The Four Horsemen

Leo hadn't got that much sleep overnight. His work kept him awake. He made machines that could stop ghosts, regular forms of beings, but he could not figure out how to build a machine to stop an aura. Auras are in their own form of being. Not many things can keep them away. Leo tried everything he could think of: celestial bronze (small amounts), regular metals, and other things he found around camp. Come on... there's got to be something that can prevent these guys from getting here and destroying us! When Leo couldn't think of anything else. He dropped his work, grabbed his Sphere, and went to his bed. He fiddled with it for a short while, and eventually went to sleep.

"Leo! Come on, Leo, wake up already," Leo heard Frank Zhang's voice tell him. Frank Zhang is a son of Mars, the Roman persona of Ares. Buff, ever since he received a gift from his father, Asian, and Canadian. "Get ready, quickly, you've slept in too much, and now it's almost lunchtime."

"What? Already?" asked Leo. He sat up, put a hand on his aching head and looked at Frank. "Is it really that late already?" I can't have slept THAT much. Did I really spend that much time awake last night working on ideas?

"No, Leo, I'm only joking, of course you did!" Frank responded. He sighed. "Come on, just get up. Chiron's waiting for you." Frank went over to Leo's elevator, pulled the lever, and was on his way to leave the Hephaestus Cabin. Leo groaned and got out of bed. He found some new clothes to wear, got himself ready, and left to the Big House. It's a nice day, not counting the fact that the whole camp was about to hear that they could be stuck forever suffering in an endless void. Yeah, definitely a good day. So far, everyone was calm and happy. The remaining Hephaestus campers were working in the forges, the Aphrodite campers were out putting new flowers in front of their cabin, the Hermes cabin appearing to be talking in the open area of their cabin, and the Ares cabin out practicing some fighting tactics. The Apollo cabin was out learning some healing remedies from plants that the Satyrs were showing them.

Once Leo reached the Big House and went inside, he saw Jason, Frank, Piper, Hazel, Percy, and Annabeth were all waiting for him. Chiron sat in front of them in his wheelchair, staring at Leo as he walked in with his serious eyes. Leo would have wondered why his face was so stern if he hadn't been told by Jason last night about the attack coming to the Camp. Leo walked in between Jason and Frank, and then looked to Chiron for an explanation.

"All right, now everyone is here. As Jason has told you yesterday, the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are coming to attack Camp. No place has ever survived an attack from the Horsemen, and if there has somehow been a single escapee, they would be too shaken to tell us how to survive. The Horsemen are as follows: Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence. Judging from the stories I have found overnight, they do not attack all at once, thank the Gods. If they would have, we'd stand no chance. Famine strikes first, then Pestilence, War, and then Death. Famine attacks with spoiling the food, and making it so that we won't have anything to survive off of. He cannot spoil ambrosia, fortunately, but on the other hand, it is rare, so we must eat if it is truly Pestilence, who makes us sick from not eating. He crazes our mind, and makes us move and weaken, so that the sickness will kill us. War will then come, and make us all fight over the food that Famine will provide to War, and try to kill us with each other. You must keep everyone under control."

"And Death?" Percy Jackson asked. Son of Poseidon, black and messy hair, smells like the ocean. You get the idea. "How will we keep ourselves safe from Death?" Chiron sighed, leaned forward in his wheelchair, laced his fingers together, and closed his eyes.

"I do not know. The only counter to Death is Life. We must find a way to keep away from Death, and stay alive until he gets frustrated, and leaves. He can kill anyone at will, and will take them to the void. He is the End, the Beginning, and everything in Between. We cannot stop him, he will stop us, unless we hide from him. I have an idea on how to do this, we just need to prepare for Famine to-"

"What's happening to the food!? It's turning rotten!" a loud voice rang from near the lunch area.

"Oh no, the Horsemen are coming earlier than I had every expected," Chiron stated, looking at the door. "Percy, Annabeth, Frank, Jason, Piper, Hazel, calm everyone down and explain the situation. Leo, you go and set up your machines around camp. Go! NOW!" Chiron took his horse legs out of his wheelchair, and hurried outside. He ran into the woods, leaving the seven to themselves.

"We'd better get going," Piper told the six that needed to explain. Daughter of Aphrodite and Jason's girlfriend. Not much else to say. The others nodded, and ran to the lunch area.

"Eugh! What's that thing!?" the same voice yelled. From closer examination, Leo recognized the voice as Connor Stoll, a son of Hermes. Eugh, huh? I'm just going to take a wild guess, and say that Famine surprised us, and is attacking camp directly, instead of just rotting our apples, and flattening our soda. Leo ran off to the forest, where Chiron had ran into, and started working on implementing his machines to protect the forest. Get ready for the Battle of Eternity. Campers vs. Horsemen.