It might not be quite the fight you expected, but I figured that if it went two on one, it might get a little...destructive. And the last thing we need is a bunch of rampaging dryads and satyrs complaining about these three mowing down the forest.

So, it's time for a little rematch. And time for the game to end.

Standing in front of us is Will, the one person that I've got several reasons to want to put on the ground. On the other hand, Kai might want to put him in the ground, and that might cause a few problems.

But something about Will's growing smirk throws me off. There's two of us…why does he look like he's okay with that? Does he really think that he can take both of us at once? That's crazy!

Kai sinks into a combative stance, ready to spring into action in an instant. "It's about time you showed your face. I was wondering why I hadn't run into you yet. I've run into pretty much every other cabin out here."

Will twirls his sword in a circle, lazily stepping towards us. "Well, that's only because I'm one of the ones on guard duty. My niece and nephew have been on guard duty as well." He glances at me. "Though I'm surprised that you aren't holing up at your flag. You must have a lot of faith in your team."

The implication doesn't escape me. "Of course I do. We put the plan together as a team. And they can make up for my lack of experience with the game." But as I answer him, something just doesn't feel right, it almost feels like he's playing around. He's acting way too casual for someone who has a sword pointed at him.

Wait…something's wrong here.

I glance at Kai, whose eyes are focused on Will, then at the flag. Is there anyone going after it? I don't hear any fighting going on in that direction. Is he trying to keep us here?

I take a few steps forward, moving slightly between the two of them. "Kai, get out of here."

Out of the corner of my eye, I see the tip of his sword lower a little. "What are you saying? There's no way you can take him on your own. Especially not without a weapon!" The hiss of his voice is disapproving, and bordering on venomous.

I grit my teeth and try to stay quiet. "I don't need my swords, I'll be perfectly fine like this. I'll hold him here while you go get the flag. My cabin already has a flag, so if I pick up the second, it'll be a lottery to see which cabin on my team gets it." I smile a little at the thought of that result. "If you go, then next game, I'll have a shot at taking you down."

I hear an irritated click of his tongue, but before I can roll my eyes, his sword disappears from view and I hear him take a couple of steps back. "Fine, just don't get yourself killed."

Well I would hope that I don't get killed. Besides, last I checked, killing and serious maiming are against the rules.

Kai turns towards Zeus' Fist, heading straight for the flag. But Will doesn't move, he just shakes his head wryly. "He's right, you know. There's no way that you can take me without a weapon. In fact, last I checked, you couldn't take me with a weapon either. I could be after him in an instant. So what makes you so sure that you can stall me long enough for it to matter?"

The tugging in my stomach gets stronger with every passing second. The water is coming, and fast. "Are you forgetting that I'm a legacy of Poseidon?" In a huge wave of lake water, my back-up plan arrives, crashing through the trees. "I can do more than swing a sword around. So why don't you put the toothpick away and dance with me. I think I can take your lightning this time." And I believe it. With the water around me, swirling into the air, I feel like I can take him this time, really take him.

His smiles fades a little, becoming slightly apprehensive. Maybe now, he'll take this seriously. "If that's how you want it, fine." He sheathes his sword, taking a few steps closer to me. Tiny little bolts of electricity arc over his skin, some of them bouncing off his armor and onto the ground.

Water rises under me, lifting me off the ground as it continues to swirl in circles. Honestly, I still haven't learned how to control this power properly. But it all feels so right, completely instinctual. And now, it doesn't matter that he's bigger and stronger than me.

The wind starts to pick up, and Will start hovering, rising higher and higher off the ground. "You're not the only one with power over the elements." He quickly gets to my eyes level, about eight feet off the ground. "I'll warn you now, though." Bolts of lightning explode outward, smashing into the wave holding me up. "Water conducts electricity!"

He's right, water does conduct electricity. Unfortunately for him, I'm something of a tomboy. The electricity races through the water, headed straight for me. But instead of shocking the living daylights out of me, it just bounces right off the bottoms of my shoes. Still tickles a little though.

I smile cheekily at him. "Yeah…about that…" I lift up one foot and show him my shoe. "Rubber-soled sneakers. Sorry. I guess I just don't have a very good sense of fashion."

