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XXV

Hazel

Things really began to suck after that. The demigod version of DEFCON 1, Recon Alpha (a.k.a shoot everything in sight) sounded as the mortals began unloading. Hazel screamed for everyone to duck and cover.

Seconds after she pushed herself flat against a shield, several massive BOOMs sounded and Hazel winced at the sound of a wood smashing and screams.

She ran up to Leo and shouted over the chaos, "Get us out of here now!"

He replied franticly, "Can't do it! Crete is blocking our north, and the mortals and the other enemies have us surrounded!"

"Who are the others?" Hazel asked.

Another explosion sounded nearby and Leo ducked as he screamed back, "I don't know!"

"Well then check!"

Just then, something slammed into the Argo II, rocking the ship dangerously sideways and throwing Hazel off her balance. She almost shouted for Percy to do something, then remembered he wasn't here as she fell into the water.

Coughing and sputtering, Hazel swam up to the surface. Fortunately, she wasn't wearing any armor.

She grabbed one of the ladders and hauled herself back up to the right side up, but dangerously rocking ship, soaking wet and her hair all over her face, blocking Hazel's vision.

As she hauled herself up to the deck, the demigod fleet returned fire to both sides in confusion with everything they had-ballistas, cannons, anti-air guns, rocket batteries, flak guns and pretty much everything pointy and dangerous.

"Leo!" Jason shouted from the other side of the ship. "Get me a visual on that other fleet!"

Hazel ducked as another cannonball flew overhead and in her cone of vision, she saw Leo jump over debris and start doing his thing at the helm.

The others stumbled on deck to find pure chaos happening. Hazel quickly explained the situation to them.

"Jason! Got a visual!" Leo shouted.

Everyone ran up the stairs and looked at the screen. The 2nd, unknown enemy navy firing on them looked like Ancient Greek as well, in a standard pincer formation. All the triremes were lightly armed with one scorpion ballista mounted at the head, and a human figure was on each of the 9 boats, loading it, while another aimed and fired it.

Standing on the helm of the one in the back was a massive human brute, clad head to toe in thick bronze armor. He had his hands behind his back, looking calmly forward, Napoleon Bonaparte style.

"Who is that?" Leo asked. He tapped the character, but a question mark came up next to it on the screen.

Nico frowned in concentration. "I remember this from one of the history lessons Annabeth once gave me. He's got something to do with Troy…" His eyes scrunched up.

He opened his mouth to speak just as another round of explosives hit the Argo II, and one landed not 10 feet away from where Hazel and the others were gathered, and she screamed as the shockwave sent her flying sideways overboard- again.

Hazel was really starting to hate getting chucked overboard.

More cannonballs and bolts splashed as demigods yelled and returned fire. The air began to fill with smoke from all the carnage.

Hazel climbed overboard just to see, on the outskirts of the formation, a trireme snap clean in half as another ballista bolt hit the ship, and people jumping overboard as it collapsed and sunk inwards.

All the other demigods were scattered throughout- Jason was stuck under rubble, Leo was pulling himself overboard and so on.

As she passed by the helm, Hazel heard a radio message being broadcast. "Mayday, mayday! This is Hellfire 2-1! We have multiple hull breaches and are gaining water! All ships in range, please assist, ple-"It was cut short by static, and in the distance, a massive fireball lit up the sky.

More ships fired.

The blood in Hazel's veins iced as she realized the voice was Nyssa's. Their ship was a forward scout about a 1 mile ahead of the main column, and although the alarm to withdraw into close battle formations had sounded, she couldn't tell if the ship had made it back to be saved.

"Leo!" Hazel called franticly.

Leo was lying on the deck, breathing heavily, but with no injuries. "Leo!"

"Yeah?" He muttered quietly as he opened his eyes. Hazel kicked him. "Ow!" He protested.

"Get up!" Hazel hissed at him. He grumbled, but stood up and jogged over to the helm.

Another ship groaned in the distance as a second message began relaying through the intercom. "Hellooo, young demigods. I'd hate to kill your friends so painfully. Unfortunately, you have something I… require. So unless you want me to send all you all to an early grave, you will cease fire. I've… dealt with the mortals temporarily. You might want to hurry too before they begin shooting again."

