One person asked to change the spacing back, and since no one else ask me just to keep it the way it is, guess I'm changing it back.

And one more thing, to the person who told me that it's weird. What do you mean when you told me that it's weird?

Enjoy this chapter.

We survived a wave of killer earth spawn. But Camp Half-Blood is torched, and when I said torched, I mean nearly became ruins.

The Hephaestus campers are working their best to rebuild the camp.

Almost all of the cabins are torched. Even my cabin is half-roasted, though all my stuff is safe. I wonder how.

The Hermes cabin got the worst of it, it was in ashes. The fire completely burned everything to the ground.

The only thing that didn't suffer much damage is the Arena, but everything else is a mess.

Luckily the damage, even though it's really bad, it's not beyond repair.

I was put into cleaning, along with Annabeth and Thalia.

The Apollo campers are busy treating the wounded in the infirmary.

All the campers are helping in ways they could, except for Clarisse.

Chris Rodriguez got injured badly. Some of the campers are injured as well, but Chris got it really bad.

He was all alone in the arena when the invasion started and got surrounded by a dozen of the earth spawns. He fought the best he could, but there's too many of them, and ended up taking only a few of them.

He would've died if it weren't for. Coincidentally, Lisa was nearby when she heard the noise they made. Lisa came to his rescue and took care of the rest of the spawns but unfortunately Chris was already half-dead when she found him.

Luckily enough, Argus told us that he's gonna be okay. He need to rest now and Clarisse is accompanying him.

Clarisse took it pretty hard though, she even blames herself, which is not common for her to blame herself instead of anyone else.

Mr. D is back from Olympus, now he's residing in the big house waiting for us to clean up the mess. He told us that he got news for us, for better or for worse. It's not usual for Mr. D to get nervous and worried.

He was a big help though when the spawns attacked, practically save a lot of the campers.

Chiron is back as well, he got here a few hours after the attack. I do hope that what they're bringing is good news. I could really use one now instead of hearing another bad news.

But then again, when is my life ever turned normal? I mean demigod normal.

Finally, after 8 hours long labor work, we're finish for the day.

The camp is still in shambles, but it will have to do for now.

Not that there's any break time for me though, Mr. D and Chiron are expecting me, Annabeth and Thalia the moment we're done cleaning.

We headed right to the big house. Fortunately, the big house wasn't torched. It was on fire, but only for a minute or two before Mr. D swoop in and put it down. Though it'll be nice for him to arrive 10 minutes early. Probably would've prevented the rest of the camp from burning.

The big house didn't change much, but there's more decoration than the last time. Now there's statue of all the gods, even the minor, in the Rec. room where the camp leaders are having their meeting. There's a garden of grapes on the deck, Mr. D planted them. The ceilings are now decorated with vines and some kind of bright light. The attic didn't change at all, so is the basement and the infirmary. They were thinking of adding an extra floor to the big house, which I can't figure out what for.

We entered Chiron's office and both Chiron and Mr. D are there.

'What took you so long Rockson?' Asked Mr. D.

'Jackson, the mess that we have to clean was much more than we expected.'

Mr. D sighed, 'Sit down; I bring news from Olympus.'

Yeah, all good news started by using that sentence.

'It appears that your brother have won the favor of the primordial. They were talking about some sort of game.' Mr. D looks annoyed.

'I heard, he told me that what just happens is some sort of board game of the gods.' I said, disgusted.

'He's not wrong I'm afraid. I heard this directly from Zeus.' Said Chiron.

'That was some sort of a game! We could've died!' Thalia is angry.

'Believe it or not, the primordial gods are even worse than the Titans. At least they had a purpose. These guys just did it simply out of boredom.' I said.

'Did Zeus know about the invasion just now?' Asked Annabeth.

'Yes… He knew what just happen here.' Said Chiron heavily.

'What! And he didn't do a thing! Not so much of a complaint to the primordial?' Thalia protested.

'There wasn't much that he can do child. Mother Gaia has spoken; even Zeus himself cannot disobey her.'

'I'm guessing we don't have any choice but to play.' I spoke

'Unfortunately so child…' Answered Chiron.

'… What kind of game are we playing?' Asked Annabeth.

'You're not serious… Are you?' Thalia stares at Annabeth with disbelief.

'Isn't it obvious? We need to know what kind of game we are playing if we want to win.'

