again?" Xavier looks at me and tells me to shut up and stated that he didn't. A Hermes kid rose from his seat and sat next to me. He has a similar elfish face as the kid before but he has brown hair and more calming eyes than the other one, still doesn't make me safe. "so, your name is Mario, right?" the kid spoke with a slight british accent. I nodded, "so?" I asked, he looks at me and takes out his hand. "The name is Brian, son of Hermes." I looked at Xavier and I looked back at Brian, I shook his hand and the evening continued. Xavier told me about sacrifices and how the gods liked it. I find it funny but I did it anyways, the smell was good, not a exact burning smell. We finished our meals and went to the Amphitheater and sung with the Apollo cabin and I saw Lexi standing up and starts singing with such a beatiful voice. she sung like an angel. Xavier told me that she's in the Apollo cabin. He looks at me and snickers. I look at him and growls "I don't like her." he made a uh-huh noise and responses "sure ya do." The night goes on, we slept till the next day.
I woke up to Xavier's poking and the whole cabin waking up. I groans and asked to sleep more. Xavier poured water on my head. "gods! damn it!" I woke in a shock and look at him wet and pissed. "listen, take your anger out at swordplay, not now." Xavier answered my rage, I calmed down and punched him with a little to no effort. We followed our cabin and another cabin comes and follows us.
They have piggish like faces and some of their arms are covered with battle injuries but they don't mind. some had brown, some had black, two had blond hair. 4 girls and 7 guys all looking at me and chuckles a bit. I blinked and looked at Xavier. "which cabin is that?" I pointed at them. Brian heard my question and answered "Ares cabin, God of war." I looked at Brian and nods, "thanks" I replied, the Ares cabin catches up to us and a guy pushed me. "you're a new punk!" I looked at them and growls. they laughed and the boy spoke again, he has dark brown hair with brown eyes that'll reminds you of a pig.
"listen punk, here's the first rule of half-blood, you don't fight back against the Ares cabin." He joked and the rest of the cabin laughs. "stay away from us Devon." a small but older kid stood up, Devon slits his piggish eyes and look at the kid. "fine, I'll toast your cabin in capture the flag but for the new punk, a sword fight after breakfast." Devon smirks and the rest of Ares's laughed. I got mad and shouted "you're on!" I was about to punch the kid back in his pen but Xavier stopped my fist.
"later Mario, not now." Xavier glares at Devon as he laughs saying "challenge accepted, can't wait to cream you." The Ares cabin leaves us and I look at the small kid and asked his name. "Tom, my name is Tom." he introduced himself at breakfast, so did I. We ate, Xavier was fuming about me accepting Devon's challenge. I chuckled, "I'll beat him, i just know I will." I assured him, "You haven't had a day's worth of training and you're picking on one of the best warriors in the camp!" He reasons back. I sighed and finished my meal. I got up from the Hermes table and looked at the Ares's cabin.
Devon gets up and smirks. both of our cabins walk out of the giant mess hall, other cabins see us walking out and they followed us to the arena. most of it was made from stone, the floor is sandy and I went to the armory to put on my armor, my cabin helped me. some of them smiled, some of them laughed, some of them stayed quiet. Brian smiled and Tom looks at me seriously. Xavier looks anxious for me. The armor fitted me unlike it did for Xavier on his first day (he told me). I picked up all the swords, I can use any of them all the same but only one felt perfect to me. I put my hand over my necklace and gulped. Hey, if I can, can I use my sword. I told everyone to leave but Xavier and the necklace turn into the sword I once fought against Lamia. The golden bronze edge shone in the lights. I look at Xavier and nodded. "I'm ready now."
I spoke my words, I put on my helmet and put my shield on. I walked out of the door, Xavier trailed behind. The Hermes cabin moved out of the way in awe, I think. When I pass the kids, they start following me. I looked back shocked and surprised but I just smiled and stick my sword out. "I'll show Devon what I'm made of!" I announced, the rest of my cabin cheered. I laugh because it sounds so cheesy. I kept marching to the circle where all of the cabins formed.
Chiron the centaur came over to supervise the fight to make sure no one dies. Devon, who's on the opposite end of the circle looks and smirks. "This duel will be over in a minute!" He showed his leaf shaped bronze sword and most of the cabins cheered for him. Chiron holds his staff in the air and tells everyone else to sit in the audience. I looked around. I felt like a gladiator in The Coliseum. I looked at the giant pig in armor, he snarls at me, I didn't flinch, I smiled.
