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Third Chapter

{Jasper}

A few people gasped, but most just disappeared. Briefly, I wondered if they were shadow travelling. Of course, that was before my father grabbed my hand and we shadow travelled to a hospital room. Mr. Messenger man was there checking up on a woman that was sitting up in the bed.

She had silver storm cloud grey eyes and long, blonde hair. Percy walked up to her and collapsed in a chair next to her. She smiled at him.

"Hiya, Seaweed Brain. Long time, no see," the woman joked with a hoarse voice.

Percy only laughed. "Yes, you've been in a coma for fourteen years and that's what you chose to say to me! Gods, I'm beginning to question your ability, Wise Girl!"

They smiled at each other. Suddenly, Mom started crying and Dad had to console her. Even he had tears in his eyes. I looked around the room. Every single adult in the room had tears in their eyes and most were smiling. So, this woman was important.

"Annabeth, I am so glad you're alive!" gasped Mom.

"Thank you, Pipes, but you wouldn't have known if you hadn't been visiting Camp. Do you think you could consider moving back home? Before you answer that, how are my amazing kids?" Annabeth, the woman in the bed, asked.

Five of the kids stepped forward and told her different versions of "Amazing". You'd think that a parent would be happy to know that her kids are doing fine, but Annabeth frowned.

"Where's Mar?" she asked.

All she got in response was a hand up in a 'hold on' motion and a hideous scream. It appeared that everyone, including my parents, was used to this because none of them flinched. Mar appeared before us and she was stiff in a soldier-like position.

"Hello, Mar, how are you?" was Annabeth's first question. All she got in return was, "I'm good, ma'am."

"Do you know who I am?"

"Yes ma'am."

"You don't have to call me "ma'am"."

"Yes, Mrs. Jackson."

"Marina, do you know why I'm in this hospital room?"

"It's my fault that you're in the room, Mrs. Jackson. I think I'll leave now, ma'am. Good-bye."

Annabeth turned to Percy. "Does she truly believe that, Percy?"

"Yep, she believes that. You'd think she'd know better considering her mother is a very wise girl," responded Percy. He smiled down at her like it was a joke. The adults in the room had smiles on their faces and so did the kids (minus me and Thalia).

"Her mother may be a wise girl, but her father is a seaweed brain."

Another, more familiar voice joined in the conversation. "Don't you mean a kelp head? Last time I checked, he was still a kelp head."

Thalia and I turned to face our aunt. It might seem confusing to you that both my aunt and my sister had the same name. Aunt Thalia had on her silver lieutenant's outfit and looked like she had just gotten back from a good time with the Hunters.

Everyone greeted her and she gave Annabeth special attention. It finally connected in my head that Annabeth had been in a coma for fourteen years! She didn't even seem phased by this fact and just talked with the adults (I say adults, I mean the people that were in the series because some of the kids are adults, btw).

"Kids, why don't you go outside and get to know Jasper and Thalia. Have fun!" a woman with semi-short brown hair suggested. Well, the phrase said it was a suggestion, the tone said it was an order.

All of the kids nodded and shadow travelled out of the room. Thalia and I shadow travelled to them, but we don't do this very often, so we were pretty disoriented when we 'landed'. The kids all looked at us and a few rushed to help steady us.

A voice broke across the clearing as we regained our balance. "Ranks!" shouted Marina.

Suddenly, every kid was in some sort of line up. Two rows with a few kids in each. They looked kind of like soldiers and I wondered why they were taking orders from the youngest person here.

A/N: I felt like I needed a place to stop and this seemed good enough. Tell me what you think! Three reviews for a faster update!