It was finally Friday night. When the tables were cleared, a conch shell played and everyone stood up.

Everyone cheered and applauded as Annabeth from the Athena cabin and Clarisse from the Ares cabin came up the pavilion. Each had two of the siblings carry a big, silk banner. The Athena flag had a gray owl on an olive tree, while the Ares flag was bright red with a boar head and a spear. It made sense that the two cabins will lead the game since their parents were both gods of war.

Chiron then told us the teams. Athena teamed up with Hermes, Zeus, Demeter, Hecate, Iris Nike, and Tyche. The Athena cabin is filled with gray-eyed geniuses, so they might have a plan. The Hermes cabin is filled with thieves and well, me. The Zeus cabin only had one kid, Jason, but he’s pretty powerful. The Nike cabin is very competitive, since Nike is the goddess of victory. So we might have a chance since they’re very competitive and always want to win. The Hecate cabin is allowed to use their magic so they might do some traps or something. The Iris cabin is more on arts and crafts but their counselor, but I have my hopes. The Tyche cabin is the gambling type. Tyche is the goddess of fortune and luck. But they might turn aggressive since they started making bets and they don’t want to lose.

The Ares cabin allied with Apollo for some reason, it’s not really normal that Apollo and Ares teamed up. The Ares cabin is filled with kids who have the makings of bikers, bullies, quarterbacks. So note to self: stay out of their way. The Apollo cabin is filled with archers, so their long- ranged types. So I could either keep a really far distance or face them close combat. They also have the Hypnos, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hebe, and Nemesis. The Hypnos cabin will just sleep through the whole game. The Hebe cabin will probably sit it out since they’ll be too busy enjoying their “youth”, since Hebe is the goddess of youth. The Nemesis cabin will probably even out our luck, she being the goddess of revenge. There is only one kid in the Dionysus cabin but I should still watch out for Pollux. The Aphrodite cabin most of time sit out the game, but Piper became their new counselor so their forced to join. And the Hephaestus cabin has big, rough kids probably thanks to the forges. The only kid who looks different is Leo, but he still has that fire power.

Chiron then announced the rules, “The whole forest is the game field, and the creek is the boundary line. Magic items are allowed, the banner cannot be hidden, and there should be at least 2 guards. Prisoners must only be disarmed, not treated like literal prisoners. No killing or maiming, I will be referee and battlefield medic. Everyone arm yourselves!”

Everyone started to pass out the armor. It looked like we were really arming ourselves for war. When I got my armor it felt the so heavy. I wasn’t going to carry this huge thing all throughout the game. I’ve gotten use to my ring. I found a faster way to get things instead of having to browse through.

I pressed onto my ring and said, “Battle armor”.

Everyone watched as my body glow a bright light. I then wore a bronze breastplate, which was very light. I held onto a doubled-edge balanced sword and shield that seem to be made of celestial bronze. I had a crossbow attached to me with different types of arrows.

Everyone stood their stunned until someone muttered, “Show off”.

I put on my helmet that had blue hair sticking out the top. I grinned at my stunned teammates.

Annabeth the hollered, “Blue team, forward!”

As everyone struggled to climb up the hill, I walked as if it was a morning stroll.

I caught up to Travis and Connor and asked, “So what’s my position?”

They looked at me and groaned.

Connor stuttered, “P-please don’t hurt me”.

“I won’t, for now. What’s my position?”

They studied me and Travis said, “You’ll be border patrol for now.”

“Ok, the creek’s the border right? All I have to do is stand by the border?”

“Yeah, just stand there, fight reds and stuff.”

We were all in positions. I was with border patrol with Jason. It was pretty weird, he would probably be best at offense. But we were in the Athena team, so they might have something up their sleeves. A conch shell blew, and I heard whoops and yells as our team race past us.

After the past few minutes, Jason and I started to get bored. He started to spar with each other. He would lunge at me, and I’d counterattack. This went on back and forth, until we were both beaded with sweat.

Jason breathed heavily, “Your good, we should probably stop”.

