War and Woes

Chapter 12

"Alright campers! You have 30 minutes to finish your breakfast then i need you at training! Got It!" All the campers nodded fearfully as Caz stood in front of them all covered in weapons with his cape billowing behind him. "Good." He went and sat back down.

He had gotten a little softer after seeing those little kids afraid of him, or at least he was softer to them. With the older campers he was still an emotionless rock no matter how many questions they asked.

"Are you going soft Caz?" Ryder asked as he sat down between Ryder and Emm at their table.

"Yeah totally, now instead of being Void metal, i'm warmed Void metal. I'm not going soft Ryder, they are still going to be wishing for my death after today's training." They had been training the campers for a month now and he was going extra hard on them today because they had capture the flag later.

"Good, make them as sore as we can. Sounds fun." Emm said entering the conversation.

"Yeah, you two" he pointed to Ryder and Emm. "have the job of weights today since i'm doing a young campers sword class." They grinned evilly.

"You know Emm, how about we work them so hard they cant even play capture the flag."

"I think that's a wonderful idea Ryder. I think they need it." Percy laughed at the duo as they grinned evilly, they were the perfect partners in crime. He slung an arm around Emm and kissed her temple.

"Get a room." Ryder groaned

"We have one, you just walked into it." Emm snapped back. Ryder shook his head and grumbled something.

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"Alright little people, i'm going to teaching you with swords. Does anyone have any questions before we start?"

A little boy raised his hand. "Are you really really good with a sword?"

Percy laughed at the kids excitement. "You remind me of myself when i first got here kid, and yes i am really really good with a sword."

A little girl asked the next question. "You were a demigod here? Why did you leave?"
"Yes i was a demigod here a long time ago, i left because there wasn't anything here for me. I wasn't happy and leaving made me happier. You know i think i'm going to need to learn names, so what are your names?"

That same little girl spoke up first. "Im Ivy."

"Im Logan."

"Im Lily."

"Im Andy." He nodded to the four little kids in his young elites class.

"Alright there aren't a lot of you so hopefully i can remember the all. Now let's get you guy some balanced weapons." They went through every unclaimed sword in the camp and found one for each kid except for Andy.

"Am i not going to get a sword Caz." The small boy looked as if he wanted to cry at the thought.

"Of course you are, your sword just isn't on earth." While he had this conversation with Andy another part of him was searching the armory for the primorials finding a sword that would fit Andy. He waved his hand and a silver sword appeared floating above his palm, he held it out to Andy.

"Whoa, what is this made out of?" The sword fit perfectly in his hand.

"It's made out of Chaotic Silver, it is practically indestructible." The other three kids crowded around as they showed of their swords of black, bronze, gold, and silver. "Alright!" The kids all jumped apart in fear and stood to attention. "Good. Now you already have started learning how to fight before i got here, but i will be teaching you every fighting style there is, not just greek."

"What else is there besides Greek?" Logan spoke up.

"Roman, Persian, every civilization has a different fighting style and if you learn them all you can beat any opponent." The kid's eyes widened as they understood what he was saying. "Now, you guys are the same age as a lot of people when they start training for the army and you're gonna get the same speech."

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He now stood in front of the entire camp. "No matter how much you learn, no matter how good you get, no matter what your rank is you are to remain humble. You aren't any better then the person next to you. I don't care who your parent is or who you know, you will be trained the exact same. If you daddy comes down here to threaten me," He sent a look towards Tyler and Jason. "Your dads just gonna get beat up."

"The main gist is just, your all equal and you can't do anything about it." Emm stepped up interrupting him.

"Thank you so very much Emm." She kissed him on the cheek before he continued. "You could be fifteen years old, but if you can't swing a sword correctly i will put you with the kids who are just learning. Got it?" The campers nodded. "Good. Now start running!"

They watched as the campers ran alongside their army around the borders of the camp. They watched campers get winded very quickly while the army never let up their pace. After almost an hour all the campers finally got back, to none of their surprised Tyler was one of the last.

"That was sad! Did you see the Army they never let up their pace and not one of you beat them! Have any of you ever done cardio?" Chiron flinched at the question, but Percy just ignored it.

"Lay off, it's early in the morning. Do you expect us to be awake?" Percy looked at who spoke and rolled his eyes at Jason. Suddenly a sphere of water appeared of Jason's head, it dropped.

"Are you more awake now? I could always give you another wake up call." He watch the campers laugh as Jason spluttered. "You guys better wake up and learn this isn't you itty bitty camp training. You're not training to fight monsters. This is a war, and it won't be an easy one."

"You talk like you know who were fighting. Do you?" Percy looked down sadly at Piper.

"Yes." He said simply, but the camp exploded with everything he could think of. People were demanding to be told, they were accused of being enemy spies, people were telling others to shut up. "Shut up!" His voice silenced every person that could hear him. "Just please shut up." Everyone was shocked at the first emotion that had ever shown in his voice, it was pain. Sadness. "Yes i know how it is, but i'm not allowed to tell you."

Nobody dared to speak again. "Why not?" Little Ivy spoke up. Many looked scared, they thought he would blast her.

"The fates, i'm good friends with their mother, a Liv is their mothers general. You guys have to figure out the prophecy by yourselves." Ivy nodded accepting his answer. she smiled up at him and he smiles back, but it was forced.

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A.N. ok so i only proof read like half of this and dont really feel like doing the rest of it of so any spelling mistakes or anything weird i just me being lazy