Chapter 3 Jason

Jason had to admit he needed Leo, on their quest to stop Gaea, Jason had made a promise to Kymololeia. He promised that he'd recognize all the gods, and make cabins, temples, most likely shrines or at least collectible trading cards for them. But how was he supposed to do all of that without Leo? Leo was the best engineer/builder Jason had ever met, now he was stuck missing his best friend all too much.

Once Jason's thoughts were cleared he walked down the stairs of cabin 1 and towards the dinning pavilion for breakfast. Piper caught up with him moments after he passed the Aphrodite cabin, Jason didn't know how they breathed in there, with all the perfume polluting the air.

"Jason!" She said in delight. He gave her a quick kiss,

"Hey, Pipes" He replied.

"Oh I hope were not on the same team for capture the flag tonight, because if we aren't I can kick your butt!" She said taunting him.

"Is that so?" Jason said,

"Oh its definitely so!" She said lacing her hand threw his.

They walked to the dinning pavilion together, but went their separate ways once they made it there. Jason walked over to the open buffet and filled his plate, making sure to put a portion of his food into the hearth and said a silent prayer to his father. Once he was done, he sat back down at the Zeus table and enjoyed his breakfast. Jason was excited for tonight because of capture the flag, and for his sister Thalia to arrive tomorrow with the hunters of Artemis. He looked over at Piper talking with some of the kids from the Aphrodite cabin, laughing and having a good time. Jason looked across from his table at Percy who was eating 9 pancakes all stacked on top of each other drenched in maple syrup. Jason looked over at the Hades table to see Nico and Will sitting together talking, after everything Nico went threw Jason was glad to see he made a new friend.

Once Jason finished his breakfast and started to walk back to his cabin, Percy caught up with him,

"Hey," Percy said.

"Hey" Jason replied with an empty voice.

"You wanna go to the sword arena? It always helps me blow off some steam"

"You know what, sure lets do it!" The two of them walked over to the sword arena in silence. Once they arrived Percy immediately uncapped Riptide and pointed the blade at Jason,

"let fight!" Percy said with excitement.

"Your funeral." Jason replied reaching for his imperial gold gladius.

"We'll see about that!" And with that Percy struck. Jason parried and stabbed while Percy's guard was down, but he stepped back, the blade an inch away from impaling Percy's chest. Jason made the next move he swung his sword using the wind a little to add some extra punch, Percy guarded but the force from the strike knocked him to the ground. Jason arched his blade above Percy, but Percy wasn't as hurt as he lead on and he parried the strike allowing him enough time to get up.

"Hey," Percy complained, "You used your powers!"

"Just a little." Jason said feeling good.

"Alright my turn!" Percy said. Percy backed up until they were 15 feet away then he shut his eyes for a moment. Jason confused took a step forward, in that moment Percy opened his eyes and sprinted at Jason, his sword blade pointing directly at him. But when Percy was still out of striking distance a burst of water hit Jason back knocking him over and blinding him, then before he knew it the son of the sea god was on top of with his blade pointing down. Jason rolled out of the way drenched in water as Percy stabbed with his sword and into the ground inches away from Jason's face.

"Well played Jackson, well played, using the drink cooler, that was a great idea." He said while grabbing as much of his shirt as he could in his hands and twisting it. The shirt released half a litter of water, Jason looked at Percy in annoyance.

"Sorry about that" Percy said obviously holding back a laugh. Together they walked back towards the cabins, complementing each others fighting, once they'd made it halfway there, that's when they saw it.

A giant bronze dragon soaring threw the sky. Jason's jaw dropped it was a dragon he was all too familiar with, it was Festus. The campers cleared the way as Festus landed in the middle of the cabins, Leo jumping off his back followed by a beautiful girl. Jason and Percy ran toward them, by the time they got their Piper had already tackled Leo with a hug, sobbing into his shoulder.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Lionne Vardez" Dionysus exclaimed walking out the crowned of campers.

"Its actually Leo Valdez" Leo said as Piper released him from her hug.

"Whatever." Dionysus replied as he began to sip diet coke from his wine glass.

"Leo!" Jason said running over to his friend,

"You died, how, how is this possible?" Jason asked as he gave Leo a short hug. "The cure, you switched the cure." Jason guessed answering his own question.

"Didn't coach Hedge teach you anything in wilderness school?." Leo said grinning,

"We have to tell the Romans your alive." Piper said.

"Already done, we came across them while flying back from Ogygia." Jason turned to look at the girl beside Leo, she had caramel colored hair braided over one shoulder, she was wearing a pair of tattered blue jeans and a white t-shirt. Jason guessed she was Calypso the girl Leo had encountered when he was shot off the Argo 2 by Kione.

"Hi I'm Jason." he said looking intently at Calypso.

"Hi I'm Calypso, I've heard so much about you, and you must be Piper." She said looking over at her, before Piper could respond Percy stepped forward.

"Calypso, look I'm sorry, I should have, I should have made sure the gods held their promise." Percy said apologetically.

"It's okay, after all I'm out, thanks to Leo." She said gratefully whilst looking at Leo. As Leo was introducing cabin nine and the rest of the campers surrounding him Chiron came trotting over.

"Leo I'm glad to see you returned, and who is this young lady."

"I'm Calypso, and I'm guessing your Chiron director of the camp."

"Yes that would be me." Chiron replied. Leo interrupted.

"Hey Chiron, can Calypso stay for a while, maybe in the big house until I come up with something?."

"I'm not that much trouble" Calypso chimed in.

"Of course, I'll get Argus to prepare you a room." Chiron said smiling, "and for everyone else get back to your activities." With that the camper's cleared out including Jason and his friends.

After a long day of Demi-god training Jason made his way over to the dinning pavilion hungry for dinner. Once he arrived he walked straight to the Zeus table waiting for the wood nymphs to serve him some food. Before Jason received his meal he watched Leo frantically dropped a half eaten chicken wing into the brazier, he obviously forgot to save a portion of his meal for the gods. When the chicken wing hit the fire, the hearth sizzled in anger and released a large burst of smoke into Leo's face. The smoke spread threw out the entire dinning pavilion, blinding everyone's vision. Once the smoke cleared Leo coughing said,

"apparently the gods don't like leftovers." his face black with smoke.

All the campers burst out in laughter. Eventually Jason did get his food and walked over to the bronze brazier making sure to give a non-eaten portion of his food to the gods.

Once Everyone finished their meals and the laughing died down Chiron stepped forward and stomped his hoof against the marble floor, silencing the campers.

"On that note, let's begin capture the flag!" All the campers cheered.