Chasing Mt. Olympus

Chapter 5.2

This is the continued version of the last chapter.

 Percy and I get to the creek. We hear Chiron blow the whistle.

"Percy, when you first played Capture the Flag, what happened?" I ask.

"I'll tell you later. Right now we need to be focused and prepared for anything."

We stood there for a while, then suddenly, Clarisse runs up.

"Oh great. Two punks will be easy! First Percy, then the girl." She charges at us with her electric spear.

"First off, you are going down. Second, it's ARIEL STORM!" I yell. I stay put, waiting for her. When she gets closer to me, I try to hit her with my sword. I miss and she almost hits Percy.

"Percy, look out!" I warn him, but it's too late. Clarisse knocks him over, but he's still in the water. He gets up, a trickle of blood comes down from his head.

"Percy, you're bleeding!"

"I'm fine. Water heals it." Suddenly, his cut is gone. That shocks me.

Clarisse tries an attack again, but Percy and I hit her at the same time. She goes flying backwards. She got back up and came charging back at us. She knocked Percy down again, but he got back up. I almost got stabbed with her electric spear, but I blocked it with my shield. Clarisse hit me again and I flew out of the creek. I tried to get up, but I fell. Percy runs over and helps me up. Clarisse kicks him and he falls before I could get up. Then we heard the cheering. Annabeth had captured the red team's flag.

"Yeah!" Percy and I cheer. That means we won.

Chiron blows the whistle and all fights stop. Percy and I high five. Percy and I are still in the water. I felt super sore. Percy helps me out of the water and sits me on a rock.

"You ok?" he asks. I nod, and feel dizzy.

"I guess you aren't my half sister then." he sighed. Maybe he wanted me to be?

I look up into his sea green eyes and messed hair. The scar from the injury earlier is gone. He is not tired. The water gave him strength.

Annabeth runs up to us and hugs Percy. "You ok, Seaweed brain?" I giggle at her nickname for Percy. In my head, I imagine a brain wrapped in seaweed.

"Annabeth, I'm fine. You did pretty awesome capturing that flag." he turns to me. "And Ariel, you did pretty good for your first fight."

"It's not really my first, kinda my second."

"What was your first?" Annabeth asks.

I think for a second then answer with, "The first time I encountered a monster. I was about 9. It was super creepy. It jumped on me and I threw it off. It landed on a spiky fence and dissolved into dust."