Ha-ha! Kinda had to re-watch the movie (I mean, I read the book a while ago) because I sorta forgot what happened at the end. But whatever. Okay, guys. PLEASE REVIEW! THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY! Credit goes to S. E. Hinton and Rick Riordan.

THE GREEKS AND THE ROMANS PART II

When Frank woke up, he was in the back seat of some car that was going WEE-OOH! WEE-OOH! Then, he opened his eyes and looked around. Dammit, he thought. The Roman police have finally captured us.

"It's okay," said a firm, crisp voice. "You're in an ambulance-chariot."

"Huh?"

"I'm Minerva. I'm the principal at Minerva's Academy for Smart-Asses," said the principal. "Do you remember saving my students from the burning store?"

"Yeah…"

"Well, anyway…we're taking you to the hospital. Your friends are in another ambulance." Minerva cleared her throat. "Don't worry. You'll be fine." Then, she put a comforting hand on Frank's shoulder. "Are you guys, like, professional heroes?"

"Nah," said Frank. "We're just a bunch of demigods whose lives suck."

"Seriously?" asked Minerva.

"Yeah, seriously," said Frank.

They arrived at the hospital a few minutes later. Frank was carted into a room and was looked over by the physician on-call: Asclepius. Once Asclepius looked over Frank and gave him the all-clear, Frank waited impatiently for Hazel and Piper to arrive. Soon, he saw Hazel come in on another stretcher, her face totally burned and looking like she was dead. Piper came in a second later, but she'd gotten away with only minor injuries.

"Frank," Piper grimaced as she passed him, "if you ever do that again, I'll kick your ass!"

Frank gave her an innocent smile and Piper glared at him as they wheeled her away on the stretcher.

Suddenly, Frank saw two people whom he hadn't seen in a few days: Percy Jackson and Jason Grace. He was cool with the former. The later…not so much.

"Frank!" yelled Percy, tackling Frank in a hug. "Where's your hair?"

"Um…"

"Ah," said Percy, "who the hell cares? You look cool."

Frank smiled and looked at Jason. "Jason."

"Frank."

The boys shared a very uncomfortable, one-armed hug.

"Let's go," said Jason. "I'm tired."

Frank looked at Percy, who shrugged. "Is he having his monthly thing?" asked Frank.

Percy laughed. "No. He's just tired or whatever."

"So…what did I miss around here?" asked Frank.

"You missed a Senate meeting," Jason said, getting into their car. "And you also missed Lavinia's stupid tap dance recital or whatever. It was hilarious! Even Reyna got up to dance!"

Reyna was the most serious person Frank had ever met, so it was a miracle that she went up to dance.

When they got home, Frank crashed on his bed. He vaguely wondered if this was what being drunk felt like.

The next morning, Jason and Percy went into town to pick up some groceries. For some reason, they left Frank at home with Leo.

"Hey," Frank said, "we should clean up the house or something. If Reyna and Octavian come by, I don't want them to separate the three of us."

"This is nothing," said Leo. "You should see my place."

"I have," snapped Frank. "And if you had any sense, you'd help Vulcan clean up once in a great while."

"If I did that," said Leo, "he'd probably fade from shock. C'mon. Let's go see the patients!"

As if he knew they were coming, Asclepius had positioned himself outside of the room where Hazel was. "She's in critical condition," said Asclepius. "I'm afraid I can't let you boys in."

"But we haven't made out in twenty-four hours," snapped Frank. "C'mon, doc!"

"TMI, kiddo," said Asclepius. "Now, I'm going to get some donuts and eat them in my office. Please give me your word you won't go into that room."

Once Asclepius was gone, Frank and Leo went into the room. Hazel was lying in a comfy-looking hospital bed with tubes and other stuff coming out of her body. Frank thought she looked terrible, but he kept that grizzly thought to himself.

"Hey, Hazel," said Frank. "How are ya doing?"

"Ugh…" Hazel groaned. "Frank, this is horrible."

