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The unclimbable tree

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The unclimbable tree

Art trade with AKgirlie98 – A Percy Jackson one shot

Julie’s POV
“I’ll show them how it’s done.”I muttered to myself through gritted teeth as I pulled myself up onto a higher branch of the so called ‘unclimbable tree’. Why it was unclimbable? Very simple. It was a giant amongst his fellow tree friends that surrounded Camp Half-Blood plus he had over a million of branches from which only a handful were good enough to support your weight.
If you picked one of the not-so-good branches to stand on, it would snap and you would tumble all the way back down. I’m speaking out of experience here. This was the thirteenth time already that I tried to climb this tree today. But I wasn’t going to give up. Oh, no… Julie Morgan would be the first one to climb this unclimbable tree and the whole camp would now it! After all, wasn’t there some saying that said ‘thirteen is the charm’?
By now I had developed a tactic of some sorts… I would test the next branch by throwing a rope around it and pulling hard to see if it would break or not. Broke it? Then I would pick another branch as lasso target. Broke it not, then I found my next monkey platform.
This technic took time and was tiring but proved to be worth it since I finally succeeded into reaching the highest branch of the tree.
“I did it!”I cheered for myself as I raised my arms in the sky. “I climbed the unclimbable tree!”. “Good for you.”a voice spoke what caused me to almost lose my balance but I quickly recovered it. My green eyes snapped towards the end of the branch. Closest to the trunk of the tree was another girl seated. She wore dark blue jeans shorts, a dark purple halter top and dark purple All Stars. Her long dark brown hair hung in a sidewise ponytail over her left shoulder and her blue eyes were focused on me.
“You want a medal or something for that?”she wanted to know, pointing back at my achievement of climbing the tree. “But…”I started staring at her. “I thought I would be the first one to get up here.”.
“Clearly not.”the girl replied with an apologizing smile. “Sorry.”. “How long are you already up here?”I wanted to know. “Euhm… About an hour?”my companion estimated. My jaw dropped.
“But… I’ve been trying to climb this tree for the last hour and a half! How can it be I didn’t see you fall down when one of the branches broke?!”. “That’s because I didn’t fall.”she pointed out. “You did?”. I nodded. “How many times?”she asked next. “Twelve.”I answered. “And you didn’t? Not once? Not even slipped?”. The girl shook her head on which I looked at her suspicious.
“What is your secret?”I demanded to know. The girl shrugged her shoulders. “I just happen to know where to go.”she told me. I looked at her confused. “I’m a daughter of Demeter.”she explained. “I saw through the tree’s defence mechanism of weak branches.”.
“Demeter?”I repeated. “Since when climb the greenies trees?”. “Since they also skateboard.”she remarked with a smile. “I’m the rare kind of Demeter offspring.”she added. “Yeah.”I agreed. “The cool kind.”. My comment caused her to giggle amused.
“So… What are you doing here in this tree?”I wanted to know. “Just waiting until the show begins.”she answered with a grin. “What show?”I questioned.
The girl patted the space next to her on the branch as a silent invite for me to take a seat. I did as she requested and my eyes grew wide at the view. From up here you could basically see the whole heart of Camp Half-Blood. “I would keep my eyes on the Ares cabin if I was you.”the mysterious girl suggested, her grin growing even wider.
It took a few seconds before loud coughs and ‘ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew’s sounded from said cabin. There was also some strange green coloured gas surrounding the building. “Bomberpuffs.”the girl next to me told me proudly as her eyes gleamed with mischief. “A cross-bread between eggplants and stink bombs. Bred them myself.”.
“Is this a declaration of war or payback?”I wanted to know. “Payback.”she replied. “Clarisse and her troop insulted my family. And if there’s one thing you need to know about me, it is that I never get angry. I just get even.”. I nodded impressed. Normally I’m not really the social type and trusting people is one of the hardest things for me to do but… Somehow I couldn’t help but like this girl.
“Too bad the Ares cabin is a bunker and almost lacks windows…”the prankster mused. “My Bomberpuffs have even more effect when exposed to direct sunlight.”. “Sunlight, you say…”I muttered and took my bow from my back which I nocked with an arrow. Now it was the girl’s time to look confused at me.
“Oh… I forgot to mention…”I started. “I’m daughter of Apollo.”. She grinned. “What did the Ares cabin do to you?”she wanted to know. “They found out my mother was a daughter of Ares and now most of them think I’m their slave.”I explained as I powered up my arrow with the power of the sun that ran through me.
I inhaled deeply as I aimed at the Ares cabin in the distance. There weren’t many windows indeed, and the ones they had were blocked by planks who were firmly nailed into the wall. There was however a very small space between two of those planks that was a perfect match for my arrow. As I exhaled, I released the arrow which sped through the air.
Three seconds later a beam of light lit up the sombre bunker followed by more screams and coughs from the present campers inside. The green aura around the cabin grew making the girl next to me burst into laughter as some Ares kids stumbled through their front door in order to escape the smell.
Others were even more desperate and catapulted themselves through the windows and through the planks that blocked them.
“We form a pretty good team Sunshine.”the girl remarked, still chuckling at the sight of the Ares campers stumbling around. “It’s actually Julie.”I told her. “Althea.”she replied. Yep… I really liked this girl.
My part of an art trade with :iconakgirlie98: where her Percy Jackson OC Julie meets my OC Althea. Hope you guys like it ;)

Don't own Percy Jackson, do own this story and all OCs in it. Julie of course belongs to :iconakgirlie98:
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Ragemoon's avatar
Good story. I was amused. :)