The Archer

Capture the Flag

Capture the Flag

It was the next day which meant it was time for capture the flag and this meant Ivy would get an excuse to test her theory, Capture the flag was one of her favorite camp activities her and Annabeth always had something planned.

She stood in the armor and had her sword in her hand standing near Luke. From the top of a Hill Chiron began to speak, "The first team to retrieve the opposing flag and return it across the river shall be the victor." Ivy watched as Clarisse made her way to the front of the opposing team in a way of showing everyone she would be leading the red team as usual. "As always, there will be no maiming and no killing. I trust these rules will be respected." He continued, by this point Ivy had zoned out after hearing the speech so many times she practically had it memorized.

And once she heard the conch shell and the battle cries she instantly snapped out of it. From her side, she heard Percy say "I'm gonna need a sword." To no one in particular.

Annabeth came walking over to Ivy and Luke, "All right, we have 20 minutes till the second conch and game on." Annabeth said to the two.

"You know what you're doing?" Ivy questioned Luke.

"Yes, Ma'am," He said looking at her with a slight nod. Ivy didn't realize Percy had been standing by Luke looking completely lost till now. Right as Luke began to walk away Annabeth stopped him, "Today feel like a winning kind of day to you?" She asked looking up at him. Luke smirked in response giving the girls their answer before he turned and walked away. Instructing the other teammates to move out, all the camper listened to him and began to move deeper into the forest.

Percy began to move along with the other campers until he was stopped by Ivy, "Not you blondie, you're with me." He looked confused for a moment before agreeing and following her.

The two began to walk to a more secluded area of the woods they didn't far before fell flat on his face, the redhead watched trying to hold in her laugh before she could offer help Percy quickly stumbled back to his feet, "I'm fine, thanks. But I appreciate you just standing there laughing at me." He said sarcastically while struggling to put his sword away.

Ivy rolled her eyes and began walking away Percy quickly behind her, "Listen I get it. Okay. you're better at this than me. But I need this to go well for me, I can't really get into it, but I need my father to see it go well." Ivy continued to walk, nodding her head a little to show she was listening. She knew what it felt like, trying to impress your goldy parent so they would eventually claim you, she did it every day for 4 months just to finally have Athena claim her. She thought the whole system was messed up. "So if you're gonna expect me to know how to do something I don't know how to do and I end up falling in my face, I can't have that right now." Percy continued, Ivy understood where he was coming from, she would hate to do something that embarrassed Athena.

Ivy stopped walking turning to face Percy, before she could say anything she noticed his armor wasn't on properly, knowing that it would bug her if it wasn't fixed, so she reached over fixing the shoulder strap. Percy just stood there confused but let the redhead fox it without any protests. "Look I know you have no idea where you fit in with all of this-" Before she could calm his nerves she heard the second blow of the conch shell, capture the flag had officially started. "Just stay here, you'll do great," Ivy said with a fake smile and turned to leave despite Percy's questions.

*****

After some time had passed Ivy decided to check on Percy, she felt like a babysitter, and after how she heard he managed to start a fire within just hours of being at camp she figured she shouldn't leave him alone for too long.

Once Ivy made it back up the hill she noticed Percy wasn't there, now she really felt like she was babysitting a toddler. She began walking around the forest in search of Percy. Her job was to make sure he didn't ruin capture the flag and to not lose him and that's exactly what she did. She lost him.

She began to walk down the path towards the beach where she saw Clarisse and two other kids fighting Percy. Before Ivy could step in and help Percy Clarisse spear got stuck in Percy Sheila and snapped in half. Ivy knew this wasn't good, she knew how much the spear meant to Clarisse and the ear piercing scream she let out proved it.

While Clarisse was having her breakdown about her spear the sound on the conch shell and camper cheering drowned out the sound of her scream. Ivy looked over and saw Luke stick the red teams flag into the ground.

Ivy turned her focus back into Percy as she watch Clarisse storm off, Ivy walked over making herself known to Percy.

"Not bad Blondie." Ivy said walking towards Percy who was sitting in the sand.

"Have you been here this whole time?" He asked, Ivy could now see how beaten up Percy got during the fight. He had cats all over and even a black eye forming.

"For most of it." She replied with a shrug. She put her hand out for him to grab- instead of grabbing it Percy pushed her hand away and stood up by himself.

"You were here and did help me?!" He asked looking at her.

"Listen I was going to-" she said trying to defend herself only to be interrupted by Percy rolling his eyes with a scoff.

She was now aware of how close the were to the water and decided that it was a good time to test out her theory. "Sorry" she muttered but before Percy could register what was happening she pushed him into the water. The push caused him to stumble and fall into the water.

"What is wrong with you?!" Percy shouted at her standing up now getting the attention of the other campers who were celebrating their win.

Neither of the two said anything to each other, they both just looked at each other, until Percy's wounds started to heal. Percy looked at the cut on his arm that began to heal then looked at Ivy thinking she had something to do with him healing. Ivy now was looking at the blue trident that was glowing above Percy's head. Percy followed her gaze and saw the blue trident glowing.

"It's your dad." Ivy pointed out to a confused Percy. At this point almost every camper was looking at Percy, Ivy looked at the other campers she noticed Annabeth watching along with Luke, but Ivy couldn't help but notice the unreadable expression on Luke's face.

"You have been claimed by Poseidon." Chiron announced, "Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Percy Jackson, Son of Poseidon."

Ivy smiled at the fact that her theory was right.

A/N my girl Ivy so smart omg. The quest begins next chapter!!!

The Luke betrayal is gonna hurt sm I'm honestly so glad that got rid of Luke's like obsession with Annabeth it alway weirded me out.