And I'm back with another chapter. Hope you enjoy!

Disclamer: I don't own PJ or HoO


"Well here we are... the camp forges." Holly announces as we walk through the doors.

"We are going to have to leave you here Narrissa, it was nice getting to know you." Laurel says just before they turn around and head in the direction that we came in.

'Great' I think 'Now what?'

My question is answered when Nyssa walks over to me with a flaming torch.

"Come on Nerrissa lets find out how to activate your rings." my sister says to me before walking out the door.

I quickly follow her. "Hey...Um... Nyssa... where are we going?"

"To the woods" is the short response i get.

"Um... Why? How are the woods going to help me figure out my rings?" I ask

Nyssa looks at me with a smile on her face. "Well considering the history of the rings we need to go back to that time..."

"What!" i inter up "We're time traveling!" I say excitedly

She laughs, "No, although that would be cool, we aren't going back in time. Instead we are going to do some research in Bunker Nine."

"I'm sorry what?" I say.

"Bunker Nine" Nyssa repeats, "A cavern within the one of the cliffs through the woods. Bunker Nine was built in the early 1800's and it was used mainly in 1864 during the Civil War."

"Wait the American Civil War?" i ask, "Like the bloodiest war in the history on America?"

"Yep" My escort replies "the two conflicts, mortal and demigod, mirrored each other. They tend to do that in Western History. Any civil war or revolution from the fall of Rome onwards, marks the time when demigods fought each other however the American Civil War was the worst in all of history, worse then the two world wars."

I'm mind blown, "Wow." is all that i can say.

"Yeah," Nyssa says, "Even back then this Valley was Camp Half-Blood. There was a major battle in these exact woods and many heroes were lost on both sides.

"Who was fighting?" I ask.

"Oh it was the Greeks versus the Romans. Anyways during the war against Gaia we came really close to another Civil war thanks to an idiot by the name of Octavian. Well here we are."

Nyssa stops suddenly at the bace of a limestone cliff and placed the torch against the wall causing the flame to splutter out. My sister didn't seem to happy with that result. She started to talk harshly to the cliff in rapid Spanish.

"Um... Nyssa what's meant to happen?" I ask.

"Well the cliff is meant to light up in flames and out line the shape of a massive door. We haven't tried to open Bunker Nine since Leo left for his quest, but i was hoping that it would work. You see Leo was a fire user and all he did was place his hand on the wall and will his hand to burst into flames and the whole cliff would light up and the bunker would open. I was hoping that any fire would do in order to open it but apparently not." Nyssa says to me sadly while studding the cliff wall and the burned out torch.

Curiously i look down at my feeble hands and stretch out my fingers. they start to tingle and suddenly there are tiny orange flames dancing on the palm of my hand. Excitedly i extinguish my hand, walk up to the cliff and place it against the limestone. Nyssa looks at me strangely and her eyes widen as she watches my hand light on fire and soon the whole wall until the out line of a door is visible. I back up and silently the door swings open revealing a huge cavern about the size of an aeroplane hangar. It was filled with an endless supply of worktables, storage cages, garage sized doors and staircases that lead up to the catwalk which held many different tools and machines. And even though the lights were turned on I lit my finger to produce some fire in order to light some newer torches up for us to use to light up the place more.

"Wow Nerrissa... Your a fire user!" Nyssa exclaimed excitedly.

"Yeah, I know" I tell her.


So I will update in the next few days but until then please let me know what you think about this chapter and what you think going to happen next. Bye! :)