"This can't be happening. If it's true then the camp's going to be blown to bits." Octavian whispered to himself as he frantically paced back in forth.
"What's the matter, Octavian?" Dakota chuckled as he held a gallon of Kool-Aid in his hand. "Are the teddy bears trying to speak to you again?" Dakota laughed and chugged down the Kool-Aid.
"Shut up, Kool-Aid freak," Octavian growled.
"It's Jason. He's alive." Octavian could hear the crowd whispering as Jason and a pretty Native American girl stepped off the ship and onto Roman soil. After him was a cute blonde wearing an orange t-shirt. She had a crazy look in her eyes. She seemed to be searching for something or someone. After him was that boy, the crazy ADHD freak that he'd seen in his vision, the boy that started the war. Octavian wasn't about to let that Greek freak blow up his home.
Octavian pushed past Dakota and a few others and stood next to Reyna. She was talking to that blonde girl, Jason and that pretty Native girl. He had to think of some way to get that freak away from here.
"Reyna, what are you doing? We can't just let these…Greeks, come into our camp. We don't know what they could be planning." Octavian snarled. The blonde girl looked at Octavian with a strange look. It was obvious that was disgusted with what she was seeing, but hey, Octavian didn't like it so much either.
"I swear that we don't have any weapons."
"Who do you think you are?" Octavian snarled. Reyna glared at Octavian, but he didn't care.
"I am Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and battle stragedy." The look in Annabeth's eyes told Octavian that she was serious, but he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"You are a child of Minerva? Minerva doesn't have children, alright and if she did they would be useless. Goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, what a joke. We Romans know that goddess's true place."
"Octavian stop. Annabeth said that they have no weapons. I checked. She is telling the truth, so stand down." Reyna ordered.
"No!" Octavian snapped. "They are lying. Terminus never should have let them cross the border!"
"Please, you must believe us." The Native girl walked up to Octavian and looked him in the eyes. Her eyes were beautiful. They seemed to change color. Everything about her was so perfect.
"Piper_" Jason tried to stop her, but Piper wouldn't let him come closer.
"We don't have any weapons." Octavian wanted to believe her, but somewhere inside he didn't want to believe it. "Please, you must let us pass. We are not here to make war. We promise." Octavian must have been in a trance, but he couldn't help but believe her. Octavian nodded his head and backed away.
After that everything headed to the forum. Annabeth saw Percy Jackson and flipped him over like some kind of ninja and screamed at him. He was so dead. Then they kissed each other, for a really long time. Octavian wrinkled his nose and looked away. He was going to be sick.
"Octavian, sit down. The Greeks want to talk with us." Reyna said pulling Octavian down next to her.
"Why are you doing this? There Greeks, Reyna. The first rule at camp Jupiter is to never trust a Greek under any circumstance. Why now?" Octavian asked.
"Will you just listen?" Reyna asked and elbowed him in the side.
"Hello, Jason, I'm Percy Jackson." Percy said shaking Jason's hand. "Hey, you know I'm sorry about stealing your spot. It wasn't my idea I swear."
"Hey, it's alright. There's nothing wrong with having three preators. It's no big deal.
Octavian gasped and rose from his seat. "No, big deal. The preatorship of New Rome is no big deal? The rules clearly state that there can only be two preators.
"Octavian," Reyna mounded.
"On the bright side, both Jason and I out rank, so we can both tell you to shut up." Percy smiled and him and Jason fist bumped.
On the bright, side both Jason and I out rank you. Stupid Percy Jackson and stupid Jason. What do they know about running a camp? I could run the camp ten times better than they ever could with Reyna by my side. Octavian snarled and sat back down. The whole camp was laughing at him, how humiliating.
Octavian zoned out for a while they talked about their plans for the camp. Then Reyna asked him to do the unspeakable.
"Octavian, go with Leo Valdez." Reyna pointed at the crazy ADHD freak standing in the corner. He looked eager to show them something. "I want to know what the ship looks like and he'd wiling to show us. I'm sending you, so go." Reyna pushed him towards Leo.
"Reyna,"
"Octavian,"
"Fine." Octavian snarled and followed Leo towards the ship.
"I'm guessing you're, Octavian. I'm Leo, son of Hephaestus." Leo reached out his hand, but Octavian just looked at it and continued walking towards the ship. "Alright, well that was awkward." Leo pulled back his hand and raced to Octavian's side. "So, what about you?"
"I'm a legacy of Apollo. It's not that exciting. Can we just get on the ship?" Octavian rolled his eyes. This kid didn't know what the term of silence meant.
"Here she is." Leo gestured to the giant ship with the metal dragon's head on the front. "I call her the Argo II. I built her myself. Isn't she beautiful?" Leo smiled and helped Octavian up the latter. Once on top Leo showed him the deck and the game system controls. He even decided to show him how to open and close the sails just by shaking the Wii remote like a maniac. This kid was crazier in person.
