The Rising of the Skies

In the morning when I was having breakfast many campers were staring at me in disgust including Percy Jackson which I figured wasn’t good at all.
I met the camp director Mr. D who called me Shawn James, and then Travis led me to get me a sword
I chose a Drachma which changed into a sword it was perfectly balanced but did not return to my pocket if I lost it which was disappointing.
Then Travis led me to the sword fighting arena where only Percy Jackson was training with dummies , then Travis left because he had some class and left me alone with Percy who was looking at me as if I had stabbed him with a dagger.
‘I’m sorry about last night’ I said while taking out my sword and slashing at a dummy.
‘There’s no need to be’ he said ‘it wasn’t your fault oh wait it WAS’
‘It was just a game’ I said
‘Of course it was’ he said angrily ‘and you should learn how to hold a sword properly’
‘Can you show me’ I asked.
‘No’ he replied
I left the arena and the rest of the day was fun I learned that I was not good at archery but I climbed the climbing wall in my first try but I thought that was because I was scared of getting burned by lava.
I ate dinner which was great, and my day was going greatly until the campfire when Chiron announced that I was a new member of the camp
I got up and the whole camp watched waiting from a sign from my father when the moment that changed my life happened.
A sign appeared above my head
I looked up and saw the sign when Chiron said
‘Earth shaker, Storm bringer, Father of Horses, Hail, Steven Jones, Son of the Sea God Poseidon

I stood stunned as everybody’s heads rotated from Percy to me. I looked at Percy and he looked sad and angry.
‘Well, that about rounds it up, to your cabins everybody’ Chiron said
Everybody went off to their cabins including me, I took my things from the Hermes cabin and put them in the Poseidon cabin where there were only two occupied cabins of Percy and Tyson (who had gone to the forges of Poseidon) I put my stuff on an empty bed and lay down there, Percy didn’t come in the cabin until 12 o’ clock
‘Hey’ I said
He didn’t reply and just went to sleep on his bed.
The next say I was feeling a little better because Chiron had a challenge for us, he said that we would be not be in teams and we had to find a pouch he had hid in the forest, he said that there would be something guarding it which didn’t sound good.

Chiron blew his horn which meant the beginning of the games; we were all wearing our armors because we never knew what was guarding the pouch. We were allowed to duel each other for the pouch which was bad news for me because I couldn’t defeat a dummy much less than a human. The first person to reach Zeus’ fist with the pouch would win.
We went into the forest in different directions; I searched for half an hour and I was giving up hope when I saw Percy fighting with Annabeth with one hand on his pouch it was a sword vs. dagger fight which was disadvantage for Annabeth but it didn’t look like it.
Then I did something I am not proud of I ran into the fight from behind Percy took the pouch from his hand pushed Percy onto Annabeth and they both fell down under the weight of their armor as I ran to the direction of Zeus’ fist.
I reached Zeus’ fist and nearly crashed into Chiron he saw me with a surprised look on his face and then blew his horn signaling the end of the games
Every camper gathered in the amphitheater where I was given a medal which was pretty great as I looked at the faces of the jealous campers and I thought that they were really-really angry after capture the flag and this as I had only been in camp for 2 days.
After the campfire I went to long island sound to see that if I really had power over water being the son of Poseidon I saw Percy and Annabeth standing there and I stood as away from them as possible.
I started walking into the sea and found myself neck deep in the sea I put my head in the sea and thought that I would be able to breathe easily but guess what I can’t. I cursed Poseidon as I got out of the water.
I saw Percy and I could swear that he was smiling because I was drenched in the middle of the night I put my hands at neck level and tried to raise the water or something but that didn’t work.
I saw Percy and Annabeth both smiling and I cursed them silently. I took out a blade from my pocket and cut my hand a bit I went into the water again but my cut didn’t heal itself.
I got out of the water and saw something moving in the forest, I thought it was a Harpy so I took a round on the beach and was about to go to my cabin when I saw a creature it was like a sphinx it looked like a red lion with the head of a man it had a scorpion like tail and I was scared because I hadn’t seen any monster before, I looked at Percy and Annabeth a great distance away from me but they but they hadn’t seen the monster.
‘Guys’ I shouted in a terrified voice not sure whether they heard me.
But before I could wait for help from them the monster, the Manticore charged I leaped side-ways and took out my sword I could hear Percy and Annabeth running towards me but I knew they would be late, the Manticore tried to leap on me, I ducked and put my sword inside him but not before his tail hit my face and I could feel my face stinging like 50 bees had stung me and I blacked out.

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