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Chapter 4:

Zhi watched the upcoming battle anxiously from his perch on the tree. He didn't want to fight his brothers, but it was needed to in order to free them. He looked beside him, where both of his younger brothers were also watching the marching army apprehensively. The army was huge. He frowned; there was absolutely no way Twin Masters could've gotten one that big in such a short amount of time.

Apparently, his brothers were thinking the same, because Lin Chung stared at them more closely.

"Who?" Shen asked the youngest clone, who's eyes widened.

"The Minotaur. I think Echidna and the Chimera are with them. There are cyclops and dracaenas with them. There are also some other reptilian monsters, probably infused with chaotic energy."

"And?" Shen prompted. "Twin Masters isn't with them?"

Lin Chung frowned. "Yong, Ke and Jiao are leading them into battle, but there's no sign of him."

"Can you slow them down?" Zhi looked at the harmonic energy user, who nodded as he closed his eyes. Immediately, the army was pushed back several feet. The three in the front growled, pausing as they watched the remains of the army that they had battled several days ago gather themselves together.

Letting out a war cry, each side charged forward. Lin Chung pulled out a bow appear and handed it to Zhi, who took it. "Shoot from here. Try and get anyone you can. You're not exactly the best with close combat." Shen chuckled at his older brother's infuriated face.

Lin Chung leaped down, not letting Zhi come up with a sharp remark. Shen drew his own bow, smirking as he turned to his brother. "27 out of 53?" Zhi bore a similar smirk.

"You're going down." With that, the second oldest clone immediately leaped over to another tree. Shen notched an arrow, firing it into the army, easily manoeuvring around the trees that surrounded them.

He caught sight of Lin Chung, who had engaged Ke in combat. Frowning as he saw Jiao join the battle, Shen notched another arrow and shot it straight into Ke's shoulder. Ke let out a gasp before Lin Chung knocked him out. The youngest clone then disappeared with him, most probably to hand him over to Zhi. Shen growled as he saw the campers start to retreat as soon as Lin Chung left.

Landing on the ground, he used his bow to slice off the head of a dracaena, then fired an arrow to the minotaur in the leg, who was battling Percy. Percy shot him a quick thanks, before continuing to engage the minotaur in combat. Shen's eyes narrowed as he watched a battle that had happened to move past him.

He recognised the different shades of the grey hair and the physical appearance of the clones who rushed past him.

The only way to differ the clones from one another was their physical appearance. The natural difference was their hair and eye colour. Of course, one wouldn't go and stare straight into a clone's eyes to try and identify him, but the hair shades depended on the age.

The oldest, who was Yong, had the darkest hair, though not exactly black. Zhi had a shade somewhere near Yong's, though it was visibly lighter. Shen himself had slightly lighter hair. Ke had a perfect shade of grey, while Jiao had a lighter colour. Lin Chung had the lightest out of all of them, though it wasn't white either.

Then the environmental features. Yong was strong and larger than most of them, his figure intimidating. Zhi was much smaller, since he spent most of his time curled up with a book. Shen was slightly larger than Zhi, being an archer, but Ke and Jia were possibly the smallest of them all. Lin Chung was around the same size as Jian, as both an archer and a swordsman.

Which seemed to be the only thing keeping him alive in the fight. Shen turned around to see Ke join him, a grim look on his face that told the archer Ke had also seen the battle. Drawing a blade, he looked at Shen, shrugged, and then returned to battle. Shen caught sight of him engaging Jiao in combat. Shen frowned upon noticing something. Where did Ke get his shoulder fixed?

Ke and Jiao were evenly matched, as they were both quick and light on their feet. Soon enough, however, an arrow from a nearby tree declared Ke the winner, who then proceeded to drag Jiao over to the person responsible for the arrow. Shen turned back to the two who were still fighting. Almost every conflict in the battle had ceased to watch the youngest and oldest clone fight.

Ke joined the now gathering group of brothers. "Told you that improving his speed will help." Zhi stared at him incredulously.

"He nearly died of exhaustion!"

Ke rolled his eyes. "And he nearly died of boredom from your lessons."

"Fair enough." Zhi shrugged as they turned back to the battle. Neither clone was having the upper advantage. Percy marched up to them, his expression incredulous.

"How can you argue at a time like this? We need to help him."

"No." Hawk appeared next to them.

"Why not?" Nico demanded, joining the group.

Hawk shook his head. "Look at them. They're too focused on the battle. If we suddenly did something, they wouldn't be aware of it. It could scare them, and, if we're unlucky…"

"Lin Chung will be the last to recover." Zhi said, still frowning as he watched the two. "Especially since Yong is more experienced still in this battle, his element." His eyes widened as he suddenly saw something that he thought Yong had forgotten a long time ago. After feinting several attacks, he kicked Lin Chung back, where the youngest clone crashed into the cabins.

