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Andy munched on the snacks that Leda had grabbed for them and considered the hellhound puppy. It was friendly with the others, but also seemed quite content to sit on her lap. "I'll name him Chocolate." She decided. "You're a good puppy aren't you." She said scratching under his chin with a free hand. Andy was upset she only had two hands. One for eating, one for petting the puppy. She wished she had a third so she could still hold Arthur's.

Some yelling and shuffling caught her attention. It seemed some kids were fighting. Jason had even drawn his sword. She frowned. "Wonder what they're fighting about." She said. Stopping her petting of the puppy to point. The other young campers, who Andy only sort of spent time with, had all scattered. She knew Jason had a short fuse so she wasn't surprised he was involved.



"A walk does sound nice." Niah didn't voice it, but she hoped it would be just the three of them this time. The kids were fine, but they were both Greek and kids. It didn't allow for them to have the usual heart-to-hearts that the trio had. They had been friends for years. When others were there it always felt weird.

She snorted a small laugh at Nancy's comment about the Greeks having fifteen more songs to sing. All just about S'mores. "Sometimes they forget what they are the legacy of." She said shaking her head. A part of her appreciated the Greek's ability to be kids. However, without even knowing it she agreed with Nancy, how did they survive to adulthood like that. She grabbed her bag and was ready to go either way.

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Scritching the ears of the puppy, Arthur frowned for a moment when he learned it was a Hellhound. It wasn't that he didn't think it was any less cute, but he wanted more than a dad that would send him things in leu of being present in his life, but he would accept the dog if it was from the Underworld. It wasn't right to mistreat an animal for any reason, and he still thought the puppy was adorable. He nodded along with Andy's name recommendation, and said, "Chocolate is a perfect name for him, and he is a very good boy yes he iiis!" He said, going full in on petting the pupper.

Arthur was not about to get involved in anything that involved the drawing of swords; he was way happier to spend the time he had with Andy and this adorable dog. He did frown for a moment as he took the candy from Leda, "Thanks for the snacks!" He started to say, before continuing, "But... which one of us is gonna take Chocolate? Or do we wanna leave him here?" Arthur asked, a touch of sadness in his voice. He didn't want to take the dog away from Andy, and even if he ended up doing that, it wasn't the problem; he just didn't want to think about them splitting up.

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Annabelle stood up and stretched for a moment as she listened to Cassian and nodded they were a threat to the camp, if they were here and possessing other campers then it wouldn't be a really good thing either. "I'll go and gather my brothers and sisters then we can go and investigate it all together then." Annabelle said as she went over towards her trunk and started to grab a few things along with her jacket while making her way towards the door motioning for him to follow her out of the cabin.

"Lets get going." Annabelle said as she noticed there was a group nearby talking seeing the newest edition to the camp close by among them. "If you don't mind find out what they are doing over there for me, and i'll catch up." Annabelle said before making her way towards the arena she would see that the Roman's were now making their way over towards the arena now as well to that was going to make things more complicated she thought.

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Kristin looked between Zeke and Stella asking what was going on, and what they should do she wasn't sure what happened but she had a feeling that Chiron would know exactly what was happening as she looked at Stella. "Lets go and get Chiron then and hopefully he'll figure out whats actually going on." Kristin said, she looked at Lauryn, Zeke and Demi for a moment she felt bad that the two of them were possessed. "We'll find out so don't worry." Kristin said as she gently patted Zeke on the shoulder.

She noticed that the Legion were coming over now as well to and were entering the arena for the whole announcements for the quests now as well to. She wasn't sure if Stella was going to come with her or not before making her way over to where Chiron was and stopped right in front of them. "Sorry to disturb you Chiron, but something is going on and need your help." Kristin said as Chiron turned his attention from Rosie over towards Kristin. "Alright lets go and see." Chiron said as he got up and made his way over towards the others just as the Legion was coming in now.

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"Chocolate is a cute name for the little guy." Kiera said towards both Andy and Arthur, the little hellhound pupper was taking it all in looking very happy at all of the attention it was clearly getting. She looked between Andy and Arthur for a moment, on what they should do with him. "You two could share him or something like that, if one of you goes on a quest or away from camp during the school year then the other can watch over him or something like that." Kiera suggested, she turned towards the bleachers as she could hear what was actually going on, and saw Jace knocking Janelle onto the ground. "I'm going to go and help." Kiera said looking over towards Leda before running off.

"Hey whats going on here?" Kiera asked seeing Jason had his sword out, Jace had turned around to face her seeing the look in his eyes something was off, before she was hit rather hard as well knocking her onto the ground. Feeling something and hearing something snapping as she fell and landed on her right arm, letting out a cry in pain, as she started to get up as well. The Legion was just entering the room now and paused as they saw the fight was going on and stared a bit confused as to what they were actually doing.

