I had a big writers block for this and it wasn't until I started writing a few random scenes that it started to come together...its just gotten busy with stuff around home so couldn't get time to myself to just sit down and write but thank god for google blogger since I can write up some parts of this fic while I'm on my break at work! well sorry for the long wait so here's the latest chapter of Forlorn Ocean!
Mr. D gave a big yawn as he looked between the two campers and shrugged as Percy and Luke made their way up to the stage to stand in front of the whole camp. Seeing that Mr. D wasn't going to say anything else Chiron sighed as he brought everyone's attention to him again.
"Are there any more suggestions for captains for this year's Olympic Tournament?" Chiron called out.
There were a few murmurs but no one stood up to suggest anyone else to compete with Percy and Luke, once Chiron was certain he turned to the two.
"Alright now you two now you may choose your team members." the centaur stated as the two nodded.
"Who picks first?" Luke asked.
"We'll flip a coin." Chiron replied as he took a coin out of his front shirt pocket he was wearing, and held out a drachma, "Luke you call first.
"Tails." Luke said as the centaur flipped the coin.
"Heads then." Percy said watching the coin before Chiron caught it in his hand and opened it.
"Tails, Luke goes first." Chiron replied, "remember you need at least one person from a cabin so that you have a variety on your team."
"Can we pick two at once if we wanted to?" Percy asked thinking about something.
"Yes but don't' forget that means that Luke will have to pick two as well so that there is an even number on each time." Chiron stated.
"Uhm but sir I don't really know many other campers..." Percy asked scratching his head.
"When you choose someone you do know I'm sure they can help you decide on whom to pick for your team Percy." Chiron comforted patting the younger boy on the head making the son of the sea nod.
Luke easily knew who he was going to pick first.
"Annabeth Chase from Athena cabin."
The blonde girl grinned as she quickly made her way down the stairs and onto the stage standing next to Luke looking quite happy to be there.
"Malcolm from Athena cabin." Percy stated as the darker blonde haired boy walked down to stand next to Percy, "think you can help me pick besides our friends?"
"It'll be no problem...by the way Annabeth, I'd advise not to have Luke pick any of Percy's friends for his team." Malcolm stated not looking at Annabeth as that had been exactly what she was thinking, "it would give you no advantage at all if you were to do so they wouldn't want to compete against Percy and I besides they have the choice to not agree anyway."
The girl huffed and turned her head away folding her arms.
"Luke please pick your next team member." Chiron said not seeing the quiet conversation between the two Athena children.
"Bianca Di Angelo."
"Nico Di Angelo."
The two Hades siblings walked down but Bianca kept throwing glances over at Nico who was doing his best to ignore his 'sister' as he stood next to Percy as Bianca took her place next to Annabeth.
"Any idea who'll be on Percy's team besides their friends?" Bianca asked quietly.
"No but at least we already know who he's going to pick so it's not going to be a surprise." Annabeth muttered back.
"Thalia." Luke said watching as the daughter of Zeus came to his side.
Percy bit his lip wondering who he should pick since Thalia was the only child of Zeus in camp, suddenly Malcolm had an idea and leaned over to Percy to whisper something into his ear. The child looked confused for a bit but he looked like he was considering before he finally decided to go with it.
"Ethan Nakamura?"
There was a bit of silence before a dark haired teen with an eye patch over his right eye stood up, he had a slim and wiry build, looking at Percy with a raised eyebrow and folded arms.
"Really?" he asked questioning if he seriously was asking for him to be on his team.
"Malcolm thinks you're a good person to have on the team and I should expand to other cabins as well. ::I would like it if you were on my team though Nakamura-san.:: " Percy replied saying the last park in Japanese surprising the camp and Ethan as well.
::You can speak Japanese too?:: Ethan asked looking interested in Percy now.
::My adopted dad is Japanese and I picked up a few things.:: Percy replied grinning, ::so what do you say?:
Ethan to the shock of the campers let out a laugh for what seemed like the first time in a long while.
