A/N (I recommend reading this): I'm going to MAKE THIS CLEAR. Just like I mention on my bio page about every other fanfiction I done: I DON'T OWN THE PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIAN SERIES OR IT'S CHARACTERS as the rights goes to Rick Rioran. Also I suggest you guys start paying attention to the Author notes and my warnings that I left on EVERY chapter of EVERY story.

Sorry if this chapter is too much like the book.

Due to the limited number of characters posted, I'm forced to post only the names of the characters telling their tales in this story. When I get to the House of Hades and Blood of Olympus, I'll list off the first four characters listed in the order they tell their tales. I'll post the pairings if the two of the four characters listed are a pair. Other than that, the Pairings stay the same for this story.

Jason x Piper
Percy x Annabeth
Frank x Hazel
Leo X Calypso

If you haven't figured it out, each of the members of the Prophecy of Seven practically has a position. Keep in mind in the original series Juno started this when she told Percy he was the glue that holds the group together, so I thought to give the rest a title. But no matter what title they have they still depend on each other. Titles will be added for some as the series continue

Jason: Leader of the Group and co-Pontifex (Priest)
Piper: Peacekeeper
Leo: Mechanic, Admiral, and Seventh Wheel (by Nemesis)
Percy: Glue that holds everyone together and co-Pontifex (Priest)
Hazel: Mist Manipulator
Frank: Muscles and Praetor
Annabeth: Battle Strategist and Consultant

Lastly I want to make clear that once 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus' is done I won't start immediately on 'The tales of...' version of the Trials of Apollo until that part of the Percy Jackson series is done. Just as I waited for the end of the Blood of Olympus to start 'The Tales of...' series. By waiting until that series ends, it might help me come up with something to add to it.

Warning: Certain ancient Greek names matches words use of foul language but no foul language was intentionally used. Also I dropped the '& the Olympians' in 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon & the Olympians' as well as replaced the '&' with ':' in the short stories of that part of the series. So if you haven't read them yet read before reading this story as stuff that happened in them will be mentioned:

The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Early Adventures
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Lightning Thief
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Sea of Monsters
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Titan's Curse
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Magical Labyrinth
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Stolen Chariot
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Sword of Hades
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Bronze Dragon
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: The Last Olympian
The Tales of the Son of Poseidon: the Staff of Hermes
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Quest for Buford
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Son of Neptune
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena
The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades

Lastly, any one who wants to do a Demigods and Olympian reads story using 'The Tales of the Son of Poseidon' is allowed as long as you inform me about it.

Full Summary of this chapter: With Reyna Calypso Nico and Hedge taking the Athena's Parthenos back to camp half-blood and the Argo II racing to Athens for the battle against the giants, its a race against time to save the world and both camps. The only problem is that Gaea is trying everything in her power to stop the one thing that could stop her plans and get the blood of a male and female demigod she needs to wake up. Told in the tales of Nico, Reyna, Piper, Leo, and Jason

Leo's POV Part VIII

Leo's POV Part VIII

At the end of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque:

ASCLEPIUS
MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH

There was more acronyms on the list, but at this point, my brain felt like it was going to explode.

Piper knocked. "Dr. Asclepius?"

The door flew open. The man inside had a kindly smile, crinkles around his eyes, short salt-and-pepper hair, and a well-trimmed beard. He wore a white lab coat over a business suit and a stethoscope around his neck. Basically Asclepius would of looked like your average doctor if it wasn't for the polished black staff with a live green Python coiled around it.

After the Hygeia experience, I was hoping we wouldn't have another snake encounter. Especially one that looks as alive as this one that was regarding me with pale yellow eyes like this one was doing.

"Hello," said Asclepius.

"Doctor." Piper gave him a warm smile. "We'd be so grateful for your help. We need the physician's cure."

I wasn't even Piper's target, but even I was affected by her charmspeak as I wanted to give her the physician's cure.

Asclepius put his hand over his heart. "Oh, my dear, I would be delighted to help. Come in! Come in!"

It was rather shocking that Asclepius agreed, but we didn't argue. Although I expected his office to be full of torture devices.

