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Personal Narrative

Six kills each fight before dying. Statistics in Camp Half Blood show that if you have more kills than deaths, you are a good fighter. The hardest thing to deal with is being surrounded. It is hard because you can’t escape and you will get backstabbed. My proudest moment as a swordfighter was when it was Apollo versus all, so a five cabin versus one cabin battle. Back then there were six cabins but now there are 8 cabins.

“Charge,” Kai yells.

“Attack,” yell the other cabin leaders.

Every swordfighter in camp charges into the hill. I then get split up from my Apollo cabin mates. I think to myself, Oh no, I will get slaughtered. Then I hear,

“Kill him.”

Suddenly three warriors attack me and I dodge their attacks. One of them even has a shield<–(complaining voice). I think to myself, this battle did make us outnumbered 5 or 6 on one, but still it seems impossible to win this battle, and we will need a lot of pick offs, but at least we have the top 4 sword fighters.

“Help,” I yell.

But nobody hears me over the chaos of the battle.  We fight every cabin battle in the valley, which is down a 15 foot hill that is not steep but is covered with leaves and woodchips. These battles are fought by sword fighters in camp with wooden shields and foam swords.I know I won’t survive forever. I see a moment and get a kill on the shielded warrior. I then am able to just barely dodge the wave of attacks. I felt helpless, but now I am a bit more confident after that kill and I need at least two kills in this battle for good stats. So I chop off one of an enemy warrior’s legs. I then immediately stab his chest and kill him. I feel lucky for two kills and am more confident. At this point in the battle, most warriors have been mowed down but we still have some elite warriors left. But the guy I was facing was also an elite warrior so I chop off one leg and then immediately go for his sword arm. Without his sword arm this guy is helpless and I stab his chest for the kill. I then am reunited with my cabin and we mow down every other warrior. That was my proudest moment as a swordfighter. In that year we had the highest quality sword fighters so we won the battles. We only lost one battle that entire year.

A challenge for me writing this piece was writing 2 pages just out of 1 sentence. I chose to  share this piece on this blog because I worked hard not just to write, but to pick out the right seentence. I perservered in that piece because I just came in and pushed through the entire thing. It was mainly hard for me because writing for me is one of those subjects where I  have a hard time just putting what is in my head on paper.  I learned that I can do something if I set my mind to it.