Chương 16: chapter 15-I Mean Seriously

A few days have passed since the fight between Luke and me or as everyone for whatever reason seems to be calling it "the incident". I mean really they couldn't have made it sound cooler, it just sounds ominous.

Having people give you looks of awe, respect, fear, and disgust is weird. I just wish I had thought things through. It's even worse because of my Mom's disapproving face. I didn't even earn that, I was just fighting him. Oh, I was fighting him when I was supposed to be relaxing.

Surprisingly Luke is the only one in the camp giving me smiles all the time. Even though I know that it's probably not a real smile I can at least appreciate his acting; something that annoys me is that I can't exactly yell out "he's the traitor, he stole the thunderbolt".

I don't have the proof to show that he's a traitor. The only thing I can do is keep watch over him. Which he makes it easier with how he makes us spar in secret. It helps me a lot in growing my combat experience.

Then there's the issue between me and Annabeth. At the start she was angry but then later she got this grin on her face and told me if I wanted to make it up to her I would have to join her team to capture the flag. My mom and her then had a whole conversation with me on the sidelines. Next thing I know I'm standing to her left while she sets off a plan for defense and offense. She hasn't exactly said what exactly would be my role here.

"Hey Annabeth what exactly am I gonna do?"

She then gave me a little smirk which brought shivers down my spine, and not in a good way.

"You are going to make them too scared to try to capture the flag and I mean terrified."

"Do I have to do that, I mean turning myself into Batman would be a bit much."

"Batman? Why would you be Batman? Just go upfront and show them your face."

"I… I don't know how to react to that. I think I'm just gonna go."

"You go do that."

Walking away I head into the frontlines. You know what screw this. I'm just going to have fun. Grabbing a sword I put it in my scabbard and ran to the middle of the battlefield and started a massacre. Not a literal massacre, more of a metaphorical one… gah you guys know what I mean.

I duck and weave through their hits. Doing a flip over a slash. Doing uppercuts and over punches. A front push kick, a sweep. Doing a jump or spin every few seconds to evade an attack. A crescent kick to jumping spinning back kick sent to a butch girl with a spear with lightning on it.

"Hey come on guys why don't we just not fight? No, no one is going to take my offer. I mean seriously you're not doing much to me. Where exactly are you getting an electric current from?"

"Does it matter?" She says spitting blood out of her mouth.

"Ooh sorry, thought you could handle a kick like that. Names Percy, what's yours."

"Names Clarisse and I'm about to make you bleed."

I evade her stab, kick it in another direction, and do a side kick. Which throws her against a tree. I then move toward the others with the same colors as her. By the time I'm done with most of the invaders, Luke already got the flag running away with a group chasing after them.

I run towards those behind them and do a scissor kick. I felt exhilarated doing that. I then do a hook kick to one of them and do a roundhouse to the closest. The others stop as they see me do easy work with their teammates and Luke gets the flag to our side, making it so I can't fight the rest.

Sad that I didn't get to use my sword but well none of them were strong enough for me to need to bring it out. I mean using a sword on them would have been overkill. It would make things more painful for them.

"Well done Percy, you did even better than I expected," Annabeth said from behind me.

"Yeah, it was fun I suppose."

Then out of the forest came a hellhound. At this moment I took out my sword and threw it at the hellhound. It dodged the sword of course but I came right next to it and used at least 10 tons of strength in a side kick. I know it's overkill but it works.

"So anyone wants to tell me why exactly a hellhound was able to enter inside the camp? This place has a literal forcefield around it. Maybe I'm just seeing things. You'd think you guys would be used to me doing the impossible but you still get surprised at whatever I do"

I wonder why Luke thought one hellhound was enough to kill me. He should have at least brought something stronger.

*THud*Thud*Thud*

Looking into the forest I see something huge in the distance. "Is that a cyclops, okay now I know that I'm seeing things. Maybe I need a nap. Well, at least after I deal with this."

I then run deeper into the forest, Chiron yells behind me to not go towards it but I'm already too far away. I run faster than the eye can see. The moment I get in front of the cyclops I prepare to make a water bullet and fire.

