IV
HI! sorry it's been so long but my laptop died, but no fears I have a new one now, it took like 4 months of saving and buying nothing but I did it :D For your patients how about I uploads 2 chapters :o I know I do spoil you so.
"Please." Frank said as Percy and Annabeth made their way into the growing circle, which was now made of 11 people if you counted Ella. "Tell me that's your girlfriend otherwise you have a lot of explaining to do." Percy rolled his eyes and tugged the blonde closer to him.
"Yes Frank this is Annabeth, Annabeth this is Frank Zhang, son of Mars and my Great times a hundred nephew...I think, something like that anyway." Percy shrugged.
"Brother!" Tyson said revealing his gapped toothed grin.
"Yeah I think we agreed that was easier." Frank nodded in approval. "Great to meet you." He held out a hand which Annabeth shook, it was strange, before the quest he'd been so unsure of himself, a little shy, but now, after discovering his powers he felt so...well powerful.
"So he's a descended of Poseidon? Or Neptune?" She asked, looking back at Percy.
"Poseidon, he's a descendent of that Periclymenus guy, he can do this awesome shape shifty thing." Annabeth looked at him again, this time her intense grey eyes taking in every detail of him; as if she was planning how she could take him down in a fight if needed.
"If you're a son of Mars what's with the bow, back at camp the Ares kids won't go near them."
"It just always felt more comfortable." Frank said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"And he's brilliant with it." Hazel added from beside him, putting a hand on his shoulder in support. Where she brushed against his arm he felt a slight tingling on his skin, Frank was unsure of where they had left things between them, especially with the arrival of this Leo kid who she'd only just looked away from since he landed the ship. "I'm Hazel Levesque." She said after Annabeth's inquiring glance.
"Daughter of Pluto." Percy added, that was something Frank had noticed, the Greeks seemed to introduce their god parents when they introduced themselves, where as at Camp Jupiter it didn't really matter who your god parent was, unless they where Pluto of course, then it was all that seemed to matter. Annabeth shook her hand, then turned to face the remaining two Romans.
"I'm Reyna, praetor of the camp, we've met before." Annabeth frowned a little, a crease forming between her eyebrows.
"Yeah I remember...Circe's Island? You where the girl who helped us off the boat...no her name was Hylla."
"My sister." Reyna told her, "I was the one who helped to braid your hair, then you left us at the hands of the pirates. However as I have told your friend Percy it is all forgotten now."
"I'm glad to see some maturity, we really need both camps to be trusting of each other for this to work." Annabeth said looking over at Octavian.
"Annabeth this is Octavian, legacy of Apollo." Percy offered after there was a few moments of silence, Annabeth seemed a little taken back, like something about Octavian was bothering her. Now Frank hadn't known her all that long and the first time he'd met Octavian he had been scared too, but there was something about Annabeth that told him she definitely wasn't the type to be spooked easily. She offered out a hand which he didn't take, instead eyeing her and saying nothing. "He's not a fan of Greeks." Percy added.
"He looks..." Annabeth started.
"I know, but he's not." Percy said sternly, no one seemed to understand what they were talking about and looked around at each other in confusion.
"Not who?" Octavian asked in that stupid patronising way of his, something told Frank he already knew who Annabeth and Percy where talking about, he was augury after all, he was just teasing them.
"Not anyone." Annabeth said regaining her cold gaze as if she had just remembered where she was and who she was talking to. "So, what do you have against us?" Octavian thought for a few seconds.
"The Auguries have told me the future, I know how this will end for you, daughter of Athena."
"Mark of Athena burns through Rome. All roads lead to Rome, roads where invented by the peoples of Italy, Italy is part of Europe. The European union..."
"Thanks Ella." Percy said hushing her, Frank had heard that before, about the Mark of Athena, or was it a child of Athena, he really couldn't think right now. "Seriously Annabeth just leave him, he cuts up teddy bears, he killed my panda pillow pet." Annabeth smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Percy it was made of stuffing, it was never alive for him to kill." Octavian smiled at her.
"My point exactly, better a teddy than an animal, would you rather I sliced up your dog?"
"Octavian, please." Reyna rubbed a hand against her forehead, "Would you just drop the sour act ok? By the sounds of it we don't have much time left."
"No we don't." Jason spoke up, coming forwards. "We need to get to Greece as soon as possible, perhaps we should head to the...the..uhh..." He was struggling a little, he must still be suffering some of the memory loss Percy had.
"Senate house?" Octavian offered. "My my Jason, our memory is terrible." Frank could see Jason clench his fists, but the native American girl, with choppy, brown, plaited hair placed her hand into his to try and calm him down. Leo had mentioned her name earlier but for the life of him Frank could not remember what it was. Reyna looked at the two of them, and though she tried to hide it Frank could see any hope she had of a similar reunion to Percy and Annabeth was far gone by now.
"Yes that's a good idea." She said with a voice of authority, then turning towards the rest of the Romans, who were still in perfect formation. she called out to them, "BACK TO THE SENATE HOUSE TO DECIDE WETHER OR NOT WE SHALL SEND OUR HEROS OFF ON THIS QUEST!" She was met with some cheers and some mumbles of disapproval, Frank was sure half the camp had wanted another war, but after the last battle, it was a nice change to be talking of a peace treaty. It seemed stupid to him that there were two camps working towards the same goal, yet they were so separate. Whatever way you looked at it, the whole situation made no sense.
I don't really like this chapter :/ Next one is coming in a second! Oh and if you want to read this story faster I tend to update on my deviantart more frequently. On there I'm 'Lily-rose007potter' ik i was like 12 when i made the account and at the time obsessed with Harry Potter. *sigh*