"That table over there is empty, lets sit there" Leo lead Piper to the table nearest them
"Jason over here" Piper called to him as she saw him walk into the building
He came over to them and together they sat themselves down at the free table. Every single other camper who was eating turned to looked at them, none looked impressed
"Are you three the most stupid demigods ever?" A boy with blonde hair and gray eyes asked
"I don't think so, why do you ask?" Leo shot back
"That table is the table of Artemis" the boy said, as if they should have known that
"Well it's the table of Leo, Piper and Jason for now, I'm sure Artemis wont mind us using his table, where is he anyway? I can't see him so he wont mind" Leo laughed
"Artemis is a virgin goddess, she will be very unhappy if she found people sitting at her table and certainly two boys, move now" The boy told them
"C'mon you two" Piper got up and went to the next table, thunder rumbled in the sky
"That is the table for Lord Zeus, only one girl named Thalia can sit there" The boy explained, he had a stuck up voice as though he though he knew everything.
"Well we'll move then" Jason said angry, they go up again and sat next to two boys with blonde hair and blue eyes
"Sorry only the children of Apollo can sit here" Said one of them, he didn't sound unfriendly
"Well, where the hell do we sit?" Leo shouted to the pavilion
"You sit there" Annabeth had come into the building "Until you are claimed you have to sit at the Hermes' table"
"Okay" Leo told her and he took a seat at the bench she had pointed to. Piper and Jason sat opposite him
"Where do we get food from?" Leo whispered to them
His question was answered; he blinked hard and looked again
"What are them?" He looked at the people who were handing out bowls or pieces of toast
"They're Nymphs" Jason said, he was starting to be amazed at how he knew such information.
The Nymphs moved around the tables handing out food, Annabeth watched as the three new demigods started eating.
They was a boy who looked like an elf, a girl who Annabeth was unsure off, she seemed to feel Annabeth watching her as she stopped talking to the other boy the moment Annabeth looked at her.
As Annabeth watched the boy Chiron felt was hiding something looked up and his eyes meet Annabeth's. His eyes narrowed.
"She's watching us" Jason muttered to Leo and Piper who turned and looked at Annabeth, she went pink when she saw them looking at her.
"Just what is her problem with us?" Leo asked
"I don't know but she's not there now" Piper told him, Leo looked up
"How did she do that?" Leo said
Annabeth had put her cap back on and was slowly making her way up to the Hermes table
"She has some issues that one, she was trying to find her boyfriend but she found us in his place, that's why she doesn't like us" Piper said
Annabeth had reached their table and stopped to listen
"So, what are we going to do about our little problem?" Piper nodded to Jason
"Well, I don't know how long it will last, but if someone found out about him he'll be in trouble" Leo said. Jason knew they're talking about his memory lose
"Just don't say anything that Chiron man hasn't guessed yet, we'll just make up a story for you" Leo told Jason
"You are Jason, you are fifteen as I am sixteen and I don't want you older than me. You came to my and Piper's school the same time as we did because your mother can't stand you singing in the bath. You and me are best friends and Piper is your girlfriend, easy" Leo slipped some tea.
"No I'm sorry" Jason looked into Piper's hurt brown eyes, which changed to blue "Look me and you may have been together for ages but to me I only met you two yesterday so it wont be convincing as I don't really know you Piper"
"I understand, well no one knows us here so we wont say nothing" Piper looked around to make sure they could not be heard.
"And I will need to know something about you two, just in case they pull us up" Jason said looking at them both
"OK, I got sent to Wilderness School as I ran away from home six times, My mother…well she never loved me, I brought bad luck to the family, things happened and I couldn't help myself from re-wiring the TV, the car brakes, and the locks on other people's home and than I emptied the house and stuff like that, she would shout more and I would run away, the six time it happened she sent me to that school out of the way"
"I got sent to that school as I borrowed a car but the dealer said I stole it and I got sent to that school, there I met you and Leo and we've been friends ever since"
"OK so what about my life before school?" Jason asked
"Told you, your mother didn't like your singing" Leo giggled
"OK, well the boys are coming so we better end this convo" Jason nodded down the hill, were the rest of the Hermes cabin was coming up
"Hi you guys, when you have finished your breakfast were going to go down and have some sword practice. Were going to leave the cabin now as it is as it's not going to score a high mark even if we do clean it up"
"Sword practice, with real swords?" Piper asked Connor Stoll
"Well yes, were not going to use soft form ones, they don't kill monsters" He said as he took some food from a passing Nymph
They had to wait until the cabin was finished eating before they could go down to the sword arena. Annabeth who had no activates followed behind, invisible.
She had heard enough to go tell Chiron about these strange demigods but she wanted more, something was not right about these three and she was going to find out. It could lead her to information about where Percy was.
Travis took out some swords
"Right, here are three practice swords you can use; I am going to show you the basic Parrys and Stabs, Jason you can pair with me, Piper go join Connor and Leo you go with Pollux, he's a son of Dionysus but as Dionysus only has one son..Oh sorry Pollux that was a really stupid thing to say, sorry, well he comes with us now for lesions"
Leo and Piper picked up a sword but Jason took his coin and his gold sword appeared
"Ohh nice, where did you get that?" Travis asked Jason
After a brief look at Leo and Piper, Jason said "It just came to me for my birthday, one minute it wasn't there and the next 'Poof' they it was" Jason lied
'Yet another lie' Annabeth thought, watching Jason as he clenched his hands and narrowed his eyes
"Ok so we'll start, do you know how to hold your sword? Ok now bring it up to meet mine"
Jason acted so quickly Travis dropped his sword; they got faster until Travis was on the floor with Jason's sword at his throat
"Well done, that was great" Travis said.
