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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or The Heroes of Olympus. Both belong to Rick Riordan who would not waste his time writing a fanfiction of his story. That'd be stupid.

HAZEL

Hazel was wandering through the Roman side of their little campsite. She wasn't looking for anything specific, just wandering around. The Roman soldiers looked on edge, like the tiniest thing might set them off like a bomb.

She knew it had something to do with being so near the Greeks, and Octavian's constant and absurd idea that the Greeks were planning to destroy the Romans did not help the situation.

And it really didn't help that Percy and Jason were fighting.

She sighed. She wasn't happy that two of her friends were fighting. She felt like she was in the middle of it and they were asking her to decide which one of them was right.

Her thoughts continued to go back to their first fight-which started out pretty stupid. They were arguing over directions for Jupiter's sake!

But it quickly took a turn for the worst when they went the way Jason insisted they go. Percy had huffed, irritated and frustrated.

"Jason, are you sure this is the way we need to go?" Percy asked, for the millionth time.

"For the last time, Percy," Jason growled in annoyance. "I'm positive we need to go this way!"

Minutes of silence passed until Percy spoke up again, "Jason-"

"Just shut up, Jackson! I'm sure we need to go this way!" Jason yelled and continued going forward. But Percy hadn't been asking Jason the same question. He'd been about to warn Jason about the Lastrygonians a few paces away.

Jason continued and ran right into one, stopping most of the rest of our campers to stop in their tracks, realizing that Percy was pointing something out.

Hazel couldn't help but gasp in horror as Jason fell and shook his head as he looked up at what he hit. The monster looked down at Jason and smiled with a sickly yellow toothed smile.

"Demigod," He growled, before bursting into what seemed to be a strange green flame (1). Percy had taken the opportunity to sneak up on the preoccupied giant, stabbing it with his bronze sword.

"I tried to warn you," Percy said with narrowed eyes. His sword glinted in the darkness as he swung at the oncoming Cannibal Number Two.

Numbers Three and Four hung back, waiting to see what happens.

Number Two was gone as soon as the blade plunged itself through the monster's stomach.

Percy looked at the remaining two-who now looked extremely angry, and seemed to be saying, 'Who's next?'.

Hazel ran to Jason and helped him to his feet and pulled him back to the rest of the demigods as Percy eyed the last of the Lastrygonians.

Three and Four were about to charge at Percy when two silver arrows flew with a whhhh-shlock! The arrows had penetrated the monsters' skin and pierced straight through their hearts.

Percy glanced back at Thalia Grace, the Hunter of Artemis, with an annoyed look.

"I had those guys, Thals," He whined. Thalia smirked.

"You took too long, Kelp Head. We need to keep moving. Where there's four there are bound to be more."

As the group backtracked and took the way Percy had been insisting they take, Percy pulled Jason to the back of their band of demigods, close to where Hazel was, and confronted him.

As their argument had gotten louder the group stopped and listened. Soon the argument had become a fight, and both boys' had their weapons drawn. It took some seriously heavy charmspeak to get the two back on track.

Hazel wasn't sure if she could take another of those kinds of fights between her two friends. It tore her heart to shreds when they fought.

"We need to get rid of him," Octavian's conniving voice came, pulling Hazel out of the memory, "and place the blame on Jackson. That'll throw them all into chaos. Then, when Reyna has Percy try and prove his innocence, we can convince the other Romans that she's working with the Greeks. Then I, being the most deserving of praetorship, will step up and take my rightful place in power!"

Hazel looked around, but couldn't find him. She had to warn Jason and Percy! Or take care of that snake herself!

When Hazel started to hurry away, someone grabbed her arm from behind and clamped a hand over her mouth.

"And where do you think you're going?" Octavian's voice came in a low growl. Hazel did the only thing she could think of.

She licked his hand.

"UGH!" Octavian pulled his hand away from Hazel's mouth and Hazel screamed.

"HELP!" She yelled. A mixture of both Greek and Roman campers came towards her voice, Frank being in the lead of all of them.

When he saw Octavian holding her arm behind her back, Frank looked like he was about to murder Octavian.

"Hazel what's-Octavian!" Reyna's voice came from the nearest tent. "Octavian! You let her go! I order you, as a loyal Roman soldier, to let go of her this instant!"

Octavian scowled in Reyna's direction, but let go of her anyway.

"Hazel!" Frank ran over to her as Octavian started to walk away. "What happened?"

"Stop Octavian! He's planning to kill Jason and put the blame on Percy! We've got to stop him before it's too late!"

Reyna immediately ran after Octavian, who was now making a brake for the Greek side of the camp in desperation.

"Hazel, are you alright?" Frank asked gently.

"I'm fine, but he was talking to someone, Frank. And I don't know who."

(1): Back in The Sea of Monsters 'I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals' the Laistrygonians erupted in green flame, so I stuck with that.

So how's that for suspenseful? Don't worry bout Jason. He's a big demigod now. Slightly annoying to me, but a demigod none-the-less. Love to see what y'all have to say bout what I write! It'll (normally) bring a smile to my face.

And I'd like to take the time to tell you that that rare occasion when a review doesn't bring a smile to my face happened on my Mark of Athena fanfiction. Yep, the fanfic that I wrote before this that was a first fanfiction. They had said that it was stupid, but didn't have the decency to log in.

So, if you're going to insult something that is a first fanfiction, so may or may not be too good, at least give the author the decency to log in.

~*J.C*~