Then we heard a rustle at the enemy’s territory. I grabbed my shield and had my sword ready. Leo then tripped and landed face first in the dirt.

He muttered, “Blue... Red... No fire”.

He then looked up at us and cursed. Leo had only this huge 3-pound hammer instead of a sword. He wore the helmet with red horsehair which means he’s our enemy.

“My, my Leo,” I smirked. “I should clean your mouth with some soap.”

Jason grinned, “I’ll give you a chance to fight. You beat me, you can go back safely.”

I looked at Jason. “He’s already our prisoner. Why bother?”

Jason shrugged, “It’s been a while since we both battled each other”.

Leo stood up. “Okay, Sparky.”

“Hey, who gave you my nickname?”

“Oh, my bad, only your girlfriend can call you that.”

Jason charged at Leo. Leo sidesteps and hit Jason’s sword with his hammer. They then gave each other a mischievous smile. The night seemed to grow darker, gray clouds seemed to fill the sky. Lightning started to rumble in the sky, electricity filled the air. Jason then summoned lightning to his sword, and then a blast of lightning went into his sword. His sword then surrounded itself with electricity. Leo turned hot, and I literally mean hot. He surrounded himself with blazing fire. His hammer caught on fire. They then started to fight; they were fighting way too seriously. I had to stop them, if they fight with each other, only one thing will happen.

And it won’t be good.

I ran to them, trying to stop them. Leo summoned his fire and created this fireball. Jason summoned lightning to the palm of his hand. They charged at each other. I ran, trying to stop them before it’s too late. At the last minute I grabbed both of their hands before it impact on each other. I felt my right side burn with fury, I felt my skin searing off. My left side was being burn to a crisp. Electricity ran through me as if I was a double A battery. I was shocked; I felt my whole body hurt. I made the pain become focus into my hand; it then automatically hit Jason and Leo into the water. I started to cough golden blood and crash into the creek. That was the most idiotic thing I have ever done, but at the least two were okay. Leo and Jason came to there senses. They tried to shake me awake, I saw Chiron walking out the woods. He must have seen the whole thing. Leo and Jason flip me face up.

Jason said, “Oh my gods.”

Leo yelled, “We got to do something before she curses us for all eternity, or something!”

I looked at Leo and whispered in a weak voice, “P-please, come closer.

He did and asked, “What is it? Please tell me.”

“Closer”.

He came even closer. I raised my hand weakly and smack him on the forehead.

Leo looked dumbstruck. “What!”

I then smacked Jason on the forehead, too.

“Ow! Why did you do that for?”

I sat up and did some stretches.

Leo looked at me, “You should be dead”.

“Wow, thanks for the welcome back. Besides you guys earned it. You could have nearly killed each other.”

Leo muttered, “Even if that’s true…”

Jason asked, “Why weren’t you killed then?”

I paused doing my stretches. I should be dead; I was half burned and electrified. But I felt okay, as if nothing happened.

“I-I don’t know, maybe it’s that golden blood or something.”

Suddenly a bunch of arrows pinned me to a tree. Leo and Jason flinched; I was standing with them one moment and the next I was pinned to some tree. I was trapped, I couldn’t get out. Clarisse came out of the forest with a spear in her hand and 3 of her siblings.

“Why hello, Goldilocks.”

I asked, “What are you doing? Aren’t you going to get the flag?”

Clarisse smirked, “I saw that show you put out there”- she pointed at Jason and Leo- “I would love to know your secret”.

She unsheathed her knife and studied it. I stared at it blankly. I then realized, here I am pinned to a tree while this crazy Ares girl plans to do a blood transfusion.

I pleaded, “No, please. Don’t do this.”

At the corner of my eye, I saw the cheering Connor and Travis with Annabeth holding the flag coming out of the forest. Kids from the game started to come to the creek. They stood there watching what’s going to happen. I also saw Chiron watching what I’m going to do.

Leo tried to pull Clarisse away, “Come on man. This is not cool.”

Jason asked, “What will you do with the blood? You can’t sell it to the mortal world; the mist will cover it up.”

