Capture the Flag (Players Must Join!)

[McKenna]

OCC: OK guys, here is our first game of capture the flag! All players please join, unless your character is on a quest, not at Camp yet, injured, or dead. Which would be depressing
Blue team is on the East side, and red is on the West side.
We need to start deciding, over OCC chatting, who will be the winner.
No hurting or defeating another character without the players permission.
Please put what team your on before you post for your character.
Example:
Blue Team-
Reed ran frantically...blah blah blah




“Welcome to Friday night capture the flag. We have a lot of new comers, so I will explain the rules.” Chiron took a deep breath and continued, looking at all of the anxious campers that were ready to get the game started. “There are two sides, red and blue. Each team will protect their side of the forest, divided by the creek.”

Alina had heard this speech almost every Friday night for the past ten years. She leaned against Reeds shoulder, who was also quite bored and just wanted to start the game. As Chiron spoke, the Campers were already starting to group into their usual teams. For the past month the red team had been: Hades, Zeus, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, and some of the minor gods. The blue team had been: Poseidon, Hermes, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Athena, and the other minor gods.


“There is a flag on each side of the forest. As a camper, it is your job to protect your team’s flag. The rules must be very clear and simple. All magic items are allowed. The entire forest is fair game. The flag must have no more than two gaurds. Prisoners may be disarmed, but not bound of gagged. No killing or maiming. And guards aren’t allowed to stand within ten feet of the flag. Clear?”

The campers nodded and started running off to their side of the forest. Alina jerked her head towards Zephenus and David, motioning for them to follow her. But before they could even reach the start of the tree’s, Chiron cried out, “Wait!”
Everybody halted. Alarmed, they turned around slowly, facing Chiron. He waved his hand as if he was saying, “Don’t worry, we aren’t under attack.” Then he continued, saying, “I’ve decided you’ve gotten too used to your teams. I know you usually figure your teams out by yourselves, but in the past month, you haven’t changed them at all. So I’m changing them for you.”
Everybody groaned, they had spent the last hour before capture the flag going through battle strategy with their teams. This was going to ruin everything.
“Here are your new teams” Chiron continued with ease, as if he hadn’t just stabbed everybody with a sword in the heart, mentally, of course. “Red team; Zeus, Poseidon, Apollo, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Athena, and--” He named off some of the minor gods while the Campers were grumbling.
“And the Blue Team; Hades, Hermes, Ares, Hephaesus, Demeter, Persephone, and—“ He listed off the rest blue team, “Ok! Now you may go, the game starts on my whistle!”


Red Team
Zeus
Poseidon
Apollo
Aphrodite
Dionysus
Athena

Blue Team
Hades
Hermes
Ares
Hephaestus
Demeter
Persephone

[Dominic Jones]

Dom had been gearing up for this all week. He had always looked foward to friday, it was the only day of the week that he was allowed to bash in other people and vent anger. As he pulled on his Armor he thought back to his first game. Withing five minutes he had been knocked to the ground, and spent the next three days in the infirmery. As he listened to Chiron explain the rules, again, he eyes wondered to Alina. She gave him a right evil smirk and he gave one back. This will be fun. He thought to himself. When the all began charging off Chiron called them back and explained that he would be changing the teams. Dom just groaned. Now he was stuck with Alina. Not that that as bad, he just enjoyed lording it over her when his team won. Which they had for the past 2 weeks. Oh well so go's life. Running up to Alina, he noticed her talking to two new Demi-gods who he hadn't seen before. "Hey Alina, ready to kick so but." Turning to the two new kids he said "I'm Dominic jones, Son of Poseidon. And you are?" he asked politely.

[McKenna]

Occ: Hope everyone is ok with this

Alina Rose Reed Johnson
Alina smiled, "This is Zephenus and this is David; my brothers."
Alina jerked her head towards the forest, "Come on lets get going. We've got a game to win!" She started running toward their team, already making battle plans and strategy's. Reed ran past, going the other direction, towards the opposite team. He waved mockingly and kept on running. Alina rolled her eyes and called out, "You're dead meat Johnson!"
He laughed childishly and called back, "Oh yes, its very encouraging to hear your girl friend say that right before I go into battle."
She smiled and ran through the forest. Finally she got to the place where her other team members were gathering, and where their flag was being hidden.
She said, "We need a plan, anybody got any ideas? Who's good at defending? Who's good at running? And who's good at distracting" She raised her eyebrows pointedly at the Aphrodite girls.

