Daughter Of Wild

Chapter 5: I Kick Booty At Capture The Flag

I continued to eat my bacon as Piper rolled her eyes and Nico snatched the one in my hand and started eating it.

"Hey that was mine!" I said in a whiny voice.

"Too bad. That's for this morning."

He said still eating my precious food.

I heard a couple of girls whispering behind us.

"OMG, they are so cute together!" The first voice said.

"I know right! I ship them. To Niva!" Said a second.

"No Navico! Or Avica! Or Nica!" A third added.

I know that I turned red, but Nico just disapeared into thin air.

"How the hell did he do that?!"

"Hades." Percy corrected me.

"He shadow traveled. It's a thing some Hades kids can do. I'm pretty sure you can do it too since you're blessed by Hades." Annabeth said.

"Cool!......How do I do that?" I asked.

This time Jason answered.

"You just imagine the place you want to go to and run into the shadows. At least that's how Nico told me."

I thought about that. I stood up and walked to the corner of the room. The light reflected a big shadow across it.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Piper commented. "You should wait until Nico shows,"

I didn't let her finish. I imagined a place I saw when I first got here and ran into the wall. I cringed my face expecting it to hit the wall, but the feeling of pain never came.

I opened my eyes and gasped. I was surrounded by shadows everywhere. I was floating and suddenly a light filled the room. I closed my eyes again. When I opened them I was in the strawberry fields.

I sat down in the grass and let the sweet scent fill my nose.

"Oh hi Ava!"

I turned and saw Mercedes skipping towards me.

"Hey Mercedes."

She sat down next to me and sighed.

"I like coming here too. So peaceful and quiet."

I decided to ask something that I have been wondering.

"So... what's going on between you and that Conner kid?"

She blushed a little and shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know. I think that he likes me but he never asked me out before so I'm having doubts. I-I don't know. I really like him though."

"Maybe you need to make the first move?"

"I don't know. Wow I'm saying I don't know a lot today."

She laughed a bit and I joined her. Then she got up and pulled my hand.

"Come on. There's a capture the flag tonight and you need a weapon."

She dragged me to a shed explaining to me all about capture the flag.

"So kids can really get hurt?" I asked.

"Yep but I think you'll do OK though. Just don't bump into any of the Ares kids."

"OK I'll keep that in mind."

She opened the door and I gasped. The shed was filled with hundreds of different kinds of weapons. Bows and arrows, swords, daggers, spears, and even enchanted ones.