Chiron put his staff down and tap the ground with a noise loud enough for everyone to hear and shut up. Everyone looks at Chiron. Chiron starts telling the rules, "there will be no maiming! no fight to the death, When you see that you'll lose, shout out 'mercy!', but all magical items are allowed and you may defeat your opponent in anyway." Chiron taps the ground with his staff three times, that's the signal to start fighting. Devon charges at me with his sword ready to slash. I get into a defensive form, my shield up and front with my sword pointing it's tip at him. "your sword is nothing but plastic!" Devon sputtered those words. I look at him slightly confused. I shook my head and my sword shone brighter and I get ready for impact as he bashed his shield against mine and he pushed me back. I cough up sand and gets back up. I growl and start charging at him. Our shields hit each other and I stab my sword into his thigh. He growls and pushes me back again. "You are dead!" He breathes those words and I stood up and he stabbed my side ribs and I parried his next hit and pushed him off of me. "I'm not going to lose to the likes of you!" I retorted, "same here" Devon chuckles and gets serious again. We fought, I caught every movement, we hit each other a few times, he cut my cheek and I slash his sword away, He used his shield to bash me with it but I cut his shield in half by nature. Everyone looks at us, my sword at his neck and I gulped. Chiron announced, "Mario is the winner!" Everyone looks at me to realize what happened, I took my sword away and in front of everyone the sword disappears and turns into my necklace. I dropped my shield and looked back at everyone. Everyone starts cheering louder than before, all of the campers but the Ares cabin ran down and surrounded me. The Hermes cabin picked me up and chanted my name. "Mario, Mario, Mario, Mario!" I laugh and threw my fist in the air in success. Everyone calmed down as the day goes on, I looked at Xavier and laughed, He looks at me smiling yet terrified. I totally forgot I was bleeding slowly. I dropped to the ground and grunts. The Apollo cabin ran over and fed me Ambrosia and sweet necater. Lexi looked at me seriously and whispers "Don't do such a stupid thing like that but besides that, good job." She smiles at me for a second and then she left. Xavier has a cup of water in his hand and he dips his finger in it and puts his finger on my wounds and the water heals them. I looked at him in awe. "how did you do that?" I whispered, he put his finger over his lips and I nodded as I asked him to lift me up. I walked around the camp with Xavier as he gives me a tour.
When we got near the Aphrodite cabin, all of the girls ran to me. I blushed when they surrounded me, they're one of the hottest girls in the world! They flirted with me a bit, saying how bold and brave I was. They invited me to their cabin (learned later that is rare). I thanked them for the offer but I had to stick with my friend. We kept walking until we get in the outline of the forest.
We looked around to see if anyone can hear or see us, no one was insight. "so what's your answer?" I finally asked, he nodded and spoke "I'm a son of Poseidon, but I want to wait for you to be chosen." "sorry?" I asked, "I'm 15 years old and you're 14, why isn't my dad showing?" Xavier shrugged, a shadow came out of the corner of my eye. My sword appears in my hand. the shadow suddenly looks familiar from his fight with Lamia. "Alexis! come on out, you almost got yourself killed." I sighed as Alexis walks out in the light and my sword disappears. "Mario! Xavier! glad you guys are okay!" he galloped to us but he looks exhausted. "sorry I didn't see you when you woke up, had to run a errand." Alexis chuckled weakly and get serious. "Mario, you looked like a natural born fighter in the arena." I looked shocked and pretended to be cocky as a joke. " I know i am, I kick his ass easily" I laugh and Xavier did as well, Alexis smiles. "not kidding, just to let you know, you'll be the most different out of the kids here. that means you too Xavier." Alexis informed us, he told us that he couldn't speak more and we calmed down. The sun starts setting and Xavier looks at me and Alexis,
"should we head back?" he asked us, we nodded and Alexis shouted a bit too loud. "yes! food! I'm so damn hungry!" he realized that we're next to him and he starts to feel stupid, we cracked up laughing and walked back to the mess hall. all of cabins cheered (not Ares of course) as we walked into the hall. We all laughed and we sat in the Hermes table, all of the guys were talking to me about the fight. I gave them a story that lasted the night.
