After two days of being lazy and eating fruit, the first part of the army came over. It was the sandwings and the icewings, hundreds of them. Jason guessed that the queens went overboard on the fact that there was some dragon who thought that she could take over everything. For a while, the forest was buzzing with dragons, white, sand, rainbow, and black, all scattered around while talking to each other. Jason even spotted a group of nightwings talking in a friendly conversation with the icewings about some scroll. Jason never knew that dragons could be book geeks, but when he tried to join in, he found that he was wrong. He left because he didn't read the scroll and it was making no sense at all.
The next day, Clay arrived with the skywings and the mudwings and there weren't too many. Yes Jason had to agree, they had a lot of mudwings, but they were short on the skywing department. Clay said that queen Ruby didn't give him too much because her kingdom was in chaos and she didn't have a lot of extra forces, but at least they had some skywings.
Jason found a few skywings that seemed pretty cool. They all talked about fighting and some tricks you can do with claws. Piper eventually joined in and they began going over how to use a dagger and she even taught the skywings, Cloud, Sear, and Windbreaker how to stab. "This is the smartest rainwing I've ever met", commented Sear while Piper was teaching them about the capabilities of a dagger. "Thank you, I never knew I could teach dragons". Jason was the only one who got that joke, but the skywings still thought she was cool.
While they were waiting for the seawings, Percy taught sword fighting just to pass the time, but dragons learn quick. In no time, they had dragons dueling each other to get over their decisions. Luckily they didn't have real swords, just sticks, but the system seemed to go well. Most of the dragons were having a great time and they created new friends while fighting.
The rainwings were the hard part. Kiki, the ditzy Aphrodite kid from a rich family in Hawaii, she lived in Camp Half Blood and Chiron almost lost all patience with her during sword fighting. Imagine a whole ton of Kikis with scales and wings and there you go, you've got the rainwing military. They were distracted by everything and they didn't understand most of what Percy said, always out of order, upside down, or trying to sleep. Percy eventually passed them over to Jason and he wished he could just hand the rainwings back to Percy. There were always these stupid questions they would ask, even though Jason answered them four times already. Luckily some very nice sandwings came to help him and he was so thankful for that. Jason would teach the sandwings and the sandwings would translate Jason's teaching to ditzy rainwing and eventually the colorful dragons learned.
The next day, Jason woke up and thought of something very important. With all of these dragons working together, it would be hard to tell who was the enemy. Jason told glory about this problem and it came to her immediate concern. They looked for a solution, but there was not many options. Fortunately, Leo limped in. "Hello there, I was just standing behind the platform and I heard you needed help with a problem of identifying", Leo said, putting on a smug smile. "Yes do you have an idea"? Asked Jason. Glory gave him a look that said, "Jason, don't make him do something. He is too injured". Jason gave her a, "You haven't met my friend", look and Leo explained his plan.
After a few hours of being in a cave in the rainforest, guarded by some pretty nasty looking nightwings. Eventually he came out with tons of bronze pendants with cool looking symbols. They were round like a large coin and in the center was a sword that sprouted dragon wings at the hilt. "Leo, these are awesome"! "Here is what we do, each dragon in our army needs to wear one of these. It isn't silver so the dragons on our side won't be confused and it will be attached by these copper plated chains. Cool and comfortable", Leo agreed and helped out with everything.
Eventually dragons began making requests for magic weapons and armour. Leo was glad to help and even recruited some trainees to help him out with the big project. Most of them were mudwings and sandwings, but Jason spotted two nightwings, one skywing, and an icewing who was blasting ice breath on some of the blades so they had that cold touch to them. Soon the entire army was packed with dragons in copper colored armour and wielding magic weapons of all kinds. Leo was having a great time in his little workshop, making friends with the dragons there and pounding metal.
Jason finished his shift on the sword fighting classes and dicided to take a well earned break. He flew onto one of the platform and looked down at all of the dragons training, talking, and practicing for the battle. "This is so beautiful", squealed Sunny as she landed beside Jason. Starflight followed her and landed next to her with not as much grace. "I can't see the scene, but from what you described it sounds amazing". Jason gave Starflight a confused look, "You're blind"? The dragon's face became sad and Jason regretted saying a thing. "I-I mean that you are so good at the things you do, it doesn't seem logical that you would be blind. I know I could never fly or walk anywhere if I was blind, I'm not sure how demigods can survive when they are blind". Starflight turned to Jason and gave him a grateful look.
