"Athena cabin, not there! Go over there. No, there! And I thought you planned this!" Dionysus the wine god, director of the camp yelled. A total of a few thousand demigods and a few hundred satyrs were getting ready for Camp Jupiter's siege of NYC. For the last month, they have been marching from California to take over Mount Olympus because they thought the Romans should have gods at their side. While the camp was building walls around NYC for the last month, Hecate's demigods have been busy using the Mist to shield the mortals from seeing the truth. One day it was a whole flock of birds – the next day it became a construction site.
The gods took sides as they always did- but the Greeks were in their favor, except Zeus, who protected Camp Jupiter as Jupiter himself. The Hephaestus cabin built enchanted weapons, armor, and Greek fire cannons since they were kind of an expert in blacksmithing. The Athena cabin planned out the whole strategy. The Ares cabin started sword-fighting sessions. The Poseidon cabin that had Zephyrus and Perseus started Pegasus chariot-riding sessions. Really, you would think this was the Battle of Troy all over again. The Olympians, the most powerful gods and minor gods both took sides.
Chiron the Centaur had called for help from the centaur army, who were half horse and half man. Tyson the Cyclopes summoned some ranks from Poseidon the sea lords Cyclopes army who were monsters with one eye. Nico di Angelo, the child of Hades set on summoning more and more skeletons every day from the Underworld. This was looking pretty solid until they heard a distant conch horn and loud cheers and marching. Perseus, Zephyrus, Nico and Thalia (Zeus's daughter, who also summoned the Hunters of Artemis) ran over to the Empire State Building, where the camp had set up a medic station and the central command station. If they got pushed back too far, they would have to retreat here to the base of Mount Olympus and take their last stand.
"What was that?" Percy questioned. Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena stood at the command central and was staring expectantly into her Daedalus laptop. According to what she read, the Shield program on Daedalus' laptop could scan the Earth and zoom in on any position on Earth- using the Mist. The four powerful demigods and the immortal Chiron stared at Annabeth, expecting an answer. The power around them was so strong; you could almost visually see their auras. Percy and Zephyrus' auras were sea green, while Nico had pure shadows surrounding him, Thalia had a lightning white aura, and Chiron had a powerful yellow. Finally, Annabeth looked up, and said one sentence that scared them all. "The Romans are here."
