Name: Piper McLean

Occupation: High School Student

Alias: Songbird

Date: July 7 XX17

Prologue

Piper quickly runs across the battlefield looking for a place to hide, her left arm bleeding from a cut on her shoulder.. Her white suit was covered in mud, blood, and ichor, making her slightly harder to see. At least that's what she keeps telling herself, the smell was making her slightly dizzy and losing blood doesn't help. She makes it into a coffee shop, or what was a coffee shop a few hours ago. Piper takes this moment to catch her breath, take in what was happening. She pulls off her damaged shoulder pad and starts to scan the room.

"Hey Beauty Queen, you making a cappuccino in there?" she heard over her earpiece.

"Valdez, can it. I just needed a place to patch up my arm." She reaches behind the counter and grabbed a towel, before searching for a first aid kit.

"Songbird, Phoenix, use your code names," another voice said.

"Come on Jason, no one can hear us right now," Leo cheerfully said. Ignoring the two, she pulls open the small box.

"You never know who is listening." Pain erupted from her arm after she pours some alcohol onto the wound. A crashing sound takes her focus away from fixing her arm and she instinctively grab her repeating crossbow with her good arm. She takes aim at the door, before relaxing after seeing who it is.

"Thank the gods it was you Jace." He clears his throat, making her groan in response. "Thanks Ventus," she says in a monotone voice. He had a small smile on his face as he walked in. His green suit and gold suit shined from the sunlight. His blonde hair didn't seem to have a hair out of place. His blue eyes had a happy twinkle as he looked at her.

"Sorry. Here, let me help you with your arm," he says as he pulls out a chair for her to sit in. She takes a seat as Jason pulls out a small suture kit. The world was practically ending around them, and he took the time to fix her cut. "There you go, all better." She puts the damaged shoulder pad back on.

"Let's go, people need us," she says as she starts to walk towards the entrance.

"Maybe you should head back to the Argo. Have the healing chamber fix your arm."

"No way. If you are out here, I'm out here."

"I want you to be safe."

"I will, we still need to have a wedding don't we?" She starts to lean into him.

"Hate to break up the sweet romantic scene, but we are here to stop monsters," Leo says taking her out of the moment. " Cal...I mean Nymph is on her way towards your position. She can probably fix your arm better than the wind bag." Jason's face shows a twinge of annoyance.

"How are we doing on the offensive front?" she asks.

"Uh, hold on." After a few moments of silence, a few explosions ring through her earpiece followed by a crashing sound. "Our Giant is down, you guys can now praise me." She rolled her eyes at his statement. She tapped her earpiece once.

"Annabeth, your Giant down?"

"Songbird…"Jason said.

"Ugh, Minerva, is your Giant down?"

"We took it down," she heard from her blonde comrade. She noticed someone enter the door. Calypso walked through the open doorway, her flowing dress and brown hair blowing in the wind. "Any word on if Legion and her group took her Giant down?

"Just got word from her, Reyna and Frank took it down." Piper giggled as Jason threw his arms in the air. Calypso pulled out a small seed and put it on her arm. After a few gestures, the seed bloomed and spread around her shoulder. The pain started to fade, with it feeling very sore.

"Good, Oceanmaster and I are going after Gaia," she heard Annabeth say. Jason walked outside, his wind lance in hand. Calypso and Piper followed outside. She saw hundreds of monsters flying in the air, fighting about a dozen of her friends and allies. A bronze armored human flew towards her and her group, his jetpack roaring as it got closer to the ground. He landed and took off his helmet, revealing her crazy best friend.

"Hola," he said with a crazy smile on his face. "Supes, are you done taking care of her? The fliers could use the wind."

Jason gave him a slight glare before saying, "I'll go. Is the Argo in the air? We can have Piper heal for a bit before heading into the battle." She punched him in the shoulder at that comment.

"I'm fine, Cal put some of her magic seeds on it, it fixed it right up."

"They aren't magic," Calypso said blushing slightly.

"Well, there would be no way to do that anyways. The Argo has taken a lot of damage. The Aegis Shield is destroyed, the healing chamber is acting weird, and most of the weapons are offline. Festus is working hard just to keep it in the air."

"Damn. Alright, I'm on my way." Jason turned to Piper. "Stay safe."

"Same to you." The two stared into each other's eyes for a moment. They weren't sure if they would see each other again. "I love you."

"I love you too," he said as he kissed her. He closed his eyes before he flew off into the sky.

"Man that was cheesy," she heard Leo say. Calypso punched him in the shoulder.

"Stop it Valdez, you're ruining the moment."

"I'm there best friends, it's my job to ruin the moment for them." Calypso raised an eyebrow at that.

"So, it's Piper's job to ruin the moment for us," she said as she leaned into his arms. Piper chuckled slightly.

"Nah, she's way too nice for that." They looked into each other's eyes for a moment. "I have to go," Piper heard Leo say softly, barely a whisper.

"Come back to me, okay?" Tears started forming in Calypso's eyes. Leo gave a smile. His jetpack came to life and orange flames flew out of it.

"I'm a hero aren't I?" He quickly put on his helmet, then rocketed straight into the sky towards the massive ship, the Argo. Both Piper's and Calypso's eyes followed him onto the ship.

"You didn't tell him, did you?" Piper asked Calypso. She glanced at her. Calypso shut her eyes.

