"Sulla, get the hell outa the way", I screamed as I watched the last arrow of the battle fall right towards my friend. Thank the Titans, it missed, my sigh of relief turned into a scream however as the arrow hit a leftover pot of Greek fire not ten feet away from me.

"Hey Marius you're awake, good, we can`t afford to stay here much longer; Carmine and Carmen should be back any minute with supplies, we gotta run", Sulla told me

"Wh-what happened?" I asked just as Carmine and Carmen burst into the clearing

"You don't remember?" they asked in unison, "Doesn't matter we will fill you in later just get up, we have 11:30 train tickets to Albany and it`s 11:20 now!"

After some coffee and breakfast on the train I felt much more awake and began to remember what had happened. Kronos went into the throne room, I heard smashes and screams, then everyone was running past me, including Sulla with an arrow heading right for him, he dodged, then WHAM, emptiness.

As I was in the midst of this flashback I saw Sulla discreetly brush Carmen`s hand with his own. All at once I was leaping across the table, grabbing the hilt of my sword, then I regained my composure. I apologized to Sulla and Carmine reminding them that sudden flashes of madness were a side affect of me being the grandson of the mad-god Dionysus, and the son of Thanatos (minor god of death). 'Besides', I reasoned, `Sulla knows I like Carmen, he would never hurt me like that`.

"So", Carmine said, "What now?"

"I vote we keep our heads low for a while", Sulla said

"That makes sense but shouldn't we try to meet up with the rest of the army", I asked

"You have no idea how long you were unconscious do you?" Carmine replied, "There is no army to join up with, the gods have been destroying any remnant of the disbanded army they can find; we could very well be the last survivors for all we know"

"That's going a bit far don't you think", Carmen said

"Still he has a point, plus there is a place we can stay just outside of Albany. It's me and my dad's old camping place, he's one of those survivalist guys, or at least he was until that chimera Zues sent to kill me got him instead, so its stocked with water purifiers and ramen noodles a stuff like that", Sulla said

"Sounds good to me, everybody else agree? Yes, then we can figure out what our next move is when we arrive " I declared