Chapter 8 Why I hate Coma victims

Well I wasn't lying that I wanted to get this chapter out soon. It has not been that long since I last posted a chapter, I feel like I will write at least 1 more before the end of February, but I hope you enjoy this one, it should really get the plot flowing.

Matt hated his life, despite being smart he was really stupid, thinking things through was a good thing, but thinking things through always led to him not making a decision at all. Thinking more about the flaws in a plan rather than solutions. The only person Matt knew who was worse at planning than him, was Peter, and Peter just didn't think things through. Matt had thought that guarding the entrance to camp was a bad job, boy was he wrong. Guarding a comatose kid was the worst.

After the beating that the kid took I expected him to die, but just like everything else, I can't be right. He didn't die, but he didn't exactly survive either, he doesn't respond to anything nectar, nope, ambrosia, nope. So the Praetor's decided that he should be guarded because they didn't trust him and they weren't getting anything from the gods on him, well except when Juno showed up and did something to his head. I thought she was going to make him better, but then again he was still in a coma and they did put Peter and I to guard him. Well after we recovered from our wounds at least. That kid recovered from his wounds faster than we did, and yet he is still not awake.

Everyday I wake up and have to guard him, and everyday I get more and more bored doing it, Peter at first made it fun, but soon we got in trouble and had to clean the horse stalls, so actually I don't hate life, I hate this kid who got me in trouble, then Matt thought it through and realized he hated a kid who had done nothing but get almost killed and he felt guilty. He almost got killed because of me and I am angry at him.

That's when I see Peter who was fetching water come back with a giant bowl of water and he tripped, and spilled all the water on the kid. "Well I guess someone had to clean the horse stalls?" Says Peter.

"I hate you", says Matt in response shaking his head trying not to be angry. "We always do something wrong, and it always ends with us cleaning those stupid horse stalls."

"Well I think we are getting good at cleaning those stalls, I am at least." Said Peter before yelling in surprise when the kid was in a coma but a hand on his shoulder.

"Where am I?" Said the coma kid, before rubbing his head.

"Camp Jupiter, but that's not important right now. We need to get you to the Praetors, Peter why don't you go get a Centurion." Said Matt, then seeing that Peter wasn't moving but instead just saying still staring at the kid's hand. "Peter, snap out of it. PETER, I need your help, would you please go get a Centurion, like right now."

Peter just looked at Matt in confusion as if Matt was speaking a foreign language. Peter then said the only thing that came to his mind "Huh?"

Matt said "Okay fine, I thought he was the coma patient, just stay here and I will go get some help." Then Matt left and thought, how big an idiot is Peter being right now. As he walked he realized how weird it was that the kid woke up when water was spilled on him. He quickly found his Centurion, and they returned to find Peter with his sword out and the other kid looking confused.

"How did you get that dagger, how, I want to know right now, how?" Said Peter pointing his gladius at the kids throat, the tip being inches away.

In response the kid gave his best shrug, then he said "It just kind of showed up, I don't know how, would it help if I put it down."

"Legionnaire put your sword down, this is not your place to question the prisoner!" Said the Centurion. "We will talk about this incident later. Matt please escort the Prisoner to the Pomerium line."

Matt grabbed the dagger from the prisoner's hand and gave it to Peter, then used his shield to bump him forward. Then they went on a walk that Matt had only gone on a few times in his life. As they neared the Pomerium line they saw the god that nearly everyone had been annoyed by at least once, Terminus.

"Give up your weapons, do not try to cross the line without giving up your weapons." Said Terminus, the group could hear the noisy god from miles away, and hearing that endless drone for every step of journey.

"Hey you three give up your weapons if you want to cross the line, do not worry they will be returned, but only after you leave." Said Terminus, the Centurion already gave up their shield and began to take their Gladius out to give it away. Matt started to give up his weapons much later passing the prisoner off to the now weaponless Centurion before starting. They started to walk in after that, but Terminus stopped the prisoner and said "Thought you could sneak a weapon in, well you can't!" He then takes the golden dagger which had appeared inside his pocket.

After that they walked into the Senate which was right about to end a meeting, and Praetor Fred spoke up saying, "Centurion James, for what reason have you interrupted a Senate meeting. These meetings discuss information that not all Legionnaires must know."

"The prisoner is finally awake and can be questioned, and I thought you would want to begin as soon as possible." Said James surprised that Fred hadn't seen the third member enter the senate. Matt just sat there happy that he wasn't getting yelled at, but quietly hoping that he could listen to the interrogation if he went unnoticed. Fred nodded in approval as he agreed with the decision of the Centurion.

"If you can sit the Prisoner down we can begin." Said Fred gesturing to a chair and the Centurion followed the order and then Fred counituned saying, "Prisoner what is your name?"