His eye twitches a little, but he forces a smile back onto his face. "Huh, nice call. Looks like this might take longer than I thought. Saved by bad fashion sense."

He raises his hand, and I've got about a split second before he shoots lightning straight at my stomach. I have just enough time to use the water to make octopus tentacles, one of which grabs me around the waist and pulls me out of the way of his lightning and into the safety of the growing column of water.

I can't hear him, but his lips are moving slightly. So…what's he planning next?

I don't have to wait long, because an instant later, he shoots another bolt of lightning at me, this time aiming to electrify the water.

Oh gods! Bad! I raise my arms above my head and whip them down in an imitation of swimming. And while I've always been a decently fast swimmer, supersonic is not the speed I was going for. I burst out of the top of the column, flying an extra ten feet into the air. But just in time too, because the lightning shatters the column of water like a glass ball.

I start falling, and Will starts flying up, probably to catch me. Or maybe to dangle me above the ground. Either way, it's so not happening.

At a single mental command, the water on the ground, no longer electrified, whips up and pulls me back down to the ground, cushioning my fall easily. I look up at Will, grinning. "Looks like I'm starting to understand how Grandpa's powers work. Thanks for being a test dummy."

He's about thirty feet above me. Directly above me. Now, there's no need to aim, I just shoot the water upwards as fast as it will go. The streams of water erupt around him, but despite his every effort to dodge, I keep my eyes on him, and I keep the streams going after him.

Gotta catch him…have to drag him back down here. The longer he stays up there, the higher the chance that he'll forget about fighting me, and go back to defending the flag.

Some of the water catches his foot, dragging him back down towards the ground as he struggles to get free. But I've made the water dense, heavy. He's basically trying to pull his foot out of the ground after a mudslide. He's not going anywhere unless he wants to blast this whole clearing apart. And I'm sure that Chiron will have words for him if he does.

Eventually, he stops struggling, and instead comes down to fight me face to face, right in the middle of a whirlpool of water. It sloshes around the two of us, pulling him to the ground, and propping me up on bubbles.

He grins at me, a little painfully. "You're definitely strong enough without a weapon, I'll give you that. I thought that I would be able to take you out quickly, but it looks like that's not going to happen."

I smile right back at him, very satisfied with how this fight is turning out. "Your teammates will just have to hope that Kai doesn't flatten them when he takes the flag. Because you're not going to be around to stop him."

"That so…? I think you might be underestimating my allies." He raises his hand, sparks coming off it as he prepares more lightning.

Or you're underestimating mine.

But just as we're ready to go another round, the conch horn sounds, freezing both of us in our tracks. I blink slowly, looking over towards my team's home base. "Did he…?" The water around me drops to the ground, since we're not supposed to fight now that the game is over.

"Could be my team." Will smirks at me, the sparks around him disappearing. "The Poseidon flag might not be green anymore."

I wait a few seconds, wondering who grabbed which flag. But luckily, Eran doesn't keep me waiting long. A firework shoots into the sky, a bright green trident, signaling that our team won. "Yes!" I jump up and down in a hyper haze. "We won!"

And as if to make my prediction come true, another firework is launched into the sky. Eran designed a bunch of fireworks with the symbols of the different cabins on our team. And the one that explodes in the sky…

A dark purple helmet. The symbol of Hades.

"He did it! Kai grabbed the flag!" I glance back at Will, who looks a little dumbfounded by the results. "See you back at the campfire. Looks like the next game is Poseidon vs. Hades. We'll have to pick this up again next time."

I leave Will behind, sprinting through the trees towards where the firework was launched from. It's time for me to meet up with my team and congratulate Kai on snagging the flag.

I pop out of the trees as son as I hear familiar voices. And gathered around Chiron are members of both teams. Including Kai, holding a pitch black flag with a purple helmet on it. The proof that he was the one to bring the flag back across the boundary into our territory.

Sam must have heard my footsteps, not that it was hard, considering how fast I was running and how much noise I made. He turns around and waves at me. "Hey! We did it! Kai got the flag!"

I wave back and jog up to the group. "Yeah, I saw the firework go off after the horn blew. Came straight here once I figured out where all you guys were."

"Came straight here, huh? So where were you?" Eran peers at me curiously. "You're the last one on our team to show up, and we were all over the place."

