JASON I
Being a half-blood left little Jason found strange but even HE had to admit getting eaten by a tree was slightly weird...
Jason Grace had woken up that morning to the sound of heavy breathing, His eyes flew open finding himself face to face with a pair of bulging, yellow eyes. He screamed making the "thing" currently sitting on his chest scream too, falling with a thump onto the floor.
Suppressing a groan he stared aimlessly at the white washed ceiling above him before deciding that he couldn't, no matter how much he wanted to, ignore the squeaking creature on the floor and go back to sleep, it would be easier facing that, than having to endure that awful dream again...
Rubbing his eyes he rolled over on his side to the edge of the bed, to inspect the whimpering nymph.
"Ash! That's fifth time this week! How many times do I have to tell you, not to wake me up before dawn?" He motioned to the dark sky out the window, Ash looked at her feet and began to cry, as her tears made contact with the ground little tree seedlings popped up from the same place.
"Aw man...Not again." Muttered Jason as the seedlings began to grow, covering the walls with their leaves. He sat up from his bed and crouched down next to the shuddering green creature "Err...Ash...Please stop crying, I'm sorry I shouted at you." As he touched her shoulder, she lifted her head revealing her chlorophyll streaked face.
She really was a pretty little nymph, when she wasn't crying (her eyes got stained green which kinda' freaked Jason out). She had a dress made out of leaves that changed colour according to the season -it was currently orange, red and yellow for autumn - she also wore wooden sandals and her hair long and red was woven into a plait with blossoms, her ears were slightly pointed and she had a button nose which scrunched up as she began to cry even harder. Giving Ash an exasperated sigh and muttering something that suspiciously sounded like "Why me?" He ran out of the cabin grabbing his jeans and a fairly clean purple t-shirt, just barely dodging the huge roots starting to break through the hard polished wooded floor.
Jason ran awkwardly hopping on one leg trying to put on his jeans while also trying to fit his head through the hole in his t-shirt towards a huge Greek battle-ship -currently situated beside the lake- he started yelling and waving his arms waking the guards in front of it.
After identifying him they ran armour clanking to his aid. Holding up his hand signalling for them to wait for him to catch his breath, he gasped, "Please let me through I need to get Grover Underwood it's an emergency!"
The guards rolled their eyes and walked leisurely back to the boat while Jason sprinted towards it, grabbing a stick from one of the guard's hands, he'd done this enough times for them to stop tackling him to the ground while beating him in every vulnerable spot possible.
Finally the huge glittering, metal Festus Masthead loomed above him. Jason could never help but to stop and stare at the majestic looking Dragon who'd aided them so well in his first quest at Camp Half- Blood, "Sup, Festus! Watching out for anything boy?" Jason could have sworn the head nodded but shook this thought away as he walked sidelong to the boat he stopped about a quarter way in.
He Tapped the boat(with the stick)a designated amount of times before a door seemingly grew into a gaping rectangular shaped hole at the bowel. A ramp leading up to the door came into place and the guards who finally reached the Ship motioned for him to enter.
Jason sped-walked down a narrow hallway checking the number on each door using the light emitted from lanterns hanging from the ceiling. Finally, he reached one with a green grass mat covered in live flowers. Rapping his knuckles hard on the door he shouted, "Grover! I know you're up! I need your help! Ash's cover the cabin with trees again!" there was a thud, a bleating moan of pain and the 'click-clack' of hooves towards the door. The door opened revealing a disgruntled looking Grover covered in dirt, scratches and…flowers. "What?" he huffed "I was trying to feed Dede, now she's hiding with the monkeys again!"
After being appointed Lord of the Wilds Grover, recently discovered a Dodo whom he believed was sitting next to Pan the day he died, apparently the Dodo had not disappeared just as he'd thought. While on one of his many nature adventures he'd found her being chased by a harpy whom she'd tried to steal food from, she was extremely malnourished when Grover took her in.
Jason switched onto a mid-trance as he always did when Grover started rambling on about Dede, he could just hear him: "Do you know how important it is for her to eat? She's the last Dodo, the last piece of life Pan gave to the world! She is the symbol of hope for all of man and mythical kind!"
Grover noticed Jason staring with a glazed look into the distance looking cross-eyed; He stamped his hoof impatiently, and said loudly to wake Jason up, "Why does everyone always have that look when I start talking about this? Anyway Dede really needs t-..."
Before Grover could get into a spirited lecture on why Dede the Dodo needed to have her morning oatmeal Jason interrupted with something he'd noticed earlier "Dude…Why you have flowers in your hair?"
Grover flushed "Juniper stopped by; she said they suited my eyes." Jason gave him a quizzical look "Oookay." Before Grover had a chance to start talking again he asked "Do you have any fertilizer? Ash had a crying-tree episode again." Grover rolled his eyes (why did so many people do this to him?) and motioned Jason to enter his room.
