Chapter 9: Prophesies Jason's POV

So we had just arrived at camp and Luke and Leo were already claimed. According to the venti from earlier I'm a son of Jupiter. Sorry I mean son of Zeus. Piper was dragged off by some son of Athena while a girl that tries too hard too look good, took me to the big house, whatever that is.

So we neared a building and there were two people outside playing a card game. Sorry I mean person, as the other was half horse. I took a step forward and only the centaur noticed me. When he took one look at me he turned back to his game before stopping and slowly doing a double take.

"Great Scott! You should be dead!" He exclaimed rather rudely. Yes, I enjoy being told that I should be dead. Obviously!

"Err... What?" I rather intelligently said.

He looked down at my arm to see a tattoo that hadn't even noticed before. As soon as I saw it I felt the urge to run. I felt like I shouldn't be here.

The old horse said one thing when he saw the tattoo, "Oh."

The fat guy opposite him looked at me and also rather intelligently said, "Oh."

"Drew could you leave us please. We have to discuss something with him." The old horse told the girl who sauntered away, "Sit, we have much to discuss."

I pulled a chair from the side and sat down and began, "Look I have no idea who I am. According to the people I arrived at camp with, my name is Jason. I don't know about my last name."

"You have amnesia? That is going to make this even more problematic. I don't know what is going on but it looks like the work of the gods. They told us you were dead but perhaps not. Your last name is Grace, Jason Grace, I know that much. Your sister is actually in camp at the moment, Thalia Grace, and she is convinced that you were killed at a young age by Lady Hera. Do you happen to have any form of weapon on you at the moment? Oh and you can call me Chiron." He said and seemed to have more knowldge of my real past then I myself do.

I took out a coin flipped it to get a golden gladius sword. Chiron looked at it with a raised eyebrow. "Interesting, I haven't seen many weapons of this metal. It confirms that the gods are trying something though..."

I flipped the sword and it landed in my hand as coin which I stowed away in a pocket, "It was in my pocket since I woke up. The only other thing was a picture of my apparent girlfriend." I took that out but he didn't seem to care much. But as soon as he saw the picture he grabbed it and stared at it intently before showing it to the fat guy. They whispered to each other quietly and I could only pick out a couple words; leader, swap, dangerous.

"Uh, everything alright there? Can I have the photo back now?" I asked and he hande it back, not without reading the back first.

"That is all, you may leave. You'll be in the Zeus cabin and at campfire we shall determine what lochos you are to join." He explained and so I left to hunt down the Zeus cabin. I asked a camper where to go and very quickly found my way there.

I took a deep breath before stepping through the door to be greet by a goth girl with black hair and electric blue eyes gutting a dummy ruthlessly and violently with a spear.

"Um hello? Are you Thalia?" I asked cautiously, wondering how she will react to seeing her long lost brother.

She glared at me before spitting out the words, "Yeah! What do you want?"

I flinched an replied, "My name is Jason... I'm the new Zeus camper..."

Her eyes narrowed but then softened, "Jason Grace?" I nodded, and she charged forward and tackled me with a crushing hug.

"They told me you were dead. I missed you so much Jason." She sobbed into my shoulder before regaining her composure. She reached into her pocket and fished out a leather band out before handing it to me and I returned with a questioning look, "That's your new armory." she explained.

"Um, you expect me to kill someone with a small leather band." I looked at her as if she was stupid.

"No, dummy! Put it on and tug it." I complied, expecting nothing to happen but after a second or two a full set of Greek hoplite armor and weapons replaced my own clothes.

"Cool!" I examined it to see that it was fitted perfectly to me. Then I tugged the necklace again and it all dissapeared.

"If you imagine just one aspect of the set and tug it you will get only that item. If you run into any better swords then you can swap the xiphos out for it, as long as it is a one-hand or hand-and-a-half sword and you are comfortable with it's style. Usually the standard issue is the best option as they are perfectly balanced for the user but some people swap them for different styles. The spear is the same but you can't swap the standard for a different style, only a better one of the same doru spear style." She explained more in depth giving me an idea.

I took out the coin before turning it into a sword. This time I concentrated on only summoning the scabbard. When it appeared I sheathed the gladius. My hand was about to dismiss the scabbard when Thalia asked, "Can I see that sword?"

"Sure."

As the gladius was drawn she frowned a bit. She took the sword from me and examined it, "I have never seen this metal before. And it's called Ivlivs. It probably belonged to Julius Caesar himself which would explain it being of a Roman shape."

I took the sword back and dismissed it when she said, "Come it's dinner time and you need to tell me where you've been all this time!"

"Ah well. That's the thing. I lost my memory. Amnesiac, if you will." I said to her before she looked at me with a frown but not stopping her stride.

