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Chapter 3

A grin came across my face; it was time to show my powers to everyone.

The Fifth Cohort charged straight at the fortress in front of us. Many of us were yelling, I guess they were trying to scare the First and Second Cohorts. Seeing as they were laughing at us, I didn't think it really worked.

I reached out with my mind locking onto some of the people on the walls of the fortress. I wonder what they would do if they were bunnies. Laughing out loud that is exactly what I did. I turned them into bunnies. The spell doesn't last very long, so it only gave us a small advantage. Not only that but when they turn back to their normal forms, they might not realize where they are, or what they are doing.

I heard screams coming from the walls, as their friends realized that some people where being turned into animals.

"Erika did you see that?! They were turned into animals!" Hazel yelled at me.

"I know, hurry let's get on the wall and get the Mural Crown!" I yelled back. Hazel nodded, and some people came up with ladders that we would use to climb the wall.

Within minutes we were on the wall attacking anyone in our way. The people I had turned into bunnies, and finally transformed back; however, they were very confused, and we just pushed them off the wall. A few broken bones won't hurt them.

Hazel and I stuck together the entire time; we helped each other get rid of anyone who crossed our paths. I turned people in to cats, dogs, even some lizards. Hazel had gotten used to seeing animals just appear out of people clothes, so she stopped gasping and pointing at them.

The First and Second Cohorts were just falling apart. Many were probably afraid that they would get turned into animals. They were probably also freaking out because they were now on the losing side of the game.

Hazel ran ahead of me, and I quickly followed. We entered a room where the banners were. Smiling I turned the guards into birds. They started flying around hitting the walls, and running into each other.

"Is that you?" Hazel asked looking at me. Seeing as we were the only ones in the room, she had figured it out.

"Yeah, I'll explain later. Let's get the banners!" I said pointing at the now guard less banners.

The Fifth Cohort formed ranks around us. Together we paraded out of the fort, past stunned enemies and lines of equally mystified allies.

Reyna circled low over head on her Pegasus. "The game is won!" she sounded as if she were trying not to laugh. "Assemble for honors!"

Slowly all of the campers regrouped on the Field of Mars. I saw many minor injuries, nothing that serious. Just some burns, broken bones, black eyes, cuts and gashes, plus a lot of confused people who and been animals for a few minutes.

"Congratulations Fifth Cohort!" Reyna announced smiling down at our group. "We give the honor of retrieving the banners to Hazel Levesque, and Erika Sommer!" The Fifth Cohort cheered like there was no tomorrow. "Next the honor of breaking into the fortress goes to Erika Somme, seeing as she was the first up the ladder!" We broke into another cheer. People started patting me on the back saying 'good job' and 'we finally had a victory!'

"It's time to go to bed." Hazel said turning to me beaming.

"Right," I said. I knew that she was going to want an explanation about how I could turn people into animals tonight. Might as well not put it off until tomorrow.

I followed Hazel back to the Fifth Cohort barracks. On our way there, Nico caught up with us.

"That we amazing guys! Did you see all the people that turned into animals?" He exclaimed.

"Yeah, I was about to get an explanation for that too." Hazel said looking at me. Nico looked back and forth between us, and then asked.

"That was you Erika?"

"Ummm yeah, it was." I said sheepishly.

"How in Pluto did you do that?" He asked curiously.

"Well, I found out that I could do things like that since I was eight. I accidently made the mistake of turning my half-sister into a hamster. I had just finished reading Eragon, and wondered what it would be like to reach my mind out to talking to other creatures. I couldn't believe it when I actually could. I had 'locked onto' my sister, and then I thought of a hamster; and BOOM she was a hamster. I was so surprised when it happened too. I started freaking out, but minutes later she turned back to normal. She started yelling at me, and asked what happened, if she was going to die, and stuff like that. I convinced her that it was a magic trick to make her think like she was a hamster. Luckily for me she didn't tell my step-mom." I explained.

"So you haven't always been able to do that?" Hazel asked in awe.

"No, I don't think so anyway." I answered.

"You only tried because you read a book?" Nico asked incredulously.

"You'd be surprised at all the things I tried because I read a book!" I laughed remember some of the few good memories I had about home.

Nico stared at me for a few seconds with his gorgeous brown eyes. I couldn't have sworn I was melting on the inside.

"You're not the only one." He finally said grinning. I started laughing, and Hazel smiled at us.

"Hey," I said remembering something that I wanted to ask, "You know who my Godly parent is, and I was wondering who's yours?"

"Oh, well…" Hazel started. Her face dropped as if she was scared to tell me.

"You can tell me, it won't change my opinion of you if that's what you're thinking." I assured her.

"Promise?" She asked.

"Pinky swear," I said smiling at her.

"Okay, my father is Pluto." She said watching my face for my reaction.

"My father is Pluto too." Nico added.

"Really? That is so cool!" I exclaimed. I had always wondered what it would be like to have the Lord of the Dead as a father. "Can you do anything cool?" I asked before I could stop myself.

"Well I can summon fighting skeletons if you consider that cool." Nico said.

"That is cool!" I said looking at him. He smiled, and said.

"Maybe one day you'll be able to see them."

"I hope so! What about you Hazel?"

"I…" She stammered.

"If you don't want to tell me you don't have to." I said realizing that she was uncomfortable.

"Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be able to tell you." She said.

AN: What did you think about her power? I know this chapter is kind of short; I'll try and make the next one longer okay? It'll help if you guys could give me some ideas, currently I'm have a small writers block, and it took me hours just writing this short chapter. So let me know what you guys want to happen!