Anyways, she needs to focus on the game now. Luke smiled as they walked together, as they watched the other demigods practice for the game. "You're gonna love this. Camp-wide mock warfare. All glory to the victors." He said to the two. "Annabeth the head counselor of the Athena cabin. She's lead our team to three straight win." He explained to them as they watched the girl grab weapons with her team. "It's been a long time since anyone's won a fourth." She nodded slightly. "Wow, that's.." Luke grinned. "Impressive? Yeah, I know." He smiled proudly, like he taught her everything he knew.
Percy meanwhile, was as confused as ever. "She was there in the bathroom." That was a weird sentence even with context.. "She said she'd been waiting for it to happen." She remembered him explaining this when they woke up, but she was way too tired to process it. Now that she had, she found Annabeth's strategy actually really impressive, she means of course it is! She's Athena's daughter. She thought Athena was a virgin goddess, but she guessed not now since she has children.
She wonders how Annabeth got to be head counselor if she was the same age as them. She didn't really understand how things worked around here still even if she has been here for a few days. Luke continued speaking when she prodded herself out of her thoughts. "Annabeth sees the world differently. Always six steps ahead of everyone else." He muttered. "You should cut her a break." He looked at Percy specifically. "Not you, don't worry. I actually think she likes you." He chuckled as he patted Eurydice's shoulder.
She took a second to understand what he had said. "What?" She muttered in confusion. Her brain felt like it was operating at 50 miles per hours as she tried to figure out what that meant. Maybe she was impressed with her skill or something. Even if she only got the bullseye once. Percy looked away for a second. "Whose side are you on, anyway?" He asked Luke in confusion. Luke just smiled softly. "Oh, hers. Always." He muttered. "She's my little sister." He smiled. The two of them stared at him in confusion. "Huh?" Eurydice muttered dumbly.
Luke laughed. "Maybe I should back up." He started to explain. "Before camp, I was on the road. Me and a forbidden kid I met along the way. Her name was Thalia." They sat on a table in the dining hall as he continued his tale. "Her name was Thalia." He sounded oddly sad when he said that name. Percy looked at him in confusion. "And what does that mean, forbidden?" He stared at him. "Like forbidden fruit?" She muttered out with a shrug.
Luke shook his head at them. "A long time ago, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades agreed that their children were becoming too powerful so they made a pact not to father any more. And it held for a long time, until Zeus broke that pack." She nodded slowly. "Hades?" She muttered in confusion. "The god of the underworld." He explained for her quickly. Her eyes immediately went wide. That was what that woman called her in her dream. Child of the underworld. If what Luke is telling them is trueโ
She took a shaky breath as she tried to hide her emotions. "There wasn't any forbidden kids at camp, well until Thalia." Luke continued, not noticing the look in her eyes. "A forbidden kid attracts trouble. Monsters everywhere it's just a constant battle to stay alive." She breathed in through her nose shakily. You could barely see her hands shaking from underneath the table. It couldn't be true what that woman's voice said about the underworld, couldn't it? It was just a dreams. Dreams didn't mean anything. Sometimes they don't have to mean anything.
Percy sitting next to her kept her grounded on the floor beneath her, otherwise she would be panicking on the spot of hearing her potential father's name. "One day, we uh, find this little girl hiding in an alley." Luke continued his story. "Annabeth. We were worried about taking her in exposing her to all that danger. Then we saw her fight." He chuckled softly at the memory. The older boy was then quiet for a second. "Thalia didn't make it." She immediately winced in sympathy for him and Annabeth.
"But Annabeth and me." Luke muttered. "We did. And we've been family ever since." She smiled slightly, nodding in understanding. "That's sweet." She smiled. Percy still seemed suspicious of her. "She's been watching me since I got here, why?" He demanded an answer in suspicion. "Annabeth is the strongest warrior in camp. The only way left to prove herself is to go in a quest." He answered. "And what does this have to do us? She was watching Eurydice too. It was weird." He muttered with a shake of his head.
