A/N: hi, I'm back. Here's chapter ten, and it's probably the longest J.T. chapter I've ever written, so enjoy it while it lasts. Quick note to Saffron Drake, I can put Alexa in chapter twelve, when it goes back to the Romans, but could you change her godly parent please? Her being a daughter of Neptune could make things really complicated. I'll make her parent anyone else, except Jupiter. Thank you and thanks for reviewing.
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Chapter X
J.T.
While we'd been talking, I'd noticed that Juno had been shivering and rubbing her arms a lot. I was going to take off my jacket and give it to her but before I could, her eyes rolled into the back of her head, and she started glowing white. My heart sank. This was it. This was when she was going to die. Now that I think about it, she wasn't wearing silver armor, and we weren't in a forest, but demigods' minds don't think about that kind of stuff when they're panicking. And I was panicking!
I watched as Juno slowly rose into the sky. Okay, I thought. The whole "rising into the sky" thing was not in my vision. I stared, open-mouthed, at "Flying Juno", and suddenly realized that no one else had noticed this. I turned to Piper. She was still standing there awkwardly. All the other campers were still dancing, except for Jason who was drawing lightning bolts on the ground with a stick.
Next to him, Rachel was staring up at the sky and chanting some kind of weird spell that sounded like, "Hum dee chum tee ho lu to fu chum lee mali booga booga AAAAAAH!" Next to Rachel, Chiron had his hands folded like he was praying. I was about to go over to them and ask if they saw Juno too, but suddenly there was a blinding light, coming from…..Juno.
When the light subsided, Juno was wearing a long, flowy, blue dress with blinding white stars spread out over it. She had no shoes, but on her head was a gold crown topped with….peacock feathers. I glanced at Chiron. He was still praying. Rachel was still chanting her "tofu" spell. Jason had stopped drawing lightning bolts and was now staring up at the sky, his face pale.
I looked up. The stars seemed to spell something, but my dyslexic brain was too overwhelmed to make anything out. Suddenly, Jason walked over to me, looking like he'd seen a ghost. His nose was finally back to normal (care of yours truly), but he looked like he'd rather punch himself again than see what he'd just seen. I turned around. Piper was in the corner of the room laughing about something with her sisters, so I pointed up to Juno and said to Jason, "Do you see…?"
Jason nodded. He pointed at the stars. "Do you see…?" he asked me. I nodded. "Can't read it, but I know it says something." Jason nodded again (he and I didn't know each other very well, so these conversations were awkward). "It's Latin," Jason informed me, referring to the stars' weird message. "It means-"
But before Jason could tell me, Leo ran over to us (he must've gotten bored of his own dance) and exclaimed, "Hey guys! You see I got French tips?" When I looked at Leo, I gasped. He was wearing a pink top, a black miniskirt, and hot pink heels. He had pink lip gloss smeared across his face, blue-green eye shadow, and his hair was up in two buns over his head. When he showed us his nails, they were purple with white tips.
"Leo! What did the Aphrodite kids do to you?" Jason asked. I had a feeling this was what Piper and her siblings were talking about. Leo held out his hands, palms out, and said, "I don't know. I kinda fell asleep and when I woke up, I had this great manicure." Then, piper and six of her sisters ran up to us and said to Leo, "OMG! OMG! Don't you just love your new makeover?" "O! M! G! Yes!" Leo exclaimed. "Hey, do you guys have any lip gloss? I mean, I'm wearing some, but it is just such a tacky color, it does not go with my hair!" The Aphrodite girls burst into uncontrollable giggles.
Piper stepped forward (still laughing), said, "Come on, Miss Valdez," and dragged Leo away, the other girls following. "Wait!" Leo protested. "What about my lip gloss?" Shaking my head, I turned back to Jason. "So what do you think Rachel's doing over there?" Jason turned around and watched Rachel doing her "tofu" spell. Then he looked up at the sky, then at Juno, and then back at me and shrugged. "No idea."
Suddenly, the door burst open (for the third time that day) and three girls came in. One had fiery red hair (not unlike my own) and these bright neon green eyes that seemed to pierce you skin. If I had to describe her in one word, it'd be easy: gorgeous.
The next girl had super long dark hair with what seemed like grass braided in it, Hispanic skin, and eyes also neon green, but more intimidating. One word…..plant-like. The third girl was…..just….scary. Her gray eyes seemed to see everything inside and outside when she looked at you. She reminded me of Annabeth, except that you could get on Annabeth's good side. This girl didn't seem to have a good side.
One thing kinda ruined it, though. She was tiny. She looked about my age, maybe a little younger, but honestly, she was like four foot zero! The three girls were arguing about something that didn't make any sense. "How in the world did we get from California to New York in an hour?" Gorgeous girl was asking. "Stace, I told you! I got sidetracked," Scary girl was walking backwards toward the stage, the other girls moving in front of her.
"Don't call me Stace," Gorgeous girl commanded. "Sure, Stace," Scary girl joked, smirking. Plant girl interrupted before Scary and Gorgeous could start fighting. "Stacey, Ellie, a lot of people are staring at us." Scary girl, who I guess is Ellie, turned around and suddenly noticed all the other people in the room. When she looked up, she saw Juno and asked herself, "Did I miss something?"
A/N: Hope you liked it. R&R! Keep sending characters. No Neptune/Poseidon or Jupiter/Zeus please!
