It was now time for the obstacle course.
Each cabin had a representative, a.k.a the Head Counsellor, to represent them.
Jason
Percy
Annabeth
Clarisse
Katie
Will
Leo
Piper
Travis, the two'd agreed on that.
Pollux
Nico
Butch
Clovis
Amy
Nick
Zia
Emma
Lou Ellen
All in the order of cabins.
Chiron sounded the horn and they were off.
It was a simple run three times around the camp going through a bunch of obstacles supplied by the gods.
The first obstacle was a manticore.
Nico and Percy had reached it first and visibly deflated.
'not again' they thought.
"Perseus, Nicolas," greeted Dr. Thorn.
"Oh no," Percy sighed, hiding his face in his hand at what he knew was to come…
"Woah, woah, woah," Nico said, "Back it up, Thorn, and put it in reverse. My name is not, has never been and will never be 'Nicolas'! my name is Nico, derived off the Latin word Nico, short for Nico and related to the root word NICO!"
Dr. Thorn blinked.
"Wow," he said, "Touchy much?"
"You have no idea," grumbled Percy.
The fight began.
Thorn threw volley upon volley of spiked at them, a few dozen managing to embed themselves into their skin/clothes.
Finally, Nico and Percy came up with an idea.
They closed their eyes and summoned an earthquake together.
The earthquake managed to knock Thorn to the ground long enough for Nico to throw his sword into him.
He and Percy kept running, but he overtook Percy due to the latter being tired.
Nico kept running and soon found that Percy'd caught up.
"How?" he asked, as they began climbing the wall.
"There was a lake about a mile back," Percy smirked.
Under them, Jason had started climbing, followed closely by Annabeth.
Nico began climbing down the other side but Percy just leapt into a nearby tree, choosing branches that went lower and lower until he was on the ground.
Percy had begun his second lap and Nico was having a hard time keeping up.
The second monster they faced was an empousa.
Percy just slashed her face with a happy smile, almost as if doing that gave him joy…
They kept running.
By now the climbing wall was gone and had been changed into a canyon. Three guesses as to who put that one up.
Nico would have slipped into the shadows, but seeing as shadow travel, evapo travel, lightning travel and flying had been banned, he started climbing.
Percy, however, used a slightly more 'different' approach.
He walked back about ten metres and drew Anaklusmos before running, with a war cry that put the entire Ares cabin to shame, and flung himself at the other side.
Nico watched in horror, as a body sailed above him, a mere shadow despite him knowing exactly who the shadow belonged to.
Percy sank his sword into the rock, managing to slow his sliding down long enough for him to grab a hold of the rocks and start climbing the few metres he had to climb to get to the other side.
Meanwhile, Jason had gotten to the point behind them and started climbing.
About a minute or two later, Annabeth joined them.
She quickly analyzed the situation, seeing only Jason and Nico and realizing that Percy must've finished.
She looked around for anything to use to get to the other side and noticed some vines.
Tying them together, she lassoed one and threw it at a rock on the other side. She tugged, it held true.
She then tied it around a rock near her and climbed across.
She reached the top a bit before Nico and cut the vine to disable anyone else trying to climb across.
Nico reached the top, sweaty and panting from trying to keep up.
Behind him, after Jason that is, he saw Clarisse, Lou, Katie, Leo, Will and Piper.
Leo got some materials from his tool belt and used the wood around him to start making a bridge.
Katie formed a grape-vine bridge across and walked across it.
Clarisse seemed to have a similar idea to Annabeth and began to create a vine-rope.
Lou magicked some wood to create a bridge and let her boyfriend pass with her.
And Piper… she was currently charmspeaking Leo as they crossed his bridge.
Jason had finally managed to catch up with him and nodding, they ran together.
Percy had just begun his third lap and was at the part with the monster.
The new monster was a Laistrygonian giant.
It/He grinned wickedly at Percy.
"My, my," he said, "Quite a while it's been."
Percy blinked, "Do I know you?"
The monster glared, "That's quite insulting. How is it that you do not remember me? I helped destroy your school gym at Merriwethwer Prep! I was friends with Matt Sloan! And yet you do not remember me?"
Percy squinted at the Laistrygonian's tattoo.
"HeartMuncher, is that you?" he said, pretending to be taken aback.
The Laistrygonian grinned, "So you do remember me!"
"Yes. And if I'm right, then I remember something else…"
"Yes?"
"That I must kill you," and with that, Percy charged.
The monster reached behind him and grabbed a huge, flaming, brass ball, which he chucked at Percy.
Percy dodged the ball and heard a scream that sounded distinctly like Jason and Nico's about a hundred feet off.
