The Argo III, but make it H(o)eja!

am i supposed to throw the flag?

Elsa's POV:

Since it's my, Ana and Heja's first game of demigod capture the flag we had to get a speed course in it. Just like every normal kid, we've all played at least one game of CTF in our lives. The difference between demigod CTF and normal CTF is that Normies use a football field and place two cones inside a square on each side of the field, we're parted into two teams and the point is to run to the other side. If someone from the opposing team taps your shoulder, you're 'arrested'. You're put into CTF-prison, and you stay there until someone from your own team comes to rescue you.

Our speed-course teacher was a Poseidon boy, Johnny.

In demigod-CTF it's a little bit different. They use the whole campsite and no one is being put into a prison, and everyone's running around. Obviously there's still two teams that play against each other. I'm on the blue team, and all of the people I know were put on the Red team. This is not going to end well, and I haven't had time to try to engage in a conversation with the others.

A girl, probably a year younger than me walked past me and smiled. She had clear frame glasses and long black hair, probably South Asian. She looked very nice, and it wouldn't be a problem if I decided to talk to her? I mean, I needed to know someone on my team as well. It wouldn't hurt me if I just... tapped on her shoulder to get her attention? And she's also on the Blue team...

I started to converse before my brain would trick me into hyperventilating.

"Hi, I really like your glasses!" I said as she passed me by. Fuck, she's turning around towards me. Please don't make this awkward.

"Thank you! Are you also on the Blue team?" she asked me. Maybe this isn't going as bad a sI thought it would.

"Yeah. My name's Elsa, and I just arrived here. Unclaimed, I think." Breathe in. Breathe out.

"Cool, I'm Joanna, but everyone just calls me Jo. I got here like seven months ago. Athena." she said.

"Huh?" Fuck, if it's going downhill now, I don't think I can show my face around camp.

"Oh, sorry, Athena's my godly parent! I'm in cabin six." Jo's actually really nice. Maybe we're becoming friends after this?

Turns out she's Indian but her parents live in New York, and she enjoys debating and talking. She talks a lot, and that's nice, because I don't have to share everything about myself. And she calmed down my anxiety, so that's nice. The only other person I could confide in who was nearby is Heja, and she's on the other team. And then there's my mom, but she's in Sweden. That's very far away.

Jo and I talked a bit more as we got ready for the game, and i caught up with Charlie, a daughter of Poseidon. She's originally from New Mexico, and loves Formula1. She's very funny and nice. She's also the twin sister of that Percy guy who's currently on a quest to retrieve Zeus' master bolt. How he managed to lose something as big as that when he's literally the king of the gods.

It's a bit hypocritical and clumsy of him. Sorry Zeus, don't smite me but you and I both know it's true, don't @ me sis.

Some of the others I spoke to were nice, but  I only got a few names, like Jalen and Ella, daughters of Ares, Katie duaghter of Aphrodite not to be confused with Katie, daughter of Demeter. And there's the Apollo kids, whom I'm very jealous of. I'm jealous of everyone with a godly parent. I've gone around my whole life only knowing my mom, my step-father and my dad died when I was very young. I have photos of him and all, but now that I'm here, I start to wonder whether he might be my real dad or if I actually do have a godly parent.