Wisdom of the Waters
Chapter 5
-Percy-
"Alright," Clarisse said as they looked over a map of the Camp's Forest "we're all that's left for our team for tomorrow's match thanks to Annabeth offering some sort of payment to the other cabins for their aide.".
"Eh," he said with a shrug "we can still win this.".
"And how is that?" one of Clarisse's brothers, he was pretty sure the guy was named Mark, asked with a scowl "All we've got are the Ares Cabin, you, Grover, Lou, and the Hephaestus kids while they have every other damn camper.".
"Which puts them at a disadvantage." He said with a smirk as the others blinked in surprise.
"I was hoping to keep this under wraps a little longer but as it's needed for the planning I'll let it out now." he said as he showed the leather cuffs he wore on both wrists now "These babies are the weapons that I had Beckendorf and Lou make for me.".
"Cuffs?" Sherman, another of Clarisse's brothers, asked in confusion.
"They hold the weapon," he explained "they were enchanted by Lou to have a pocket of infinite space to hold them. As for what the weapon itself is…" he trailed off as he channeled focus into the cuffs and two celestial bronze chains shot out, both of them topped with a three fingered claw.
"Whoa!" Grover yelped in shock as his best friend leapt back when the chains began to sway around like a snake "How the hell are you controlling those?".
"I told you all that I had a decent amount of control over my powers right?" he asked with a grin "Well those powers are over water so my father is some sort of water deity who also has Poseidon's ear as he was able to get me permission from the sea god to take Lou out on the lake for our date yesterday.".
At his words Lou blushed and Clarisse looked at the daughter of Hecate with a smirk, "But how are you controlling metal?" Grover asked, never taking his eyes off the chains.
"They're hollow," Beckendorf explained "since Celestial bronze is almost impossible to destroy we forged them to be hollow while the inside is enchanted to draw water from the ocean so he just controls the water inside them.".
"So I can use them to grab people," he gave an example by shooting the arms forward and had it grab a nearby training dummy that one of the others brought in case a member of the group had to show their skills, ripping its head off as he yanked the chain back "and monsters before decimating them.".
"Not to mention that you can use it to swing from tree to tree to move quickly." Lou added as he nodded.
"We also made you a few other items as an experiment," Beckendorf continued as the blacksmith threw him a hip pouch "those are senbon throwing needles that were made the same way as your chains and I have some kunai at the forge waiting to have the hilts wrapped.".
"So what else do we have in our favor?" Clarisse asked, the leader of their faction trying to get the subject back on topic.
"Well with as many people as Chase haves under her command she'll have to try and keep control of them all and I'm sure a good amount of them dislike her.".
"Understatement of the century," Lou snorted "the Hermes campers dislike her apart from Luke because she insults their pranking habits, the Aphrodite campers dislike her mocking of their mother, so on and so forth. She's book smart but isn't smart enough to keep her opinions to herself when she's dealing with people who don't live their lives exactly the way she wants them to.".
"And we have a location to hide the flag that will be almost impossible for them to get to." he continued with a smirk as the others looked at him in confusion.
"How do you know that?" Clarisse asked "Chiron hasn't even told us who has what areas for the game tomorrow.".
"When I went to Mr. D to get permission for Grover to join a team as well as to allow myself to join a team of my choosing rather than whatever group Hermes Cabin allied with, I saw Chiron's map for how the forest would be divided." He explained with a shrug.
"So we have our own personal spy over here," Beckendorf said with a grin "I like it.".
"So what do we have?" Clarisse asked as she gestured him over to the map.
"This section here," he marked off that area of the map, retracting his chains as he walked over "but it also extends out into the ocean and I found a small island off the coast which is within the camp boundary. I can get a group of campers over there to act as guards before I go and recover the flag.".
"But what about the rest of us?" Clarisse asked.
"Here's my full plan," he said as he picked up the little figurines Beckendorf had made of their group "Beckendorf, his siblings, and Lou guard the flag as Lou can use magical defense to protect and hide the Island while Beckendorf and the rest of his cabin can set up Physical defenses. While they do that Grover can go with most of the Ares campers. While his nature magic doesn't exactly help people it does mess with whoever it's directed at which is what we want. They'll track down the various teams on the other side and have Grover screw with them and cause a panic. While they do that I'll go with Clarisse to get their flag.".
"Percy…" Clarisse said with a grin "I think that these games are going to be a lot more fun from now on.".
"Are we in agreement?" Lou asked and, when everyone nodded, continued "Then I'm going to head back to my room to begin making sure I have the right spells for tomorrow.".
Walking over to her he gave her a hug and a quick kiss "I'll see you later Lou," he said with a grin "don't study too hard.".
"Yeah, yeah," she said as she rolled her eyes but he could see the faint tint of pink in her cheeks "charmer. Go spend some time with Clarisse and treat her well tonight.".
"I will," he promised "have fun with your spells.".
"I'm heading out as well man," Grover said with a wave "I'm going to go talk to some of the Dryads on our side of the boundary and see if they'd be willing to help us.".
Nodding he waved goodbye to his Satyr friend as he turned to Clarisse as her brothers walked off, "Heading off to train?" he asked, nodding in the direction of her siblings.
"Yeah," she said with a nod before she smirked and strode forward with a smirk "and i think you and I have a bit to talk about mister.".
"Oh?" he asked with a grin as he strode forward "And what would that be?".
"From the look on our little sorceress' face she had the time of her life last night," Clarisse began as she pushed a finger into his chest "do you think you can keep up the momentum for our date tonight?".
"I think I can," he said with a smirk as he pulled out a pair of tickets "I got us seats at the Mets game tonight as well as permission from Mr. D to leave camp for the game."
"No way!" Clarisse said excitedly as she snatched the tickets "How'd you get these?! And how'd you even know I was a Mets fan?".
"I asked your siblings to find out what sports team you were a fan of if any," he explained "and then I went to Hermes and had him act as a middleman for me. I just had to promise him a portion of my meals in sacrifice for a while and he got me the tickets. The money for them came out of the spoils of the Fury which Hades tried to steal but was stopped by the council as it's against the ancient laws for a god to steal the spoils of war from a demigod.".
"You fenced off your spoils?" Clarisse asked in surprise as she handed back the tickets, "Why?".
"I couldn't use them and i had them sold to Hephaestus who can use the parts for different things," he said with a shrug "I think Hecate bought a few as well for some potions.".
"Well I'm looking forward to it," Clarisse said with a grin as she spun around "I'm going to go make sure my gear's ready for tonight and tomorrow. Be sure to be on time.".
As he watched her leave he muttered to himself, "I know she has to be swaying her hips like that on purpose." A belief that was only further cemented when he saw her wink at him over her shoulder.
-Seventh Inning Stretch-
"I'm going to go grab some snacks and a drink," he said to Clarisse as the longer break was called for the game "you want anything?".
"I-" she began only to pause when people started chanting 'Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" around them causing them to look up at the scoreboard which now showed a video image of them with the title of 'kissing cam' above it.
"Well," he said with a smirk as Clarisse blinked in surprise at the screen "who am I to turn down our 'fans'?" before he wrapped an arm around Clarisse's waist and pulled her into a kiss. Clarisse was frozen in shock for a moment before she began to enthusiastically return the action, both of them ignoring the loud cheers they were receiving for doing so. "Whoa." He breathed out with a grin after they pulled out for air.
"I'll say," she said with a grin before she tangled her hands in his hair "forget the snacks, I have something better in mind." Before she pulled his mouth back against hers.
AN: I'm not sure if baseball actually uses the 'kissing cam' but I thought it would be fun so I wrote it in.