Well here's chapter 4…..there's 1 more chapter after this one and then the stories finished and I will keep the poll open a day or 2 after the story is finished, so VOTE!
I am so sorry guys...but no matter what I couldn't edit/update my story, but Special thanks to Oceangirl511 for putting how to update in her(looking for Percy) author's note!
Chapter 4: Memories Part II
Jason POV
Before breakfast was over Chiron made an announcement,
"Campers, you should all know that the Argo II was finished yesterday afternoon and that Jason, Leo, Piper, and Annabeth won't be the only people going on the quest, the cabin leaders, the Oracle, the Lord of the Wild, the Lieutenant of Artemis, and myself will be going, and while we are gone Malcom, Son of Athena, will be in charge of the camp until we get back. Everyone that is boarding the Argo II get your stuff we will be leaving in 5 minutes". Thalia and I ran to our cabin and grabbed our things. I looked around the cabin one last time since I wouldn't be back here for a while and headed out the door with Thalia on my heels. We meet up with Piper, Leo, Annabeth, Grover, Rachel, and Nico on the deck of the ship.
"Well seeing as we still need to finish our little story time I say we should meet in Annabeth's bunker", Grover stated. The ship was big enough for all of us to get a separate room and still have enough separate rooms for the other demigods coming back with us, girls had the west wing to themselves while the guys had the right wing. We all nodded and went our separate ways. I walked with Nico, Grover, and Nico back to our side of the ship, the whole entire walk was silent that was until we reached my bunker first.
"See you guys later", I said. They nodded and left and I walked in and set my stuff my bed and started to unpack.
5 minutes later I stood in front of Annabeth's door with Leo by my side. I knocked on the door and heard a muffled," Come in!" We opened the door to see Thalia, Rachel, Piper, and Annabeth…having a pillow fight!
"WHAT! You have a pillow fight and didn't bother to invite me! What kind of friends are you?" Leo yelped. Thalia just threw a pillow at him and even though he tried to dodge, it hit him square in the face! At that point Nico and Grover had came up and they saw the pillow hit him in the face. We all laughed at the expression on his face when he realized what happened.
"Ok, enough pillow fights, let's start from where we left off in the story." Annabeth said as we walked into her bunker, I was surprised she was handling this well; I thought she would have cried by now, but she looked better than she did at Camp Half-Blood.
"Ok, but first who is Bianca…..Thalia mentioned her at the beginning of the story?" I asked.
They all looked at Nico and he nodded his head and said, "If they want to know about Percy, then we have to tell them about Bianca too."
They looked uncertain, but nodded at Thalia to continue,
"Bianca was Nico's older sister, when we saved her and Nico Annabeth got captured, and Bianca became a Hunter. The Hunters went to Camp Half-Blood with us and the Oracle, the one before Rachel, gave us a prophecy:
Five shall go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall he lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan's curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent's hand.
The people that went on the quest were Bianca, Zoë Nightshade, the lieutenant before me, Grover, and me. Percy stole away on the quest, good thing to or we would have died if he hadn't warned us about the skeleton warriors, but before he did Nico made him promise to keep Bianca safe and he agreed, when we reach the junkyard of the gods Bianca sacrificed herself to save us. We weren't supposed to take anything but Bianca took something for Nico. We would have made it out if it wasn't for Talos, one of Hephaestus's creations, coming to life. Percy saw a maintenance hole at the bottom of his foot and told Bianca and she got inside it and disabled it, but before she could get out it fell on power line. We searched the whole thing, but couldn't find her.", Thalia stopped for a moment, and Nico looked close to tears as did everyone else.
"We finally gave up searching, and we made our way to the Hoover Dam where the skeleton warriors found us and according to Rachel that's where she met Percy. We made our way to San Francisco Percy's friend the Ophiotaurus caught up with us and we realized that, it was the beast that had the power to bring Olympus down, we couldn't leave it, but we couldn't stay so Grover stayed with it since he could understand it. After some help from Mr.D, and Annabeth's dad we made our way to The Garden of the Hesperides. Zoë got us around Landon, the dragon, but she got scraped by his claws we tried to help her but she shook it off. When we got to Mt. Othrys we found Artemis, but we were lead into, Percy took the weight of the sky from Artemis and they trapped Atlas back under there but not before he severely injured Zoë. Atlas killed Zoë, the prophecy line: And one shall perish by a parent's hand, meant that Zoë would get killed by her father, Atlas. She knew what that line of the prophecy meant and she still went on the quest. After some amazing flying and shooting, with celestial bronze bullets, by Annabeth's dad, we escaped. When we got back to Olympus I was made the Lieutenant of the Hunters." Thalia finished.
"When they got back to camp nobody would look me in the eyes, so I went to the Big House looking for Bianca. But, I didn't find her, Percy took me on a walk and told me that she died, I didn't handle the news well. You guys know that crack in the dining pavilion floor?", Nico asked us.
We nodded, so he continued, "I made that crack after I found out, and I thought Percy was trying to kill me and I ran away."
"Yeah, and we looked everywhere for him, and when we finally stopped looking Percy figured out he was a Son of Hades. We deiced to keep it to ourselves though. I guess I'll tell you guys about the first half of our 4th quest and Rachel can tell the second half", Annabeth spoke for the first time since the story started. Rachel nodded and Annabeth began the story.