Instead, Asclepius' office looked like… well., a doctor's office: a big maple desk, bookshelves stuffed with medical books, and some of those plastic organ models I loved to play with as a kid, and often used to get into a lot of trouble.

Asclepius took the big comfy doctor's chair and laid his staff and serpent across his desk. "Please, sit!"

Jason and Piper took the two chairs on the patients' side, but I stayed standing. I didn't want to be anywhere near eyelevel with that python.

"So." Asclepius leaned back. "I can't tell you how nice it is to actually talk with patients. The last few thousand years, the paperwork has gotten out of control. Rush, rush, rush. Fill in forms. Deal with red tape. Not to mention the giant alabaster guardian who kills everyone in the waiting room. It takes all the fun out of medicine. I don't even know why they modeled it after my daughter. Hygeia is nothing like that. She's quite nice. At any rate, you did well reprograming the statue. You have a surgeon's hands."

Jason shuddered. "Please don't encourage Leo."

The doctor god chuckled. "Now, what seems to be the trouble?" He sat forward and peered at Jason. "Hmm… a groove cut from a celestial bronze bullet—that seemed to heal well. No cancer, no heart problems. Watch that mole on your left foot, but I'm sure it's benign."

Jason blanched. "How did you—"

"Oh, of course!" Asclepius said. "You're a bit nearsighted! Simple fix."

He opened his drawer, whipped out a prescription pad and an eyeglasses case. He scribbled something on the pad, then handed it and the glasses to Jason. "Keep the prescription for future reference, but these lenses should work. Try them on."

"Wait," I said. "Jason is nearsighted?"

Jason opened the case. "I—I have had a little trouble seeing stuff from a distance lately," he admitted. "I thought I was just tired." He tried on the glasses, which had thin frames of Imperial gold. "Wow. Yeah. That's better."

Piper smiled. "You do look very distinguished. You should keep them."

Jason nodded. "Thanks, uh, Dr. Asclepius, but these are not what we came for."

"No?" Asclepius steepled his fingers. "Well, let's see then…" He turned to Piper. "You seem fine, my dear. Broken arm when you were six. Fell off a horse?"

Piper's jaw dropped. "How could you possibly know that?"

"Well balance and strong body from surfing—that's good. Vegetarian diet—no problem, just make sure you're getting enough iron and protein. Hmm… a little weak on the left shoulder. I assume you got hit with something heavy about a month ago?"

"A sandbag in Rome," Piper said. "That's amazing."

"Alternate ice and hot pack if it bothers you," Asclepius advised. "And you…" He faced me.

"Oh, my… I see…" the doctor's expression turned grim as the friendly twinkle disappeared from his eyes. "Slim chance—very slim. I hope for the best for you."

My heart filled with cement when he said that as if my hope to survive the war sank.

"What?" Jason's new glasses flashed. "What's wrong with Leo?"

"Hey, doc." I shot him a drop it look. Hopefully they knew about patient confidentiality in Ancient Greece. "We came for the physician's cure. Apollo said you can help us with it. I got some Pylosian mint here, and a very nice yellow daisy picked by your dad on delos himself." I set the ingredients on the desk, carefully avoiding the snake's mouth.

"Wait a second!" Piper said. "What's wrong with Leo?"

Asclepius cleared his throat. "I… never mind. Forget I said something. So my father recommended me to you, huh? I hope he comes through this war all right. Zeus can be… quite unreasonable. Now, the only missing ingredient is the heartbeat of the chained god."

"I can summon it," Piper said. "I can summon the makai."

"Excellent. Just a moment, dear." He looked at his python. "Spike, are you ready?"

I stifled a laugh. "Your snake's name is Spike?"

Spike looked at him balefully. He hissed, revealing a crown of spikes around his neck like a basilisk's.

My laugh crawled back down my throat and died. "My bad," I said. "Of course your name is Spike."

"Don't mind Spike, he's just a little grumpy," Asclepius said. "People are always confusing my staff with the staff of Hermes which has two snakes, obviously. Over the centuries, people have called Hermes' staff the symbol of medicine, when of course it should be my staff. Spike feels slighted. George and Martha get all the attention. Anyway…"

Asclepius set the daisy and poison in front of Spike. "Pylosian mint—certainty of death. The curse of Delos—anchoring that which cannot be anchored. Now the final ingredient: the heartbeat of the chain god—chaos, violence, and fear of mortality." He turned to Piper. "My dear, you may release the makhai."

