Chapter 13
Perseus was waiting outside the cave sitting on a rock with the eyes closed; he was trying to feel the energy around him when he heard the sound of some one walking.
"You are late Sofie." Perseus told her while standing up and stretches some muscle.
"Sorry but I had to take care of some business on the cabin. Now, what can I do for you Perseus?" She asked him while sitting on the grass to be on a comfortable position ready to listen to him while she did her nails.
"I read the rules of camp half-blood, it says that the counsel of the camp can organize some events if they have the majority of the votes in the counsel or if a 50% of the campers agree, right?" Perseus asked while taking a position next to her, getting closer to her.
"Yes that's right, but it can not be something illegal." Sofie was wondering what Perseus was saying in front of her, she had always been good at reading people, but this time he was unable to do it with Perseus and that worried her.
"Good, I want you to make the Ares counselor propose a new activity, I will give you the details later. Also I need you to gain some votes of some counselors and of more than 50% of the campers, I bet that wont be a problem right?" Perseus told her, already thinking of the rules he would be making for the tournament he had been planning for about six months.
"I can get you the votes and the people you need, but I will need the details for tomorrow, the counsel meeting will be held in 3 days and I need one day to convince the counselors to agree."
"Tomorrow you will have the draft, however make sure that it passes." Perseus told her while going out side the clearing.
The next day Perseus had the new idea of the tournament on his hand with all the rules. He was walking towards Aphrodite cabin to give Sofie the drafting, when he entered he saw himself with 6 cabin counselors in front of her bed while she talked to them like if it was a normal chat. The moment she saw him she excused herself and went to the bathroom with Perseus.
"Here is the draft, make sure you can not be traced to the idea of the tournament." Perseus told her while handing her the pile of papers for her to read and then pass to all the other cabin counselors.
"Wait! Are you sure we should do this? This could come back at us in the future!" Sofie said scarred of the paper in front of her, this idea could be passed with out the need of her charmspeak, but it would had many risk, if the people knew that it was them planning they might make the olympians their enemies and they would break the balance in power that the demigods had for many years.
"Just make sure it passes, maybe Chiron is against it, but with this the whole camp will want to do it. And he doesn't have enough authority to go against the whole camp." Perseus told Sofie while walking to the door of the bathroom, the moment he left the bathroom Sofie laughed. She had meet a genius and a devil on the same time, he was a fool to try to play the gods, but if they found out she had convinced the counselors she could just tell the gods that Perseus had forced her, and if his plan worked Sofie could end up being one of the most powerful demigods on camp, it was a win/win situation and she would be dam its she wasn't going to use it.
Two days later the monthly reunion of the camp counselors started, it was on a pin pong table, and they all had coffee. Chiron was on the head of the table and was listening to all the arguments that the campers had and the progress they had on killing the remaining monsters. The meeting was about to finish when Alec, the Ares counselor, stranded up and said.
"I want to propose a new idea, create a new tournament on camp half-blood! As you might know, some of the campers are upset about the god's aptitude on them especially at the Olympians! So I have created a new tournament that should help the relationship between the gods and demigods and also the demigods desire to train!" Alec told the council on a strong voice, most of them knew already the idea, and were ready to vote for yes but first they had to make it look like part of the play.
"I will pass each of you a draft of the rules of the tournament, and what the camper who wins will gain. After that I would like to vote, if it is accepted then Chiron will pass it to the Olympians." Alec told them while passing the sheet of paper. The moment Chiron read the rules he knew they would had a problem, while it would help the relationship of demigods/gods, the Olympian council would hate the idea.
The idea would be of teams of 10 demigods, they would fight until only 1 was left and then the winners would have another contest, like that until there were 5 winners for each group, the winners would fight until only one was left standing, the winner would receive a randomly blessing of a god. In exchange of giving his blessing, the god would in exchange receive a 25% of the food of the camp sacrificed for them until the year ended, also the god would receive a small temple where they would receive prayer on camp half blood and in which its children would be able to live for the year.
