Finally, the game shall soon begin, which means I'm going to do something different with this chapter. Instead of just the two leaders of the hunt's perspectives, we will be viewing this chapter in THIRD PERSON since so many stuff is happening at once, so you'll see in italics where I switch the location too, don't forget to follow the GreekyAnime or on here so I have the power gods do when they have followers and not fade away(I'd still write anyways). Let the chapter begin!
Previously…
"Despite the news, we are able to play one capture-the-flag game before we have to and assist the Prophecy of Seven to muster at least some chance of getting Zeus to open those gates again. It would also give your campers something to look forward to instead of something to do with Giants and Gaea obliterating the world as we know it." I said calmly, but there was also that part of me like Chiron that was slightly freaking out about the whole prospect of this.
"Percy also told me that with a bunch of other stuff he explained as he slowed time around us to explain everything of what was going on. He also explained about the new group of hunters that he made, The Deathseekers, and how he wanted to aide the campers in destroying you swiftly and completely." said Chiron, paling a bit as he said the last words as my face turned red, facing Percy who decided to rise from his chair, give me a lazy salute followed with a wink, before freezing time, something I figured out later, as he vanished to who knows where as he resumed time once more for the countdown until the game began.
Now…
Artemis was seething when she and her hunters reached their cabin. Even the hunters were pissed that Percy would dare do something like that against the goddess. Now, they were looking forward to going against the Deathseekers and campers so they could look forward to smashing that cocky boy's face.
"Well, since you're all excited, I want volunteers for scouting to see if there's anyone new on the camper's side that we should be aware of. Not you Thalia, I want you to keep an eye on Jackson once you find him. Before you go though, there's something I need to tell you about one of the campers here. Ivy, Merida, Jackelyn, Phoebe, Christina, you guys are to keep an eye and give me reports about what Ryan, Xekes, James, Blayze, the masked boy are capable of. I already have an idea on what some of them can do, especially Nemean. The rest of you can go get some training in, and don't start any fights with anyone or you're not in the game." she ordered, glancing at Phoebe who slightly paled at the prospect of not playing the game to beat up the Stolls once more.
As the rest departed, Thalia stood around, expecting Artemis to explain what was so important about one camper. "Thalia, as a hunter, as you already know from being in this camp, some of the older hunters such as Phoebe told you about a Roman demigod camp." said Artemis, seeing Thalia nod, unsure of where this was going. "When Zeus had you and came back, I believe you had a younger baby brother that you treasured until you believed that you lost him. The truth is that he was given to Hera, not only to appease her but because he was born as a Roman demigod, not a Greek. Both of you had to be separated, go to different camps, for it was an understatement to say that Greeks didn't get along with the Romans.
"Milady, what does this have to do with anything right now? Are you saying he's alive right now in the Roman camp." asked Thalia, lightning sparking all over her as she leaned forward to hear what had become of her brother.
"No, here's not there, he's the camper I wanted to talk to you about that's here. Wait! Before you go, you may go talk to him after all this time, but you must not tell him about the Roman camp, for he has no recollection of anything about it for reasons even I can't explain." explained Artemis, as Thalia swore on the River Styx not to tell him, bolting out of the cabin as thunder rumbled in the distance to see her brother.
Meanwhile, at the Ares cabin…
"What do you want Clarisse? One of you brother's said that you wanted to see me." asked Percy.
"It's what we don't want, I already talked to Chiron and as long as you agreed, then it's allowed." said Clarisse.
"Alright, so what is it you wanted to talk about?" asked Percy.
"The campers wanted a three way battle, Campers, Hunters, and Deathseekers instead of having the Deathseekers join us. Besides, the fact we've had a new training regimen for the campers so we could assist the Seven, we have some new demigods with potential." explained Clarisse.
"Interesting, of course I'll agree, though we're not holding back, just a warning. Since the campers and hunters already have sides of the forest, tell Chiron we'll be down the river and where it splits, that should be far enough." warned Percy.
"Cool, you guys are going down by the way, even the hunters have more players than you." said Clarisse, walking towards the Big House to tell Chiron the news. After she was out of sight, Percy turned around grinning.
