Alright, Chapter Five! Sorry I couldn't post last night, I had homework…blech. But I will try to make the chapters longer.

It had been two months since I stumbled across Peter, two months since Thalia saw his face. Neither of them breathed a word about it, but I could tell Thalia was angry at him for something. Every time I brought up their fight, they quickly changed the subject. If Thalia wasn't a Hunter I would think that they were only pretending to fight, and when I wasn't around… But I doubted it, too. They didn't seem like that, when they were together.

Chiron and Dionysus had stopped capture the flag after Connor got bit by a rat. Everyone was super mad, so Chiron told us we would be doing something else instead. That something was paintball. Yep. Paintball. I mean, it was fun the first few times, but once a week was just too much. Last week, when nobody participated, Chiron said we would be doing something new. I was guessing wall paper toss, but tonight, Chiron surprised us.

"The game tonight shall be…CAPTURE THE FLAG!" Everyone roared their approval, including Peter, Thalia, and I. I had told Peter about capture the flag, with inputs from Thalia, so he was very excited.

We went to get our armor on, and I had to do Peter's for him.

"Why do they make these so complicated?" he complained. I laughed and handed him a helmet.

"Where's mine?" I wondered aloud. When I turned back Peter's helmet was gone. He shrugged.

Chiron gave us times to make alliances, and eventually, it was the Hermes cabin, the Athena cabin, the Artemis cabin (Thalia), the Ares cabin, and the Apollo cabin versus the Aphrodite cabin, the Hephaestus cabin, the Poseidon cabin (Connor), the Dionysus cabin, and the Demeter cabin. We basically had the good fighters while they just had numbers.

"Alright, listen up!" Clarisse yelled to us. She was apparently the leader. "I want all of you to split yourselves into three groups. Group one, border patrol. Group two, sneak left. Group three, sneak right. Each cabin leader, pick 1 camper. Pick your stealthiest! I want these five to sneak across the border, in the middle. I want Johnson to go with them." This was met by protests.

"YOU WANNA KNOW WHY?" Clarisse bellowed across the shouts. "One, if it was anybody else, he wouldn't be complaining. Two, I respect him. Three, HE MADE CONNOR RASE SURRENDER! Do you understand me? DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?

"YEAH! "

I chose myself because I had my cap. With me and Peter was Thalia, Connor Stoll, Davey Listern, Apollo, and Jenna Thompson, Ares.

We all ran into the woods along with the left group, then after we were a ways in we broke off. We quietly made up our plan. If we were ambushed, I would sneak off by myself. Peter would help fight and then catch up with me. If we were lucky, we would't be ambushed, but luck wasn't on our side. We were quickly caught by a group of nine, Connor and a bunch of his goons. They circled us, so I couldn't get away.

"Not so tough now, are you, Johnson, when you're outnumbered, huh?"

Peter laughed. "Oh, yeah, I'm horribly frightened, you and your Iris children." I was confused. If I looked at the kids straight, they're image would flicker, from scary big guys to short, small scared looking kids.

"Your spell is fading," Peter hissed. Connor laughed nervously.

"Really? Then why don't you take your hood off, coward?"

Honestly, Connor has no brain. He was attacked before he finished the word. Peter took him down, I took two guys, Thalia took two, and everyone else took one. It was over before it even started. We worked as a group, tossing extra swords around to anyone who needed it. I slashed one guy, caught a sword, and slammed the hilt into the other guys head. He crumpled like an empty sack. The other's fight went just as fast. It was all they could do to grab the unconscious guy and scramble away.

"Idiots," Jenna sniffed with her nose in the air.

We ran all the way to the border. Clarisse's plan had worked. All of the other team was off fighting our team, so we grabbed the flag easily and ran back to our side.

"The winners!" Chiron proclaimed us. We had a long, happy celebration at which everyone but the Poseidon cabin attended. Everyone had just been glad to have capture the flag back that no one cared who had won. Well, except for the aforementioned cabin. He was very angry.

No one knew how angry, or what the next day would hold. No clue at all…

Ta-da! Chapter Six will probably come tomorrow night or Friday night. Hopefully tomorrow!