"I know. Don't talk. Leo's here, too."

Leo awkwardly waved to her. "Hey."

"Hi, Leo," Hazel said. "I only just woke up. Dr. Asclepius said I'd be paralyzed for the rest of my life."

"Because of the beam that hit you?" asked Frank.

Hazel nodded weakly. "Did you guys see Pipes yet?"

"Nah. We're seeing you first," said Frank.

A nurse walked into the room. "Dr. Asclepius is pissed off at you two for coming in here, but then he's all like, 'Eh, they can do it.'" She turned to Hazel. "Hazel, your mom's here to see you."

"I don't wanna see her," snarled Hazel. "She's only going to tell me what a little brat I am and blame me for all the trouble I've caused." Hazel took a shaky breath, then fell back onto her pillow, unconscious.

"I guess that's our signal to go see Pipes," said Leo, pulling Frank by the arm out of the room.

Piper was having an intense argument with Asclepius about her discharge plans. "I just have a bruise on my arm," she snarled at him. "Why do I have to stay the night tonight?"

"Because, Miss McLean, you were in a bad fire and it was probably very traumatic for you."

"Screw this!" yelled Piper. Then, she saw the boys. "Hey, boys. This place makes me sick and Dr. Smartass over here won't let me out."

Asclepius scowled from the sink in the corner.

"You guys see Hazel?" asked Piper.

"Yeah. She passed out before we left her, though," said Frank. "I don't know if she's going to—"

"She'll live," Piper insisted. "She has to. She's, like, my bestest friend!" Piper sat up and grabbed at her blankets. "Oh, by the way, I might've forgotten to mention there's going to be a huge fight between the demigods and the gods tonight in the old parking lot. I wanna go, but I can't because of Stupid over there." She indicated Asclepius.

"We'll do it for you and Hazel," said Frank. "No worries, Pipes. We'll make sure we kick their godly asses!"

When they left the hospital, Leo looked at Frank. "You look really sick. Are you okay?"

Frank's head was pounding, but he nodded and said, "Yeah."

Leo grunted. "Well, I think you shouldn't fight if you feel like crap, man."

"I'll be fine. And don't tell Jason or Percy about this," Frank ordered.

Later that night, the rest of the demigods (minus Piper and Hazel) were all doing their pre-fighting stretches in the old parking lot. Percy was screaming up a storm about how he'd kick everyone's asses and how he and Annabeth were going to get married someday.

"There they are!" yelled Jason. "Come get us!"

Some of the minor gods—Janus, Bellona, and a few others—were ready to rumble. There were as many gods as there were demigods, so they each decided to take one down.

Frank looked over and saw Annabeth punching Janus in the face. Someone else had gotten to Percy, but Percy bit at the god and the god ran away crying. Finally, the strangest thing of all happened.

Piper McLean—who'd been in the hospital five hours ago—suddenly decided to join the party. She came in all cool and stuff, then realized that all the gods were taken, so she ran to join Frank, who was beating the crap out of Bellona.

To make a long fight scene shorter, the demigods won and the gods ran away crying for their mommies.

Frank felt Piper's hand on his arm. "Let's go tell Hazel the good news!"

When Piper and Frank got to the hospital, Asclepius stopped them at the entrance to Hazel's room. "You can't go in there. She's dying."

"Get out of the way," Piper said in her Charmspeak. Asclepius blinked, then stepped aside to let them in.

"Hey, Haze," said Piper. "We totally kicked the gods' asses and we won this fight."

"Good for you," Hazel said breathlessly. "Frank, come here."

Frank leaned forward and stared at her messed-up hair.

Hazel took a shaky breath. "Stay gold, Frankie-Boy. Stay gold."

"I'm stupid and I don't know what that means," said Frank.

Hazel's head fell onto the pillows…and she died…and Piper was pissed.

"DAMMIT, HAZEL!" she yelled, punching the walls. Then, she ran out of the room, down the hall, and left the hospital. Frank sort of just watched as Hazel lay in her bed, dead.