Sometimes Percy was way too quick to judge. "Wait, she was watching me too? Where??" She muttered a little too excitedly. Luke just laughed at her reaction. While Percy sighed. "Seriously? She's not that impressive." He muttered under his breath to her. Luke cleared his throat. "Chiron's been promising her for years. One day, two demigods would arrive who were fated to go in a quest that even Chiron couldn't prevent." She suddenly understood her curiosity about her in the beginning all of a sudden. "And when that happened, she could join in. Every new arrival. Annabeth watches, looking for a sign they're the ones, or one of them in case the other demigod was already at camp to begin with."
Percy scoffed. "Well that's not creepy at all.." He muttered sarcastically. Eurydice hit his arm slightly. "Hey! don't be mean." She muttered to him in disapproval. Luke chuckled. "Usually she gives up after a day or two. But she's still watching you two." Percy sighed, rubbing his arm in pain. "Can you ask her to knock it off?" He complained. Luke snorted. "Yeah, sure. But what if she's right?" He asked him. Eurydice swallowed hard. "If she's right then we'll never get a moment to breathe ever again." She muttered miserably.
Luke smiled slightly. "Hey, look on the bright side. You'll get glory, and maybe you won't be the ones. It's a 50/50 percent chance. That's always what Annabeth says." Luke mutters. Suddenly the conch shell horn started to blow, which she guessed was a sign that they were beginning the game. She breathed in to calm herself down slightly, mentally preparing for what was about to happen. Chiron stepped in front of them as the horn blew. "Heroes..." He trailed off. "It's time." He informed them all, shoving something out of his pocket. "The game begins." She braced herself, she was never built for fighting. But with her new keychain sword thing, maybe she could.
Chiron stood in front of the opposing teams as he explained the rules of the game. "The first team to retrieve the opposing flag and return it across the river shall be the victor." The man continued as everyone got into their places. "As always, there will be no maiming, and no killing. I trust these rules will be respected. Any magical items you must possess are permitted as well." The man continued as she fidgeted with the keychain in her pocket. It made slight rattling sounds as she moved slightly. "
The armour that they wore into battle was kind of stuffy. Their team wore a bronze coloured armour with blue stripes to differentiate the teams. They all held matching shields and she felt awkward and out of place holding it. "Every camper who is not injured has to play." Chiron finished explaining as Luke muttered something she couldn't make out to Percy. "Prisoners may be disarmed." The man was still going. "I don't even know what my job is." Percy muttered miserably. "Me neither, we're in the same boat." She whispered to him.
Percy didn't seem very confident that he'd be doing much this game. "Maybe I won't even need a sword." He shook his head at Luke who didn't answer him. "Let the games begin!" Chiron finally finished as all of the Ares campers and the opposing team yelled in unison, hitting their swords against their shields. Percy was suddenly quiet. "I'm gonna need a sword." He mumbled as she tried to hide an amused expression on her face. "Good idea." She muttered. Their team did their battle cry as the game officially started.
Annabeth walked up to them as the other campers are their team started walking. Not sure what they were going to be doing, Eurydice and Percy stayed back so Annabeth could tell them what their jobs would be respectively. The girl in question nodded at Luke. "All right. We have 20 minutes before the second finch and game-on. You know what you're doing?" She muttered, asking Luke. The older boy smiled in amusement. "Yes, ma'am." He answered as he started to walk away.
Annabeth stopped him for a second. "Hey," She asked. "Today feel like a winning kind of day to you?" Luke just shrugged. "I'll see you on the other side." He nodded his head at the girl. As he walled away towards the rest of their team. "Company! Move out!" He commanded some of their team with a yell, pointing his sword out as they all yelled kleos in unison. How warlike their camp already was, well it was interesting to say the least. Considering the fact that they're all... children. She doesn't think she saw anyone at Camp older than eighteen other than the satyrs, Mr. D and Chiron.
Percy was about to walk away with the rest of their team, she nearly followed as well until Annabeth stopped them. She shook her head at them as she swerved her head around to look at the girl. "Not you sunshine, songbird. You're with me." She stared at her in confusion. "Wha-" Percy sighed, mentally rolling his eyes as he dragged her with him to follow Annabeth. Within a few minutes all of the campers on their team was on a large colourful bridge dangling along the trees below them. She gulped slightly as she looked down, so she tried to focus on continuing to run down it.