"Okay, you guys were fine for the first five seconds until someone farted. Who did it?" cracked up Percy, as the Deathseekers came out of the shadow of the Athena cabin. James guiltily raised his hand, mumbling something while Xekes elbowed him in the ribs laughing. "Anyways, you heard what she said, so this is the night where none of you are to hold back anything, show them what we can do. Besides, I took a quick look through all the camper's memories over the past year, no spies here. One was surprisingly empty of memory though, the new kid of Zeus, Jason Grace." explained Percy, looking at "him". The boy's only response was to nod, giving nothing else away.
"So what's the plan?" Blayze said, already excited that he finally got test out going all out.
"The plan isn't for you to light any trees on fire, the dryads would hate you. You and Nemean go for the campers. Xekes, get to know your half-siblings, I have that strange intuition that they're going to meet at the creek to see who's better, isn't that right Thalia? You can tell the rest to come out too? Which one of you farted?" asked Percy, turning to the shadow of the Demeter cabin, as Thalia and the others walked out of it, who looked ready to strangle him.
"Ha ha, very funny Kelp Head, keep it up and not will Artemis come after you, but maybe I and the rest of the hunters will join in on beating you up." said Thalia as she turned to leave. "She already knows you're going to defend Perce, so get ready. Xekes, that's you right? See you at the creek." Thalia then left with the other hunters, somewhat satisfied as they pieced the rest of the information enough to have an idea of what was going to happen.
"See you at the games Pinecone Face. Now, back to where we were, they know that since Xekes is heading towards the little Zeus reunion, Nemean and Blayze to the campers, and since I'm defending, they know it's you guys coming, they just don't know how now." Percy said as he looked at Ryan, James, and "him". "Nemean, Blayze, you can do whatever, even go flashy if you want, Xekes, if I'm right, Jason can fly and call on lightning while Thalia can imbue her weapons with lightning. Show them what you can do besides shooting lightning," Percy said, winking. " You three, Operation Nin should do since brute force may be a bit too much." glancing at James while he said that, earning a nod of understanding.
"Well then, since training right now won't really help what you already improved over the last year, anyone up for a nap? I'll grab the hammocks." offered Percy, everyone except Ryan said yes, who said something about this new thing called anime that he discovered after leaving the hotel. As Ryan walked to his own cabin for Nike that was newly made to go watch "Fullmetal Alchemist" or something like that, Percy went and grabbed a few hammocks from the attic of the Big House, giving one to each so they could hang it themselves, napping until the games began.
Time 'till game begins...0:00!
Dinner was silent, the only sound that would be heard if possible were clashes from the glares shooting daggers from the hunters to campers, some aimed at the Deathseekers, but Percy and the rest of them were way too relaxed, making some of the campers uneasy to what they had in store. Once Chiron got everyone's attention after the dinner, he then began to explain the rules about the special capture-the-flag.
"Everyone, as you all know, the all the rules that were applied before are the same now. The new rules are that time control abilities and turning into your godly form should you have one are banned," explained Chiron, looking at Percy and Artemis who nodded in agreement. "The way to win the game is also changed to where you must have all three flags to win. Being that there are three teams instead of two, the Deathseekers will be located down the river where it splits into two, being far away enough to make the game more fair. Now all of you, get going." declared Chiron, seeing that everyone was itching to play the new game.
As the they all set off, the campers making last minute plans as they assigned roles on where to go, the hunters rushing to get the game started, and the Deathseekers strolling to their spot down the river. After five minutes, with the campers and hunters already waiting while Percy and his group just reached their location, Chiron announced as he took his place on Zeus Fist, "Let the game begin!" At that moment, the hunters sprinted like gazelles throughout the forest, the campers running in groups, whereas Percy just sat down next to the flag, the other six already gone.
Back up the creek…
Xekes was waiting there, Thalia making it there second, with Jason arriving last, out of breath while Thalia and Xekes assessed each other, both looking away at the same time. Once he caught his breath, Jason stared at Xekes, then looked at Thalia questioningly.
"He's also a son of Zeus, can shoot lightning like us too. Although I heard you're going to beat us somehow when we heard Percy talking, how's that?" explained Thalia to Jason as she then asked Xekes, who just smiled.
"So who wants to make the first move?" Xekes asked.
"He seems so carefree." noted Jason, looking at Thalia.