She then shoved them 10 feet the other direction. She shrugged and said, “I’ll just turn it into golden drachmas or insert it into myself”.

She pointed the knife to my neck. I could already imagine it piercing into my skin. I looked at her in fear. This reminded me when the monsters cornered me. Fern was left unconscious. And I stood there alone, defenseless, ready to die. Rage filled me, I was angry and this, this blood in me. This isn’t my blood, it should be my parents. I feel like a cow (yes, a cow) being used for profit. I felt angry at everyone who just wanted what’s inside of me, not me. I felt something burn, I looked, and my entire body was glowing. I saw the arrows being burned to a crisp. I looked at my ring and it shook violently. Clarisse and her friends backed away, slowly. I walked towards my sword and pointed it at Clarisse.

She laughed, “You’re already outmatched. It’s one- she pointed at me with her spear- against four.”

I asked, “Don’t you mean one on one?”

Clarisse looked behind her and saw that her siblings had already run away from the creek.

“Cowards!” she yelled to them.

I charged. I lunge my sword at her right side. But she sidesteps, and then she fell down. I saw that her right side looked burn, even if I missed. She got back up and threw her spear at me. It sliced past my shoulder; I heard electricity run through the spear. That spear must be the famous Lamer, I mean Maimer. It was some gift Ares gave to Clarisse. I suddenly had an idea. I walked towards Maimer and held it by the spearhead. I felt the electricity run through me again. After I drained the electricity from the spear I tossed it away.

“Hey, what did you do to my spear?” Clarisse demanded.

“Oh, I just needed a charge.”

I transferred the electricity from the spear into my sword. Electricity sparked around it, it suddenly became an electrical weapon.

“Clarisse, meet the new Maimer.”

“What in Hades?! How dare you.”

One of her brothers tossed a sword to Clarisse. She then charged at me. When our swords met a blast of electricity shocked Clarisse and she went into the water. She then charged at me again. She swinged her sword at me, I then counterattacked, but she dodged it. We were both out of breath. I didn’t have anymore tricks up my sleeve.

“You should remember,” Clarisse said.

“What?”

“That I’m a senior and have more practice than you.”

“And?”

“I’ll get sweet revenge the next day, and the day after that.”

She turned her back on me. She looked at the other campers, who coward in fear. They just watched us. I wondered why they haven’t stopped us. But I knew better, I needed them to see what I was made of. I needed to earn my right to be here.

Clarisse laughed at them, “You cowards, you see before me the daughter of Ares who will-”

She never got to finish her little speech. I kicked her back and she fell, face first into the creek.

“Don’t turn your back on me.”

She flipped herself from the water. But my sword was already up her neck. She glared at me, cold and icy stare.

“This feels weird huh, miraculously we switched places”- I pointed to the tree- “you pinned me there, and I’m pinning you here”.

But it did feel weird, I’m never like this. I sheathed my sword and held out my hand. She eyed me suspiciously.

I sighed, “You might as well, while you can still retain your dignity”.

She got up by herself. I still held out my hand and gave her a smile, but she just turned away and walked back to her friends. They tried to cheer her up but she just shoved them away. Everyone stared at me, it felt weird. I noticed we were still in capture the flag. Then I saw that Annabeth was holding the enemy’s flag. I started to walk towards her.

“Hey look! We won, we-”

As I stepped out of the stream, I collapsed. Everyone ran towards me, I felt nauseous and so tired. Leo then grabbed my shoulder and lifted me up. I groaned. I didn’t feel so good. Annabeth looked at me in bewilderment. Chiron stood beside Annabeth with the same expression.

Annabeth muttered, “Just like Percy”.

Chiron ordered Leo, “Take Alexandria to the creek”.

Leo did that, went my feet touched the creek, I felt refreshed. It felt so good, slashes and cuts started to fade away. It was weird, when I was in the water I felt better. When I was out I felt I needed to go back to the hospital.

Then I heard a gasp from the other kids. They all stared at me and I looked up. There was a glowing holographic image was on my head. I looked up, but it was on my head. So I had a quick glimpse of it. A lightning bolt: the symbol of Zeus. Everyone started to kneel down to me. I started to back away my dad can’t be Zeus. That’s Jason’s dad, we couldn’t be related.

