Yeah, I'm trying this again… the last attempt sucked sorry. Oh well hopefully this time it will be better. Any who. Enjoy.

Seven Eight half-bloods will answer the call,

To storm or fire the world will fall.

An oath to keep with a final breath,

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.

Jason woke up with no idea of where he was or how he got here. Looking around he realised that he was sitting on the very back seat of a bus. A school bus. 'What the hell?' he thought to himself. Next to him was a very pretty girl in a snowboarding jacket. Her hair was cut short; it looked like she had done it herself, as if to try and make herself not as pretty, but despite the rough haircut, it didn't mask anything. He was probably staring because she asked "What's wrong."

"Um, this will sound strange, but who are you?"

"It's me, Piper, your girlfriend?" now she was giving Jason confused looks.

He looked around the bus; most of the kids were listening to music. The kid in front of him looked like a Latino Santa Elf, curly hair and a mischievous glint in his eyes.

"What? Has someone drawn on my face again?"

A voice issued from the seat next to him "Trust me Valdez, I would have told you, or maybe I wouldn't have." Jason couldn't see much of whoever was sitting next to the Valdez kid, apart from pull on leather work boots, grass stained jeans and a mass of extremely wild black hair.

"He doesn't remember us Leo." Piper explained

"Really?! Well in that case." The kid, Leo, held out a hand "Leo Valdez, your bestest friend in the universe!"

"We're best friends?"

Leo grinned "Yeah… oof!" The pile of black hair disappeared from the back of the window seat and appeared in the aisle, followed by a head, two brown eyes, a slightly crooked nose and a grinning mouth. From what he could see, the girl was wearing a green tee-shirt and had a leather necklace with a couple of colourful beads on it.

"You mean he's got amnesia?"

"Uh, yeah." Jason said

"Cool… I've always wanted to meet someone with amnesia." The girl had a fairly strong Australia accent with a bit of strong Scottish thrown in for good measure. "I'm Victoria-lee Vixen. Call me Victoria or Fox. No one calls me Victoria-lee, except for the foster carers, or people who don't know me." She smiled

"Can you get off me now?" Leo asked

"Yeah, your knees are digging into my back."

"Well your butt is really bony." Leo complained

"Cut it out! You're both as scrawny as each other!"

Victoria pushed herself off Leo and back onto her seat but used him as a foot rest, the toes of her boots hanging off the end of the seat.

"Um, question. Why are we on this bus?"

"We're going on an excursion." Piper said

"A school excursion?"

"Yup, welcome to Wilderness School, where kids are the animals!" it must have been an old joke because it made Piper and Victoria smile. A man stood up at the front of the bus, well he appeared to stand up because he was pretty short.

Someone called out "Stand up, Coach Hedge!" this time Jason joined in with the others laughing.

"Very funny." Said Coach Hedge.

"Watch this." Leo said with a mischievous tone in his voice. "Hey Coach! We can't hear you! Can you use your megaphone please?!"

The coach seemed almost too happy to oblige. He picked up the mega phone and continued what he had been saying, only it came out sounding like Dath Vader. He turned it off and on again and this time it shouted "THE COW SAYS MOO! The whole bus was now cracking themselves with laughter. The more the coach talked the more it switched between Dath Vader and the cow.

"How did you do that?" Piper asked Leo as he and Victoria hi-fived one another.

Leo waved a tiny screwdriver in the air and then hid it up his sleeve. Coach Hedge gave up the megaphone when they reached their destination; the Grand Canyon.

"Pair up, remember, you have to have these sheets completed!" Hedge told them as they filed off the bus.

"Hey Piper!" a jock sort of guy walked over, grinning. His teeth were so white that he should have had a sign saying: WARNING: Do NOT look at teeth! May cause permanent blindness.

"Wanna be my partner?"

"Go away Dylan." Piper said

They went inside the centre and onto a glass walkway that stretched the width of the canyon. Jason looked at the sheet, but couldn't comprehend any of it. Stupid dyslexia. Cracks appeared on the walkway and students started to scream and run for the doors. As soon as they passed through the doors they disappeared until only Jason and his friends were left. He found himself rooted on the spot, Piper, Victoria and Leo were the same. Venti swirled around them, the floor shattered, they were falling, and Jason tried to summon wind but failed. They landed on the hill next to his sister's tree. Jason watched as Leo became dumbfounded as he found out that his girlfriend had been lying to him, that she'd been at camp for three years. He saw Piper being claimed by Aphrodite and Leo by Hephaestus. He woke up.

He was covered in a cold sweat, breathing hard. Looking around, he finally remembered where her was; the Argo II. Today was the day. He, Piper and Annabeth would be heading up to the ruins of Ithaca to find out Gaia's plans from a bunch of dead guys. Fun. He thought sarcastically to himself as he rolled out of bed and pulled on a shirt.

The mess hall only had three other people in it; Leo, Victoria and Piper. Piper smiled as he sat down. Leo was eating Fonzies, which he had become addicted to. Victoria was fiddling with her bronze lighter, which would morph into a bow and quiver or a knife when she needed it. Her magical satchel hung from the back of her chair. Like Leo's tool belt it gave the wearer what they wanted(Mainly things to heal like nectar, ambrosia and bandages) to a certain extent, for example; it would not produce a stretcher or an x-ray machine. A plate of toast and raspberry jam sat in front of her.

"Not eating, Fox?" Jason asked. Victoria shrugged. Maybe she's seen something. He thought. As Apollo's daughter, she sometimes had visions of the future, though rarely. She was better at archery and healing. Then the rest of the crew waltzed in, sat down and dug into their breakfasts. Once everyone finished and had gone up onto the deck, Percy pulled Jason aside.

"Hey, man… Annabeth would kill me if I suggested she needed anyone to protect her."

Jason laughed "Yeah, she would."

"But look out for her, okay?"

Jason squeezed his friend's shoulder. "I'll make sure she gets back to you safely." They made their way up to the top deck.

"Well." Jason said "Let's do this thing."