A.N Here's Chapter 3! Enjoy and Review. **Warning: I kind of accidently may have turned Piper into a bitch (sorry…)**

Chapter 3: Friend making, enemy breaking.

Emily

Lyric and Percy we're arguing.

Again.

It was after Capture the Flag and the Ares team had won because they had Jason and he retrieved the flag. I wasn't to upset about that, but Lyric and Percy were.

"You had one fucking job! Can you not do anything?" Percy yelled at her.

"You had one job too. And that was to guard the fucking flag. Where the fuck, were you?" She yelled back. The ground began to shake.

"I was trying to help you!"

"I can handle myself!" The waves in the lake crashed violently.

"You don't know how to fight!"

"You don't know what I can do!" Water began to swarm around them.

"How does it feel to be a mistake?" Percy grumbled.

"Everyone here is a mistake. How does it feel to know dad lied about loving your mom?"

"He does love my mom."

"Yea? Because it sure didn't take him long to find my mom."

"Well, you mom's a slut." Lyric had one of her knives at his throat, he had riptide at her throat. By that time there was a full-blown hurricane everyone had retreated to their cabin and the only ones still out there was Jason and I.

"EM!" he shouted. I turned and he tackled me to the ground as a tree snapped and almost landed on me. We rolled around on the grass and I ended up on top of him. My blush turned a dark crimson.

"Don't talk about my mom!" Lyric shouted over the wind.

"BOTH OF YOU STOP!" Chiron said in a tone I never head him use. In that second the storm stopped cold but they didn't moved their blades from the other's neck and their vicious green eyes didn't leave the other one's. "My office. The both of you. Now!" Chiron called. Lyric moved her knife and went to follow Chiron. Percy followed closely after her.

Jason and I sat huddled together under a tree, his arms possessively around me. "You ok?" he asked me.

"Yea, I'm fine. Shaken a little but fine." I said. He didn't make an attempt to move so I didn't either. "I didn't even know Lyric could do anything like that. That was fucking awesome. Why can't I do anything like that?" I joked; Jason gave a low chuckle and moved to brush a piece of hair out my eyes.

Shit.

He looked me in the eye. Hazel meeting his Electric blue ones, I wanted to squirm under his gaze. But I didn't. His hand moved under my chin.

Shit.

Is he going to kiss me? His eyes were closed and he was moving closer. Holy shit, he is going to kiss me! I've never kissed anyone! Do I turn my head? Do I push my lips out? Where the fuck do my hands go? Shit! Shit! Shit!

"Jason?" I heard a girl say. He jumped away from me.

"Hey Pipes." He said with a forced smile.

Shit…

Lyric

"In all my years I've never seen so many people put in danger." Chiron said. "Over something so stupid. You should be ashamed of yourself."

"I am, sir." Percy said I scoffed.

"Do you have something to say, Lyric?"

"Not really. I didn't really do anything."

"You guys almost destroyed the camp." Chiron said pointedly.

"Out of defense for me, Percy started it. And I don't let anyone walk over me."

"Chiron, you're wasting your time trying to talk to her. She cant even sit in a chair right." He said. I had my legs over the arm of the chair facing him and I had my back against the other arm.

"I'm sitting like this so I can kick you in the face if you say the wrong thing."

"I'd like to see you try."

"Careful what you wish for, Percy Jackass."

"I could say the same to you, Lyric Panwhore."

"You're a dick"

"You would know—"

"ENOUGH! I'm sorry but because you put the camp endanger your on probation. Your not allowed to go anywhere around camp or outside of camp unless the other one is with you, Understood?"

"WHAT?!" We shouted at the same time. "Chiron, I don't know about Percy but I have a life and he can't handle it."

"Hey!"

"It's the truth."

"I'm sorry that's how it's got to be. Also, you will spend the majority of the day in your cabin."

"Doing what?"

"Get to know each other. Teach her how to fight with a sword. Teach him how to play guitar, I don't care what you do but by the weeks end I expect you two to have an understanding of each other. Am I clear?" We nodded "You're dismissed."

Percy

I woke up because I couldn't breathe.

It took me a while to realize Lyric was holding my nose.

"What the fuck, are you doing?" I hissed.

"Wow, good morning to you to." She said sarcastically. "Get dressed."

"Where are we going?"

"Your always asking where I go in the middle of the night. I'm gonna show you." She said. "Come on."

We walked to the camp entrance were Lyric nodded at Argus and he let her through. He must've known where she was going. We walked for what seem like an hour. Until she said "You know how to ride bareback?"

"What?"

She pointed across the hill and there was a bunch of horses. Some were grazing while others were just running around as fast as they could.

"We can't just ride wild horses! We'll get hurt!" I said. Lyric snorted.

"You'll get hurt. I've been doing this since I was 7. Look, it's like riding a bike and besides, you're a child of Poseidon. They wont hurt you." She said, it didn't reassure me. "Here comes one." She took off her shoes. "Watch and learn, Jackson."

With that she was off. Running after one of the horses like a track star. She ran until she was close enough to it then she grabbed onto its mane and jumped, swinging her legs over its body. The horse kept running and she leaned forward holding it's mane tightly. She swerved and it slowed down and stopped next to me. She hopped off.

