The Lust for Power: Chapter 44

Josh's P.O.V

With Evan out, everything just got a lot easier. We all know Evan's abilities to predict the future, but he's out for now, and that's good.

I ran towards the creek with amazing speed, probably even faster than the hunters of Artemis would. I saw Jake and Nyssa running towards the creek. I slammed Jake with my shield, creating a domino effect, which he fell on Nyssa, and Nyssa fell on the Ares campers and so on and so forth.

But when they fell on Clarisse, Clarisse didn't fell. She sidestepped and charged towards me.

She swung her spear, and it lodged on the earth below. I slammed my shield on her face so she would become disoriented, then I continue to run towards the direction of the flag.

I saw the flag, the real flag, the one Percy is guarding. I ran towards it and 2 arrows came flying at me. Luckily, I seemed to be able to feel and see the arrow so I dodged both of them flawlessly.

I drew my bow and fired one arrow at Gary, and another at Melina, and they both went down. So much for beginner's luck...

I got to the flag, and I saw Percy guarding it. I needed a way to blind him for a moment so I can safely retrieve the flag. I took another arrow, channelled my powers through it, and shot a blinding arrow which explodes in a brilliant flash of light. It seemed to blind everyone in range excluding me.

While everyone is blinded, I got the flag, and I make a run for it. I looked backwards to see if there is anyone chasing me, and it turns out that they were running towards me, and I turned forward, and I heard Evan from the jail shouting: "Mikmak! Slam Josh! He's off guard!"

Evan was right. I concentrated so much to look behind me that I didn't concentrate on looking what's in front of me. I turned around to see Mikmak and I were only 10 centimeters apart. I tried to dodge, but she did slam me, but what Evan didn't see afterwards is that I'm going to toss the flag to Nico because Nico is running past me towards the creek. I tossed him the flag just about 0.2 seconds after collision, besides, the creek is only 3 meters away.

Nico caught the flag and he ran towards the creek. He got past the creek and a cheer went up from our cabin and they herded me above their heads.

I felt a surge of relief, after winning capture the flag, because it's one of the games that I had almost always won on.