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[So you thought you'd escaped the excitement of April Fools. A place like camp heralds the date like the end of times. When you're in a camp full of ADHD half-gods and 75% of them are the worst kind of tricksters it's only natural to build your own safe house and live underground untilt he dust cleared.]

[It would be about 7pm and a little after dinner that camp would get at least one more surprise.]

[And that would be the sound of a purple and blue shaped missile rocketing through the skies. It could have been written off as a weird low flying plane until it changed course very suddenly and nose dived towards camp.]

[John Egbert had been on the run for a good week before he made a last ditch effort to fly the rest of the way back to the island. When he was able to finally spot Half-Blood Hill passing under him... well. He was always told he needed to work on his landings.]

[He nose-dived, plummeting through the tops of a few trees and finally gracelessly crashing through the roof of Hecate Cabin.]

[The rest of camp will be notified by this event by the sounds of explosions and fireworks going off from the rupture of all of the cabin's cursed stones.]

[+ One lost Son of Jupiter. Happy April Fools!]

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What the--

[Bucky heads over, gun on his back and ready to kick some major ass if they're under attack]

Everyone alright?

[No one here but a beaten up nerd laying in a pile of what used to be the cabin's roof.]

[Have a pained groan for your answer. Also some kid you haven't seen in camp before.]

[Bucky goes over and promptly aims his gun at the strange kid]

Who're you?

[John opens his eyes in time to be staring down the barrel of a gun awesome. He gives the gun a look and then he gives the same look to the holder.]

Augh- can't I go one day without someone pointing something sharp and dangerous at me? That would be --argh! Great.

[He tries to sit up but his head is still spinning. After a moment he figures he might as well answer the guy's question so he doesn't have another reason to have a headache.]

John Egbert, Son of Jupiter, Fifth Cohort. Just get Jason or Reyna- they know who I am.

I dunno who either of 'em are an' I'm not so sure I trust you after you blew up the Hecate cabin.

[Bucky is completely unfazed by John's Look. He keeps an eye on him as he tosses a drachma into the spray coming from a busted water pipe in the cabin, keeps an eye on him as he calls for Dave, and only looks away when Dave confirms that yeah, this idiot's a Roman.

He puts his gun up and offers a hand to help John stand if he wants to]

Dude, I crashed! If I could have avoided- ow, fuck, anger hurts.

[He sits there in irritated silence as he IMs someone about his identity. He doesn't know how this guy wouldn't know either of the Praetors so that makes him on edge until he hears Dave's voice.]

[He looks at his hand and debates being a petulant brat and refusing it, but decides he'd probably wouldn't make it on his feet anyway and he'd look even stupider for it. So he takes his hand and fights to get to his feet.]

[Bucky helps him up and reaches into his pocket for the emergency baggie of ambrosia he usually keeps on him for Steve. He's pretty sure Steve would give it to John if he were here, so.]

Sorry, man. I haven't been here long enough t'know everyone.

[Okay. He guesses he can be less irritated at you if you give him ambrosia. He will take that and eat it quickly.]

[It gets his head to stop spinning so that's a plus.]

Must not if you don't know who the Roman Praetors are. They're hard to miss. What's your name?

Bucky Barnes, son of Apollo. You okay? Other than the crashin' and burnin'.

I've had better days. Speaking of days, what day is it?

[Gently brushes bits of cabin and debris off of himself.]

Tuesday, April first.

[Bucky gives the kid a quick once over before jerking his thumb towards the other cabins]

Let's get you patched up.

[John stares at him and then gives him a look like he's trying to figure out if he's joking.]

I landed here on April Fools day?!

[SUCH A LOOK OF DISCONTENT. But okay, he'll go with him.]

Yup. For a second I thought the explosion was a lame idea for a joke.

That is such bullshit. I get kidnapped fore two months and I miss my favorite holiday. I bet Gabe is laughing this up.

[Pauses, thinking on that.]

I guess blowing up a cabin will have to do for now. BLUH.

--kidnapped? What?

[What is this camp oh my gods]

By who?

Wow, you really must be new.

[He frowns.]

Have they told you about the Red Room yet? It's a faction of jerks working for Gaea. They go around basically screwing everything up. There was a big fight here at camp a few months ago where they came in with a bunch of wolves and tried to burn the place down.

I got taken prisoner during that fight like an asshole.

Yeah, they mentioned somethin' about that. Nothin' about wolves or prisoners though.

[Which worries him. Why not go and save captives?]

That's... weird.

[Like, really weird.]

...So, hey. You've never heard Jason or Reyna. What about Ventus? Naomi? Jehan? Dave is here, thank god.

[He's worried as hell about his friends.]

Is Ventus Ven? Some girl said he got called out or somethin' a few days ago. Dunno the other two, sorry.

Ven! Yeah, he's ...my brother.

[Blinks.]

Called out?

Yeah, went to help people? I dunno, I didn't pay too much attention.

[You're super helpful, guy. But John thinks on this a little.]

Maybe they found other members of the Legion. That would make sense. I don't see either him or Jason sitting around in that case.

I guess. Really, I've been too busy tryin' to learn other stuff to pay much attention to everyone else. I haven't heard anything about anyone named Naomi or Jehan, if that's any help.

["Jehan" is butchered.]

Jehan. [Correct] It's fine. I'll have to hunt them down myself.

[He hopes they're even here. He's worried about how the wolf situation went and he's been gone so long.]

You walked into this demigod business at a pretty rough time.

Story of my life. Y'ever hear of the Lotus Hotel in Vegas?

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