Opposites: The Staff of Light [Book One]

18. Injured

Colton

I honestly didn't know why things worked like this. Annabeth didn't mention a lot. But it's always in the first day of training. Just observe all the hit movies you've seen. Divergent and Annabeth's die-hard favorite, Percy Jackson. On the first night which I haven't really got all synched in my mind yet, Dauntless had a pit and that's where their initiation night was held. They had these guns which name I stupidly forgot (curse me!) and they'd have to Capture-the-Flag.

Didn't Percy and the rest of Camp Half-Blood have a Capture-the-Flag game, too? Percy and Annabeth even fought. And why the heck does Percy help so much? Remember that training thing at the Sea of Monsters when Logan Lerman had lost to Hunger Games' Leven Rambin (Clarisse)? He ALWAYS lost to the daughter of—what the heck is the spelling of Aries? Oh, whatever, I don't do mythology and screw the Greek war god for the spelling! And I thought pronouncing Aphrodite was hard.

I've got a few more questions in mind like... 1) In The Lightning Thief, Texas Chainsaw's Alexandra Daddario (Annabeth) had brown hair (like I wouldn't notice she had freaking black hair in Texas Chainsaw) and why did she have blonde in The Sea of Monsters? 2) Also, I liked Percy's old messy hair. WHY LOGAN? WHY DID YOU GET A FREAKING HAIRCUT? 3) Where was Clarisse in the first movie? Was she just recruited or something by this goat man like Brandon T. Jackson (Grover)?

Well, excuse me for my language on *freaking* and I talk too much. Yes, but this is all in my head. What do you expect from a movie fan? I wish I had been a bookworm instead, and I'd get angry when movies stay unfaithful to the book they produce. Hey, ever wonder why filmed books suddenly get rates for some reason? That's still one thing I've been working on last summer. And I still haven't figured out.

I'm afraid I'll have to break it to you guys but a friend of mine told me they'd have to skip the two books and go to the fifth one of the series because the two movies would use up too much effects. And I don't know. If I told that to Annabeth... well, I'm actually afraid that she might burn the entire camp in anger so I thought it would be best if I kept the whole rumor a secret from the royal Queen Elizabeth herself. But I like her that way.

I asked Annabeth to use damn in a sentence if she was brave enough to say the word. But then she answered, 'I want some dam blue cookies.' I got no idea how Hoover Dam got into our conversation at class earlier and that was what I'm about to figure tonight. For the mean time, I should probably find the Second Cohort's flag.

Okay, I gotta admit, Annabeth has a wicked knowledge in almost about everything. And after I'd seen her making battle plans on the spot with the entire group, I couldn't be more surprised. And I volunteered to find the Second Cohort's flag. It was also a stupid idea. I knew how much I got flustered by the Second Cohort and I didn't know what got over my mind. What was wrong with me?

And there, I saw it standing—the Second Cohort's flag, waving with the breeze in a faint bronze light. I concentrated, trying to lift up the flag and make it simply fly into my hands when Jimmy appeared from behind a tree. My thoughts smashed apart and fear built up in my lungs. "Well, well, well," Jimmy marveled, walking towards me. I stepped back. "What do we have here? It's a First Cohort member. Do you have any suggestions how I'll bring you down?"

"Stay away from me," I said sharply. I said something intelligent like: "You have no idea what you're doing. You're drunk."