Chapter 1

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Jason's P.O.V… in third person (these books are weird)

"The guy with one shoe," said the bald dude. "He's the answer."

"No, Butch," the girl insisted. "He can't be. I was tricked." She glared at the sky as though it had done something wrong. "What do you want from me?" she screamed. "What have you done with him?"

"Yelling at the sky won't bring him back, Annabeth; in fact, you won't see him for quite a while." A golden-haired girl seemed to pop out of nowhere and seemed to be addressing the girl. "I recommend you bring them to camp quickly; they are quite powerful, they'll probably attract a lot of monsters." Good thing this isn't a hentai.

The first girl fumed for a moment. "Fine." She fixed Jason with a resentful look. "We'll settle this later."

She turned on her heel and marched toward the chariot.

Piper shook her head. "What's her problem? What's going on?"

"Seriously," Leo agreed.

"We have to get you out of here," Butch said. "I'll explain on the way."

"I'm not going anywhere with her." Jason gestured toward the blonde. "She looks like she wants to kill me."

"If she's the only reason you're not going with her, you better go with her; she'll be much easier to defeat if she did try to kill you. And trying to kill a primordial god is a much harder than killing a demigod. A child of Athena is especially easy to kill if you can blow her head off with a blast of lightning. She's skilled in combat and is extremely intelligent, but she can't really call upon any powers like you three can. The name's Lily Silver; I'll see you back at the camp! Let's hope Annabeth doesn't try to kill me for saying all that!" she said before she vanished in a flash of silver light.

"Um… okay," Butch said after a second. "But you gotta cut Annabeth some slack. She had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her problem."

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Piper's P.O.V third person (that's going to get old fast)

Piper stepped forward, ready to smack her, but Annabeth said, "Piper, stop." Wait, when did Annabeth learn their names? (At this point, I'm just turning into CinemaSins for books. What would that be called?)

"You shouldn't introduce yourself to them by beating them up; however, Drew," I heard the voice of Lily, who appeared in the crowd suddenly, "I'm not a big fan of people who pretend to be more important than they are, and group everyone else into a group that's less than them." Lily walked forward, and what looked like an actual sword appeared in her hand. "Now who," she started as she continued to walk towards Drew, who was shrinking back slightly, "do you think I might be talking about? I'll give you the answer, because you're probably so focused on how Jason looks that you weren't listening. I'm talking about you."

Lily held the sword up to Drew's throat. When she attempted to back away, metal things came up from the ground and locked her in place.

"Those three will become some of the greatest heroes to ever exist. All you can say about yourself is that you're a pretty piece of crap who has never, and will never do anything heroic. Looks aren't everything, unlike what you, Deadpool, and every other teenager thinks. Unless you really feel like seducing every enemy you have to face." Lily's sword vanished and she moved her hand back down and walked away; the restraints holding Drew in place vanished. When people around Lily backed away from her as she walked away, she closed her eyes and sighed.

"Unless you've done something to piss me off, I won't do that kind of thing to you, and I only get mad easily if someone is the worst type of person."

Then she vanished in a flash of silver light.

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Leo's 3rd person P.O.V.

The guides explained the whole Lily/Sam deal to the people, I'm just too nervous of making the characters go too O.C., so I'll let you picture it.

He extended his fingers and felt them tingle, liking they were waking up―pins and needles. Gotta say, I still love putting that MOTHERFUCKING dash in. Then flames flickered to life, curls of red-hot fire dancing across his palm.

"I'm surprised you can still create those so easily after so long." Leo extinguished the flame in his hand and turned to the voice.

"Sorry," Lily said, " I guess I should see if my teleporting can make noise so that I don't surprise people as often."

"You said you knew that I hadn't used that in a long time," Leo said. "How did you know that?"

Lily walked up, stood next to him, and looked around the… I'm not sure what to call it, but I think it's basically just a workshop. Then she said, "I assume Will told you about my story?"

"Yeah. It might've been been the weirdest thing I'd heard all day."

Lily giggled at that, then replied with, "Yeah, it is pretty weird. I'm honestly surprised that people believed it." She sighed. "Well, before I, and Sam too, came to this world, my brother, Hale, basically gave us all the information about what happens in the original version of this timeline, where we aren't here."

"Huh?"

