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[Shade]

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Charlotte

"Haha..."
Charles commented the slingshot with a sarcastic laughter. Still, she didn't throw it away. Instead she collected a handful stones from the ground and followed Gideon and Adriana deeper into the woods. She was well aware of the fact that Gideon obviously had a crush on Adriana. This was not exactly what she had in mind, when she pictured Adriana a valuable team member. Charles couldn't help, but somehow she felt a bit jealous. For a second she played with the thought of shooting a stone against the back of Gideon's head. Actually, she already had the elastic band pulled back and would have shot against his head, if it wasn't for the harpy she noted in the branches above them. When she let loose of the band, the stone dashed past Gideons right shoulder, just a few centimeters from hitting him. The stone cracked against the branches and shooed the harpy out of the tree. Abruptly Charles threw the slingshot on the ground, drew her gladius and shouted a warning.
"Harpy ahead!"

The harpy sprang down towards the three Demigods, aiming for Gideon, whom she falsly suspected to be the source of the attack. The creature bounced on the floor once and shot in the air with an incredible speed. On it's way back into the trees the harpy attacked Gideon with its sharp claws.

 

[Eleya]

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Viktoría

"Well, it is very simple if you think about it", she started to explain and smiled quickly. Between the following sentences she directed them away from the other teams and into the woods. She watched the other Campers running and shouting and couldn't help herself but shake her head. "Kimon here has a very good nose. He is able to smell monsters and this is going to help us a lot, but this isn't it. I know a place where a lot of monsters hide during the day and this is where we are going." Torí glanced to Ki, who seemed to have smelled a monster already and here it was.

"Keith watch out!" She drew her sword and pointed at a helldog which snarled at her and showed his sharp fangs. “Careful he will try to vanish into the shadow of this tree there and attack us from another direction”, Viktoría murmured to her teammates, her eyes never leaving the monster. “Our first chance is to wound him with a bow”, she said, grabbing her sword harder. She didn’t like the thought of a close combat with this thing, but if Keith missed his target she and Kimon will have to.

 

[Patiwa]

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Keith nodded patiently while Víktoria explained her plan and made clear that the Satyr was very helpful with his sensitive nose. "Yeah, I don't thought about that.", Keith had to admit. He wasn't one of that guys, which think about every fact, he was one them, who acts in the situation.
As he was told to watch out, Keith had his arc already traced (den Bogen gespannt) and aimed into nothing, till he saw the Helldog Víc pointed at. "Look who we got here...", Keith whispered and kept his eyes on the Dog. His arrow flew right way onto the monster, which jumped to the side at last second, so that the shot only gazed it. Like Víctoria envisaged the monster vanished into the shadow behind it. Keith was ready for the next shot and observed the area around his group. He felt that the Helldog would attack from above and he was right. Above him, in a treetop, the Dog appeared and rushed directly towards him. While the Monster was falling out of the treetop Keith shot directly into his heart and something like a mixed gold and sand dust fluttered like fine snow on the heads of his teammates and him.
"God damn! The first shot should've hit the bullseye!", he cursed while he took the ribbon they should collect from the monsters from the ground.

(happy easter to you all! hope that post was okay )

 

[Chucky]

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Dazzled Kimon looked at the helldog that was crouching in front of them. Kimon pointed directly at the huge dog with the head of his sword. Out of the corner of his eye he saw an arrow flying from Keith. Unfortunately it seemed that the arrow didn't even hurt the dog.
As the monster vanished into thin air Kimon looked around fearfully. He followed Keith's gaze and saw the helldog falling form the trees and then how it turned into nothing but dust.

Happily Kimon danced around the ribbon on the ground, but he never let go off his sword. Nobody could know if there was another monster behind the next tree. When the stink of the helldog was vanished Kimon couldn't smell any monsters nearby anymore.

"Let's go deeper into the wood, I can't smell monsters anymore." Kimon suggested and started walking into the West.

 

[Eleya]

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Viktoría

Viktoría felt her heart sank when Keith's first arrow missed. This could get very unpleasant. She looked around franticly, but the helldog didn't show up for half a minute. The daughter of Athena tried to relax a little so she would be able to think straight again, but it was too late. The helldog materialize above them and jumped. The next moment passed too quickly, but instead of few dozen kilos of monster landing on the team there was just golden sand and a ribbon.