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Madalyne looked at Nancy and laughed slightly and shook her head. "Then does that make you a vampire or something?" She asked teasingly towards her friend, letting out a slight sigh she really needed something to take her mind off of things as she smiled a little bit when mentioning the Greeks singing about S'mores. "That would be kind of entertaining to listen to." Madalyne said as she started to stand up while looking at Niah and Nancy.

"We shouldn't leave the rest of the Legion to be tortured by their annoying kids songs I think that would fall under cruel and unusual punishment." She grabbed her things, she thought about going towards the beach as well for their walk would be really nice as well to as Madalyne grabbed the small box for Andy and Arthur as well she did promise to give them their's later as well to before leaving the tent and making her way over towards the Greek's arena.

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"Well of course I'd care about you, we're all family after all! I'm Stella, and I'm glad that you're doing alright." Stella offered Demi a small smile at that and then stood up and brushed herself off a bit. She was glad that he could talk, as she knew that if he couldn't that might mean his voice was damaged. She did frown a bit as she saw the bruises forming on his neck, and wished she could do something. However, Kristin caught her attention when she said they should go talk to Chrion and she nodded. She figured they were all safe by now, but that the centaur did need to know.

She followed Kristin back to the bonfire and over to the centaur and looked up at him as she spoke. "Yup, there is something to come see." She could see that some of those that were at the campfire were looking at them, as they were pulling Chiron away from the campfire. Once they were outside the arena and away from most of the other campers, she spoke. "Chiron, something really weird is going on here. I've seen two people act weird tonight, like possessed or something. I'm not sure what's going on, but... I can tell this isn't normal."

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Demetri’s words didn’t phase Zeke. Kristin’s pat on his back was even more depressing to Zeke. He nodded when she said they would figure it out. Sure, they would figure it out. They always did but how long would it take for them to figure it out? How many more kids would become possessed and what if whatever it was possessed Zeke again? He was almost glad the vines were still bound around him.
Ezekiel hadn’t felt this defeated in a long time. The pain usually manifested in anger but for the time being it was an empty feeling. He could have seriously hurt Demi, maybe even killed him and the knowledge of that was ripping Zeke apart. Sure it was Demi but it still could have been murder. This was why he never got close to anyone and worked alone. That way you only had to be worried about yourself and no one else.
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Janelle was so confused as to what all was happening around her, all she really knew was that one minute they were just having a simple conversation or whatever (with the boys plotting to prank the Hermes cabin) and the next thing she knew she had been knocked down to the ground. The problem with being blind, was that even normally at times her balance could waver and she'd fall over from her own clumsiness. However with this situation, she knew easily that someone had knocked her over on purpose, and from the sounds of it, it had been Jace who had done it for some strange reason. She was so confused.

Jason was practically seeing red, since he did not like it when anyone hurt his little sister, no matter the context or what all was going on to cause it. Raising his sword, he decided to at least slow him down at first, and he slashed him, managing to hit him in the shoulder and causing him to bleed a bit. "No one 'urts me lettle sester," he snapped at him through gritted teeth, and he was honestly preparing to strike again to both cause him more pain and to knock him out.

Hearing her brother and the anger in his voice, Janelle instantly scrambled up onto her feet, using her cane to steady herself, she figured she needed to knock Jace out before her brother did anything he likely would regret later. Using her powers and taking a deep breath, listening to where exactly Jace was (and hoping no one walked in her path) before she sent a wave his way, which just knocked Jace out entirely, putting him to sleep. Slowly, she walked over to her brother and put a hand on his arm, more or less telling him to lower the sword. "What exactly 'appened? One minute we were just talkin, and de next 'e attacked like dat..." she asked a bit quietly.

"I 'ave no idea... Are you ahkay?"

"I'm fine."

"Good..." he said, before he turned and went over to Kiera, kneeling down slightly beside her, and taking a look at her arm that clearly looked to be badly broken. "Are you alright Kiera? Dat looks like a nasty break... Could be wahrse, but naht too sure 'ow much wahrse dat could 'ave ended..." he said to her. That break likely was going to need some form of healing to hopefully make it so that it would heal properly, not to mention typically setting a broken bone could be kind of painful at times.

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"I was hoping that you'd be able to tell us what's going on, but guessing you don't remember anything from the sounds of it. But should I really release you? Since you could just be super annoying again in general," she said with a slight smirk. It was a slight bit of teasing on her part, and she hoped that maybe it might lighten Zeke's mood a little bit. Being possessed by something did not sound like fun at all, and she figured that he was kicking himself over what had just happened, even though in no way at all was it his fault.

After another moment, she waved her hand slightly, and the vines unraveled, letting go of Zeke and the plants went back down into the ground. Talking to Chiron about what had just happened seemed like a good idea, to at least alert him of what all was going on. Two people being possessed within moments of each other was not good, and another thought crossed her mind with regards to it. "We might want to make sure we're on the lookout, since if this happened so soon or whatever one right after the other, it wouldn't be too surprising if it happened again right? Whoever is doing all of this anyway clearly is probably getting a kick out of it or something if I had to guess."