"Why not! You've caught my interest Jackson-san." Ethan replied still smirking as he got onto the stage.
"Just call me Percy Nakamura-san." Percy replied.
"Fine but then its Ethan." Ethan retorted but his lips were still twitching amused.
"Did you know that was going to happen?" Nico asked as he noted the gaping faces of Luke, Annabeth and Bianca.
"No, I just knew that Ethan was a japanese-american citizen and since you gave me a vague idea about his adopted father I thought I'd take a chance." Malcolm replied but he looked like he was trying not to laugh himself, "worth the looks on their faces though right?"
"Oh big time..." Nico snickered as Luke recovered from his shock and looked back at the other campers to pick the rest of his team.
"Lee Fletcher from Apollo Cabin." Luke said.
"Joshua from Apollo Cabin." Percy asked smiling at his 'brother'.
"Charles Beckendorf,"
"Nyssa"
"Katie Gardner.
"Noah and Eli Clovers."
"Wait so I pick another person from Demeter cabin then?" Luke asked.
"I believe so since we have to keep the teams even." Chiron replied.
"Pick Viktor Kaiden he's pretty good with plants as I am." Katie said, not telling Luke that the twins were actually the best out of most of the cabin to manipulate plants not to mention that the nymphs and dryads of the forest absolutely adored the twins.
"Alright Viktor Kaiden." Luke agreed as the tall dark brown haired teen with brown eyes went up on stage as well.
"Zacharias Valentine!" Percy laughed as there was a poof of smoke in the audience before Josh let out a yelp as the magician reappeared hugging said Apollo boy from behind.
"Yay we're on the same team Joshy!"
"You idiot lemme go! and like Percy would let you be taken by the other team!"
"Nope not gunna! you're too comfy not to hug!"
"That makes no sense now leggo!"
"Never letting you go Joshyyyyyy~"
"Stop being so damn affectionate!"
"And of course one of the few decent Aphrodite children is on Percy's team..." Luke said.
"You really want to try and separate that?" Annabeth asked watching the Apollo boy yelling at Josh but he wasn't exactly making a move to toss the other boy off of him.
"Good point..." Luke replied thinking he really didn't really want to deal with the magician if he did separate him from the Apollo boy he was so fond of.
His eyes scanned the crowd to decide who he should pick next.
"Oi Clarisse you up for the challenge?" Luke called knowing that the Ares's girl would out right refused if he didn't make her to actually want to join his team.
"And why the Hades should I?" the girl retorted.
"You could get your chance ya know." Luke replied shrugging indicating to Percy, though the son of the sea god's team members narrowed their eyes at Luke as a silent warning.
Clarisse sneered when she looked over at Percy and snorted.
"Fine if I get the chance to kick his ass I will." the girl said stomping her way up the stairs.
"Is that really a good idea?" Bianca asked.
"She's strong and if she has a goal then she'll be better for us." Luke replied back to the girl.
"That was either a very stupid move or risky one..." Malcolm said looking warily at the Ares half-blood.
"Give him both...its both stupid and risky." Ethan said dryly, "she'd probably attacked her own teammates if they get her angry enough."
"True..." the rest of the group replied in unison.
"Percy is there anyone else you want to have on your team?" Chiron asked making the other boy frown as he looked around at the faces before looking at Malcolm.
"I don't really see anyone else we could recommend, besides with them having Clarisse there it makes an even team of 9 people each." the Athena child pointed out.
"Wouldn't it be better if we had even teams though?" Josh wondered thinking out loud, "it would be easier to pair up if needed to and I know there are going to be several events that would require an even number of people."
"Very true which is why also we have some guests coming in." Chiron said as he looked up towards the entrance of the amphitheater and in walked a group of girls clad in silver clothing being lead by a younger looking brunette with a laurel around her head. The theater bursts out into whispers as they were wondering what Artemis's hunters were doing here.
When Percy saw who had walked in his eyes lite up and he was excited when Artemis herself got up to where Chiron was that the son of Poseidon made himself known to her as the hunters took their place several seats away from the campers.