"Always the cabins." He mumbled under his breath. He saw Lin Chung place a hand on his ribs, trying to heal them. Ke's eyes widened with many others' as he saw the oldest of the clones raise his sword, ready to kill him. Ke froze. Even he wouldn't have been able to dodge the sword that was coming down.

The blade suddenly stopped as the owner hesitating to strike the young clone down. Lin Chung watched Yong carefully, but wasted no time in kicking Yong's feet out from under him, and slamming him into a cabin. Zhi sighed, his quiet voice audible around the camp. "Always the cabins. Why is it always the cabins?"

"Chiron, what story will you tell us today?" Chiron smiled, though he didn't know how to answer that. The campers had been in a particularly low mood, and he felt that his normal tales would only cause them sadness. He wanted for them to laugh.

"Hey, you can tell them that tale about-" Jiao's voice was audible in the silent atmosphere. Lin Chung looked at him incredulously.

"No." He turned to Ke. "I still blame you for that, by the way."

Now, Ke looked incredulous. "You were late!"

"Oh…" Yong winced. "Yup. Jiao was holding him up." Ke slowly turned to the still glaring harmonic energy user.

"I told you so."

"What is it?" Connor asked, his mood beginning to light. The camp were also interested. Chiron smiled; it seemed as though his prayer had been answered. He had to admit that it was amusing.

"Well, there was this time that Lin Chung was late for training with me, and I didn't know the reason," Ke pointedly said, glaring at Lin Chung, who glared back.

"I told you that it was Jiao. You never believe me!"

"And he made him run 500 miles." Zhi finished quickly.

"500 miles?" An Ares camper sounded incredulous.

"I don't even know how I'm still alive." Lin Chung muttered.

Ke put his hands up in surrender. "Oh come on! That was, like, 2993 years ago! You're still holding that against me?"

Jiao frowned. "I'm surprised you were even able to do it."

"Why?" A hunter asked, smirking as she saw Ke back away from Lin Chung.

"Good to see that you had so little faith in my skills." Lin Chung rolled his eyes at his older brother, who shrugged.

"You were only seven years old. That was quite amazing…unless you used magic?" His tone was accusing. Lin Chung frowned.

"Only once, after 250 rounds. After that, Ke kindly threatened me with another 500 if I used magic. And then he had a mountain lion chase me to try and keep up." Ke looked away.

"That is a perfectly logical excuse."

"Whoa. Whoa." Yong cut in. "No arguing like the last time." They turned to him, the campers chuckling slightly at the argument. The clones looked at one another, before seeming to come to a decision. They pointed at Zhi, who was reading something.

"He started it." Zhi looked up, startled.

"What?" Most of the campers stifled laughs at the looks on the brothers' faces. It was pretty funny, actually.

Yong sighed. "Don't lay the blame on him. We don't have to fight."

"I find that highly ironic."

"Why?" Yong turned to Zhi Neng.

"You were the one that was trying to kill us a few hours ago." Zhi murmured.

Yong groaned. "You're going to guilt trip me all day long, aren't you?" Jiao nodded, a sly smirk on his face.

"All week long." Yong frowned.

"You are a terrible brother." Jiao shrugged and held his hands up in surrender.

"I never said I was a good person."

Lin Chung laughed, something that the campers haven't heard for a long time.

"That is true."

"I let you." Jiao nodded firmly.

"And that was why you were sulking for the rest of the day." Jiao scowled, before turning to Yong. The siblings quickly descended into squabbling, which then descended into physical roughhousing, where Jiao and Yang quickly ran away from the combined forces of their other three siblings.

The campers were roaring with laughter now at the amused look on Lin Chung's face. Zhi rushed in front of him, soundlessly asking where their brothers were hiding. Lin Chung pointed to the Big House without a hint of remorse. Without another word, the intelligent brother disappeared once again into the Big House, closely followed by Jiao, who paused, looking around. He turned to Lin Chung, who pointed in the direction of the Big Three's cabins.

"You're misleading them?" Annabeth snorted.

Lin Chung shrugged. "It's funny. That way it lasts longer." He watched as Yong and Ke raced past.

"They're scared of their younger siblings?" Rick asked incredulously, to which Lin Chung smirked.

"Trust me, Jiao and Ke can be scary when they want to be. Same way you are scared of Connor and Travis." They watched, amused, as Zhi ran by, followed by Shen, who was holding an enormous scorpion in his right hand, and a large black spider in his left. The Athena campers screamed as he rushed past them, making it all the worse as the spider dropped to the ground.

The Athena cabin literally froze, still screaming with terror. At that moment, Jiao appeared again, looking around for something before snatching the spider up again. If Percy could, he would've said that the spider was looking absolutely terrified.

The campers roared into laughter once again as Yong covered his head from a huge baseball bat that Ke had somehow gotten ahold of. Laughing filled the air as the night fell, and the bonfire went down.