The meeting

Jason

I was walking down a street in LA in my normal mortal form with shorts and a white tshirt on browsing about, when I spotted a BMW driving away from a car dealership. The car had a Native American girl who looked to be about my age, which is about 17. However, she looked far too young to buy a car like that. As she passed me her face took my breath away, because it was so beautiful. I summoned my storm spirit horse Tempest, and followed her until she reached her house. Well, it wasn't a house. It was more of a mansion. I waited for her to get out to go talk to her, but the police finally showed up. I dismissed Tempest,and crept closer. The cops were talking to the girl, but when the girl answered back they smiled and nodded, like there were plenty of reasons that a girl with a mansion would have to steal a car. However, I recognized the charmspeak in her voice, even if she didn't. This must be a child of Aphrodite, the former goddess of love. "She is your destined Queen, Jason." I spun around as the cops left without the girl. There was Jay standing behind me watching me watching the girl. "What do you mean? She's a spoiled thief!" I whispered doubtfully. He shook his head smiling. "She's just misunderstood, and she's not nearly as spoiled as you think. She doesn't want to live in a mansion, and she feels guilty for what she does. Look and see." I turned around and there was the girl sitting on the front steps, head in her hands. I turned back to Jay, who had already cut a path to Chaos and was about to enter it. "Wait!" I said despairingly. "I have no idea what to do." Jay grinned playfully.. "You're a god now. Figure it out." He stepped into his path and Vanished. I sighed and walked out to sit by her. She didn't even notice me until I spoke. " Hey, you okay?" She started and saw me next to her. She looked like she was getting ready to scream, when I held my hands up in innocence. "I am not a stalker or a kidnapper. For all you know I could be your guardian angel." She thought about this. "Are you?" She asked hopefully. " I shook my head. "No, but you wouldn't believe me if I told you who I was." Her face fell and she looked truly disappointed. I felt guilty, and changed the subject. "So what's your name?" "Piper…Mclean." She said looking down when she whispered her last name like she was afraid it would be recognized. I had never heard of a famous Mclean, although that could be because I lived most of my life in Camp Jupiter. "My name's Jason. So what's wrong, Piper?" I looked her in the eye. She hung her head. "I never steal stuff. I just ask the salespeople for stuff and they give whatever it is to me for free, and I bring it home to get some any attention, even if it's negative, from my dad. He never cares enough about me. This time I brought back a BMW, and he is gong to be so mad, but I'll be happy because I got something from him instead of 'hi Piper' or 'how was your day Piper?' and when I tell him the kids at school were picking on me again he says 'Good, good, go outside or something. I have to go to the set.' She started crying, and I put my arm around her shoulders. Surpisingly she didn't shrug it away. Instead she looked up at me. "I feel so pulled to you, like a magnet almost." I wondered if Jay was watching me right now from Chaos, laughing. "I feel that way toward you too. That's how I spotted you today and why I followed you home." I hoped that didn't sound too stalkerish. Apperently it did not, because Piper didn't scream or back away. Instead she laid her head on my shoulder. She whispered "Whether you are or aren't an official guardian angel, you have been to me." She looked towards the BMW and sighed. "I better get that back before the dealership closes. We should go out for ice cream tomorrow, OK?" I nodded. "I'll meet you at the Cold Stone on the street three blocks from here. Deal?" She smiled at me, then turned and turned and ran to the "stolen car." I pumped my fist as soon as she was gone. "YES!" I shouted and teleported back to Olympus.