"Jason, May I ask you where you came from. I have never met a dragon like you or your friends in all of Pyrrhia". Jason gladly explained about both camps and the personalities of some of the people there. "Wow, they sound fun". "They are. All of them are great". "What is your favorite camp", asked Sunny. "My father is a Roman god, but I prefer the Greek camp. It is a lot more of find yourself than Camp Jupiter and plus, that is Piper's camp".
Glory called up Sunny and Starflight so Jason was left alone, watching the sun set on the horizon. Watching all of the dragons eat and he spotted something down on one of the platforms. It was Percy, the only seawing in the entire army so far and he was sulking on the platform. For the first time in history, he didn't seem to be eating which was a bad thing for Percy Jackson. Jason flew down to check out what was wrong and he landed next to Percy with a thump. "Hey Perce, you don't look so happy". Percy sighed and looked up at Jason with his sad green eyes, "Jason, I am worried about Annabeth". Poor Percy, Jason could see why he was sad. Everyone else had their girlfriend, boyfriend, or sibling at their side, but Percy was alone. Tyson wasn't dragged along for the trip and Annabeth was captured, that must have put more weight on his shoulder than there already was. "Don't worry Percy, Annabeth will be ok". Percy sniffed, and got to his feet, "I am going to go get some fruit, do you want to come"? Jason nodded and they both took off, with Percy in front and Jason trying not to get ahead on him. They flew a long way, to the edge of the rainforest where the mountain range separated the rainforest to a field beyond. Golden sunlight lit the sky with beautiful colors. Shreds of puffy clouds speckled the sky, the sun lighting the underside of them pink as they floated off into the beyond. Percy and Jason landed on a branch of a very tall tree and they both ate some fruit they picked a little while earlier. As they ate they began having a conversation that started with how pretty the sky is to how college was going for the both of them. "The teachers sure know how to get knowledge into my head, I wonder how they do that. I have never gotten better grades in my life". "Yeah they are amazing aren't they…" Before Jason could say any more, Percy held up a finger and focused on the mountain range. "What is it"? Jason whispered. "I thought I heard a roar, come on, we've better check this out".
The two demigods flew to the mountains and looked behind their hiding places on the peaks. Where there should have been a huge valley with absolutely nothing in it other than buffalo, there was a huge army camp that covered the entire thing. It was flooded with dragons of all kinds, all of them not supposed to be alive. "Woah", Jason gasped as he looked upon the giant groups of dragons, all types not going anywhere near each other. "This is bad", Percy exclaimed and then he saw something. "What is it Perce"?
Up on one of the tallest mountain, Jade mountain, Jason could see a sandy colored dragon chained to the top, guarded by two mudwings. Before they could make a decision, Percy took flight, flying out of sight of the dragons below. Without thought, Jason leaped off and flew after him.
Once they reached the top, they both suck behind a boulder and talked about what they would do. They both silently sneaked up to the mudwing guards and jumped and jumped on their backs. Before the dragons could roar the alarm, the boys clamped their jaws shut and ripped out the pieces of metal. When the bodies of the dragons disappeared, Percy bounded over to Annabeth to see if she was alright. Her eyes fluttered open weakly and widened when she saw Percy looking down at her. "Percy"? She said with her voice hoarse. "Oh Annabeth", Percy said softly and he wrapped his wings around her. It was a sight so beautiful that if it was made into a movie, it would make even Nico cry. "Here let me get you out of this", Percy uncapped Riptide and behind them, a new dragon roared. "There are two more demigods up here, quickly". Jason blasted the dragon with wind and ripped out the metal band around his neck. "Percy, you need to get out of here. Now", commanded Annabeth. "But Annabeth…" "You get out of here now Seaweed Brain. They say they will be attacking at dawn, you need to get out of here and warn the others". Before Percy could protest, Jason grabbed Percy by and took off towards the rainforest.