I haven't posted the last two days, and I'm sorry.

Here's chapter 6

Getting tired of these. Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or The Heroes of Olympus. All rights go to Rick Riordan.

VI Strategizing? Nope, just fighting

(Percy)

I knew what was going on inside Hazel's head. I told Frank that she was confused, because Leo looked a lot like somebody from her past. He was her old boyfriend. Frank looked really down-hearted, so I told him the about the other part of my conversation with Hazel. I told Frank that she hadn't decided yet. He brightened a little, and went off to help Jason with a new weapon style.

I went off to the headquarters tent, to find really loud shouting, and some really bad language going on in there. If I hadn't known that the tent hadn't been big enough, I would've said that a dozen Arions were in there, and six of them had just made the other six really mad. That was how bad the language was.

When I went in, I found a couple of the Hunters in a huge fight with Hazel and Piper.

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! What's going on in here?" I asked.

"Tell them that their stupid strategy won't work, it'll get us killed. Our strategy, on the other hand, will work perfectly fine and we won't be killed!" Piper shouted.

"Like Hades your strategy is going to work! Do you see the position that you put these girls in? They'll all be killed!"

I tried to lighten the mood, and asked why they were fighting, since the Hunters had usually tolerated girls. It didn't help, and I nearly got skewered by a couple of hunting knives. These days, with all the demigods here restless and dangerous with all their weapons, I almost miss my Achilles curse. Almost.

When I finally saw the battle plan, I said that both had their faults and if the Hunters and Piper and Hazel cooperated, it would make a good plan. Originally, I wanted it so that I showed no team favoritism, so that I wouldn't take a knife or a sword. This plan backfired. Instead, both sides started shouting at me. I guess the only good part was that they had now joined together. This would probably create a good battle plan. Unfortunately, I was pretty sure that by their glares, I wouldn't live to see the morning again.

(Jason)

I had been trying to learn the Greek way of fighting, when I saw Percy coming. I needed some help. Frank had offered to help me, but after a few spars, I easily defeated him. I'm not saying Frank is bad or anything, but he just isn't good enough. I needed someone skilled like Percy. Unfortunately, as soon as I saw the harassed expression on his face, I knew it wasn't the time to ask him for sparing. I did ask him what the problem is.

"Go into the headquarters tent, you'll find out soon enough." He replied.

I went near the headquarters tent, and I heard language so colorful any priest in the world would have a heart attack, stroke, and develop early signs of cancer all in one go. (A/N Sorry if any priest reads this, although I doubt any priests will read this. This is kinda exaggerated, but don't blame me.)

I found out what the problem was. The people who were assigned as planners weren't agreeing with strategies. I made a few pointers, and practically got fried by how intense their glares were. I now understood why Percy looked so harried. I immediately left the tent and left it to anyone who didn't mind death glares, especially a death glare from the daughter of the Underworld.

(Leo)

I was sitting on the Argo II, thinking about Hazel's strange behavior. She always seemed so twitchy around me. I understood why Frank would be twitchy, ever since he told me about his stubble of wood. I was the flaming dude, so I can't really blame him. I don't understand Hazel though. Is it that she doesn't like me? For the first time in my entire life I was actually worried about my social abilities. As I was thinking, Nico slid up to me.

"What's up?"

"Not much, just thinking."

"About what?"

"Hazel."

"What about her?"

"Well, I was wondering why she is always so jumpy around me like I'm a bag of dynamite that might go off any second and blow her head off or something."

"I don't know, but I'll ask her if you like. If what you say is true, maybe I should talk to her instead of you."

"Yeah, thanks man, it would be great. Especially since you are her brother, she'd trust you more."

"I'll see if I can talk to her at dinner."

Nico left, and I returned to my thinking world. Before I could actually do much, I saw Jake Mason from Camp staring at me. It gave me quite a shock until I realized that it was an Iris-Message.

"Hey Leo, how's it going in Greece?"

"Okay, I guess, if you count nearly dying every few days okay."

"That sucks. Listen, Annabeth and the others who left you on that island, they've come back to Camp. They want to go back to you guys, do you think that'll be all right?"

"I'll ask, but I can't just make a decision right away right now. Technically, Percy is the leader, so I'll have to ask him.

"Annabeth says she's really sorry about the fight, and she hopes that she'll be able to be back with you guys. She says she can offer her brains."

"That's true. Over the past few weeks, we haven't really devised any good plans, so I suppose brainpower will help a lot."

"Is that a yes?"

"As soon as I get the all-clear from Percy, which I don't think will be that hard."

"Okay."

As Jake moved to cut the connection, I cried out. "Wait!"

He stopped.

"What?"

"I might not be able to Iris-message you guys from here. There aren't that many rainbows, and we're not exactly in a place where you can make artificial rainbows or anything."

"Do you want me to Iris-message you again in a few days so that you can give us the answer?"

"Yeah, give me three days. With all this preparation around here, it really is hectic."

"That's fine. So three days right?"

"Right."

This time Jake cut the connection without any disagreements.

I rose and went to find Percy to tell him about my conversation with Jake.

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