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"Yes, thank you for the snacks. We can let Chocolate choose I suppose. I wouldn't want to leave him at the camp if we are both gone. If one of us is here though they can watch him." Andy decided sensibly. She figured if the dog was a hell hound it probably could take care of itself, even if it was as small as this one. She wondered how big the puppy would get. Andy watched as Kiera went to investigate whatever was going on around Jace.

Andy saw Kiera fall and heard the snap. She knew exactly what happened. The previous summer she had broken her arm too. Though it had been Arthur's fault, she didn't blame him. It had been an accident. She winced. "Kiera'll have to go the first aid. They'll be able to fix it there." She said, then looked at Leda. She figured as Kiera's girlfriend Leda would be extra concerned. What was really concerning though is Jace didn't seem to realize he was the one who had hurt Kiera. Andy didn't understand that part of what was going on.



"I'll keep it in mind as a form of corporal punishment. But only for the worst of offenses." Niah said. She smirked a bit. She understood the need to let off steam and that something like the campfire was probably good for building a team mentality. However, her experience with the Greeks was they had little 'team' mentality and would fight in nothing but chaos. The harmony that the cohort system brought for the Romans was better designed in her opinion.

As they walked into the arena this only proved her point. It was clear fighting had been going on. Niah could only sigh heavily and look to Mads and Nancy. "Are they capable of keeping the peace at all?" It had slipped her mind that they hadn't warned them about the Eidolon. Or that it could be a threat still. All the stuff with dealing with Leandra and then the necklaces had thoroughly distracted her.

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Demetri dug the toe of his shoe into the dirt, thinking about what Stella had said. They were family after all. He tried not to think about it too much, it helped feeling close to Andy and Arthur. Helped to build those bonds, but if he wanted anything more than that with anyone… He looked back towards Zeke who still seemed to be inside his own head. Demi chewed on his lower lip a bit, anxiously wondering what he could do to help the situation, to make him feel better, but nothing came to mind for what he could do right now.

He watched as Mary dropped the vines, relief rushing over him as he let out a sigh. Demi wasn't sure if he'd have to help Zeke out of them or not, and he was glad to not have to go through the trouble. His eyes briefly glanced over towards the box that Zeke had thrown to the ground, debating if he should pick it up or not. Stella had left, leaving him without his scapegoat as the four of them were still together and waiting as if any could turn at any moment. Demetri didn't know what to say, or what he could say or do at this moment. It was the hardest them keeping this secret had ever been.

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Cassian walked with haste alongside Annabelle. As they began to close in on the fires of the camp, he'd all but forgotten what started this all. There seemed to be a bit of commotion going on ahead and his pace quickened, nodding to Annabelle as she asked him to check on the group that was a bit further from the fire. Cass broke into a brisk jog, slowing down just before reaching Marygold and looking out towards the others, catching the tail end of what she was saying. By the looks of it, they'd just been attacked in some way.

"I may be able to help with that actually. Just had a lengthy conversation with someone from the Hecate Cabin about this. After I left the fire earlier I began to hear Whispers surrounding me, the air got colder and I saw a shadowy figure looming in the distance before I ran into Annabelle. As soon as we entered the cabin the feeling disappeared. We think this…being is an Eidolon. A former servant of Gaia I think she said? Either way they're bad news so we came back to see if we can find them and maybe kick them out if even possible." Cassian was typically one to talk with his hands, gesticulating wildly as he spoke. But for the moment only one hand was free to do so as the other gripped his panflute in preparation for a fight if one were to happen.

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Leda hadn't noticed the fighting going on, largely because she had been focused on finding snacks for the kids and the singing around the campfire was rather noisy. She perked up ever so slightly at that. It wasn't that Leda was happy drama was going on - okay, well, maybe she was a little bit happy. Breaking up a fight (or just full on participating in one) was going to be way more fun than singing some songs anyways. And it would be a good warm up for her before the quest. Her fingers were just itching for a good fight. She spotted Jason taking part in the action, which didn't surprise her - the kids of Ares were always trigger happy.

Arthur decided to put a dark spin on the conversation - trying to determine who was going to take care of Chocolate during the quest. "Right behind ya, luv," Leda said, before heading off after Kiera towards the scene. Jace was there and something clearly had come over him, as he knocked Kiera to the ground. Smoke would've been coming out of Leda's ears if they were in a cartoon and Jace was lucky that one of the gingers seemingly put him to sleep. Leda reached into her bag, pulling out an ambrosia square, and she offered it to Kiera. "I'll kill the wanker next time," she promised.

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Nancy just smirked ever so slightly at Madalyne's question as to whether or not she was a vampire. If she survived long enough to join the Hunt, she at least would have the immortality in common with the creatures of the night. However, she pulled a face as Mads admitted she'd be entertained by hearing the Greeks sing. "I'd rather stick a lit candle in my ear," Nancy countered. Her father was the god of music, but that didn't mean Nancy enjoyed hearing a bunch of out of tune children screaming campfire songs on the eve before a horrific quest was set to begin. At least a second later, Mads seemed to have retracted her statement, now thankfully calling the songs annoying.