Five minutes later, the story was over and Leo said," Tell us about the Titan War".
Annabeth nodded and said," Nico will have to tell you guys about Percy's trip to the Styx,". Leo, Piper , and me stared at her, I couldn't believe that he took a dip in the River of Styx.
Everyone laughed at our expressions, and Annabeth began the story," I think the Titan War actually started when Percy and Benkendorf went on a mission to blow up the Princess Andromeda…". When the story was over I looked at Piper and Leo they all looked shocked and sad, the same as me, even though I know that I've been in a war I still don't remember it and hearing their part of the war made me remember part of the war on Mt. Othrys. I mostly remembered one-on-one fights, and me and my friends toppling Kronos' throne. I got knocked out of my thoughts when I heard the dinner bell, we got up and Thalia told us to meet on the sky deck after dinner she wanted to show us something.
On the sky deck you could see the stars very clearly.
" What I wanted to show you is up in the stars, do you see a constellation that looks like a girl with a bow running across the sky?," Thalia asked.
"Yeah, I do." Piper stated
"Good, that is Zoë Nightshade, Artemis made her a constellation when she died." Thalia said. Piper stared at it in amazement.
Abruptly, Annabeth called out," Hey Valdez, I don't think anybody told you who really restarted Festus!".
"You know, Annabeth your right(like always)…..OW", he yelled as Annabeth punched him in the gut.
"Anyways, who did restart Festus?", Piper asked.
"You're looking at them", Annabeth replied. Leo looked at her like this was his first time seeing her.
"No way, you have to tell me about it," Leo said.
"Okay, it all started when we were playing Capture the Flag, it was before the Titan War ," Annabeth started as Leo, Piper, Thalia, Nico, Rachel, Grover and I sat down around her, " Me and Silena Beauregard, head of Aphrodite, were spying on Percy and Benkendorf when they found his head which was being pulled by Myrmekes and Benkendorf got taken captive. Percy, Silena, and me took Festus's head and searched through the woods until we came to a crater with the dragon's neck sticking out. I finally got Festus's head connected to his body and Percy, Silena, and I led him to the Myrmekes lair. While Festus distracted the Myrmekes we got Benkendorf out of there. We were going to leave Festus, but Silena convinced us otherwise and we got Festus to go after us but he was trying to kill us so Benkendorf created a plan and he disabled Festus. Ohhh….. And me and Silena won Capture the Flag!", Annabeth finished. Leo looked impressed, Piper looked shocked, everyone else looked like they've heard the story before (which they probably have),and I'm pretty sure that my face looked like a cross between Leo and Piper's.
"So, anyone want to hear the story about Thalia, Percy, and me going to the Underworld for my step-mother's evil reasons?", Nico asked. We all laughed at his randomness and told him to continue.
"Well, one minute I was in a New Orleans graveyard and the next I was standing next to Percy, Thalia, and Mrs. O'Leary, Percy's pet hellhound. Then, all of a sudden the ground started rumbling and it gave away. Few seconds later we were standing in my step-mother's, Persephone, garden in the Underworld. She sat us down and told us that Hades' sword was missing and that no one knew that he was forging a sword, so we had to find the thief and get the sword back to him showing that Thalia and Percy trust him so that Zeus and Poseidon won't protest to Hades having a new weapon. But, Thalia and Percy weren't going to do it but I told them it's better than having it in Kronos' hands so they agreed. Persephone gave us flower to guide us to the thief, and every time a petal fell off the thief got closer to escaping. The first place we went was to Sisyphus, then we had to go to Melione's cave, but we ran into some Keres and Percy got injured. We escaped, but before we could get to Melione's cave we had to cross the River of Lethe. We couldn't figure out what to do, but thankfully Percy was a Son of Poseidon, he lifted the water into an arch big enough for Thalia and me to get through. But, when it was his turn he made it half-way before he collapsed, and the river crashed down on him, we thought he was gone, but he surprised us when he crawled out of the river and passed out," Nico paused to take a breath. I already knew that Percy went to the River of Lethe, Annabeth told me so, but I didn't know that he crawled out of the river.
"When he woke up, we walked the rest of the way to Melione's cave. We found the thief, it was Ethan Nakamura, and he had Iapetus the Titan with him. Ethan wanted to flee, but Iapetus was to stupid do what Ethan said. Percy fought Iapetus and he sent both of them into the Lethe. Percy's memory was still intact, but Iapetus's memory was wiped. Ethan had enough sense to run before Thalia could impale an arrow in his foot. When we returned the sword to Hades we found out that Persephone tricked us into getting the sword back when Hades didn't even know that the sword existed. I stayed to watch over Iapetus and get closer to my father." Nico finished. They all looked at our faces and laughed.
"WOW, you guys have some crazy adventures when Percy's around. Do you have some pictures?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, we'll show them to you guys tomorrow. We I'm about to go to bed, so we meet here, again, around noon?" Annabeth asked.
"Yup, fine with me", Rachel stated. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. We all got up said goodnight and went back to our bunks.
Well that was my longest chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it…I'll be working on the last chapter of the story today or tomorrow *sob*. I'll try to have it up by Friday or the weekend. My updates might be slow during the week days since I like to start writing a chapter at night. I'm leaning towards making a sequel…..anyways REVIEW and tell me what you think and sorry if I got some the memories wrong!
