Chapter 5
Perseus spent the next 30 minutes resting and getting back all the energy he wasted while fighting the nature spirits, after that he went outside the camp borders, he made sure that there was no one around and took his whole aura out in one way. Perseus had noticed 2 days ago when in the class about mythology in the camp told them to not look at the gods on their true form, so then he thought, ¨would the demigods be able to do it too? ¨ And so he started to train how to do it to. It wasn't as strong as a god he guessed, but he knew that doing this his strength increased tenth fold making him much stronger when he did this, however he could only keep it for 1 minute because it took to much of his divine power, however he needed to train with it all days but he couldn't do it inside of the camp or people might see him or sense him, the same way he could sense when Dionysus moved to others places.
When Perseus took out his whole aura he noticed how is strength this time was way greater than normally, he guessed it was because of him absorbing the souls of those nature spirits today, so he stayed flaring his aura all around the place, after 1 minute he was already sweating so he went back to the camp towards the spear fighting arena, however most of the Ares kids weren't there as they were getting ready for the capture the flag, so Perseus practiced with a couple of Athena kids, however he wasn't good enough to keep up with them so after 15 minutes they got tired and went away.
Perseus had been training thrusting his spear for about 1 hour, while normally people would just practice for 15 minutes, Perseus wanted to perfect his basic skills before doing anything more serious, however after that he practiced his spear throwing. He was still the worst around at the spear or sword, however all of them knew that he was the one that practiced more than most people.
Normally people asked him why he trained so hard, even Chiron did, and while most campers expected him to say for surviving or to protect people or to be a hero, Perseus answered. "I have no intention of being a hero, I just train because it entertains me." And he kept training.
After that all thought that he was just high ding his reasons from all of them, but Chiron knew better, he had been alive too long to know when a person was telling the truth, and Perseus was telling the whole truth on that very moment. Most veterans on Camp Half-Blood had seen many good people from when they were young, they knew what qualities a good hero would have, and Perseus had almost all of them: He was smart, hard working, strong, patience. All of them had high expectations on him even thought he had been on the camp for a couple of days.
After spear throwing he went to have some lunch, after he had lunch Perseus went back to the forest into his small clearing, it was all clean and it showed no evidence of the fight that had occurred that morning in which 20 nature spirits died, when he was on the clearing he noticed how non of his servants were near or didn't want to show themselves, however he didn't care about that at all. Entering his cave he went inside the complicate maze that they were, until he arrived to his personal place, he took out a couple of books he had stuffed and took out a couple books of anatomy and a couple of thin knifes that he always had when hi dissected something. He threw a seed to one side and made it grow until it was a big tree inside the cave, the seed was of a special plant that could survive on the night and wouldn't send any carbon dioxide. After Perseus got on a comfortable position in front of a not too deep pond with a book in position to be seen with the draw of a body and diagrams of what they did, a set of small and big knifes, and a pair of gloves.
Commanding the newly grown tree to take one of the many bodies of the dead nature spirits, it placed it on the small pond right in front of Perseus. Perseus took a small knife and slashed right thought the chest of the body in front of him, splashing a little of blood on Perseus face. But instead of affected he looked indifferent and with his tongue tasted the blood that had gotten on his lower lip.
"Well, its much better than Dracaenae blood, but not that human." And he continued cutting organs and placing souls on different parts on the body thanks to the light that the oil lamps provided.
It was capture the flag time. Perseus had been experimenting on the corpses of the nature spirits and after that had went to dinner fully ready to play the game which every cabin was so excited about, Perseus being on the Athena's cabin team, was told were hi position was, and what to do incase of enemies going against his position.
Perseus was with another 4 campers of Hermes cabin in a side of the forest. They told him that the action in this position would be of almost none, and for that he was happy. His group was composed of an alder pair of girls and a boy, the boy was an Hermes kid with about 14 years, and he was trying to flirt with the two daughter of two minor gods, Perseus had heard that the kid had been kind of a big shot in the Hermes cabin, for having fought against an Ares kid of 15 years and almost won, but it seemed that the girls weren't that interested in the boy, or at least Perseus thought that.
After 2 hours of game, it was already night and the only sun that could be given was by the moonlight. The only action they had was when a group of campers of the other team came, however they retired thanks to the reinforcements that the counselor of the Athena cabin told to come here just in case of a sneak attack. Perseus had read two chapters of the book before the light came out, so he told Max, the Hermes kid, to spar with him. Max won however Perseus had been able to make it difficult to him, much to Max embarrassment in front of the two girls that he was flirting with.
When the game finished, it seemed like Athena's team had won everyone on the Hermes cabin were cheering as loud as they could when they entered their cabin.
When the lights went out, Perseus opened his eyes and looking around to see if anyone was around smiled. The camp had gotten interesting, and he had found great test subjects for his experiments, so he closed his eyes to fall sleep and he unknowingly covered his body full of the shadows of the cabin.