Wedding Talk

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**Percy**

"Hey Perce?" Luke sauntered into my room.

"Yes Luke?" I dropped my book on my knee and stared at him. "Why the hell are you in armour?"

"It's Wednesday." He looked at me expectantly with an eyebrow raised.

"And?" I shrugged, picking my book up.

"You're kidding me, right?" He laughed.

"Nope." I shook my head. "Now go away. Simon has just been turned into a rat."

"I'm going to burn that series on day. How many times have you read those books?" Luke sighed.

"You burn them and I will tell everyone that your favourite film is The Notebook." I didn't look up as I turned the page.

"I hate Chaos for giving you books in Greek." Luke grumbled. "And if you dare tell anyone..."

"I love you too Lukey." I grinned.

"Oh and for the record, it's not The Notebook. It's actually Love Actually." Luke huffed.

"Luke, both of those are romantic films." I laughed.

"Zoë likes them. Don't judge." He scowled.

"Anyway, are you gonna tell me why Wednesday is important?" I asked.

"Capture the Flag." Was his simple answer.

"STYX!" I yelped, throwing my book down on the bed, scrambling at the cord around my neck.

"You forgot?" He asked.

"It slipped my mind!" I finally pulled the amulet from underneath my shirt, slamming my hand on the decorated side, my armour immediately materializing on my body. "Thank Chaos for these amulets."

"It slipped your mind?" Luke rolled his eyes. "They've been bugging us all week and it slipped your mind?"

"I haven't exactly shown my face around much this past week." I point out. "Well, my masked face."

"Masked or not, you should've shown your face more." Luke huffed. "They're unsure whether to trust you or not. Nathan hasn't exactly been singing your praises."

"Remind me to whack Nathan on the head tonight." I grinned as I laced my boots up.

"I say you should do a little more than a whack on the head. Maybe break his nose or his arm. Preferably, his sword arm." Luke laughed as I attached my two swords, Skylash and Nightmare, to my belt. They were a gift from Chaos. Skylash is Chaos Silver whilst Nightmare is Stygian Iron. They match Riptide, because they're triplets. Luke constantly jokes about changing their names to Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.

"I'll try not to do any permanent damage." I joked, shoving my mask on.

"Oh, and they think they have an advantage over us. They think that none of us have been to Camp Half-Blood before and the only Warrior they can put a name to is Bianca, and they know that she was only here for a few days." Luke informed me as I fastened my cloak.

"They're going to have a bit of a shock then. Sure, a couple of us, Thesus, the original Perseus, Jason will be confused, but we have me, you Beckendorf, Silena, Castor, Ethan, hell, even Zoë knows the woods like the back of her hand." I laughed.

"You got a plan?" He asked.

"Yep." I nodded.

"Are you going to tell me about this plan?" He asked next.

"Yep." I nodded again. "You and Zoë are getting the flag. You work well together. Use the invisibility cloaks CHaos left on my bed this morning."

"What will they do when they see the flag moving by itself?" He frowned. "They'll get a little suspicious, don't you think?"

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