She sighed again and muttered, "Man, I really need to keep it stupid, don't I?" She spoke up again. "My brother gave Sam and I the memories/knowledge of what happened in this world without us."

"You're not good at explaining things, but I think I sort of understand it. Although I'm not sure how your brother can do that."

"My brother is only my brother through my mother, and technically even THAT isn't totally true. Also, I'm not bad at explaining things, I'm just bad at explaining things to people who aren't from my world.

"That's basically the same thing," he replied.

This is random! I just realized giving people this link means fewer views on my shit on the other site! Shit!

"You know, if you didn't have a pretty crappy life, I'd hate you a lot for that personality; one extremely annoying male is far too many for me to handle," Lily said. If you ask me, just about every male is annoying. Including Jason from this series. I mean, seriously, he's such a damn pretty boy; he and Piper are Riordan's worst demigod protagonist characters. Leo's fucking awesome, though. "We should head to dinner." She grabbed his shoulder. "This may be a little disorienting."

Leo saw a bright flash of light, then saw a new scene appear in front of him. (They teleported to the dining area [or whatever the shit it's called].)

"You should probably hurry up," she said while walking away (to her cabin [she eats there {people weren't very happy she worked with Kronos}]). "Your siblings might get worried."

HOLY SHIT. I've been away from this for so long. My last edit was January 7th. Today is February 17th. Well then… sorry, I guess.

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"It―has wings," Nyssa stammered. Her jaw looked like it might drop off her face. That stupid fucking dash is a great way to start this back up!

"Yeah!" Leo said. "I found them and reattached them."

"But it never had wings. Where did you find them?"

Leo hesitated, and Piper could tell he was hiding something. Gee, really?

"In… the woods," he said. "Repaired his circuits, too, mostly, so no more problems with him going haywire."

"Mostly?" Nyssa asked.

The dragon's head twitched. It tilted to one side and a stream of black liquid―maybe oil, hopefully just oil―poured out its ear, all over Leo.

"Just a few kinks to work out," Leo said.

"But how did you survive…?" Nyssa was still staring at the creature in awe. "I mean, the fire breath…"

A very bright flash of silver came from one of roofs of the cabins as she said this; Lily appeared in after it disappeared, looking well over half asleep.

"Crap," she said. Another flash of silver came off her and off of a spot on the ground, which she then appeared at before slowing getting up and yawning. "Never been too good at aiming that when I'm tired." She touched her head with her forefinger, then jumped up a bit (she lightly zapped herself), now clearly awake.

Piper, Leo, and Jason all seemed pretty surprised by all of this, but the other campers looked in mild surprise; they seemed to have seen this kind of thing before, but still weren't used to it.

She just seemed to be noticing the dragon, and didn't even seem a little bit surprised by it. "I'm not sure what I find weirder," she said, looking at Leo, "the fact that you randomly named him Festus, or that said random name translates from Latin into 'happy.'"

Jason looked at Leo and asked, "You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?"

The dragon twitched and shuddered and flapped its wings.

"That's a yes, bro!" Leo said. In what way? Also, "bro," really? "Now, um, I'd really suggest we get going, guys. I already picked up some supplies in the―um, in the woods. And all the people with weapons are making Festus nervous." Who programs the emotion of nervousness into a goddamn mechanical dragon?

Jason frowned. "But we haven't planned anything yet. We can't just―"

"You know where you need to go," Lily told him. "I'd say that's at least 25% of a plan. And that's over twice the amount of a plan that Star-Lord said he had, and everything worked almost perfectly for him. So I say we're ready to go."

"Who is Sta-wait, what do you mean, 'we'?"

One of the campers turned toward Lily. "You can't just go on a quest whenever you feel like it!"

"Technically speaking, I'm not going on the quest." Lily said. "I'm just taking a trip to take care of some stuff; which happens to be helping them. In case you forgot, I'm not actually a camper here, so I can do what I want. It's cool with you, right, Jason?"

"Um…" Jason seemed to have no clue how to respond.

"No objections; alright, let's go! We only have three days."

Piper looked at Annabeth, who just shrugged. Guess Lily was coming with them.

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Flying on the dragon was the most amazing experience ever, Piper thought. Really? I thought a fly somewhere in the area was thinking that.

