Full Summary

My name is Jason Grace. I am praetor of New Rome... In exile. During my diplomatic mission to Long Island Octavian decided to launch his own coup d'état and turn New Rome into his own little empire effectively plunging him into civil war with Reyna. Lately she's been ignoring me and I think it is about Piper. Now to fix this I need to help of Percy Jackson. But I hear he has problems of his own. Hermes approached him and Annabeth to help him clear his name and prove he didn't steal something. Now I have a civil war raging across the US and Percy is busy dealing with some guy called Luke as well. Now it is up to us stop Octavian and his madness.


Important Author's notes

For you to fully enjoy this story you need to read it as an actual story and not like a fic where the whole thing is about relationships, fluffy moments, angst or humor. It took me quite awhile to engineer this whole plot so like most Percy Jackson books it takes a few chapters to really get the ball rolling. So as per a planned story there are themes covered and a story engineered into it. We all know that in Lightning Thief the first few chapters were kinda dry compared to the rest. So just read on and I promise you will be rewarded.

This story will mainly focus around Jason, Percy, Annabeth, later on Reyna and a little on Luke. This is set after their quest to fight Gaia and it will be written in third person. It will also focus on the relationships between characters if any of you are looking for romance & friendship. There will also be things thrown in like old grudges, love triangles and some stuff I'm not going to get into just yet so not to spoil the surprise Other characters like Leo, Frank and even the Stolls will have parts of the story so it won't be exclusive to the four/five main characters.


Act I: Diplomacy

Chapter I: Bridging The Gap

After the end of the crisis with Gaia, the Romans for once have taken the initiative to repair their ties with the Greeks. Jason was honestly nervous since he wasn't sure how the Greeks would react. The Romans had tried to raze their camp to the ground and then stomp on the ashes for kicks. He was pretty sure that the Greeks would have a grudge and that they were looking for pay back.

'Jason, relax. They're not going to chain you to the wall and pour Greek fire on you.' Hazel joked as their trireme entered Long Island sound.

'Sure… I am really reconsidering my choices right now' Jason replied wearily, a lot had been going on recently after he got back from his last adventure.

'Reyna approved of this plan so it should be fine.' Frank said trying to ease the tension.

'Really? She seemed quite… I don't know, stone cold during the meeting. Well at least it was better than Octavian's constant raging about them being evil or something.' Jason wasn't sure where he stood with Reyna anymore. At first he just though her coldness was her natural defence mechanism to stress, now he was sure it was much more personal.

'I am sincerely thinking about just telling you it directly Jason but I'd rather not.' Hazel sighed. She honestly wished Jason just apologize to Reyna, but he never seemed to take the hint from anyone. Hazel for now decided to just let him think about it since they had a more immediate problem.

'Whatever… Let's just put on a smile and hope they don't shish kebab us.' Frank said cynically before the discussion could continue.

'So Jason remind me what we're planning to do for this whole trip… you know, before they attack us.' Frank asked somewhat rhetorically.

Jason went through the plan in his head again; it had definitely looked a lot better when he was still in the senate building. 'We are coming here to play some games with the Greeks, to show there are no hard feelings. And then we are going to see if they are okay with it.'

'That's one way to dumb it down.' Hazel said remembering how much more detailed it was in the senate meeting. She would never get used to wearing a toga, she wished that Dakota hadn't step down to prepare to go off for collage. Now she had to go to boring senate meetings and wear a bed sheet because she was the centurion.

'Percy and Annabeth both said it would be okay and that most of the Greeks are indifferent now.' Jason said

'For our sake I hope so,' Hazel sighed suddenly feeling nervous as well as they saw the beach up ahead. 'Since we'll never be able to out run the Greek ships in this hunk of junk' Frank finished.


Percy and Annabeth were waiting on the sand dune on the beach, most of the other campers had mix feelings about the Romans raining car size rocks on them and saying sorry now, and so most had decided to stay at their cabins and wait for the leadership to take care of things.

