A Hero Was Born: Chapter Twenty-Four

Everyone looked at eah other nevously. Percy, on his pegasus Blackjack, split the matches among the few people who were outside the woods. As they began lighting the mathes, Posiedon shouted

"Fire!" Suddenyl the forest started burning. In less than 30 miutes, Posiedon, Percy, and the camp director were crushng all Apollo's camp had. A few demigods put on a line of defense, but retreated further into the woods, Posidon and his "army" following them. Apollo, wounded, did nothing more than abandon his army after two hours of retreating. His army surrendered soon after they discovered they had no leader. Posidon had not, however, did everything correctly. Apollo still escaped, wheras he was supposed to be captured. The house on top of Mt. Olympus turned into a prison. Prisoners of Apollo's army were taken to the building for questioning. Fighting a war would be hard without knowing were one of your enemies were.

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Camp Half-Blood on the whole was pretty much demolished, a war camp taking it's place. The cabins were the only things that stayed the same, but everything else was arranged for war-time convienience. The fields were fruit used to grow was now a battle field, with the wall seperating the camp from the field. The sign with the name CAMP HALF-BLOOD was torn down after Greek fire demolished it. And still, life in camp moved on. Young demigods who were training for the fighting were doing chores in their cabins. Or, most of them. Phillip couldn't tell. He and Malisa were taken into a building where a man in a wheel-chair was resting behind his desk.

"Ah," the man said, :what news has come from Camp Demigod, Phillip?" Phillip knew the man. He had met him a few times when the camp director camp to this camp for a good talk with the guy in the whell-chair. Seldom did Phillip and he ever talked together during these meetings.

"Um . . ." Phillip began to say, "We-we were suposed to bring . . . someone to -" A big crash shook the room. Fire broke out, and in mnutes demigods were running about, some trying to take out the flames.

Greek fire.