I laugh nervously, trying not to sound like I was off committing violent homicide. "Uh…kinda…half trying to drown Will McGrant before the game ended?"

Declan frowns at me, before his face breaks out in a grin. "Well, I don't blame you. That guy can seriously get on my nerves sometimes. I'll never understand why he's so popular with the girls."

"Neither will I…" I honestly can't say that I like the guy. I mean, I don't hate him, but still. He's cocky and rude, and generally just a pain in my butt. On the other hand, it's at least fun to argue with him. I suppose that could be a redeeming feature.

But judging by the frantic cheering coming from my teammates, it looks like it's time for us to wrap up this game and head to the campfire.

I wonder if Eran is good at making s'mores?

The bonfire tonight is huge. I swear, the thing has to be like fifteen feet high, and it's bright gold. I've been to a few of the campfires before, but I've never seen one this bright, or this hot.

And Sam, of course, is perfectly happy sitting right in the front with Eran, closest to the blazing heat of the flames. Their godly ancestors are the god of the sun, and the god of blacksmiths and fire. Me, on the other hand, I get the feeling that I'll evaporate if I get too close to the flames.

But, I suck it up since it's the only way to get marshmallows roasted. "Alright you two, move over." I sit myself next to Sam, squishing him between me and Eran. "So…I haven't actually made s'mores before."

Sam gapes at me, and Eran leans forward, gaping at me as well. "What do you mean you haven't made s'mores? What have you been doing at the campfires?"

"Watching people sing, mostly." I shrug, aware that it's not much of an explanation. "I try to avoid burning my hair off."

Eran tosses me a high tech looking stick with a marshmallow on the end of it. "Go on, try that baby out!"

I raise an eyebrow and hold the stick towards the fire. A whirring sound rises into the air, and the stick extends towards the fire, a little blue glow around it. "Eran…what in Hades is going on?"

Eran grins at me. "Just a little something I tinkered with. It'll turn the marshmallow for you, and there's a timer to let you know when it's done. Makes for a perfectly golden marshmallow every time. I kind of needed it, since every time I try to roast marshmallows, I ended up burning them and setting people on fire."

And just like that, a little beeping comes from the other end of the stick, and I pull it away from the fire as the stick shrinks. On the other end of the stick is a perfectly golden marshmallow, as promised. Without the ominous setting people on fire part.

Sam hands me some chocolate and a couple of cookies. "That's better than graham crackers, trust me. Made by the Demeter Cabin, so they're healthy and delicious."

I squish the marshmallow and chocolate between the cookies and frown. "They're…not blue."

"Blue?" Sam's forehead creases in confusion. "What's not blue?"

"The cookies." I stare at them, not really used to cookies that aren't blue. "Whenever I went to visit Grandma, she always made blue cookies."

"Oh no…Percy got you obsessed with blue food too?" A tall blond guy with electric blue eyes comes walking over. He looks like he's Dad's age.

Suddenly, it clicks. "Wait, you've been sitting at the big breakfast table with us. You're…Jason, right?"

He smiles and sits on the ground, holding a stick shaped more like a pitchfork, with marshmallows all over it. "And you're Percy's little girl. Who has apparently been corrupted by the blue cookie virus."

"Blue cookies virus?"

He laughs and turns his marshmallows over. "Just a little joke we've had since we were teenagers. You dad is obsessed with blue food, always has been. Annabeth keeps saying that it's an unhealthy obsession, but it's not like she discourages it."

I turn my eyes back to my cookie s'more. "Is it really that weird?"

Sam snorts quietly. "Well, you are the one who makes emerald green blue raspberry lemonade. So yeah, I'd say it's weird."

Jason laughs and pats my head. "Maybe I'll bring my kids around tomorrow to meet you. They're off with some of their friends right now, but they'll be around all summer. I'm sure you guys will be best friends in no time."

This has got to be one of the most eventful days of my life. Blue cookies are weird, apparently. Jason wants to introduce me to his children. The Hades Cabin has one of the flags. And I'm still trying to get used to how crazy this whole place is, with it's golden campfire with fifteen foot flames.

But as I bite into my cookie s'more, I figure that it doesn't really matter. Right now, I just want to stuff my face with sugar, and listen to the Apollo Cabin's nightly sing-a-long.