The chariot races started.
Immediately, the Hermes chariot slammed into the Apollo cabin's, causing them to flip over.
"Take that!" jeered Connor as Michael Yew and oh now i see Lee Fletcher were thrown off the track.
The Hermes kids stood up and yelled encouragement to the Hermes cabin but insults to other cabins.
The panicked Apollo horses dragged their chariot across the track and slammed into the Hermes chariot.
i cursed. I knew it. we had no chance of winning.
A pile of broken wood and four rearing horses were left in the dust.
First was Athena, then Poseidon, Ares, and in last was Hepheastus.
Beckendorf pressed something and three sets of balls and chain shot towards the Poseidon team's chariot wheels.
Tyson whacked them away from the wheels with a quick swipe.
He shoved them with the pole and they skittered sideways.
SCREECHHHHHH! Oh no oh no.
The Stymphalian birds had gathered into a mass of silver-white and were hovering in the air.
"LOU ELLEN!" I snapped.
She turned and said, "What the-?"
The birds spiraled towards us, a huge tornado of screeching silver.
Lou Ellen screamed besides me, swatting them away but they pecked her with their razor-sharp bronze beaks.
More birds kept on flying towards us, and they were attacking at every piece of flesh they could see.
"OW OW OW OW OW OW OW!" I shouted as they pecked me.
I willed my sword to appear and started slashing at them to drive them away.
Their beady little eyes stared into my soul as they swarmed the spectators.
I couldn't see anything except for the white feathers everywhere.
I kept on slashing and stabbing, hoping I wouldn't hit someone, but with this thick of a swarm, I doubt I could.
I had begun to clear the air as I started making my way to get off the spectator seats.
Suddenly, violins and guys moaning in Italian filled the air.
I dropped my sword and covered my ears, wincing at the music.
The birds went crazy. They flew in circles and ran into each other before gathering into a wave and hurtled into the sky.
"NOW!" Annabeth's voice rang through the area. "ARCHERS!"
Apollo kids aimed at the mass of birds and shot them down easily, and within minutes, they were all dead.
"I told you!" I grumbled as I made some Band-Aids appear.
"I'm sorry Isabella. I just thought you were being sleepy/cranky like always!"
"I am never sleepy/cranky!"
She raised an eyebrow.
"Fine," I said. "Maybe sometimes."
"Hey, do you need a band-aid yourself?" she asked, seeing my bleeding cuts.
"It's fine," I assured her.
Aphrodite kids were not fine. They ran around screaming about how their hairdos were ruined and their clothes had bird poop on them.
Luckily I didn't have any bird poop on me.
"Bravo!" shouted Tantalus. "We have our first winner!"
He walked over to Clarisse and gave her the golden laurels.
"And now to punish the troublemakers who disrupted the race."
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daughter of the mist
Fanfictionisabella has been at camp half blood since she was 7. but when she leaves for a summer to be with her dad, she misses out on a lot of stuff. she comes back and finds out there's a forbidden kid, son of poseidon, who saved the world last year. a cycl...
