"Mmph."

"Get up."

"Mmph."

"We have to go!"

"Go away."

"Argus is waiting!"

"Sleep."

"I told you not to be playing video games until three in the morning!"

"Four."

"Whatever! Do you know how many monsters were outside this morning? If Argus hadn't shown up and run them over we'd be dead!"

"Muh."

"That's it!"

Jade pulled the covers off of Jordan and turned on the lights. She grabbed a cup on the nearby nightstand and dumped the water in it on his head. Jordan shot up with a shout. He gave Jade a death glare. It wouldn't normally have been scary, but his eyes were still reddish even after a week. "What the heck!" he shouted. Jade couldn't help but snicker at his grumpy face. Jordan just frowned more. "That's a very butthead way to wake someone up."

"Well, I was waking up a butthead."

"Hardy har."

"Well, change out of your pajamas!" Jade commanded. She walked out of the room to let him change. "By the way, your stuff is already in the van," she said as she walked away. Not long later Jordan was dressed and outside, saying goodbye to his family.

"Do you really have to go?"

"Stay!"

"Why is that man covered in eyes?"

"Trust me, I want to stay! There aren't even Oreo's there! But I don't want to put you guys in danger," Jordan said. "And...I'm not sure actually. But trust me, there are weirder things out there. One of my other friends told me about a group of fat politician goat-men with small brains and a weird fashion sense in the forest."

"Yikes."

"Yeah, I try not to go into the woods unless I have too."

After about five more minutes of prolonged goodbyes and nagging from Jade, the trio of demigods were on their way back to Camp Half-Blood. Jordan had a huge bag of gummy bears and Oreos in his lap, a "little snack for the road", as Isaac called it. Jordan was nibbling on a green bear, but he seemed distracted. Jake was tempted to ask him what was wrong, but he had a feeling it had something to do with Jimmy and he didn't want Argus overhearing.

Jordan's eyes were still tinted red. They still didn't know why. He was Jordan, he was fully in control. They could only hope that the counselors had found something out that might help in the time they were away. Jade squinted at Jordan. He was thinner than he had been at camp, but he hadn't been eating less. If anything he should have been chubbier because of all the junk food. They rode in near silence, with music playing faintly from the radio.

They were back at camp in mere hours. Jade briefly questioned how the camp van had driven them to and from an island without actually stopping or hitting any water, and decided she would question Chiron about it later. She got out of the car and breathed deeply, happy to be home.

She saw one of her brothers, Calvin, running up the hill. He ran up to her and took a moment to catch his breath. "Guys...the counselors...they're gone..."

"What?!" they all exclaimed.

Calvin took another deep breath. "The counselors are all gone. Even Chiron. Everyone is panicking! The cabin heads are trying to calm everyone down but they can't. Everybody is saying that that Jimmy guy killed them!"

"Has anyone contacted Camp Jupiter? Maybe they can help." Jake said worriedly.

"No use. Iris message isn't working. We we're going to send some people over on Pegisi but they won't go! Every Time someone tries to ride one of them they just go crazy! ANd without Counselor Jackson we can't figure out what's wrong with them!"

"Okay, uh...what about Argus? He could drive someone to Camp Jupiter!"

Calvin looked confused for a moment, but then grinned. "You're right!"

"We need to tell Camp Jupiter that our counselors have gone missing and we need their help to find them. Calvin, can you deliver the message?"

"You can count on me, Jade!" he said proudly. Argus, who had been listening the whole time as he unloaded the trio's bags, got into the van. Calvin hopped into the passenger's seat and away they went. Jade turned to the camp.

"What should we do?" Jake asked. "I mean, we'll hardly be able to calm everyone down if the cabin heads can't!"

"First off, your head of the Apollo cabin, remember? Second, the counselors have gone missing after we asked them to find out if there's a way to get rid of Jimmy, so the two occurrences might be connected."

"But...we were in Indiana when that happened. I couldn't-I mean he couldn't have done that! He didn't have enough time!"Jordan said, the look on his face making it clear he hoped Jade was wrong.

"But he has minions. They could have been acting on his orders or on their own accord. Either way, I'm sure that Jimmy has something to do with this." Jade said. She look back at Jordan and immediately regretted her words. He looked panicked, possibly even scared. "Jordan, I know that you don't want to have to feel guilty for this, but you have nothing to do with it. Even if Jimmy does, you don't. Okay?"

"But-"

"No buts. Come on, let's go see exactly what the damage is," Jade interrupted. SHe grabbed both of the boy's hands and dragged them down to the main area of the camp. "Oh my goodness..." she said when they got down there.

Campers were running around in panic, shouting "WHAT DO WE DO?!" at the top of their lungs. Some of the younger campers sobbing their eyes out. The cabin heads were all standing on boxes in the middle of the area, shouting at everyone to remain calm. The campers clearly weren't listening. One camper screamed out, "WHAT IF THEY'RE DEAD?!", which caused a whole new wave of panic and crying.

"Oh dear," Jake said.

"But, why are they all so panicked? Even the older campers! It's like the cabin heads are the only ones in their right minds. Even my siblings are freaking out!" Jade exclaimed. All of a sudden they felt a wave of terror and paranoia wash over them. Everyone froze. Tears continued to stream down faces and campers looked around wildly as if to spot something. Jake and Jade shivered. They could remember feeling like this before...

Like a blanket being yanked off a sleeping person, the feeling was pulled away. However, traces of it lingered, fueling the campers to once again start yelling and running and crying. The cabin heads stopped shouting for calm and began to look scared themselves.

Then they saw them.

Standing in the shadows.

Grinning. Enjoying the show.

Not one, not two, but three.

Three Fovos.

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Oh my gosh, I am so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so sorry for not updating for so long! I honestly have no good excuse. I am so sorry!