[Abbie]

Amaria Zana
Amaria swore under her breath when she heard Chiron say he was switching up teams. It's ok, she thought, We're just going to have to make up something fast. She started running to where her team was gathering.
When she got there she saw that everyone looked confused and didnt know what they were doing. So she started barking out orders, "Hephaestus and Demeter your on defense, Hermes your on lookout and set traps, Persephone you guys can hide the flag and then fill in where we need help, and Ares and Hades," Amaria smirked, "We will go after the flag." She watched as everyone started making strategies depending on there group. She turned to her group, "So whats the plan?"

[McKenna]

Reed Johnson

Reed was glad Amaria was taking over, if she didn't, it would be chaos. He nodded and jogged over to the other Hermes kids. Considering he was the oldest in this group, he started making plans. They wouldn't be as complicated as the Athena cabin would do, but it would work.
He assigned the younger kids to create some traps so the Red team would get confused and think the flag was somewhere else.
"Alina won't be fooled though, she knows these tricks so well, she know me to well." He muttered to himself.
Five of the older Hermes kids, including himself, were preparing to guard the border.
A couple minutes passed and Reed knew that the whistle would blow soon. Reed looked over at Amaria and nodded.

[aldo]

Lance watched the rest of his team running to their positions with a weary gaze in his eyes. He had just begun to slip into a deep sleep when he had been forced awake and led to the forest. Even though it was his first game of capture the flag at camp, he couldn't get excited no matter how hard he tried to force himself. Honestly, he would have prefered to be on guard duty, at least then he'd be able to sleep, but to argue with Amaria would require effort he didn't have. The only thing he could do was follow her plan and hope it wouldn't require too much work on his part. Walking over to Amaria, he tapped the bracelet on his wrist lazily, changing it into his Stygian iron spear. "You ready sis?" he asked Amaria, twirling the spear in his hand.

(Technically, he has now arrived at the camp, so I assume I should post here)

[McKenna]

OCC: Yeppers, you can post here

[Abbie]

Amaria Zana
"Yeah I am!" Amaria yelled excitedly. "Are you ready for your first game?" She asked Lance.
This was about when the nerves started to kick in from the tension of waiting for the whistle to blow. She looked around her and saw everybody was ready. She then took her ring off her right hand and pressed the black gem in. Her used to be ring turned into her pitch black sword and she smiled. Now I'm ready, she thought.

[McKenna]

OCC: Yo Abbie, could you post for Shane on the red Team?

[Abbie]

OOC: oops, blonde moment totally forgot

Shane Wills
Shane grabbed his bow and arrows and listened as Alina told the aphrodite girls to distract the other team. He was a little disapointed that Amaria wasnt on his team, but it would be fun to tease her if their team won. Alina then turned to him and asked, "Do you think you can actually do something useful with those arrows?" Shane knew she was kidding and responded cockily, "A lot more that you can do with yours." Alina rolled her eyes and turned back to strategizing. Shane knew Alina could match any of the Apollo archers, but he couldnt resist. Now he just had to wait untill the whistle.

[McKenna]

Alina Rose

Alina glanced around at her team. Most of them looked nervous. They had never worked with this team before, and a lot of them didn't know each other.
She called out, trying to get their attention, "Athena and Apollo; on defense. Aphrodite and Dionysus; Border Patrol. Zeus and Poseidon; We'll go after the flag."
Most of them nodded, "All right! Wait till the whistle rings and then get into your positions." They started talking among themselves, getting ready to play the game.
Then she took Shane aside and said to him, "If you see any chance to maybe Capture the Flag, do it. Just run for it. You don't have to stay at your post the whole time."

[Jase]

OOC: that map at the beginning is nice... it will help.

