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It's my first update Thursday! Yay! This chapter is kind of...how do I put this...short and...angry, I guess. Lots of yelling. And cursing is implied.

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Chapter 10

Jason

Jason didn't need the sling. Or the splint, or anything that would make him look weak. He was strong. He was the leader, and he was going to be strong, shattered shoulder or not.

He walked up to the stables and decided to take the pig and get ready for testing.

He went and pressed his face against the glass window and saw that the stable was empty. He opened the door and realized that it had been unlocked.

"Leo," he hissed. He turned on his heel, closing the door and locking it behind him, just in case the stupid pig was playing a trick on him, and stalked off to Leo's room.

Of course he would have let him out. Maybe he didn't even take the pig to the stables, but let him out anyway. Jason thought angrily.

He kicked the door open and Leo jerked back from what he was working on, Jason was too angry to care, and he hissed, "How could you?"

"Jason, man, I don't know what you're talking about," Leo said. "But you could knock next time-"

Jason came so close to him and snarled, "Don't give me orders, you traitor! How could you let him go!"

"What?" Leo swallowed, trying to get away from him but he couldn't. "Look, man, I'm upset about what you're planning for LP, but I didn't-"

"Shut up," Jason hissed.

"What did I do?!" Leo squeaked.

"You. Let. That stupid pig. Out. Of. The. STABLE!" Jason yelled in Leo's face at the end, and backed away from him, frustrated and furious.

"What? No I didn't!" Leo protested. "I haven't been down there since I put him away! Hazel was down there for a minute, but-"

"Don't blame anyone but yourself for this, Leo," Jason said.

"I didn't do anything! I've been in here since I stashed him away in the stable because you wanted revenge!" Leo got out of his seat and walked up to Jason.

Jason turned around and glared at Leo. "This is about figuring out what these pigs are Leo. Not me, not you, not revenge, but the safety of your precious ship. So, if I were you, I wouldn't rub me wrong. Which one's more important to you, the ship or the pig?"

"You could have had any pig you wanted out of that sky!" Leo cried. "You could have any pig, but you picked LP because he hit you? That's like murdering a person for-"

"It's a freak'n pig Leo!" Jason shouted. "It's definitely not a person, and we're not even quite sure that it's even a real pig!"

"JUST SHUT UP AND STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" Leo hollered.

"Whoa," a voice said from the doorway.

Jason spun back around and Leo looked over at the door.

Hazel was standing there, looking at the door, which had accidently been torn off of its top hinge, and looked back over at the two of them. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but we have a serious problem."

"What?" Leo asked. Jason was too angry to trust himself to speak to Hazel without lashing out. What Leo said was still ringing in his mind: Hazel was down there for a minute, but-

"Nico is missing," Hazel said, and Jason was snapped back into the situation.

"What?" Leo asked, running over to her.

Once they were close, Leo didn't really seem to know what to do, and Hazel seemed just as confused. He backed away awkwardly and Jason covered up the awkward silence by saying, "What do you mean he's 'missing'?"

"I mean he's literally not on the ship anymore. Did you see him during the pig fight? Did you see him afterward? Were you guys even thinking about him?" Hazel accused nervously.

"I didn't," Jason confessed, not in the mood to sugar coat the situation any longer.

"Just because you two have some stupid rivalry doesn't mean that you can just ignore it when he's missing!" Hazel shouted.

"I'm not ignoring anything! How do you even know if he's not here, if the only thing you're going by is where he wasn't?!" Jason shouted back.

"You're awful, Jason Grace!" Hazel shouted and stalked out of the room, away from both of them.

"Second time today, huh, buddy?" Leo asked, saying "buddy" with obvious sarcasm.

"Second what?" Jason snarled, daring him to come after him.

"Second time you've wrongly accused someone and make them hate you!" Leo replied.

Leo stepped back in his room, and whispered, "Leave. Now."

Jason ran out of the room, his shoulder throbbing, and slammed himself in his room.

He kicked his bed frame, cursed, screamed, cursed some more, and punched his wall. He almost blew the ship out of the sky with a lightning bolt, but he decided better of it and sunk down on his bed.

He didn't want to do nothing. He wanted to do something. He wanted to do something important.

Let's get on with this dissection, he thought bitterly and stood up.

He left his room and walked down the hall. He passed Leo, who was holding a new door hinge in his hand, and then he remembered why he was so pissed off at Leo, and remembered he couldn't do the dissection.

He kicked a wall and walked into the dining room. He sunk down in one of the chairs and thought.

"Okay," he muttered. "Leo is pissed at me, Hazel is pissed at me because she hasn't seen Nico in a while, and LP is missing."

Then, a thought dawned on him.

He sat back in his chair. "Wasn't Leo riding on the pigs? He didn't climb up there, though." Jason's eyes widened and he bolted from the room, running through the ship to Nico's.

It was empty, and Jason heart sunk. He finished his thought. "They took him."

Oh no, poor Nico! I wonder where he is! Maybe he is lost somewhere?

Oh, wait...I already know where he is! ;P! Teehee!

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