"Perry Johnson, may I ask what do you mean Prisoner, did I do something wrong, my memory is a bit fuzzy at the moment." Replied Perry obviously confused.

"Perry we will be asking the questions and depending on your answers we may answer your questions. Do you know who your godly parent is or are you a legacy?" Asked Fred, tired after a long day with the arguing senate.

"I don't even remember anything before I woke up earlier today, what is a legacy?" Said Perry.

"Sad, most do know who their parent is, but if he does not prove to be a threat to the camp, I move that we put him in cohort 5 with all the other unclaimed legionnaires." Said Fred, looking around the senate hearing much more approval than disapproval, he confirmed his ruling. Then continued asking questions to Perrysaying "How did you find this camp?"

"I can't really remember, but it was something about wolves?" Replied Perry Scratching his head wishing his memory would return. Fred looked at the 2 dogs around the Praetor's seats, which were clearly happy, thus proving that Perrywas telling the truth. Then the other Praetor, Melissa, raised her voice saying, "Do you have any intent to harm anyone at this camp, or the camp itself?"

"No" said Perrynow looking at the dogs sitting there being happy, "Why are there dogs here?"

"If there are no further items on the doc? Meeting adjourned!" Said Fred as the both Praetors got up and left and signalled for Perry To follow, and the dogs got up and followed behind.

The trio plus the dogs entered a courtroom that was much smaller than the Senate floor, the 2 Praetor's sat in the chairs for the judges and Perrywas told to sit in the chair for the accused. When Juno showed up, she gave us a quest and told us that when you woke up you were to lead that quest.

The Newcomer, the smart idiot, the legacy, and the bold,

Must set out for the lands of old,

The quest may take a few turns,

Until you reach the land of burns,

The son of the sky is not far off,

Be careful not to scoff,

As the beast of old is near and jaws are real,

And one of you it will steal,

"I don't know what any of that means and I don't like what the ending is trying to say. I think I am the Newcomer but I don't know who the rest of the quest would be." Said Perrysuddenly feeling as if he had been here before.

"Well we want you to figure out who the other three are and meet up with your cohort. Johnson if the beating you took at the hands of those Cyclops says anything about you, it shows that you won't die easily, I can't say that about 50% of the Centurions in this legion." Said Fred with a slight laugh, "This is the first quest we have had in years, if there was one Newcomer I would send on a quest, it would be you. I just have a feeling about you, you could be something great in the Legion."

"No one ever explained what a Legacy was, seeing how it is part of the quest I think I should know, what one is." Said Perry trying not to push his luck too far, but feeling like it was a question that had to be asked.

"A legacy is someone who is born of a demigod, and a non god, we have a lot more legacies than actual demigods, we even have a few multi generation legacies, like Octativion who just joined the legion. He is like a 7th generation legacy," said Melissa looking at Fred for clarification, when he nodded she continued talking saying, "I for example and a 1st generation legacy as my father was a Son of Mercury, Fred here is a son of Mars directly, thus making him a demigod and I a legacy."

"Speaking of new legionnaires, how old are you, we usually let people join at 11." Says Fred, nonchalantly, as if it is no big deal.

"Pretty sure I am 10, but not 100% sure" said Perry not making a big deal of it.

"Due to how you have to go on the quest we are going to let you in early." Said Fred.

As Perry walked out of the building and crossed the Pomerium line suddenly he had his dagger again. The Centurion, James walked up and said, "Welcome to the fifth, we are known for being the worst cohort in the legion."

AN I would really love more reviews, I would love to know what you think about the story, I spend a lot of time writing these stories and Reviews make my day better. BTW I am thinking about making this story go all the way to the beginning of HOO, and would love to hear things that you want to hear about the story or where I want to go with this story. BTW try to guess what each line of the quest means. Bet you can't get all of them! Next chapter is about meeting the 5th cohort and some war games. Have a nice day as usual! -kate

Almost forgot, time to answer reviews

Guest

Is Jason in the legion yet, I don't even think he is old enough. Overall really like the story

First off thanks for reading. Guest, you will find out where Jason is soon. Not gonna spoil anything, for you.

HarmonyHarpshine7

I like this story and it has a fabulous concept! I think that he should call himself one of the names that Dionysus calls him like Peter Johnson or Perry Johansson, even though Peter is already a character in the story. Logically that would make sense to me because I assume he would get tired of correcting Mr. D all the time so he would eventually learn to respond to one of those names anyway, so he doesn't have to keep track of a whole new name. Just my opinion, take it or leave it. I do love this story!

Thanks for reading, I hadn't thought about that, but it really does make things in the future, changing Percy's name to Perry.