Chiron then announced, “Hail, Alexandria Graham daughter of Zeus-”.

I heard another set of gasps. I looked up and saw another holographic, it had a peacock feather. The symbol of Hera. This doesn’t make any sense; Hera is the goddess of marriage.

Chiron looked at me and then announced again sounding very unsure, “Hail, Alexandria Graham daughter of both Hera and Zeus-”.

Then everyone gasp, again. Great, I’m practically choking everyone by now. I looked up and the images appeared one by on around me. Images of a dove, a trident, a hammer the sun and moon. Then I was practically glowing and surrounded by 13 holographic images. Everyone stared at me and I swear I saw a couple of guys drooling. Then I felt myself change. I suddenly was wearing a purple Greek dress. It had thin straps to hold it up and the dress dell to my knees kind of like those paintings of Artemis. I wore golden bracelets, and necklaces. I felt my ears and there were earrings. I never had earring holes to begin with. At my feet were Hermes sandals, but they look fancier as if Hermes and Aphrodite teamed up.

Chiron officially announced, “Hail, Kassandra Graham, daughter of the 12 Olympians including Hades, lord of the Underworld”.

The moment he said that, the Earth opened up and a dog about the size of a small wastebasket. It looked like a mastweiler, a cross breed of a mastiff and a Rottweiler. I knew a friend of a friend who adopted one from the animal shelter. There was only one thing about it, it had three heads. One of them sniffed the ground; the other looked interested in its monkey-length seprent tail. The last gave me a playful expression. I saw everyone aiming arrows at it and came at it with swords.

But, I saw the dog starting to whimper and I yelled, “STOP!”

Everyone stopped in their tracks and looked at me.

“Can’t you see it’s good? It hasn’t attacked at all.”

Everyone stopped and noticed I was right. The dog hasn’t attacked much less growled at anyone. I walked up to it and started to pet her. She was so small, I expect a few months old compared to the hellhounds I encountered.

“She’s adorable,” I cooed. “Who’s the cutie-pie? Yes you are.”

She yipped and rolled onto its back. Everyone watched as I rubbed the puppy’s belly.

Travis stammered, “That thing’s a hellhound.”

“No way,” Connor argued. “It has three heads, it’s a mini Cerberus.”

I asked Chiron, “Is Cerberus a girl or boy?”

“He’s a boy. I heard in the Olympus Weekly that Cerberus is the father of two girls and one boy”, he answered.

I paused. “Separately or together.”

“Together”, he answered back.

I gulped, “How did he-?”

Chiron said quickly, “He met up with some female hellhound, don’t ask.”

After that he led everyone back to their cabins. Chiron told me to have the mini- Cerberus to the arena with the hellhound, Mrs. O’Leary. As I walked to the arena I tried to think of names for my new dog. Spot, Lucky or maybe Buddy. No, she (since 2 to 1 for the gender) doesn’t seem that friendly. Then I thought I’ll name her after her parents. I’ll call her Cebury or Ceb for short. When I came to the arena I saw Mrs. O’ Leary, a huge mastiff. She is a big hellhound that had the owner Daedalus who died destroying this labyrinth. I gave Mrs. O’ Leary a big hug and told her to be nice to her new playmate. But, Cebury was already playing tug-of-war with Mrs. O’ Leary.

When I went to the Hermes cabin, everyone was still up. They all stared at me. I was pretty embarrassed since I’m related to them and everyone else in camp. I went in my bed knowing my “mortal” parents aren’t my parents. I may be a god for all I know. And I’m related to everyone in this camp, including Leo. This place will be so weird from now on.

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How do you like ALexandria showing what she's made of? (Not literaly of course) And she has a dog!!! Who doesn't want a 3-headed dog that could eat you in you sleep... and you have to feed it 3x the average dog... Okay maybe not everyone wants a 3-headed dog but this little cutie pie will be awesome in battle. Leave your comments, and I'll publish the next chapter soon. LATER!!!