Jason watched the chariot land. Two teenagers were riding it. Both had orange t-shirts and shields. One guy was bulky with a shaved head. The girl was tall and blonde. She looked angry which didn't bode well since from what Jason understood, they were supposed to be part of this extraction squad Coach Hedge was talking about.

"Where's your protector, Gleeson Hedge?" the girl asked them.

The coach's first name was Gleeson? Jason might've laughed if the morning hadn't been quite so weird and scary. Gleeson Hedge: football coach, goat man, protector of demigods. Sure. Why not?

Leo cleared his throat. "He got taken by some … tornado things."

"Venti," Jason said. "Storm spirits."

The blonde girl's eyes flicked toward him. "Anemoi thuellai. That's the Greek term. Who are you? What happened?"

Jason tried to explain what happened, but given that his memory was practically non-existent, he felt like he was failing to meet this girl's standards of explanation. It was proven true when the blonde girl glared at the ground.

"He should have been here!" she growled. She clenched her fists together. "She told me I'd find the answer here!"

Upon further inspection, Jason noticed the girl had bloodshot eyes and dark bags. For whatever reason, this girl had not been sleeping well for a while.

"Annabeth," the bald guy grunted. "Check it out." He pointed at Jason's feet.

Jason hadn't thought much about it, but he was still missing his left shoe, which had been blown off by the lightning. His bare foot felt okay, but it looked like a lump of charcoal.

"The guy with one shoe," said the bald dude. "He's the answer."

"No, Butch," the girl insisted. "He can't be. I was tricked." She glared at the sky as though it had done something wrong. "What do you want from me?" she screamed. "Bring him back!"

The skywalk shuddered, and the horses whinnied urgently.

"Annabeth," said the bald dude, Butch, "we gotta leave. Let's get these three to camp and figure it out there. Those storm spirits might come back."

She fumed for a moment. "Fine." She fixed Jason with a resentful look. "We'll settle this later." She turned on her heel and marched toward the chariot.

Piper shook her head. "What's her problem? What's going on?"

"Seriously," Leo agreed.

"We have to get you out of here," Butch said. "I'll explain on the way."

"I'm not going anywhere with her." Jason gestured toward the blonde. "She looks like she wants to kill me."

Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. Her boyfriend's been missing for three days now. She's… it's been difficult for her." He shifted awkwardly as if he was saying something he shouldn't be. "She hasn't slept in three days, but she said she had a vision telling her to come here, to find a guy with one shoe. That was supposed to be the answer to her problem."

"Who is he?" Piper asked curiously.

"His name's Percy Jackson," Butch answered.

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Crashing into the lake was not fun. Jason personally thought Annabeth was crazy to suggest it, but regardless of the craziness of it, they survived. For a daughter of the wisdom goddess, Annabeth seemed to be less than sane.

Annabeth passed out in the water. Jason and Butch helped drag her out of the water. A detail of campers ran up with big bronze leaf blowers and blew them all dry. Annabeth was still unconscious.

"Annabeth!" A guy with a bow and quiver on his back pushed through the growing crowd. "Oh gods! Is she okay?"

Butch grunted. "Passed out in the water. Finally. Just wish it didn't happen in the water."

The guy nodded sympathetically. "I'll take her to the infirmary. Kayla!" he called someone in the crowd. "Get Clovis. Tell him to meet me."

A girl with shocking green hair nodded and rushed off.

The guys shouldered Annabeth, but looked around in confusion. "No Percy?"

"Wasn't there," Butch confirmed. The campers groaned. "Sorry about the chariot, Will."

Will waved it off. "It's fine. We can fix it." His eyes finally landed on Jason, Piper, and Leo. "These guys? But they're way older than thirteen. I thought Percy made the gods promise to claim their kids."

"Claimed?" Leo asked.

Suddenly there was a collective gasp. The campers backed away. At first Jason thought this Percy Jackson guy might have appeared from thin air. He pictured a teenage boy popping out from behind him saying, Sup. What'd I miss? He quickly banished that thought when he saw the red light like someone had lit a torch behind him. He turned and gasped too.

Floating over Leo's head was a blazing holographic image of a fiery hammer.

"That's claiming," Will said. He glanced at the crowd nervously.

"What'd I do?" Leo backed toward the lake. Then he glanced up and yelped. "Is my hair on fire?" He ducked, but the symbol followed him, bobbing and weaving so it looked like he was trying to write something in flames with his head.

"This can't be good," Butch muttered. "The curse—"

"Butch, shut up," Will snapped. "Leo, you've just been claimed—"

"By a god," Jason interrupted. "That's the symbol of Vulcan, isn't it?" All eyes turned to him.

"Jason," Butch said carefully, "how did you know that?"

"I'm not sure."

"Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek. What are you talking about?"

"Vulcan is the Roman name for Hephaestus," Will said, "the god of blacksmiths and fire."

The fiery hammer faded, but Leo kept swatting the air like he was afraid it was following him. "The god of what? Who?"

Will looked at Butch. "Can you give Leo a tour and show him to Cabin Nine? I'd do it, but I'm not sure how long she'll be asleep."

Butch nodded. "Sure thing."

"What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!"

"Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything." Butch put a hand on his shoulder and steered him off toward the cabins.

Will turned back to Jason and Piper. "Follow me. Chiron wants to see you," he told Jason.

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As it turned out, the infirmary was next to the Big House where this Chiron was. Will put Annabeth in a bed where a sleepy looking kid was waiting.

"I'll take care of it," the boy yawned. "Might need to force her to dream if she gets bad nightmares."

Will nodded. "Just make sure she gets rested."

When they entered the Big House, a strange sight greeted them. A man stood there, but his lower half was the lower half of a horse. His eyes hardened when they saw Jason. It made Jason squirm a little. Every instinct in him was screaming that he should run as far away as he could.

"Thank you, Will," the centaur said. "Could you show Piper to the Hermes cabin?"

Will winced. "Uh, Annabeth's asleep. I have Clovis watching her, but I want to be close. Wanted to IM Nico, too. See if he can do anything. Sorry, Chiron."

Chiron frowned. "Ah. Well, then you better get going. Where is Mr. di Angelo?"

"With his dad," Will answered tightly. "Dunno why. He hates his stepmom."

Chiron didn't say anything, but Jason thought there might be something the centaur knew and wasn't telling Will.

A/N: Obviously Jason both has no memory and does not know Annabeth's secret. I think I'm going to skip over the Lost Hero and the Son of Neptune since those would pretty much play out the same regardless. Do some more with Jason, Piper, Leo, Frank, and Hazel though.

As for telling others... Chiron was a necessity I think. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine that the characters that time traveled immediately tell their friends. Like if Harry Potter straight up just tells the whole Order of the Phoenix that he time traveled to end the war earlier or whatever instead of telling just Dumbledore, Snape, Sirius, and Remus or something like that for example.