Percy could taste the dirt in his mouth. His ears rang with the sound of a thousand foot steps as his legion marched in time.

He liked this forest, it was calm and peaceful. This was one part of the yearly march from New York to New Mexico that he didn't really mind. Little did Percy know, this forest would claim the lives of more of his legion than he would like to admit to.

As they marched along, Percy heard a hunting horn and smiled. The Huntresses of Diana were usually friendly with Percy and his Legion, especially because he had Priests/Priestesses for each god/goddess. One in each of the ten cohorts, with the exception of the first cohort, which represented the Big Three.

The Priestess of Diana, a short, brown haired girl from the Seventh cohort ran forward to greet her goddess. What happened next, surprised him to say the least.

Two flaming carts rolled down the side of the hill to his left, crashing into the eighth cohort. Lara, the Priestess of Diana, was shot in the calf. She went down, unconscious almost immediately. Then more and more arrows poured out of the forest.

Percy took action. "Legion! Testudo formation, NOW!" Of course, only the first cohort, the ones in his immediate vicinity, could hear him.

Luckily, the Legion Signifer, Lewis, a boy of average height, although massively built in the chest, with a golden horn strapped across his abdomen. Had heard his order, he blew a series of notes into the horn, and Percy began to hear the yells of each cohorts Centurions and Optio's, trying to get them into formation.

After getting into formation, the Huntresses arrows storm began to whither away, gradually at first, before disappearing altogether. But Percy wasn't foolish enough to believe that they were gone, he kept the Legion in Testudo and moved them slowly along the winding dirt roads of the forest and to a clearing that they made their camp in usually around this time of year.

Once they got there, he had the Second, Third, and Fourth Cohorts break formation, as well as the Eighth considering it was severely under strength, losing almost 40 men in the engagement, and they began construction of a Night Time Fort.

Construction took two hours, but once it was done, their small Fort had the capability of holding back anything short of a small army.

- Time Skip -

Percy was sitting quietly in his tent, right in the middle of camp, he was tapping the table rhythmically and staring at the Casualty Report for the day. He had lost 71 Legionaries... almost 60 of which were from the Eighth Cohort.

As he looked through the names, his face got grimmer and grimmer. He knew and had trained most of those kids, he was going to get to the bottom of this attack, if it was the last thing he did. He got up and started walking through camp, the legionaries saluting him occasionally as he went by.

He walked up to the armory and walked inside, picking up one of the more badly damaged shields and examining it. After a few minutes, he pulled one of the six arrows that were embedded in it's thick wood and hide exterior, out.

It was obviously one of the Huntresses arrows, there was no denying it, no other warrior had the capability of using arrows like this. But why would Diana attack him? And shoot her own Priestess?

He had just finished these thoughts when a young legionary, Aaron, from the 5th Cohort, came running in. "Percy, Zoe and Phoebe are outside the West gates, they want to talk to you."

Percy jogged with the legionary to the West gate, climbing the short dirt walls of the camp and looking down at the two huntresses, Zoe stepped forward and spoke. "Brother, why did you attack us? We did nothing to you!" That was his Sister... Always straight to the point...

"We did not attack you, why were we ambushed?" They both paused glaring at each other for a moment. "So wait a second, something doesn't add up, you said we attacked you first? But I haven't ordered any attacks on you. What happened to you guys? Were you attacked?" She snorted. "Duh! Three Huntresses had their throats slit two nights ago. They were sentries at our Camp, one of your men left a bloody Gladius behind!"

Percy immediately knew what happened. "Zoe, three nights ago, we had five Gladii go missing from our armory." She too understood what he was thinking. He continued. "Come inside the camp, we need to discuss this."

She hesitated for a moment, then relented. "Alright." Phoebe grabbed her arm as she tried to head towards the gate, and the two girls exchanged a few words. Then Zoe seemed to get angry and Phoebe let out a huff. Zoe continued on her path towards the gate and Phoebe fell obediently, although reluctantly behind her.

Percy jogged down the stairs and motioned for the sentries to open the gates. They obeyed and the two girls walked in and joined Percy on the long walk back to his tent. When they got inside he immediately grabbed the Casualty Report and showed it to her. "That's the damage you caused to us, over something we didn't do. Half the Eighth was wiped out, do you know what I have to do now? I have to tell their parents that they died by the hands of Huntresses they thought were our friends."

"Exactly how do you I know it wasn't you?" He grabbed a fistful of his hair and pulled on the sloppy black mop, using the pain to calm himself. "Zoe, why would I attack Diana? And if I did attack you, why would I only kill your sentries when I outnumber you almost 200:1? Huh? It doesn't make sense!"

She glared at him for a few moments, her hand twitching, wanting to make contact with his face for the way he talked to her, but she restrained herself. "Okay, I guess you're right, but if you didn't, then who did?"

Percy shrugged. "I don't know, but I'm going to find out, I'm sending out the Ninth Cohort tomorrow, mounted as scouts. If there is anyone withing 20 miles of this place, I'll know about it by Noon tomorrow, ask Diana to come here tomorrow right around then, and I'll tell you what I know. Assuming you can convince her I'm telling the truth..."

Zoe nodded, and Phoebe basically just glared at him suspiciously the whole time.

(A/N)- Hey guys I'm back, and I'm gonna try to re-write this story, cause I fell like I screwed it up a bit, feel free to let me know what you guys think in Reviews, they keep me writing and they make the chapters better. So good to be writing again...