He showed him weapons and the metal dragon which he called Festus. Who would name their metal dragon head Happy the dragon? Then he showed him the cabins and Octavian accidently opened a door that held a large satyr who was eagerly watching T.V.
"I would suggest closing that door." Leo grabbed the door handle and closed it behind him. "We don't want him to know that we're at the camp and if he saw you we'd all be dead." Leo laughed and led him back to the main floors. Before he reached the doors Leo paused and took in a deep breath.
"Why are you stopping? Did you forget something?" Octavian asked.
"No…I…I just thought that…never mind. It's probably nothing." Leo laughed, but something was off. Leo had laughed enough that Octavian knew if it was his funny laugh, serious laugh or his nervous laugh, but this one was something else. He had a bad feeling, but followed Leo up onto the main deck.
"Hey, Octavian, do you want to know my favorite part about this ship?" Leo asked waking over to the nearest canon.
His vision was becoming a reality. He wasn't about to let him burn down his home.
"Hey, get away from there." Octavian raced over to Leo, but was stopped by Leo's hand. It wasn't his hand that frightened him it was that fact that it was on fire.
"Get away of me!" Leo snarled.
"I can't let you destroy my home!" Octavian dodged Leo's fiery hand and tried to pull him away from the canon.
"Watch me!" Leo hissed. He lit the canon with his fiery hand. In a matter of seconds a bomb would come crashing down on his home. Octavian grabbed the barrel and tried to steer it away from the camp and New Rome, but Leo was getting in the way. "Let go, you foolish, boy! You know the consciences of interfering with the future." Leo pushed Octavian away.
"How would you have known that I saw_"
Leo smiled and turned the canon towards New Rome and camp Jupiter. "I have my ways, but I wouldn't be worried about that if I were you." Leo grinned and mouthed the words, one, two three.
The first bomb burst out of the canon and fell into camp. Octavian could hear the screams of his cohorts and friends.
The two other canons went off sending two more bombs towards camp Jupiter. Octavian couldn't do anything but watch.
"Why are you doing this?" Octavian growled.
"Romans and Greeks were separated for a reason. There's no reason to change that know and plus who doesn't like a little war once in a while." Leo laughed and the yellow in his eyes vanished. Leo looked at me confused then fell to his knee's
"I had super freaky dream. I lit the canons on the Argo II and sent bombs flying down towards your camp. Is that crazy or what?" Leo laughed and got back up on his feet.
"I wouldn't think it was a dream. Take a look short stuff." Octavian narrowed his eyes at Leo. He didn't know what was wrong with Leo or why he had done or even why his eyes had been glowing, but all he knew was that the Greeks had lied. Reyna never should have trusted them.
Leo looked at Octavian confused and slowly turned towards the three canon's he had loaded and fired just moments ago. Leo gasped and backed away from the canon's and Octavian.
"Please, bro, I didn't mean it. It was an accident. I never intended to do. I don't even know why I did it. It was never in our intention_"
"Never in your intention…please." Octavian mounded. "You don't think I saw what you did? You tried to bomb my home!" Octavian pulled out his dagger and walked closer to Leo.
Leo widened his eyes and slowly backed away raising his hands in surrender.
"Hey, buddy, I don't want any trouble. I didn't do it on purpose, please, I'm sorry." Leo laughed, but Octavian could tell that he was scared. He should be. Octavian wasn't going to let him get away with this.
Octavian caught up to Leo and pulled his hair. Leo tried to move, but Octavian wasn't let him go that easily. Octavian moved the dagger closer to Leo's face.
"Listen closely, buddy. I gut stuffed animals all day to interpret prophecies and the future. I've never used real humans let alone demigods or mortals, but I will gut you open just like those fluffy little bears if you don't gather your troops and leave my camp, understand?" Octavian growled.
"I know that you mad, you have every right to be, but believe me when I say that we did not come here to hurt you."
"Why should I believe a word the comes out of your filthy Greek mouth?"
"Aren't you a happy camper." Leo laughed and cleared his throat. "If you won't listen to me then listen to Jason. He's a roman just like you_" Octavian pushed the bladed closer to Leo's throat.
"Jason's not a roman. He's a traitor! He abandoned us when we needed him most. He left Reyna to take care of New Rome all by herself and people question why I want to become praetor. I only wanted to help her, but of course because of Jason, my cohorts don't see it that way."
"If you wanted to help her then why do you question everything that she does?" Leo asked looking down at the dagger in Octavian's hands.
Octavian took in a deep breath and snarled. Leo was right, Octavian was lying, but only partially. He did want to help her, but every time he saw her or spoke to her things just went wrong. His feels for her were mixed with his feeling of hate towards her and Jason and the words just came out. He couldn't help and because of it he sounded like a power hungry jerk.