She did raise an eyebrow as Niah mentioned she was saving that information for consideration. Niah hadn't put her name forward for being praetor, she had suggested someone else - and now she was thinking about how to deliver punishments? Maybe she was more interested in one day having the job than Nancy had initially realized. They left the senate tent and made their way to the arena, and Nancy snorted slightly, taking in the scene. Something had definitely happened. "Radical," she said with an eye roll.

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Arthur nodded at Andy, before ruffling the top of Andy's head. "Yeah, we can let Chocolate choose who he wants to stay with, that totally works for me." God this dog was cute, he wished he had more time that he and Andy could spend with him, and really get to know their new furry friend. It sounded like it'd be really fun to have a dog around camp, and would also be excellent for nights when he had to be alone in the Hades cabin, having a cute dog like Chocolate with him would make that place feel so much less alone. Chocolate would make their lives a lot more comfortable.

As the bone snapped, Arthur made a face mixed of humiliation, pain, and sympathy. He didn't like thinking about the time he hurt Andy, it wasn't the best story in the world after all. However, without it, he knew he'd never be as close to her as he was now, so it was bearable at least. He shook his head, "Whatever they're fighting over, it's probably stupid." He said, clearly annoyed with how their peers could be sometimes. People liked to act like idiots, especially teenagers sired by divinity, it could really hammer in that feeling of immortality, regardless of the actual dangers involved.

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Kristin came back a few seconds later with Chiron in tow shortly behind her, as she turned to look over at Cassian as he started to explain about what he had known and that he was with Annabelle talking about it. What Cassian said kind of sounded pretty familiar with what happened to Lauryn and Zeke as well to. Even though she was a daughter of Athena, she didn't really have much knowlege on what an Eidolon actually was when Chiron spoke up. She turned to look at him as he rubbed his beard while looking at them all knowing that Eidolon's were really bad.

"I'll see about getting the Hecate Cabin to do a sweep around the entire camp, make sire that they hadn't possessed anyone or anything else in camp." Chiron said as he looked at Zeke and Lauryn for a moment, he felt bad that they were possessed and wanted to make sure that they were alright as well. "We'll announce what happened as well to once everyone is ready, and go from there." Chiron told them as Kristin nodded slightly. "I'll look for Bryan and make sure you all get patched up then." Kristin said as she turned off and headed back towards the arena to look for Bryan, Chiron looked towards them. "Go ahead and head back to the camp fire, but stick together for the time being." Chiron instructed before making his way back towards the arena.

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Kiera looked over at Jason and nodded slightly as she winced in pain as she started to slowly sit up while holding her arm, it was really painful, as she tried to move her fingers in the broken arm she couldn't really move them without causing a lot of pain. "I'll live thank you.." Kiera said as her girlfriend came over and handed her some ambrosia and took it popping it into her mouth, the pain started to subside for now which made her relax a little bit. "Thanks love." Kiera said looking over at Leda and smiled somewhat towards her as she turned to hear someone coming up towards them.

"Are you alright?" Bryan ended up asking looking at both Janelle and then at Kiera seeing that the two of them were hurt because of Jace and quickly got to work and started to heal Kiera's arm. Kiera could feel the bone slowly being reset and then mending itself, while still groaning slightly the pain was dulled a little bit but still it hurt quiet a bit for her. Kiera watched as Kristin came over towards them, while Bryan tended to Janelle's injury. "Whats up?" Bryan asked looking over at Kristin. "Theres a few more injuries i'd like you to look at, what happened here?" Kirstin asked looking between everyone in the group.

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Madalyne thought for a moment as she looked at Niah wondering if the Greeks had their own form of security and keeping the peace, and gave a slight shrug. "I have no idea honestly. Its still a bit amazing that they are still standing after this long if they didn't have some kind of order if there was a dispute." Madalyne said, though she hoped that her niece wouldn't be the one to actually cause a lot of the trouble. Madalyne took a moment and looked up at the night sky for a moment wondering what the next day had in store for all of them, as she looked at Niah.

"Mind making sure that they Legion is organized? Nancy and I should bring up the whole Eidolon threat to their attention as well." Madalyne asked her friend, she took a moment and shook her head slightly, realizing that it was probably going to be one of the last few orders that she'd be able to give before the next day she'd be done with her Praetorship. Madalyne took a moment seeing those who were still outside of the arena and nodded towards them, while looking at Cassian, before catching up to Chiron.

"Hey Chiron, we have a bit of an issue with Eidolon's within the campgrounds one of them possessed a member of the Legion earlier today. And we were wondering if you had any encounters earlier today or this evening?" Madalyne asked him as Chiron turned around to look at her and nodded slightly. "We've had a few incidences that just happened, we are working in expelling them now if any of you'd like to help that would be greatly appreciated to." Chiron informed them.

