Percy
I walked out to where the warship was hovering, my arms still around Hazel and Frank. The ship was completely stopped in midair, and I could make out the name in Ancient Greek on the side, The Argo II.
A Latino boy stuck his head over the side, and looked down.
"They aren't killing us! You guys can come out now!" then he looked back into the boat, "Hey, Beauty Queen! Go get Sparky! And," he looked at me, standing near the front, between Frank and Hazel and near Reyna, "Get Annabeth too, we found him!"
There were some confused mutterings from the Romans, I realized that the only people who know of my origins at Camp Jupiter are Hazel and Frank.
This should be interesting.
The boy, who I recognized as Leo, from the video scroll, stuck his head back over the edge and yelled, "HEADS UP!" as a rope ladder was dropped from a trapdoor in the bottom of the ship. The first one to descend was a boy with blonde hair. The sudden intake of breath from the majority of the Romans told me that this must be the mysterious Jason Grace everyone has been talking about. He appeared to be too anxious to get home, so, instead of climbing, halfway down the ladder, he jumped, soaring for a few moments, then landed easily on both feet. He spotted me and smirked before heading towards me. There was something really familiar about his eyes.
He stuck out his hand and said, "You must be Percy Jackson, I'm Jason Grace, I've heard a lot about you."
"I've heard a lot about you too." Then something hit me, "Wait, Grace? As in Thalia Grace?" Both were kids of Zeus/Jupiter, whatever you want to call him, and had the same last name? That was too much of a coincidence.
He looked at me, "Yeah, she's my sister. Actually my full sister, not half."
'Wow, Thalia has a little brother,' I thought. 'Who'da thought.' And speaking of Thalia...
"Hey Kelp-Head!" I rubbed my arm where she had shocked me.
"Ouch!"
"Don't pretend that hurt! Mr. Curse of Achilles." She looked at me.
"Umm, about that..." Suddenly, I felt someone elbow me. I turned to see Hazel glaring at me, "oh, yeah, Thalia, this is Hazel Levisque, daughter of Pluto-"
"Wait, ANOTHER Big Three kid? Hades broke the oath? I know Nico and B-" She faltered.
"Umm, he didn't actually break the oath-" But broke off when Hazel nudged my side again and looked at us suspiciously.
"How do you know my brother?"
"The question is, how do you know Nico?" Thalia looked at her questioningly.
"Lets just say, we found out where Nico disappears to when he leaves Camp Half-Blood. I'll tell you more later." I informed Thalia. "Oh, this is Frank Zhang, son of Mars."
"Interesting," Thalia laughed, "Of course, you would make friends with one of the kids of Ares, who may just hate you he most. Or at least, he was the very first immortal to get into a fight with you." Frank and Hazel looked resigned
"Yeah, Mars doesn't like me much either-"
My sentence was interrupted by "PERRCYYY!" And I was tackled by a satyr.
Hazel and Frank give shouts of surprise, while Thalia laughed, using Jason to support her.
"Hey G-man!" I chuckled, picking up his rasta hat and handing in to him before standing up. One I had helped him up, he gave me a giant goat hug.
"I think Grover missed you!" Thalia was laughing, "So did someone else," and she turned back to the ship.
I mouthed, "I'll explain everything later," to Frank and Hazel.
The Romans were eyeing me suspiciously, especially Octavian. I stated, "The full story will be told in the senate meeting in a half hour!" some were appeased, others, like Octavian, were not.
While we had been talking, Greeks had been descending the ladder slowly.I turned just in time to hear, "Nice toga," and see nobody.
I rolled my eyes, and stayed still, listening, I heard light breathing behind me to my left, where I knew there was nobody visible. Very quickly, I turned around and took Annabeth's Yankees hat right off her head and placed it on mine.
Ignoring a few startled gasps, I smirked, and looked at Annabeth. She had some hat-head, looked quite irritated, but happy at the same time, and looked as if she hadn't been eating properly, but was still beautiful to me.
I easily picked her up in a fireman's hold, unnerved at how light she was, and ran off towards the center of New Rome, ignoring the mixture of startled cries from the Romans, cheers from the Greeks, and shouts of, "PUT ME DOWN! SEAWEED BRAIN! I'M WARNING YOU!" and kept going.
Eventually, I set her down by a fountain and splashed myself in the face with some water, taking off the hat as I did so. She glared at me, but didn't seem to be able to keep the smile off her face.
"You remembered?" She asked, very hopefully.
"I never forgot." We leaned in, but just as we were about to kiss, the majority of the representatives of Camp Half Blood, including Thalia, Clarisse, Grover, Katie Gardener (I smirked when I saw who's hand she was holding, Travis must've finally successfully asked her out), Connor and Travis Stoll, Lacy, Michael, a few other Aphrodites, and so many others. There was also Hazel, holding hands with Frank.
"Seriously guys?" I looked at all of them, especially the ones who ambushed my and Annabeth's first real kiss and groaned, "Come on, you already did this when we got together!" They payed no heed to my words, and, following Frank and Hazel's directions, dumped us in a river.
After making a big air bubble, I looked at her, "Something about this seems familiar," I said, stroking my chin thoughtfully.
"Hmmm," she smiled, "I think I remember how this goes." We leaned in, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Fin
