That's Not My Life Anymore | Percy Jackson Chaos || COMPLETE

Chapter 8

It was the first day of training. Or really, first day of training at camp. Seeing as I got practically no sleep the night before, I wasn't exactly in the mood to train a bunch of campers, but I couldn't just cancel training. We were training for war, and I needed to prepare them for what was coming. We didn't know how much time we had to prepare. The prophecy and warnings were a bit unclear on that.

"Okay everyone," I said. The whole army was awake and we were all gathered in the living room/kitchen. "Just a few things before we go to breakfast. This morning we start training with the campers." Everyone groaned. "Yeah, yeah, I know, I don't like it either, but we have to. While we're with them, you need to act like a trained army. It's not fun and games while we're here. Got it?"

"Why can't we joke around?" Dawn asked. "We fool around in the cabin."

"We need to keep up an act," I said. "They need to see us as a disciplined army."

"Why?" Lune asked confused.

"Well, technically, we're supposed to be," I explained, sheepishly. "I'm just not the best commander for that..." Everyone laughed.

"On a more serious note," Alpha announced after a couple seconds, "there is a person here I believe might be able to figure out my identity. I need to stay as far away from him as possible."

"Who is it?" Dawn asked.

"Nico di Angelo. Son of Hades. My half-brother."

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The army took the idea of keeping Alpha away from Nico to a bit of an extreme, but I will admit, it was funny. They didn't want Nico to get within 50 feet of Alpha. They pushed her into a bush, made her fall off the climbing wall, someone almost stabbed her and at one point nearly drowned her, just to keep her away from the Ghost King.

It started out as a bit of a game. It was just after breakfast, and a group of us were standing at the edge of the forest.

"When does training start, Omega?" Forgotten, a girl in my army, asked. "I thought it was supposed to start this morning."
"It's going to start in about 30 minutes. But we'll probably start with just the army in about 10," I replied, with a yawn.

"Do I have t-" Alpha started, but before she could finish her sentence, two of the boys ran up yelling, "Nico alert, Nico alert!"

I looked around trying to spot the boy who was the cause of the panic, and saw him walking in our general direction. I knew he wasn't coming to see us, it actually looked like he was heading for the infirmary, and would probably actually steer clear of us but I didn't have the chance to tell the boys that. Just as I turned and opened my mouth to say that Nico wouldn't bother us, I saw the boys step in front of Alpha, blocking her from view, and pushing her backwards. Unfortunately for her, she lost her balance and fell. Alpha screamed as she fell back into the thorn bush. I flinched a tiny bit; that must have hurt.

Nico must have heard the scream, because he looked at us weirdly as he walked by, but he didn't say anything. Man that kid is anti-social.

Once he was gone, the guys helped Alpha up. She was covered in dirt and scrapes, a couple thorns were caught in her shirt and she had a leaf in her hair. It was good that she had a high pain tolerance, cause that must have hurt. Her white mask, luckily, wasn't damaged by the thorns or anything- if something happened to it, she would have killed the boys.

So basically, Alpha screamed at them in Ancient Greek (I had no idea how she knew all those swear words, but I figured I didn't want to know). She pulled off the leaf and thorns, looking extremely angry.

In the awkward silence that followed, I cleared my throat and said, "Well I guess we'd better get to training then?"

The others nodded and we headed to the sword fighting arena. Thankfully, no one was there when we arrived.