"No way I'm surrendering to those moose-headed punks!" Clarisse growled, "We've got to save the camp! They'll take it over and destroy it!"
"At the expense of the camper's lives? That's who I'm concerned about!' Frank argued. Even though they basically had the same dad, in no way were they alike. "We've already made the decision. Are you helping or not?" Clarisse glared at him, and Frank was afraid that she might beat him up. It was definitely possible. Piper had tried using charmspeak on her earlier, but not even that could convince the daughter of Ares to surrender.
"Fine." She muttered, "Me and my siblings will get the Aphrodite kids out of here since they're the weakest."
"Hey!" Piper exclaimed, crossing her arms over her chest. Clarisse rolled her eyes.
"I didn't mean you, stupid." She stomped off, gathering a few of her sibling and they quietly and stealthily helped them escape via Pegasus. Hopefully, the Romans wouldn't see the Pegasus's flying away, or else they could shoot them down with their catapults.
Annabeth was fighting off another Roman while she tried to convince the Demeter cabin to escape. Katie was helping her by growing vines that tangled the Roman's leg. He tripped and fell to the ground with an umph. Annabeth grinned and high-fived Katie, but Katie could see a strange sadness in her eyes. The usually happy Annabeth seemed to have disappeared. Now she looked, heartbroken, scared, and all around worn out. Where was the old Annabeth?
"Are you sure this is a good idea Annabeth?" Katie wondered, "You know, surrendering and all.."
"It's not really surrendering, just sort of hiding. We're making them think that we're surrenduring, then once they back off, we'll come back," Annabeth answered, but Katie frowned.
"We want to fight. We could win!"
"Even if we did end up winning, we'd only have, like, twenty campers." Annabeth snorted. It was a stupid thought. The Romans were better equipped, better trained, it seemed, than the Greeks. How could they win? Especially without Percy. No, don't think about him! It'll only distract you! But how could Annabeth get him out of her mind. After all they had been through, the second Titan War, Tartarus, the Labyrinth, and this is how it turned out? Him dead and her heartbroken? What was up with the Fates? They must hate me…
Although Katie didn't want to agree with Annabeth, she knew that it was a wise decision. They had already lost so many friends, cousins, and brothers or sisters. Travis Stoll was badly wounded, and none of the healers were sure if he'd make it. He'd better! Katie thought.
Lou Ellen and the other sons and daughters of Hecate were using spells of invisibility to help them escape. There were only four of them left. Thankfully, they also cloaked Clovis and his siblings, so they could escape. They were trying not to fall asleep on the battlefield (Which Lou Ellen found quite disturbing). Lou Ellen had never seen anyone try to fight off a Roman in their pajamas, but now, she didn't think anything would surprise her.