"Tsuki-hime! I'm glad to see you again!" Percy said smiling at her and bowing a bit, "I didn't think I would see you so soon."
Most if not all the camp was staring at him in shock...since none of them save for Ethan knew Japanese they had no idea what he had just called the goddess of the hunt...
"What...did he just call Lady Artemis?" Luke asked and wondering why the goddess seemed to look pleased by the name even a bit smug as she patted Percy's head.
"I...don't know but it had to be something good if Artemis isn't pointing her dagger or arrows at him...or her hunters." Bianca stated.
"Its nice to see you Young Perseus, and yes if it were not for my father 'suggesting' I come here I probably would not have." Artemis sighed, Percy made a face.
"Lord Zeus made you come here? Why?" Percy asked.
"He said that all the gods were participating in these games and that should include myself and my hunters." Artemis replied.
"Oh...I see sorry to hear about that Tsuki-hime." Percy said frowning a bit.
"What's done is done but I shall be assigning your team and the other team one of my hunters to make it an even team." Artemis said but an idea came to her that seemed much better, "actually...I'll call up some of my best and have them pick I don't wish to force them if some of them are unwilling to work with these teams."
"Because some of them don't trust guys right? I understand Lady Artemis." Percy said before going back to his team where everyone but Nico seemed to crowd around Percy.
"Percy what exactly did you call Artemis and why did she not shoot you on sight because of it!?" Malcolm exclaimed loosing his calm exterior for once.
"He called her 'moon princess' which is pretty much the equivalent of 'Lady Artemis' "Ethan replied, "but if you can have a NORMAL conversation with the goddess of the hunt who dislikes men, damn am I glad to be part of your team!"
"Geez Percy you're just full of surprises aren't you?" Nyssa gawked shaking her head still in shock.
"I guess?" Percy replied before Eli and Noah laughed as they were happy Percy was still the same as ever.
Artemis called over some of her hunters to come up onto the stage, some of them still didn't look very happy to be there but there were one or two of them that seemed neutral in the aspect of working with the campers.
"These are some of four of my finest warriors, Zoe, Phoebe, Astrid and Lucia." Artemis introducing four hunters in front of them, appraising the two teams and deciding their worth of joining them.
Percy tilted his head and looked at Zoe, "I remember you, you were one of the ladies with Tsuki-hime when they found me and brought me back to camp."
"Ah yes thee was that child back that was lost and nearly shot." Zoe replied neutrally but there was a hint of amusement in her eyes.
Percy nodded before Malcolm and Nico pulled him back just to be safe since not a lot of hunters liked guys getting too close in their personal space...which was rather wide knowing how some of them acted around the opposite gender.
"Two of you will be representing myself in these games on their teams, I would like the four of you to decide among yourselves who will be working in what team." Artemis said.
"If I may request my lady, I'd like to be part of the child's team." Zoe requested.
"Already Zoe?" Artemis asked.
"Yes my lady." Zoe replied not going into further detail.
"If that is what you like then I don't see why not, what about you girls?" the goddess of the hunt asked as she turned to the remaining three who were looking over Luke and his choice of teammates.
"I'll volunteer Lady Artemis," Lucia said throwing a smirk at Zoe who only shook her head, knowing what Lucia was after.
She did not know when it had started, but she had taken notice that Lucia would do anything to prove to her Lady Artemis that she was the much better choice of being the lieutenant rather then she...even if she had the position for a good millennia, didn't matter to Lucia she just wanted to be in-charge and she saw this competition on being the best thing to do to prove it.
"Thank you, Phoebe and Astrid you may return to your seats now." Artemis said dismissing her hunters.
The two girls bowed to the goddess as they returned to their sisters of the hunt.
"Well then we have our two teams competing in the Olympic games, now you will not know what the task is until the day of so you two teams better be prepared for anything. You will have two weeks from now to strategize while the gods decide their tasks." Chiron said, "I wish you all luck!"