I arrived the next day at the specified Cold Stone in my old Camp Jupiter clothes that Silena said looked handsome on me: jeans and a purple t-shirt. She was just going in, when I called to her. "Hey Piper, wait up!" I ran to the door and held it for her. "Thanks." She laughed. We went in and stood in line. "I want the Oh fudge milkshake." Piper whispered to me. He nodded as he looked at the actual ice cream. A thought came to me, and I grimaced, checking my back pocket for my wallet. It wasn't there. I cursed Travis and Conner violently and silently. 'If It is not back there in 3 seconds' I thought to them angrily. 'I will send you to the underworld to work for Bianca in trafficking duty for 100 years.' I counted silently to three, and felt my wallet return. I thanked Chaos, and chose my ice cream and paid for the my chocolate peanut butter ice cream and her Oh fudge milkshake. I turned around, feeling my godly instincts tell me a monster was nearby, hiding in the ilight. "Jason? You okay?" I nodded and walked to the table and started to eat my wonderful ice cream. Piper sat down too, took a sip of her shake, and smiled. "What a day I had today" She started talking about her day to me, while I was multi tasking by figuring out what to say to her back and listening at the same time. By the time I had finished my ice cream she had finished her stories and her shake. We got up and went to leave, when I felt the feeling again, and looked towards the bushes outside the window. Piper felt it too. She shivered. "I just got the creeps and goosebumps all ove my back." I pulled on her arm. "How did you get here tonight?" I asked, trying to be as calm as possible, because I had just seen a pair of red eyes that could only belong to a hellhound. "I walked." She said brightly. "Let me walk you home, okay?" Piper cocked her head. "Okay" she said slowly after about 20 seconds. I led her outside and turned to her. " Stay close to me, alright." She nodded. We were halfway to Piper's residence, when they heard the growling. I stopped dead and Piper walked into him in the dark. "Why are we stopping?" She asked me fearfully. "Shhh! Hear that" Piper stopped talking and listened carefully. Her eyes went wide. "What is that?" she asked fearfully. "A hellhound from the fields of punishment." I said darkly alert for any shadow traveling. "Fields of Punishment? Like from Greek mythology?" "You know about the ancient Greek gods?" In the dim dying streetlamp light, I could see her nod, confused. "Why are you ask-"She screamed suddenly as the hellhound came into view." It was a big one, but nothing I couldn't handle. "I am one of them." I said and, pointing at the hellhound I summoned a lightning bolt. It hit the hellhound straight in the face and the hellhound crumbled into dust. "What just happened, Jason?" Piper asked, afraid. I turned back to her. "I am the Greek god of the Sky." I stated, deciding not to share the whole 'king of the gods' trivia, because I didn't want to overwhelm her. "You're Zeus?" She asked nervously, not at all doubting what I had said. I shook my head. "Zeus faded. I'm the sky god now." "Prove it." She whispered. I smiled. "Let's get out of this rain." Piper frowned. " It's almost summer in LA. There's not gonna be any-" she started

to say, then stopped as the rain started to fall on us, and just us. Piper turned back towards me, shocked. I gestured and the rain stopped for a few seconds. Then as I waved my hand again, it started back up. Piper was speechless. I pointed at the sky and it rumbled. "That enough proof for you?" I asked her, smirking a little. She nodded, still speechless, then ran through the rain over to me and felt my face like she was making sure I was real and solid. "You're getting all wet." I told her gesturing, so the rain would stop. I smiled playfully. "Do you want a faster ride home?" Piper looked at me and nodded. I gave a good whistle, and Tempest appeared in a flash of lightning. He whinnied, like 'get on already!' Piper approached the horse carefully. "This is Tempest." I told her. "He's a storm spirit." I helped her on and floated aboard myself. "Hold on really tight." I warned her. She obediently latched her arms tightly around my waist. I made sure she was secure, then shouted "Hi-ho Tempest!" I was obviously having a little fun, as Tempest the storm spirit galloped like the wind to Piper's mansion, with me and my future Queen on his back.

My archnemesis appears

"You won't tell anyone that you're dating the sky god will you?" I asked as she walked up to the front door. "Of course not." She said incredously. "I don't want to be thrown into a nuthouse, do I?" She paused at the door, like she forgot something, then jumped down the steps and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I was the one who was speechless as she walked back up the steps smiling. "See you around." She said and shut the door quietly. I grinned really wide and turned around. I stopped dead. Nico Di Angelo the traitor was sitting on the shadowy part of the bench, watching me. I started walking towards him "What do you want, traitor?" He smirked cruelly. "I like your girlfriend, O great King of the gods. Maybe I should steal her for a bit." I snarled. "You won't touch her." It was an order, not a question. Nico went toe to toe with me. "Try to stop me." He said, smirking again. "Oh wait you can't. No direct interference by the gods remember? You can't stop me." "No, he can't. But I can."

I sent out a quick thanks to Chaos as he spun around, his eyes wide. Bianca, the goddess of the Underworld, was looking at him, tapping her foot disapprovingly. "Bianca!" Nico exclaimed, all his bravado disappearing. "Nico, why must you do these types of things?" Bianca scolded like a mother would scold her child, unlike the big sister she was to him. "I…uh…am bored." Nico said, apparently thinking quickly. Bianca was not fooled. We all already knew why he was doing everything. It was because he hadn't been chosen as the god of the Underworld, and he was spiteful about it. "I'm going to take your shadow traveling and your necromantic abilities until you learn what to do when you are bored." She said pointimg her finger at him menacingly. Nico tried to run into the shadows to get away but Bianca's powers were too quick. He was enfulged in a darkness that left him and went into Bianca. Nico turned on his sister. "I hate you! I should have been chosen, not you. You were dead!" "You were a traitor." Bianca said calmly. "Now go to your room!" She flicked her hand. A portal of pure darkness opened up and sucked Nico in. "You can come out when you admit your wrongs and go up top when you truly repent." Bianca said before the portal shut on Nico's raging face. "Thanks" I said gratefully. "Don't mention it, Jason. He can be a brat sometimes." Bianca started to walk into the shadows. "I have work to do. Good luck with your girlfriend." She turned her head, winked and melted back into the shadows. I sighed and teleported back to Olympus.