"Well, he's a male hunter, but besides that, Percy was holding back on what else they were capable of." Thalia said as she put bow and quiver down, picking up her spear and drawing a canister transforming into a shield, both having lightning flicker around it. Jason drew out a golden coin, flipped it, coming out with a golden spear, the smell of ozone increasing. Xekes casually picked up his spear that he stabbed into the ground when he was waiting, eyeing the two. They all stood there, spears ready.
"To the most powerful child of Zeus." they said in unison, kind of surprised at the coincidence that they all said it as the same time. Jason then called down a bolt of lightning as Thalia threw her spear, both going for Xekes. When they reached him, Xekes grabbed the spear as the lightning hit him. Throwing the spear back to a surprised Thalia as Jason stared at him shocked, he looked at them with his electric blue eyes. They weren't just blue, there was literally electric crackling his eyes.
"What, you guys never been hit by lightning before? It hurts but it doesn't kill us you know, like how Percy isn't affected by the water pressure. Well, my turn now." said Xekes giddily as he passed through both of them, knocking them both back before they could comprehend it. Thalia was faster to get up on her feet though as she stared at Xekes. First, it was his eyes, but now, his entire body was lightning as he stood there waiting. Jason called upon another bolt of lightning to hit him, but Xekes dodged it at inhuman reactions.
"Holy Hera, he's able to turn into lightning." warned Thalia understanding how the hunters were tied up so fast, as Jason nodded in shock. As Jason and Thalia charged at Xekes once more, stabbing at him in unison with their spears, All Xekes did was bend and dodge wherever they stabbed. He then flashed away to only appear above them as he shot his own round of lightning at them. Thalia shielded herself, absorbing it while Jason narrowly dodged it as he concentrated incredibly hard to summon a lightning bolt once more. Immediately, a lightning bolt appeared again as Xekes dodged it again, only for the lightning bolt to curve and go right back him.
"Seems like you got a few tricks of you own." complimented Xekes as he dodged the lightning once more and dived to the ground, the lightning following. It took all of Jason's concentration to follow where Xekes was, acting more by gut than brain as he felt the air thicken to where Xekes was going. Several times, he cut Xekes off, only for him to dodge. Thalia, seeing Xekes as a bigger threat, went for her arrows, shooting at Xekes, but the fact that they went through the lightning and didn't light on fire meant she was only shooting through his ghost of where he was a few seconds ago.
Unable to control the raging lightning anymore, Jason fell to the ground panting, Thalia still aiming at Xekes but without success. As soon as Jason fell to the ground and the lightning fizzled out, Xekes flashed down, his spear more like a bolt of lightning, right at a startled Thalia.
"Looks like I won. You guys did good though, but you should expand your horizon on what you do more." said Xekes, turning back to normal, his long hair now standing up in the shape of a lightning bolt.
"How were you able to do that though." asked Thalia.
"I still have to work on it since I'm not nearly as fast ye-" explained Xekes before he was cut off by Jason.
"Not as fast? Are you kidding me, you're faster than lightning, the way you flew all over the place like that!" exclaimed Jason.
"I was faster than your lightning bolt, have a natural lightning bolt that comes from Zeus, even when he's putting any effort, just because his presence is over the city, I'm the one in slow motion. What?" whined Xekes, as Jason and Thalia stared at him as if he was the weirdest dude on the planet for saying that.
"You still have answered my question." said Thalia expectantly.
"It's not going to be fun though, it's like getting run over by a car at first even for us." warned Xekes.
"Just tell us where you got that power." demanded the two siblings, eager to know how he got it.
"Fine, it's not a natural ability though, you have to earn it. Ever heard of Lightning Alley, from Tampa, Florida to Orlando, Florida? The first step is learning how to generate your own lightning all over to your body though. He was reminded by you when I heard how you two faced off at the creek. Before I joined the Deathseekers, I was hit by lightning, only for my family to wonder how I survived a lightning bolt that took out a whole block. So when I learned to generate lightning to cover myself, I began to flicker, which caught Percy's attention. He used Athena's blessing to figure out what was going on, the taking us to the famous "Lightning Alley" in Florida. WIth much convincing, he said how theoretically I could become one with lightning after I get the feel of what it's like to be like lightning. So I spent my time tied to a lightning rod, Percy coming up to heal me with water and to give me food. After about a week, while generating lightning while getting hit once more by lightning, I passed through the lightning rod feeling prickly at this new sensation of where the lightning didn't hurt. Overjoyed that the fact that I could turn into lightning, I wasn't focusing on generating lightning, so I turned back to normal, plummeting to the ground until I managed to turn back to lightning again." retold Xekes, remembering the Deathseekers' faces while they watched him plummet.
