Chapter 2

Percy

"We cannot trust these graecus!" Octavian spat. Percy resisted the urge to get up and throttle his skinny neck, but just barely. "They are vile, traitorous, evil, people." He continued and Percy saw a few of Octavian's followers nod in agreement.

"Octavian! Sit down, now!" Reyna barked and Argentum and Aurum- the silver and gold wolfhounds meant to protect the praetors- growled and snapped their wickedly sharp teeth in response. "They will destroy us! I've seen it in the internals!" Octavian wailed, ignoring Reyna and him.

Percy's anger finally boiled over and he stood up "OCTAVIAN!" he shouted and everyone's eyes flew to him. "Sit down now and shut up. If you don't you'll be disobeying my orders and will be punished. Do you understand?" he snarled and he saw Octavian shrink down slightly and saw Piper, Leo, Hazel, Frank, and Jason's eyes widen slightly.

Octavian sat down but said "But Praetor Jackson, the internals have shown me." He said and Percy answered back "Oh, really? Then how come both Juno and Mars both said we must work with the Greeks? They mean no trouble, after all, have they harmed Jason?" he gestured over to Jason who stood and said "The Greeks do not mean us harm like he said. They welcomed me with open arms even when they found out I was Roman."

Ripples of murmurs ran though the crowd as Percy sat back down, shooting one more glare at Octavian who returned it for a second before turning away. Jason sat back down and Reyna called out "We are not here to discuss whether or not to go on this quest with the Greeks anyhow. We are here to discuss who will be going on the quest."

Frank stood up and said "Praetors if I may, I think Jason and Percy are two of the people. I also think the other people are Leo, who built the Argo 2, Piper, Hazel and me. As much as I don't really want to go on another quest it makes sense. We are the ones who went with Percy and Jason on their separate quest." He sat down and I smiled at him.

"Jason, Percy, what do you think?" Reyna asked turning to look at both of us. Jason stood and answered "I believe Frank is right. Piper and Leo went on my quest to free Hera- Juno in Roman. And Hazel and Frank himself went on the quest with Percy. Though I do not known their story." I stood and said "Yup." And sat back down.

Reyna rolled her eyes at me slouching in my seat but sat too and said "But who is the seventh? That's only six." We all looked over at Annabeth and she blinked in surprise "Me?" she asked and Piper nodded. "Yeah, it can only be you." Reyna's eyes narrowed and I said quickly "Sense also Reyna has to stay here to keep camp in order. We both can't leave." She relaxed slightly and Piper gave me a thankful look.

"But there will be more Greeks then! This mission is doomed to fail with them leading!" Octavian said as he stood up and glared over at them. I stood up and leaned forward, hands braced on the marble table "Are you saying Romans are better? That me, Jason and some very powerful demigods can't win? Because while we actually have a chance of beating Gaea, you want to send out demigods out- our people- out to pretty much certain death to find to burned Sibylline books?" I asked in a threaten tone and I saws Octavian pale and a few people other than the Greeks turn and glare at him. He sank into his chair and I sat down.

"Now that that is done, then will you be leaving?" Reyna directed the question to Leo who stood with a cocky grin "Tomorrow would be best so we can get going. Especially sense we figured Percy here would like to stop by Camp Half-Blood, our camp, and show everyone he's not dead." I nodded and grinned. Just the thought of going home…

Reyna nodded and said "Then it is set. Meeting dismissed. And remember, war games are tonight!" Reyna called out as everyone started to file out. Percy jogged down the steps and Stood next to Annabeth, fingers intertwined once again.

"War games?"Leo asked and he grinned "It's a lot like capture the flag, but with forts, an elephant, water cannons, giant scorpions and a lot of other stuff." Percy said as they headed out of the building. Leo rubbed his hands together mischievously and a crazy, or at least crazier, smile crossed his face "Ahh, I love this game already." They all laughed.