"Hunters to the cabin." Artemis called as Mr. D took this as his cue to leave which he did to his pleasure leaving a few lingering campers and the two teams. Percy took the initiative and turned towards his team.
"Why don't we go somewhere safe to talk and figure out what we're going to do." Percy replied.
"We can go to the forest! The nymphs and dryads will protect us from anyone trying to listen in or spy on us." Eli chirped.
"you two are friends with the dryads and nymphs?" Zoe asked curiously.
"Uh huh we always help them take care of the plants around the camp, they also show us all kinds of stuff the plants can used for as well!" Noah replied smiling.
"I got a better idea where I know that no one will be able to get to us without us seeing." Percy said and led his team off the stage and out of the theater.
"We should start planning as well," Annabeth said frowning, "lets just stay here since the other group had left already."
"Alright so we have a week to figure out what we should do to prepare for this tournament." Thalia said.
"Isn't it obvious?" Lucia asked raising an eyebrow, "if we don't know what's going to happen we should immediately start training so we can be prepared for whatever is going to be thrown our way!"
"But where would we start though?" Thalia asked, "maybe we can try to improve our use of weapons..."
"I can look up some strategies and make a few plans." Annabeth added.
"I want to train to get stronger, I have a feeling that we're going to need all the training we need." Bianca said grimacing.
"True especially since Percy is a wild factor all we know is that he can control water, and your brother as well since I'm pretty sure he's stronger." Katie stated.
"The twins...man you should've seen them when we were with Aconite, they next to Katie here probably had the strongest show when they tried to prove to her we were worth training." Viktor added.
"What did they do to impress her?" Annabeth asked making mental notes about the other team members.
"Together they made an entire recreation of the camp in map form but it was a three dimensional version." Viktor stated, "separate Elijah I think is the more artistic one while Noah is the more attack heads on kind of person."
"Alright lets continue talking about what sort of plan we should make for the next week to train and be prepared for the Olympian games." Luke said as they continued to discus with his team.
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"Nah uh no way Percy!" Naida stated folding her arms as she glared at Zoe.
"Naaaaiddaaa why not! if we go on the lake we can talk privately without anyone trying to listen in!" Percy asked.
"because I don't want you to get hurt if SHE betrays you!" Naida uncharacteristically growled back glowering at Zoe, "she betrayed the water goddess Pleione!"
Zoe's face grimaced into a face of regret but she didn't say anything as the water nymph was hissing at her. Percy sighed and sat down on the beach and looked at Naida who calmed down when she saw Percy looking at her.
"Naida I know you and probably the other water nymphs are holding a grudge against Zoe, but please can you hold your hostility towards her for me? She's on my team and I want her to be able to help me but she can't do that if you and the other nymphs are glaring at her and threatening her too."
"But what if she hurts you Perseus..." Naida said quietly splashing the water in front of her.
"She's been with Tsuki-hime for a long long time probably and she hasn't betrayed her." Percy pointed out making Naida pout and fold her arms.
"I guess so..." Naida mumbled before glaring at Zoe and pointed a finger at her face, "you hurt Perseus and you will wish it was your dragon that gave you the pain I'll unleash if you do anything to him!"
With that Naida kissed Percy on the cheek before she jumped back into the water and swam away.
There was an awkward silence as Percy blinked confused but his face was tinged red before the rest of his team, save for Zoe were laughing hysterically.
"Ahahahaa! oh man Percy I think she really likes you!" Josh choked out holding his stomach laugh, "she sounded like a girl protecting her BOYFRIEND!"
"Whoa Percy didn't know you had a girlfriend already!" Nyssa teased.
"I-I-I she's not my girlfriend!" Percy sputtered, "she's just a friend!"
"Uh huh and friends kiss each other on the cheek hmmm?" Zach replied making the poor half-blood turn red.
"Gee I can't wait until I can tell Amelia about this." Nico added making Percy squeak.
"Nico! Don't tell my mom I'll never hear the end of it!" Percy cried out as Nico got an evil look on his face, "Niccccooooooo!"
