Amber's POV

Finally. Dear gods, that boy talks too much. And honestly, why would I put my hair in a fashionable hairstyle if I'm just going to go out and fight? It's a waste of time.

Anyway, back to whatever is happening at camp. I wish I could say being forced to give a new camper a tour is a rare occasion, but it really isn't. I get assigned to that more often than anyone else at camp. The job itself really isn't that bad. These campers names were Charley Hadden and Loren Oke. They were both claimed pretty quickly with Charley being a child of Demeter and Loren being a child of Mr. D himself.

After the tour, we all went to the pavilion for dinner. I was glad that Thalia and Jason weren't there because I just wanted to be alone at that point. Human interaction is soooo exhausting. I made my offerings to the gods (side note, why do we still do that? It's a waste of perfectly good food.) and scarfed down the remainder of my dinner. Tonight was capture the flag night. The teams were: Ares, Hermes, Nemesis, Zeus, Apollo, Hades, Demeter and Nike against Athena, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Tyche, Dionysus, Iris, Hebe and Hecate. As usual, Hypnos cabin wasn't playing. I believe their excuse was something along the lines of 'zzzzzzzzz'. Typical. While I waited for Chiron to release us for the game, I re-braided my . I was going to have to re-dye it soon, the roots were very clearly back to brown by now. I was just finishing the braid when August James came over to my table. August and I have been friends since I gave him the tour around camp when we were nine. And you know that hopeless crush Jaxson was talking about earlier? Yeah, that's August. But Jaxson has no room to judge. Before he and Viktor started dating, he couldn't stand to be in the same room as Ladro. At least I'm more subtle.

"Hey, Amber, what's up?" August said

"Uranus," I replied, without looking up.

"Ha ha ha. You ready for capture the flag?"

" I'm ready. I don't think the other team is though," I answered.

"Oh yeah. They're gonna get a major beatdown," August stated while cracking his knuckles.

All of a sudden the conch horn sounded, signaling that capture the flag was going to begin.

"Well, better get going. See you on the battlefield!" August shouted over his shoulder as he walked away.

Just as I was getting up, Raven ran into me. Like, literally ran into me.

"Fuck! Sorry, Amber!" Raven yelled before looking around to make sure no one had heard.

"Careful," I warned, "You know how Chiron is about swearing."

At this point, Jaxson walked over to us.

"Come on, you bitches! Stop gossiping and get your fucking armor on!" he shouted at us. Di immortales! Do these idiots not know how to uphold a reputation?

Rolling my eyes, I walked over to the armory with Raven sprinting ahead. She's always so slow at putting armor on. By the time we got to our half of the woods, the Ares cabin was halfway through explaining jobs.

"... And Demeter cabins, you're on border patrol, don't let anyone near the flag," August commanded, "Ares, Hermes, Nike, and Nemesis cabins, we're on offense. And Victoria, don't just go charging in without a plan this time. Athena team is leading, and in their own words, 'Athena always has a plan'." Just as he finished speaking, the horn sounded, signaling the start of the game. I wasn't worried. Athena may always have a plan, but Annabeth wasn't there, and the rest of them never seemed to change strategies. Their motto kinda completely changed from 'always a plan' to 'stick with what works'.

"Awwww, I won't be able to be with Viktor," Jaxson complained.

"Stop complaining, you insolent turdwad," I retorted. That little idiot can be such a pain in the ass. Of course the little bitch takes the time to unravel his headphones and plug them in. After he puts those stupid things in its hard to get through that thick skull of his. I saw Anson from Apollo sneak up behind Jaxson. I quickly backed up a few steps before Anson swiped Jaxson's feet out from under him and pinned his arms and legs down with arrows.

Laughing, I said to Anson, "That was great, too bad I have to kill you now."

"Yeah Amber, get the little asshole!" Jaxson yelled. I threw my dagger at his head in response. He got the message and shut up. Anson had already set down his weapons and walked to the prisoners' circle.

"Can you let me out now? I need to put my earbuds back in, they got knocked out," Jaxson asked.

"Fine." I released him, but not before I threw his earbuds as far away as possible, and since I can control the winds, it's pretty freaking far.

"YOU LITTLE BITCH! I WILL PERSONALLY SEND YOU TO THE FIELDS OF PUNISHMENT AND MAKE YOU WATCH YOUR LITTLE CRUSH BE TORTURED IN COMPLETE SILENCE FOR YOUR SINS!!!" screamed the dramatic little brat.

"You really need some new insults." As I walked away, I used the winds to release him from the arrows. The rest of the game was fairly simple. Capture some idiots, laugh at other idiots, you know, the usual. Then came the explosion.

Now, because I'm bored of doing this, I'm going to give the microphone over to Raven. Good luck audience (Jaxson wants me to tell you that even Tyche doesn't have enough luck for that).

Amber Blake, Daughter of Zeus, Cabin 1, Camp Half-Blood