"Does that make you as strong as Percy now?" asked Jason, hearing about the old camper and how powerful he was. Xekes stared right at him, wondering if the question was genuine. He looked at Thalia who also had an eyebrow raised, wanting to know the answer to how powerful Percy may have gotten if Xekes was able to become lightning.
"Minus his time control powers...not a chance." said Xekes, dropping both of his half-siblings jaws comprehending what he just said. "Right now in my current state, I'm second to last with James, who's almost as strong as me in a different way. I'm not even as fast and powerful as Ryan, Nemean is barely able to fight on par with Ryan, and don't get me started on Blayze, he's still a kid, even when he's in human form, that raw power…" making both of them pale, Thalia having told Jason that she knew Blayze was going towards the campers as she knew Ryan was heading towards the hunters. They already knew they could do nothing, as Xekes would most likely stop them, which he could do in a flash, even then Thalia couldn't shake off the feeling that he was holding back, although he wouldn't admit it. All they could do was wait there until the game ended, and debate who would win.
Switching to where Blayze and Nemean are…
When Will and his group were heading towards Percy, knowing that the little boy Blayze and the famous Nemean Lion could possibly stop them, with twenty campers, there was no way those two could handle all of them. Malcolm had strategized for the more experience campers to go for the hunters' flag while Clarisse, he, and some of the other campers that just came before fighting Kronos, had to take care of the ones that only had about 2 years of practice.
His thoughts were interrupted as Clarisse elbowed him and warned the others to get ready, staring straight ahead at a blazing light that was flying towards them, fast. The ball of fire was coming straight for them as they prepared to jump out of the way, only for the it to crash just in front of them, sending waves of dirt flying at them, a wave of burning air accompanying it, sending the majority of the campers beside Will and Clarisse flying, hitting the trees, falling to the ground groaning in pain, unable to get up. Nemean arrived afterwards, pouncing from tree to tree, somersaulting to touch lightly onto the ground. Clarisse was immediately up on her feet to face Blayze, both donning an excited face, until Blayze's hands lit on fire and incinerated Clarisse's spear without touching it before putting out the fire, socking her right in the gut, sending her flying with a surprised O on her mouth until she hit a tree a second later. Blayze, slightly disappointed, was about to go for Will, but Nemean waved him off, Blayze just sighed as he stood to watch the match between Nemean and Will. Thinking of how dangerous Blayze was, Will could only expect that Nemean was just as dangerous if not more. Taking a deep breath, Will loaded three arrows and shot them at Nemean, twiddling with the top and bottom before he shot so they curved in its trajectory until all three were going straight for the Deathseeker's heart. Nemean waited, then did did a cartwheel backwards, barely letting the arrows pass by hitting some unfortunate dryad. When he landed on his feet, he then charged, jumping up as Will a sword at him then ducking low widening his legs to flip Will onto his back. Before, Will could stand up, Nemean stabbed two daggers into his sleeves, Will's face draining as he saw how close the daggers were to his.
"Stay there, you don't want to see Blayze when he gets excited, this is nothing to what he's going to do to get the flag." purred Nemean soothingly, but it did nothing to soothe Will as he pulled harder to get up to no avail. By the time he got up with his orange shirt torn, the fiery meteor and speedy blur were already at least a mile away.
Near the camper's flag...
The hunters were reluctant to talk to the campers, but wanting to see Percy lose was a united cause. As Malcolm focused on helping set up the defenses with the Demeter cabin as they saw Blayze and Nemean coming towards them. He had set up defenses specifically to tangle the Nemean Lion, to stop it from using his swords or should he grow larger, his claws. He also devised a trap for Blayze so that he couldn't turn into a dragon, crushing his body should he do so.
"Quick, hiding places everyone!" commanded Malcolm as they waited. He was glad with the fact that they had fireproof wires from the Hephaestus kids otherwise Blayze would just incinerate right through them, leaving a path for Nemean to follow, which is exactly as Blayze did as he and Nemean sped right past, taking the flag, and leaving just as fast.
"I thought I told you guys to put up the fireproof wires?" yelled Malcolm furiously recovering from his shock.