Eurydice and Percy continued to follow Annabeth down another path as the rest of their team clamoured to cover more ground in their area. As they were walking, Percy suddenly fell to the floor. Looked like his shield was too heavy for him. She winced slightly as watched him get up. Annabeth stopped for a second but didn't do anything to help. "I'm fine, thanks. But I appreciate you, you know. Standing there silently." He muttered to Annabeth in annoyance. Wow, he really didn't like her.
Annabeth didn't seem to care and continued walking as Percy tucked his sword back into its holster. Percy gave Eurydice a look, and she shrugged in response. The boy took his helmet off as he caught up to Annabeth. She was really getting confused at what she expected them to do in the game. But she'd wait until the time came for her to tell them. But Percy wasn't as patient as she was. "Listen. I- I get it. Okay. You're better at this than me. But I need this to go well today. I can't really get into it but I need my father to see it go well." He started to ramble.
Impatience wasn't a good thing to have, and Percy didn't seem to get the memo that Annabeth wasn't interested in sympathizing with him. "So if you're gonna expect me to know how to do something I don't know how to do and I end up falling flat on my face and Eurydice has to carry me back again like she did during the whole Minotaur thing. I can't really have that right now." Eurydice shot him a look. "No offence, Eury." He muttered with a nervous laugh.
Annabeth stopped walked after Percy finished his speech. She clicked Percy's armour buckle back into place. It was a good thing she did, because how loose it was, was really starting to bother her. She looked over at Eurydice questionably. "Is he always like this?" She asks. She just chcukles lightly in response. "More or less." She mutters. "Either of you still don't get where you fit into all of this, do you?" Well she hasn't even told them anything yet, so obviously they were.
They heard the conch shell blowing for a second time, signaling that the games had begun. "Game on." Annabeth said as she put a blue NY hat on and disappeared. "What the heโ" Eurydice muttered in confusion, looking around the area for the girl who now disappeared. Did she just turn invisible? "Wait, what." Percy muttered dumbly, as the girl took off her hat. "Gift from my mom." She told them. "Don't worry, you'll do great." She reassured them, despite them not having any idea what they were supposed to do.
Eurydice's eyes went wide in confusion. "Wait, wait wait! What are we supposed to do!" She tried to get the girl to answer them but her hat was back on before she could. "Do great? Do what great?" Percy said anxiously as Eurydice groaned in annoyance. "Oh are you kidding me? Now we're gonna look so stupid to everybody else when we don't even know what we're doing here." She muttered miserably, flailing her arms around dramatically.
Percy sighed. "Why is today so weird?" Eurydice shrugged. "I don't know." Sighing deeply as she rubbed the bags under her eyes. A couple of minutes later, Percy in a fit of boredom. Was.... flossing. And no, he wasn't flossing his teeth. It was... the dance. She was starting to go stir crazy from being left alone with him for so long. Percy's her best friend but sometimes she needed a break from him.
When he had left to go pee in the woods she had opted to stay behind at the place Annabeth left them in. She shivered as she could hear him whistling, seriously who whistles when they pee? Why couldn't he have waited until they got back to the Hermes cabin? After he came back she had succumbed to the boredom and began to stare at a frog. Percy, in all his glory touched it. "You didn't even wash your hands. Dude." She winced in disgust as she threw him a hand sanitizer over to him. It was one of those flavoured ones she kept on hand in case of anything, also those ones always smelled really good and they made her hands smell like lemon.
"Here, you need this more than I do." She winced. "Eugh..." She muttered at the memory of him touching that poor frog in the stump. He pouted. "Hey! I'm not that bad." He complained as he used the sanitizer. He smelled his hands. "Wait, can I keep this? It smells like you." She stared at him for a second. She gave him a look. "That's kinda creepy Percy." She deadpanned. He immediately panicked. "Wh- No, no! Not in a weird way! I'm just saying it reminds me of you-"
She cut him off with a snort. "Yeah, yeah, whatever. You can keep it." She tells him with a shrug. He smiled in response. "Awesome." Five minutes passed and still nothing was happening. She considered searching for the others to see if they had won the game. Percy was lying down overlooking the trees as she sat down in the forrest behind them to try and ease her boredom.
