Hello wonderful readers! This is just a random idea I got while reading "The Mark of Athena". This is my first fan fiction ever. Please read and review. Hope you like it!

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It was just supposed to be a simple recon. Go into enemy camp, scout around, and get out. But of course, when you're a demigod, especially one of the seven in the prophecy, nothing is ever that easy.

Annabeth had known for some time that there was an encampment for Gaeas minions nearby, and the demigods had heard that they had a new, powerful weapon there, so, obviously, they had to go check it out. Problem was, they didn't know exactly were this camp was. Well, there were other problems too, like: seven powerful demigods all in the same place would probably attract every monster on the continent. They managed to very intelligently solve these problems. They decided to go in groups of two, each group going in a different direction in the hopes of one of them quickly finding the base, plus one to guard the cabin with coach hedge.

Leo went with Jason. They were pretty much wandering around the forest for hours, looking for this supposed camp. Leo was getting really and cranky.

"It's almost dark out. Maybe we should head back," Leo suggested hopefully.

"No, we still have a little time left," Jason answered.

"Come on man! We've been wandering around this stupid forest all day and we haven't found any trace of them. I seriously doubt-, "

"Quiet!" Jason interrupted.

"What?" Leo looked around nervously.

"Listen"

In a couple of seconds, Leo heard it too. Sound of movement and talking.

"I think we might have something" Jason grinned.

They moved cautiously towards the noise. Soon, they saw a camp. It was a large place; Leo noticed that it was suspiciously low on monsters. He saw one small group of them standing near the biggest building, talking.

"I wonder what they're saying… Maybe we should go and listen in," suggested Jason.

"No time. We need to go check out this weapon and get back to the others," Leo said. Jason thought for a moment.

"We should split up. You go listen on, I'll check out their base," He offered.

Leo was skeptical. Splitting up usually wasn't a very smart idea. Then again, that group might give them some important parts of Gaeas plans.

"Okay" he replied, a bit uncertainly. Then he headed off towards the group, and Jason left in the other direction.

As he approached, he started to hear what they were saying. Unfortunately, it was not part of Gaeas master plans.

"Of course those idiots figured out where we are!" a voice said. It sounded raspy and unpleasant, not quite human. "We fed them the information weeks ago, too lure them here."

"Yes," a second one said. "Our sentries tell me that they have already arrived."

Leo started to get the sneaking suspicion the he knew who 'those idiots' were.

"Well," continued the first voice "They will be in for a nasty little surprise when they get here."

This made Leo extremely nervous. What were they talking about?

"I just hope that our 'weapon' doesn't explode on them," said a third voice cruelly. "That could level the whole camp." The whole group started laughing, and they left.

Leo stiffened. Weapon explode… that must be the new secret weapon they had heard about. The weapons base. He had to warn Jason.

Leo ran as fast as he could towards the weapon base at the other end of the camp.

As he got close, he saw Jason in the distance. He was headed for the base.

"Jason!" Leo shouted, trying to get his friends' attention.

"JASON" he yelled, louder. The other boy turned around. Leo shouted at him, trying to get the basic meaning across.

"Trap! Weapon going to explode! Run!"

Jason seemed to get the message. He started running towards Leo. He ran fast, faster then would've thought possible, but Leo knew that he wasn't going to make it.

Leo heard the explosion. It was big enough to level the whole camp, and then some.

Fortunately, Jason had gotten far enough away to avoid getting blown to pieces. Unfortunately, he didn't escape it entirely. The blast was still strong enough to send him flying.

He went a good hundred feet before he slammed hard into a large boulder.

Leo ran over to him.

"Jason! You okay?"

Jason was gasping trying to catch his breath.

"Not really" he managed to say.

Leo knelt down next too Jason, trying to find out what was wrong.

"Uh, what's the matter?" he asked.

"Well, I just got thrown a hundred feet by an explosion, and then slammed into a boulder, but other than that…"

"That's not really-"

Just then, Leo heard a noise that sounded a lot like another explosion.

Secondary explosion. Why hadn't he thought of that?

So, how was it? Good, bad, okay? Might be a little hard to follow… Please review and tell me what you think!