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V Monster fight (the first one)
(Jason)
"What did Gaea want?" I asked, sitting down next to him.
"She wanted the usual. Join my side so we can win, blah blah blah. What she offered was different."
I knew as soon as I saw Leo's expression that Gaea had offered something to do with his mom. Back on our quest to save Hera, whenever Leo's mom was the topic of conversation, Leo would immediately go quiet, and lose the joking, easygoing, fun attitude. He'd become as serious Reyna would be at a Senate meeting.
"What did she offer?" I asked, knowing almost certainly what the answer was.
"She offered my mom in exchange for me switching sides."
"Look, Leo, everybody here would hate it if you joined Gaea's side, but I wouldn't blame you. Sure, I don't really know what it is like to lose a family member, but I know it must really suck. I also know that if given the chance, I would want to see my mother again, and from the description you gave me, I'm pretty sure your mother is a thousand times better than my mother, which means your wanting would be even greater than mine. Everywhere, people would call you a traitor, but I wouldn't blame you if you actually switched sides."
"I didn't switch sides. I knew that even if Gaea was telling the truth, which I highly doubt she is, my mother would never forgive me if I switched sides. I'm staying with you guys, and I'm part of the seven. You need me, especially as a mechanic." Leo said with a half-smile.
Seeing that Leo was back in the "Leo" mood, I joked, "Yeah, and the mechanic who was supposed to be fixing Festus has taken a very long time to do so, a very long time indeed."
Leo snorted, "All I'm supposed to do is fix the dragon, don't you have anything to do?"
I then realized that I was late for the meeting that we had arranged.
"Sh*t!" I said, and sprinted off to the headquarters tent. I could hear Leo laughing after me, before the clinking started again, which meant that he was working again."
(Percy)
When Jason finally got here to begin the meeting, we poked fun at him, of course. It's become a routine. We always poke fun at the person who does something wrong. It's become our entertainment. Sad, I know, but hey, we've got no electronics, no games (our chessboard got destroyed when the Argo II hit the island, and all the pieces got scattered. We never managed to find them again.), so poking fun and joking around was the only entertainment we got around here these days. When we got back to a more serious note, we began planning our strategies. Nico had managed to procure for us a map of the battlefields in Greece. He had shadow traveled there, took careful notes and drew detailed maps, before shadow traveling back. Now, we planned on how to fight Gaea and the giants.
A few days ago, about twenty Roman and Greek demigods, plus the Hunters of Artemis joined our camp. We were slowly gathering demigods to fight, just like during the Titan War. Sure, the prophecy was "Seven half-bloods answer the call", but that doesn't mean that we can't have more demigods and then have only the seven of us fight at the very final battle, just like Luke, Annabeth, Grover, and I did during the Titan War.
Our first strategy was where our position was. We were, once again, in a defensive position. We were in the middle of planning when yelling started outside. I stuck my head out of the tent, and gasped at what I saw.
"What is it?" asked Jason.
"Monsters, a lot of monsters." I replied.
We all picked up our weapons and ran outside to help the demigods and Hunters fight. We killed all the monsters, but took several injuries ourselves. Thankfully, nobody was killed. We all knew that Gaea was just messing with us, hoping to weaken us before the actual final battle against the giants. There was nothing we could do however, because we were sitting ducks until we had a good strategy. We couldn't go in now, because it was around the spring equinox right now, and we wanted to fight at the summer solstice, where "good" magic was at its strongest point. However, after this attack, we were more aware that Gaea would send monsters to harass us, so we made a scouting team that would warn us ahead of time if a group of monsters were coming towards the camp. Meanwhile, we had to set up an infirmary to treat the wounded. We had some nectar and ambrosia, but we didn't want to use it since it was in limited supply. After a few hectic days, we settled on jobs. There were five types. You usually rotated around since some jobs required you to pull all-nighters.
Scout. You would scout out the enemy forces
Doctor. You treated the wounded and tended to their needs.
Planners. You planned strategies and tried to talk to the gods.
Weaponry. You worked on your weapon skills and forged weapons if you were good at it.
Miscellaneous. You worked on whatever was needed to be done and rested if there was nothing else to be done.
It wasn't a bad plan by any means, but we didn't have that many people. However, some more demigods arrived from either Camp Half-Blood, or Camp Jupiter, where Reyna had managed to retain control and overpower Octavian and his crew. With the new arrivals, we had about fifty people, and it was easier to delegate jobs.
The Seven from the prophecy and some of the leaders of the Greeks, Romans, and the Hunters planned strategy. We went over some plans, discarded others, and refined most of them. Every now and then monsters would attack, but our scouts gave us ample amount of warning so we had nothing to worry about. One day, as another meeting finished, Frank and I began a conversation. It quickly steered toward Hazel. Frank knew that I knew a lot about Hazel and that she had confided in me a lot. He wanted to know how she felt about him. So I started to tell him…
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