"We did! Just as you asked to! It's not our fault that they had a person that could burn even hotter than fireproof wires. At least we didn't confront him, we would've died." said one of the Demeter kids, one passing out from relief that they didn't confront him as he was right next to a fireproof wire only to see it burned beyond ashes as it disappeared in the wind.
Back to Blayze and Nemean…
"Blayze, I thought I told you to go around the fireproof trap, we could've really been stuck in that thing." scolded Nemean.
"Relax, we didn't right?" assured Blayze, having no idea the amount of fear he instilled in the campers. "Plus, it wouldn't have been interesting trying to fight them, the fire boy wasn't there." he said disdainfully.
"Fire boy?" inquired Nemean, curious to who Blayze was referring to.
"You know, the kid that's next to the blonde kid that Percy was talking bout. He has a fire within him, if only I found out how hot it is, could've been worth eating as long as I don't eat the core of it." explained Blayze nonchalantly, suffering from the boredom of not fighting anyone, especially after defeating Clarisse with only one punch.
"We'll talk to Percy about this later, right now, let's get the flag to him, see if we can get there before Ryan and the others." said Nemean, focusing on the task at hand once more. With that, the blazing fireball and stalking shadow accelerated back to where the river split in two.
While Blayze and Nemean were getting the flag, here's Ryan, James, and "him"...
The moment they sense the hunters that were after their flag, they immediately avoided them, only for Artemis to catch on to their presence, having she and her hunters after them. Five minutes, the chase continued, only for "him" to point out that as long as they don't head near the hunters area and just go farther away from Percy and their flag, the hunters would become more unwilling to continue to give chase.
Artemis knew that the only real threat was Percy, but taking down the rest of the boys would just be an added benefit, stopping them from reaching the girls defending the flag. The boys were good though, barely leaving any tracks that only she could notice. Not only that, but at the pace they were going, they were bound to tire out soon, yet they didn't. The only one who would be able to catch up to them was Phoebe, Thalia, and herself. Thalia was going to go against Xekes and Jason, as Phoebe was defending the flag, no doubt whacking the Stoll brothers on the head as she saw them coming before they departed to go for the Deathseekers' flag. She had to take the chance of getting the flag before they could steal their flag. The thought grew more confident as she thought of how it was only Percy defending the flag and how it would only be three boys against fifteen of her hunters, there was no way that they could get through.
"Girls, stop the pursuit, we're going after the flag, not them." she ordered. Immediately, the rest of the hunters looked at the stars to find out which direction that they were heading to before they started to hunt down the boys. After a matter of seconds, they set off.
"They're gone." Ryan said to "him" and a giant black bear. Glad that James realized that turning into a bear was faster than his human form helped them stay in front of the hunters, barely. James was just proud of the fact that he was able to cover his tracks so that they weren't too noticeable. They then headed off to retrieve the hunters' flag using Operation Nin. Resuming back on track, they continued until they were a few miles off of where the flag, where "he" stopped and turned into a snake, almost camouflaging with the night just as James was in his bear form. Ryan took off his celestial armor which sounded a loud boom in the forest, harpies taking off to the sky in fear of the sound. Under his specially weighted armor was a regular black garb that made it seem as if his head was floating in the darkness until he pulled a black mask over it that concealed everything except his eyes.
"Operation Nin, commence." whispered Ryan as he took off, disappearing in the trees. James and "him" took off in pursuit as silently as possible, until they heard him hoot 3 times, all hell then broke loose.
Phoebe and the other hunters were bored, they had already taken care of the campers, as the Stoll brothers were stuck to a tree upside down as arrows had surrounded their bodies, pinning them to it. Talking silently as they saw lightning flash down upon the creek, two even changing directions, one chasing the other, until both winked out of their sights. Betting on who it was that caused a boom that sounded throughout the entire forest, and who it was that wasn't too far away from here when they heard a twig snap, causing all of them to draw their bows in that direction.
Just as they drew it, the black bear which they vaguely remembered was James came charging upon them, the new hunters almost dropping their bows, but Phoebe and the more experienced ones fired right at its eyes. Before it could hit its mark, a snake leaped from the side grabbing the two arrow going for James's eyes, the rest hitting his hide. James seemed unaffected though as he kept charging straight for the flag, one of the new hunters that was beside it grabbed it in time just to avoid him from running her over.
