Hello my wonderful people!

I've got another chapter right here. It's just waiting for you to read it and review about it.

Hades also sends his regards.

Gods of Mount Olympus that guy gives me the heebie jeebies.

I know the poison thing was like me flinging a cream pie in your face and screaming: BAM! BET YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING!

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Yeah…sorry. I plan to clear that up in the next chapter. I honestly didn't know why I did it – I just rolled with it.

But what's happened to Camp Jupiter? That's what I am going to tell you. Just, bear with me while I figure out where this fanfiction's plot is actually going…

Oh! And thank you _ for asking that question. I have an awesome idea now - a very, very awesome idea that you have given me. I'll reveal the idea in the next chapter…I think. That is, if the characters don't choose to do something different.

I've also read a fanfiction that has started doing a "song of the chapter." I think this is wickedly awesome and I've started doing this too. She's also the one I've gotten the fun disclaimer idea from. Check out Abby (Don't touch my Seaweed Brain) and her fanfictions!

allenx14: Thank you for making me double over with laughter when I saw your comment. I stopped when I realized that I'm acting like Rick Riordan.

Winekita: I hope I can smooth it over in the next few chapters, and why Leo wasn't freaking out when the rest of the 7 found out she was poisoned with deadly, um, "stuff."

Song of the Chapter: Fallen – IMAGINE DRAGONS

DISCLAIMER:

Me: I don't own anything except the plot.

*Goes to sleep. Does not notice Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, and Calypso peeking in the windows*

Annabeth: Do we all know the plan?

Jason: Stuff her in a bag-

Percy: Then throw her in Tartarus-

Piper: Hopefully killing her, making her plot not play out any further.

Annabeth: Exactly.

Leo: How do we get in? Where are we?

Percy: I've learned to just roll with it.

Calypso: Guys…

Jason: Who is this girl anyway? Is she some sort of demigod?

Annabeth: She looks like you, Piper.

Calypso: Guys?

Piper: Yeah right.

Percy: She actually does.

Calypso: Guys.

Jason: She can't be a demigod, but that would explain why she can control what happens-

Calypso: GUYS!

Me: Boo.

Everyone: AHHH!

Annabeth: Retreat! RETREAT!

*The demigods run away*

Me: I guess I'll have to do something menacing then…they asked for it.

A fight to the death for a poisoned one,

Revealing a greater enemy's son.

The secrets of Delphi must be released,

Or the spirit of Delphi will quickly cease.

The Heroes who have proven true,

Must leave when the last comes to two.

IV

FRANK

Frank had to admit, he didn't like horror movies. Especially when he was in one.

He, Hazel, Reyna, and the rest of the legion had come back to the Bay Area only a week ago only to find that Camp Jupiter had been destroyed. Columns of coal black smoke curled up and tainted the sky like ink as they walked on charcoal ground. A few monsters slinked here and there, and Frank had immediately vaporized them in disgust.

They must've attacked Camp Jupiter during the whole SPQR/Camp Half-Blood/Monster/Gaea skirmish. Another thing Octavian would be remembered for.

Octavian. Frank scowled every time he thought about that little-

"Frank?" Reyna's voice jolted him from his thoughts. Being praetor was still new to him, but leadership seemed to come naturally. Leading people was natural. Asking or talking about him leading, now that made him nervous. Nevertheless, there were times for talking and times for taking charge.

Over the past week, nothing had really changed. They had made temporary barracks behind a ridge so that any stray monsters wouldn't find them easily. He and Reyna made regular trips to the ruins of New Rome, trying to salvage anything they could – from small fountains to seeds to busts to papers to weapons, they pretty much had at least one of everything.

Reyna now was looking at a shimmery image in front of Frank. He jumped as soon as he saw it. He peered at it again. Percy, Annabeth, Jason, and Piper were all in a living room. A centaur that he had been introduced to as Chiron also stood silently, staring at a brown curly-haired boy with an elfish look as well as a sickly pale girl with caramel hair and almond eyes. He recognized the boy with a start.