"I said it once and I'll say it again I am SO glad I'm on this team!" Ethan chuckled watching the interaction, "really didn't think the son of Poseidon would be like this."
"You thought he'd have the same attitude of Thalia and Bianca? What about me?" Nico asked as he stopped laughing and looked at the Nemesis child.
"You I was perfectly fine with, yes you were usually glaring and biting at anyone that tried something to you but your sister and Thalia are a whole different story." Ethan replied, "Thalia especially seems to have this ego of hers just because she's Zeus's kid."
"Yeah...no wonder she gets alone with my sister." Nico muttered under his breath.
Once Percy was not being teased he created a large bubble from the lake water and walked inside, indicating for the others to follow.
"Is this safe?" Ethan asked poking the bubble, "I mean I don't want to suddenly find myself drowning in the middle of the lake because the bubble burst...literally."
"Percy knows what he's doing and this is simple compared to some of the other stuff he can do. Remember the 'training' session me and him had?" Nico replied as he walked inside the bubble making Ethan nod.
"Ah right...well might as well." he said following after Nico. Zoe, the twins, Josh and Zach followed after him and soon the group was in a bubble floating before he sunk to the middle of the lake.
"Wow I can actually see everything under water." Ethan said whistling impressed.
"This is pretty cool...it'd be really romantic if it was just two people under here~" Zach said looking at Josh who choke and glared at Zach before looking at Percy.
"Don't...get...ideas...Perseus..." he hissed.
"Then you better play nice Joshy or instead of a closet I'll keep you and Zach down here in a bubble..." Percy teased making Josh groan.
"Damn manipulative sea brat..." the Apollo child grumbled folding his arms.
"Alright you can set up Josh and Zach for their own version of 7 minutes in heaven later" Malcolm said ignoring the loud indignant sound from Josh, "right now we need to figure out what we're going to do for the week of training."
"Well why don't we list off our strengths and weaknesses and see if we can cover those and also work out how to deal with the team members of Luke's team?" Percy suggested.
"That is a very good idea Perseus." Zoe said rather impressed by how Percy was thinking how to go about the training, "if we know how to cover our weaknesses then there is a less chance for mistakes."
"Yeah and I was thinking could you possibly tell us some of the beasts you hunted with Tsuki-hime Zoe?" Percy requested, "You have a lot of experience in battle since you've been with Lady Artemis for a long time so you would have a good idea on any beasts we may encounter or ideas we could incorporate."
"Thee is still surprising me...if that is what you request then I have no problems obligating it." Zoe replied.
"Thank you Zoe. Okay I'll start. Obviously my strengths is forming objects with water, I can create almost anything solid enough with water to be considered a weapon, I'm fairy decent at Ice and as long as I'm in water I can heal myself and others with gaining strength and I'm good with working with a trident." Percy said, "as for weaknesses...well I'm still having trouble pulling water droplets from the air so if there isn't a source of water nearby I can't use my powers my arms are a bit too short hence why I can use the trident instead of the sword even if my dad Poseidon gave me one."
Percy pulled out the ballpoint pen he kept with him and clicked the top releasing the sword that had Zoe's eyes widen.
"You...have that sword?" Zoe asked looking at the blade.
"Oh..yeah do you know something about it?" Percy asked but Zoe didn't say another word about it and Percy promptly dropped the subject.
"Well I'm an Apollo half-blood and I'm decent with the bow and arrow but I prefer to use short range weapon, I'm alright with the sword I've had some martial art training when I was at school that's about it." Josh said then groaned at how weak it sounded, "weaknesses I need to improve my bow and probably be a lot more versatile with what I seem to lack..."
"I can use charm speak but I prefer not to, I'm fast, agile, tricky being a magician and all has its perks, I'm flexible and can think on my feet." Zach said grinning, "Uh...for weakness I may not have the greatest stamina, also I lack a weapon since I don't have the muscle strength to swing around a sword too long and I tend to rely on my magician tricks so I don't have to do a frontal confrontation..."
