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Chapter 5:
"So, we have no plan?" Athena looked around, her grey eyes calculating. The counsellors and gods either frowned or shook their heads. She sighed. They had to have some sort of attack plan, but she herself didn't know how their enemies acted. The Chinese gods were looking thoughtful. Chi You frowned, his arms crossed.
"Twin Masters usually relies on his magic more than the other deities. There are usually gaps, but, unfortunately for us, his magic will protect him and any groups that he sends at us."
Hawk nodded. "We know that Twin Masters will always try to surprise us with attacks from people who we don't know. The only thing we can predict is that he sends something stronger each time."
Lin Chung looked up. "I know Twin Masters. He holds back because he wants to absorb the negative energy in the battle. He wants to make us panic before sending us the worst he has. He doesn't work hard to get more allies. He works smart, and clones all of the army. That is one of his biggest weaknesses. He is too dependent on his magic."
"How does that help us?" The earth started rumbling. Shooting a glance at one another, the six brothers took off; the Chinese and Japanese gods were not too far behind them. Meanwhile, the Olympians and the counsellors immediately set off to get the camp ready for army.
They arrived on Half-Blood hill soon. The brothers drastically paled as they watched the army. The others looked on, confused as to why they were nervous. Lin Chung turned to them. "Elementists."
"What are those?" Athena asked, frustrated. The gods and counsellors had quickly met up with them on top of the hill.
Lin Chung narrowed his eyes. "Elementists are those that draw power from their elements and use their elements to fight. The elements are divided into six, based off on the Chinese version: Fire, Earth, Air, Water, Lightning and Metal." He frowned, looking at the army of demigods assembled behind them. "We cannot protect them all. Keep them out of the battle unless absolutely necessary."
He then scanned the group before him. "We have to go in a group. The lightning people will take care of the metal. Metal will take care of electricity. Fire with water, and the opposite. Air with earth, and vice versa."
"So how are we being split?" Everyone looked questioningly at the youngest clone, who shrugged, eyes wide. Zhi suddenly jerked up.
"We can now use them again, can't we?" Lin Chung nodded, before turning to the group.
"For fire, we have Hephaestus, Leo and myself. Hestia will not take part in battles. Water will be handled by Shen, Poseidon, Percy and Aron. For the earth element, we will have Nico, Igor, Percy and Gong. Percy, you can choose. Lightning will be Thalia, Rick and Ke. Air will be Zeus, Jason and Jiao. Element of metal will be Hazel, Hades, Hawk and Zhi. Settled?" Everyone nodded as Zeus barked out the order, and the demigods backed away, shields locked in place.
The army stopped right before them. Their leader faced Lin Chung before firing a column of fire, one which Lin Chung easily blocked. He quickly vanished and reappeared behind the leader, knocking him out. Immediately, both sides let out a war cry, and charged. Hephaestus watched his son with pride as he attacked all of the water users, who used long tendrils of water.
The heat repeatedly evaporated the white, but they appeared again as quickly as they had gone. Hephaestus began to notice a pattern. The other gods or demigods would attack, but the clones would only defend their weak spots, or defend the army when they were caught unnoticed.
Lin Chung blocked a blow for him, and Hephaestus nodded in thanks before he charged back into battle, swiping the tendrils of water again. Leo was right behind him as he tried to burn the water elementist. The water elementist put up a shield that was promptly evaporated by Lin Chung, who was on their right and defending another portion of the army.
The blast hit the water elementist, and he was out for the count. They turned to the other five. Fun, Hephaestus smiled grimly, before following his son's lead.
Percy closed his eyes and concentrated, causing the ground to rumble at times. Though he was the son of the Earthshaker (Keyword: Shaker), he didn't know how to control the earth like they did. Even Nico and Igor seemed at a lost.
Thankfully, however, they had Yong on their side, who made up the majority of the offence, while Percy and Nico tried to shake the ground whenever they could to give Yong an advantage. He propelled himself high until he tackled one of the air elementist who was struggling against Jiao. The air elementist fell to the ground with a thud, before the earth slammed his face once more into the ground.
Jiao frowned, watching Jason and Zeus. They were taking on an earth elementist, no small feat, while he himself was currently struggling against another air elementist. He smirked, thanking his brother silently as Yong suddenly came out of nowhere, and tackled the air elementist to the ground.
He turned to the air elementist and flicked his hand, drawing the elementist's attention to him. The earth elementist growled, throwing all she had at him, but he dodged them easily and sent a strong gust of windttao her. She blocked the air with an earthen shield. But when she lowered it, she was punched in the face and knocked out.
Jiao watched the inexperienced earth elementist. She didn't know how to fight against more experienced elementists, that was clear. He had fought Yong a lot of times before, yet the older clone always managed to get the upper hand. At least he knew from experience that he could beat her.
Hazel forced metal after metal out of the ground, the unlucky enemy that she was fighting trying to electrocute it. However, Zhi unexpectedly thrust the metal to the lightning elementist as the metal crackled with lightning.
The elementist was knocked for the count. Hazel turned, seeing her father throw metal after metal to the lightning elementist all around him, but the lightning elementist seemed to know exactly where the metals were. The cause seemed helpless until a lucky shot earned her father enough time to gather the shadows around him and squeezed the elementist to death.
Zhi appeared next to the lightning elementist, easily knocking him out. He turned around to duck a bolt of lightning, which missed him by several inches. He gasped, before going back into battle mode and kicking the legs out from underneath the attacking elementist. Hawk, in the corner, was faring better than most of them, possibly because of the fact that he somehow knew exactly what to do and when, while she and the others were standing around like idiots.
A large clunk of metal flew past Thalia's face that she barely dodged, her instincts -sharpened with the years begin around the hunters - being the only thing that was currently keeping her alive. She sighed in relief as a bolt knocked the metal elementist unconscious. Turning to Ke, she sent him a relieved nod, and he smirked before sending another floating piece of metal out.
He turned around to charge at the metal elementist. The metal beneath him began to surround him, growing into an impenetrable cocoon which cased him. He struggled, seeing the flaw. The only way he could get out of this was using lightning. And he couldn't. Metal was a conductor of electricity.
He groaned to himself, before grinning as he suddenly felt the earth ripping the metals out. He sent Yong a relieved nod in return, then turned to the alarmed metal elementist, who proceeded to be knocked out by Leo and his flaming hammer.
Shen smirked as he whipped away a fire elementist. Because of the first leader who had been kindly knocked out by Lin Chung, the fire elementists were only down to three. He whipped away another one, then summoned a shield of water for the demigods, protecting them from the heat of a fire attack.
He saw Hestia's eyes glow red, and the fire died down. He wondered where Lin Chung was, since his main objective was to protect the campers (he had seemed particularly grumpy about that when they communicated telepathically), before he paused upon finding his youngest brother. Lin Chung was already struggling as the air elementists tried to attack from above, only to be blasted away.
The fire itself was currently fighting another one. A watery whip had come up, forcing Lin Chung to block, only for another one to send the clone into a cabin. This has to stop happening. Shen smirked, seeing Lin Chung grimace as he stood up. Always the cabins, isn't it, Lin Chung?
Shut up.
You know it's true. Jiao added to their conversation.
Zhi interrupted. I'm sorry, but we are currently in the middle of a fight! Get your act together!
Shen frowned at Zhi. Bossy boots.
You-!
Shen smiled cheekily, before severing the connection and whatever smart comment that Zhi was about to use. He turned, before blocking a strike and attacking an earth elementist, and then knocking him out easily.