As all the food arrived at the table I was about to dig in but saw people getting up and scraping food into a fire. Offerings for the gods. I dropped the best slice of my steak in and half of my potatoes before going back to the Zeus table.

There were several tables. While all the gods had cabins, not all had tables. Down the middle were the tables for all the major gods while on either side were two long tables that could both easily fit a hundred people each. They were the tables of the first and second lochos. All the children of minor gods sat at them and a lot of the children of major gods opted to sit there too. Both of those tables were crowded with about seventy people each while the major gods tables had about eighty people; twenty of which were Artemis's hunters. Thalia ate with me for a while but then she wandered off to sit at the hunters' table.

Overall it was quite a lively place and had a total current population of about two hundred, not including the hunters, demigods. The gods have been active.

The Hermes cabin dragged me to their table saying that Hermes was the god of traveller and anyone could sit with them.

"This place is awesome, right Jase?" Luke exclaimed as I looked at a lone kid on the Poseidon table.

"Hey why don't you guys invite him over?" I questioned. All the Hermes table glanced at who I was talking about before turning back with distaste evident on their faces.

"Because he's and arrogant asshole who tries to usurp his brother's position as polemarchos. He thinks that just because Poseidon personally delivered him to camp, that he should be praised as a hero and be given the highest honors. He thought that we should overthrow his brother and place him on the pinnacle as polemarchos just because Poseidon delivered him. Poseidon even said it himself that he was just keeping him safe. That arrogant fool is nothing like his brother. His water powers are low, fighting is horrendous and plus his personality is rotten!" A guy called Travis explained.

Then his twin Connor said, "He thinks that now that Percy is missing, that he could just assume command over our army. Clarisse gave him a good beat-down but he still refuses to believe that no one gives a damn about him except from the five friends he has. One time he had his lackeys beat down and attempt to rape a hunter. Percy saw them and before they could do it he beat them up and saved the hunter. They got twenty hard lashes but refuse to back down. One of these days they are going to get themselves killed."

My hatred for that boy grew as they said each word. He really did look like a nasty piece of work and I just continued to eat.

At campfire we all sang along. I zoned out a bit at one point and failed to notice Chiron saying, "Can the new campers please step out here. That would be Luke, Leo, Piper and Jason!"

I just stared blankly until Luke flicked my ear making me look up at him standing. We made our way to the campfire and we stood there. Suddenly, as Piper stood there, her entire attir changed into a Greek dress, and magical perfume and makeup floated around her face and applied it where needed. A hologram of a dove was floating above her head. Aphrodite, goddess of love. She looked pissed about the transformation so we decided to keep quiet about it.

"These four need to join a lochos. Who will accept them?"

One half of the crowd looked at us distastefully while another half was happy.

A girl stood up from the smiling half, "I Clarisse La Rue, lochagos of the first lochos would be happy to accept them all, seeing as the other lochos doesn't want them."

"Very well, all four of them shall join the first lochos of the first mora of Olympus." Chiron annouced loudly before fishing out four metal tags with the number one on them and telling us to hang them on our necklaces as access keys to the first lochos training complex.

Suddenly a red-haired girl walked over to me and her eyes glowed green as smoke billowed from her mouth and encircled all four of us.

Then she began talking in a raspy voice,

"Child of Lightning, beware the earth,

The giants' revenge the octo shall birth,

The forge and dove shall break the cage,

And death unleash, through Hera's rage,

Lone lightning's thief shall find his way,

To where lost Neptune's son and standards lay."

The girl suddenly collapsed and everyone stared at the four of us in shock. I caught her before setting her down gently.

"What was that?" I wondered out loud.

"A prophecy for the four of you. Your going on a quest! You leave at noon tommorow after your first basic weapons class. It sounds big, tied to the Great Prophecy even. I fear For what Percy shall have to do as he controls both storm and fire..." Chiron said and sounded worried. I wonder just how important this Percy guy will be.

"What is the Great Prophecy?" Leo asked.

The girl spoke up again but sounded normal now,

"Seven half-bloods shall answer the call.

To storm or fire, the world must fall.

An oath to keep with a final breath,

And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death."

Recognition flared through my mind but I had no idea why. "To storm or fire the world must fall... That doesn't sound good but how does that affect this guy Percy?" I asked

"Because he controls both fire and storms. It probably won't be a good thing if the world ends. We'll see though..." Chiron said with a faraway look.

"Controls fire? Like this?" Leo's hand suddenly caught on fire before he extinguished it at will.

"Well yes but his fire is hotter as he is pure of heart and soul. In fact his soul is so pure that his fire burns blue which is the purest flame color an everyone knows that blue flames are hotter than orange, yellow or red." States Chiron half proudly but also half worried.