The New Camper (a Percy Jackson fanfiction)

Training

We walked to the water's edge where Annabeth (blondie) was standing with a golden dagger at her waist

Blondie saw us and gave me a small smile.

I didn't return one.

"Nakamura, you can leave now." She said with the same rude tone she used before.

"Okay." Ethan turned to me. "I'll see you later." He walked over to the rope bridge and started battling a few Hephaestus guys.

Blondie turned to me.

"Okay, ready to start?" Her tone had completely changed from a rude harsh voice to a sweet, soft one.

"Sure." I said sounding bored.

She took no, or chose not to take notice to my tone.

"Okay then, well start with a simple strike." She said.

She jumped up and hacked a few tree branches off of a pine tree.

"Ethan taught me how to do this." I said.

Blondie rolled her eyes.

It wasn't entirely true, but I still jumped and hacked off more tree limbs than blondie.

"Okay, so you covered that, how about parrying?" She asked.

"No, wait isn't this sword fighting?" I asked.

She gestured to my dagger. "Well, you do have a little more reach power than a regular knife." She said.

"Fine, carry on." I said.

"When someone attacks you with a stab, you want to stick your knife out In a way that will deflect the blade." She told me.

"Demonstrate." I said.

"Stab at me." She said.

(With pleasure.) I thought. And unsheathed my dagger quickly and jumped at her.

She held her knife up and blocked my strike.

"Very nice strike." She smiled.

I didn't return one.

"Think fast!"

She jumped at me with a stabbing motion.

Without thinking, I parried her strike and applied pressure.

She fell on her back.

"How was that?" I asked, smirking.

"Better." She got up.

"Now we'll practice slicing." She said. She turned to a tree and sliced about six times. "Now you try."

I turned to a different tree and sliced and stabbed a billion times. The tree was pretty mutilated after I was done with it.

"Good, now ducking and jumping." She said.

Blondie grabbed two tree limbs and cut off the excess branches. She handed one to me.

"When I say duck, duck, when I say jump, jump."

"Jump!"

I jumped as she swung the tree branch at my legs.

"Duck!"

I ducked as she stabbed the tree limb at my head.

"Duck!"

I ducked again as she swung the branch at my head again.

"Jump! Duck!"

She swung the branch at me legs, then finished by swinging it at my head,

She smiled. "Good. I think that's enough for today."

I walked over to where Ethan was still battling on the rope bridge against four other guys. I jumped on the bridge on top of one of the guys.

"Aaahhhhh." I yelled.

"What the-oof!" Said the Hephaestus guy as he fell on his face.

"Hey." said Ethan. He swung his sword at the other guy's heads. "How's it going?"

I kicked one guy in the chest, sending him backward. "Well, she had me do some simple stuff. Like this."

I sliced downward at one guy's legs, cutting a huge hole in his pant leg. And a little blood.

"Aaaa!" The guy clutched at his leg.

"Oops, sorry." I said as I sliced at another guy. He jumped out of the way.

I kicked the maimed guy off of the bridge.

"Very nice." Said Ethan as he stabbed at a guy.

He sliced at a guy who parried his strike.

I took the ropes and swung the bridge, knocking another guy off.

"Wow, swingy." I said pulling at the ropes as Ethan kicked the last guy off of the bridge.

I looked down at the ground where the Hephaestus guys were helping each other up.

"Sorry!" I called to them, then gave them a thumbs up. "You guys put up a good fight though!"

I flung my arms around Ethan's neck. He stiffened up for a second, then returned the hug.

"I just won my first fight!" I said sounding overjoyed.

"Mm, mm!" Ethan coughed.

"With a little help from Ethan Nakamura." I smiled.

I heard a horn sounding in the distance.

"That's dinner." He said.

He climbed down the rope ladder.

I put my foot down on one of the rungs.

I went to the second rung, but I slipped.

And fell.

I fell all the way down the huge rope ladder and into something.

Or should I say someone.

I fell into Ethan's arms.

"Whoa, you okay?" He asked.

I blushed. "Uh, yeah, I'm good. Thank you."

He smiled. "No problem."

Some of the guys passing by whistled.

I unsheathed my dagger.

"What?!" I said raising an eyebrow.

They walked away.

Ethan set me down.

"Lets get to dinner." He said and extended an arm. I took it and he led me over the dining pavilion.