Chaos reigned as they fought with the indestructible bear and to dodge the snake that they could hardly see as it flitted in and out of their vision. It was hard to tell where they were as they were both black and the only thing you could see were hints of silver and gold that came from Percy's blessing. Time seemed to stretch as they fought them, focusing on mainly avoiding the two animals as long as they had the flag. Phoebe looked around to see where the silver flag was, but the hunter who had it was apparently sleeping peacefully at the base of the tree, the flag nowhere to be seen.
"It's a diversion, they took the flag!"screamed Phoebe, paying more attention to alerting her comrades than to the charging bear, only to have enough time to barely jump as it then jumped up too, flipping Phoebe as she then landed on her back, winded. The hunters all moved to side, avoiding the bear as the snake came out of nowhere once again, hopped on the bear's back as they made their escape.
Ryan was waiting for them, he had left ten minutes ago during the battle, this time howling once, which was replied with a charging bear with a snake on top of him, where "he" then transformed back. "That worked rather well. Let's go before Percy loses the flag." said Ryan. With that, the three charged off through the forest again before the hunters could catch them.
Here we go, Percy against Artemis…
"Ryan made you guys take a little detour?" asked Percy, sitting upon a chair of ice. Artemis and her group of hunters walked out of the bushes, bows drawn, others holding their hunting knives.
"Doesn't matter, but since when were you able to turn water to ice?" asked Artemis, noticing the chair of ice.
"Oh, you know, born as a son of Poseidon then blessed by Poseidon, mix it with the blessing of Hestia to take all the remaining heat out of it, and there you have really cold water turning into ice." explained Percy.
"Interesting, well, we'll just take the flag, so just make yourself comfortable in your little chair." Artemis said as she fired, the rest of the hunters following suit, others charging. Immediately, a wall of water rose up, slowing the arrows down by dragging them down with it. As Percy rose from the chair, his hair tousled as his eyes glowed bright sea green, the water from the river all heading towards him, encasing him and the flag while sliver of water were rotating fast enough that slight cuts were appearing on the hunters. Artemis seeing this then signaled her hunters to fall back, not wishing for them to become too injured by the rotating water cutters. Seven minutes after the hunters fell back watching their leader, the rotating stop as all the water returned to the stream as the ice melted and followed the water, leaving a very sweaty Percy panting. After several seconds, Percy caught his breath as he charged the goddess who was the only one left near the flag, the hunters all watching as they knew that she would be pissed should they interfere.
As Percy stabbed with Riptide, Artemis ducked as she drew her bow, shot at point blank, only for Percy to bring Riptide down upon the arrow with inhuman reactions. Determined to end the boy quickly, Artemis pulled out her hunting knives, attacking in a flurry of strikes, Percy barely able to keep up with the overwhelming speed of the goddess. Throught the battle, the hunters watched in awe as the male somehow was able to stand his ground against their leader who was one of the best fighters among the Olympians. Artemis then feinted a high blow only to actually stab from the side. Percy, too tired to notice and stop it, was disarmed, Riptide clattering to the floor as it turned into a pen once more, both silver knives against his throat.
"Truly one of the best fighters among the Olympians, they should replace Ares with you." joked Percy, raising both of his hands up smiling. Before Artemis could come up with a reply, a horn sounded through the forest signaling the end of the game, causing her to wonder, for the other flags weren't here. Not a moment later did a fiery explosion take place that Artemis withdrew from Percy to protect her hunters when a blinding lightning bolt flashed into view as the sound behind her of someone running through the trees at an incredible pace land onto the forest floor. When the smoke cleared and they were no longer blinded by the light, a total of seven boys stood there with three flags, all smiling, except for Blayze, whose entire body was on fire still, thinking furiously of how he didn't get to fight anyone really, while everyone else was just scrambling to get away from the fiery boy. Congratulations were exchanged from hunters to campers to Deathseekers as they all took off to bed for the next event that was to take place tomorrow.
Guys, something came up, and I can't write for the moment. I only did this for fun, but right now, I just wanted to give you guys the game, I know, the end may be crappy and all, sorry. Unfollow or follow, I don't care, I probably won't be writing for a while. It was nice at first but right now my life kinda sucks and posting chapters for you guys isn't really on the list, sorry again. Until next time mortals.