RULES OF THE ANNUAL DEMIGOD TOURNAMENT
1. Every demigod can participate.
2. At least 60% of the demigod population must participate.
3. The demigods cannot make any teams.
4. Any weapon or armor is accepted except fire guns.
5. The blessing of the god can be exchanged for an audience with your parent.
6. There can be no killing; if you do, you are disqualified.
7. Any form of cheating will be punished with having to be imprisoned for 1 year.
8. If the demigod uses the blessing for evil doing or against the gods he will be punished with death.
9. Powers allowed but can only use them for the last 5 minutes.
10. The match will last 30 minutes.
11. No god can be chosen twice on a road.
The moment the counselors read the rules they all smiled, this would be great for them and they could become way stronger than they already were, and the moment their fellow campers read this they would accept the terms.
"Ok let's vote!" Chiron yelled, unable to stop the rule that would be very likely being passed. 10 counselors raised their hands, Chiron signed, he would need to go to Olympus and suggest the offer to the council, who strangely would have a meeting with all the minor gods at the same time. Chiron looked at Alec, he had never been this smart, and he wondered if it was his doing that Alec had played like a fool all this time but was this smart in the inside, or if there was a different mastermind on this plan, both options scared Chiron.
The next day Chiron went to Olympus were a meeting of the olympian gods and the minor gods was held.
Chiron was in front of the council of gods, he had just given the gods the idea of the new tournament and had read them aloud for all the gods to hear, including the minor ones that were there. The moment Zeus heard of the idea he wanted to blast the creator of it, for wanting to give more power to both demigods and minor gods. Everyone knew that the moment a god received a sacrifice his power increased a little, however he couldn't openly say no to the idea, as he had seen how many of the minor gods liked the idea and if he didn't take the matters carefully Zeus could have a civil war on his hands.
"The meeting is finished, about the matter of the new demigod tournament the Olympian council will vote the idea and tell the result to camp half-blood tomorrow morning!" and after that all the minor gods and Chiron left the throne room.
"We can not let demigods be around with blessings of gods! They would be too strong!" Ares yelled on his throne to the council.
"I agree! If the wrong god is chosen he would not only be stronger but also have a higher influence in the camp than us!" Hermes told his fellow Olympians, of course he wanted his children to be stronger, but the consequences could be severe, and he liked to stay in power thank you very much.
"While I agree with both of you, both the camp and the minor gods like the idea and think it would be a good chance to prove their worth. Also if we don't accept it the minor gods might think we are just trying to keep the power, and Olympus could fall into a civil war!" Athena told the gods while thinking of a way to get away from having to give her blessing to other children.
"The risk of not doing it could be us being dethrone by the minor gods in anger of this, I suggest we let them do it, but with out the blessing of an Olympian." Apollo told them, while singing a song with an instrument.
"I agree with Apollo, but if the demigods participate, then so will my hunters!" Artemis yelled from her throne trying to make her image more imposing towards the other Olympians.
"Silence! We will vote, who think that the tournament should occur?" Zeus told the council, 8 members voted for the yes. "Decided! The tournament shall occur! Hermes tell Chiron tomorrow that the tournament will happen in 6 months time!" Zeus ordered the Olympians, and disappeared with a big flash of lightning, seconds later one by one all the Olympians went away, until only Athena was left on the council room.
"I wonder who thought of this idea." She whispered to herself and flashed to her palace to think about whom could it be and how her daughter was doing on camp half-blood.
Perseus was avoiding with out much trouble the thrust from Thalia with her spear. He kept being the spear instructor while they finished killing the monsters outside the camp, when he defeated Thalia for the fourth time they stopped. Most of the campers had already retired for lunch or to pass the free time with their friends, but Thalia asked Perseus if they could continue practicing a while longer. Once finished they sat at the wooden benches that were on the side of the arena.
"Are you participating on the tournament too?" The gods had accepted the annual demigod tournament and the campers had started training for the tournament. And while there was no official list of when it would start until there was only one week left, no one was sure who would be fighting.
"I haven't made up my mind jet, it depends on whether I am there or not. But if you are participating I suggest you train even harder than you are doing right now, you are not even close to my level and the other cabin counselors are as strong or stronger than me." Perseus lied, of course he would be fighting on the tournament, he had been the person who came up with idea and he wasn't going to let another person have the blessing. However it was true that he wasn't as strong as some of the cabin counselors, but he had 6 months to train and he still had an ace under his sleeve.
