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Rachel didn't want to submit entirely to the Romans. But it had seemed the only way to get them to take her seriously. The girl, Reyna, had said it was unnecessary to take her prisoner, so where did that leave her? She had been searched for weapons, given new clothes, blindfolded and locked in a room. When her eyes had adjusted to the light she was that it was empty except for the bed pushed against the back wall. You're in the big house the oracle told her, but she had never seen this room before.

"Rachel, You are called for the Senate" the voice of a roman legionnaire came to her.

"Okay, let me out then" Rachel tried not to sound too sarcastic.

A boy opened the door and walked over to her and tied a piece of cloth around her head, forcing her to close her eyes. He grabbed her wrist and led her away.

"We are here" the blindfold was loosened and she clawed it away from her face. There were going to be red marks on her face later on. She blinked as her eyes adjusted to the bright light again. She was in a courtyard, surrounded by roman-style columns that held up roofs over a series of walkways. It astounded Rachel that the Romans had built all of this in 5 days.

"Rachel Elizabeth Dare" she turned to see Reyna on a sort of throne. "You have come to our camp to surrender yourself to us. This means that you will, effectively, be our slave"

"I understand" Rachel didn't know where her voice came from, because she felt extreme fear take over her body. What would they make her do?

"Why did you do this?" Octavian said, from the seat next to Reyna's.

"I came to offer myself, in exchange for the safety of the Greek Demigods" It wasn't Rachel speaking, it was the Oracle. It was taking her over, but it wasn't like it usually was, normally it took her over and she wasn't aware of anything happening. But it was as if she was speaking the words, but she wasn't in control of them.

"What does this condition involve?" Reyna asked.

Rachel proceeded to list her conditions.

-That the camp be left unharmed

-That no campers be killed

-That no Nymph or Satyr be hurt either

-And that the Romans not hurt another Greek Demigod

But it still wasn't Rachel, the oracle was better at phrasing what she wanted that Rachel could have ever been.

"But Percy Jackson swore on his life" Octavian objected.

Reyna gave him a look of disgust and hatred. Octavian either didn't notice or didn't care, but Rachel saw hurt in Reyna's eyes.

"Rachel, Octavian is right, Percy must die, he swore. I warned him"

Rachel couldn't answer, the oracle wasn't going to help anymore. It took her a minute to pull herself together. She straightened and looked Reyna in the eye.

"Then I will take his place"

Rachel was now waiting in that room again. It had been hours since she had told the Romans to take her life rather than Percy's. She had spent every moment since, praying to the gods that the Romans would keep their promise not to hurt any Greeks. She had made Reyna and Octavian swear on the river Styx, but Rachel wasn't even sure if it was binding to Romans. So she waited, and waited, and kept waiting until she heard a knock at the door.

"What do you want!?" Rachel shouted at whoever was at the door.

It swung open to reveal Octavian closing the door behind him.

"I have come to collect you for the Games" with that Octavian took her by the arm and pulled her behind him, up the hall. No blindfold or anything.

Rachel ran to keep up with the blond-haired boy. They went though countless corridors and eventually emerged in the sward-fighting arena that Camp Half-blood used for training.

Rachel would often come here to watch a duel between two campers. Most involved a child of Ares getting revenge on one of the stoll brothers for pranking them. The stoll brothers usually ended up losing though, Ares' children were fierce when they had to defend their pride.

The arena had been barricaded off, presumably so Rachel couldn't try for an escape. The benches were filled with roman demigods and Reyna stood in front of her. Octavian let go of her arm and walked around to stand next to Reyna.

"You will fight to the death" Reyna announced to the crowd. Rachel's eyes widened in shock. She had expected them to execute her privately, in a room, keeping her a secret form the camp. But, clearly not.

"Against what?" her voice was panicky.

"Against a Sphinx" Octavian Announced.

Rachel's first thought was of the giant Sphinx in Egypt, She knew that she couldn't be expected to fight something like that.

Reyna and Octavian stepped to the side to reveal a large weapons rack behind them. Rachael had never trained with many weapons, being the oracle, but she saw a dagger there. One that looked like the one she had been given. She knew how to use it, even if she wasn't very good. She could stab and slash and she knew how to use a basic shield to block.

"You have a choice of three items" Reyna explained.

Rachel walked towards the rack and picked out the dagger. She then chose a round shield. What else was there to chose? It was then that she saw the vials of colored liquid inside the rack.

They are elixirs of Power Rachel heard the Oracle's voice in her mind. The red one will grant you all the powers of a child of Ares, The orange one gives the powers of a child of Hephaestus and the Black one gives you the powers of a child of hades for precisely one hour. I recommend the blue one. It will give you the powers of a child of Zeus.

Rachel Obeyed the Oracle and took the blue vial in her hand, grasping it tightly.

Rachel looked up to see that the two romans had left the arena. She stepped away from the rack and another roman demi-god took it away.

She turned to face where she had come from to see the monster lurking in the doorway. Rachel's body was tasked over with fear. And she murmured under her breath:

"Please let me live to see my friends again. Please let me live to see another day. Please let me live to see another smile."

Hope you liked this chapter, it was a little longer than the others, I'm trying to write longer chapters, but the next chapter will be fairly long so this one had to end here... Please review and follow! I love you all! Thanks for reading my fanfic!