Up high, the air was freezing cold, but the dragon's metal hide generated so much heat that it was like they were flying in a protective bubble. Then how do you know it's so cold? Talk about seat warmers! I'm starting to remember why I didn't like this book too much. And the groves in the dragon's back were designed like high-tech saddles, so they weren't uncomfortable at all. Leo showed them how to hook their feet in the chinks of the armor, like in stirrups, and use the lever safety harnesses cleverly concealed under the exterior plating. Aside from Lily, they sat single file: Leo in front, then Piper, then Jason, and Piper was very aware of Jason right behind her. She wished he would hold on to her, maybe wrap his arms around her waist; sadly he didn't. Seriously, Riordan, why did you decide to make a daughter of Aphrodite? Not to mention I feel like she acts like a combination of Hera and Aphrodite; I'm pretty sure most children of Aphrodite would do nothing but cheat on their S.O.'s. And, of course, as I bet some of you know, but I'll say it for those who don't, S.O. stands for "Slutty Olaf," the world's greatest Halloween costume.

Lily wasn't actually riding on the dragon, but flying next to it. As we were leaving, she teleported from the dragon to her home and back almost right afterwards, and she had been putting on a something that looked like a silver box with straps. After she finished putting it on, the straps seemed to adjust themselves to just right size, and then silver wings folded out of the box and… it was basically just a jetpack with wings coming out of it. The wings seemed to magnetize to her arms; Piper recalled she had been told Lily could control metal. Lily jumped up and started hovering; she acted like she hadn't done it before, or it had at least been a long time since she'd done it. That's an unavoidable innuendo. She appeared to stabilize and seemed to think everything was good. "Alright, time to go!" she said to Jason, Leo, and Piper, who were staring in shock (along with everyone else there).

"How―" Leo started.

"You fixed a dragon with just some stuff in the woods, and you question how I can have something like this?" she said.

"I was also gonna ask why I didn't make that."

Lily laughed. "Well, I'm sure you can probably figure something out with all that stuff in the woods," she said, winking at him when she said "stuff in the woods."

Leo's eyes widened a bit, but he just moved on from the topic. Piper thought Lily might know something that Leo didn't expect, maybe want anybody to know about. "Well, let's hurry then," he said.

"Indeed," Lily said before shooting into the sky at ridiculous speeds, leaving them a bit stunned.

Okay, flashback over.

Leo used the reigns to steer the dragon into the sky like he'd been doing it all his life. The metal wings worked perfectly, and soon the coast of Long Island was just a hazy line behind them. They shot over Connecticut and climbed into the gray winter clouds.

Leo grinned back at them. "Cool, right?"

"What if we get spotted?" Piper asked.

"The Mist," Jason said. "It keeps mortals from seeing magic things. I think you mean supernatural things, but whatever. If they spot us, they'll probably mistake us for a small plane or something."

Piper glanced over her shoulder. "You sure about that?"

"No," he admitted. Then Piper saw he was clutching a photo in his hands―a picture of a girl with dark hair.

She gave Jason a quizzical look, but he blushed Why? and put the photo in his pocket. "We're making good time. Probably get there by tonight."

Piper wondered who the girl in the picture was, but she didn't want to ask; and if Jason didn't volunteer the information For whatever reason, that wasn't a good sign. Had he remembered something about his life before? Was that a photo of his real girlfriend? Jesus, this one's gonna become a yandere, isn't she? (I love how that's coming from Psychotic Yandere.)

Stop it, she thought. You'll just torture yourself.

She asked a safer question. "Where are we heading?"

"To find the god of the North Wind," Jason said. "And chase some storm spirits."

Lily glided over towards us. "See, you had part of a plan."

"You seem really optimistic about him having only part of a plan," Piper said.

"Well, to be fair, my brother doesn't even come up with plans; he comes up with just a general idea of something, then does it however he pleases. It's always worked in the end, so I see no reason to be pessimistic."

"I get the feeling you and your brother are somewhat… different, to say the least," Jason said.

"Well, that seemed very obvious to me. I mean, I'm the half-blooded daughter of Kronos and he's older than Uranus. That's not very usual, even by a demigod's standards," she said before moving away from us a ways.

"I'm not the only one who heard her say her brother is older than the one of the planets, right?" Leo asked.

"I think she meant the god Uranus," Jason said.

"I'm not sure which of those would be weirder," Piper said.

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Alrighty, I think almost 3,000 words is plenty, don't you? Next chapter won't actually be the next chapter, but I'll explain it then.