As he walked in Jason looked around, Grover had the coolest room ever! It appeared to be an extremely colourful, tropical rainforest with vines stretching across the canopy of trees ceiling and dangling over a comfy looking hammock hanging between two more trees and a moss covered stone table with two square looking boulders which were in a clearing in the middle of the room.
The air was full of bird calls and sun rays were poking through the "ceiling" of trees.
The sunlight always fascinated Jason he stuck the palm of his hand under a ray of light and immediately felt warm from head to toe. Turning to examine the room further Jason spotted a monkey or two dangling on branches looking curiously at him, he smiled at them and they threw him some...poo in return which he quickly side-stepped.
On the wall in front of him-the most normal wall with hardly any growth only some moss and mushrooms- a shelf stocked with: dried flowers, jars of suspicious looking bugs and liquid, a reed pipe, packets of seeds and three buckets of fertilizer was standing, "Okay, so which fertilizer?" Grover asked turning while fiddling with the reed pipe (he'd recently learnt a whole album of Hilary Duff) Peering at the fertilizers Jason could've laughed but he held it in with a smirk.
"Um...I'll have the one with the hippie satyr saying 'calm your farm!' you know he looks a lot like you..." He said and squinted his eyes as he peered closer, Grover blanched and muttered something under his breath of which Jason only caught "Advertising" and "Pink Nymphs" he lifted his head showing his VERY red face and said out-loud. "Err...It's not hippie it's Bohemian..." Jason decided against asking, so instead he thanked him as graciously as he could without laughing.
"Thanks Grover, you're the best!" as an afterthought he added "By the way, Good luck with those Pink Nymphs!" Grover started to get progressively redder as he handed him the bucket. Suddenly there was a loud screech from a thicker area of the forest/room, the satyrs' eyes widened all colour draining from his face, he pushed Jason toward the door loudly whispering, "Go! Hurry! Dede's coming down she'll make a run for it again if there's anyone else here!" he gave Jason one last shove that sent him sprawling on the ground arms flailing, Grover shouted a "Sorry...And don't tell Juniper about the Nymphs!" from inside the closed room.
"Gods! That satyr is getting insanely stronger and bossier by the minute!" Jason muttered to himself as he brushed off and stood up. He noticed the bucket hadn't handled the shove as well as he did and was cracked at the lid and through the satyr (aka Grover) making him look like he'd been in some freak fertilizing accident with a great big gash in his middle and through his head, where Jason had fallen-bottom first- on him which had resulted in a huge spill of multicoloured balls which reminded Jason nervously of blood.
Shaking the dream and the dreaded thought of blood from his mind, he gingerly lifted the bucket up and cradled it in his arms to avoid the fertilizer going everywhere. As quickly as he could he walked through the corridor, down the ramp (pass the sleeping guards) tripped over a rock and towards his barracks where a giant oak had torn through the ceiling "Damn! I must have taken longer than I thought!" he groaned as he noticed it clearer than he should have with the sun just peeking through its massive arm like branches.
Getting closer Jason realized they WERE actually arms. He could see the main trunk had two closed eyes a nose and a huge bawling mouth. Jason did a double-take "A-Ash?" the eyes flew open revealing milky white irises and the nymph, now tree pointed a twiggy finger at Jason "You! You made me like this! I'm Hideous! I'm a TREE!" Jason gulped closing his previously agape mouth "Err…Yeah, how did THAT happen?" The nymph/tree suddenly opened her mouth wide and let out a blood curdling shriek in defiance.
Ignoring the buzzing in his ears Jason walked cautiously forward holding his hands up in surrender, from the ground he could see the Nymph's eyes following him, he was suddenly aware of all the shouting in the distance and looking at the hill where the battle-ship was proudly standing he could see the Guards, Piper, Leo and the blond head of Annabeth hurtling down the hill. He heard Piper screaming his name and in his peripheral vision Reyna barking orders at some soldiers as they were marching towards him as if on cue he also saw an angry mass of arrows coming towards them.
Ash must've seen them too because she rolled her football sized eyes and stared down at Jason speaking in a mock baby voice "OOO! Jason needs help he's scared of poor little Ashy he's going to go run to his friends!" He gave her a hard stare before deciding what to do. He reached down and lifted the bottom of his jeans revealing a gladius strapped to the inside of his leg, he unstrapped it and held it firmly in his hands, summoning as much air as he could he let it push him up to the leering face of the tree. As he started getting higher the Nymph's mouth opened in shock, he took it as an opportunity and ran in mid-air with more speed than thought possible down into the huge wooden mouth and plunged into a gaping black abyss.