"What about that time when Drew insulted Josh? you stole a dagger and held it to her throat." Malcolm pointed out.
"...and I anger easily when someone insults Joshy in front of me." Zach pouted.
"I'm more of a thinker and strategize I do make use of a dagger but its not that big of one, I excel in strategy games like chess." Malcolm replied, "like Zach I lack stamina somewhat and would like to open range to more weapons or something besides a dagger maybe."
"Okay we're next! Our strengths are plants basically we can make a 3 dimensional map of the camp and the areas uhm our power is the strongest when we're together oh and we're really really good friends with the Nymphs and dryads of the forest!" Noah said.
"Our weaknesses would be if we were separated when we created something together it'll fall apart fast uhm we cant stand too much heat...we're working on making plants grow from seeds quickly and we don't have a weapon to use either." Eli finished.
"I'm a really good fighter with the sword I know how to fight I can keep up with Luke when we're paired together for training, I have a poisoned knife on hand just for emergencies. My style of fighting is mainly focused on defense but it causes me to be tired more easily." Ethan stated,
"Being a Hephaestus daughter I'm excellent with heavy weapons and the forge, I'm stronger then most girls since I'm always working with heavy materials, but because of that I'm not very fast I have a lot of stamina though." Nyssa stated.
"I have the ability to shadow travel and I can summon the dead skeleton warriors if needed but I've been mastering my control over the earth and can do it much easily even to the extent of manipulating sand and earth under water." Nico said, "I'm decent with the sword but trying to expand myself to control gems and metal...I need to work on my speed and work on manipulating faster."
"As a hunter of Lady Artemis I am gifted with the bow and being able to move quickly and swiftly without making a sound when we're on the hunt. I have a small dagger as a spare weapon," Zoe said, "for weakness as an archer I do not have much strength when it comes to frontal battles I surmise."
"Alright so then how does this sound? Since Zoe is a huntress she can improves our survival instincts along with our speed which we will need from what we all said," Malcolm said forming a plan, "Nyssa can help us increase strength since she and probably Josh are the strongest possible...Ethan can help us improve our swordsmanship if he can keep pace with Luke,"
"What about weapons though it would be great if we could each have a unique weapon that'll take everyone by surprise." Eli asked, "and especially to those of us that NEED weapons too."
"Well Percy and I were already planning on making him a trident two weeks I think should be enough time to make weapons I think may depend on the difficulty of it." Nyssa said.
"We can't just train our bodies we have to train our minds too so we have to put time to training that can help us think better, I already have a few ideas involving the nymphs and dryads if they'd be willing to help us." Malcolm replied looking at the twins.
"As long as it doesn't involve ruining the plants it should be alright." Noah replied as Noah nodded as well.
"Alright so what about weapons then? Percy is talking with the water nymphs into helping him get materials from the sea so that his weapon can produce water on its own." Nyssa said.
"There's stuff down there that can do that?" Ethan asked.
"Well petrified shells would still work I think, that's what Naida told me." Percy replied.
"What about a whip for Zach?" Ethan asked while Josh gave him a deadpanned look.
"...Seriously?" He asked dryly.
"I don't see the problem I'll have a weapon and since it won't be heavy like the other weapons here it should work. Hmm...hey Eli, Noah there are flowers that once they're smelled can cause problems right?" Zach asked.
"Uh huh those are the ones the nymphs make sure we stay away from." Eli nodded, "why?"
"Because I was thinking of having something similar to perfume just hear me out! perfumes are usually plant based and they are used as both a medicine and beauty so why not a weapon? If the twins can get me some plants and show me how to turn it into a liquid that can be compressed or turned into a gas, I can have like pellets of the stuff to use." Zach explained.
"That's not a bad idea...you may want to think of a secondary weapon, maybe a small launcher for your wrist that'll release them, since the material the pellets would have to be made out of would have to be hard enough to break when thrown but not too weak it'll break when you try to load them." Nyssa stated rubbing her chin already coming up with ideas.
"What about us? the swords they have here are too big and heavy for us." Eli said frowning.
