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
Reyna's POV Part X
Nico climbed back on board with two other demigods. One was a big burly African American dude with large hands. The other was a beautiful girl who was dressed like one of your most popular girls who can make orange t-shirt and jeans along with Greek Armor look beautiful.
Despite there tend to be some physical differences between Greek and roman demigods of the same Olympian (just different personas), I trained and fought alongside with children of Vulcan and Venus to realize the big guy was a son of Hephaestus and the girl was the daughter of Aphrodite.
But they weren't alone. A cyclopes wearing a swimming suit and flannel pajamas came out with a winged human with red feathers—a Harpy. I quickly recognize them as Tyson Jackson—Percy's adopted half-brother and the harpy Ella.
"Friends!" Tyson scooped up Hedge in one arm and me in another. "You made it! Horray!"
Whatever tension the three Greek demigods that just showed up had seemed to break when Tyson hugged me.
Tyson eventually let me down.
"Hello there," The girl started. "My name is Silena Beauregard, daughter of Aphrodite. Over here is my boy friends Charles Beckendorf—"
"But you can call me Beckendorf," Beckendorf said, "I'm the son of Hephaestus."
Silena nodded. "And our one eye friend over there is Ethan Nakamura…"
"Son of Nemesis," I said. "He already introduced himself. I'm Reyna, daughter of Bellona and Praetor of the Twelfth Legion."
"So you're the praetor Annabeth send to return the Athena's Parthenos," Beckendorf grunted. "We were starting to worry until Nico showed up bellow decks."
"We were worried we wouldn't make it either," Calypso said. "My name is Calypso formally from Ogygia."
"Calypso," Silena smiled. "I guess that means the gods kept their promise after all?"
"Sort of," Calypso said. "They did make it possible for me to leave the island, but it turns out I had to wait until my boyfriend Leo arrived to get me off."
"I hate to break this reunion, but if it's okay with you guys, I want to save the Romans that were blasted off their boat and treat them," I said.
"Don't worry, if we wanted the romans dead, Beckendorf would of used a larger amount of greek fire than that," Ethan said. "Not to mention, Tyson's friend has them covered."
As Ethan said that, a half-fish/half-horse known as a Hippocampi showed up with the Romans. Two conscious one was on it's back and the unconscious one was carried from his t-shirt in it's mouth as it dropped them aboard.
I recognized the two conscious ones as Dakota: son of Bacchus and Centurion of the Fifth legion, and Leila: Daughter of Ceres and Centurion of the Fourth Legion. I also recognize the unconscious one as Michael.
"Thank you Rainbow!" Tyson yelled.
Ethan dew out his sword and step toward the group until Leila yelled: "Wait! Dakota and I come in peace!"
"That's a likely story."
"She's telling the truth," Dakota said. "We volunteered to come with Michael in claims to redeem ourselves to Octavian when we saw the pegasi. But we're not here under Octavian's order! We're here to help our praetor."
Ethan turned to Beckendorf, as if waiting for command. Beckendorf turned to me. "Well, they're your fellow Campers. Should we trust them?"
Surprising to say I nodded. "We can trust Dakota and Leila. But we should tie Michael up to make sure he doesn't go running back to Octavian when he wakes up."
"You heard her, Ethan," Silena said.
Ethan nodded and sheathed his sword and got to work. As he did so, Silena tended to the six Pegasus with Leila's and Calypso's help.
"We had the ship rigged in case the Romans manage to sneak aboard on the ship." Beckendorf said. "We had to increase security here when Chiron recommend we keep the Golden Fleece with Ella and Tyson. Which is why Ethan is here. His mother Nemesis blessed him with the ability of clear sight. So even if Octavian send romans with abilities to manipulate the Mist or his monster buddies, Ethan will see them a mile away."
"That also explains why Lord Pegasus wasn't hesitant to come here," Hedge said. "I thought I sense Nature magic coming off this ship."
"So you're incharge of the protection of this ship?" I asked.
"More or less," Beckendorf said. "Too be honest, Tyson was in charge of keeping Ella safe on this ship before we were assign here. I even made him a second hellhound whistle like Percy's to use incase he need to call on Mrs. O'Leary to get out of here."
"So what do we do then?" asked Dakota. "We have an hour at most until sunrise."
"Five fifty-two A.M.," said Ella, perched on the railing. "Sunrise, Eastern seaboard, August first. Timetables for Naval Meteorology. One hour and twelve minutes is more than one hour."
Dakota's eye ticked. "I stand corrected."
"It doesn't matter how much time we have left, what matters is that we make sure Reyna completes her quest," Beckendorf said.
"And that I get back to my wife," Coach Hedge said. "By the way, any idea how Mellie is doing?"
"Last I heard from Clarisse, Mellie started going into labor last night," Silena said. "Michael Yew and Will Solace from Apollo Cabin have been assigned with her to help her give birth."
"I got to get there," Hedge said.
"We'll get you to your wife, Coach," I promised. "But we have to do it right."
"Goat man can take Rainbow ashore," Tyson said. "Ella and I go with him and I protect him."
"I'll go too," Calypso said, "I know some healing magic that could come in handy."