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Stella silently followed Kristen and Chiron again, as she wasn't quite sure what else to do. Chiron had been silent after she had spoken, explaining a bit of what had happened to him. She wasn't quite sure if she was really helping anymore, but she wasn't about to just stop being a part of what had happened because no one was paying attention to her. She did nod when Chiron said that it might be a good idea to have someone do a sweep of the camp to make sure that no one else was possessed at that point. Twice in one night really was enough, and Stella honestly wanted to call her dads to make sure they knew she was alright.

"Oh Messenger Goddess, please connect me to my dads again." Stella used the water, prism and flashlight again to make another rainbow and she tossed the coins into it again. Her father's worried faces soon appeared and they both called out for her daughter. "I'm alright dad, otou-san. I'm alright. I promise. Something happened that cut off our call. So, I promised you that I would explain what's going on. I will, but not tonight. Things here are a little odd. But I'm alright. I'm safe. I will explain everything tomorrow. Or in a few days. Just can't tonight." She offered them both a small smile as she promised she would call soon.

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Marygold teased Ezekiel before releasing him from her vines. He brought his arms around, rubbing them a little. There were still cuts all over his arms and the blood had dried. He sighed before putting his hands on the ground and pushed himself to his feet. He held his head after, shaking his head and just trying to feel normal again. He had no recollection of what he had done or said but he saw the marks on Demetri’s neck and knew what he had done. Even though he was possessed, it was his hands that had nearly taken a life.
”Ya, well don’t go too far. With none of us having a clue what’s going on, who knows what will happen.” He thanked Marygold before he looked at Demetri. They were a few feet from each other but Ezekiel could still see the marks. He looked away as Cassian came running up them and was shortly followed by Kristin and Chiron from the direction of the fire
He started talking wildly with his hands, which was rather distracting but at the mention of whispers and cold, Zeke paid closer attention. An Eidolon? Ezekiel had never heard of such a thing in his entire life but whatever this creature was, it was associated with mother Gaia. Ezekiel frowned, looking at Cassain. Gaia was dead but he did use the words former servant. So, was this thing working on it’s own now?
”Great,” Zeke said. ”A random creature, who somehow got within the boundaries of camp and is now possessing demi-gods to do what? Spill enough blood to bring mother Gaia back? But she’s dead, dead. Like split up and scattered dead, right?” He looked at Chiron for confirmation.
Finally, the Romans started to arrive. Madalyne walked up to Chiron and spoke of Eidolon having possessed a Roman earlier. Something inside Ezekiel snapped. He walked over to the pair, shoving himself in-between Madalyne and Chiron and glared at the girl.
”Please don’t tell me what I think I just heard. Someone was already attacked by this thing earlier and you decide now to tell us? After two people, myself included, were possessed and I nearly killed someone!?” Zeke was seeing red. ”How freaking selfish are you people? We save your asses, bring you into our camp and you can’t even tell us about a fucking monster that's a threat to us all?” Ezekiel’s hands clenched into fists and he was vibrating as he spoke.

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"Alright, just wantin to make sure," Jason said with a shrug, before he moved back over to check on his sister, who seemed to be doing alright. She managed to more or less knock Jace out, even though he had been more then prepared to maybe killing the guy over hurting her. That was a weird situation to end up in, and honestly he wasn't even entirely sure what had just happened, and it sounded like the others were a bit confused with regards to it too, at least of those who had come over.

Janelle still wasn't entirely sure what had happened, and so she wasn't too sure how to respond to people asking what exactly had happened. Though when Bryan asked if she was okay, Janelle just simply nodded her head, not really saying much of anything with regards to it. Not to mention Kiera's injury sounded to be a lot worse than her own, since people seemed to be mentioning a broken limb or something. "I'm fine... Just a bet surprised..." she commented softly in the end, not too sure what else to really say.

"Are you sure dat you're alright Janey?" he asked his sister, not too sure what else to really say with regards to it. He was concerned about her, and he knew that she sometimes tended to push off her own well being for someone else if they were injured or something too. His attention turned towards Kristin when she asked what had happened, and now he was sort of trying to think of the best way to answer her question, all things considering that he was still a bit confused as to what had just happened.

"I'm fine Jason, 'ahnestly," she said, waving her hand in the direction of his voice. "I'm naht sure what 'appened, one minute de three o' us were talkin, de next minute I was knahcked over and I'm naht too sure, dere was sahme fightin and I managed to put 'im to sleep..." she kind of explained, not fully sure how to explain the situation. She didn't know what had fully happened, all she knew was that Jace had seemingly attacked them at random, with no real reason behind the attack.

