Hey guys, Chaosbot here, sorry to have not updated in like four days. I was busy, and too tired to type up anything. This is a filler chapter, but it will give you an idea of what the fight will be, and also what's next and what makes my story different from the others. Thanks for reading and enjoy!
"Please salute our commander-in-chief, Annabeth Chase, and her four other second-in-commands," A royal guard announced.
I looked around. There were literally four other people in the room. What the heck?
"Uh, hey." Nico muttered awkwardly, and I snickered. He responded, by punching me in the arm.
"Ow." I said under my breath, and then louder, "Hi."
The commander, a girl with curly, blonde, princess curls hair, and striking grey eyes, looked at me in distaste.
"What kind of salute is that?" She asked out loud.
"Uh, a greeting?" I asked.
She rolled her eyes, and commanded, "Salute correctly, soldier, or you will be banished!"
I rolled my eyes. "Sure. I'll be taking the chest of enemy plans with me, 's my spoils of war."
She glared at me, while Nico and Thalia tried to keep from cracking up. They succeeded. Barely.
Anyway, the rest of the council members filed in after, and the meeting started.
"Let the meeting of the Great War, start!" Annabeth shouted.
Kind of dramatic, I thought.
"Okay, numbers, how many do they have and how much can we raise?" Annabeth asked.
"They can raise over five billion monsters. It would be stupid. Their most fearsome monsters would be drakons, and hellhounds. But they are led by strong Titans, and Giants. They got over a billion in the navy, and Oceanus is going to attack Poseidon's realm." said a
A boy with blond hair, and blue eyes spoke up, "We can raise maybe a billion mortals. but maybe less. They don't seem so eager to join the war after, they've seen the monsters. We can also maybe raise a million demigod forces. But after that none."
I spoke for the first time. "The navy could possibly five hundred navy boats. But if we can get more time, we could build maybe another five hundred, and have another fifteen thousand navy men. The water nymphs might help, but we could only get maybe a couple hundred. Plus, we don't know if they would be spies, or not."
Annabeth nodded, sucking in all the information like a vacuum cleaner. "I want the war recruitment to start right away, after the meetings over. Okay, now I want specifics for our side. How many calvary? Air force?"
A girl with cinnamon hair and dark skin coughed for attention. "We maybe have ten million horses, but only two million soldiers are trained for horseback riding and fighting. Give me a year, and we could get all the soldiers to ride horses. But they wouldn't be trained to the max," She warned, "Also, I only have a couple of elite regiments, about two thousand men."
Annabeth cursed. "Okay, get the men who are already trained, up to elite standards. Get the rest trained!"
A chinese man, who looked like a bull, raised his hand, "The infantry values at, maybe, five hundred million mortals. They are all pretty well-trained, and ready for battle, but I could get more." I nodded, and whispered to Thalia, "We got a pretty good ground force. But they could be smashed to bits without proper back-up." She agreed.
Thalia also added to the conversation. "The air force can maybe get a thousand ships in the air, but we can make more. We can double the number in a year. We're pretty well-equipped, too. Flaming torches, tar, rubble. We got a whole lot of it."
The blonde boy spoke up again, "The elite cohorts of the Roman can muster up to fifteen thousand, complete with Imperial Gold armor, and chariots. They will be good in the war."
"Okay, how about any other war machines? Do we have seige engines, mobile walls?" Annabeth asked. Nobody moved. "Anything?!"
I coughed into my fist. "I have someone who could invent new things. He could make all those things you listed, better. And a whole lot cooler."
"How fast can he get here?" she asked.
I shrugged, "I can call him here right now."
She motioned towards me. Okay. I called a royal guard up. "Tell Leo to come here from my ship. He looks like a elf. And he's probably on fire." The royal guard looked startled at the fire part, but he ran nevertheless.
A few minutes later, a few mind-numbing, boring, hour-long minutes later, Leo showed up, his face covered with black soot, and his clothes in tatters came running in.
"What's up?" he asked cheerfully.
"Uh, Leo, your hair on fire." I said pointing to a spot where a tiny, live flame was burning. He tapped in off like it was no biggie. "Thanks, man!"
Everyone in the room looked at him weirdly. "What?" he demanded. Then his eyes landed on the simmering pizza in the back of the room.
"Oooh! Pizza!" He ran over there, and eat a big sliced in ten seconds flat.
"Okaaay," I said. "Anyways, Annabeth, commander of the Olympia army, has a few questions for you."
"Shoot," Leo said, not even fazed that she was a high-ranking official with the power to cut off his head for being rude, and eating all the pizza.
Annabeth merely rolled her mesmerizing , grey eyes, and asked, "Do you know how to make war machines?"
"Sure!" Leo replied, still munching on his pizza.
"Can you improve on them?" She asked.
"Yeah! I've got a lot of ideas. The wall could need some extra wheels, steel instead of rusty iron, pizza compartments, and don't forget about the drink holders, and-" he was cut off by Annabeth.
"Okay, okay we get the idea." Annabeth hurriedly said. "I hereby appoint Leo- uh…"
Leo just looked confused eating his pizza, and I helped him out. "Valdez."
Annabeth looked at my direction gratefully. "Valdez, as head engineer of the Olympia army. You will have all the supplies you need to make these war machines. Please, take a seat around the table." Leo happily hopped up, and flirted with a girl, who looked menacingly at him.
Freaking Leo, only he would do that.
The meeting continued on for several hours, and dragged into the night. It was a long several hours. A really long several hours.
We talked about all the logistics, numbers and battle plans, which I didn't really pay attention to, and we didn't finish until three in the morning. But the most important topic arose.
"Can we beat the enemy with our number?" I asked. "We'll be outnumbered five to one." Everyone looked at each other uneasily. It was the question no one had the answer to.
"How about we look for allies?" Leo asked, his face now serious and determined. I thought. "Well, who could, or for that matter, want to, help us?" Frank, the chinese guy who looked like a bull, asked.
Leo brightened up. "Well, there are the Dragons to the north," he said. "I have a buddy who would help us get there."
"Would they help?" Annabeth asked. Leo nodded. "Can we control them?" Leo snorted at this question, "Control them? They're dragons, lady!"
"Okay, so would they be loyal?" Annabeth persisted. Leo nodded. "As loyal as can be, if you get their friendship.
Reyna also contributed to the conversation. "My sister is leader of the Amazons. They will come and help us." I nodded. This was looking good.
"So, who's going with me to ask for help from the Dragons?" Leo asked. I raised my hand. "My ship will take you over the waters." Annabeth also raised her hand. "I'll go. I'm commander."
The blonde boy, Jason, also raised his hands along with a Cherokee girl next to him. "We'll go as back-up. I'm a good flier, and Piper's a medic."
Hazel and Frank also raised their hands. "We'll also provide back-up."
Leo clasped his hands. "So it's settled. Now who want's some pizza?"
Pizza.