2 months later.

Nothing much had changed in my time with the legion. I hadn't even been promoted to centurion, although I was offered the spot once or twice. I was really trying to stay out of the limelight. The fifth and fourth cohort probably would've nominated me for praetor if I had been a centurion. The rest of the cohorts were still pretty pissed at me for rejecting them or setting their shoes on fire. Also, I should add that Frank and Hazel were recently engaged, and Frank was giving up praetorship at the same time as Reyna. Also, Lupa and her wolves stopped working with Camp Jupiter after the war. Something about not wanting to lose anymore of her wolves for them. For that reason, you didn't have to be trained by Lupa to become centurion, praetor, etc. Alexis was nominated for praetor, as she was now centurion. She got to be praetor, but only because the other girl nominated from the second cohort was almost done with her service, so she gave the job to Alexis because Alexis had more years to go. The other praetor was some a 15 year old son of Mars named Greg. I wasn't to keen on having my sister becoming praetor with some random guy, but I allowed her to. Also, Chris was claimed by Athena and went to Camp Half-Blood. Jessica was still unclaimed and stayed at Camp Jupiter. Everything was going pretty smoothly until Ella the harpy and Percy visited Camp Jupiter. I knew Percy would come to camp because of Annabeth and her pregnancy, but that wasn't the only reason he came back. One day, after I was done with dinner, he approached me along with Ella.

"We need to talk about the next prophecy," he told me. We got some strange looks from the other campers, but we eventually made it to his apartment in New Rome.

"Hey Percy," Annabeth said as we walked in to the apartment. "Who's this?" she asked, looking at me.

"Remember that prophecy I told you about?" he asked her. She nodded. "He's part of it."

Her face paled almost immediately. "The child of the earth?" she asked quietly. Percy just nodded.

"By the way, do you mind telling me the prophecy?" I asked.

"That's why you're here," Percy replied. "Ella, would you do the honors?"

"Honors, high school class used to gain college credit," she replied.

"No Ella, prophecy," Percy said.

Her eyes glazed over and she began to speak. "The ancient sky god shall rise, focused on the Earth's demise, the earth and sea shall fight the sky, and must make alliance with time."

My eyes widened a million times wider. "Oh shit," was all I could muster.

"Yeah, three prophecies for me, and I have to make an alliance with Kronos, whose remains are scattered in Tartarus!" Percy sighed while crashing onto the couch.

"Actually, I think I might know another child of the sea," I replied.

"Who?" he asked.

"I met a girl on the way here, but she's only 7 and hasn't been officially claimed," I replied.

"Well, let's stop wasting time and meet my sister," Percy said. We exited the apartment and began walking towards the fifth cohort's barracks. When we reached the barracks, everyone was starting to get ready for bed. There was gasps heard throughout the building because, well, Percy.

"Jessica?" I called out. Seconds later, I saw a very familiar face appear in front of me.

"Hi Eric," she said. Jessica and I had grown close in our time in the legion. I more or less took care of her for the last two months.

"Hey Jessica, I have someone for you to meet," I told her

"Who?" she asked. I motioned towards Percy and her eyes lit up. "He looks like me!" she squealed.

"Jessica, this is Percy, son of Poseidon," I said. Percy went to shake her hand, but Jessica instead wrapped his arm in a bone-crushing hug.

"I'll leave you two to get to know each other," I remarked as I walked over to my bunk and rested my eyes. I had a full day of training, followed by war games in the evening, so I needed plenty of sleep. After a few minutes, the lights went out and I fell into a deep sleep.

I saw blackness, and nothing but blackness for what seemed like forever. This was until a sleeping face came into view. The face was feminine, but looked ancient and powerful. I heard undecipherable murmuring before the woman's eyes opened into pure green that radiated infinite power. My dream ended directly after that.

I woke up in a cold sweat just as the sun shone through the window. I figured that I would visit the bathhouse for a morning shower/bath thing. I went about my day normally, training archery with Frank for an hour, then agility with Hazel. After that, I had free time/ lunch break for an hour before heading to Roman history, then to sword fighting with Percy. It was about 4 p.m. at this point, so we had about an hour until dinner and after that, war games. I visited the bathhouses again to wash up and spent the rest of my time talking with the fifth cohort. Once I got to dinner, I sat with Alexis, Jessica, and a few other kids from the third and fifth cohorts. I ate my usual fried shrimp, mozzarella sticks, and a diet coke, (I know, healthy right?). I told Alexis about the prophecy, and she nearly choked on her ravioli.