"This is Jennifer." The horse whined "Jen. I'm sorry geez. Anyway, she's agreed to help you learn how to ride. I must warn you, she's a little rude."

Lyric wasn't kidding, Jen was ruthless. She would yell things like I've met rocks that can run faster than you! and You're the legendary son of Poseidon? Ha! More like the legendary son of Pansies! Run faster! Lyric stood there and laughed at the exchange though eventually I got the hang of it and managed to run and catch a horse. Lyric clapped wildly for me.

"Good job! I thought you were going to die but you didn't!" she screamed.

"Yea, that was actually a lot of fun. The rush is amazing!" I lied down on the field. "Why do you come out here anyway?"

She laid down next to me in the opposite direction though our heads were next to each other. "I think better on horseback I guess. I don't really know."

"I'm jealous of you." I said. She turned and raised an eyebrow. "You've been here 2 weeks people already love you, it took me 3 years to get everyone to trust me and you done it in a week. And worst of all, dad kept you safe after all these years so you wouldn't become a child of the prophecy, that kind of sucked because he didn't do it for me, you know?"

Lyric sighed. "Maybe he did that because he knew I wasn't strong enough." She said. "I don't like when people don't I'm strong because I am but leading an army and defeating a titan and Gaea. I know I can't do that." She said "And as people trusting me and liking me. Well, I don't know why that is, mom said I always had one of those faces that said 'tell me all your secrets'." She laughed.

"The Apollo kids liked me when they found out I can sing, Ares when I took down Clarisse, Hermes when I pranked Mr. D, which you can't prove, and Kill a spider in the Athena cabin and you're a freaking god to them." I had to laugh at that. "As for the Hephaestus cabin, Em has always been my best friend and she's pretty close to everyone in there, so is Leo. And Leo—Leo's just amazing." I turned to look at her and noticed she was blushing.

"You like Leo." I said pointedly.

"What?! No!"

"How long have you liked him?"

"Geez, what're we going sit here and gossip about boys? Who are you, Em?" she said, frustrated. "We should head back." With that she got up and sped away. I had to run to catch up with her.

Emily

Twack! Thwock! Thwack! Were the sounds Lyric's knives made as they hit each target.

"Wow, your getting good." I said.

"Thanks! It's nice to have a place to put my aggression. You know, besides Percy."

"And how are you guys? Your not trying to kill each other anymore which is good." I laughed.

"Well, he's not a total asshole." She said. "Say, aren't you going to practice? Didn't you make yourself a sword?"

"I did but I don't really know how to use it. And I really don't want to sit in a class full of 12 year olds."

"You could always ask Jason for help. He seems pretty good at it." She said, pointing across the arena. There was Jason all right. He was sparring with Percy, only wearing a tank top. Golden hair drenched in sweat. He seemed to be laughing at something Percy said. To make matters worse, he lifted his shirt to wipe his forehead. Giving a perfect view of his torso—

"OW!" I said, when Lyric hit me with the hilt of her knife. "What was that for?"

"I've been calling you for 5 minutes. I get that you think he's hot, but blink once and a while." She laughed. "You should ask him, I'm sure he'll give you some private lessons."

"Something tells me your implying more than your saying."

"That's because I am, sweetheart." She laughed. "Come on Perce, I want to go to the lake."

Percy walked toward Lyric. "Race ya?" he said.

"You're on! Loser cleans before inspections?"

"Deal. On your mark."

"Get set." Lyric said, she looked at Percy and Pushed him over. "GO!" She yelled over her shoulder.

"Your such a cheater." He said running after her.

I was about to go catch up with them when I heard someone call me.

"Emily?" I spun around, only to see, the girl whose name I think is Piper. "You are Emily, right?"

I sighed. "In the flesh." I gave one of my legendary I-don't-know-you-so-I-don't-trust-you-but-I'll-smi le-anyway smiles.

"I'm Piper." She said holding out her hand, which I shook. "So, you and Jason are close, right?"

"I'd like to think so." I said. "He's my friend."

"Uh-huh." She said. "As long as you remember your place." She said, beginning to walk away.

"I'm sorry what?"

She stopped and looked at me. "Well, Jason can have any girl here and at Camp Jupiter. I mean, he had Reyna and she's Praetor and he had me and I'm a daughter of Aphrodite. Most say the most powerful. And then there's you, the daughter of a probably lowly mechanic who's greatest achievement was probably meeting your dad. And that's not even that great." She said. I tilted my head at her.

"My mother, is one of the top 5 greatest inventors in the world. Up there with Thomas Edison and Alexander Grand Bell. You, however are the daughter of self-centered actor, and let's just say the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Seeing as though I'm smart enough to rebuild that throne you think you sit so high and mighty on and turn it into something useful." I said, narrowing my eyes at her.

"Hey Em, Pipes. What's going on here?" Jason said, Partially standing in between Piper and me.

"We were just discussing how unworthy I am to be your friend. You're right Piper, I'll leave you two at once." I said.

With that I walked away.