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Unfortunately, the forest was also full of people. Apparently, Chiron had organised a whole camp treasure hunt for the anniversary of the end of the earth war, and even the Hypnos cabin had come to help. Will almost tripped over Clovis, who woke up a few seconds later with a cry of "Look under that rock!"

Then he fell asleep again.

Cheater.

Most of the other cabins were doing a similar thing, though. Aphrodite was trying to charmspeak the location of the treasure from some of the dryads, Hecate was using summoning charms, and the fifth legion had employed a few bloodhounds to find it for them.

Wait, the fifth legion?

Looking around more closely, Nico could clearly see several members of the Roman army; he guessed they'd all come to celebrate too.

Which was great and everything, but didn't give him the opportunity the think about the dilemma in hand. Namely, Will's insistence on a new nickname.

I could always just find Leo and make him get a new nickname instead...

He pictured the look on Will's face if be ever found out that he'd done that.

After turning past yet another tree and walking into yet another group of campers, Nico decided to go somewhere else.

This time, he turned and struck out in one specific direction, towards the edge of the woods.

He passed Frank, trying to persuade Hazel to use her powers to find the treasure. She laughed and told him that it would be a) cheating, and b) she didn't think it would be treasure like that...

Frank sighed, turned back into a hellhound, and carried on sniffing.

He saw a green haired Katie (where were the Stolls getting all this stuff anyway?) chasing Travis, her face furious. Nico leaned against a tree and ever so causally stuck out one foot.

"Not cool, man!" Travis complained as he picked himself up off the floor. He looked up, saw who had tripped him, and ran on - but Katie had caught up. She yelled at him for a few minutes, then gathered him up in her arms and kissed him. Nico felt his face go red.

If I'd have known that was all she was going to so, I wouldn't have bothered...

A few metres down the path, he came across Connor and Lacy. Definitely not treasure hunting.

He made a mental note not to tell Lacy about his revenge plans.

When he finally reached the edge of the woods, it took him a further ten minutes of walking to find the cave. He could have shadow-travelled, but time wasn't really an issue.

As much as he hated this cave, it being the place Darla had cornered Will, he could not deny that it was the perfect place to think- out of the way, and set deep into the rock. The walls were spaced apart, so it didn't trigger his claustrophobic-ness.

On the other hand, there was now a large chest set in the centre.

Typical.

Against his better judgement, he went to open it. He was half hoping that it was another prank from the Stolls, but, upon opening it, found that it wasn't.

Oh, this is brilliant, he thought, running a hand through his shortened hair (Will had preferred it long, but he found that it got in his eyes like that). The entirety of both camps are searching for a box that Chiron happened to put in my cave. Great.

The box contained a few laurel wreaths; some drachma (Hazel had been wrong about that); a sheath which did not look like it would fit anything larger than a dagger in it; a helmet; and a small mountain of chocolate coins.

He slammed the lid and sat on the box, thinking.

A replacement for sunshine... He hoped Will wasn't expecting anything imaginative.

Then voices outside the cave caught his attention.

"Let's check in here!"

"Another cave, Leo? How do you find all of these?"

"I told you, Sunshine, I didn't know there would be trolls in the one in China! Besides, this one's in camp. It'll be perfectly safe!"

"Leo," came another voice - Piper. That meant Jason would be there too. "That is the one way to make sure of a monster attack."

"Also," Annabeth, "monsters can be summoned into camp: the woods are kept well stocked."

"We ran into a hellhound less than fifteen minutes ago. Don't tell me you forgot already!" The voice he'd been dreading. Nico hadn't been trying to avoid Percy, per se, but he definitely hadn't gone out of his way to talk to him. Most of the year had been easy due to Percy going back to collage in New York, but when he was in camp, he seemed to be everywhere.

"I can feel metal in there, and Frank says he can smell something."

"Yeah, but Hazel, that could just be an old sword or something... I don't really want to go in there."

"Come on, Sunshine, we'll protect you..."

"And there probably won't be anything in there..."

The eight voices started coming closer, and Nico made up his mind.

He didn't really want most of the 'treasure' (chocolate coins, though...), but he had found it first, so...

A snap of his fingers, and a few large, skeletal spiders rose out of the ground and scuttled towards the incoming group. He heard Calypso and Annabeth's screams, and felt a twinge of guilt; it was swallowed almost instantly by enjoyment.

As the first of the horde fell, he called upon some normal skeletons and robed them in shadow. They formed the second part of his defence. Then a half-rotted stygian bird, and a hellhound (not Mrs o'Leary) to finish off.

None of his creations would kill anyone, but they should make the cave impenetrable to anyone else.

As the spiders stared reassembling themselves, he felt a wave of exhaustion rush over him; he stumbled and sat on the box again.

"What's going on?" A new voice. And by the sound of it, almost the whole of the party behind it. He couldn't stand against two camps for long.

Grabbing the box, he called a few final bones to the surface, then shadow-travelled to the top of the cliff above the cave.

He was right: the small clearing outside the cave was packed. He watched them struggle for a few more seconds, then travelled straight to his empty cabin and collapsed onto a chair.

He wondered what would happen when the others saw his message...

A/N If anyone hadn't figured it out, the eight voices were, respectively, Leo, Calypso, Leo, Piper, Annabeth, Percy, Hazel, Calypso, Leo, and Jason. Frank was there, but didn't say anything. Not that it matters, but the other voice was Clarisse.

So yeah, this is random fillers.

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Also, HAPPY OCTOBER! FAVORITE MONTH!

~Fi