Before they suddenly heard yelling, elated screams, both girls seeing Luke racing toward the boundary line with the red team's banner lifted high. Being flanked by a couple of his half-siblings covering his retreat, and a few Apollos behind them, fighting off the Hephaestus kids.
"A trick! It was a trick!" Clarisse shouted, angered at seeing she'd been tricked into going after Andromeda.
They tried going after Luke to stop him, only it was too late as Luke ran across the creek into friendly territory, with blue team cheering loudly at seeing they'd won the game. The red banner shimmered and turned to silver. The boar and spear were replaced with a huge caduceus, the symbol of Cabin Eleven. The blue team lifted Luke up into the air, while Chiron emerged from the woods.
"Looks like you won." Jakob noted, Andromeda nodding in agreement.
"Not bad, hero." Said Annabeth, making the ravenette look around quickly, but didn't see the Daughter of Athena anywhere. Jakob looked around as well with a frown on his face.
She then reappeared with her cap in her hand and said, "Where the heck did you learn to fight like that?"
It just registered to Jakob that she was invisible, with what seemed like her cap being the cause. Andromeda said, "You set me up. You put me here because you knew Clarisse would come after me, while you sent Luke around the flank. You had it all figured out."
Annabeth shrugged. "I told you. Athena always, always has a plan."
"I was coming to help when I saw Jakob get involved." Annabeth said, gesturing to the son of Thor. "Though I was surprised that he did." She then looked at Andromeda's arm. "How did you do that?"
"A spear in my arm. What do you think?" Said Andromeda, assuming she's looking at her injured arm.
"It was a spear wound, now look at it." Annabeth said, motioning to her arm, making Andromeda look only for her eyes to widen.
Seeing the blood was gone, where the huge cut had been, there was a long white scratch, and even that was fading. The ravenette watching in disbelief as even that began fading, until there wasn't any sign of an injury, aside from her cut sleeve.
"I-I don't get it." Andromeda muttered, not believing her wound healed in seconds.
"Step out of the water, Andie." Said Annabeth, looking like she was thinking hard.
Looking at her in confusion, Andromeda did so and immediately felt her energy leave her, feeling her arms go numb again, and would have fallen over if Jakob hadn't caught her. However, Andromeda's hands were placed against Jakob's ches and she blushed as she felt the muscle beneath his shirt... and how warm his body was.
"Oh, Styx. This is not good. I didn't want…I assumed it would be Zeus…" Said Annabeth, now looking scared.
"What do you-" Andromeda started to ask, but froze when she heard the growl again, only it was much closer, followed by a loud howl echoing through the forest.
The sudden sound causing the campers' cheers to instantly stop, with Chiron shouting something in Ancient Greek. While Annabeth drew her sword and Jakob drew the Leviathan Axe.
While on the rocks above them was a massive black hound, the size of a rhino, with red eyes that burned like lava and fangs as sharp as daggers. With Andromeda being terrified to see it looking right at her.
"Andromeda, run!" Annabeth shouted, moving to step in front of her, only for the hound to move faster, leaping right over her at the ravenette with its claws out.
The Hellhound tackling Andromeda to the ground and tearing through her armor.
Jakob brought his Axe down into the Hellhound's head and it soon fell over after Jakob ripped his weapon from it's skull, kicking the body over at the same time before helping Andromeda to her feet.
"Di Immortales! That's a Hellhound from the Fields of Punishment. They don't…they're not supposed to…" Annabeth said, not believing a Hellhound was here.
"Someone summoned it, someone inside the camp." Said Chiron gravely, looking around for anyone who could have potentially summoned the Hellhound.
"It's all Andromeda's fault! Andromeda summoned it!" Clarisse accused, pointing at the ravenette.
"Be quiet, child," Chiron told her, obviously not believing her.
"You're wounded," Annabeth told Andromeda. "Quick, Andie, get in the water."
"I'm okay." Andromeda persisted.
"No, you're not," she said. "Chiron, watch this."
Andromeda was too tired to argue so she stepped back into the creek, the whole camp gathering around her. Jakob hooked the Leviathan Axe to his belt loop, narrowing his eyes as his theory became 100% confirmed.
Immediately, the wounds on Andromeda closed up as soon as she was in the water, as if they had never been there in the first place. The campers gasped.
"Look, I—I don't know why," Andromeda said, trying to apologize. "I'm sorry..."
But they weren't watching herwounds heal. They were staring at something above her head.
"Andie," Annabeth said, pointing. "Um ..."
By the time Andromeda looked up, the sign was already fading, but she could still make out the hologram of green light, spinning and gleaming. A three-tipped spear: a trident.
"Your father," Annabeth murmured. "This is really not good."
"It is determined," Chiron announced.
All around her, campers started kneeling, even the Ares cabin, though they didn't look happy about it.
"My father?" Andromeda asked, completely bewildered.
"Poseidon," said Chiron. "Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Andromeda Jackson, Daughter of the Sea God."
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The next day, Andromeda had been moved from Cabin Eleven into Cabin Three by Chiron, with the ravenette taking one of the empty bunks along with hanging the Minotaur's Horn on the wall. Aside from that, the only other things Andromeda had were her toiletries bag that Luke got her and a spare set of clothes.
'This isn't so bad. I get an entire cabin to myself, plenty of space for all my stuff, my own table for dinner, pick what activities I do, and go to sleep whenever I want. I don't have to listen to anyone, but me.' Andromeda thought while sitting on her new bed with a smile.
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