"You'll have to team up with Kronos?" she asked me in a whisper.

"By the sound of it, we might also have Gaea as an ally," I added, certainly not calming her down.

"As scary as it is, it makes sense," she replied after calming down a bit. "The only thing they hate more than the gods is Ouranos."

We ate in silence until dinner ended and we went to gather our weapons and armor for war games. Unfortunately, I couldn't use my sword, which I had named Skyslash, purely because it sounded badass. At 6:30 pm, we were separated outside into cohorts outside of the field of Mars with all of our weapons. Because I couldn't use Skyslash, I grabbed a 10 inch dagger, a spear, and a shield. The spear was equipped with a net that would open up and trap an enemy instead of a sharpened tip because of what happened with Gwen nearly seven years ago.

"Alright Romans!" Greg shouted. "Tonight we will be playing capture the flag with magic allowed." The crowd promptly exploded into cheers.

"It will be third, fourth, and fifth cohorts against first and second cohort!" Alexis yelled. "Also, Hazel and Frank will be joining the first and second cohort."

We went to our separate sides of the field, where a castle was waiting for us. It had 20 foot high walls with a functioning drawbridge and a moat surrounding it. There were two watchtowers on the corners of the castle with ballistae aimed towards the battle field. We made a game plan and decided that the fifth and some of the third cohort would defend, while the rest would attack. The flag was in an open courtyard inside the castle. Although Jessica was playing with us, she stuck by me and avoided combat, as she wasn't old enough to fight. The horn sounded and the games were on. I could hear the battle raging on outside, which made waiting around even more unnerving. Once the other team did arrive, Hazel appeared from a hole in the ground and Frank burst through the walls as a rhino with a dozen demigods trailing behind him. Frank charged at us, but being the crazy person that I was, I managed a super jump with the help of the winds and landed on Frank's back. He noticed me immediately and tried to knock me off of his back. Unfortunately for me, it worked and I went flying towards the wall. Right before I should have made a demigod shaped hole in the wall, I willed the winds to slow me down and place me on the ground. Frank was now a horse with Hazel on his back, heading straight towards the flag. I wouldn't be able to make it in time. Luckily, a conveniently placed earthquake made Frank fall over onto Hazel's leg. Frank morphed into a person again and Hazel was carried away by a golden eagle. Frank rushed towards the flag with new determination before another small earthquake made him stumble. I knew that California got a lot of earthquakes, but judging by the sounds going on outside, the earthquake had to be caused by someone in the courtyard of the castle. I didn't think I was causing it, and Hazel was out of the Field of Mars by now, so I was at a blank for who may have caused it. As I went to keep Frank away from the flag, I kept running different scenarios through my head. I was still out of ideas and Frank had pushed me right up to the flag. Just as he raised his sword to subdue me, an even stronger earthquake occurred, causing me, Frank, and just about everyone else in the courtyard to fall over. I looked behind me to see that Jessica wasn't on the ground. In fact, she was even levitating a little bit. There was also a trident floating above her head. Neptune was known for causing earthquakes, so it would make sense that his children may be able to do the same thing. How she was levitating, I had no idea. While I was staring, Frank had turned into a dragon and had flown away with the flag. The earth stopped shaking and the horn sounded, ending the game. I rushed over to Jessica, who although looked exhausted, looked super excited.

"Did I do good?" Jessica asked tiredly.

"You did so good, that your father claimed you," I replied.

Her eyes lit up. "Is Neptune my dad?" she asked.

"Yes," I replied. Alexis ran up to me and I explained to her what happened.

"I want to go to sleep," Jessica said quietly.

"Want me to carry you to bed?" I asked her.

A sleepy smile appeared on her face and she replied, "Yes." I scooped her up and walked to the barracks with Alexis beside me. When I went to lay her down, I realized that she had already fallen asleep.

"Alexis?" I asked after putting her down. "Get a council ready, we need to tell them the prophecy."