A/N: Hello! I'm back again for chapter 13 (unlucky :/ ) and I hope you enjoy it! As usual, leave a review or a PM with questions comments, concerns, and constructive criticism.

Have a nice evening.

Chapter 13

(Percy POV)

After scaring Apollo, I decided it was time I payed my old friends a visit. I knew that Jason, Piper, Reyna, Nico, Leo, Frank, and Hazel were around here somewhere, it was just a matter of finding them.

I set to strolling around Olympus to see if I could spot someone.

After a few hours, I spotted what looked like Jason and Piper by a fountain.

I slowly walked behind them and tapped Jason on the shoulder. He whirled around and tried to punch whoever was behind him (aka me) but I dodged his blow.

"Uhh," Piper asked. "Who are you?"

I took off my hood.

Both of them gasped.

"Percy?" Jason asked.

"How did you get out of Tartarus?" Piper asked.

"The gods let me out. They want me to fight in the war."

"Oh. Well, do you know about . . . Annabeth?" Piper asked hesitantly.

I nodded. "I think I'm over it now."

"Well, uhh, it's been a long time," Jason said, before extending his arms as if wanting a hug, to whiich I complied.

"Long time no see," I said. Then I hugged Piper.

"Where's everyone else?" I asked.

"They're probably in the living quarters," Piper said.

"We can go right now," Jason said.

I nodded and followed them out of the plaza.

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Piper knocked on the building before pushing the wooden door open. "Hi guys," she called in. "Guess who showed up today?"

There were murmurs of confusion. I walked in.

The reaction was somewhat mixed.

"Wait."

"Percy?"

"You're back?"

"How?"

I held my hands up. "Hi! Nice to see you too," I joked. "As you can see, I'm back from Tartarus to fight in the war for Olympus."

There were sighs of relief.

"I'm glad you're on our side," Reyna said. I looked at her questionably. "I've seen how well you can fight. I know what you can do with a sword," she explained.

"With fire, water, and some knives, too," I added.

"Wait, you have fire powers too?" Leo asked.

I raised my hand and shot a ball of fire out the window.

Boom!

Everyone looked out to find a burning olive tree.

"Oops," I muttered before raising my hand and shooting a jet of water to put out the tree.

"No fair," Leo whined. "You have fire AND water powers!"

Everyone laughed. I chuckled and patted Leo on the head. Everyone laughed harder.

Leo grinned sheepishly. "Good to see you, man," he said.

Frank awkwardly hugged me as well. Hazel shook my hand, then went to stand by Frank.

Nico and I fist-bumped. "How's it going, death boy?" I teased him. He punched me in response, but I didn't flinch.

"Hey, when someone punches you you're supposed to say Ow!" he exclaimed. I chuckled again.

"What have you guys been doing while I've been gone?

"Well, we've been fighting Poseidon's army. They outnumber us by a lot, but we're going to be able to hold off the Empire State building," Jason put in. "Well, we hope that we'll be able to hold them off," he added with less enthusiasm.

Well, that doesn't sound like things are going well, I thought.

"Looks like I'll have to go and kill some monsters, then," I said.

However the mood was low and tension was high.

"Well, I guess I'll be going," I said, smiling. "It was nice seeing you guys."

Everyone waved goodbye.

"The enemy won't know what hit them," I added before lowering my hood and walking out of the building.

A/N: Wow, this chapter is short. Sorry, I still wasn't feeling too well and I wanted to get something out. I'll make the next one extra long.