Honestly, coming back to this has brought me massive relief, between work and college work I have not had the time to write in two months! This is my first chapter back and I know its short, only 2000 words but I will go back to attempt to stick with my schedule a chapter every week or two, again I'm sorry please forgive me

Being back inside Camp Jupiter meant one thing to me, that I was home. From the moment I had stepped out the following morning after returning home from Mount Orthys, I knew that camp would never be the same, but I knew I was home. As the days went by and the training started again with the third, I knew I would have to make back some of the trust I had lost in my cohort. war games were set up by the Praetors in celebration of the completion of the quest, the third was tasked with defending against the rest of the other cohorts which we all thought would go swimmingly.

"Honestly Blake? You made Reyna put the ENTIRE camp against us for a challenge?" Kit drawled out while staring at me with his bright blue eyes. I smiled in return to his comment and pushed closed the door of the fort and securing the door with a piece of war to bar it from being pushed open. "we just have to hold the central room, just like in Lord of the Rings when Minis Tirith is attacked and the heroes are holding the last room and then they charge out on horses into the enemies army and win the day". But honestly, I wished it had of went like that.

The moment we started the war games we were immediately pelted with arrows from the Apollos kids, I narrowed my multicoloured eyes at the approaching army of armed crazy psycho teenagers waving swords and hammers and spears at us in challenge as they charged towards the fort, with some mounted on an elephant aptly named Hannibal. I grinned at how careless and fun they seemed to take this war game, I had come up with a plan the night before with Axel and Kit and spread it to the rest of the cohort, our last resort was to hold the throne room, but our real plan was to be…suicidal as Kit said, but I wanted to try it, with Axel and Kit on either side of me, we jumped over the wall and landed super hero style, which I thought was pretty cool until my ankles started to throb and I yelped out in pain causing Kit to laugh.

I glared at him and stood up drawing verdict while the other two drew their swords and we stood shoulder by shoulder facing down the entirety of Camp Jupiter, the best of Rome some could say. I grinned as the whole of the enemy stopped at our sudden appearance, clearly surprised by our boldness or stupidity, but I did what any son of Janus would do, I made a choice. I put on my helmet and stared at the enemy as some stepped forward to put us to the test as Kit and Axel went right and left and I went straight forward, right into the fray.

I recognized by target, Leila, daughter of Ceres, she snarled as she swung her swords towards my head which I glanced off with Verdict and swung low to try and swipe her legs from underneath her, to which she jumped and bonked me on the head with the hilt of her sword. I dropped verdict with a groan, and she was standing over me now with her sword pointing at my chest. She grinned through her helmet "I win Blakey poo" I laughed and she looked confused for a split second before we fell through a doorway I created underneath us and suddenly I was on top of her but her sword was nowhere to be found, she headbutted me straight in my helmet and I fell onto my back as she got back up quickly while I was still groggy from that hit, she balled her fists and held them close to her face like a boxer as I slowly get up and threw my helmet to the floor. "man, to ma-err man to woman I mean." She nodded as I got into a fighting stance, using the fighting skills that Saturn had taught me would come in handy.

I knew that Leila would use her vine powers the moment I put my guard down so I stayed focused and prepared for a it to happen at any moment. I felt a slight tremor as a vine snapped out of the ground and grabbed my ankle, I tried to yank it away in a panic only causing my self to lose balance and Leila pounced throwing a right hook which should have connected with my jaw but she fell through a doorway and came out behind me, I yanked at the vine and managed to get my ankle free as a fist connected with the back of my head. I fell forward seeing stars, as I tried to turn another fist connected with my face as she kept the onslaught going until I shook my head and I realised how much I would show my father up, my traitor against the Olympians, My father Janus, the TRAITOR. I roared and charged at Leila tackling her to the ground as I started pounding into her with my fists as she tried to defend against me, I felt a sudden change in temperature and looked up just as a blast of lighting struck me in the chest and sent my flying back into a tree.

My chest like it was on fire and I could barely breath, all I could smell was my own skin smoking, but I knew I had to set an example for the third, I was a son of Janus, I could not be bested. I stood up shaking my pain off as I faced a new opponent. Jason Grace stood a few feet away from me, holding his gladius in his hand and his left hand sparking with lightning as his hair stood on end as he faced me, the rest of the legion surrounded us as the Praetor had decided to join the battle, it's a very rare thing for a praetor to join in the war games I have heard.

"Blake" he grinned "I wanted to test you myself, after being with Saturn for a while I expected you to be able to beat everyone here single handily, Reyna thought it as well, but I knew I had to try it, been awhile since I stepped up to the plate myself, but I thought, what the heck. If I win this one verses one, your side loses the war games, but if you win, then you win."

"it would be an honour to fight a Praetor" I grinned and bowed my head slightly as I summoned Verdict off of my finger, luckily enough my ring reappeared pretty quickly I grinned and braced myself for the onslaught of the son of Jupiter, one of the big three, not as hard as a titan but… I'm still going to be smacked around.

Jason charged at me like lighting(totally pun intended) he swung his sword towards me as I lifted verdict up and we clashed and sparks flew as the legion started to roar in encouragement, the third on the walls cheering for me, and the rest of the legion for Jason. I snorted thinking about how obviously the favour the far superior son of the king of the gods and that if I beat him, I could have a chance of gaining some recognition, besides being labelled a traitor by Octavian and his lackies. Maybe this was the chance that Fortuna could grant me, that I could beat Jason, the battle went on for a few more minutes, myself and Jason trading blows a sparks flew, off him and our weapons.

He at one time launched a bolt of lightning towards me, which I in turn created a doorway and let off into the sky, he smirked as his blonde hair was matted with sweat as he turned his sword back into a coin and then into a spear and once again charged,

He zapped the spear with electricity charging it up just as he jumped into the air and he swung down hard as I glanced up as time seemed to slow down immensely, I looked around and then back towards Jason who was slowly coming down towards me with a look of rage on his face. I held up verdict against his spear just as time restarted and Jason roared as his golden spear connected with the shaft of verdict and the lightning discharged flying off both ends of his spear. I strained against Jason as he pushed the tip ever closer to my face, I did what I thought would be best in this situation, I kneed him in the balls.

He roared in pain and dropped his spear and collapsed holding his balls in his hands as I swung verdict around and pinned her tip against his throat, "I Believe I win Praetor". Everyone was for a few moments until I heard "BLAKE BET JASON". Jason grinned and held out a hand which I greatly accepted to pull him up, "well fought Jefferson". The third erupted into and came charging out of the fort to pick me up as the rest of the legion sheeted their weapons in defeat as Hannibal let out a sad trumpet, the third carried me back to the barracks where we celebrated our victory, Axel and Kit were off to one side chatting as I walked over to make sure everything was okay. The stopped as they saw me approach and smiled as I greeted them. "everything okay with you two?" they nodded, and Axel replied "talking about the quest we went on, we thought Sun had killed you Blake, you don't know how relieved we were to see you arriving back into the camp. We had heard about the senate meeting but couldn't believe our ears until you walked back in that door" Axel sniffed, sucking the snot back up his nose "what exactly happened with Saturn?" Kit raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms. I sighed "you guys have to swear on the Styx to not reveal what I told you unless I say so, got it?" they swore on the oath and as thunder boomed, I told them everything, every single detail. They took on different looks as I went through my story, horror, anger, sadness and regret, the regret they that they had listened to Octavian as he had got the whole camp riled against me, but I knew they were sorry and I had forgiven them, these two were my best friends here at camp and I hope they stay them.