The next morning, everyone was getting ready for Capture the Flag. It was all very confusing, so Jude did the only thing she could think of: find the only person that looked to be her age. Hestia.

Hestia was tending the fire again, rolling her eyes in amusement while everyone scurried about like ants. "Hello, Jude. What is it?"

Jude smiled timidly. Hestia was a really nnice friend. "I don't know what to do, and I wan'ed to talk to you. Erm, can, can I tell you about a dream I had las' night?"

Hestia smiled at her. "Of course. I'm, well, I';m not all ears, but I'm happy to listen."

So Jude told her about the strange dream. Hestia's brow puckered at the end of the tale. "Hmm... I don't know what to say, sweetheart. Maybe... no, they swore on the river Styx..."

"Who swore what on the stick river?"

Hestia smiled. "The Big Three, Posiedon, Zeus, and Hades, my brothers, all swore that they would never have any more demigod children after World War Two. Do you know what that is?"

Jude nodded. "I listened to a inn-foe-mersh-shal about it last year. Uncle Vernon yelled at the telly a lot."

Hestia's smile looked strained now, but she continued. "Well, Jude, my brothers are the Lords, the gods, of the dead, of water, and of the sky. That your dream incorporated all of them... I don't know."

Jude nodded. "Okay. Can, c'n you help me get ready for the game?"

Hestia's brow puckered again, like she was worried. "I don't know... Maybe we should ask Chiron and Dionysus if you're allowed. Most of the campers are at least ten, and we can't have you getting trampled..."

Jude nodded. She was very small.

Mr. Chiron and Jude watched Mr. D and Hestia squable back and forth like a tennis match.

"She'll be fine! Some trampling won't hurt her!"

"SHE'S FOUR YOU NINNY!"

"I am not a ninny!"

"Prove it then!"

Jude was confused. Hestia didn't seem the kind to lose her temper much. What was so bad about a game? Maybe she shouldn't have mentioned her dream...

Hestia visibly tried to calm herself down. "Fine, Dionysus, she'll play that silly game. I yield." The brunnette perked up for a moment. She turned to Jude. "Jude, you can change your shape, correct?"

Jude nodded. "Yes..."

"Can you make yourself bigger? About big enough to hold your own against the other campers?"

"I-I think I might be. I never tried it 'fore now."

"Will you try for me?" Jude nodded, and concentrated and being hestia's size, but with her own face and hair and skin.

"You did it!" It was Mr. D. Jude opened her eyes. She was bigger! She stepped fporwatrrd, and tripped. Being bigger was very clumsy. Mr. D helped her up. "Hmph, maybe you should stay closer to your own size, June. Somewhere between that size and your own."

Jude nodded and shrunk a little, scrunching her face as she concentrated. There. It was easier to walk now. Mr. Chiron came forward. "Perhaps I should take you to get your armor now, Jude."

Jude just grinned and followed him.

Hermes cabin was on Athena cabin's side, against the Ares, Aphrodite, and Demeter cabins. Chores, it seemed, were like money at camp. "Erm, you, Judie," said the leader of the Blue team, Mary Lux.

"I'm Jude."

"Yeah, Jude, Listen, you guard the flag. The other team'll go for you, and then we'll get them from behind. Got it?"

Jude nodded, and tried to move her too-big helmet so that she could see.

Ten minutes later, after everyone had marched off and away, she threw it and her shield down in disgust.

"Well, if it isn't the new kid!" Jude spun around. There was only one person, that she could see. The leader of Ares cabin, Zachary Dean.

"Hi Zach'ry!" She had to make him think she was too stupid to protect the flag, then get him from behind. Sh sat down cross legged and grinned at him like he was her favourite person in the whole wide world. "Are you gonna get our flag?"

"Of course I am, runt!"

"Why?" Zachary just glared. Jude got up again. "C'n I help? You're nice, and now that you're here, I'm not lonely any more."

Zachary looked shocked, but he nodded, smiling. "Of course you can help,. Judy."

"Jude."

"Whatever. Listen, you stand in the creek and say I pushed you, and then you run to my flag as fast as you can, okay?"

Jude nodded happily, and stood in the water, right behind Zachary. She felt stronger in it. How odd... He reached for the flag, and she shrieked, then bounded onto his back, hanging from his neck in a chokehold. "THAT'S MY FLAG YOU BIG PRICK!" She shouted. She tried to pry her fingers loose, but she willed them to fuse together so she could stay put.

Jude pulled herself back and they both toppled into the water. Zachary's head went under, and Jude managed to scramble on top of him and hold it there. She knew just how to time this, thanks to Aunt Petunia's bath times. Five, four, Three, Two, One... Zachary passed out, and Jude let his head out of the water just in time for him to breath in air, but not enough that he'd wake up. She smacked the back of his head for good measure. Owie.

She looked at her leg and noticed a big old gash on it. Sword cut. A twig snapped. Uh-oh. She hoped it was her team...

Dianne De Salvio, from Aphrodite cabin stepped out from behind the trees. "What did you do to him?" She asked disgustedly.

Jude shrugged. "I tackled him, like Mary said," she chirped brightly. "It was fun!"

Dianne eyed her waarily, then leapt for the flag. "NO!" Jude shrieked. She pulled her hand forward, and then Dianne was stuck in a block of black stone. "Oops..."

She heard the other campers coming. From the sound of it, her team lost.

This was not good. "Umm... Dianne?"