Here! Another marvelous update! Thanks for all the constructive criticism in the last chapter. I know I have a few grammar errors and such, but I've been finishing these chapters every Friday at school and then posting them right away to keep my promise. I'll try to send it to them!

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IV Jason

Jason made his way to the mess hall with Hazel at his side. Percy and Leo were talking together behind them, and Piper and Frank were following. Jason didn't know what had happened to Annabeth and Reyna, but he was hoping they'd get along okay.

"So… It seems like you've been up to quite a bit recently, Hazel."

"Yeah. You, too." They kept going a few more paces in awkward silence. "So I guess we'll be leaving tomorrow?"

"I'm pretty sure we are."

"If we'll be going to Rome and Greece, don't you think we'll need more demigods on the quest? Or at least for the battle?"

"I don't know… We never really talked about it. I guess we'd all come to a consensus that there'd only be seven of us going."

"Well this way Reyna could also go. We'd have more people to fight the giants."

"Hazel, you know Reyna's fatal flaw. Even if we have twenty people it'll still be a problem. Plus, Octavian would try to take over camp if both reyna and I left. If only one of us leaves, he won't."

"I know, but still! We should have more than only seven. Us main seven could do the main part of the quest – closing the doors of death, opening up Olympus – but we could all fight together."

"We also only have nine beds."

"Wonderful," Hazel groaned.

"And that's where the Leo comes in handy"

"What're you on about?" Piper queried.

"Well…I might have tried to fill up some space by putting extra rooms through out the ship. I mean, storage and war supplies can only take up so much space," then Leo started talking about all the fundementals of making a war ship and some complicated mathematical things which only Annabeth showed any sign of understanding.

"So," Frank interrupted, "you're basically saying that we've got enough room on the ship for thirteen more people. Six from your camp and seven from ours?"

"Well, fifteen, but yeah."

"Then all we have to do is figure out who else is coming."

All of those who'd ever been at the Greek camp immediately responded with a chorus of "Clarisse"s. When a look of confusion passed over Frank and Hazel's faces, Percy elaborated.

"She's the toughest demigod at camp. Duahgter of Ares. She won't show Mercy for anyone."

"Except Chris," Piper said.

"And…" as Annabeth said this, a shadow passed over her and Percy's faces.

"Yeah," Percy said quietly and a bit darkly. "Anyways, we know that Clarisse is coming, so we have five more to choose from Camp Half-Blood. We'll need the best fighters."

"Lou would be useful," Piper suggested.

"Four."

"Chris?"

"Yeah, so three more."

"How about Will? And… Conner and Travis," Annabeth concluded. "They're good fighters."

"Okay. Now some from here."

"Bobby, Dakota, Gwen-"

"She's not as part of the the legion anymore," Hazel stated, cutting Jason off. "She's going to college in the city now."

"In that case, we'll need Bobby, Caroline, Jacob, Daniel, Dakota…"

"Katrina and Simon?"

"Yeah, them too."

"O…kay," Annabeth muttered as she finished jotting down the names on a piece of paper she'd gotten from Jupiter knew where. "Godly parents? Respectively, of course."

"Minerva, Mercury, Apollo, Janus, Bacchus, Nemesis, and Ceres," Hazel rattled off. "They're all some of the best fighters I've seen."

"Good. So we'll tell them tonight, get on the boat tomorrow, head back to camp, get the others, then sail off to Greece-"

"Rome first," Frank interjected. "Nico - he's a son of Pluto, Hazel's brother - was captured by one of Gaea's forces when he was looking for the doors of death. We need to get him, and we need to close the doors of death."

"You - he - when - you've met Nico? Di Angelo?" Annabeth sputtered.

"Yeah, they have," Percy sighed. "And the little creature pretended he didn't know me."

"What?"

"I think this can wait for the boat," Hazel broke in. "Meanwhile, we need to eat! The war games are soon!" The septuo (or whatever, Jason thought) turned to the meals sitting in front of them.

Jason turned his head to where Reyna sat and saw her glaring at Leo, who was beaming at her, and sighed. Leo would never get it, would he?

Some fifteen-ish minutes later, Jason found himself in a forest-y area along with the rest of the camp and the visitors. Reyna, instead of being on Skippy, was also on the ground with the rest of the group.

"We will not be playing our regular war games tonight, Romans!"

"Then what will we be playing?" a voice shouted out from the crowd.

"Capture the flag," Jason heard Percy say smiling.

Mwahaha! CAPTURE THE FLAG! I remember the nights two years ago when we'd play that at my compound... Now we only occasionally play Beckon. *sighs*