Zephenus shot a look around. Everyone was talking excitedly and making wild motions in the air. They looked ready to win then and there.
Yeah, you are too, he told himself defensively. You just don't want to admit it.
He reached under his cloak and brought out his spear. It didn't glow at the moment—only when activated. He had no idea where he got the weapon; he had found the spear in his backpack on the first night after leaving home. Normally, he would have preferred his bow and quiver, but after noticing the others who took either spears or swords, he decided to follow the lead.
Any moment now, they would start... he held the spear at ready and waited for the signal.

OOC: Which team will win this game?

[McKenna]

Alina Rose

The whistle rang, loud and clear. Everyone on the red team was ready and eager. As they all ran to their places, Alina shouted over the noise of armor clanging, "I'll fly over the trees into the enemies land!"
She looked around, trying to find her siblings. Once she found them, she made eye contact and nodded encouragingly. Then she took out her bow and quiver and closed her eyes. She directed her energy under her and pretty soon she was flying, up onto the tree tops. She stepped onto the highest branches and looked down. The teams looked like little ants protecting their banner. Then she looked straight ahead, and jumped from branch to branch, into the other teams land.


Reed Johnson

The whistle blew. It was time to fight. To capture the flag. As he watched his team members run off to their places, he caught Amaria's arm.
"We both know where Alina will come from." He said and Amaria nodded seriously, "I'll meet her up there before she can get to far." He gestured down to his feet. Kicking his shoes into gear, he started flying up to the trees, keeping a look out for Alina.

[Jase]

Yells echoed through the woods as the two teams met in a wild, scattered clash. Zephenus crept along the ground, sliding from shadow to shadow. His black cloak was working marvels for him, and it seemed he might make it. Then he noticed the guards ahead. Never mind.
He considered sending a blast of air and knocking them over. But then, he didn't really have that sort of wild, endless energy. Naw.
He sprang into the air with a yell and sailed down at the nearest guard, spear held at ready. The tip glowed bright blue with eagerness to fight. In an instant, he was fighting, laughing, as his spear met sword.

[David Forester]

David Forester

David waited, eager for the whistle to blow, and when he did he brought out his pen, clicked it and in an istant he was holding 'Lightning Bringer' his birthday present from his dad, that he had only just recieved that mourning. Running at full speed through the forset, he saw Alina hovering above the trees, Reed sneaking up behind her, with his flying shoes. Picking up a small rock, he willed the air to guide it to Reed. It hit him in the chest. Not enough to hury him, just enough to cause him to cry out in pain, and alert Alina, that he was there. "Thats for laughing at me yesterday." Moving on through the forest, he noticed Zephenus, fighting a gaurd, but the other one was sneaking up behind him. "Oh no you don'y", he muttered under his breath. Tapping the silver ring on his finger, it expanded out into, 'Saver', his other birthday present. Sneaking up behind the gaurd, he tapped on his shoulder, and when he turned around he was greeted by a facefull of shield. A couple more emerged from the forest and, muttering curses under his breath, he jumped through the air, slashed downward and was greeted by the sound of metal hitting metal. The fight was on.

[McKenna]

Alina Rose Reed Johnson

A stone hit him square in the chest. Reed grunted in surprise, not loud, but just loud enough to make Alina notice him. Quickly he looked down. He spotted the thrower of the stone right away: David Forester. That new kid in the Zeus cabin.

