The next day was capture and I was really nervous. I was perched up in a tree with an Apollo camper waiting for it to start. I hadn't got any practice with my weapons, but the good news was the Nest of bees was really hard to miss with. The horn sounded and app hell broke loose. Not literally because that would be stupid but you know what I mean. The teams were Apollo, Hermes, Athena and Poseidon on to the rest. Our forces clashed and before I could fire a volley of arrows, a Demeter kid shook us out of the tree. I landed on my back with a thud and my partner was quckly swarmed by a mob of Aphrodite girls (lucky him) the girls paid no attention to me as they tied the apollo archer up. I picked up my lighter and lighted my Nest of Bees. With a great woosh the Aphrodite campers when down (the tips were blunt so they didn't kill anyone, they just really really hurt and left massive bruises the next day). While the girls lay groaning I slashed my partners bonds open. He grabbed his bow and I loaded up another round of Bees.

"you want to scout around?" he asked as he climbed back into the tree.

"whatever" I replied and walked towards the stream marking the boundary. I summond a crow to have a look around and it reported that there was an enemy patrol crossing the river. I started in their direction when I was a force of great size, power, pain and annoyingness sent my crashing into a tree. I sat there dazed before the 'force' pocked me up and hurtled me into a tree. Barley conscious I felt my self being dragged into a bush and punched me until I was unconscious.

I woke up with, what I thought was a broken nose, an evil headache and a dead leg. I dragged my self out of the bush and propped my self up on a tree. It was then I realized it was the middle of the night. Great some lone forgot to find me. I tried to stand up but fell flat on my face. Okay that didn't work. Right, so If I can't walk I'm stuffed, wait, I can roll but that would take forever or I could set fire to the forest, okay bad idea I might burn to death, mabey I could send a crow to get Chiron but knowing him he'd probably shoot it, I could shout at the top of my lungs but that'll attract monsters and no one would hear me any way and if they did the monsters would eat me before they got here. Rolling it is then.

Two hours later, a great deal of scratches, rolling into an ants nest (Zeus help the next ant's nest I come apon), falling off a small cliff and persuading a snake nof to eat me I arrived at the big house. I knocked on the door, no answer, I knocked again, still no answer. In total I think it was half an hour of knocking before I fell asleep, fists bleeding and in total despair.