"SHUT UP!" Octavian shrieked. He pulled tighter on Leo's hair and pushed the dagger closer to Leo's throat.
"Alright, but just let me say one more thing."
"Fine, but it has to be quick." Octavian snarled.
"You're a real jerk." Leo snarled and a blast of fiery coals hit Octavian's face. Octavian dropped his dagger and cried out in pain. Octavian quickly got back on his feet and grabbed his dagger. He looked around the deck for the tiny little Greek. He was going down the latter. He was probably going to get the others. Octavian had to alert Reyna of what had happened.
His right eye was burning, and he was terrified and so angry and that he could wet his pants and not cared. He had to tell Reyna. The others were gathered below. They were waiting for him or waiting to kill him, but whatever the case he had to act calm and collected.
"THE GREEKS ARE TRYING TO KILL US! REYNA, REYNA! THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US ALL!" Octavian cried out in terror as he walked down the latter, so much for being calm and collected. When Octavian touched the ground Dakota grabbed his toga and pulled him away so him and Dakota were face to face.
"Do you think this is some kind of game, Octavian? Why would you set fire to those canon's? You are so lucky that there was nobody in the forum when the bomb hit." Dakota snarled. The others gathered around him chanting terrible things and claiming that he was the one who had set those bombs down on his home.
"Please, I didn't do it. It wasn't me. It was the graceus, I swear!" Octavian tried to object, but they wouldn't listen.
"Oh, please, Octavian." Gwen snarled. "All you can ever talk about is how much you hate those Greeks. Can't you just except that they've changed? They're good people unlike you!" someone pushed Octavian to the ground. He had to get out of there. He crawled underneath the crowd and ran towards Reyna, Percy and Annabeth.
"Reyna," Octavian waved his hand as he approached her. She looked angry, but terrified. She was just as scared as he was.
"Octavian, what happened? You better not be responsible for this." Reyna started Octavian down.
"Please, Reyna, it wasn't me, I swear. I would never do something like this. You know me better than that." Octavian wanted to cry, but he had to keep it together. He just couldn't believe that Reyna would believe what the words everyone else was saying. Reyna grabbed his arm and looked him in the eyes.
"I believe you, now tell me if it wasn't you, then who did it?"
"It was the little Greek boy with the wavy black hair, the one with the attention span of a goldfish, the one that you sent me with to check out the Greek warship, Leo Valdez."
"Leo," Percy snarled and marched away.
"Percy, come back." Annabeth ran after, but he wasn't stopping.
"Octavian, make sure that everyone in the city is in their cellar. I'm not going to lose anyone is this battle, understood." Octavian nodded his head and ran towards the border and into the city.
"Everyone, gather your families and head down into your cellars!" Octavian screamed over the panicked crowd. He gathered children and brought them to their parents and made sure everyone was inside then he headed to his house.
Octavian barged through the door. Gerald and the maids were already heading to the underground cellar.
"Gerald, where's my dad?" Octavian asked.
"In the kitchen, he's been trying to contact you for the past five minutes. He said that he wouldn't go down to the cellar until he knew that you were safe."
"Thank you." Octavian ran to the kitchen. He was talking into the sink. He was attempting to contact Reyna, but she was busy.
"Dad," Octavian grabbed his father's shoulder.
"Octavian, oh thank goodness." His father embraced him and kissed him gently on the forehead. "I'm so glad that you're safe."
"Dad, I just came to make sure that you and the others got down to the cellar. I have to leave now. Reyna and the others need me…well I don't know about the others, but I have to go. I love you, dad." Octavian gave his father one last hug before he left.
Octavian ran back to camp and to Reyna's side. The whole camp was frantically running from one place to another. Most of them though were gathered around the ArgoII. The Greeks were boarding. They were getting ready to leave. Jason and his pretty new girlfriend were there along with Leo. Percy was climbing up the latter. Octavian wasn't going to let them leave. Not after what that freak did to his home.
Octavian pushed through the crowd and grabbed onto the latter and attempted to climb up. Percy looked down snickered.
"I'm not letting you get away with this, graceus." Octavian snarled and climbed up the latter.
"Oh yes, yes you are." Percy snickered and his boot smacked hard into Octavian's face. Octavian plummeted down to the crowd and with a thud and a surge of pain everything went black.
[ That was a fun chapter to write. I tried my best to make it sound like it was from the mark of athena, but hey I didn't want to use direct quotes( even though it would have been cool, but no.) so I just made up most of it and added parts that I clearly remembered and a sum of what they said at that part. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I'm going to work on the next chapter now, so talk to ya later! Peace out! (wow that was worst exit ever...whatever...BYE!) ]