Alina looked over and immediately started running for Reed. If she was to get to the other side, she'd have to get through him first. White lightning flashed through her eyes as she approached him on the trees. She should have known he would have his flying shoes, she just wasn't thinking clearly.
"Well, I guess its true," Reed said as she started running toward him, "Brothers usually do hate their sisters boyfriends." He said, talking about David throwing the stone at him.
Alina drew her knife just as he drew his sword. Electricity gathered around her when she made the first move.
She attacked his side. But he knew her too well. He easily deflected it. They went back and forth for what seemed like hours, but it was only a couple minutes. They could hear a lot of fighting below them, but neither wanted to find out what was happening in case they got distracted. Alina was about to kick him in the stomach --hard-- when Reed put a hand on her arm to stop her.
"Wait, what is that?!" He pointed urgently towards the ground below. Alina didn't want to be fooled, but he seemed like he was serious, so she looked beyond the trees.
That was a mistake.
As soon as her eyes weren't on Reed. He pushed past her toward the red teams land.
Alina realized what was happening quickly though, and she turned around, with lightning speed and willed the air to push against Reed, so he couldn't move.
"Ugh! You drive me insane!" She said to him, letting go of the air.
He smirked, a mischievous grin and replied, "I know. But you love me."
She rolled her eyes and said, "I know! That's what sucks!" And she grabbed his collar and kissed him firmly on the lips. Then she let him go and pushed him backwards on the chest.
They both nodded in silent agreement then ran off through the air to the other teams property.

[Dominic Jones]

Dominic Jones.

Wiping a small bead of sweat from his forehead, Dom took the small water bottle that he kept in his pocket, unscrewed it and poured a little over his head. Instantly he felt a new surge of strength overwealm him. Bringing out his Double Edged Parallel Scimter, he set of toward the enemies side. As he walked through the forest, Dom was suprised at the lack of resistance he had encoutered. Apart from the accsional trap, he was able to walk through with ease. Then it happened. He was charged from all four sides. As he brought his blade down to meet the first one, he managed to trip the other one up. Activating his shield, he used it to fend of the first one. Pushing him away, he swung round, and knocked down the one behind him, knocking him out cold. "One down, Three to go." he muttered under his breath, bringing his blade down to meet the third guys blade.

[aldo]

Lance held back slightly when the whistle blew. Best to save his strength for a bit, than go out there. At least that was the excuse he would give Amaria if she asked what he was doing. It took about a minute for boredom to set in and he decided that he may as well fight if he was being forced to be here. Pausing only to slip off his sunglasses, Lance quickly made his way through the crowd, some of the weaker members of the Red Team unable to do anything as he quickly gave them each his own personal "evil eye". Unfortunately, the more strong willed of them weren't going to be stopped as easily and his spear soon met the shields and swords of his opponents.

[Abbie]

Amaria Zana
When Amaria heard the whistle her heart almost leaped out of her chest. Now she only had one goal: find the flag. She decided to shadow travel but couldnt keep it up for long because it tired her out quickly, and it was a sunny day.
She started slowly weaving around the trees and spotted her first victim. She crept up on him and knocked him out. Now where would the flag be?
She was trying to think of places it could be when she saw a flash of color out of her peripheral vision. She spun around and saw it was girl a little younger than her. She looked familiar but couldnt think of her name. The girl came running toward Amaria with her sword held out, but Amaria easily blocked it. They clashed swords for a while, but Amaria disabled her sword and looked into her eyes. The girl let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground unconscious. Amaria only inflicted a little pain but it was enough to keep her unconscious for a minute. She started running through the trees again to complete her goal.

Shane Wills
Shane held his bow at the ready. He had been waiting for a minute now and there had been no sign of anyone. He knew Amaria would be one of the first ones to make it to the flag. He stood there wondering what was happening when he saw the first intruder. He smiled, Now it gets intresting.

[McKenna]

Reed Johson

"Reed Johnson, son of Hermes, why are you such an idiot?" Reed whispered silently to himself, "Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena once said never to let your enemies distract you." He rubbed his face and leaped to another branch, "I think you just defied the first and foremost law of battle strategy. Why would I let Alina on to my side without keeping up the fight?" He realized he was almost shouting and closed his mouth immediately. Even though he was high up, demi-gods have amazing hearing.
A couple minutes passed without him seeing anything on the ground below. Besides a few campers running around trying to protect their territory. They never even noticed him.
Then he saw it. A great big red flag in the middle of a dense part of the forest. But there were people guarding it. A lot. Alina had planned this out, she was expecting him. She had probably told her guards to expect him from above. This had been her plan all along.
He looked down, some of the guards were patrolling the sky. Then one of them spotted him.
"Well its too late now," He muttered to himself, drawing his sword, "Might as well fight."
With that, Reed floated safely to the ground, prepared to fight.