That just left them and the other counsellors waiting on at the beach of their arrival. Some were anxious like Will Solace and Katie Gardner, Other like Clarisse wanted to just beat then senseless on sight and a one Piper Mclean was the only one overjoyed about them coming. Percy himself was happy to see his friends again but as Annabeth had told him. 'You're a leader Percy; you need to think a lot more about how they will react instead of how you or I will react.' Now Percy was also rethinking this meeting.

The Roman ship can in to sight and started its approach to the landing. Annabeth squeezed Percy's hand as they got up, she was nervous as well.

'I say we blast the punks out of the water!' Clarisse yelled, deciding that she rather shoot first and talk later.

'Calm down, they're here on a goodwill mission. Just give them a chance.' Piper said trying to prevent any violence from breaking out.

'Easy for you to say McLean! Your precious boyfriend is on the ship! Well I say we kill'em all before they cause any problems.' Clarisse said angrily.

'Do you know Gleeson Hedge?' Leo asked feigning innocence.

'No? Why in Hades does that matter now Valdez!' Clarisse yelled changing target.

'You'll love Coach Hedge then, maybe you two can go carolling! And sing every TV theme song and replace all the lyrics with violent words.' Leo said with a smirk on his face.

Before Clarisse could mash him in the face Annabeth decided to intervene. 'What Leo meant was that your being a little to confrontational.'

'Alright then Miss Perfect, I'll let'em visit. But don't think I've forgot about them trying to torch the camp.'

'Been there done that.' Conner said.

'Arson isn't really that big a deal, we've done worse.' Travis continued.

'Just shut you mouths Stolls and stop trying to create trouble.' Katie said dragging the Stolls away while smiling apologetically at Annabeth and Percy.

Nico started to walk down the sand dunes ahead of the rest since they were resolving their impasse. 'Crunch time' he muttered to himself.


'I'd thought I'd never see the day Romans arrive on a ship.' Percy exclaim as he walked up and shook hands with Jason before fist bumping Frank and giving Hazel a hug.

'Nice to see you did try to blow us up on the way in. But is this really everyone at your camp?' Frank said counting only about 14 plus people.

'This is just the cabin counsellors, you know like those in a normal summer camp.' Percy replied.

The five other Romans that came along with the three alighted as well. While Jason, Frank and Hazel had walked in like the camp was a friend's house the rest walked in stiffly in carrying with them all their equipment.

'Everyone else is waiting up near the dining pavilion. I'll take you guys there now.'

They all gathered their stuff and began to walk back into the camp. They gave them the standard tour they would give to new arrivals. But like doctors being the worst patients, it was hard to give a tour to people who assumed they knew everything about the place already. Eventually they just gave up and started to talk to the Romans.

'So Jason, how come the Romans have ships now. Last time I checked you had a small old boat named PAX.' Percy asked.

'Well… you see, after we bombarded New Rome, Octavian manage convinced the senate to commission a navy to help destroy the Greeks.'

'So how did you get here so fast? You had to go all the way through the Panama canal.'

'Did I mention Octavian made them flying ships as well? We took the short cut, we fly over most of the US and landed at Key West and sailed upwards.'

'Why Key West? Why not just fly directly here?'

'We had some navigation issues and then some engine issues…'

'Octavian made a fleet of copied Argo IIs?' Leo yelled from the background. 'Why I'm gonna kill that scrawny-'

'Leo if it makes you feel better,' Jason interrupted 'they're really crude copies, like you said about the Romans and Archimedes's inventions.'

'Oh… That's good.' Leo said resuming his previous conversation.

'That was weird…' Percy said

'You get used to Repair Boy acting that way.'

'Well has been acting a little weirder than normal recently.' Percy noted. Leo had started on a personal project about two and a half months ago and since then he had become even more erratic.

'What now?' Jason honestly wasn't surprised.

'Don't know, but he gets touchy ever time we mention the Argo II or a ship.' Jason stayed silent for the rest of the walk to the pavilion. He was worried about Leo.

They reached the Pavilion and everyone sat down for dinner at their tables. For awhile it was awkward having the people that tried to kill you a few months ago sit down and have dinner with you and your family. But eventually they started to find common ground to talk about, even though it was about weak topics like the food. They were going to get settled in tonight before the capture the flag match started tomorrow.