Frank decided that now would be a good time to head home and tell the others what had happened to Hazel. He ran into the house, where he found all the demigods sitting there, nursing their wounds from the fight with the gods earlier.

"Where've you been?" asked Jason, mopping up a bloody nose.

"At the hospital," said Frank. "Hazel's dead. We told her about the fight and she died. I don't know where Piper went."

Just then, an Iris-Message appeared. There stood Piper McLean, and it looked like she was on the verge of tears or a heart attack.

"Pipes?" asked Annabeth. "Where are you?"

"Just tried to rob the 7-11," said Piper. "Can you meet me in the old parking lot?"

"Sure," said Annabeth. She waved her hand through the image of Piper and turned to the others. "You guys heard her. Let's move!"

When they got to the old parking lot, they found some policemen standing before Piper, who was kneeling on the ground as if she'd been shot.

"No!" Annabeth yelled.

"Annabeth…" Piper hissed, then crumpled.

Then, Frank passed out.

"Dude…" Percy's voice said from very far away. "Frank…dude…"

"Huh?" Frank said.

"You fainted," Jason said matter-of-factly. "You've been out since the night of the fight. Do you remember anything? You kept asking for people."

"Like whom?"

"Everybody," said Percy. "Go back to sleep. We have our hearing tomorrow morning bright and early."

Frank had almost forgotten about the hearing for killing Mars. But since Hazel wasn't there, he was wondering if it would be cancelled.

But no. Bright and early the following morning, Frank was sitting in front of Octavian and Reyna, who were acting as judges.

"Did you kill him?" Octavian asked.

"No. Hazel did."

"Hazel's dead."

"What's your point?"

"The entrails say that I should send you to the Roman Prison House," snapped Octavian. "The entrails never lie!"

"Hey, Octavian," said Reyna. "Shut up."

"Yes, Reyna," said Octavian, giving Frank a nasty look.

"Frank Zhang, since you and the late Hazel Levesque fought strictly out of self-defense," Reyna said, "we have decided to clear you of all charges. You may continue to live in your current home in New Rome."

"Sweet!" Frank yelled.

"Hey!" yelled Octavian. "That's not fair!"

Frank pulled out his bow and arrow and shot Octavian right where his heart was. But since Reyna and no one else liked Octavian, Reyna said we'd tell everyone that Octavian ran away somewhere.

"Lavinia!" yelled Reyna. "Bring forth the fancy chocolates!"

Frank got the entire box of fancy chocolates…and he didn't share with anyone because he's selfish.

All was well, until one day after school, Apollo—Frank's English teacher—stopped him in the hallway.

"Frank, I'd like to speak with you about your grades. You're flunking my class right now," said Apollo. "But because I'm a nice guy, if you can come up with an essay, I'll pass you with a C. Make it a personal experience, too."

Frank headed home, feeling like garbage because he had so much extra homework to do. But he didn't feel like doing it because he wanted to go for a walk around New Rome. But Jason—as usual—wouldn't let him.

"Dude!" yelled Frank, "I'm literally the same age as you are!"

"No one cares, Frank!" screamed Jason. "If you want to stay in school, you need to do the work!"

"You suck!" yelled Frank. "Perce, man, back me up!"

Percy looked at them and cleared his throat. "Okay. Jason, treat Frank as your equal, not your inferior. Frank, just do the damn assignments and Jason will stay off your ass." He sat back on the couch and smiled at the pair of them.

After Frank and Jason apologized to each other, Frank began his assignment. He didn't know what to write about, but then a thought occurred to him. He pulled out his notebook and began to write: When Frank Zhang stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of his new house in New Rome, he had only three things on his mind: Hazel Levesque, Hazel Levesque, and the fact that he was so hungry his stomach was going to start screaming at him.

Okay, everyone! There were the two parts to The Outsiders. Hope you enjoyed it and I know there was more swearing than usual! WHATEVER. Anyway, please read and review or something.