My chapters are short, but I promise there'll be lots! This one in particular isn't very long, but that's because it's mostly filler stuff...

Tayla

In the dirt in front of me, I was tracing out the words I M SO BORED again and again. Trixie was reading, I couldn't find Liana and my siblings were playing basketball in the centre of the omega, boys on girls. They boys were way better, but there were more girls.

Most of the Nike cabin was standing around like me, and decided to join. As Nike had a few more boys, the teams were even and the girls were taking a thrashing.

I hate sport and had had enough of the game. I wandered down to the Arts and Crafts cabin, but I didn't feel like art today. Past that was the armoury, but fighting seemed boring too. I went back to the cabins and watched the basketball game a little. Some sympathetic Tyche girls had joined the game, and now the girls were beginning to win.

I shrugged my shoulders and ran into the game.

Leo

I wound up the little toy I had created, watching as it scuttled across the burnt workbench. It was like a tiny metal crab. I put it on the concrete floor and wound it up again, watching as it skittered to the door and fell down the steps, tiny legs waving in the air.

One of the younger Hypnos kids, maybe seven, happened to be wandering around my workshop. He picked up the little toy and inspected it, then sleepily walked up to me and tried to give it back. I told him he could have it.

Before I did any more tinkering, I looked around the workshop. There was a spider-looking robot that repeated what you said in Greek, Italian and French, a totally useless dancing drakon, an electric lamp, and lots of tiny things I didn't take the time to look at.

I was looking for some sort of blueprint, and I found a whole stack of them in a drawer near the lamp. I picked one off the top, a blueprint for a solar boat. I was walking past the spider when I decided to give it a try.

"I am so awesome."

"Είμαι τόσο φοβερό."

"Io sono così impressionante."

"Je suis tellement génial."

Cool robot.

Sean

"Oh sh...! Nearly fell off the roof!" My brother Andrew sucks at climbing.

"You're not even on the roof yet."

"Oh well."

"Why did you throw the spear, anyway?"

"I was trying to throw it over the cabin. It's not my fault it got stuck!"

I didn't bother telling him that causing the problem makes it your fault.

We reached the roof of the Ares cabin and started searching- or more so, I did. Andrew just sat and whinged about how he was afraid of heights. I found his spear easily, stuck in the gutter. I threw it down to the ground so the point was buried in the dirt.

I poked Andrew and told him to start climbing down. He slipped again twice, the second time falling the rest of the way to the ground (It wasn't far).

Andrew ran to grab his spear. He picked it up and braced himself to throw it again.

"Not helping this time," I warned him.

Yup, stuck again.

"Well, go get it!"

Nico

Sword-fighting practice sessions are easily disturbed by half-invisible teenage daughters of Iris, I find. Especially when you nearly decapitate a half-invisible teenage daughter of Iris. Not fun.

As I happened, I was swinging my sword around, practicing some strokes. A very cranky, very hard to see Liana stumbled near me and nearly got her head cut off.

"WATCH IT!"
"Sorry! It's not like I can see you." I sat down on a bench at the end of the arena.

Liana appeared, looking very bedraggled. She was wearing rainbow-spotted pink pyjama bottoms, a purple shirt saying "I'D RATHER BE ASLEEP", and bare feet. She was totally soaked, her hair was all tangled, and she had scratches all over her arms and some on her face. One cheek had a reddish-purplish bruise forming, and she wore zero makeup.

She came to sit next to me. "Sorry if I seem cranky. I've just had a horrible day. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and then got attacked by water nymphs who didn't want me swimming through their kelp. And then I tripped and got this." She pointed to her cheek. "All in all, not happy today."

"I know the feeling," I said sympathetically. Her rainbow eyes seemed almost to glow in the shade. I noticed things I never noticed about Liana before, like the fact that she has naturally long lashes, that her nose turns up slightly, that she has a freckle on her eyebrow... just strange little things that you never seem to see. Another thing it took me a while to notice was that I was staring.

I looked down at my hands, still holding my sword. I put it back in the scabbard and was about to say something again when somebody came in the arena gates.

"Shite! I can't let anyone see me looking like this!" Liana turned chameleon again, blending into the wooden wall. If you didn't know she was there, you wouldn't have seen her.

The figure was revealed to be Percy, who was followed by Annabeth. Damn it, every time I try to talk to Liana, somebody interrupts me- first her friend, then Tyson, then Percy and Annabeth!

"You can still talk to me, you just can't see me," Liana said. "I just don't want people to see me looking like a harpy."

"Sha-" I stopped myself from saying something extremely stupid.

"What?"

"Never mind."

We continued to talk about random stuff, thought mostly about the quest tomorrow.. Percy waved at me, but was training with Annabeth at the other end of the arena and couldn't hear us talking. I demolished some nearby dummies while I was talking, so I didn't look like an idiot, sitting there apparently doing nothing.

Percy and Annabeth left, and Liana took off her camouflage. Not long later I turned around to see her asleep against the bench. She had a smile on her face.