"Jason roared. A bolt of lightning arced out of the clear blue sky. It ricocheted off his gladius and blasted Percy off his horse." - Mark of Athena "Jason, how does that even work?" Drabble. By Ruby.
Jason gave a whole new definition to the phrase, "a bolt out of the blue". Some monsters had tried to wise up, it seemed, and liked to attack him on clear, sunny days.
As if it would put him at a disadvantage.
But nope, he liked seeing the look of shock on their faces as he vaporized them where they were running/charging/limping/growling at him.
Piper saw this one day. "Jason, how does that even work? Lightning is the result of an energy imbalance between two nearby and large areas of opposite charges. There is not a cloud in the sky, and the ground is not going to shock itself."
He shrugged. "I don't know. It just does. I gave Annabeth a headache while she tried to puzzle it out, so I don't think that the laws of physics and nature apply to our powers."
She paused. "Yeah, I don't think I'll get into that…"
So I had a reviewer on my All Together, Cousins story that told me that Jason could summon lightning bolts out of a clear sky when I had done a fight scene where he, his sister, and Percy summoned a storm to strike some threatening helicopters with lightning bolts. I was kind of like, "and how does that work?" I couldn't come up with a plausible answer, and I couldn't resist a bit of humor. So this was spawned.
Enjoy!
-Ruby