A Call For Heroes (Pjo x Hunger Games

7

Percy

"Percy! You're up late again! Emily is already on her way to the training room." Percy's mentor called.

Even though the dream seemed to be a short one, it was already morning. And his friends Thalia and Nico were probably already down at the training room, trying to find him.

Percy leapt out of bed, throwing the blanket aside. "I'm up!" He called.

He quickly changed into the training costume that the tributes were required to wear. It wasn't exactly very comfortable, since he was used to wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans. Nevertheless, he threw it on and dashed out of the room.

Gulping down his breakfast without a word, he ran over to the elevator and pressed the button to go down.

The elevator looked somewhat like the one in the Empire state Building, where he took it to Olympus, located on the 600th floor.

He elevator doors opened, and he dashed out. As usual, he was the last one to arrive. But that didn't bother him at all. The training they did here was a fraction of what he practised in camp. Maybe if he could find Thalia and Nico, they could have some time to spar with each other.

Sweeping his eyes over everyone, he managed to spot them at the edible fruits section. He went over, deciding to give them a surprise.

He crouched down behind them, and gave each of them a hard poke at the back. What he didn't expect was to find himself at the end of a fully notched and loaded bow, with a gleaming silver arrow pointed straight at his heart. On top of that, Nico's stygian iron sword had materialised from the shadows and was pressed against his neck. All of this happened in a split second, and Percy had no time to react.

"Aww c'mon, It's just a joke." Percy protested.

Thalia glared and lowered her bow. It disappeared into thin air. "Well, that's what you get for trying to prank a hunter of Artemis."

"And next time you might not be so lucky." Nico added. The shadows darkened around his sword and it disappeared.

"Got it." Percy smiled.

"I assume you know why we are here?" Thalia asked. "Your dad said you saw what happened up on Olympus."

"I did. I was there in my dream." Percy confirmed.

"Great. So we won't have to take ages to tell you then, Kelp Head." Thalia grinned.

"Shut it, Pinecone Face." Percy grumbled.

"So what's our next move?" Nico asked.

"I have already formed allies with Katniss Everdeen and her district partner Peeta Mellark. But we still have to discuss what we are going to do once we are in the arena." Percy informed. "And I have to ask her if you two can join our alliance. If you want to, that is."

"Okay, then let's go and tell her later. Maybe during lunch." Nico said. "I feel like trying out those Capitol weapons."

"I tried them, most of them are unbalanced." Percy warned.

"Why don't we spar with our own weapons?" suggested Thalia. She pulled out a long silver knife.

"Sounds fun. Let's start." Percy agreed.

"Thalia and me, against you." Nico added.

"Hey! That's not fair!" Percy grumbled.

"Not for you to say, Percy." Thalia winked, and launched herself at Percy.

Percy managed to uncap Riptide just in time to prevent himself from being skewered by Thalia's knife.

Percy slashed hard at Nico, but he blocked it, sword materialising in his hand. He parried Thalia's stroke and pushed her back. Nico advanced from behind, and tried to attack him. But Percy expected this, and side stepped, whipping around. He struck out at Nico quickly, and caught him off-guard. Riptide ripped a hole in his uniform, and tearing a bit of his skin. Nico didn't even bother to stop. He threw his sword at Percy's thigh. This time, Percy was a little too slow in moving away. The blade cut into his thigh, and blood gushed out. But being a demigod, these kind of injuries always happened when practising. It wasn't that bad. Thalia jumped at him from behind, giving him an electric shock hard enough to send him tumbling to the floor.