Okay, so there is a little bit of Jiper (Jason and Piper) in this chapter. Then it gets kinda disgusting...:) I heard that Rick Riordan was making a new book for the Heroes of Olympus series called the Demigod Diaries. No, not the Demigod Files. The DEMIGOD DIARIES! It is going to have short stories like Thalia and Luke before they found Annabeth. It comes out in August! And there is gonna be a guide to the Kane Chronicles! It comes out a little bit before book 3 does! BTW, The cover and name of book three will be released this month! I'll post it when Riordan releases it!

I got so many books for Christmas! If you count the ones that I got for Christmas and what I bought with Christmas money, I got 17! YAY! I cannot wait to read them! Oh yeah, that app I get my info from is called, Greek Mythology by Brighthouse Labs! I got it on iTunes! I also love Greek Mythology Quizzle by Broken Thumbs Apps! And I finished the first two books in the Mediator series by Meg Cabot (Shadowland and Ninth Key). They were pretty good!

Quote of the day: If dance were any easier it would be called Football!

Book of the Day: Double Idenity by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This was one of the first books I read by this AWESOME author! I have read many of them, but my favorite is this one. My other favorites are Escape from Memory and The Missing Series! Perhaps I will review them in the future...:) This girl named Bethany is going to turn thirteen soon, and her parents are acting weird. Her dad never lets her out of his sight, and her mother won't stop crying. One day, they drive across many states to an aunt Bethany never knew she had. Her parents leave her there. The only clue she has is what her father was saying to her aunt Myrile: "She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth." Soon, Bethany gets a package in the mail from her dad, containing four birth certificates with her first name but four different last names, plus thousands of dollars. Everyone in the small town looks at her as if they have seen a ghost, and Bethany finds out that she is not the only one trying to find out the sercrets of her past. ***** 5 stars! I LOVED IT! I read it is two days, but I could probably read it is two hours now! It is a sci-fy/mystery!

Happy Reading!

Chapter 25

Piper

Piper was so happy that Jason was actually awake that she almost hugged him.

Almost.

See, she wasn't ready to go all lovey-dovey on him like her half brothers and sisters would. She was still kind of mad at him for… well, now that she thought of it, she didn't know why. It wasn't his fault that she thought that they had been dating. That was Hera's. So, he could date Reyna if he wanted to. But Leo had told her that Jason liked her more than Reyna, and she was hoping that Leo had told her the truth.

She hated herself. She felt like a snob. But she liked Jason so much, maybe even loved. He was always so nice, and patient, and hot, and a great kisser. Well, at least he was in her Mist memories.

She needed to talk.

So after Jason hobbled over to the chair and collapsed in it, Piper walked over toward him. Everyone saw this and walked away.

"I got to go feed Fawkes some cookies," said Leo.

"Percy, let's go… take inventory," mumbled Annabeth.

"Hazel, why don't I help you find a new sword?" asked Frank.

So when everyone was gone, Piper took a seat next to Jason in a lounge chair. The sun was just starting to set over the sky. The day had gone by so fast, and so much had happened.

Six days left until Eurymedon rose from the rubble of Rome.

"Hey you," said Jason quietly.

"Hey."

That was all either of them said for a while. Piper stared at Festus, positioned at the front of the ship.

"So why have you been avoiding me?" asked Jason.

This caught Piper off guard. "What do you mean?"

Jason laughed. "I mean that pretty much ever since we arrived at Camp Jupiter, you haven't said a word to me."

"Well…"

"Piper, are you like, jealous or something?"

Well, of course she was. But she didn't need to be reminded. She got a little ticked off.

"What's that supposed to mean?" she sort of sneered.

Jason shook his head. "No, I wasn't trying to sound like that or anything, but, um…"

Piper couldn't help herself. "Who wouldn't be jealous when they see they see their… friend making out with that witch of a girl!"

Piper was shocked at herself. She had just called Reyna a witch. She had stumbled on the word friend because she really wanted to put 'boy' in front of it.

