A/N: I do not own PJO

The past few weeks have been the most boring of my life. It would've been faster but we kept having to land at random spots to fuel up, and stretch. We did nothing but sit inside of Maurice's magical board and talk. We talked about my wings, his powers, and just the quest in general. Otherwise, it was just watching park after park pass us.

We had started slowing down, and we decided we'd stop at the next city to get some more food and to stretch our legs. We began to descend into the city and as we went lower I asked if I could pilot us, and of course, Maurice let me. That's where all the trouble began.

I grabbed the throttle and pushed up on it. The thing sped up by about 100 mph. I had grabbed the speed throttle but before I could slow us down, the speed pushed me to the back of the vehicle. Maurice was covered in boxes that had flown into him from the sudden speed boost. We were stunned for a few minutes and then Maurice finally found his way up to the front. He tried to pull the throttle back but, him being the unlucky kid he is, he ended up breaking the stick off. He stood there, stunned, as he tried to find a way to get us to stop. We figured it wouldn't harm us any if we kept going, so we just left it for a while.

After about an hour Maurice finally stood up like he had an idea. He placed his hands on the floor and focused his powers. His arms rippled as waves of electricity built up in his hands. They began to glow with a blue light, and they kept getting brighter. The air around us became stale-like, as if he had sucked all the oxygen from the room. His muscles pulsed as the electricity finished building in his hands. He took a deep breath in and when he blew out, electricity spread throughout the vehicle, (You know what, I'm just gonna call it plane from now on.), and it shuddered and came to a stop.

"Yes!" Maurice Fist pumped.

Then, randomly, the plane started up again, and hit a sudden speed burst. Outside of the window, scenes changed faster then I could blink. I tried to stand up but the plane was moving to fast and I couldn't get stable. I tried to yell to Maurice to use his powers and shut it down, but my voice was lost. I looked at Maurice and I saw him climbing his way to the entrance on top of the plane. He saw me and motioned for me to come with him.

It was a long struggle, but we finally made it to the entrance to the plane. I boosted him up first and he made sure he had a good handhold on the plane as he helped me up top. We hung on the board as Maurice reached for a button. The wind blew through my hair and blew it out of the ponytail that it was previously in. Maurice slammed his hand down on a button, which ended up being the wrong button. The board shuddered, and began to collapse. Within seconds, the board shrunk down into its original form, a small disc, the size of a DVD.

The air whipped at us and launched us away from each other. Maurice spun the air as he fell. As I was launched backwards through the air, I was spun and became disoriented. I reached behind me and slid my wings out of their slots. My wings opened in the air and immediately stopped my fall. I flapped them a couple of times to make sure I was steady and I began to search frantically for Maurice. I caught a glimpse of a figure launching down towards the earth, with flames shooting out behind it, so I launched myself towards it.

As I got closer, I saw Maurice shooting flames out of his hands, which were faced behind him. He looked as if he were trying to find a way for him to fly. As I watched, he dive-bombed towards the earth and the fire became bigger and heat lashed all around him. He shot downwards like a bullet from a gun. Only a couple of seconds later though, the fire sputtered out. I shot towards him and grabbed his arms.

"What the in the name of Hades were you thinking?" I yelled

"Well, I figured that maybe I could control the speed I was falling at, but it didn't work." Maurice responded.

I willed my wings to become bigger to accommodate the weight of both of us, and they did. We slowed in the air and came to a stop. Maurice reached in his pocket as I held on to his left arm. He pulled out another disc that looked exactly like the other, but only this one was red. He flipped a switch and the disc turned into a white, metal snowboard. Out of the bottom of the snowboard jutted two small engines that glowed with fire. The board floated in the air where it was deployed and Maurice stepped on to it. The board dropped a couple of inches but other than that, it held him up. Two slots opened up under his feet and locked them in place. He summoned a small amount of electricity in his right hand and began to steer his board. We looked at each other and both smirked.

"Race!" We both yelled in unison.

Maurice pulsed with electricity as his board took off like a jet. I shot up into the air and then dive bombed forward. As I dipped in the sky, I folded my wings against my back and put my arms into a diving style. I cut through the air as my body bombed towards the ground. I opened up my wings, and with incredible speed, shot through the air towards Maurice. He had gotten quite a lead but I was catching up to him fast. Right before I reached him, I felt a piercing pain through my wings. I began to fall as my wings crumbled to dust. Ahead of me, multiple arrows struck the engines on the bottom of Maurice's board. They shattered on contact. As I fell, I flipped over and saw and army of monsters.

Centaurs, Cyclops, Empousai, and dozens of Laistrygonians made up the army. A group of centaurs had bows drawn aiming up at us. The army stretched for what seemed like a mile and we were at the end of the lines. As I fell, I began to grow my wings back, but before they were fully developed, Maurice swooped down and pulled me up.

We went into action mode. Maurice pulled out his claymore and I pulled off my necklace. As I flipped the switch, something strange happened. It began to glow blue and instead of my normal composite bow, was a compound bow. It glowed with a navy blue light. I pulled back on the string and suddenly a lead arrow appeared. I took aim and fired it into the crowd of monsters. I chuckled silently. I felt my wings develop and I flipped off of the board and began flying over the army, shooting arrows at random.

Behind me, Maurice jumped off of the board and landed in the middle of a group of Cyclops. He began hacking and slashing away at monsters. Fire spouted from every direction coming off of his body and any monsters near him simply disintegrated. We had taken out a couple of lines from the army when in the distance; I heard a deep voice yell, 'Destroy the Romans'.

I flew up in the air just in time to see the army surge forward. I yelled, 'Let's Go!' to Maurice. He hopped in the air and threw his board and we took off towards the front of the army. As we got closer, we saw the monster army clash with an army of armored people. They had purple shirts on under their clothes. As they advanced, a kid who was flying through the air yelled, "FOR ROME!"

I turned towards Maurice and he looked as if he were thinking about something. I decided to let it go, and have some fun. I flew towards the army that yelled 'For Rome' and met the kid in the air while he was sending lightning at the monsters.

"Hey!" I yelled. He turned towards me, startled. He looked as if he was going to attack me. "I've come to help, that's all."

"Who are you?" He questioned. "I know everyone in the legion, yet I don't know you."

"I'm Daunte Hernandez, son of Anteros." I responded. I was just about to ask if they were from camp when Maurice zoomed past and pulled me away.

"He's a Roman demigod, Daunte." Maurice said.

He explained about the history of Rome and Greece and how the two groups aren't supposed to meet. He then told me about how when he was still in San Diego, the years between when he found out about his powers and when he came to New York, he attended Camp Jupiter, the Roman Camp Half-Blood. He pulled his wristband off of his left arm, and I noticed a tattoo. It was a series of lines with SPQR written on it. Over top of it was a hammer and anvil.

I was stunned. We flew towards the kid once more and I apologized on Maurice's behalf.

"Hello, Jason." Maurice said with a grin.

"Maurice?" Jason seemed stunned. "We thought you went MIA."

"Nah, my mother and I moved out to New York. I live with my cousin Daunte."

I was about to say something, when arrows started flying at us. Maurice threw up a shield of electricity that took care of the arrows. Jason stretched out his hands and an entire row of monsters was blown away by the wind. I was about to launch myself into the army, when Maurice threw me his wristband. It changed in the air to his two twin-blade Katzbalgers. I nodded thanks and flew into the army, swinging at centaurs and Cyclops left and right. I flew back into the air after taking out about six of them and rejoin Jason and Maurice who were taking turns throwing electricity into the monster army.