JASON

Jason had had enough.

When he first thought of spending the rest of his life at Camp Half-blood instead of Jupiter he thought he was sure.

Now he wasn't.

Because the Stolls had played a prank on him. Again.

He was covered with paint from head to toe, a husky smell in the air. He watched himself in a mirror and deduced that he looked like an idiot. Clarisse had even been so kind to mention that he portrayed the image of a rainbow. He opened his closet for spare clothes. Capture the flag was an hour later and he didn't want Camp Half-blood laughing at him.

He sighed. The Stolls were okay and there was Will and Nico but he wanted someone else to talk to as his best friend. Other than Piper; girlfriends didn't count. He was missing Frank and Percy. If only Leo was here.

Leo.

Jason was not an emotional person. He never was. But right now he would openly admit how much he missed his best friend.

Leo never showed up.

Everyone was so sure he would pop out of nowhere and will materialize in front of them, with his lopsided grin and twinkle in his eyes. They had waited for him for months. A year had passed in a blink of an eye and everyone had finally gone their own separate ways because that was what Leo would want.

The Hephaestus Cabin still honored him a lot though. Jack had refused to let anyone near Leo's bunk and would clean his belongings and make his bed every day. Even Bunker 9 had become an honorable place for Hephaestus Cabin. Only the best among them would work on the projects left incomplete by Leo.

To tell the truth, Jason was also kind of envious that a lot of people remembered him like that. He wondered after he'll die, would people remember him. Maybe not. He didn't die fighting after all. Maybe-

He stopped himself. No he wanted a normal life. No more wars and no more prophecies.

"Jason? Where are you? We'll be late for Capture the Flag." Piper was right at his Cabin's door.

Oh right. He was changing.

"Coming." He called back.

He and Piper jogged to where Will, Conner and Travis were discussing a strategy. Nico standing nearby displayed an emotion that looked as if he was interested, partially.

"So we are up against Ares, Hephaestus, Athena and Demeter Cabin." Will informed them, quite worried.

"Brains, strength, weapons and freaking magic. We'll be dead in ten minutes flat." Conner cooed.

"At least I'll have a good place in the Underworld." Nico snorted.

"Chill out guys. We have Jason, we have Piper and we have Nico." Jason swore someday he would kill Travis.

"Yeah guys let focus on strategy." Jason intervened.

A couple of minutes later both the teams were present in the pavilion. A blue shimmering flag with a lightning bolt and an eagle in between, on one side; Jason was holding it in his hand, with the Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hermes, Hades and Apollo Cabins behind him. On the other side Clarisse was holding a red glowing banner with a bloody spear and a boar's head with the Ares, Demeter, Athena and Hephaestus Cabin behind her. Chiron walked to the front.

"Ok. Everyone knows the rules. Arm yourselves." And he whistled, indicating the game had begun.

Blue team marched towards the South of the forest. Jason flew like a Superman to the top of a tree which was on the border line while Nico was summoning a whole legion of skeletons. Jason could practically view the whole forest from here. He saw Clarisse and her team making way towards the Blue team.

"Guys they are coming." He yelled. Nico nodded.

"Alright good ghosts. Form a line. And attack." Jason heard him say and suppressed a chuckle. Jason saw them as both Conner and Travis make their way with some other Hermes kids towards the Red flag.

The other fought on land alongside Nico's dead buddies. Piper was charmspeaking the enemy as usual.

"You are a chicken." He heard her say and laughed gleefully trying to imagine what was going down and desperately tried to focus on the task at hand which was blasting the opponent with lightning from above. And Jason was doing pretty good.

In half an hour everyone was down except Clarisse because the Athena Cabin didn't see 'the Jason shooting them with bolts from trees' plan. She was killing the already dead skeleton like a madman. At the exact moment Connor and Travis emerged from behind the trees with a banner in hand, held up high over them shouting with joy. A huge cry of applause rose from the blue team and Jason flew back. He landed near Piper and his girlfriend immediately threw her hands around his neck. Clarisse groaned.

"I can't believe I actually lost to the blonde."

"Ok Jason you are in the air tonight." Will shouted.

"No, no. Nico and umm his legion of 'good ghosts' get the credit." Jason said with a smug.

The procession made its way to the Big table and Chiron distributed their chores to the losing team.

"Yay. No chores for a week." Someone yelled.

Jason saw as Rachel jogged towards him and Piper.

"Congratulation, guys." She beamed at them both.

Jason smiled back.

"Sure, sure. Pipe down brats." Mr. D grunted, holding a wine glass filled with diet coke. He never really understood why it was a diet one. A god wasn't even prone to being fat. He could change his appearance as he wills, right? Leo would have pointed that out.

Stop. He told himself. Stop thinking about Leo.

"Why is he so grumpy?" Pipes whispered against him.

"He is always grumpy."

"I meant more than usual."

"Listen up. I've got an announcement to make. Just moments ago Artemis dropped off her band of thugs at her Cabin. Try to welcome them. And I am going to Olympus. Try not to destroy the Camp while I am gone." And Mr. D walked away, Diet Coke in hands.

Jason was thrilled. Thals was here. Life could not be better. Truly.

Suddenly Rachel stopped in her tracks. Piper who was holding her hand jolted. Alarmed Jason moved towards them when he noticed the green and blue mist that was starting to form around them. Nico who knew what was coming immediately grabbed a chair from a nearby table and pushed it behind Rachel.

She gently let go of Piper's hand and sat down on the chair. Conner, Travis and Katie and even Clarisse reached them their face glazed with curiosity. Rachel's eyes were gleaming and when she spoke everyone knew that it was the spirit of Delphi speaking.

"When the sky god makes his vengeance clear,

The balance remains no longer there.

The Olympian's heroes rise again,

To loose what had been gained in vain."

Jason shuddered for three reasons.

Number 1: The spirit of Delphi was really creepy.

Number 2: He was the son of the sky god and his father was going to claim vengeance.

Number 3: He was one of the Heroes of Olympus and he was mentioned in the prophecy.

Rachel slowly opened her eyes.

"What happened?" she said, a frown on her face.

Nico moved forward to explain that she had just given another great prophecy, probably the worst one yet.

But Jason's world was spinning. Goodbye to a normal life. He sighed.