A/N Okay, shoutout to Marcus Bond (if I do get writer's block, I'll send you some ice. I do try with the grammar, I'm glad you noticed. Thanks for the amazing review!)

Also, I can only see reviews when they drop into my e-mail inbox because is being a little glitchy... but I'm still getting them. Thanks guys!

Also (too many alsos), I've noticed that almost very chapter starts or ends with Will being asleep. Not sure how that happened...

And I've been using a lot of italics recently...

In his dream, Will saw Annabeth, a silver dagger lodged in her stomach. He saw Thalia leap over the defended and charge the Nemisis cabin, followed by a dozen hunters. He saw Hestia, who shook her head.

"What happened to this home?"

He found he could talk to her. "Can't you stop this, Lady?"

She smiled sadly. "The gods do not take sides in this squabble."

Then the image dissolved, and he woke to a discordant cacophony of chaos. It seemed that Nico had returned; with him were Sy, Benji, and Darla.

He sat up and looked out the window. The two Ares boys were being dragged by Clarisse- who had one of their ears in each hand- towards Cabin 5. She was yelling at the top of her voice at them, and they had the decency to look sheepish. As they moved, several gold drachma fell out of their pockets.

Mercenaries, huh?

That meant that Darla would take most of the punishment. They would have minor punishment for a lack of common sense...

What was it called?

Oh, yes. Lemming syndrome.

Will got up and limped slowly over to the sink. His ankle was mostly healed, but it still wasn't great to walk on...

Splashing water over his face, he glanced up at the mirror. He did not recognise the boy that looked back at him.

Sure, he remembered the golden hair- crumpled and messy, like a haystack after a hurricane; the slightly pointed ears; but other than that, the boy was a stranger.

One eye was puffy and the skin was bluish- it was probably a deep purple when he'd been brought in. His nose was straight, but red and also slightly puffy. There was a small lump above one ear.

"Like what you see, Sunshine?"

Will turned to see Nico leaning against a wall. He looked almost as pale as he had after shadow travelling from Rome with the Athena Parthenos, and his voice was strained.

"Not really, Death Boy. But I guess it looked worse two days ago, huh?"

Nico looked guilty. "Yeah."

Walking up to the other boy, Will flicked his nose. Or tried to. Because his right arm was still bandaged, he had to use his left hand, and his hand-eye coordination wasn't great for his left.

"Ow!" Nico yelped, clapping a hand over one eye.

Will chuckled. "Sorry."

Nico took his hand away from his face and put it on Will's shoulder, pulling them together.

At that moment, there was an explosion from outside.

Will paled, then ran out the door in the direction of the sound. Nico cursed and followed him out.

One of Hephaestus cabin's automatronic war horses had stumbled over the landmines.

No-one was badly injured, but a few people were hit by small chunks of shrapnel. Rushing towards the victims, Will passed Sherman Yang and Harley having a furious row about it ("That was our prototype! Now what do we do, moron?", "Don't call me a moron! You should have been more careful, cogs-for-brains!", "Who're you calling...").

Kayla looked up as he sprinted towards the makeshift healers tent. "Will! What are you doing?!"

"I'm healing people! It's what I do, isn't it!?"

Kayla flung her hands up around her head, threatened Nico with death by poor music and poetry if he didn't make Will take it easy, then grabbed a bow and quiver and ran off to join the battle now raging around them.

It didn't seem like anyone was trying to kill anyone else; at least, Will couldn't see anyone trying to behead or disembowl anyone else, but there were always 'accidental' serious injuries.

He pulled an arrow from a Hermes kid's upper arm, then gave them a square of nectar. He tried to make them stay, but they ran out to join the battle anyway. He bandaged Katie Gardiner's ankle- she'd been caught in a hunting trap- and begged her to stop, but she ignored him.

Thalia ran out of the forest and onto the field, followed by Pheobe and several other hunters. Will shivered and tried not to think about the rest of his dream.

When Pollux appeared with a broken leg, he grabbed Nico's arm and placed his hand over the break. He felt a surge of power, then the boy cried out in pain. When he removed his hand, however, the bone was whole again.

Like those before him, Pollux chose to go out and rejoin the fight. "There are less of them, and they have no healer, Will! This will be over by dinner!" Will shook his head and let him go.

There was a crash behind him, and he twisted to see Nico collapse.

"I'm sorry... so... tire..."

He was looking slightly transparent around the edges.

"Shoot! Nico! I'm sorry, I should have asked before I used your power-" he was about to run to the Italian, when a panicked cry from the entrance stopped him.

"Will! Do something!"

Thalia appeared in the doorway, her face wild, Annabeth in her arms.

A dagger was poking from the blond girl's stomach, and blood was staining her torn orange shirt.

"Annabeth!"

A/N Hiya guys! Please feel free to fall of this cliff that I've carelessly left here...

But seriously, thanks guys.

Review please!

~Fi