"Thank the Gods", Torí moaned and closed her a eyes for a second. When she opened them again she saw Keith and his bow, walked over to him and grinned happy. "Thank you, Son of Apollo."

Viktoría walked over to Kimon, first to check if he is alright and second to ask a question which he managed to answer even without her asking it. "No monsters left here? Ok." She wrinkled her brow and pointed at a narrow forest path. "This way." She walked beside Kimon, who seemed really happy about the ribbon. "You alright?", she asked quietly.

 

[Margit]

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Gideon was annoyed at himself, he struggled to focus again on the mission and was tempted to take another glance of Adriana. Though he knew the effect of the children of Aphrodite, however her appearance was overwhelming. Even though she forbidden looked good, Gideon didn't have a deep interest, so he finally managed to worry about the opposing team. He wanted the most of the ribbons for his team and it would be difficult against the other team to win. With the strategical wits (strategisches Köpfchen), the olfactory bulb (Riechkolben ^^) and the son of Apollo, they had a very serious opponent and he rather wouldn't to think about the other teams.

Gideon glanced over his shoulder to Adriana, but just to think about her abilities. "Hope, the bow isn't just a pretty accessory..." he thought, then he looked to Charles. "I hope, Barbie can handle the bow, not that she brings out her comb and brush away the monsters with it..." he wanted to mutter to Charles as he barely watched how she aimed with the slingshot and shot past him. "Are you nuts?" he snapped instead and he avoiding the stone. Too late Gideon realized her warning.

The Harpy attacked him from behind. Her claw left a long red line of his chin to his neck. Gideon grabbed his sword, swung it around and tried to catch the harpy, but when he turned around she was flown back to the tree. Concentrated Gideon looked for the Harpy from treetop to treetop, until their eyes met up again and for the second time the Harpy pounced on him. It was like a sign for her sisters. As the Harpy attacked Gideon, three of her sisters came screaming out of their hiding places and attacked Adriana and Charles.

Gideon tried to warn his teammates, but his Harpy gave him another bash, and he suddenly had feathers in his mouth. It took a moment before he had his bearings (Orientierung) again, after the Harpy was fluttering wildly around him. But then, he managed to finally attacked the beast and hit her against the chest, so she dashed through the air. With a further beat with the sword she fell apart in golden dust, leaving behind the yellow ribbon. As Gideon knelt down and picked up the ribbon, he detected in the corner of his eye a movement in the shadow. "Daaamn!" he cursed and jumped back on his feet, then he helped Adriana and Charles with the three harpies "When we left the harpies behind us, we can brace ourselves on a few dogs from hell..." he guessed and beat the next harpy.

(I hope the post is ok so and yes I know I should keep it shorter, sorry...)

 

[Shade]

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(great post, margit! let's collect some more ribbons)

"Damn!"
Charles shouted, when the harpy hurt Gideon. She held her sword in her right hand and wanted to jump towards the harpy to bring it down, but it hid in the treetop way to fast. When she spotted it again, it was already on its way towards Gideon, who happened to notice it a bit earlier and seemed quite capable of the situation. First, she didn't notice the other harpies around them and wasn't aware of the one, that was going to attack from behind. It was a blessing in disguise (dt: Glueck im Unglueck) that helped her sidestep the attack: Actually she wanted to support Gideon, but when she took a step closer, she sliped on a stick and fell down on the ground and the harpy's claws stuck in the tree in front of her instead of her back. She dropped her sword to break the fall with her hands (dt: den Sturz mit den Haenden abfangen), but quickly grabbed it again and jumped back to her feet to attack the defenseless bird-monster, still stuck to the tree.
"Thanks, Mum!"
She muttered and brought her sword down. Nothing of the harpy remained, but golden dust and an orange ribbon.

Quickly Charles turned around to look how Gideon was doing, but he already had killed the first harpy and was busy with a second. Meanwhile Adriana was doing her best to kill one on her own. They seemed to manage the situation well, but when Gideon made a comment about a helldog he had seen, Charlotte got the collywobbles (dt: ein flaues Gefuehl im Magen). She hadn't expected to be attacked by that many monsters at the same time. Naive as she was she pictured the three of them to kill one monster together, than the next and so on. Suddenly she felt trapped and looked around uneasily for further threats.

