Whew, that last Chapter was long! I've had lots of terrified comments about Veronica, so if you want to know if she will be OK...

then read on!

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Enjoy reading, Fanficfans! (heh, that's a cool word!) BD

-Silverhand9028

Veronica's POV

Magenta snarled at me with pure hate and malice. I was terrified, I knew that at any chance she would kill me!

The sword came down...

Whack!

The whack was the sound of a fellow demigod shoving himself into Magenta. She let out a shrill scream as I tried to get a glimpse of the Camper.

He had tousled dark hair, olive skin and a leather apron over his orange t-shirt. He had a hammer in his hands.

"Eddie!" I screamed with delight as he pulled me on to my feet.

He grinned at me, his face streaked with ash. He was surprisingly handsome for a son of a lame, ugly god.

The cowering campers looked up as Jack and Aston backed away.

A few children of Ares, Athena, Apollo and Hermes were on their feet, but unsure of what to do.

Mr D was quivering very un-god-like way beneath his chair, but as eyes swivelled to him he coughed nervously, crawled out and sat regally on his chair, trying to look like he had been sitting there the whole time.

Chiron was standing up, his bow drawn, but I guess he didn't use it in case of killing someone.

He trotted down and towards us. Magenta was lying against a table and scowling at Eddie, whilst Tom, Summer and Toby were slumped in each other's arms. I saw Lilly had crawled over to Leon and was whispering words of encouragement.

"The day the Camp divides is a sad one," Chiron spoke gravely as Eddie wiped dirt from his face. Chiron turned to Magenta, Jack and Aston, "You really intend to resurrect my father?"

"No!" Magenta argued, throwing her knife into a table in frustration, which just so happened to be the Hypnos cabin's. Many Campers sat bolt upright. I was surprised they had slept through the fight.

"Lies!" roared Leon, clutching a bloody knee where Aston's spear had hit. "You just fought us over it!"

"No," Magenta declared, "not Kronos. Lilly must have misheard in the dream message."

"So you did send her a dream message!" hollered Leon.

"Yes," admitted Magenta.

"And summoned the hellhound!" Eddie cried.

"No!" Jack stepped up. "That wasn't us. But we don't want to summon Kronos. We only attacked because we didn't want you spreading rumours about us. We have to prove ourselves. We can't have newbies telling lies."

"Lies? You said you wanted to summon Kronos, Lord of Time."

"Kronos isn't the lord of time!" Aston yelled. "Chronos is!"

"What..." I asked.

"Not K-R-O-N-O-S. C-H-R-O-N-O-S."

"Chronos?" spluttered Eddie.

We looked to Chiron for an explanation.

He stroked his beard: "Kronos is powerful and has great power over time. But he is not Time itself. The embodiment of time is Chronos. Similar, but Chronos has true power over time. Normally he is content to let time pass, but recently he has fallen into slumber so great no-one can pull him out."

Silence.

We looked at Magenta, Jack and Aston. They looked at us.

Embarrassment. Apology. Shock. Suspicion.

Athena knows what was running through my head, but I was pretty damn confused.

Mr D broke the silence. "Well, we have ten injured demigods on our hands. Go to bed the rest of you, I shall get that skilled magic satyr to use some of his woodland healing on you. Lofty, is it?"

"Lief," a small dryad answered, "left during the fight. He said it was 'messing up his aura' and needed to head to the forest."

Mr D nodded. "Alright," he said, "to bed, the lot of you!"

Confused? Shocked? Hm, all is not as it seems! So are Magenta, Aston and Jack off the hook? What part will Eddie play? Will anything else weird start going on...

I will reveal the outcome of the story vote next Chapter. Till then, keep voting!

-Silverhand9028