Outsider (Story about Camp Halfblood)

Chapter 10: Capture the Flag

Pollux and I moved quickly as we could through the trees hoping not to get caught. We wandered around trying to spot the flag, and soon enough, there it was. It was placed in the center of a small opening, where the trees were sparse, and the underbrush wasn't in the way of the colors.

"Oh man. We found the flag!" Pollux murmured excitedly. There were only two guards, tough looking kids, but they faced the other way. We could easily sneak up and get the flag and retreat into the woods if we moved fast enough.

"I know!" I smiled. Pollux and I were about to move when we heard a voice behind us.

"What are you two going to do?" a snobby voice said. Pollux'a head shot up and turned quickly to see who it was. It was Vivian and Rose.

"Fantastic." I mumbled standing up facing the other two campers who saw us. Pollux and I were surrounded. Pollux readied his sword.

"No one will help you now." one of the guards said. It was a tough, bulky looking guy. The girls laughed.

"Mia, get ready." Pollux said.

"Ohhh! Mia, where's your weapon?" Vivian sneered.

"Oh you'll see." I said. I happened to glance up and see two kids on our team in a tree. Hopefully they use this opportunity to grab the flag while the guards were distracted.

The four charged and I summoned my weapons. The first kid I caught him on surprise and twisted his sword out of his hand. I hit him with the flat of my blade and whacked his head with my hilt. The second, however, gave me a bit more trouble. He swung low causing me to catch the sword with my dagger. He tried to push me with his shield, but I dodged left and swung the flat of my blade at his head. Sadly he ducked last minute, but opened for me to hit him in the shoulder. I did and he fell to the ground.

I turned to see how Pollux was doing, he already was disarming the girls. The two from our team came down from the tree.

"Congrats, don't worry, we got these four. Get that flag for the win." The boy grinned.

"Thanks, Mark." Pollux said shaking his hand.

"Hurry Pollux. We don't have too much time." I said cautiously making my way to the flag. I didn't want to catch myself in any snares that may have been set up. Thankfully there wasn't any and I grabbed the flag. It hung long ways, connected to a pole almost twice the size of me. Surprising light, I turned to see our quickest way to our boundary.

Pollux joined me with his sword at the ready. I kept my sword out, in case I needed to defend the flag. "Wow, we're closer than I thought. They must've thought they'd win because the flag would never be in this poor spot."

I understood what he was saying, you could see the creek from here. About three football field lengths.

"Let's do this." I said and Pollux and I began to run to the creek.

We got about 30 yards when the first red player saw us.

"No!" they shouted as they ran towards us. Pollux deflected him with his shield. Other red players were in shock, but ran to attack us. But we had our players here too. They came from the trees and cut off as many players as they could. Pollux and I kept running, but harder. Blue members joined us and we made it to about 20 yards from the creek when we were cut off by Ares and Athena kids.

"Oh no." Pollux said. I narrowed my eyes and prepared to fight.

My sword collided with another campers and I blocked him from grabbing the flag from me. But he was too tough for me to get him head on. But eventually I found my way into an offensive position and got him to drop his sword, which I kicked from him and I kicked his chest allowing him to fall to the ground. Where I learned to do this stuff still baffles me. I started to run again, but I saw a hit of blue waving in the distance.