Well, here's the next chapter. Some real action happening in this one. I'm making this one Rylan's POV. Enjoy!

RYLAN'S POV

Dinner started off well. We did the usual prayers, the visiting Romans sitting at whichever tables they wished to sit at. I glanced at the Aphrodite table and saw Drew. She was glaring at me and then pointed at Sam at the Hermes table, like who the hell is she? I mouthed "new camper" to Drew and she relaxed a bit, but still glared daggers at me. I thought back to the time we started dating. It wasn't long, considering that the war only ended a month ago. We started maybe, three weeks ago. There were still rumors that Drew hadn't gotten over Jason Grace yet, but I didn't really care, 'cause she was with me now. She had asked me to go out with her, and I had said yes immediately. I felt like I really wanted to the second I said it (afterwards I suspected charmspeak but I was like, whatever), though I never really felt like she loved me much and actually, though I didn't say a thing to her. I always thought that I was like a distraction from Jason.

But that wasn't the real problem. When everyone was enjoying their food, Reyna stood up with Frank and some of the other Romans. The campers fell silent. The praetors of Rome had cold looks on their faces, and so did the other Romans. Reyna opened her mouth to speak.

"As you all know, on a mission with Frank and Hazel, we lost our eagle," said Reyna. There was complete silence now, though some people pointed to the eagle in Frank's hand, like isn't it right there?

Reyna ignored the pointing and continued talking. "However, today we found it in the bag of a Greek demigod." The Romans realized what she was implying and starting getting up and shouting things like "traitors!" and "I thought there's supposed to be peace!". The Greeks started getting up too, angry that they just got called traitors. The tension in the atmosphere increased.

Chiron stood up and shouted above all the noise. "Silence!" He turned to Reyna. "My dear, we didn't take anything from you. How about you question this demigod with those dogs of yours?"

Reyna glared at him. "Don't 'my dear' me," she said coldly, "Aurum and Argentum are…gone. I can't."

Frank stepped in. "Even so, New Rome's pride has already been wounded."

Percy stood up. "Guys, look, it was accident. Frank…Reyna…come on…you know we wouldn't do such a thing," he pleaded.

Hazel and Frank just looked at the ground. "New Rome has a lot of pride," Frank just repeated. I glanced at Sam. She had her head down and seemed to be trying to disappear.

"Sorry, but the peace has been broken by you. We're leaving. Get your Greeks to come back from our camp too, or else…" threatened a Roman demigod in a purple T-shirt. Reyna silenced him, but she turned and left with all the visiting Romans behind her.

Mr. D looked up from his magazine. "What happened? They left? Why don't you all just run along to your stupid campfire?" I balled my fists. How could Mr. D be happy that the peace was gone? But of course, he was Mr. D.

Suddenly Mr. D dropped his magazine and Diet Coke. Everyone stared at him. He gripped his head and scrunched his face up in agony.

"Stupid…incapacitation!" he gritted his teeth. I realized what was happening. Just like during the Giant War, the gods were being split between their Greek and Roman aspects because the peace was broken. Chiron backed away from Mr. D and he suddenly disappeared in a flash of light. A red light engulfed the Hermes table and for a second I thought Dionysus caused it, but then I realized that some undetermined camper was getting claimed by…Aphrodite. I went to see who it was…and it was Sam. My mouth fell open. She was absolutely beautiful. Perfect make-up, perfect hairdo, perfect clothing, simply perfectly pretty. People congratulated her for getting claimed and headed to the campfire.

Right before we started the normal campfire songs, something weird happened. I started hearing shouting in my mind, and I even recognized some of the voices to be Zeus, Athena, Hermes, and Dionysus. It sounded like the gods were arguing. Everyone else probably heard the same thing, because campers started getting confused and weird looks on their faces. Some covered their ears and shook their heard. Until suddenly…

BOOM!

Thunder crashed over Camp Half-Blood and I heard an explosion in my mind so loud that I almost became deaf. That wasn't the scariest part. Lightning flashed across the sky and suddenly one strip of lightning came straight down from the sky and struck me in the chest.

You want to know what that felt like? Okay, imagine a million burning arrows just struck you in the same spot one at 1000 miles/hour. Then times that pain by a thousand. That's what it felt like. I didn't even have time to breathe. I was too shocked by the pain to do anything. I just stared down at the spot and what I saw freaked me out. Different colors of light were flowing out of the lightning and straight into me. White lines spread across my entire body from the spot. Maybe I was screaming, I have no idea. I flew backwards onto the grass and landed with a loud THUD.

I heard hooves and dimly saw Chiron's face appear above me. I watched as the white lines on my body faded and disappeared, though I could still see white lines on my hair since it was in my face. Those didn't seem to fade and disappear. Chiron inspected me.

"There's no harm done," Chiron said uncertainly, clearly confused. I heard more footsteps and saw a whole crowd of people around us. Chiron helped me up. I felt weird. I glanced at my shirt. There was a small hole in it from the lightning. Then something extremely strange happened. Four different colors of light came from the hole and formed into…symbols. They floated above my head. And that's when the entire crowd gasped as one, so it sounded like this huge sigh. People pointed above my head and but I just thought, what the heck? I glanced up and saw four symbols of four gods. Chiron backed away.

"I don't understand," he muttered. "A child of four gods, five including Apollo?"

I just turned away when I heard a lot of shouting. I turned back just in time to see two strips of lightning streak down from the sky and hit two other campers.

"Oh my gods, what in Hades is happening?" I heard Annabeth say as she ran to the two struck by lightning. I rushed forward too. I watched in horror as a camper flew through the air and landed behind me. I knelt down next to her and realized that the hit camper was the girl that arrived in the morning with the satyr Chrys. White lines spread from her puncture too and covered her entire body like a glowing spider web. I freaked and backed away. The craziest thing was she was fine after the lines faded, but unlike me, the lines her arms and legs didn't fade but all the others did, including the lines on her hair. I watched as light came out of her puncture too, but they were different from mine. They formed four symbols too—Hades, Athena, Dionysus and Ares. And I would like to bet that the same thing happened to the other camper that got hit.

The thunder faded away and Chiron called a meeting with the head counselors and the hit campers, which unfortunately included me. We sat around a Ping-Pong table and that's when I noticed that Sam was there too. I frowned. Then I saw white lines around her eyes and on her eyelids when she blinked. I realized she got hit too. Chiron opened his mouth to speak.

"We need to discuss what's going on," he said.

So, how was that? Can anyone guess what in Hades is going on? I'll give cookies to anyone that gets it right in the next chapter ;)

-mi5hao