The Anomaly(male reader x pjohoo world)

I Kill A Black Dog....For the Second Time

(Alex POV) ~

The next few days were quite normal, learning things from a centaur, nymphs and satyrs, yeah quite normal..

Anyway, Percy started to feel quite at home, and I got closer to Annabeth and Grover. I did talk to Dionysus a bit, but it was nothing noteworthy. I was more focused on Percy; my bet was that he was the son of either Poseidon or some minor sea god. The bathroom incident and his canoeing were the proof of it.

I was also being watched by the senior campers, to not blow my cover, I held back in most of the things. I tried to wrestle with the Ares cabin but they either made some excuses or simply ran away. I guess I scared them a bit too much.

One afternoon, Luke took us to the sword fighting arena, he said that he will be teaching us some sword skills. I was trained in both kendo and fencing so I was pretty good with most type of swords, but I preferred a Japanese style Katana because I love to watch anime.

After we reached, we started a little bit of slashing and stabbing. One thing I noticed is that most of the campers had no form, they were mostly self-taught. Though, Luke was pretty good too. I did mediocre to not stand out but for some reason, I knew that Luke noticed me holding back.

"None of the blades fit", grumbled a frustrated Percy.

This was a bit weird; we were given quite several blades to use. I was trained to use any blade to my advantage, so I guess I can't exactly say anything to him.

We moved on to dueling in pairs. Luke announced he would be Percy's partner, since this was his first time.

"Good luck," one of the campers told him. "Luke's the best swordsman in the last three hundred years."

Oh really? I don't think so. He is good but better than me, not really.

Luke showed Percy thrusts and parries and shield blocks the hard way."Keep your guard up, Percy," he'd say, then whap him in the ribs with the flat of his blade. "No, not that far up!" Whap! "Lunge!" Whap! "Now, back!" Whap!

After some time Luke called brake. I had a partner from Hermes cabin, he was ok but not enough to tire me out.

"Okay, everybody circle up!" Luke ordered. "If Percy doesn't mind, I want to give you a little demo."

So he is using Percy as a punching bag. This is going to be fun.

He told everybody he was going to demonstrate a disarming technique: how to twist the enemy's blade with the flat of your own sword so that he had no choice but to drop his weapon. A strong move if you can use it efficiently.

"This is difficult," he stressed. "I've had it used against me. No laughing at Percy, now. Most swordsmen have to work years to master this technique."

He is right, it took me three weeks to perfect the technique, quite a lot for a single move.

He demonstrated the move on Percy in slow motion. Sure enough, the sword clattered out of his hand.

"Now in real time," he said, "We keep sparring until one of us pulls it off. Ready, Percy?"

Percy nodded and they started sparring. After a while something unbelievable happened, Percy used the disarming technique and disarmed Luke. Was it beginners luck, no? He knew what he was doing. His movements were too precise to for a beginner, I started to think back, he had put water on his head, was it that? It could be but its better to not think about it.

"Alex, why don't you try?", Luke asked me.

"Umm.. I am not really that good, plus I prefer long range weapons", I lied as easily I breathed.