When she glimpsed the helldog, she had a subtle feeling of fear. It already was jumping from shadow to shadow, circeling them, just waiting for the right moment to stike. After turning around about four times, trying to follow the movements of the creature, she gave it up. There simply was no point in trying to keep up with something that could teleport itself from shadow to shadow. There probably wasn't a worse place than the woods to be confronted with a helldog. At least Charles couldn't think of one.
"Stop it!", she shouted. "This isn't fair!"
Of course, the mosnter didn't seem to be impressed.

 

[Chucky]

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Kimon

Happily Kimon walked beside Torí. "Yes, of course, there's everything all right!" he loudly whispered. "I never was allowed to join the fights or huntings. You know, as a satyr and everything..." Kimon grinned at Viktoría.

Abpruptly he came to a still stand. "Monster!" he said very quietly. With his sword he pointet in the direction where the smell came from. Firstly there was nothing which could be seen, but Kimon smelled it. No. There were more. Frightened he pointet to another direction with his free left hand. "There are more, and they have surrounded us!" he whispered with a shivering voice.

Out of the black nothingness there slowly walked three hell dogs with bared teeth and driveling flews (geifernde Lefzen). "One for each?" Kimon asked and instantly jumped to one of the dogs his sword in front of him.

 

[Patiwa]

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Keith was happy for Kimon. He really seemed to enjoy that event and be part of the other campers. While he listened to the words of the Satyr he looked around and observed the trees and bushes. Even though Keith couldn't see any Monsters he tried to keep focused and ready for an attack.
Suddenly Kimon freezed and pointed with his sword into the bushes in front of them. With his bow ready for another shoot Keith pointed in the same direction and waited a bit nervous when he was told, that there were more monsters than just one and that they were already surrounded by them.

"One for each sounds pretty good!", he answered as the three helldogs appeared. "This", he target the one in front of him, it was the one on the right side of the group, "is my one." While he said that, he shot.

 

[Shade]

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Charlotte

The helldog let out a scary howl, before it attacked. The two remaining harpies suddenly shot back into the treetop, well aware of the situation and the risk of battling three Demigods and a helldog at once. Adriana shouted angrily after the harpy as her weapon missed it's goal. If she had had one more second, she would have killed it.

The black beast shot towards Charlotte, ready to tear her apart with it's sharp claws and fangs. Charles raised her sword to start a counterattack, when the helldog disappeared in a shadow in front of her. While her blow cut through the air, the dog reappeared to her right and burried it's teeth in her right leg. The daughter of Nemesis suppressed a scream, anger flushing in her eyes. Her sword wheeled around with a sudden speed. The monster noticed it and let go of her leg, trying to save itself from the blow. When her attack struck, the beast fell to the ground, but did not turn into dust. It seemed to be suprised it was still alive.

"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
Charles voice was quite, but strong. She let herself fall to the ground and held her right leg, her face showing pain. The helldog did lie in front of her, while golden ichior trickled out of the wound on its leg, a piece of bone showing. It tried to get up, but failed the first time. After the second try, it did get up to its feet, trying to get out of the fight.
"Could anyone of you do me a favour and kill this thing?"

 

[Margit]

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Gideon

"Hey!" Gideon shouted, as the Harpy fled into the treetop "I'm not done with you! Come back" he growled and wiped the sweat off his face. One more blow and the Harpy would be in the happy hunting ground (dt. die ewigen jagdgründe) and Gideon had another orange ribbon. Angrily he looked into the treetops, as he heard Adrianas angry screaming. She also had no luck with her Harpy and two orange ribbons are lost. Gideon turned and glanced to Charles, but suddenly the Helldog appears and befor Gideon could react, the beast attacked Charlotte.

"Crap!" Gideon grumbeld fierce and raised his sword protectively as the Helldog disappeared. Gideon hate Helldogs and this was not the best place to fight with one. "Here are everywhere shadows!" he pointed "We should lure it to the clearing over there." but when he had finished speaking, the Helldog reappears and again it attacked Charles. "Charlotte!" Gideon rushed to her and wanted to help her, as she shook off the monster with a blow whith her sword. Behind him, Gideon heard how Adriana span her bow and shot the Helldog, which was once more howling and then felt to golden dust.