He flung riptide at the monster, who simply caught it and broke it in two as though it were a child's play toy.
Percy gulped before looking around for anything he could use to his advantage.
A tree? No, the monster would probably tear it down… wait…
He swung himself onto a tree.
As expected, the monster came after the tree.
Out of the tree emerged a girl.
She seemed about twelve, nothing unusual about her. She had flowing blonde hair like sunlight and chartreuse coloured eyes which Percy guessed was a side-affect from the chlorophyll.
She glared venomously at the monster, whose arms were trying to uproot it.
"How dare you?" she said.
And then her eyes darkened and she began chanting in ancient Greek.
Percy could only hear a bit of it seeing as the leaves muffled the noise, but he saw dust rising from the ground and the wind picking up and immediately knew she was setting a curse on the monster.
Eye of Grover shall see you rot
And fester with your monstrous lot
Nature shall forever be your bane
And you shall die via salty rain!
Was the part he heard.
He grinned wildly. Salty rain, he could do that…
He summoned water from the ocean and started drizzling it down.
He watched as the monster began to dissolve, crying out at the sky, something about how the forecast predicted dry weather and sunny skies…
Percy hopped down and thanked the dryad who just waved him off.
By then Nico and Jason had caught up to him. It was anybody's race now.
The three ran.
The new obstacle was… confusing to say the least. Definitely one of Athena's.
In front lay a bunch of scales and equipment. On a board in front were the instructions.
Create a pair of wings to fly you over the lava pit and to the finish line.
In front of them was a lava pit that seemed to stretch on for endless miles.
Jason snorted, "Well this'll be easy for me. I know how to make something aero dynamic. Isn't this kind of unfair?"
Percy shook his head.
"Not really. We actually know what they're supposed to look like seeing as we saw and used them in the labyrinth."
Nico nodded his consent.
They all rushed to get wires.
Percy, who had no forgery talent whatsoever, headed to the anvil and began to bang.
"Woah," he said, amazed when it took the correct form.
Nico had already started weighing the feathers and sticking them on.
Jason had haphazardly thrown together some feathers and metal that would never work unless you were a child of a wind/sky god.
He jumped up and tried to bend the wind around him, but it wouldn't budge. Confused, he fell to the ground. He groaned, rubbing his head.
"Ummm, guys," he said.
"Yeah?" replied Percy and Nico.
"I don't think our powers work on these things."
"Of course they don't," said Percy, "It's Athena, you really think she would let us use our powers? It wouldn't be fair, and she hates when things aren't fair."
"So why didn't you tell me before I jumped?" groaned Jason, rubbing his abdomen where the weight of the wings had caused a great impact as he 'landed'.
"'thought it'd be funny." shrugged Percy.
Jason glared at him.
"And you were right," chuckled Nico.
Jason glared at him too.
By now Percy had nearly finished making his wings.
"Farewell!" said Nico, as he took off into the air.
Percy watched Nico take off before fastening his wings.
"You aren't even going to try, are you?" Jason asked, raising a brow.
"Nah, let him have it," smiled Percy.
Jason rolled his eyes, "Women," he sighed.
Percy sent him a glare, which he would forever deny made him jump three feet in the air, before taking off himself.
By that time Annabeth had arrived.
Nico managed to secure first place in the game, and was awarded the laurel wreath, much to Zeus's chagrin as 'You are my son. How did you fail something that involved flying!?'
Percy leaned over and gave Nico a peck to the cheek which had the latter blushing.
He sincerely hoped no one had seen it.
Unfortunately…
"Argh! I'm blind!" proclaimed Connor, shutting his eyes dramatically and 'falling' onto Travis.
Hermes did his best not to glare at his eldest son.
"Make way, people, for those two fellas are PDAing everywhere! I repeat, code 911!"
Percy and Nico cringed, they both knew what code 911 was. Everyone did. it was a time that the two were making out heatedly in the woods and the Stolls, who were showing a bunch of new campers, stumbled on them, took a video, and posted on the Hermesnet under the title.
Poseidon and Triton snapped into their full war regalia, whilst Hades hooted and Zeus glared.
Percy and Nico glared at Connor and Travis, and Megan, the newest Hermes camper- part of Percy's promise to Hermes after the first great prophecy- got everything on tape. Her brothers had taught her well.
Chiron, deciding it was time to end this, blew the conch horn.
"Campers, Gods, Nature spirits and other immortals, it is now time for the chariot races, follow me."
The others followed him to the arena for the chariot races…
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Done! sorry it's been so long, exams have kept me busy. Oh, well, here you go! Syt!
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Peace out yo;P