"Leo?!" he asked in disbelief.

Leo didn't smile. That was seriously unnerving. Instead, he asked, "Are you mad?"

Frank couldn't believe his ears. Leo was concerned about Frank and Hazel and his relationships with them? He guessed that everybody was friends with Leo.

"Of course not!" he exclaimed. He couldn't stop his face from breaking out into a smile. Leo relaxed.

"What happened there, Frank?" he asked.

Frank shrugged. "We're still figuring that out. As far as we can tell, New Rome was attacked while Octavian had brought all the people in the legion to New York."

"Is everything okay?" Percy asked. Frank looked down. No it wasn't. Percy and Annabeth had wanted to come here for college. He decided his new mission was to get New Rome back to its former glory.

"Everything will be fine," Frank assured him. "Who's this?" He gestured to the girl. Leo's face fell and he looked at her – away from Frank.

"That's Calypso," Piper explained. "She's been poisoned. She'll die in a week if we don't find an anti-venom."

"Isn't she a goddess?" he asked.

Percy sighed. "I've encountered both poisons. I wouldn't be surprised if it affects goddesses as well.

"Both poisons?"

"Akhlys' and Polyphemus'," Percy answered. He paused, looking like someone had just taken a chair and smashed it on his face. (I told you I'd do more similes like this!)

"What is it?" Annabeth tentatively touched his shoulder.

Percy looked at her fearfully. "I'm turning into you, Wise Girl!" He smiled as she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.

Frank smiled and looked over his shoulder at Hazel, who was currently discussing something with Reyna. He turned his attention back to the Greeks.

"Annabeth," he started. "We might have an opening for an architect in Camp Jupiter."

She beamed and her grey eyes seemed to spark with anticipation and ideas.

"What should we do?" Jason asked everyone. Frank shrugged.

"Probably the only thing we can do." He sighed. "Go to Delphi and see what's wrong."

"I was afraid you were going to say that," said a familiar voice behind him. Hazel appeared at Frank's side. She blinked. "Leo?"

Leo smiled. "In the flesh. I think."

"I am SO going to kill you." She folded her arms, but her angry body language was accompanied by a relieved smile.

"So lets get this straight," Annabeth said, moving to a more comfortable position. "Calypso's been poisoned, Leo's got Imperial Gold shrapnel in his chest-"

"WHAT?!" Frank and Hazel exclaimed in unison.

Annabeth nodded. "It's a long story." Frank nodded, his eyes locked on Leo, who shifted uncomfortably. "Poison, Imperial Gold, Delphi, the Oracle, Camp Jupiter, and Big Bad Enemy. What have we gotten ourselves into this time?" Annabeth ran a hand back through her hair.

"First things first," Frank said. "The poison, where did it come from?"

He noticed Calypso and Leo share a glance before Leo spoke up. "I don't know."

Frank could tell he was lying, but a look in Leo's eyes asked him not to press the subject. Frank moved on. "The Imperial Gold. Can you get it out?"

Piper shook her head. "It starts smoking and hurting Leo as soon as our fingers are an inch away." Leo and Calypso shared another glance, but this time Hazel caught them. Frank put a hand on her shoulder and had a clear message on his face. Not now.

"Camp Jupiter will be fine for a week," Frank assured his friends. "That leaves Delphi and the Oracle, which go hand in hand. Hazel and I will go on Arion tomorrow morning – should be there in an hour."

Percy nodded. "We'll try to figure out some other things until then. See you tomorrow."

"Bye," Frank said. Before Annabeth swiped through the message, he caught Leo and Calypso's guilty gazes.

Ooooh! What do Leo and Calypso know that the others don't? You'll find out in the next chapter, don't worry. What you have to worry about is when I'll update next! (Probably in a day or two.) PLOT TWISTS AHEAD!

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