"I'm going to tell him after. It's too big of a deal to say before a big fight."

"I hope so, for both of your sake." A loud scream came from the beach. A plant monster erupted from the beach and was attacking all of the ground forces. Calypso looked at Piper, like she wasn't sure if they need to keep talking about this or if she should help the others. "Go, they need you," she told her. Calypso nodded and took off towards the beach. Piper ran towards the city, looking to help anybody around that needed help. A minotaur crashed through the wall to her left, a petite figure in his right hand. She recognised them instantly, her purple cloak giving her away. "REYNA!" The minotaur stops and looks at her. Suddenly out of nowhere, a figure flew in and double kicked the monster in the back, her purple cloak fluttering. Reyna broke out of the monster's grasp and swings her sword decapitating it in a single swipe. Reyna put her sword back in the sheath and helped the other person up off the ground. They started walking towards Piper. Both of them smiled at her, their faces matching the other in the same way.

"Nice job distracting them," Reyna said, well one of the Reynas. Her brow furrowed, and the Reyna on the left, turned into a purple mist and flew into the Reyna on the right.

"No matter how many times I've seen that, it is still weird."

"Don't judge, most of the monster's deep in the city have been taken out."

"Most of them are fighting the fliers." Piper's radio crackled to life.

"Percy and Piper, I've got a plan," she heard Leo say.

"Little busy here Valdez, make it quick," Percy said, his voice much more strained than normal.

"Alright, alright no need to get snippy. First Piper, I need you to get high. Wait, phrasing. I need you to get to a high location." Piper turned to Reyna and made a gesture telling her to give her a boost.

"Working on it." She took a few steps back and ran at two Reyna's who have their knees bent. When her foot made contact with their hands she was lifted and thrown up onto the building that they were right in front of. "Okay, I'm on a building."

From her new vantage point, she scans the scene. Almost a mile away, two large figures were fighting each other, one made entirely of rock and the other made of water. In the water figure, a small speck was in the center. Monsters were swarming it, but were getting shot down as soon as the got close. Annabeth must be protecting him. She thought to herself.

"Alright. Piper I need you to initiate 'Evacuate'. Inform the ESPer's."

"Got it." She clicked her earpiece, switching it to a different channel. "All ESPer's, I am about to initiate Evac, get out of there." Almost instantly, about a dozen fliers flew away towards the beach. Flying past them was the Argo. Piper took a deep breath.

"Aim for that radio dish," she heard Leo say. She opened her mouth and she threw her voice towards the radio dish. She watched as everybody started to move away from the two monsters fighting, even Reyna had left her and started moving towards the beach. "Great! Now Percy, you can move freely within your water man right?

"Yeah, what about it?" Percy's voice started to crack, he seemed to be at his limit.

"Move towards the foot, really close to the ground." Piper watched as the speck moved lower on the water figure.

"Done."

"Now, grab her." The water figure moved its arm and it was now giving the earthen figure a bear hug.

"Now what?"

"Now, it's my turn," she heard him say. This was the most serious she had ever heard him. There was a quick click and the radio channel went silent. Her radio automatically switched over to the open channel. "Hello you beautiful people, this is Captain Valdez broadcasting on the open channel.

"Valdez, what are you doing?" she heard Jason say.

"Seriously, we are retreating? I never retreat!" Clarisse said over the radio.

"As your captain..." Leo started.

"You aren't the captain," Annabeth quickly said.

"...I have lead you all into many battles…"

"What is he doing?" Piper heard behind her. She saw Calypso had somehow made it up to her. Calypso was one of the few who could resist her power despite not being an ESPer.

"No idea.

"...And it has been an honor protecting the world with you…" The Argo began flying towards the two figures. The ship started to pick up speed. Piper turned towards Calypso. Her eyes got wide, as if she realized what was happening. "...This is Phoenix, signing off. Good bye."

"...Leo?" Tears started falling down Calypso's face. Piper didn't know what to do.

"LEO!" She saw Jason flying straight towards the Argo, somehow almost catching up to the ship. Then all of a sudden, Jason made a sharp u-turn away from the ship, heading straight towards Piper. He crashed down a few feet away from her. She ran straight to him, taking his helmet off and looking for any signs of injury. Other than being unconscious, he was fine.

"Sorry Supes, Piper's order is also attached to the ship. She didn't realize that the radio dish was aimed straight at the Argo," Leo's voice came from inside Jason's helmet.

"...why?" Piper heard from behind her, Calypso's voice cracking. "Please, you don't have to do this!" The Argo went straight through Percy's figure and made contact with the earthen figure. The engines started making their high pitched whirring. Calypso swallowed hard. "There is something I need to tell you…" Suddenly, the ship initiated its speed drive. Then both the earthen figure and the Argo were gone, the city of Athens was silent.

"...we won, but at what cost…" Piper then weeped silently.

Hello, this is the author ARHalden. While this is technically not my first time writing, it's my first time putting it up where strangers can read it so please be nice...or be mean it doesn't really matter. I have most of the story ready so the next chapter is on you, the reader. Pretty much this story will only continue if there is any support. If not many read this, I probably won't keep writing. If you guys see any errors in this, let me know so I can fix it. Like many people I fix this in my head and don't really fix it with my computer. Thanks for reading.