《 son of neptune - mark of Athena 》
《 oc x jason grace 》
Chiara was thinking for the first time
in her life that
she could have a normal year
without a
family member dying or someone
wanting h...
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🇨 🇭 🇦 🇵 🇹 🇪 🇷 🇸 🇮 🇽 ༄⁂ ONCE THEY GOT OUT OF CAMP, the Fifth Cohort formed two lines behind their centurions, Dakota and Gwen. They marched north, skirting the edge of the city, and headed to the Field of Mars-the largest, flattest part of the valley. The grass was cropped short by all the unicorns, bulls, and homeless fauns that grazed here. The earth was pitted with explosion craters and scarred with trenches from past games. At the north end of the field stood their target. The engineers had built a stone fortress with an iron portcullis, guard towers, scorpion ballistae, water cannons, and no doubt many other nasty surprises for the defenders to use. Only one thought was in her mind let's go get fucking ravaged.
"They did a good job today," Hazel noted. "That's bad for us."
"Wait," Percy said. "You're telling me that fortress was built today?"
Hazel grinned. "Legionnaires are trained to build. If we had to, we could break down the entire camp and rebuild it somewhere else. Take maybe three or four days, but we could do it."
"Let's not." Chiara said.
"So you attack a different fort every night?" Percy asked.
"Not every night," Frank said. "We have different training exercises. Sometimes death ball-um, which is like paint-ball, except with...you know, poison and acid and fire balls. Sometimes we do chariots and gladiator competitions, sometimes war games."
Chiara pointed at the fort. "Somewhere inside, the First and Second Cohorts are keeping their banners. Our job is to get inside and capture them without getting slaughtered. We do that, we win."
Percy's eyes lit up. "Like capture-the-flag. I think I like capture-the-flag."
Chiara scowled "I'm sure you do, aquaman."
Percy turned to her with a half amused - half confused grin. "Aquaman? Really?"
Chiara sent him a smug grin. "I can be more creative. What about Katara?" ,Percy looked horrified, "You know, from Avatar."
"I got the reference, and I take everything I said back. Stick with aquaman if you have to." Percy said his grin slowly reforming.
"Mhm, I think I do." Chiara said while putting her hand on her chin pretending to consider it. Percy started chuckling, soon she followed, leaving Hazel and Frank looking at them like together they were some kind of match that would cause a nuclear explosion, regardless of whether they liked each other or not.
"Anyway ...it's harder than it sounds. We have to get past those scorpions and water cannons on the walls, fight through the inside of the fortress, find the banners, and defeat the guards, all while protecting our own banners and troops from capture. And our cohort is in competition with the other two attacking cohorts. We sort of work together, but not really. The cohort that captures the banners gets all the glory." Frank said.