"Good idea," I agreed. "Be sure to tell the campers I plan to fly the Athena Parthenos to Half-Blood hill at Sunrise. A peace offering gift from the Romans to The Greeks so we can finally heal our rift."
"You got it," Hedge said. "But what about the Roman legions."
"He's right, they'll blast you out of the sky with the Onagers," Leila said.
"Not necessary," Ethan said. "Before we left, I overheard Chiron saying something about sending a team of three to disable the the Onagers."
"Then we can increase their odds of success," I said. "Dakota, Leila, will your cohorts follow you?"
"I—I think so, yes," Dakota said. "But if we ask them to commit treason—"
"It isn't treason," Leila said. "Not if we're acting on direct orders from our Praetor. And Reyna is still our praetor."
I turned to Nico. "I need you to go with Dakota and Leila. While they're stirring ranks, trying to delay the attack, you have to find a way to sabotage those onagers."
Nico smiled. "My pleasure."
"I'll go with you," Beckendorf offered, "We normally don't do it, but when we put our minds to it, children of Hephaestus can disable weapons like Onagers just as fast as we can build."
I nodded as a thought occurred to me. "You said the Golden Fleece is on the ship right?"
"Yeah," Beckendorf said.
"I know it's a risk taking it off the ship, but I want you to give it to Nico," I suggested. "Up until we got rides from the Pegasus, Nico had been using all his powers to get Athena's Parthenos here, and I'll feel better if I don't have to worry about him risking his life any further using his powers."
Beckendorf nodded and looked at Ethan. "Go get the Fleece!"
Ethan nodded headed bellow decks.
"What about our unconscious guest here?" Silena asked. "We shouldn't leave him where he can still do damage."
"You and Ethan can stay with him," I said. "Maybe you can even convince him to help us—sister to brother."
"He's—He's my brother?" Silena asked.
I nodded. "Son of Venus. Only reason he was out to stop us is because Octavian's family sponsored him a place in the first cohort when no one else took him."
Silena nodded in understanding, "I'll try my best then."
"This is great and all," Dakota shuffled his feet. "But even if you get the statue to the hill, what's to stop Octavian from destroying it once it's in place? He's got a lot more firepower than the Onagers."
I peered up at the ivory face of Athena. Despite being covered in veil beneath the camouflage, I can tell the statue it's a lot more peaceful since my quest started—possibly longer than it has been for thousands of years.
"Once the statue is returned to the Greeks… it'll be difficult to destroy. After all, it has great magic radiating from it. It has simply chosen not to use it yet. And who knows, maybe once I do return it, Athena might be cooperative to helping me secure peace."
"I'll take your word for it," Leila said.
"Still, are you sure about this?" Nico asked. "Wouldn't it be better that for you to have the Golden Fleece than me?"
"I'm sure, Nico," I said.
"Besides, Reyna won't be alone," Silena said. "She has the best herd of Pegasus Camp Half-Blood has to offer to help her deliver Athena's Parthenos. I'm still amaze that they manage to get out of camp without being spotted and shot down by the Romans."
Blackjack nickered. Although I don't speak pegasi or horse, I'm pretty sure he said something like: "When our lord calls on us, we answer no matter what's the risk."
At that moment, Ethan showed up with a golden ram's fleece. Although it was the first time I seen it, even I could tell it was the real deal as I felt the nature magic radiating from it. Ethan toss it to Nico as we explained to him of the plan.
I was rather shock to see that Ethan was okay with his part in the plan. Especially when Beckendorf handed him a wrist watch from his wrist. "If you two have too, you know what to do."
Ethan nodded in understanding.
"All right, everyone. Be careful out there and make sure you survive to see both camps combine forces against Gaea's forces. And Ave Romae and Graceans!"
Dakota and Leila repeated the cheer in both Latin and English for those who didn't speak Latin: "Go Romans and Greeks."
Silena gave Beckendorf a good luck kiss before he and Nico headed off with Dakota and Leila.
Tyson handed Silena what looks like a dog whistle before he Ella, Coach Hedge, and Calypso rode off on Rainbow to where Melie was at.
I mounted on Blackjack's back as Silena helped make sure the cables were secured.
"I hope your plan works," Ethan
"You and me both," I said."You're ready to go," Silena said.
"Right!" I said. "I wish you two the best of luck."
I wrapped my arms around Blackjack's neck. As I did, I noticed his coat smelled like Scipio's—a mixture of fresh-cut grass and warm bread. It was almost enough to make me cry, but I had to stay strong.
I looked up at the fading stars.
"Mother," I said, "I haven't prayed to you enough. I've never met you. I've never asked for your help. But please… this morning, give me the strength to do what is right."
As if on cue, something flashed on the eastern horizon—a light across the Sound, approaching fast like another speedboat.
For one elated moment, I thought it was a sign from Bellona. But when the shape got closer, my hope turn to dread as I waited too long.
"Silena! Ethan! Take cover!" I yelled. "Blackjack, move!"
Silena and Ethan noticed it jumped and Blackjack flew in the air, barely dodging an arrow.
But it wasn't enough as two more arrows struck next to Ethan and Silena's feet. Attach to the shaft was a glowing LED readout the size of a wristwatch, counting down from 5:00.
4:59.
4:58.
A/N: In case you're wondering, there's a reason why I select Silena and Ethan to stay behind.