Gideon didn't look back, he let himself fall down next to Charlotte "How bad is it?" he asked and watched the injured leg. Then, before Charles could answer, Gideon heard a noise. He grabbed his sword and turned to the direction. But when he saw the source of the noise, he lost his tension. "Oh great... the sons of Ares..." he said sarcastically as he looked in the eyes of one of the big guys. A little girl disolved away (dt: herauslösen) from the shadow of the larger boys. She wasn't older than twelve, but Gideon knows the daughter of Apollo well, she lives for so many years in the camp. As she was found, she was two years old and was brought to Camp Half-Blood. So she realy was a good fighter, because she learned to fight earlier than she could run.

"Hey Mary, how are you?" he greeted the girl, then he looked to the two sons of Ares, who turned to Adriana. "Hey Beauty, why are you wasting your time with this nerds?" Gideon heard one of the two say, while the other one loughed. "Hey moron, why are you wasting your time with flirting, when you know very well that your ugly visage nobody wants to see?" Gideon shot back, and smiled his crooked Smile. Helldogs wasn't the only ones, Gideon couldn't suffer. One of Ares Sons grabbed his sword and pointed to Gideon, but the other one held him back. "Come on Mary, let us kill some more creatures with more intelligence." The son of Ares says. Gideon smiled and looked to Mary, who was sitting by Charlotte. "But she is injured! Let me heal her." Mary moaned but the Son of Ares drew she to the feet. "Don't dare to help them." he grumbeld, then tey disappeard in the green branches of the trees. But Mary looking back over her shoulder and smiled mysteriously to Charlotte.

(Ich hab mir gedacht, Charlotte könnte ja geheilt werden. Ausser das war jetzt zuviel rausgenommen und du willst das lieber nicht ^^ Dann hat Mary eben nur gelächelt )

 

[Shade]

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(Toller Post Margit Ich weiss gar nicht, warum du Bedenken hattest...)

Charlotte

When Adrianas arrow struck the helldog, Charlotte gave her a grateful smile. Not all the aphrodite girls were good with bows, but she definitively was. Imagining a child of beauty herself fighting at all was difficult, but gave Adriana a special moment of surprise when it came to that.

"I am fine. It is just a bite. It is not as if it tore my leg off."
She answered Gideon, but didn't want to get on her feet to give him the comfort of seeing her in pain. She didn't want to appear weak. Especially as she knew it was her own fault. She didn't think the beast was intelligent enough to trick her and - as always - pride went before a fall (dt.: Hochmut kam vor dem Fall). Being the daughter of Nemesis she just couldn't blame anyone else for a mistake that was obviously hers.

When they heard a noise in the woods nearby, she was afraid the harpies might be back - or worse - another helldog could appear. When it turned out to be two Ares kids, she rolled with her eyes, but tried not to comment any of their stupid bragging. When Mary showed up, she was really happy. Mary had always been a kind and helpful person. It didn't surprise her, she leaned down towards her and pressed her hand onto her leg for just a second. She was only twelve, but the long training at the camp had been a good practise. Of course, it hadn't been enough time to heal the wound properly, especially as she tried to make it look as if she wasn't helping her at all. Still, the pain in her leg eased. You could still see the marks of the bite and a small amount of blood was trickeling out of the wound, but when Charles tried to get up to her feet, she was at least able to stand and walk slowly. She formed a soundless "Thanks" with her lips and watched the other team leave in the woods.

"Did you see the ribbons at this Ares guys belt? They killed only four monsters yet. That's a benchmark we could beat." She was smiling at Gideon and Adriana, but knew, she was not in the condition to fight another monster on her own.
"Could you pick this ribbon up, Gideon?", said Charles, pointing at the orange ribbon the helldog left, and began walking deeper into the woods, towards the little steam (dt.: Bach), which was dividing the woods in two parts.

 

[Prue16]

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( You´re posts are awesome. Love your english. Hope I got everything right, so that nothing is missing)

Adriana

It was the stupiest thing she´s ever done. Adriana was new in camp and normally her beauty was no problem for her. She loves it to be admired. But now she starts to figure out that she hates it to be beauty in fights or in training. Especially the comments.

"I hope, Barbie can handle the bow, not that she brings out her comb and brush away the monsters with it..."