Jason had heard it too, and instantly, he was on the radio, yelling at everyone, "Cease fire! Cease fire and count causalities! I repeat, cease fire!"

He seemed pretty desperate. "Jason!" Hazel interrupted. "Don't you think it's a bit rash, what you're doing?"

He turned to face her and sighed. "I know, but… I don't want my friends to be hurt anymore."

Slowly, everything quieted down as the demigod ships stopped launching missiles and began to reorganize. There were several ships that were destroyed, but Hazel could see bodies treading water. At least they weren't dead.

"Leo, get us over to that guy's ship," Jason said.

"Aye, Aye, Captain Grace," Leo saluted sarcastically and began shaking his Wii remote (What is a Wii, anyway?), raising the sails.

The heavy-armor dude's fleet wasn't too far away, and with the Argo II's engines, they had covered 5 miles in 1 and a half minutes. Again, Hazel had to respect modern technology.

As the Argo II neared the pincer formation, she realized they were pretty vulnerable, with no support (Jason had told the others not to follow). Fortunately, the enemy's weapons didn't seem to be armed.

The ship docked next to the lead ship. The big dude in armor was waiting for them, flanked on either side by ghostly people dressed as ancient sailors carrying compasses (did they have them during the Ancient Greek time?), holographic swords and Rubix Cubes. Hazel didn't know why they had the last.

"Welcome, welcome!" The guy said, like Effie Trinket in that Hunger Games movie introducing them to the Capitol. "My name is Ajax! You may call me Awesome Super Soldier, or ASS!"

Ajax did not know how to create names. Now that he was close, Hazel could make out his facial features- Sea-green eyes like Percy and messy black hair that he had dyed blue messily.

Jason frowned. "Weren't you that guy from Troy?"

"Gah! Don't even remind me about Troy!" Ajax threw up his hands in exasperation. "After Achilles died and the war ended, I didn't even get his armor! I was the King's greatest soldier. And who gets it instead? That puny, weak son of Athena, Odysseus!"

Hazel nudged Piper, who was next to her, and nodded.

Piper distracted the warrior, saying "Oh but Lord Ajax! Everyone talks about you!" She poured fake respect into her charmspeak.

He looked at her warily. "Reaaallly? What do they say?"

Frank piped up, "Um, they ahhh… They say you have a great, deep voice! And-and a um… a beautiful sword!" He stuttered, pointing at the gigantic blade strapped to ASS's back.

ASS-jax smiled. "Correct! Would you like to see some swordplay?" He jumped up and down like a young boy excited to get a balloon.

"Um, not right now, Lord Ajax," Piper quickly said. "We'd like to negotiate what you want."

"Ahh, yes. You see, my request is not just any ordinary one. I need… something special."

Maybe it was Hazel's imagination, but he looked at Piper.

"What may that be?" Piper questioned. She looked slightly panicked. Apparently, she also saw ASSjax look at her.

"Well, I deserve payment for fighting in the Trojan War, don't I? My King was murdered before he could pay me. Sad, as they say his gold was completely pure, untouched in any way."

Hazel began to put together what Ajax wanted.

"What may that be, Lord?" Piper asked, bowing slightly.

Ajax scratched his tiny stub of slightly darkened skin you could consider a beard. "Well," He mused. "I could just ask for a couple demigod sacrifices and let Mother Earth pay me, but she's too picky. I mean, how do you pick up 2 demigods in the depths of Tartarus?" He exclaimed.

With a jolt, Hazel realized he was talking about Percy and Annabeth. "No, I'll just leave this whole 'end of the world' thing alone and settle for something that once belonged to the whole reason of the war."

Oh no, here it comes.

"You see, what I'm threat- I mean, asking you for, is Helen's Looking Glass, Katoptris."

DUN DUN DUUUUN!

Quote of the chapter- The more you ignore an explosion, the cooler you look.

Song of the chapter- Youtube Rewind Style by Google ft PSY, Walk Off The Earth, Nigahiga, Smosh, CorridorDigital, FreddieW, and a bunch of other Youtube celebreties. (Very late I know but eh, I wrote this on 12/27/12, who knows when I'll post it)

Entertainment of the chapter- Natural Selection.