Percy and Annabeth were talking outside the training ring. They had been sparring earlier and lost track of time.

The conch horn sounded and they looked up surprised. Percy looked at his muddy shorts and said; "You go ahead to dinner, I need to quickly change my shorts" Annabeth nodded and went to lead her siblings into the food hall.

Percy was jogging towards the diving pavilion when he heard shouting. Percy stopped and listened.

"No I won't!" A girl shouted. Her voice was coming from behind the cabins. Percy was debating wither he should see if anything was wrong, when he heard the girl shout, "Leave me alone!"

Behind the Hermes Cabin were two campers- Rob and Adina.

Adina was a daughter of Aphrodite. She was small and delicate looking with large blue eyes and pale blond hair. She was rather timid and didn't join in a lot of the camp activities. Rob on the other hand, was tough. He was a son of Hermes. He had short-cropped mousy brown hair, blue eyes, an athletic and muscular build, and a sneaky look like all Hermes demigod children. I didn't like him very much because he could be a bit of a bully. I knew he didn't like me either.

I walked over slowly but made no effort to be quiet. When I was about three metres away I asked "Is there a problem here?"

Adina looked scared but Rob looked angry.

"No Jackson. There's no problem. Why don't you run along?"

I ignored him and walked closer. I was about two metres away now.

"Adina is there a problem?" I asked.

She looked at me with pleading eyes. She gave a tiny nod that Rob couldn't see as he was facing me.

I faced both of them and said "I'm going to have to ask you two to come with me to the dining pavilion. We're late for dinner"

Adina tried to creep away but Rob unsheathed his sword. She froze and Rob held it level with my chest.

"I'm asking you Jackson, to leave us alone"

I looked him in the eye and said, "Adina, go to dinner. We will be along soon" I had to make an effort to keep my anger out of my voice. This guy was threatening another camper and that was not play.

Adina nodded and ran off.

Rob snarled and tried to stab me. I sidestepped. I remembered what I had done to the hellhound, and I threw my hands up. Rob froze. He looked terrified. He made no sounds and didn't even twitch. I imagined him dropping his sword and I flexed my pinkie finger.

Don't ask me how it worked but Rob dropped his sword. I pointed my palms down and lowered my hands slightly. Rob dropped to his knees. I let on hand fall to my side and Rob relaxed slightly, but didn't move.

I walked over to him, and grabbed his arms. He tried to run away but I held him down.

"Why were you threatening Adina?" I asked, keeping my voice even.

Rob opened and closed his mouth like a fish but no words came out.

"Tell me, or I will do that again" Rob looked terrified and gulped.

"I-I was t-trying to g-get her to join L-Luke and K-Kronos" he stuttered.

I dragged him over to my cabin. I locked him inside it and said you wait here. He nodded quickly and I locked the door before running to get Chiron.

I walked into the dining pavilion and everyone stared at me. I ignored everyone and walked over to Chiron and Mr D. I told them quietly what had happened and Chiron quickly trotted out towards my cabin.

I walked over to the Aphrodite table and asked Adina to come with me.

When we got to my cabin, Chiron was inside. He was in his wheelchair form and had parked himself next to Rob.

I looked at Rob's scared face and felt guilty.

"Sorry man" I said, "I didn't want to do it but you would have gutted me"

Chiron looked at me, "You're going to need to show me your power" he said.

Just then, we heard a roar from the border.

I looked at Rob. He was smirking slightly.

"Really?" I asked, "You summoned a monster?"

His smirk died and he looked scared again.

Chiron looked at me curiously and said, "Now would be a good time as any to show is your power"

I sighed and ran out of my cabin.

When I got to the border a hellhound was scampering away from Perleus. He stayed curled round the tree but blew fire at the monster.

Then the hellhound looked at me. It ran towards me.

I heard a battle cries and people running behind me and guessed the campers had heard the roar while they were eating.

The monster lunged at me and I raised my hands again. It froze mid-leap and landed on the ground. I lowered my palms and the monster lowered itself to the ground.

With one hand, I got Riptide out of my pocket.

The hellhound growled but couldn't move. I stabbed it quickly and it melted into a shadow.

I wanted to sit down but I didn't. I turned around and froze.

The whole camp was standing behind me.

Most people were looking shocked but a few campers looked a bit scared.

Chiron was stood at the front of the campers with Adina and Rob.

I let out a nervous laugh and said, "Anyone else hungry?"