Chapter 6

Jason POV

As Jason walked out of the Big House his head was swimming. Not only had his sister come to camp stripped of her immortality and weakened, but now he had a demigod who had escaped back from the underworld held in Bunker 9 he and the rest of the 7 have been taking turns looking after.

Jason made his trek back into the woods and towards Zeus' Fist. The dense canopy the trees overhead allowed very little sunlight to get through. Even though Jason had been in the woods many times before, any crack of a twig made him jump. After a few minutes, Jason arrived at a clearing that was home to a big mound of rocks. Walking up to a rather large boulder at the base of Zeus' Fist, he pressed his hand on it and the boulder swung open like a door revealing the inside of Bunker 9.

The Bunker was scattered with worktables and benches, all of which were cluttered with blueprints, tools, and mechanisms the Hephaestus cabin had taken to building. The vast room was dimly lit, and in the back corner by many boxes containing equipment varying from Greek Fire to pistons the size of Jason's whole body sat Leo, Chiron (in centaur form), and a sandy haired guy who looked to be about 22. Other than the empty look in the guy's blue eyes and the scar running down his left cheek, he looked almost normal.

Jason walked over to join them. Standing between Chiron and Leo, he looked over to the sandy haired guy. "Luke," he said.

Luke looked up, unshaken, at Jason. "Jason," he said, his voice barely above a whisper.

Clenching his jaw, Jason kept his eyes on Luke's fidgeting fingers. "Can you tell us exactly how you got here?" he inquired. He knew the Luke's story, how he'd helped Kronos come to power. Even though he was aware he sacrificed himself in the end to stop the Titan Lord, Jason couldn't help but dislike the guy.

Luke looked up and narrowed his eyes. "I told you already," he said, looking straight at Jason. "One minute I was in Elysium, and the next I felt like I was being sucked into the darkness, and woke up back in my body." He paused and looked down, "I didn't even know where I was going, or where I was, but soon enough I found myself at Thalia's tree."

At the mention of his sister, Jason's hands clenched. He didn't like the fact that Luke was connected to her. "But how?" he pressed. "How do you get out of the underworld?"

Leo, who was fidgeting with a mechanical piece in his hands that looked remarkably like a sword hilt, spoke out. "He's like Echo. I met her right after I uh, bombed New Rome. Same story. She was an escaped soul. Her and Narcissus. Maybe the same thing happened to Skywalker here."

Luke groaned, as if Leo had called him that so many times he stopped trying to correct him. Chiron, however, turned to Leo. "There have been others who've returned from the underworld?"

Leo kept working, but answered, "Oh yeah. The Underworld got a little shaky with the whole Gaea rising ordeal and Thanatos being kept busy reclaiming the Doors of Death that many people escaped. Plus then there's Hazel, but that's a different story."

Chiron turned back to Luke then, clearly having heard enough from Leo. "Luke, can you tell us anything about when you first found yourself on the surface?"

Luke shifted, obviously uncomfortable with the question. "I uh…, all I remember is waking up confused, and barely remembering any of the time I spent in Elysium. It was like...like almost a dream...or a nightmare."

Jason sympathized at his words slightly. He too had had his fair share of fuzzy memories. Chiron took a step forward. "Well, as far as I can tell, it should be safe to say that Luke shouldn't be a problem to the rest of the camp. I will make the announcement at dinner tonight, and you can bring him in Jason."

Jason tried to hide his discomfort at the job, but before he could say anything, Chiron set off to gather the campers to the dining pavilion for dinner. "Dinner will be soon," he told Luke. "We should get you fixed up and head that way in a few minutes."

Sorry I know it's short, but I've got one more chapter in store for y'all today! Please review on what you think will happen!

As always credit goes to Rick and Rowling.