Chapter 2
For Percy Jackson, life was great at the moment. Then he heard knocking on the door. Of course he had to jinx it. The war with Gaea had been won a year ago. Leo had sacrificed himself to defeat Gaea, but Festus had used the physician's cure to bring him back to life. Unfortunately, something named the astrolobe, or whatever Leo said it was called, did not work, and he didn't reach Ogygia. However, as the gods decided to grant him one wish, he chose to let Calypso be free from her island prison. But the gods decided, as a precaution, they would wipe Calypso's memory of being an immortal titaness, and turned her into a mortal and gave her false memories of being the daughter of a elementary school teacher and a doctor. So in the end, Leo's heart was still broken, but Calypso ended up being happy and studying in Oxford. And even though, to this day nightmares still plagued us demigods, we had a peaceful (Well, as peaceful as a demigod's life could be ) life, and right now, we were in mom's apartment celebrating Jason and Piper's engagement. (Yup, that's right. Jason and Piper, or Jasper as the Aphrodite cabin puts it, got engaged at seventeen. But honestly, after all we've been through, it's not really a big deal. ) Apparently Jason decided to propose after seeing how successful my proposal was. (Yeah, me and Annabeth got engaged too. Two months before "Jasper". It took a while for me to understand why I could hear the Aphrodite cabin squealing "Percabeth!" When Annabeth wore her ring in camp. ) Right now the seven and Nico and Will (He and Nico got together shortly after he told me I "wasn't his type". I was, and still am, so confused. But I'm happy for them. ) were sitting in my mom's living room eating heavenly good blue cookies and Annabeth and Piper were saying something about a double wedding while everyone else were nodding their heads pretending to understand when we heard knocking sounds. Our conversation halted immediately. We all looked at each other, asking the same question. We heard more knocks. I sighed and stood up. I strode over to the door and yanked it open. I was not expecting what I saw. An incredibly old man with a long flowing white beard and half-moon spectacles in long purple robes stood in front of me. His silvery eyes were filled with, no not malice, but the feeling that he knew more than you did. Behind him was a pale man with long black hair, black eyes and black robes. He had a sunken and broken look like he had faced horrors too hard to mention. Behind the both of them were three teenagers. One had short red hair and clear blue eyes. His face was full of freckles, and seemed a bit, well, easily angered and stupid. I could tell by the look on his face, like "I'm always better than you, cause every decision you make will be wrong, and I'll always be right." Next to him was a girl with long mousey brown hair and inquiring brown eyes. Right now she seemed like she was bursting with unanswered questions. And finally, was a boy with long untamed black hair and emerald green eyes behind a thick pair of glasses. There was a curious looking scat on his forehead. It was shaped like a bolt of lightning. Like the one Zeus thought I had stolen. The old guy in the front, probably the leader, cleared his throat. "Excuse me, may we discuss some matters?"