A fresh start (or Carlos gets a date, kind of)
The next day Carlos went for a walk so that he could do some training before capture the flag later on. When he left the cabin Rachel was waiting outside, "hey Carlos, can I ask you something". "Sure, lets go for a walk and chat" he replied.
They headed off towards the forest, "so, um, I was wondering, would you like to maybe go out sometime" she asked nervously.
"Um ........ sure ........" he replied to her. "It's ok if you don't want to" Rachel said. "It's not that I don't want to, I'd love to, it's just that I haven't really gone out with anyone" replied Carlos.
"Oh, me too" she replied while blushing.
"How about we go out after capture the flag, if that's ok with you"
Rachel looked into his bright blue sparkly eyes, "sure, that's fine with me, go and do your training now, ill see you afterwards".
When Carlos got to the training area he saw Annabeth there sparring with a few of the Ares kids, he went over towards them and asked "hey Annabeth, you up for doing some sparring practice".
"Sure, come and have a go if you think your hard enough" she said jokingly.
He flipped his magical coin up in the air and out sprang his sword known as the sword of doom, "prepare to be beaten".
They sparred for at least two hours and by the end it turned out to be a draw, "well, I see I have met my match, your pretty strong Carlos, I look forward to having you and your brother on my team for capture the flag.
"Gather round campers" shouted Chiron, "its time for capture the flag". Everyone got excited.
After Chiron's speech they all headed off into the forest to get ready.
As soon as they were ready a horn sounded off in the distance to signal that it had started.
It was exciting and hard at the same time, "follow me" yelled his brother, so the ran off in search of the flag.
On the way they encountered kids of Ares, "watch out" yelled Percy as one of the kids swung his sword. Carlos ducked just in time. He hit the Ares kid with the hilt of his sword and knocked him out. "You go on ahead Carlos, and find that flag".
When he got to the stream in the middle of the forest he saw the flag on the other side. "This seems too easy" he said to himself.
"That's the way it is supposed to be" said Clarisse as she came out from behind a tree.
She ran over to him and swung her lance at him, "prepare to be beaten you freak" she shouted to him.
They clashed in battle. Suddenly everyone was gathered around them. "Come on Carlos, you can do this" shouted Annabeth and Percy at the same time.
After what seemed like a really long time of fighting, Carlos had finally beaten Clarisse, "so you thought that you could beat me, well you were wrong".
He went over and picked up the flag and everyone on his team cheered really loudly shouting out his name.
After all the hype he met Rachel waaiting outside his cabin, "you go on ahead bro, I knida got a date with a beautiful red head". "Good on you Carlos" replied his brother.
"Hey Rachel, were you waiting long" he asked her.
"Nope, just about five minutes, well done on beating Clarisse, she deserved it" said Rachel smiling at him.