Everyone drifted off from the dining pavilion and back to their cabins, Percy was dragged aside by Annabeth and Leo headed back to bunker 9 to work on his personal project which he claimed to be almost done with. Eventually Jason sat down with Piper by lake.

'So how's it been Pipes?' Jason asked

'Okay… I guess.' Piper responded, she had been excited at first but now that she thought about Jason she realized all the problems there were between them.

'So what's wrong?' Jason decided to be direct since he was sick of Reyna being cryptic.

'You Jason! That's what's wrong!' Piper snapped

Jason realized that may have came out a little too harsh. 'I didn't mean it like that; just tell me what's causing you all the grief.'

'It's just that after all this time you're always in camp Jupiter, you're always so busy over there so I never get to even talk or hang out with you anymore.' Piper said more evenly.

'I know, but… It's my job, it's my duty. I can't just drop something and hang out with you in Malibu on the beach. Plus Reyna had been stressed out managing everything by herself and I kinda owe her one.'

'Why is it always about Reyna?' Piper said wearily. 'I thought you said that she was okay with doing the work?'

Back in the day Jason and Reyna divided to Praetor work into different parts. Jason was the face of the legion; he would talk to people, find out about them and handle incidents or disputes. In battle he would be the once in the front leading the charge with everyone following him. Reyna was the coordinator; she handled the admin stuff managing logistics, people and the various works and projects going on in the camp. In battle she would be flying over head analyzing and developing tactics and strategies for the battle. In some ways the work was unevenly divided since Reyna had to handle to bulk of it since the Romans were a fan of paper work and bureaucracies.

When Jason had got back she said she was fine with pulling the most weight. For awhile Jason didn't notice since he was grateful to be back home and was preoccupied with reconnecting with his old friends. Later on he realized that Reyna had other motives and was doing it for a reason, at first he assumed it was spite but… he remembered that she's not that kind of girl. Right now Jason just couldn't but his finger on it.

'She's my friend Pipes, and she is also my co-worker. Her feelings and safety concern me a lot.' Jason wished he hadn't said that, it must have really stung for Piper.

'Jason, so is it her or is it your duty?' Piper replied keeping her emotions in check, although she wanted to shout at Jason at the moment.

Jason wanted to say both but he though over it for a moment. Reyna is just my friend… I think and Piper is my girlfriend. So I better not say both, plus Reyna is giving me the cold shoulder anyway like I wounded her or something. I may have but… Right… let's not get into that now… and I'm talking to myself again.

'It's my duty.' Jason replied trying to sound convincing.

'You're such a Roman. That's a compliment by the way.' Piper decided to take the more diplomatic approach to this topic.

'Jason have you ever thought about staying here? Instead of in New Rome.' Although Piper had her own motives for asking the question she genuinely wanted to know Jason's answer as well.

'Yeah… I guess. When I couldn't really remember my past.'

'Then how about coming here and staying with me?' Piper knew it was a selfish thing to ask of Jason but felt neglected recently, especially since he was focusing so much on camp Jupiter and on fixing his relationship with Reyna. Piper could have sworn she could see a spark between them, but she preferred not to talk about that.

'Piper, you know I can't just drop everything. Even if I could I don't think I could bring myself to do it. I honestly love my Job; it gives me purpose, something to fight for.'

'Sparky, always the idealist.'

'Look Beauty Queen, I want too but I need to make sure that whoever comes after me knows what he is doing and doesn't demolish the place in under a week. And I gotta make sure that someone isn't Octavian.'

'Jason, you need to step down eventually. Why not just do it now?'

'Fine, it won't be so soon but I promise I'll make sure I can spend more time with you.'

Piper had heard that line before in all the movies she and her dad used to watch. She wasn't sure where this was heading anymore but she decided that at least he had got him started.


Alright so that's the first chapter. Please give any feedback or support. So this is just getting started but for Jason his relationship could go either way with Piper or Reyna.