This will be Chapter 11.

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XI Battle #1

(Hazel)

The Olympians and the demigods were finally ready to take on Gaea. At least, that's what we think right now. We actually have no idea what forces Gaea has, but we've put together a pretty decent force. We have about a thousand troops, most of them demigods, or sons and daughters of demigods. Annabeth and some other children of Athena began planning our battle strategies. Meanwhile, on the other side, the greatest generals were planning the enemy strategies. At least, that was what we could find out from what our spies told us.

One day, I was talking to Frank, and I was about to spill the beans about the truth about Leo, since I'm pretty sure Frank either knew or suspected, an alarm sounded. When we looked outside our base, we found a pretty hefty ten thousand troops or so out there preparing to attack us. Athena immediately teleported to the ramparts and began looking for weaknesses.

We got into formation all right, but when we charged out, the enemy opened fire with arrows, thankfully, but our formation got disrupted. Athena, even though she was the smartest person on earth, could not fight the combined power of her many sons. That sucked, because it was a big defeat for us, and we lost about fifty demigods. After the battle, I discussed with Annabeth what was wrong with what we did today.

"The formation was excellent, but I don't think the troops were trained in discipline. They have to be able to hold together every time they are in the face of death. Today, the demigods just got scared and the formation broke."

"Well, how do we drill discipline into their brains so that next time they won't run?"

"I thought that you Romans were good at this discipline thing."

"True, but we can't drill Greek methods into these troops well, because we aren't good with Greek formations."

"Well, what if you tried to just drill discipline, not formations."

"For discipline to work, the person who wishes to command the demigods must train discipline into the troops themselves."

"Well, I can't really see Athena training the demigods to fight. That just doesn't seem very likely to me."

"Well, we Romans can't really do it."

"Well, at least teach me how, so maybe we can actually train them discipline."

"We'll give you the basics I suppose."

"Who should I ask?"

"Normally, I would ask Reyna, but she's not here, so ask Jason. He should know how to train discipline. He had to do it because he was a praetor."

"What about Percy?"

"He didn't really have a taste of praetorship, but maybe…"

"I'll ask Jason then, he might be more helpful."

"Ok."

"Thanks for the advice."

Annabeth stood up and left. I was alone, or so I thought, until the shadows seemed to bend, and Nico tumbled through.

"Take me to Percy, quick! Something really bad is happening!"

"What?"

"NO TIME TO LOSE; TAKE ME TO PERCY JACKSON NOWWWWWW!"

"Fine."

I led him to where Percy was talking to Annabeth. I don't know what he was talking about, but I brought Nico before him.

"Percy, the enemy is approaching Mt. Olympus. I just saw them now. These battles are all a distraction!" Nico said.

"Are you sure?"

"YES I'M SURE, I'M NOT AN IDIOT!"

"Ok, geez, calm down."

"You don't understand Percy, they're not going to waste time like Kronos destroying all the temples! They're going to go straight for the seats of power. After they destroy that, the gods will be nothing. NOTHING."

"OK. I'll inform the gods at once."

Percy hurried off to where the gods were. Five minutes later, the twelve gods came out in their full battle regalia and teleported to Mt. Olympus. Now, we didn't have the support of the gods. How were we supposed to defend this position without a great strategist like Athena? Annabeth as pretty good, but she still wasn't the same as the Goddess of Wisdom herself.

"Well, at least now, I can train the demigods the formations with discipline, so that my mother doesn't have to do it." Annabeth said.

"Yeah… "I said, not really even paying attention to what Annabeth was saying.

Annabeth went off to find Jason, while a disheveled and shell-shocked Percy came out of the gods' tent.

"What happened?"

"Well, I'd advise you to never go into the gods' tent with bad news, because they'll get really angry, and that's not good, even if you are the messenger. If you don't believe me, just take a look at this."

Percy had a long scar on his arm.

"Ares?"

"Nope."

"Then who?"

"Athena."

"Are you serious? She's usually not violent."

"Well, if the news I delivered apparently was bad enough to turn Athena from somebody who hunted you down with a plan, to an Athena that tries to attack you head-on."

"I'll file that warning in my brain."

Percy went off to help Leo, who was yelling for somebody to help him hold onto something so that he could fix it. Leo was still the typical Leo, just like Sammy.

(Leo)

Jason came over and helped me fix a section of the stone walls that was our main line of defense. It was kind of like Jerusalem. Our camp was a fortress, sort of.

Anyways, after the wall was finished, Jason went away, and I sat down to take a break. After all, I've been up all day fixing different things.

A sleeping woman's voice started talking in my head.

"You can see your situation is hopeless. You can't fight us, whether you choose to fight here, or on Mt. Olympus. You should surrender now, I promise to grant you amnesty. You and your friends will never have to fight again. Also, the offer of your mother is still open. If you surrender, I promise you will see your mother again. Isn't that what you want?"

"Shut up Gaea, and get out of my head. We'll fight to our last breath."

"Well, if you don't take my offer, I'm afraid that last breath won't be long from now. Partially because I am so well-informed by my secret spies in this camp."

A cold, cruel laugh sounded in my head. I was too busy trying to fathom what she had said. There was a spy in our camp? Or as she said, spies? Who? Who would do something like that? I trusted practically everybody in our camp, other than a few that I've never met. I shook off the thoughts. Gaea might be bluffing, to cause inner uncertainty and fighting. Dang, that woman, or earth goddess, is really smart. I wouldn't say this aloud, since Athena would most certainly form a plan to kill me, but I think that Gaea might just be smarter than Athena.

"Good luck with this new, clever, surprise I've concocted for you."

What?

I found out what she meant when a cannonball went flying past my head.

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