[Jase]

Parry. Slash. Whirl. Smash. Jump. Dodge.
It all came naturally to Zephenus as he twisted his spear and sent the blade flying. With the butt of the spear, he knocked the kid over into his friend. Something made a loud clang! just behind his back and he nearly did a flying 360. The other guy, David, was fighting with one of the guards. One was on the ground, unconscious.
With a yell, three more broke from the trees. Zephenus caught David's eye and motioned toward the enemy side. "Go!" he yelled, and sprang toward the oncoming group. In mid-flight, he aimed his spear and the tip suddenly began to crackle and glow bright blue. He landed--and charged.

[Abbie]

Shane Wills
Usually he had to fight people on the ground but no. This time his opponent came from above. He must be a son of Hermes, Shane thought. Shane watched as he landed on the ground and ran forward. Shane shot an arrow towards him, not at him, to maybe frighten him off but it didnt work. He grabbed his sword and started running towards him. Shane was about to strike him with his sword when the son of Hermes shot up into the air and Shane hit nothing but air, loosing his balance but catching himself before he fell onto the ground. Shane now saw that the son of Hermes was Alina's boyfriend, Reed. Shane wasnt very good with his sword so he grabbed his bow and arrow and shot an arrow at one of Reed's shoes. The arrow hit and Reed had to land.

[Jase]

Zephenus Wolvein

The spear met sword with flashes of blinding blue light. He concentrated on the air currents around him and shot up into the sky. He whirled around and came flying back down, spear held at ready, a fierce, determined look in his lightning blue eyes.

[McKenna]

Reed Johnson

"Well, fancy meeting your here, Shane." Reed said casually as he pulled the arrow out of the side of the wing of his shoe. Luckily, it hadn't hit him, but still, not being able to fly away when he needed to could be a problem. He drew sword, and without warning, struck at Shane. But Shane reacted quickly and deflected.
Even though I'm better with a sword than him, he's got REALLY fast reflexes. He thought as he struck another blow.
Their fight when on without anybody else noticing that Reed was a breath away from capturing the flag.
Right there, I could almost reach out and grab it....

[Jase]

Zephenus Wolvein

"Warning, warning.... the flag, the flag...!"
Zephenus twisted his head around at the sudden voice near his left ear. His guard dropped for an instant, but it was enough.
The sword flat caught him a blow over the head and he toppled to the ground. Foot steps. The guards muttering among themselves as they crept away into the forest. Silence.
With a groan, Zephenus scrambled to his feet. His head felt like it had been cracked in half. His spear glowed softly in his hand as he reached up to touch the spot where the sword had hit.
Suddenly, his head began to feel a little better. Curious, he touched his head again. Again the same feeling. The headache had disappeared and was replaced by a dull twitching in his scalp.
Shaking his head, and unsure what had happened, he willed the air currents to lift him up into the air. Above the trees, he suddenly spotted something that made his mouth go dry.
A member of the blue team was fighting with a guard, right next to their red flag.
He didn't notice the boy running over the stream toward him, wielding a deadly-looking red sword.

Peter Delante

This was it. He flexed his arms and wielded the staff in his right hand. Now or never...
He exploded from the bush, landed a crack on the blue guy's head, and dropped him. He then flung the staff at another, who had been following behind and was staring at him in surprise. He twittled a quick tune on his pipes and the bushes swallowed him into hiding.
The stealthy footsteps told him that a third was trying to figure out where he'd gone. Carefully, he touched a note on the pipes.
The other outside heard it, but too late. A tree branch overhead reached down and knocked him into the stream. A moment later, the staff slithered back through the bushes and into his hand. He grinned at himself. Three down.

Arthur Wright

Arthur hated hiding. In fact, he was terrible at stealth. His best weapons were his sword and speed. Nothing else mattered then.
He sprang forward, almost growling, and yanked off the offending thorn from his pant leg. Up ahead, he could see the stream and hear yells.
He broke from the cover of the trees. On the far side, three guards lay on the ground. Hovering about six feet over them, his back turned...
"A son of Zeus," Arthur muttered. He ran across a tree trunk spanning the stream and charged at the other boy, his blood-red sword arcing back for a slash.