She didn't notice Clarisse approaching until it was too late. She heard the sounds of a spear crackling as other person with Clarisse had walked towards Percy. She immediately jumped up in shock as she ran over frantically to Percy, who was now getting beat up by Clarisse and one of her siblings. She heard Percy groan in pain as the daughter of Ares spear hit him in the face. She winced in sympathy. "Ooh, that one's gonna hurt later." She muttered as she jumped in and started fighting off the other camper.
Percy ducked and she finally pulled out her keychain from her pocket. When she jingled the chain slightly, a sword appeared in a crackle of dark light to her. Percy held out his shield in front of him in defense. Eurydice smirked as she started sparing with the second camper as Percy avoided the third person and Clarisse's beats. She had nearly stopped the second person from hitting her as Percy fell to the ground. "Percy!" She yelled as she watched him fall from the impact of Clarisse's spear.
Clarisse just laughed. Her two lackeys stopping from fighting her for a second. Her lackeys stood in front of Eurydice, blocking her off from getting to Percy. "How sweet. Your friend is trying to protect you." Clarisse mocked him. "But it isn't her who I want to hurt. Believe or not, I'm actually not interested in maiming or killing you." She looked over at Percy condescendingly. She stood on the log that he had fallen off, like she was waiting to maim him. She seethed in angry, helpless to help Percy as the other two campers blocked her off from anyway of getting to him.
Percy attempted to move on the ground shakily as Clarisse spoke. "I just want you to admit you're a fraud. It'd make me feel better. Are you feeling up to that yet?" She asked him angrily. She started to fight off the other two campers, screaming at Percy as he got up. "Percy, run!" She yelled as she held her sword and threw them off her for a second. She sighed in relief as Percy ran as fast as he could.
Clarisse looked even angrily now as her two friends followed. Eurydice shakily started running quickly, trying to get to Percy before they did. She felt the wind in her hair as she ran as fast as her legs could possibly take her. She felt her lungs being constructed in her throat as she breathed heavily. Luck seemed to not be on their side today as when she had gotten to Percy, one of the opposing campers had already tripped him. She ran down near edge of the water as she felt the wind hitting her face sharply. When she arrived to at Percy's side, the three other campers trying to disarm him were almost succeeding.
She jumped back in and tried to disarm the other two while Percy handled Clarisse. She had almost managed to stab Percy with her spear until Eurydice's pushed her back with her own speed. The girl glared at her as she tried to go at her with her spear. But instead Percy ran back in and clashed her spear against his sword. He dodged their next attempts to stab him as she tried to keep the third camper at bay. The other two had almost cornered Percy at the water as Clarisse's spear attempted to cut into his shield, but he held her arm and threw it back out at her to flip the spear away from him.
She had clashed swords with the other camper back and forth, they didn't seem to be backing down anytime soon. And Eurydice was getting nervous. Percy had managed to get the second person on the ground while she stopped the third one just as Percy had finally stopped Clarisse. Breaking her spear in the process. A crackle of the weapon was heard as Clarisse processed what he just did.
Eurydice was standing up shakily, slumping over slightly in pain. She felt like she didn't have the strength to move further. The silence was broken as heard Clarisse scream bloody murder as she stared at her beloved spear, now broken. She looked so frightened that she nearly felt bad for her, until Clarisse grabbed Percy by the shirt in anger. Looking like she was about to choke him out. But right then and there, the game had ended and the conch shell was heard as the rest of their team ran out with the opposing sides flag. victoriously.
Their entire team cheered as Luke planted the flag into the sand on the beach. Clarisse hesitantly let go of Percy, with an angry shove as she stepped away from him. She sighed in relief as she slowly walked towards Percy. "You okay?" He asked her softly in concern. She nodded shakily. "Yeah, just- just tired." She muttered coughing slightly. He tried to stand up and breathed in too, processing the fact that they won just like she was. But he was too weak to stand, so he just sat.
They could hear the sound of a familiar voice. "Not bad heroes." Annabeth muttered as she pulled her cap off. She blanked out for a moment. She had been there the entire time? Seriously? She could have helped them at any pointโ Percy stared at her in shock. "Were you here the whole time?" He asked her in confusion. "Yes." Annabeth nodded. Eurydice gave her an unimpressed look. "You were
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