"How about basing your weapons on tools used to tend to crops? like the sickle, scythe and claw?" Nico suggested. "since the twins are the younger ones here they can have a chain and sickle with the claw as a secondary."
"We can give death boy here the scythe then. You know the tales of the death god carrying around a scythe?" Ethan said amused, "if we gave him that he'll just need the black shredded cloak!"
"Hahaha very funny Nakamura..." Nico said dryly.
"Why not? it'll give you some more mid range attacks Nico." Percy pointed out.
"Ooooh! it can be like in Harry Potter when he had his cloak of invisibility!" Eli said but yelped when Nyssa flicked his forehead.
"I make weapons kiddo, not magical items that don't work in reality." Nyssa replied.
"Annabeth has a baseball cap that turns her invisible as a gift from mother." Malcolm said.
"...Great now we have to be extra careful about talking about our plans." Josh said grimacing, "which makes me realize something do you think our siblings like Annabeth, Lee, and Charles may try to listen in and figure out what we're doing?...actually scratch Lee he wouldn't do that..."
"Same with Charles." Nyssa said and everyone looked at Malcolm.
"Annabeth I wouldn't put it past her if it meant she could prove a point and use whatever she has at her disposal." Malcolm sighed rubbing his head, "and I can't write any notes since I share a cabin and they could be found out."
"You guys can stay in the Poseidon cabin." Percy said, "I already have my mom and Nico staying there not to mention Eli, Zach, Noah and Josh stay there too."
"That would work." Malcolm agreed.
"Eh I'll consider it don't put me down for anything yet." Ethan shrugged.
"I am satisfied staying with Lady Artemis." Zoe replied.
"I need to stay in the forge so I can work on these weapons." Nyssa replied.
"Alright so we still need to figure out a weapon for Josh, Zoe, Ethan, Nyssa and myself." Malcolm said.
"Oh don't worry about me I already know what two weapons I'm making for myself." Nyssa said smirking, "an axe but I'm making a hammer as my weapon."
"Because your dad uses a hammer himself." Zach said as Nyssa nodded.
"I'd like to stick with my sword." Ethan said.
"maybe we can make you a sword that'll help with your defensive style." Percy said frowning.
"What about like a jagged sword?" Percy suggested.
"Oooorrrr...why not a samurai's sword?" Ethan replied getting an idea from his father's side, "its thinner and lighter I think then the swords we use here and I think I can remember a few styles my father taught me..."
"Oh! we can ask my mom for help and my dad! My parents are from Japan and my dad's a history teacher so he would know exactly what we could use!" Percy said.
"Do you even know how to contact him?" Nico asked frowning.
"Uhm...oh...yeah..." Percy said down when he realized he didn't really have a way to contact Tatsuya.
"You could try Iris messaging it should work well enough, but what weapon would suit me though?" Malcolm asked trying to think of a weapon that would suit him.
"Something that allow you all ranges maybe?" Nyssa suggested, "Athena is known for her war knowledge since she and Ares are siblings,"
"How good are you at throwing?" Nico asked.
"Pretty good I guess?" Malcolm replied.
"Why not chakrams?" Nico replied and he got confused looks, "I got bored one time and just grabbed one of Percy's dad's history books turned to a random page and it talked about these weapons in India. You could throw them but we can add spikes or something on the edges and a grip hold in the middle so you'll have a pretty good range of attacks."
"I'll go with that." Malcolm said chuckling, "I can't wait to see everyone's faces when we deviate from the norm of weapons."
"And why shouldn't we? its good to go outside the box its not like we have to use swords all the time." Nyssa replied shrugging.
"Now that's left is me..." Josh said rubbing his head trying to think of something he could use, "I could get more practice with a bow and arrow but I rather not just use that for a weapon."
"What about Kopis? we can have it with a hook like hilt for better gripping and you could get two of them." Percy suggested, "I think it'd be interesting."
"It's going to be interesting trying to get good with these weapons in such a short amount of time..."
