Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-24067344-20160208225634

President35JFK wrote: Erick.baez.773 wrote: ~Snip

umm you kinda made a mistake. I think you have a hurricane confused with a whirlpool, now that doesn't really matter but yeah.

Now with the the sword fighting I think you just ignore my entire point of it.

What your saying is that Percy in general has gotten weaker when it came to sword fighting while Jason has gotten leagues above better with his. Now I don't know about what Jason has done during those 8 months so you could be right. But here's the thing with Percy. When he said he was rusty he meant it against Master Swordsman, the type of people who usually do nothing but swordsmanship and bring it to a level like what Percy said to a God (Ares=master of all weapons). Now you could argue that Percy should be this since he beat Ares as a kid but remember that at the time Percy had to heavily use his water powers/boost during that fight. What I mean is Percy was never really focused on training his sword abilities to be better than what they naturally were. I'm pretty sure that why Uncle Rick wrote the scene with Percy and Chrysaor.

About The Hurricane, the quote clearly implies that the whirlpool became a hurricane. I mean, it covered an entire neighborhood! How can that be a whirlpool?

''Entire cul-de-sac was engulfed in a hurricane. Percy stood at the edge, unmoved, but the water was churning so fast now that even the giant crocodile lost his footing. Wrecked cars scraped along the pavement. Mailboxes were pulled out of lawns and swept away. The water increased in volume as well as speed, rising up and turning the entire neighborhood into a liquid centrifuge. It was my turn to be stunned. A few moments ago I had decided Percy was no magician. Yet I'd never seen a magician who could control so much water. ''

Also, Re-Read The Fight.

[''Ares] cleaved downward at my head, but I wasn't there.

My body thought for me. The water seemed to push me into the air and I catapoluted over him, slashing as I came down. But Ares was just as quick. He twisted, and the strike that should've caught him directly in the spine was deflected off the end of his sword hilt...His sword had a reach several feet longer than Riptide...He knocked my blade out of my hands and kicked me in the chest. I went airborne, twenty, maybe thirty feet. I would've broken my back if I hadn't crashed into the soft sand of a sand dune..I could see where Ares was tensing. I could tell which way he would strike. At the same time, I was aware of Annabeth and Grover, thirty feet to my left...I felt the rhythm of the sea, the waves growing larger as the tide rolled in, and suddenly I had an idea. Little waves, I thought. And the waves behind me seemed to recede. I was holding back the tide by force of will, but tension was building, like carbonation behind a cork... I released the tide and jumped, rocketing straight over Ares on a wave.

A six foot wall of water smashed him full in the face, leaving him cursing and sputtering with a mouth full of seaweed. I landed behind him with a splash and feinted toward his head, as I done before. He turned in time to raise his sword, but this time he was disoriented, he didn't anticipate the trick. I changed direction, lunged to the side, and stabbed Riptide straight down in the water, sending the point through the god's heel. '' It's at the very end of the fight that Percy uses his Powers. For quite a while the sea fought against him (Since he was waiting a perfect moment to strike Ares with his Wave that was slowly becoming bigger). Also, don't you think it's quite impressive that Percy held his own with only One week of training?