*Bang*

The moment I shot the Cyclops it grabbed a tree, ripped it from its roots, and used it as a shield. Since when were Cyclops smart? It's like most of the monsters here are stronger than what they were insinuated as.

"Heheheh, Foolish demigod, I have been given the chance to feast on your body and I will not allow anything to stop me."

"Hey shockwave, how about you wash your mouth of that filth you spew out because no one can handle that much."

"Are you mocking me, I'll show you that no one can mock me. I'll be taking that name you gave me. I will be known as shockwave."

I think I accidentally made a full-on enemy. Damn it, I still can't keep my mouth shut.

"Not possible big guy, you're going to get sued for that."

"Sued, what does that even mean?"

"You take that name and people will hunt you down. Like the furies."

"I don't care, I'll take them all on, this is my name from now on, the terrible shockwave."

"Now that's something I can believe in, 'the terrible'; because you'll be terrible at everything you do. *Sigh* not my best work."

"Ahh" He then runs towards me where I prepare another water bullet.

This time it hit him in the arm, and instead of stopping he just continued to come after me. I then shot him straight in the center but he used his other arm instead.

"Uh, now you're making me feel bad. Do we have to do this? I mean I can give you a really fast death. Then you can have two hands again."

"AH, I'm going to kill you."

"Why does no one ever take up my offers? I mean seriously is it so hard to take the easy way out? Now you're making me feel hypocritical."

I then give him one final chance before I shoot. Still, he responds unkindly and I just aim for the head this time. It would be wrong to leave him alive right now.

*Bang*

This time I put him out of his misery. Well, I think I made things worse for this guy. F*CK, I mean I shouldn't feel that bad for this guy but seriously I put him back in Tartarus.

I kind of wish I just fought him hand-to-hand. Could have made this guy have one fun fight up here, but well I didn't want any casualties around me for when any of the Campers were too weak to fight the Cyclops would die.

The others then arrived and saw me standing near a pile of golden dust.

"You defeated a Cyclops, now how did the monsters get in here?" Said Chiron. Most of the Campers didn't know what to do other than disburse as the danger was gone. This also ruined the victory of Capture the Flag for many.

"For now we do not know how they entered Camp, so I want people guarding Camp for tonight. You either volunteer or you are chosen. You will guard for two hours then be switched for another and rest."

"Percy, are you alright?" Annabeth came running towards me in distress. That's right, she has a bad history with Cyclops. She must have been worried for me, that's nice.

"Yeah I'm fine, were you worried?"

"No, I wasn't you seaweed brain. I was worried about the Cyclops", she said with a huff.

"So, does this mean I redeemed myself in your point of view?"

"Don't get ahead of yourself, but yes you made it up to me. You stopped many from getting the flag, killed the monsters that entered the camp, and gave a beating to Clarrise."

"Who's Clarrise again?"

"You forgot about Clarisse, huh okay, well seaweed brain she's the buff girl with a spear."

"OH, her yeah she was a fun fight."

"Fun? Most would dislike fighting her."

"Well, I'm not most people."

"No, no you are not."

"Now children, are you done talking or will I need to do something drastic to make you both go to bed," Chiron said as he intercepted our conversation.

"Uh right, sorry Chiron, we'll get going now."

While walking away I noticed something. Whatever happened to Grover, I've been so busy lately that I haven't seen Grover these past few days.

LATER THAT NIGHT

*Knock*Knock*Knock*

Waking up in the middle of the night was not the first thing I expected. I stood up softly so as to not wake up my mother who was tired after the scolding she gave me.

*Knock*

"Alright, alright I'm coming. I mean really who wakes someone up at this time."

I open the door and I see Grover. Huh, this has happened two times now. Which is kind of weird but whatever. I step out close the door behind me and give him a hug

"Grover, where have you been, you just disappeared on me."

"Sorry I was busy, the council punished me by making me their servant. I still have my license though."

"That's great, so not like I don't like you visiting me but it's the middle of the night."

"I know it's just that Chiron wants you at the big house."

"Oh, really, right now? That is highly impractical. Let's go."

He needs a really good reason for waking me up at this hour.

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