[Abbie]

Shane Wills
Shane just blocked Reed's sword at the last second. "I cant last much longer," Shane muttered under his breath.
Reed was breaking down Shane's defense and slowly moving closer to the flag. Shane looked around for help but that was a mistake. Reed knocked Shane's sword right out of his hand. Shane lunged for it but it was just out of his reach.
He looked back at Reed and saw he just got to the flag when three sons of Apollo, his brothers, appeared and started fighting him off. "Bout time," Shane said to himself

[McKenna]

Reed Johnson

Reed took one look at the Apollo children coming to the aid of Shane and said, “That’s just not fair.”
The first child of Apollo came at him with all his might. But Reed was ready. He immediately blocked his blow and kicked him on the side. The son of Apollo flew backwards into the dirt. Reed knew he was only twelve, so he really didn’t stand a chance.
Two more attacked. They had more experience. Reed was having trouble keeping them both back at the same time. Then another attacked. Reed had to leave. He had to get back to safety on his own side.
He knocked ones sword out of his hands. It wasn’t much, but it was enough. He had a split second where they weren’t paying attention, and he ran, using his one working flying shoe to gain a little bit of air to move faster.

[Jase]

Zephenus Wolvein

The searing pain in his left foot alerted him to the danger. Like a bolt from a crossbow, he shot into the sky. He glanced back down. Some kid was waving a bloody red sword in the air at him. A thin trail of blood was seeping from his foot. Then suddenly, the world began to spin. Really fast.
"Oh, great," he muttered, trying to get back down. But instead he found himself facing up at the sky, falling down toward the ground...

Peter Delante

Peter glanced up as he heard a yell overhead. A kid was flailing at the air with his arms and falling fast.
"What in the world..." His pipes went into action; it took nearly all his energy to communicate his request. The trees nearby caught the kid as he landed and passed him from branch to branch to his hideout. He was unconscious, his foot bleeding badly. Peter took one look at the wound and grimaced. "So, he used his sword on him... curse him!"
He dabbed some powder from a flask into the wound. In about ten minutes, if the cut wasn't too deep, the foot should be good as new.

Arthur Wright

He was in enemy territory now. Growling, he charged a few red team member slipping through the trees. His sword was like three blades--after all, even if you disliked your dad, he still passes on useful strengths.

[aldo]

"Perfect," Lance muttered to himself, trying to fight his way through the forest. No matter what he did, plenty of other campers from the red team just kept coming after him. He had barely made any progress and every second he spent here was a second he could spend getting the flg, and the faster that got done, the faster he could go back to sleep. At the moment his options were either just give up, keep trying to fight his way through, or just try something else. Clearly the second hadn't gotten him anywhere so far and he could already tell that Amaria or somebody would just start yelling at him if he just let stopped trying. With a sigh, he decided to do what hopefully wouldn't be too tiring on him, raising the ground in front of him into a wall to briefly stop the attacks. Using the chance to concentrate, Lance continued, opening a fissure in the ground to trap his opponents. It wasn't deep enough to harm them too much, but it was enough to keep them occupied with trying to get out. "Sorry about that guys, but I have things to do," he said to the trapped demigods, contiuing to head throgh the forest after offering up a quick promise to come back to help them once the game was over.

[McKenna]

OCC: AHHH! I'm confused! Jase, what just happened with your characters? Was Reed involved? That is what it sounded like but I wasn't sure.


EDIT:

OCC: Ok, I'm just going to keep this moving...

Reed Johnson
Reed ran until he finally reached his teams side. He was exhausted and needed to find Amaria. They needed a new plan of action, because the one they had now obviously wasn't working.
He came across a son of Demeter and asked urgently, "Where is Amaria? Have you seen her?"
The son of Demeter pointed deeper into the woods and moved forward without saying a word to Reed.
When Reed finally found Amaria he yelled to get her attention, "Amaria! This isn't working! We need a new plan of attack!"