Chapter 7: The Demon on the Treetops
A group of people wearing blue helmets gathered around as they came up with a plan. And the center of it all was Annabeth. "All of you, listen to me. Red team will send out Nel as a scout or harasser, they have to if they want to win. So we will need a few swordsmen guarding the perimeter around the flag, as well as archers stationed up in the tree."
"Won't thus weaken our attacking force quite a lot?"
Annabeth frowned. "Nel is very hard to stop. While he might act as a scout and harasser, it's easy for him to ambush us one by one and whittle is down. And if there aren't enough people protecting the flag, then Nel will charge through and take it."
Annabeth hesitated, a small blush coloring her cheeks as she gave a glance at Luke. "Besides, we have some of the quietest and sneakiest thieves in the whole camp. It is essential that we defend first, and attack later."
Annabeth selected a few undetermined Hermes kids and most of the Apollo cabin archers. "This group will go defend the flag-" she pointed at Luke's group, "-Luke's group will go steal the flag-" she addressed the remainder of her team "-and the rest of us will either defend the border or will assist the defense or attack team. Was that clear?"
Luke have Annabeth a wink. "Yes ma'am, very clear."
Looking slightly red yet strict, Annabeth looked around and made sure everyone understood. Then, she yelled, "if that is all then- Blue team, forward!"
They cheered and shook their swords and went to their respective locations. A tense silence took over the woods as the waited for the signal to start.
Far away, the conch horn blew. And a bunch of campers charged from both sides. And in the midst of all the fighting, a person was dashing along the trees.
There was a flurry of white as the shadow jumped out of the tree and landed onto a somewhat isolated blue camper. Before the camper could scream, the shadow silenced him, and froze another two campers to the floor.
"NEL IS HERE! BE CAREFUL!"
Most of the Apollo kids who weren't assigned to defending the flag opened fired at Nel, however, they all missed. Nel gave them a grin before smacking the two frozen campers with the flat side of his sword.
"HE IS TOO QUICK!"
"HOLY HERA! HOW IS HE MOVING SO FAST!"
"HE IS IN THE TREES! I REPEAT HE IS IN THE TREES!"
Nel gave a smirk as he jumped and grabbed a tree branch before propelling himself upwards. He formed a little ice bridge from tree to tree. Although it looked thin, the little ice bridges that he created were strong enough to hold his weight, as long as he didn't force it too much.
He had already created an intricate web of paths in the blue territory, now all he had to do was be annoying as hell.
Nel spotted a lone soldier and immediately head towards the guy. "NEL IS OVER HERE-" the boy screamed, however before he could even finish his sentence, Nel had drawn his dagger and knocked him out with the pommel.
"NEL IS THIS WAY!"
"CATCH HIM!"
Nel frowned and quickly knocked out the second closest camper to him, before immediately retreating up to the tree tops. It was still very hard for him to fight multiple campers at once and get rid of them quickly, which was why he was picking them off one by one. But he had to admit, the reactions from a group of people were better than one.
He suddenly stopped mid jump and grabbed onto a lingering branch above him to force himself to a stop. He waited quietly as three campers quickly ran underneath him.
Just as the last boy was about to pass him, Nel jumped down and landed on the boy's back, instantly knocking him out.
Before the other two could turn around, Nel formed two ice chains to whip around and wrap them. And like a shadow, he went back to the trees.
Flying around like a demon of ice, Nel stealthily made his way in and out leaves and branches until he was sure that he had escaped all in pursuit of him. When he had passed the boundary line, he dropped onto the ground and rolled into a group of red campers.
"Nel? You are back already?"
Nel nodded his head. "Where is Clarisse? I've completely scouted out the woods. I basically know their entire layout now. Winning is only a matter of time."
One of the campers shook his head. "She is gone, she went to beat up the new kid."
"Di immortales. She is going to cost us the game," cursed Nel.
"She told us to tell you to do whatever you want. Full on charge. Go wild."
"She said to fuck up the other campers."
Nel raised an eyebrow. "Full out charge?"
The campers nodded.
"How are our forces looking like?"
"Most of the Ares kids are out in battle, and the Demeter kids are holding down the flag with Hephaestus. One of the Wine boys are down but the other is fighting somewhere. Aphrodite is well.... being Aphrodite."
Nel hesitated, "we barely have enough people to go for a forceful break through but-" a small smirk crept up Nel's face. "It's very much possible."
"So we are going on with the forceful breakthrough plan?"
"Yes, we are. Let's go get the blue flag, shall we?"
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