'What I meant is; are you out of your mind! I don't think the invasion just now is a part of monopoly!'

'I don't like it as well, but one thing I learnt from the gods is that when they do something like this, they're not joking. And if we don't play, they'll just blow us to millions of pieces and get better playing things.' Annabeth is serious.

'She's right. We might as well learn the rules.' I agreed.

'But… Ugh… Jackson, When I got my hands on your brother, I'm gonna tear him apart!'

'Believe me, I'll even help you.'

'Fine then, what kind of game we're playing?' Asked Thalia.

'Are you familiar with the term role playing game?' Mr. D answered.

'I don't think so.' Said Thalia.

'It's the kind of game where we travel, explore, fight monsters, right?' Answered Annabeth.

'That's right. This game resemble that kind of game, it's an adventurous board game for the primordial.'

'So basically… It's like Zelda?' I asked.

'Won't that be like an ordinary quest?' Thalia added.

'Yes, but the objective is unclear.' Said Mr. D.

'How so?' Annabeth look confused.

'The only instruction we received is for you to travel to Los Angeles. They are really not much of a talker.' Answered Mr. D annoyed.

'What about the rules?' I asked.

'No god of Olympus may first-handedly help the players. The following players would be Camp Half-Blood against William Knight and his army.' Said Chiron.

'William Knight?' I look confused.

'I'm assuming that's your brother full name.' Said Annabeth.

'Right.' I rolled my eyes.

'Wait… Camp Half-Blood? Does that mean that all of the campers are part of the game?' Asked Annabeth.

'Yes, but you might want to bring only a few campers to Los Angeles. It'll be more effective that way.'

'I know. It's just… What could they possibly need with that many people?'

'I'm afraid I have no idea what they're planning. But child, what you all are about to do are undoubtedly dangerous. There's no telling of what you might encounter. I hope you are prepared for this journey.'

Chiron look really worried.

'Yes, while all that is fine to say. You cannot lose, for the outcome of this game will determine the fate of Olympus.'

'The fate of what now?'

'If you happen to lose, then the primordial deities will destroy Olympus. So you better not lose Gary.'

'Percy, and are you kidding me! We fail and Olympus will be destroyed?'

'That's just great.' Thalia snorted.

'I'm truly sorry child, for the entire burden you have to carry. But you all are the only one we can count on.' Said Chiron apologetically.

I feel sorry for Chiron. Even though we've been assigned to such a task, but the burden of guilt all fell on his shoulder.

'It's okay Chiron, we'll make it out of this. Alive.' I smiled.

'Yeah, don't you worry.' Thalia added.

Chiron smiled back to us.

'That all aside, I think we need two more campers to accompany us to Los Angeles.' Said Annabeth.

'So who will we invite?' Asked Thalia.

'Anyone who's good with their weapon will do. Also the ones that are not giving much contribution to repair the camp, like us.' Answered Annabeth.

Can't disagree with her. Cleaning was the only job we could do to help since Annabeth design of the new camp was rejected.

'How about the two people that are currently eavesdropping us?'

'Eavesdropping?' I asked.

Mr. D put his right hand pointing against the door and made a motion as if he's opening the door. The door opens all of the sudden and two persons fell to the ground.

I stared at them, a boy and a girl.

They got up and I recognized them, it was Matt and Lisa.

'Um… We happened to pass by?' Said Lisa awkwardly.

'I… Err… You know… What she said.' Matt followed up.

There's about two minutes of silence until Annabeth said something.

'They'll do.'

I stared at Annabeth and then I turn my attention back to Matt and Lisa.

I think they heard what Annabeth said since their eyes lit like a firework.

I sighed, 'Do you guys wanna come along with us to Los Angeles?'

They stared at me with disbelief until there's a smirk in their face.

'You're not kidding… Right?' Asked Matt.

I rolled my eyes, 'No, I'm serious.'

There's a few second silence until there's a smirk in their face.

'Of course I want to.' Said Matt.

'I can't believe I'm getting my first quest!' Lisa starts laughing.

Matt high-five Lisa and then they were doing some sort of victory dance.

We watch them as they jiggle their way into happiness.

Thalia move closer to Annabeth.

'They have no idea what they're getting into.' Thalia whispered.

'I feel kinda sorry for them.' Annabeth mumbled.

So do I...