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Mary more or less just listened to what was being said as Chiron ended up walking over to the group and the whole conversation that was playing out with regards to the attacks and all. Bringing it up to the rest of the camp seemed like the best idea to her, and she currently was kind of keeping an eye on Zeke, since as much as he annoyed her, she also knew that if she was in his place she really would not be probably in the best headspace. As everyone more or less started wandering away back to the fire, and oh boy was she somewhat glad she decided to stick around the area and all, considering the conversation between Chiron and one of the Romans.

She never thought in her life she'd ever actually truly agree with Zeke on something, but seriously? The Romans had decided to keep this all to themselves and bring it up now when the camp had done a lot for them? "Okay, going to be blunt, probably a better way about going about this then shouting Zeke, but honestly I agree with you on this one. What the hell were you all thinking? Oh, we care only about ourselves and decided that we're going to bring this up when it's convenient for us and doesn't get in the way of us protecting ourselves even though we're guests somewhere else. Seriously, when were you planning on bringing that sort of thing up? Because keeping that to yourselves when it happened, as it sounds like a while ago, seriously. If you had warned us we might have been better prepared for that sort of thing, and that resulted in more problems for us, you have to remember, you aren't the only ones here," Mary said. She wasn't really trying to sound rude, and she wasn't entirely yelling, she was just wondering what the hell were the Romans honestly thinking and more or less stating the facts as far as she knew them currently.

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Demetri could feel Zeke's eyes on him for a moment. Keeping his gaze away from the blonde Adonis until after he felt his eyes peel off of him. Once Cassian had entered the scene, Demi dared to steal a glance, hoping that some of that remorse Zeke was feeling would be slowly leaving by now. They really couldn't have a happy moment could they? He looked upwards towards the sky for a moment, wondering if Aphrodite was enjoying this. It was a messy triangle of will they won't they, spattered with drama to fill the ages. Demetri hadn't fully been listening to what Cassian had to say, more so lost in his own thoughts as he slowly made his way closer to Zeke and the rest so as to not wander too far.

Cassian gave Zeke a shrug. He didn't have all the answers, hell he didn't have any answers besides the ones just given. Apollo's kid had offered the idea of spilling enough blood to wake Gaia and Cass hadn't even considered that as an option. But before he could say anything Zeke seemed to catch another conversation as the Romans approached the fire and Chiron. It appeared that they had been deliberating on this very subject. One of them was attacked by the same force and their secrecy seemed to set Zeke off the edge.

Demetri jumped back into the present as he saw anger rise in Zeke. A part of him wished to pull Zeke back, calm him down; another found it extremely attractive in an odd way, but mostly his heart twisted to see him go through so much in such a little amount of time. From the happiness he saw moments before, towards racking guilt, and now searing anger...it was a lot.
Demi took a careful step towards Zeke, thanking the gods Mary was a bit more leveled with her response. "You're right Zeke, and gods I hate to say that. They should've told us sooner, but infighting isn't going to help us solve this problem."

Cassian watched this all from afar, thinking until the pieces seemed to click together. Whether he was correct or not he had no idea. But stories his mother had told him flooded his mind and if he was correct. He made his way towards Zeke and the rest and placed himself between the child of Apollo and the Roman woman. "Even a broken clock is right every once in a while. Demetri has a point, and to that end it was something you said Zeke that triggered thus thought. What if they are looking to shed demigod blood? To awaken Gaia and bring back their old master? Sure, having the Greeks fight amongst themselves might get a little scuffle here and there. But the greatest wars were between the Romans and the Greeks. It's why we were separated. We need to band together to stop our enemy. And to keep a new war from arising." Cassian looked pleadingly at Zeke, then pointedly at Madalyne. "That means no more secrets. You are under our care and in our home. If one of your Romans are attacked you are to report it directly to Chiron, then whomever you see fit on your end. But we cannot have anymore of this."

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Nancy was basically in lockstep with Madalyne, catching up with the Greek's leader, Chiron. She was a little bit surprised to hear that some of the Greeks had also been dealing with possessions, largely because she assumed that Leandra had done something to get herself mixed up in it all. She wouldn't have been surprised if Leandra accidentally summoned a ghost and got herself possessed in some sad, desperate ploy to seize power. However, her thoughts were cut off abruptly by someone shoving their way in the middle of Chiron and Madalyne, and Nancy saw red. Her rage only barely subsided when she realized it was her half-brother, Zeke - one of the few children of Apollo that Nancy actually felt connected to. "Zeke, don't you dare touch her again," Nancy warned, her voice like sharpened steel.

Zeke was LIVID. He shouted at them and Nancy felt like he was talking specifically to her. He didn't say that she was a failure of a leader or that she was the reason New Rome fell, but Nancy felt that. She could feel the weight and expectations of being the praetor of Rome, and a daughter of Apollo, and it was like a flame flared up inside of her. Nancy wasn't good at processing emotions and feelings. She wasn't good at admitting that they should have sent a messenger earlier, but Nancy had been so focused on doing anything in her power to exile Leandra and/or have her otherwise stripped of her power that she had forgotten. But not only was Zeke laying into her, now others had as well? Any chance of Nancy swallowing her pride and admitting her mistake went out the window.

