Sorry I didn't post last week! I had my Psych midterm. I'm a high school freshman taking a class for college freshmen. It's difficult and the midterm freaked me out lol. But, on the bright side, I passed and my score was one of the top five! Yeah! Go me! Also, next year, I'm probably gonna do online schooling (got any recommendations? Ecot? Ohio Virtual Academy?) So I'll have more time on the computer, and internet! Also, I'm doing entire chapters through certain charcters' POVs. This is through 3rd Person, though. Oh, and I was asked why there were numbers by the monster names. Those were footnotes! I totally forgot to define them, because some of them weren't mentioned in Percy Jackson, so they're at the bottom of this chapter. I'm sorry for the confusion!

After the battle was over and all the remaining monsters had either been killed or ran out of camp, Chiron took the death toll from each cabin. There were eighteen dead from the Hermes cabin, sixteen from the Apollo cabin, eleven from the Athena cabin, eleven also from Aphrodite, ten from Hephaestus, nine from Ares, three from Dionysus, two from Hecate and, of course, Thalia, the hunter. The total was 81 dead and countless others injured. At the mass burning of the shrouds, tears flowed freely from some campers, like Emily and others stood impassively, like Draco. They went to what remained of the cabins in silence. Those whose cabins had been destroyed or majorly damaged, such as the Athena cabin, which was missing a door and several windows, roomed with the Hermes and Apollo cabins. After the battle, no one really wanted to work on reconstruction, so they left it for tomorrow. Some Hephaestus children were excused from campfire and other things so they could build things such as doors and windows.

As the campers trudged back to their assigned cabins, Chiron sat in the Big House, frowning. Dionysus had gone to Olympus to report losses, perhaps comfort grief-stricken gods and goddesses and, of course, drink his grief away. He'd lost three children of his five. There was Castor, whose brother Pollux had been killed in the second titan war, Orion, a five year old who'd been at camp since age three because his mother was terrified that monsters would come after him when she wasn't able to protect him. She'd done the right thing, but he'd still been killed. Then there was Demitria, a two year old toddler who'd been dropped off when she was about a week old. Her mother had come straight to Dionysus and told him to take his daughter. He did, with a surprised look on his face when the infant had snuggled against him. That had hit him the hardest. Chiron didn't expect to see him for about a week; he'd disappeared for a week when Pollux had been killed.

What worried Chiron was the prophecy. He decided it was time to tell the ten demigods involved. But that could wait until morning.

"You may be wondering why I asked you all here. It has to do with a…prophecy…" Chiron trailed off.

"Why were we not informed earlier?" Juliarre demanded. This could have stopped an attack on the camp if they'd been notified.

"…I needed to make sure of it first…the recent attack has confirmed it. I'll show you now."

The oracle groaned before coughing. She looked young, but seemed old. She had curly copper hair, green eyes and pale skin. Her name, before she was an oracle, was Rachel Elizabeth Dare. She shuddered once more before delivering the prophecy:

Ten demigods, destined to be great
Shall be bound together by fate
An attack by the wild beast
Shall murder 81, at the least
A child of the ground
Doomed with sadness to be crowned
A child of the sky
Destined like a hero to die
A child of pain
Who will be the enemy's bane
A child of the spider
With the heart of a fighter
A child of none
Shall be the one
A child of chance
Will carry the godly lance
A child of sleep
All shall weep
For a child of magic
The end may be tragic
The children of intelligence
The end shall commence
If the enemy sent to the hole
The end of the gods is the toll
They must be brave
In order to save
The journey is long
And one will chose the path of wrong
Three will meet their end
In order to defend
To the city of the Romans
Despite the trail of omens
And there find
The enemy with army aligned

Chiron looked at each in turn. They all looked shaken (other than Draco, of course) and stared back at him with wide eyes, then looked at each other. Who was the traitor? Who would die?

"None of you need to do this…" Chiron tried to reassure them, but everyone knew that wasn't true. Fate had decided it before their births.

"Chiron, I'm afraid we must." Nicola said, then glared around the room, "And we must trust each other. No one should judge who the traitor is or who will die before it happens. We must trust each other. Fate has chosen us, and in my 300+ years, I've realized something. We'll only fail if we don't work together properly. So, I don't care why you're doing this. I don't care if it's for your love of the gods, to save yourself because you know the world will end if the gods are defeated, or if it's because fate forced you. We've been given this hand, let's play it. When will we leave?"

"I would say a week. Train, children. And pray for guidance in your journey. May the gods be with you every step of the way, and may the odds be ever in your favor." With that, the perhaps doomed demigods stormed to the training area or to their cabins, determined to never give up or surrender to this invisible enemy.

Short, I know, but I'm putting up this is part of a multi-chapter update. I also know that that prophecy sucked. If you think you have a better one, please tell me! I'll edit this chapter with it and you will be given credit. I also couldn't resist the 'may the odds be ever in your favor' thing. Anyone who knows where that comes from gets a cookie! Now, onto the monsters from last chapter:

1: Hydra: Basically, it's a water dragon that, when a head gets cut off, 2 more grow in its place. The middle head is immortal and its breath is poisonous

2: Empousa: Creatures (under control of Hecate, but in this story, are not) that are known to feed on blood and are often mistaken for vampires

3: Harpies: A winged spirit that's name means 'that which snatches.' They were agents of punishment that tortured souls on their way to Tartarus

4: Mormo: A spirit who bit bad children and was also confused with a female vampire

5: Lamia: A beautiful queen who became a child-eating demon

6: A creature with the body of a red lion, a human head with 3 rows of teeth, a scorpion's tail (in this story, at least) and a trumpet-like voice (odd…)

7: A creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull that could only be killed my its own horn

8: Mares of Diomedes: 4 man-eating horses that belonged to the giant Diomedes. For some reason, people believed Alexander the Great's horse descended from them…did his horse eat him or something? Lol, couldn't resist

German Translations

9: Verdammt!: Damn!

10: Ficken!: Fuck!

11: Monsters durchgebrochen!: Broken by monsters!

12: Hurensohn!: Son of a bitch!