"Well thou can do best for the weapons." Zoe said.
"Alright I think we got everything so far, now why don't we go to the surface so I can draw out these designs?" Nyssa said.
"You draw?" Zach asked surprised.
"Well I have to if I want to make sure the weapons come out right." Nyssa replied raising an eyebrow, "I don't have THAT great of a memory."
"Right right lets go then." Percy chuckled as he floated the bubble up until it broke the surface and was near the shore. There the bubble popped letting the group out.
"Alright I'm going to grab my sketch book from my room." Nyssa replied, "should we meet at the Poseidon cabin?"
"Sure but I'm going to go the big house and see my mom maybe she can help us." Percy said as Nyssa nodded.
"Alright I'll see you there and then we can head over to your cabin." Nyssa agreed walking off towards her own cabin as the others headed towards the Big House where Amelia usually hangs around with the company of Chiron and Mr. D, mostly Chiron though Amelia had been getting Mr. D's attention by nearly beating him in the game they play.
But when they got there they were surprised to see Artemis holding out an arrow to a shivering white puppy as Amelia stood in front of it.
"Move aside that is not a normal beast..." Artemis hissed narrowing his eyes.
"I don't care! He's just a puppy and hasn't done anything!" Amelia argued back protectively even Celeste was up and growling as she stood over the poor shivering mass of fur.
"H-hey! What are you doing to Saphir!?" Zach cried breaking away from the crowd.
When Saphir heard Zach's shouting he brought his head up but was still afraid of making a move as the pointy object was still aimed at him.
"This beast has fooled you all..he is not a mere dog...now show your true form before I let go..." Artemis threatened.
Before Zach or Amelia could stop her they were surprised when the puppy was enveloped in white light and instead of a small puppy...instead stood a small seven year old boy with poofy white hair, blue and silver robes but his most distinct features were the white puppy ears and fluffy white tail that drooped.
Even Artemis hadn't expect that and lowered her bow, "What...are you?" she questioned before the boy burst out into tears crying.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry please let me stay I don't wanna go back please let me stay with Zach-daddy!" The child wailed hiccupping.
Zach quickly moved past the goddess of the hunt and Amelia picking up the crying child in his arms.
"Hey there its alright...we won't send you back but we do want to know what's going on." Zach said gently as the child sniffed, "can you answer some questions Saphir please?"
The child looked nervously at Zach still hiccupping.
"Y-you're not mad I'm not a real puppy?" he asked scared.
"Of course not! I just think it's really cool you're a cute lil kiddie! but we need answers," Zach said looking at Chiron who had come out when he heard a child crying, "sir is it alright if use the big house for a moment?"
"I don't see why not but why do you have a child in your arms with those...features?" Chiron asked.
"I would like to know that as well." Artemis huffed making the now human Saphir whimper and bury his head in Zach's chest.
"Well...this is something I didn't expect..." Malcolm said as the others looked interested at the child Zach was holding.
"You guys please keep this to yourselves! I really don't want to know what some of the campers may do if they hear about this..." Percy begged.
"Not like anyone would believe us anyway." Ethan stated shrugging, "and I don't see the worth of telling this anyway."
"We'll keep it to ourselves." the twins and Malcolm replied.
"We can fill Nyssa in later." Nico said as the group moved inside the Big House where the group sat down.
Now before we start...why did you just call me daddy?" Zach asked looking at the child who nodded.
"Cuz you found me and took care of me like a parent...I don't have one only my big brother..." Saphir replied back still clinging to Zach.
Josh moved closer and looked at the child who stared at him back.
"Those ears real?" Josh asked taking an ear and pulled it gently.
"Owwiee...dun pull that Joshy-daddy" Saphir whined.
"Ah! sorry about that I didn't-...why did he just call ME daddy?"
"Cuz Zach-daddy likes you so you're my other daddy!"
"Yay! we have a kid Joshy!"
"ZACHARAIAS!"
"Joshy-daddy don't yell it hurts my ears!"
"S-sorry and you lot stop laughing!"