Percy's point of view

After Hermes paid him Apollo walked away toward the archery range. I was about to head for the sword arena when Hermes walked over to me. I wasn't sure what to expect from him I mean I named my son after Luke one of his sons, and I knew that to this day Luke was kind of a sore subject to him. I can understand why, it was clear to me just how much Hermes had loved Luke and his mom May Castellan. 

When Hermes reached me he said, "You named your son after Luke?" 

I nodded and then said, "Yes Luke may have made some bad choices in his life but he died a hero and I wanted him to be remembered." 

Hermes gave me a grateful look and then left. I headed toward the sword arena where I found many campers gathered waiting for their lessons.

I scanned the crowd of demigods, there were campers from nearly every cabin, I saw about half of the Hermes cabin the majority of the Apollo campers which was surprising since they usually stick with archery and don't usually use any other weapons.

I even saw a few Aphrodite campers. I got them all to fight in pairs, I would watch them, and point out any flaws in their technique, for the more experienced fighters I would show them new techniques. I watched as a rather experienced son of Aphrodite fought a daughter, of Jupiter, she had spent four years at camp Jupiter before finding camp half-blood, she was a good fighter and both members of the pair fought hard trying to defeat the other.

I knew that the son of Aphrodite prided himself on his skill with a sword to the point of being arrogant. In other words he was the type of person I didn't like. I looked away from the pair and saw my son Luke fighting a son of Nike who was a year older than he was. 

The son of Nike was athletic looking with dark brown hair and bright green eyes, if I remember correctly his name is Scooter Bryant.   Even though the son of Nike had more experience, Luke was holding his own against him.

Luke's point of view

After I went and hugged my Dad I went to the sword arena for my first sword lesson, although once I started fighting swordplay just seemed to come naturally to me, but then again my dad is the god of swordsmanship.

I tried to do my best against my opponents. I didn't want to look like a fool in front of my Dad, I kind of wanted to impress him or at least make him proud of me. But the fact that my dad was teaching the class added extra pressure on me to do well. When Dad and Apollo showed up while we were having lunch I noticed that there was something different about my dad, he looked a bit different  than he had the night before, eventually I figured out what it was. I realized that he was in a younger form; one of the other campers had told me that gods could look whatever age they wanted, so last night my dad had looked like he was in his early thirties but today he looked closer to his early twenties. This was a bit weird considering he looked younger than Christina, and she is his adoptive daughter.   My current opponent, a son of Nike, had more experience than me but I was holding my own against him, in the end though he managed to disarm me.

After we finished fighting he introduced himself as Scooter Bryant, obviously he already knew my name since I seemed to be the talk of the camp.  After this we took a break, I looked over at my dad I wasn't sure what he thought about how I've been doing, but when he noticed me looking at him he smiled at me.  After the break dad worked with us a bit more, but after that we went to Archery training with Apollo.

It was pretty clear after making a couple attempts at hitting a target that archery wasn't one of my strengths, Apollo told me that I would need a special bow and that he would talk to my dad about it.  After that lesson ended I headed back to my cabin only to have Christina lead me to the beach. I don't know what she wanted to do, but I followed her anyway.

When we got to the beach we stood on the shore, I noticed that Christina seemed to be concentrating on something, and her hand was pointed toward the water. Suddenly a large wave rose up and then crashed against the shore. More water came from the ocean and doused me, but I realized I wasn't wet

"How am I not wet?" I asked myself aloud.

 "Because you're my son." A familiar voice answered.  

When our dad reached us he said, "Your sister was just showing you a little of what you are capable of." 

"Wait I can control water!" I said.

 "and you have some control over time" my dad said with a smirk.

 I said, "What!"

 when neither of them said that they were kidding I realized they had told me the truth, that I must have the powers that they were talking about. "How do I use these powers?" I asked them.

 The rest of that afternoon was spent with Christina learning my powers. My dad stayed for part of it but not that much. During this time I realized that I must have used my time powers when I killed the first laistrygonian giant.

I realized that my burst of emotions, when I wanted to save that guy made me use my time powers on the ball, causing time around it to reverse and causing it to hit the giant instead of the guy. By the time we were done for the day I was rather tired but I was also pleased I couldn't believe what I could do, and I was learning my powers rather quickly which means I would be able to use them in the upcoming battle.

While he was there my dad had given me two gifts, one was the bow and arrows that Apollo had talked about, the other was a shield that was apparently from my uncle Tyson, my dad's cyclops half-brother. Apparently, Tyson had made it as a gift as soon as he heard about me. I thanked him and asked him to thank Tyson for me since I didn't figure I would be meeting him any time soon.