"Piper," he sighed. "Reyna kissed me."

She knew that. But still, he hadn't, like, objected to it or anything.

He looked at Festus and then said, "Annabeth told me a story about him. Festus, I mean. Annabeth had put him together during a game of Capture the Flag a couple of years ago. He had gone haywire and tried to kill her. And Percy. And some people named Silena and Beckendorf."

"Silena was a daughter of Aphrodite," said Piper. "She was the head counselor before Drew. And Beckendorf was a son of Hephaestus. Head counselor, too. They both died in the war."

"Okay then. Well Percy was very brave and distracted Festus so that Beckendorf could shut him down. That's when Beckendorf asked Silena out. They only got to date for a little while before they died."

If this was supposed to be a happy story, Piper was still feeling pretty miserable. What was the point of him telling her all this?

"So while Silena and Beckendorf were having fun dating, Percy was hurt. Annabeth stayed with him. She said that she looked in his eyes, and that was when she was certain that she loved him."

Piper smiled. It was a sweet little love story.

"When I saw you attacking Dylan, I started to like you," said Jason with a small smile. Piper felt her heart do a flip inside her.

"When I heard about your father, being kidnapped and all, I was shocked. But I was mostly shocked when I realized how strong you were, still standing tall and helping us, when all you had to do was turn us in and get him back." He turned towards Piper and reached out for one of her hands. She placed hers in his. He gave it a little squeeze.

"I think that's when I started to love you," he whispered. He started leaning towards her, and she started leaning towards him. As they got closer, Piper whispered, "I think I love you too."

She could feel his breath on her lips when everything started to go wrong. They had been so close. To having their first real kiss. And boy, had she wanted it more than anything.

It started off with an evil cackle. Then everything started going in slow motion. Jason had pulled away from her and started looking everywhere, trying to find the source of the voice. Then, believe it or not, Jason started falling apart.

Piper was screaming, but it sounded far off and not hers. Jason's eyeballs squirmed out of his sockets and fell at Piper's feet. His arms detached themselves from his body, and as Piper shrieked, she was distantly thinking, Does Jason have Leprosy?

Finally, all of his major body parts were separated. Then he started deteriorating, His skin thinned and then changed into dust. Piper could see his organs and blood.

She vomited over the side of the ship. It was all so unreal. She pulled her head up and sneaked a look at Jason. But he wasn't there. And then she wasn't there.

She was in a cave with stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Candles were everywhere, giving off a little light. Enough for her to see the giant pit of swirling dirt outside of the cave. Right next to the giant ancient Roman building.

It was so big that she couldn't even see the far side of it. Some parts of the walls were falling off and beautiful, lush vegetation surrounded it. Piper was sure that it had been something back in the day.

The problem was that the custodians and gardeners should have noticed the giant pit. But the just walked around it as if I wasn't there.

Then Piper realized that they couldn't see her either. There was no way that a giant cave could be right in the middle of this city. It would have been turned into a souvenir shop by now.

"I present to you, the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine! Otherwise known as Basilica Nova! I give to you, the largest building in the ancient Roman Forum!"

Piper couldn't see the thing who had said that, but the voice had been so loud that it still vibrated inside of Piper's eardrums. Then she found out that the voice had come from the pit.

The pit that Eurymedon was rising out of.

"You will never get here in six days. I have more on my side. They are watching you this very moment."

"GO AWAY!" yelled Piper.

The giant laughed. "Why don't you?"

A wind seized Piper and she flew into the sky with Rome below her.

I was pretty happy with how this chapter turned out! Review it! Tell me what you think! Just so you know, I am SO team Jiper, not Jeyna! But I love Jeyna stories too! Like FlamePaws! That one is cool! I like Leyna stories, like Kimmie G914! Hers is awesome!

Ugh, does anyone do Accelerated Math? I HATE IT! I'd rather just take a math test that my teacher made! But it is good for extra-credit!:)