Piper closed her eyes. Wind swirls through the room. Angry voices wailed. I felt a strange desire to smack Spike with a hammer. I wanted to strangle the good doctor with my bare hands.

Then Spike unhinged his jaw and swallowed the angry wind. His neck ballooned as the spirits of battle went down his throat. He snapped up the daisy and the vial of Pylosian mint for desert.

"Won't the poison hurt him?" Jason asked.

"No, no," Asclepius said. "Wait and see."

A moment later, Spike belched a new vial—a stopper glass tube no bigger than my finger. Dark red liquid glowed inside.

"The physician's cure," Asclepius picked up the vial and turned it in the light. "You guys are lucky that Titan Bob fulfilled the prophecy about oath made with final breath, otherwise I probably be punished for this. Hades hates it when I raise people from the dead. That's why Zeus locked me up. But for the plan to work."

"Wait, Bob fulfilled that line?" I asked, "There won't be death."

"I didn't say that," Asclepius said. "There is still a chance of death and suffering, but this vial should help ensure that one of you will suffer, but there's a slim chance of that."

He looked at me as I said that.

"We understand," Piper promised. "Why don't you come with us Asclepius? Your guardian is out of commission, and you could be of help against the giants and on the Argo II."

Asclepius smiled. "The Argo… back when I was a demigod, I sailed on the original ship, you know Ah to be a carefree adventurer again! Alas, I rather not risk Zeus being angry with me once more, and I'm sure he will be angry with me when he finds out I gave you the physician's cure. As for now, You three should leave." Asclepius rose. "Best wishes, demigod. And if you see my father again, please… give him my regrets."

I don't know what that meant, but we decided to leave.

As we pass through the waiting room, the statue of Hygeia was sitting on a bench, pouring acid on her face and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" while her golden snake gnawed at her foot, which was peaceful enough to lift anyone's spirits.

…

Back on the Argo II, we gathered in the mess hall and filled in the rest of the crew. Jason and Piper were still not too happy about how Asclepius kept them in the dark about me.

"Well, we know that one of us will suffer and the other will die," Percy said. "We can help the one who will suffer. So we can save the vial for the one who will die."

"That's if what Nike told us is true," Jason pointed out.

I kept quiet, but I know that what Nike told us is true. I that was one of the first topics I talked to Nike about.

"We have to keep our options open," Piper suggested. "We need, like, a designated medic to carry the potion—somebody who can react quickly and heal whoever gets killed."

"Good idea, Beauty Queen," I lied. "I nominated you."

Piper blinked. "But… Annabeth is wiser. Hazel can shadow travel and move even faster on Arion. Frank can turn into animals—"

"But you've got heart." Annabeth squeezed her friend's hand. "Leo's right. When the time comes you'll know what to do."

"Yeah," Jason agreed. "I have a feeling you're the best choice, Pipes. You're going to be there with us at the end, whatever happens, storm or fire."

I picked up the vial from the middle of the table. "Is everyone in agreement?"

No one object.

I locked eyes with Hazel. You know what needs to happen.

I pull a chamois cloth from my tool belt and made a big show of wrapping up the physician's cure. Then I present the package to Piper.

"Okay, then," I said. "Athens tomorrow morning, gang. Be ready to fight some giants."

We broke up after dinner, and I narrowly dodge Jason and Piper to do some work in the engine room. Unfortunately I wasn't alone down there, as Buford the Wonder Table was there.

I took a deep breath and took out the actual vial of physician's cure from my tool belt. The vial I gave Piper was a trick-of the Mist with the help of Hazel.

Buford blew steam at me.

"Hey, man, I had to," I said.

Buford activated his holographic Hedge. "PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!"

"Look, it's got to be this way. Otherwise we'll all die."

Buford made a plaintive squeal, then clattered into the corner to sulk.

"Now I just have to hope that I can keep my promise to Calypso to return in one piece," I said. "And with the physician's cure, I tend to do so."

And with that said. I got to work on my final project with Festus, hoping that it will work."