"Oh, gag me with a fucking spoon!" Nancy snapped, the campfire flames reflecting in her eyes and making it look like her eyes had fires dancing inside of them. "The minute we were able to, we came on over to tell you about Leandra. We'd been in the Senate ever since the incident happened, trying to sort all of it out and the deadly array of quests that are assigned, so SORRY that we didn't send you a note that our problematic little traitorous bitch was possessed by a ghost! Honestly, I figured she likely did it to herself! Do you send us a note every time one of those Pluto kids raises the dead or sicks a zombie on someone? No? Then how about you mind your own damn business and just be grateful we're telling you now!"

She didn't stop though, having only made herself angrier. "Also, for the record, we don't need your grody asses to keep us safe - we were fine without you all! We're not the ones who die before you're old enough to smoke pot! You're the ones who constantly send small children out into the world and just fucking shrug it off when they get killed! Have you ever stopped to think about why no one here is older than 18? And why Greek demigods in adulthood are about as fucking rare as a unicorn that plays the piano and ran for President? Because you're all a bunch of disorganized screw-ups with delusions that you're heroes, when you're not, you're just shitty tragedies waiting to happen!" Nancy screamed. "And you!" she added, staring at Cassian. "Don't you fucking dare think you can order her around."

Now, beyond just screaming at them all, Nancy was unconsciously using her powers over sound. All of the sound in the arena was being amplified to louder and louder volumes, to the point that everyone in her vicinity would feel like they had their ears pressed up against the speakers at a club, the sounds so loud they could feel them in their throat.

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"You better live, we're due in a quest," Leda joked, tucking some of Kiera's hair behind her ear. Hopefully the ambrosia would get her girlfriend healed up pretty quickly, it'd suck if Kiera had to start a quest with an inconvenient injury - those were usually better placed in the final stretch, since at least when it was over they could usually find a plane or something to just take back to New York pretty quickly. (Of course, Leda often did wonder if stories about flight attendants falling out of planes were actually monsters encountering demigods...)

One of the Apollo kids started tending to Kiera and Leda's eyebrows knitted together in worry as Kiera groaned from the pain. "It's okay, luv, just breathe through it and you'll be right as rain in no time," Leda encouraged. Kristin, Ms. Know It All, then came on over and Leda had to resist the urge to preemptively roll her eyes. Leda shrugged when Kristin asked what had happened, as she honestly didn't really know herself, she had arrived more or less late to the party and was just here for Kiera (and to catch any good tea). Of course, the universe didn't let her be a bystander, as suddenly the noises around her became unbearably loud and Leda quickly plugged her ears, trying to block them out, but she could feel the vibrations in her throat from every noise being made, as if she was standing right in front of a powerful speaker.

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There was no way to not hear what was happening. Andy didn't understand it, but she definitely heard it. Her aunt had said something and it had set off Zeke. That had set off Nancy and now Andy was covering her ears, petting Chocolate abandoned for the sake of her eardrums. She looked at Arthur and through her wincing rolled her eyes. She didn't get why the older kids were like that. It always seemed like the Romans and the Greeks were a hair-trigger from fighting and Andy wondered why.

Chocolate buried his head into Andy's torso and she wrapped her jacket around his head. She figured he was sensitive to the noise even more than she was. She watched the group gathering around Chiron wondering what he would do about the situation. Andy found herself torn. If it came to blows would she help the fight? And if so who would she help? Her brother or her aunt?




It all blew up very quickly. Niah winced. The Greeks were wrong. They were making an assumption. Honestly, Niah wasn't surprised that chaos had been sewn here too. She pushed all of that away even as her ears started to feel like they were going to burst. "We can talk about this civilly. We weren't purposely keeping the situation from you." She twisted her Odikinesis trying to calm everyone down. She used this ability the opposite of many. Most used it to piss someone off in battle, Niah used it to keep things from going to blows. Today looked like things were about to go to blows.

"We also didn't expect there to be violence from the Eidolon as the only thing the one we encountered did was try to steal something." Please don't let the Greeks ask what was attempted to be stolen. That is a later conversation. "Now how about we all sit down, drink some hot cocoa and figure out how to handle this rather than yell at each other." Both seemed to work and the people gathered's emotions were calming down.

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Arthur winced at the loud noise, be fire matching Andy's gaze and rolling his eyes along with her. He really would miss tbis, the two of them seemed so.... disconnected from the rest of the group, like they had this seperate world and experience, and that there was comfort in that. He would miss that most of all, he thought, and that this wasn't something that was going to be replaced by having new friends with the people he'd be questing with.

He exhaled, bowling this would pass. He didn't particularly want to deal with other people's problems right now, and he knew that might be selfish, but he didn't care. This was the last little bit of time he'd be getting with Andy, and he was going to enjoy every second of it that he could. He stayed quiet, and hoped that Andy didn't think too little of him for not wanting to intervene, and instead ace itched the ears of Chocolate.

