Capturing the flag

Zeus vs. Hades, an on going battle that's been going on for ages. For capture the flag. Yes today was Richter's favorite camp training exercise. Hades cabin was still holding a grudge about losing to Zeus' cabin the last time so they demanded a rematch. So after constant complaints the director allowed the rematch. Richter put his armor on. The bronze armor shined bright in the Morning light. He held his spear, The Skypiercer in his left hand and used it like a walking stick. He headed to the edge of Zeus's team and caught up with his friend that on the opposite team. "Hey let the best cabin win." said Richter

Rin smirked, as she unsheathed her stygain katana, Lost Soul, and raised it in the air, the blade rather gloomy in the light. "Who wants to go kick some Zeus butt?!" She was awarded with shouts at her battle cry, her turquoise eyes alight with ambition. Nobody beats the Hades cabin and gets away with it - with paying people back for losing, the Hades cabin were almost as bad as the Ares. Of course, holding a grudge for something like losing was kind of stupid - but with Rin, she's insanely competitive if she doesn't get her way. She turned as she saw Ritcher approaching, lowering her sword as her smirk remained on her face. "Bring it." She spoke as she placed on her helmet, her raven black hair falling past her shoulders to her back.

Richter put his helmet on. He rasied his spear in the air and his cabin broke out in a battle cry. They were chanting "Zeus! Zeus! Zeus!" over and over again. "Lets send these necromanics back to the underworld!" shouted Richter and got more cheers. It was all in fun. The director explained the rules and the to sides went to there edges of the forest. Then the game began. Richter and 4 Others stayed behind to gaurd the flag. He knew who was going to try and get the flag. He was the one the took Hades' flag under Rin's nose last game. And he knew she wasn't going to let that go with out payback.

Rin pointed at a few of the skilled summoners, silently thinking of a strategy to take down the Zeus cabin. She may not be the daughter of Athena, but she was damn good at thinking of strategies. "Let's show these guys what being a necromancer is all about! You four, guard the flag - in 10 minutes, you four will switch with the other four so they can get a taste of kicking some Zeus butt as well!" She shouted, raising her sword in the air again, being rewarded by cheers. Usually the Hades cabin isn't that enthusiastic, but when they get to vent their grudge of losing on the opposite side, they are as enthusiastic as hell. "Let's go!" She smirked, thinking silently... well, Ritcher would assume she would go for the flag since he took it from under her nose last time. "You, you're coming with me." She spoke to one of the newbies, his albino-pale face lighting up. She knew how that felt - when she first came here, she wasn't regarded by the cabin leader, and loved it whenever she was.
She ran towards the forest, crossing to the hostile side as she tapped into shadow travel - not enough to make her exhausted, but enough to make her run at a blur. Luckily, the guy she picked knew how to do this, and followed her example. Rin shadow-travelled quick enough to half-obscure her presence, trying to sneak towards the flag without alerting any of its guards...

So far nothing had happen. He had a feeling he knew what was going to happen but he didn't tell his cabin mates. Then he heard it. A slight noise of a twig breaking. He spun his spear and pointed it to were the some came from. Sparks flew off the whole length of the metal spear. "Come on out Rin, I know your there." said Richter. "Hades' children are to quick to act, you guys are worse then ares."

Rin's plan worked - the newbie got caught first, giving Rin a chance to get the flag. "Only when we hold grudges." The newbie spoke, a zombie raising from a fissure in the ground as he ran towards Ritcher. Rin was surprised - when she first came to Camp Half Blood, even she couldn't do that.
As the people guarding the flag had their attention fixed on the newbie, Rin appeared out of a shadow near the flag. The Zeus team was good - last time they left their flag in the shadow, and the Hades cabin almost got it from shadow traveling. This time though, they didn't make that mistake again.
Rin bolted towards the flag, a smirk playing across her face. Finally!

Richter stabbed the zombie sending lightning through it. The zombie dropped. The four other when for the hades kid. he turned his attention to finding his friend. He knew that she wold be here to take the flag. She wouldn't miss it for anything. He turned around in time. He saw her running towards the flag. He spun his spear and the tip pointed at Rin and shot a lightning bolt in front of her to stop her. He ran in between her and the flag. "Come on now old friend, when have you learned charging is never a good answer now you you have to go through me." Fights between the two friends were always huge and cause alot of damage. So people love watching the two fight it out. They have had a rivalry ever since they showed up.