"Just wait six months, then I will be the one to win that tournament and beat you." Perseus didn't really care if she defeated him; unlike most demigods he wasn't proud or arrogant, he accepted when someone was stronger than him, and he enjoyed when he had a good fight like when she fought against Claire.
"Maybe, but for now you should go get your lunch, you still have other activities to do." Perseus said, while he got up from the bench.
"Wait can we practice a bit more? I still want to spar." Perseus didn't really care about fighting again, but he had to go to the cave to see how things were going and he had to get ready to hunt the monsters that afternoon.
"I cant, I need to be ready for going outside." He said with his emotionless tone.
"Its not fair you get to go and I don't, I'm stronger than many of the guys who go hunting." Perseus knew she was right, she was a strong demigod, not as strong as Perseus or Alec, but stronger than the average demigod you would find around camp. However Chiron didn't want Thalia out of the camp jet, she had a strong scent and she didn't like working with other campers other than Luke or Annabeth.
"Complain to Chiron." He said as he disappeared into the woods.
After making sure no one followed him, he went into the cave. As always it was given light by the greek fire candles, the walls were full of corpses that were deformed, some of the bodies had four arms, no heads, or were a mixture of several monsters. On the end there was a wall of rock, the rock fell down on smaller pieces and you could see how there was two hidden corridors, one corridor had stairs going down, to were he kept his main experiments and were Claire was, the other was a straight on with out any light or candle. Perseus walked to the dark corridor, the corridor was the warmest place that Perseus had ever been. At the end there was a wooden door, which opened once Perseus was about 3 feet from it.
(GORE/BLOOD PART)
The room was full of different metals with different forms; the only light that was on it was the greek fire forge and the magma around it. The light from the greek fire was reflected on the metals of the room giving off a beautiful festival of colors. Perseus thought that it would even look nice if there hadn't been a grotesque monster on the middle of the room, with a hammer on one hand and a piece of metal on the other with a stick like form. The creature was a monster that Perseus had found on his travels, a Telekhine that had been casted away because of stealing to his own kind and killing the elder from his group. Perseus had spared the monsters life in exchange of the monster working for him in the creation of magic weapons. Since that moment the monster had been always working, enjoying the heat that the forge gave him and the resources that Perseus was giving him. Since the telekhine could remember, he always had limited resources and a tight deadline to finish when he made weapons for the monsters, so he could rarely do any serious work that would make him famous like his ancestors had been when they made the weapon for Poseidon and Kronos.
"How is the forging going?" Perseus asked in a loud voice so the telekhine would hear him over the sounds of the hammer pounding the piece of metal. The monster then noticed the presence of Perseus in the room.
"Is going great, thanks to the resources that I have I will be able to make you a weapon worthy of an immortal!" The monster said excitedly while thinking of things he could do to make the weapon stronger.
"Good, make me know when you are about to finish the weapon or if you need any material for it." Once he said that Perseus walked out of the room. He went to the stairs that went down, and once he was in the big room he went to the metal table full medical instrument, most of it soaking with blood. Once he got close to the table he took his scalpel, and looked at the metal table.
"Well lets get started with you." He said to the mortal that was sitting in the table and looking at Perseus as if he were a monster. Perseus putted down the scalpel and sliced a piece of flesh that was muscle. The person screamed as hard as he could, feeling the pain of having his muscles cut down by Perseus who didn't mind the creams and continued to slash body parts of the poor mortal that he had captured.
THANKS FOR READING AND PLEASE REVIEW MORE! PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THE TOURNAMENT IDEA, THE TOURNAMENT WILL HAPPEN LIKE IN 2-3 CHAPTERS FROM NOW AND I EXPECT IT TO BE 3 CHAPTERS LONG.
ABOUT THE PAIRING I WANT TO MAKE A POLE HERE IS THE LIST, PLEASE REVIEW THE NAME THAT YOU WANT AND THE ONE WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER WILL GO
CLAIRE-
SOFIE (MY FAVORITE)-
THAILA-
ANNABETH-
DREW-
PIPER (IN A DISTANT FUTURE OR I COULD MAKE HER COME EARLIER)-
OC-
A GODDESS( JUST WRITE HER NAME)-
WELL AGAIN THANKS FOR READING AND PLEASE REVIEW WITH NEW IDEAS AND CRITICS.