The Son of Artemis Book 2

Chapter 6: 2 Years 2 Bad Directors

Percy's POV:

After dropping off Tyson, and making sure he was comfortable in the forge, I went off to my cabin to lock away and hide these horns, as they were probably worth a few thousand in just raw material alone. Now why you ask, well that's because of  Hermes's kids, and Peter was jealous about one of the horns not going to him, and I already know he isn't stupid enough to try and grab Annabeth's or Clarisse's. Well he might be but I hope he's not as I am not prepared to hear those screams in my nightmares.

I walked back out of the cabin and went to the arena, knowing that Annabeth will likely be there either destroying campers or dummies in sparing matches. I walked in only to see her beating her entire cabin and yelling at them because of their reluctance to protect camp. I founded it amusing since she was bearing a polished bronze shield and the spear her mother gave her. But I am sure if it was directed at me, I would be scared, much like her siblings are showing now.

"Annabeth, I think you scared your sibling enough" I said stepping down into the arena.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME PERSEUS THEIR REFUSAL TO HELP SAVE CAMP COULD HAVE COST US ALL OUR HOME AND LIVES" she shouted at me, as her siblings started to try and turn away before getting caught and immediately hitting their butts on the ground, as Annabeth knocked them all over with her spear. "I DID NOT SAY WE ARE DONE YET" she said to them , and they all stayed there and didn't even attempt to move.

"Annabeth I think they understand now, anyways I think they are signed up for guard duty tonight" I mentioned, much to her siblings displeasure as they all let out groans of annoyance.

"Fine" Annabeth sighed out waving her spear in a dismissive wave, which many of her siblings took as a sign to get out of her presence.

"It's so hard dealing with them, especially the older ones, who've I've been here longer than" She complained as the last of her siblings exited the arena.

"Sometimes they just need a little push" I said, "And I think yours was well received" 

"Alright, but I wanna spar till dinner" she said

"weapons only or no and which weapons" I asked

"Spear no powers no shield" She said taking off the one I'm assuming she borrowed.

"Alright" I replied taking out my spear

"3...2...1...go" She said and immediately launched into a fury of attacks which I just had enough speed and time to deflect or dodge them all.

We were trading blows, and losing track of time as our spar went on, at least until Clarisse came into the Arena taking a break from the boarder, "Dammit why didn't you two tell me you were going to spar with spears" She shouted coming down to join us, "No teaming" she added as she finally got with in range.

facing 5 minutes of a 1v1v1 spear match, Clarisse was knocked off her feet by Annabeth and I put my spear to her throat, quickly saying dead, before jumping to miss Annabeth's spear swipe at my legs.

"When did you two get so good in wielding a spear" Clarisse said

"We've been training with the spear for like 6 months straight, for like half a week each week" Annabeth said

"Yeah but the hunt doesn't use spears" Clarisse countered

"Phoebe occasionally does, but she doesn't use it as frequently as she did in her youth" I said, "She might be out of practice but she's still good at it" I finished

"Well damn I'm going to have to step up training" Clarisse said

"Camp is years behind the hunt" Annabeth said, which caught me off guard and she did the same move she did on Clarisse, before declaring me dead, much to Clarisse's enjoyment.