| Part Five of the Raid |
| In the office: "okay guys. I'm going to assign you each a basic area where I want you all to scout out. You know not to be seen and don't try to fight if you can run. We don't need you wounded right now." Cheryl said. She laid out a scroll that had a basic diagram of the outside walls of the academy. Meg,, I want you to take the North wall, Nickolas the south, Vanira east, and Herc west." Cheryl said pointing to each wall as she spoke. They shouldn't be too far out in the woods so don't venture far." Cheryl said. "Any questions?" "What if we get caught?" Vanira asked. "We will get you back. I'll have Morgan patrolling the air as you four are scouting." Cheryl said. Nira nodded. "Get a sword and meet me in the courtyard." Cheryl said and the four were dismissed. Vanira went into her room and opened her chest. There gleamed the sword her father had given her before he died. She grabbed it and then ran to the courtyard. "You all know what to do." Cheryl said as the four arrived. "Be careful." Cheryl said and the four snuck out a secret door that led to each side of the academy. In the woods: Vanira crept along, about 15 feel from the academy wall. She could see smoke coming from a campfire not far from her. Just she started coming closer to it, a flash of light appeared behind her. "And where do you think you're going?" Ares bellowed startling Vanira. She whirled around drawing out her sword from her side. "Leave me alone Ares." Vanira said pointing the sword at him. "You can't kill me Nira. You know that. So why attempt a pathetic jester like this." Ares said moving the blade of the sword away from him. Vanira just glared at him. "Why do this Ares?" Vanira asked. "One must keep amused." Ares said nonchalantly. "Amused? You're doing this for amusement!" Vanira yelled angrily. "Well, but there are benefits." Ares said grinning devilishly as Nira. "I do not want to know what you mean by that." Vanira glared. "This battle is just one more step in me taking over everything." Ares said walking around Vanira in a circle. "Why? Why are you not just satisfied with being the god of war." Nira asked. "You always want more then you have, isn't that right? Isn't that what your father told you before he died?" Ares said with a smirk. Nira then had a flashback of that conversation with her father. She had wanted to see her mother but he father said that she should just be happy with remembering her as a child. "How did you know?" Nira asked. "Oh. I know so much about you. But you will not find that out now. I hope you enjoy the battle." Ares said and disappeared. Vanira stood there for a moment, as in taking in the conversation she just had. But she had a job to do and she continued creeping along heading toward the camp, sure that Ares wouldn�t notify them. Meanwhile, many things were going on at the academy and with the other scouts. Megara walked quietly as a shadow, scouting the North wall. There's so much things entered her head. It's only been 2 days she's been in Greece, and now, she's scouting the academy like she knew every inch of it. She hardly even knew anybody in the academy, except for Cheryl, Hercules, Jason, Iolaus and Nickolas. This is the first battle she'd be in Greece. She sighed heavily. Rule number 5... Stick your mind to where it belongs... She thought softly. Slowly, she looked at her surroundings and peeked. "Wow... Those people are HUGE!" She almost chuckled to herself. "Nothing I couldn't handle..." Suddenly, she stopped short, remembering Cheryl's words, not wanting them to attack on their own. She crept nearer and starts counting the warlords. Suddenly, she stepped upon a twig and stood frozen. PRAKK... She gasped. Meanwhile... All the other cadets are moving around each wall, scouting the troops. Nickolas sat quietly as he counts the warlords that he could see... "I bet there's more of them in the tent!" Apart of him still wondered about this Greek people. Most of the people he knew, or just knew, has something to do with this Ares... Greek's god of war. After a few days of being here, Hercules and the others had already told him about how they're related with Ares, Apollo, Zeus, and whatever... He stopped short when he realized his panther, panthro is walking straight towards him. "Panthro!" He yelled softly. "Get out of here... You're going to get me killed!" "Well...Well... Well... What do we have here...?" A tall warlord stood over him with a huge grinned on his face. "Don't you think you've wondered too far from yur nest, heh boy?" Nickolas grinned as he swiped his blond hair to the back. "Take this!" He said suddenly, a huge punch landed on the warlord's face. He growled angrily and started to fight back, but Nickolas was ready for him to do that, so he managed to slip off easily. It made the warlord more angry that he kicked him hard and threw him far to the wall. "You'll pay for this kid..." he advanced slowly towards him as he stood up and getting ready to attack. From afar, Nickolas could hear shouting of the other warlords, coming straight towards him. Suddenly, Panthro jumped on the warlord, scratching his cheek and stunned him to let Nickolas get away. Together, they went straight towards Cheryl, panting. Vanira approached the camp and hide well in the bushes. The camp didn't seem to be very big on this side. There was one warlord, who appeared to be sleeping against a tree. He didn't appear to be much trouble seeing that he was older. Vanira gazed around the rest of the camp and counted at most 10 men. Some appeared to be drunk, which could work to the cadets benefit. "They're all just big oafs!" Vanira said quietly to herself. She slowly crept out of the bushes and noticed another small campfire about 50 feet away so she crept over there. There didn't seem to be any warlord with them and there was only 5 men. "This would be the easiest to take out." Nira thought to herself. There didn't seem to be any others so she crept along to the south wall to see how Megara was doing. She heard Meg step on a stick and while Meg froze, Nira crept up behind her. She grabbed Meg by the waist and covered her mouth. |