Here's Chapter 7

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VII Frustration turning into fights

(Leo)

When I finally found Percy, he was already in a bad mood. When I mentioned Jake's request, he somehow got even madder. He said that Annabeth and all the others who had abandoned us on that island shouldn't be allowed a second chance. They had their chance to come, but they abandoned us. I countered with the fact that they would provide extra people, so more people could be resting up. Before long, it turned into a fully blown fight. In the end, Percy had to be dragged off, while several others held me off. I had burst into flames, so nobody could really get close to me. They instead just took out swords and blocked my way to Percy. I hate to admit it, but Percy beat me up pretty badly. With his water powers, and his sword moves, I got crushed. I went off and sulked in a corner.

Frank found me later that day. I was surprised about two things. One, that he was the one who managed to find me, and two, that he actually wasn't jumpy near me anymore. He asked what the problem between Percy and I was, and I told him. He immediately looked as if a light bulb had went off inside his head. He told me the reason why Percy was so snappy and so against Annabeth coming back. He also told me that Percy had agreed to let them come back, albeit reluctantly. I felt a bit better, and could understand where Percy was coming from. Now, with the information that Frank had told me, I could also snoop around and find out who Percy was really interested in. That made me feel a lot better, so I went to Percy and we made up for the argument slash fight slash I will cut your head off type of conflict.

(Percy)

I don't understand what happened to Leo, but he seemed a lot happier when he came to me and apologized. When I saw Frank was with him, I suspected that Frank had told him about my secret. That sucked, but if the message never gets across to Annabeth, at least until I'm ready to face her, I'll be happy.

I realized after my fight with Leo that his reasoning was logical and based on the good for everybody here, while mine was irrational and totally based on personal reasons. That's why I decided that he was right, and agreed to allow the campers who wished to come back to our camp come back. After we made up, I ended up with Frank, so I started interrogating him.

"Why is Leo so happy? Did you tell him my secret?"

"Uhhh, well, I-, uhhh."

"Your lack of a logical and understandable answer tells me that the real answer is yes."

"Yes."

"Why? I'm sure you can figure out that what I told you was in the strictest confidence. After all, you're not stupid."

"Well, I was trying to make him feel better, and get you two to make up."

"You could have used something else! An excuse! Anything!"

"You know the information will eventually leak, Percy."

"Yeah, but I wouldn't have minded if it leaked after I was ready to face Annabeth."

"Oh are you a chicken?"

At that, I put him in a headlock and wouldn't let go until he swore on the River Styx not to tell anybody else. After that, I let him go, and went off to see whether or not the Headquarters tent was still standing. Considering the arguments and fights that had been going on between Hazel and Piper and the Hunters, I wasn't very optimistic.

(Jason)

Gaea is probably the craftiest person (goddess?) I know. Percy and Leo, who had gotten along fine all across the hardships that we endured while on that island repairing the Argo II, got into a fight. I bet that all of this was in Gaea's plan. They are both instrumental to our success. If we begin to grow rifts between us, we could we seriously screwed. Anyways, right now, I am was on a scouting mission.

Suddenly, the clearing erupted with monsters. I saw dracaena, Earthborns, hellhounds, and Abe Lincoln with a spathus surrounding me and my fellow scouting mates. I don't understand how Abe Lincoln, who was a very kind-hearted fellow when he was alive, could be violent enough to kill a kid, even though he was a demigod. (You do realize I'm talking about myself right?)

"Back to back." I said.

We stood back to back and faced the oncoming monsters and 16th president of the United States. Suddenly, one hellhound lunged forward, and the clearing exploded into chaos and confusion. I sliced and diced every single monster around me. Earthborn and hellhounds exploded around me. Thankfully, they didn't respawn very quickly. When I faced Abe Lincoln, I got a shock. I never knew that the 16th president of the United States had time to take sword lessons, especially when he had to fight the Civil War. I may be horrible and modern history, but I'm pretty sure that the Civil War was not fought with swords, it was fought with rifles and cannons. He was pretty hard to beat, and I felt pretty bad about sticking a sword through one of America's most decorated and honored presidents.

After all the monsters had been killed, I looked around for injuries. Phoebe and her Hunter partner were fine. However, Matthew, a new demigod son of Hermes/Mercury, hadn't had much training and had received a deep cut in his stomach and a shallower cut in his thigh. He was the only injury, so we crowded around him and tried to administer first-aid, which basically meant giving him an ambrosia square and telling him to eat it. When we figured out that it wasn't enough, we had to pick him up and take him back to Camp. We were pretty sure he was going to spend a few days in the infirmary. I felt bad, since I was the one who was supposed to look after him, but I let him down, and now he was injured. We took turns carrying him back to Camp.

Unfortunately, while we were carrying him back to camp, we had completely forgotten about our real mission. Our mission had been to locate an enemy monster outpost, and either destroy it, or report the location to camp so that we would be able to send warriors in to destroy it. We completely forgot about it, and on the way home I remembered. We couldn't do anything except pray that they wouldn't attack us and take us by surprise. But when the gods aren't listening to you, what use does your prayer do? I don't think it does anything.

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