After Thalia stands up, she gives me a small hug. I stiffen. “I’ve missed you, Percy.” Then she lets go and gives me a glare. “Don’t ever do something like that again.” Not even waiting for an answer, she walks away.
I look around me now and see that almost half of the camp is in the arena.
“I’m so glad I’ve brought my camera.” I hear Connor or Travis say in front of the campers.
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“Are you sure that’s all the information, Percy?” Chiron asks.
“Yes.” I say.
It’s one day before the attack and Chiron has offered a war council now the hunters have arrived. I’ve just told them every small detail I now about the attack. I still feel a little uneasy about telling them all this, but I’ve convinced myself it’s for the better.
“Okay, thank you.” Chiron says. “What do you propose, Annabeth?”
Annabeth thinks for a moment and I can, again, almost see the gears working in her mind.
“I say we let them attack us where they think we’ll be-” she says but then she’s interrupted by one of the Stolls.
“What? Don’t we need a surprise attack or something? They will kill us if we don’t do that!” he shouts. Then he shouts again, as his brother elbows him in the gut. “Shut up, Travis.” He, Connor, murmurs.
“I wasn’t done yet.” Annabeth says with a glare. Her glare disappears and she continues talking: “They think it’ll be beneficial for them to attack at the strawberry fields, because you can see everything coming. But what if we’ll make holes in the ground in which they can fall? We can put some spikes or Greek fire in them to make it even better! Then we cover it up so the enemy won’t know it.”
“That’s very smart, Annabeth. Do you all agree?” Chiron asks and is followed by nods.
I nod uneasily. It doesn’t seem fair that they don’t get to know this, while I’ve told Camp everything.
“Good, I think that’ll be a good job for the Hermes cabin. Stolls?”
Connor and Travis touch their foreheads with their hand, while having a big smile plastered on their face. “Yes, sir!” they say in unison.
“More ideas?” Chiron asks while looking around the room.
“I think we should keep a small part of us on the ground, right where the enemy expects us to be.” Jason says. “The hunters should hide in the forest, so that when the enemy has passed it and is on our terrain, the hunters can attack them in the back. The Iris cabin and me will attack from the sky. Is that okay?”
Annabeth nods. “Yeah, I was also thinking something like that. Maybe we should also have some of the Aphrodite cabin on the spare pegasi? The Apollo cabin will stay in the back and use their bows, we’ll put the Ares cabin and some of the Roman cohorts in the front.”
“Speaking of the Romans.” Piper says. “Why aren’t they here yet?”
And uneasy silence follows. The Romans should’ve arrived this morning, but we haven’t even seen a glimpse of them yet.
“They’ll come in time.” Chiron says. “Are you okay with you position, Clarisse and Will?”
Clarisse responds with a grunt while Will says: “Yeah, we’ll also set up a tent in which some of us will take care of the injured.”
Nico leans on the table with his elbows. “Percy can’t be seen. If they see him fighting with us, they’ll know that we know their plan.” He states.
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#9 -A Percy Jackson fanfic-
FanfictionSoldier #9, that's what I've been called for the last one-and-a-half year. Since the moment My Lady rescued me from that horrible place, without memory. I learned much, so much. About the gods, how stupid they are and never care for their childere...