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Kristin listened to what Janelle had said and looked down towards Jace hearing him groaning slightly, but he still seemed to be out of it Janelle knocked him out pretty good with her powers. "I think he was possessed or something, it just happened to Zeke and Lauryn not to long ago either." Kristin said towards both Jason and Janelle, it really wasn't Jace's fault at all for getting possessed either as she turned towards Bryan. "Right i'll be back, if any of you guys need help or anything just call me over." Bryan said as he started to make his way towards Chiron and the others were.

Jace finally started to come to and looked over at Jason and Janelle, and then over at Kristin. "What happened?" He asked looking at them with a bit of a confused look. "You were possessed I think, and you attacked Janelle and Kiera." Kristin answered, as Jace looked down feeling really bad as he looked at the two of them. "I'm really sorry whatever happened it wasnt me." He told them, as Kristin jumped a bit hearing Nancy's voice booming throughout the entire arena and then everyone in the arena the Legion included were all staring at the Roman leaders and Zeke yelling at one another the flames in the bonfire were really huge due to flaring tempers by the looks of it.

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"If I lost this arm would I be able to get out of the quest?" Kiera asked Leda teasingly as she felt her girlfriend brushing a strand of her hair away from her face. She slowly started to stand up to her feet again, her arm was really sore as she looked down for a moment and then started to move it slightly. It still hurt like hell she made a note to stop by the Apollo Cabin before bed, that way she'd be fully healed by then.

After Nancy's little screaming match things quickly became awkwardly quiet in the arena, the flames were still high and were waving erratically due to the fighting. "And here I thought that the Ares kids had a really bad temper sometimes." Kiera said looking over at Jason, Janelle and Kristin. She was tempted to go in and check what things were going on over there, but her arm was hurting and she didn't really want to get up and see what was going on over there you could cut the tension with a knife she felt like a fight would actually happen.

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Madalyne felt herself being pushed to the side, as Zeke immediately started to grill into her and Nancy for not telling them sooner about the Eidolon. Madalyne started to clench her fist and her eyes flashed yellow for a moment and she started to let out a low growl towards Zeke, she was fighting the urge to not wolf out on her as Madalyne stared Zeke down like a pack leader would do to someone challenging her. Along with Mary and Cassian as well, she should have said something earlier, but she was dealing with her own personal issues right now with her going on a quest that could end up with her falling down into the Pit itself. She was really glad that Nancy was sticking up for her.

"Well i'm bloody sorry for not bringing it up sooner to you all, because I just found out that I may or may not end up dying on one of those quests, that were mentioned earlier." Madalyne said staring at the Greeks right in front of her, as she stared at Cassian down for a moment and then quickly pulled up her sleeve to reveal the scar she had received from the summer just previous. "You said you don't want anymore secrets? Well here's a big one for you, I was bit last summer by a werewolf right before the Fall of New Rome I have been keeping it a secret from the rest of you because i'm considered a monster now, as far as I know there isn't a cure. And whenever I die i'll end up in the Pit itself a place that no one ever survives in if you are a mortal, a fate probably worse than death. So yeah i've been dealing with that and I am so bloody sorry forgetting to mention the damn spirits here in camp." Madalyne said before covering her scar again and stared at Cassian.

Chiron quickly stepped in standing in between the Greeks and Roman luckily for Niah using her ability everyone near her would start to calm down. "How about everyone takes a deep breath, this is what whoever is doing this wanting to cause a rift between the Greeks and Romans, we need to all work together in this Bryan ended up walking over looking at the group a bit awkwardly after hearing everything. "Am I interrupting something, did any of you need healing?" He asked looking over at Zeke.

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Stella was thankful that she had managed to quell her fathers for a bit before heading back to the arena. She wasn't sure that she was needed anymore by anyone, but she soon heard shouting, yelling and arguing and she frowned as she settled back into the seat in the arena with her siblings. Marygold wasn't there anymore, but Stella figured that her older sister was off somewhere else.

Then the yelling got worse, and Stella clapped her hands over her ears as she heard someone new yelling. She was angry, and it sounded like for a good reason. They were being blamed for something, but then she seemed to cross a line. What did that girl mean? What was she saying? Was she going to die young?

She could feel herself tensing up and she lifted her left thumb to her lips and started to chew. She knew biting her nails was a bad habit, but it was one she had had since she was young. She could feel her heart beating faster, and she was beginning to regret arriving there.

However soon someone else was speaking and she started to feel calmer at that point. She dropped her hand and stopped chewing on her nail at that point. She looked up and around to see what was going on, and then took a deep breath at that point to keep calming herself down. She looked down at her hands, wondering what had just happened. Why had she felt like someone had been screaming right in her ear and now she felt fine? Magic. It had to be magic.