chap 11 beat down

Grover and chirion nod as I walk back up the hill and sit down beside the base of tree " Hey sis I just want to promise you that I'll look after your friends i just wish I could have know you tho." I reach down and touch what was once her hand" I'll see you sis." I stand up and march down to the pavilion for lunch and sit down at my table after scraping a portion of it in the fire" For Zeus." ' Father i couldn't save her but I'll save those who she saved.' Chirion makes his normal speech and say for us to get ready for another game of capture the flag. We quickly eat and return to our cabin to collect our gear i change in to my armor with the black scarf and sling my qiuver and bow on my back and grabbing my shield and extending my spear as I walk toward the meeting place " Trey who is our teammates?" I ask as I prop my spear against my shield and set my helmet on my head.

" Hermes, Aries, Demeter, and Apollo.We have you , Hephaestus, Dionysus, Aphrodite can you work offense this time zak you look like you need to let off some steam." trey says as I nod as Annabeth walks up " Shouldn't I have training first?" Trey and I laugh " You are! Annabeth you see trey trains by fire." As I say that chirion pounds his hoof against the ground " The creek is the boundary line no killing magic items are allowed." We all walk to our areas and get ready I bring my spear behind me and my shield in front and wait afew minutes the horn sounds and I sprint towards the creek and leep over it and keep running till I crash into group of four and knock one out on impact and sweep my spear to my right knocking another out before one slashes down and I block it with my shield and kick him in the gut pushing him back and without missing a beet I smash my shield in the others chest knocking him out and jab the but of my spear at the last one knocking him out to.

" sorry guys nothing personal." I say before sprinting away only to find a group of ten " Sweet baby zeus." I groans as I raise my spear and a bolt of lightning strikes it only to be shot at the ten people knocking them back and out cold and keep running until I find a group of five surrounding a red flag, I srink my spear and sling my shield while drawing my bow and fires 5 arrows quickly crippling them and slinging my bow a quickly runs and grabs the flag as one of them sounds a horn as I sprint toward the creek. ' oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit!' I think while sprinting by as kids start surrounding me as the creek comes in to view " Oh shit motherfucka!" I feel a pain in my leg as I look to find arrow i look back to see Annabeth standing by the creek " Hey ANNABETH CATCH!!!" I throw the flag like a spear and it land right infront of her I fall over looking up to see her pick the flag up and dash across the creek and the flag turn blue and chirion ends the game." You good ?" I look up to see phill who is offering a hand up i take it and he helps me to chirion who feeds me a ambrosia peice and gently pulls the arrow out then moves to the next.

time skip to age nine

" Sigh I swear sis your friend luke is a hand full but he is being sent on a quest to steal a golden apple but I don't believe he will complete it he isn't ready mentally." I say as I rest my hand of what used to be Thaila's head " I still feel guilty for not having my underground set up and it still isn't done for where he is headed but it should be done in the next year or two. But I need to go I'll talk with you next time." I stand up and walk back down to as luke walks up " Zak dad is here with a message for you." Raising a eyebrow i follow him to the big house to find a man dress in a suit " You asked for me lord Hermes?" I say as he nods " Yep Artemis is asking you for to hunt another pack of griffins." I nod " I still have to pay lady Artemis for transporting me here, Where is the prey." he looks at me solom " Your going home specifically the blue ridge mountains." I feel my blood run cold " Oh gods please no." I mutter Hermes nods " I would take two people with you and don't worry this isn't a quest." He says as he stands up.

I nod and walk out and head towards the amphitheater only to bump into silena on the way" Hey zak what is wrong you look pale?" I look at her " Lady Artemis is sending me to hunt griffins and I can bring two people." she nods " Ok I'm in where are we headed?" she asks as we keep walking " The blue ridge mountains north carolina my home state." I flop on a bench as silena sits beside me " I see." she gently places her hand on my shoulder " Still I'll go with you." she says as I smile we both hear " North carolina eh always wanted to go there." we turn to see trey " I guess I have my team get your things we'll hive our weapons in a interspatial ring and we will fly down." they nod then run to get their stuff as I walk to get mine an and I store my armor in the ring and grabs my bag a slings it on my back and walks out the door to find trey and silena waiting for me "sigh Well let's go we have some griffins to hunt."