Rin snickered, dipping her sword into the flags' shadow as the shadow appeared to dim for a sheer second, shortly followed by Rin thrusting her sword towards the lightning bolt. The now-solidified shadow countered the lightning bolt, but rendering both attacks useless. She bent into a fighting position, her smirk remaining unfased. "Maybe I was looking forward to fighting you?" She taunted cheerfully, not really serious. "Nobody messes with the Hades cabin in their game." She stabbed her stygain sword, Lost Soul, into the earth, willing it to split open and dart towards Ritcher. Almost instantly, a fissure split open in the ground, green flames licking hungrily out of it as it darted towards him at a quick speed.

Richter jump back avoiding the Fissure. He shot lighting over the flames. "So do I, and the rest of the camp cause they get to see one of the most destructive things at camp in process." said Richter. "And Last time i check, The this was our game was Ares' slogan, your not Hermes so stop stealing stuff." He shot another lightning bolt at his friend.

Rin thought about it for a second, almost immediately coming up with a retort. Another Hades thing - words and charisma came easily to her like a second nature. "True, but this time it's ours - we don't appreciate losing without getting a little payback!" Sometimes, I seriously wonder if Nemesis is my parent... Rin thought, zombies darting out of the fissure at him as she rolled out of the way of the lightning bolt into a shadow, appearing to disappear almost instantly. Though that wasn't really true; she was only moving through the shadows fast enough to appear behind Ritcher. She rose her hand, a piece of rock rising from the ground to hit him at the base of his neck - it wouldn't knock him out, but it should daze him.

Richter got rid of her zombies. It took a while but he did. He scanned the area For his friend then WHAM! Something hit him in the back of the neck. By the time he recovered the flag was gone and Rin was running towards the shadows. He knew if she reached the shadows she would appear in her territory and once that flag crossed the border it would be game over. Richter threw his Spear in hopes to snagging the flag. Hades' must of been watching over... under her that day. The spear slipped through right before the spear hit a tree. If he was just 1 second faster it would of snagged. But then Rin disappeared into the shadows. His spear appeared back in his pocket in the form of a ring. He put the ring back on then headed towards the border. He had congratulation the winners. Only bad part about being a counsolar.

Rin smiled broadly as she lept out of the shadow of a tree onto her side, the flag momentarily glitching before changing into the Hades insignia.
She stuck the flag into the ground, taking off her helmet as her raven black hair fell down to the small of her back. Well... winning has never felt better before - she didn't enjoy people messing with her siblings, even in capture the flag. Upon her arrival, her cabin mates cheered in enthusiasm as other cabin mates walked out of the surrounding shadows. Ah, the ups and downs about being the children of Hades... she thought silently.

Richter clapped for her friend as a sign of good sportsmanship. Thats the only bad part about being friends with someone of another cabin. It's never fun when hey kicked your ass. "Congrats Rin, But a stone to the back of the neck." said Richter taking off his helmet. "Well it's not against the rules but thats a bit cheap, even for hades."

Rin couldn't help but chuckle, adjusting her helmet as she leaned her weight on her left foot. "Hey, it worked." She replied, knowing he was right... but she didn't mind - Hades children didn't always play fairly when they had their minds set on something.

"Well I wont stop your cabin from throwing your celebration party." said Richter. "Just keep the undead out of the other cabins, unlike you we dont enjoy sleeping with the dead." It was an old joke from when they both showed up here. A hades' cabin celebration party was the they create alot of undead and most of the time the undead end up in Zeus' or poseidon's cabins. Unless they are being really mean and the undead end up in Aphrodite's cabin. Then all hell breaks lose. And hades cabin has nothing to do with it after the let the undead in aphrodite's cabin.

(OOC: topic over?)

Rin smirked lightly, her turquoise eyes lightening before returning back to their original colour with mischief. "I won't make any promises." She brushed a strand of raven black hair behind her ear, remembering their last party... well, the Hades cabin enjoy playing pranks on the other cabins, and have a little inside joke of getting some kicks out of other peoples' reactions by making them seem like they were obsessed with the dead. Which, of course, wasn't necessarily true - but they enjoyed other peoples reactions. Especially the Aphrodite cabins - whoever knew how high-pitched an Aphrodite guy could scream?
(OOC: *Nod* x3)