Brian and Tom face me and asked us "are you guys ready for capture the flag tomorrow?" I looked at them, "tell me the rules and I'll play." I smiled as their eyes glistened and told me about the rules and our team's tatics. I listen and I walked to the Athena table and requested a meeting with them with Brian since he is the cabin leader. They looked at me like a joke and insult but I think they understand now and they nodded and we walked to the Athena cabin. We walk around a table which has a giant map of the forest. the cabin leader, stormy gray eyes and black haired Kate said that we're the blue team and showed where we start and the offensive and defensive tatics, I looked at it, they want me to lead the second charge to the flag due to what happened today, Xavier is in that charge. I check our defense and saw a hole in their plan, I showed them the weak spot and Kate growled. she's probably mad at herself to not see that, I showed them that a small force should protect the river and for the weak spot. I said to give up a small amount of our charge to defense, so we can win. Kate nodded and the meeting ended.
Everyone did their routine in the morning till capture the flag. For my team, we had Athena, Hermes, Nike, and Apollo. Ares is the leader for the other team with the rest of the cabins, many of them looked sad when they looked at me and mutter a lot. Xavier walks next to me, "hey ready to lead?" he asked, I looked at him and smiled, "remember how I'm good at war." I responsed with a bit of humor as we put on our armor. Kate lead the team out of the armory to the west side of the forest. Lexi walked near her siblings but close to me. she's holding a bow with arrows ready to shoot. I look around and we placed the flag near the creek. I glanced at Xavier and whispered in his ear. "stay near water, you're the best defense but you're a good offense. He looks at me ready to complain "don't argue, I know you want to take the offense with me but no, just stay in the border river." I fired my reason and he piped his mouth. I sighed and walked to Kate, she looks at me. "when you start to hear clashing and a trumpet blow, you flank them!" Kate commanded, I nodded, like our plan. I walked to my force and greeted them all. I walked through the Apollo kids and spoke to Lexi, "is your bow ready?" she looks at me and smiles "no one is going to get passed my arrows." she reassured me and I laughed a bit, "they better not." I walked to my force again and taken place at the head. a bugle went off and the game started, "charge!" Kate shouted as she leaves in the mess of her force. A few minutes later of fighting, a trumpet went off and I made a hand motion to move forward. We hustled naturally and broke the force into three parts, Xavier leads the behind force, Henry, a Apollo to flank our enemies, giving him the biggest portion to attack with. I went ahead to the flag with two Athena kids, boy and girl, 3 guys and 2 girls from Apollo, and 2 Hermes boys. We ran to Zeus's fist with the flag on top on the whole pile of giant boulders. 2 Ares boys left at post and 5 Aphrodite kids, 1 Dionysus kid, 1 Hecate and one Tyre kid. They saw us and charged, I order everyone into a phalanx. most of the kids fell and with only one Ares kid left, we lost 2 kids wounded, everyone broke and I pushed the kid down and climbed the rocks. When I pulled the flag out of it's place, the Ares kid blew a horn. All of the other team came back surrounding us at Zeus's fist. I commanded everyone to get up the rocks for a better chance. Devon looks at me angrily and smiles at the same time. "you're dead Mario!" Devon shouted, he told everyone to get on the rocks. I pulled out my sword and stab a few campers, one of our kids fell to the other team. it was just me, the Athena, and a girl from Apollo. I smiled as the Apollo girl took out her horn and blew it. All of my teammates came and bashed the other team like they were nothing. I ran down the rocks with the flag. I kept running, faster and faster till I saw Xavier as he get his water ready to attack... at me? I looked behind me to see Devon and his goons chasing me. Xavier's water turned into a giant ball and smashed Devon away. Devon get back and growls, "YOU ARE SO SCREWED!" he gets back up enraged and i looked at him and my sword turns into a spear and i stab his shield arm as I break his shield again and he falls on the ground. The rest of his goons looked knocked out thanks to Xavier. I walked back to the other side and both sides saw us. "you're a son of Poseidon!" Kate shouted, Chiron looked at us and sighs. "I guess you two are now determined." He spoke, I looked at Xavier questionably as everyone kneels to us. A Ares kid shouted "Impossible! this can't be right!" He pointed at me and I look at myself as my armor has completely changed from regular bronze to a mix of brighter and stronger bronze. "Wait! Who's my father!?" I asked everyone, Devon looks completely sick at me. I look above me and see a wolf and a boar hologram. I knew what I am now, a son of Ares, a son of war, the god of war.