This stupid words were the reason why she missed the beginning of the attack. How could she dare to be that silly to be offended by words like this? And how could she dare to be distracted by this? Adriana was fighting as good as possible, but there was no way around to admit: She was good in fighting from a long distance but these monsters were very close. It took her a while to bring some distance between her and the monsters. She was unhurt, but she was a fortune favours fools. Once it was pretty close, but the monster was distracted by the helldog so she could flee. But her shoot missed the goal and the harpie could flee.

Now Adriana had the time to look around for the others. They did well. Better then her and her cheek got red. She was ashamed. She wanted to show everyone that she was more, then just a beauty... but it was not that easy. Charles was hurt and she ask someone to kill the helldog. Without any emotions Adriana spaned her bow and shoot the helldog straight into the heart. Just a second later yellow dust was left...

A moment later she saw some other heros she didn´t know. This was no suprise she was to new to know someone. But before she could give any reply Gideon answerd for her. This time her cheeks turned red because she was angry. She took some deep breaths and went over to the place were the helldog died. Charles was alright now and Adriana wasn´t sure if she was healed by the girl or not. When she asked Gideon to pick up the ribbon, Adriana did it. This one was hers end if her wanted it he could fight against her. Perheps she would just brush him away with her comb.... a nasty little smile was growing on her lips. After that she start following Charles...

 

[Shade]

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Somewhere in the Woods

The teams had spread through the woods. Some teams crossed their paths as they went to search for more monsters or tried to flee them. Some didn't. Valentina Rhodes, daugther of Hecate, was part of that team as well as Damian Dresden, Son of Aphrodite, and Flora Delane, a child of Demeter.

The three of them had been in a fight with a harpy, eager to win the competition as they already had three ribbons, when things started to go crazy: The harpy dissolved into dust without any weapon even touching it.
"Wow. That was weird!", Damian said, walking straight towards the ribbon the harpy had left. He had an arogant smile on his lips. "Maybe it was about to wet itself when it realized it won't stand a single chance against me and decided it would be less embarissing to drop dead."

Flora shook her head. "This is not how things work! Something must have killed it." Still, she wasn't quite sure what could have happened to the harpy. Focussed her eyes were scanning the area, preparing for worse to come. "You better don't get that ribbon, Damian. I have this strange feeling."
But Damian just shot around, pulling faces. "Are you afraid of a ribbon? Oh, of course! I might cut myself in the finger and might bleed to death. Would be safer to play around with some smelly flowers, wouldn't it, Flora?"

She didn't answer this question, but gave Valentina a begging look. Just in this moment a very cold breeze made the golden dust of the dead harpy stir in the air. Damian, who kneelt down to pick the ribbon, did not see any of what was going on around him, until he lay on the floor, coughing blood. The girls for that matter had no time to react, when the dust took the form of a babylonian serpent, which shot straight at Damians back, stabbing its poison fangs through his back, tips showing out of his breast and t-shirt.

Flora, who was in a state of utter shock, started to scream, which made the serpent letting go of the dead body and turn to find a new victim.


INSTRUCTIONS!
The woods are thick and the teams are too far away to notice the scream. But the team of Victoria and Keith, which happened to be the nearest, had a satyr with them. The intense and confusing smell as well as the fact that Kimon was able to hear or something with his sharpened senses, made his heart beat faster.

 

[Chucky]

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Kimon

As Kimon and his teammates fouhgt against the helldogs, Kimon suddenly heard a scream, not far away from them. It was a scream of fear. But Kimon had to concentrate on the helldog which just jumped onto him. Kimon lay on the moist leaves on the ground. The helldog stood over him, both of his giant paws beside Kimon's shoulders. Fortunately it appeard that Torí already killed "her" villain, so she noticed Kimon's situation. She cut off the helldogs head with her sword. Around her wrist there already was the second ribbon.

"Boah. Thanks Torí!" Kimon said as he struggled under the weigh of the vanishing helldog. When the monster was gone, Kimon stood up and straigtened his leg-fur. He and Viktoría watched Keith killing the third of the helldogs. The satyr picked up the ribbons and gave them to the semigods. Then he listened to his senses. There was a strong monster smell in the air, and the scream before had sounded like real panic. So he shortly described his perceptions to Viktoría and Keith. Though they knew it would be hard and very dangerous, the three of them started running into the direction where the shouts have come from.