Nolan Swift Challenges (The Olympian Games)

==&nbsp The Olympian Games==

Prologue: Nolan Swift's POV
That morning started like any other. I woke up and checked the trunk at the foot of my bed to make sure all my belongings were still there. Being a son of Hermes, you never know when one of your siblings would try to steal your stuff. The Stoll brothers were the worst, but they stopped stealing from me after I managed to steal their beds right out from under them one night. I put on my Camp Half-Blood t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and my sneakers before heading outside into the brisk Long Island air. As I looked around, I saw a few other campers out already doing various activities. The Apollo campers were staring at the sunrise while the Demeter and Persephone campers were watering their plants.

Camp seemed almost normal, but everyone was a little on edge. The gods had started something they call “The Olympian Games,” a series of challenges for young demigods to face. No one knew exactly which demigods they had chosen to take part in their event, but every so often a demigod would disappear right in front of us with a hologram above their heads representing the god that had chosen them.

I took a quick jump off the front steps of the Hermes cabin and began my run through the woods. I had become fast friends with several of the nymphs in the forest simply because I ran through their forest every morning and they would have fun racing me. Eventually, I found my way to the shores of Long Island Sound where the sun had completely risen over the horizon. Its warm light filled the air and I heard a call from behind me.

“Hey Slowpoke!” said my friend Megan Snow, a child of Athena. We had become good friends over time; she was the one that got me to camp safely and a year later I managed to save her life. She had a habit of calling me “Slowpoke” which is weird because I had always prided myself on my speed. Her silver hair seemed to blow in the sunlight and I watched as she walked toward me. I raised my hand to wave, but the waters along the beach began to become rougher and the waves began to intensify. All of a sudden, a trident rose from the waters followed by a large man in a Hawaiian shirt.

“Poseidon,” Megan gasped in surprise as she froze in her tracks next to me.

“Yes, that is true. I Poseidon, Lord of the Sea have chosen both of you for The Olympian Games,” he said as he raised his trident into the air and we were both engulfed in waves. Next thing I knew, I was in what looked to be a hotel room decorated in an undersea theme. There was a jellyfish lamp on an end table and the walls were painted like the ocean, but there was a storm and a small sailing ship seemed lost at sea in the background. There was a small fountain in the spot you would expect a TV to go, but I was one drachma short of being able to Iris message somewhere with a TV.

All of a sudden, a rainbow formed from the fountain and Poseidon once again appeared in front of me.

“This will be your living quarters during the games,” Poseidon said. “I hope it is to your liking?”

“I live in the Hermes cabin, I’m lucky if I wake up without a sleeping bag full of shaving cream,” I joked as I looked at his image. He seemed to like the joke and laughed a little. “By the way, I’m Nolan Swift. I don’t think we have ever met before,” I said, trying to be polite. Even if the god already knew who I was, it only felt natural to introduce myself to someone I had never met before.

“I am Poseidon, it is a pleasure to meet you,” he said, extending his hand as if forgetting that he was talking into an Iris message. However, the water in the fountain turned into a hand and I grabbed it.

“Strong grip,” he said. “You will make it far in these games. Speaking of which, I’ve come to tell you of your first challenge. You will be facing two empousi in a place of my choosing.”

“Where is that?” I asked, but he just smiled and a second later I was pulled by the watery hand into the fountain. I seemed to be underwater until I was blasted out of a raging sea onto an old ship called the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Nolan Swift's First Challenge: Swift vs Two Empousa on a Boat
Coming soon, maybe later...

Darkcloud1111 ~Fastest Hero Alive  18:31, September 1, 2011 (UTC)