Jason soon had most of the people on the floor; he hadn't even broken a sweat.
"You could have been a better swordsman than Luke and he was the best in three hundred years" One said
"No, never Luke, Percy maybe" another said
'Luke and Percy would have beaten him with both of their hands behind they backs' Annabeth thought…
"Yeah, if Percy comes back you should have a fight with him and Riptide" Connor said
"What is so good about this Percy guy anyway?" Leo asked, who was getting whipped with a sword by the son of Dionysus "OUCH" he moaned as the sword hit his Greek battle armour right in the joint
"He came here as a 12 year old and he just became a hero over time, he stopped Kronos who was a Titan and they blew up most of New York" Pollux said, beating Leo up some more
"Can we stop please" Leo begged, he was on the floor now holding up the sword in his hands, trying to block Pollux "Please"
"A few more blows for luck, what do you say?" Pollux asked gleefully
Jason watched Pollux raise the sword again and bring it down on Leo's side
"No stop, I've had enough" Leo tried to get back up but Pollux kicked him in the chest and he fell back down again
Pollux slashed his sword down and cut open Leo's right knee, Leo moaned in pain.
Jason lost control and ran at Pollux with his sword; he got in close and knocked the sword out of Pollux's hands
"He said stop!" Jason shouted at him.
Pollux looked at Jason, than picked his sword back up
"Where did you learn sword play like that?" Pollux asked him "You just came here"
"Never you mind, leave my friend alone" Jason warned him
Pollux held up his hand
"I'm just learning him; a monster won't give him time to catch his breath"
Jason helped Leo to his feet, and beckoned to Piper to follow him and all three made their way out of the stadium.
"I can see my bone" Leo groaned and gripped Jason's hand, he had gone green "I can see my bone"
"Whoa, what happened to him?" a boy leading a winged horse asked, it was one of the blonde boys from that morning who told Jason they can't sit on their table.
"He's hurt, do you mind?" Piper said, helping Leo to walk
"Wait, I'm a son of Apollo, I'll heal him, hold him still" the boy said, he kneeled down on the grass and put his hands around the wound, he muttered a few words very fast in Ancient Greek. The skin healed at once.
A horn sounded from the dining pavilion
"Time for dinner" the son of Apollo said to them "Pardon but I need to lead my cabin to dinner" he hurried off
"I hate it here" Leo muttered, he got to his feet and brushed the dirt off his clothes
"Why would anyone want to be at a camp where you get swords chopping you up and gods that make you see horrible things"
"Don't worry, we'll find a way to leave" Jason told him "We'll go somewhere else"
Annabeth moved away from them, she was going to talk to Chiron before Dinner; the demigods were plotting to escape.
Chiron was sat outside the big house, she was about to take her cap off when Dionysus appeared out of thin air
"What's the news?" Chiron asked as soon as he sat down
Dionysus took out three cards and stood them up on the table
"Jason" He said, the card turned into a stick man
"Leo" The second card also turned into a stick man
"Piper" A third stick man
"Now the gods voted and here are the grand results" Dionysus clicked his fingers and the stick men all set on fire and only ash remained
"All three of them?" Chiron asked in surprise
"Yep" Dionysus said cheerful
"When?" Chiron asked
"Demigods shall be killed tomorrow, oh I wonder if Zeus will kill them one by one? I need some popcorn too, I love executions" Dionysus smiled so widely all his teeth flashed
"Oh, even something better, get Hermes to kill his own son, now that will be entertaining, well we all voted to kill the two demigods with him just in case they help him, after all Jason did have friends before and look at what happened"
Chiron looked disgusted
"Mr. D, would you please not talk that way, I think it would be better if we didn't say anything to them, I'll just take them to Olympus tomorrow and get it done with"
Chiron and Mr. D got up and walked to the dinning pavilion
What Annabeth heard made her feel sick. She took of her cap and walked in the pavilion and sat with her brothers and sisters.
She looked over to the Hermes cabin. Leo was playing with his glass trying to get both coke and orange juice at the same time, the girl was talking to a Hermes' camper and the boy was examming his gold coin. Did they really deserve to die just because of some secret?
When the plates were full people got up and put some of their food into the fire and said the name of a god.
"What are they doing?" Piper asked, Jason shrugged and started eating.
"Ohh you have to go offer some food to the gods" Connor Stoll told them
"Why?" They all asked
"They like the smell" Connor said, he got up and went to the fire "Come on"
Leo got up and put a piece of pizza into the fire
"For any god who wants it" He grinned at Jason
"To the god of food, Bon appétit" Jason joked and he put a tomato into the fire
"Yummy for the gods' tummy" Piper added some BBQ burgers into the fire
"I would take this seriously guys" Connor warned.
The three of them make they way back to their seats, they all thought that was a waste of food.
After dinner they went down to a campfire, Jason moved close to the flames to see if they were real as the fire was bright blue.
Dionysus was watching, Jason was reflected in them engulfed in fire, Dionysus smiled.
After an hour or two they got told to go to bed, as the Hermes cabin made their way out Annabeth watched the three new heroes walk out, she looked at Chiron he looked normal and cheerful like he hadn't just ordered the deaths of three demigods.
Annabeth went into her cabin and got into bed; she lay down but didn't close her eyes. She called lights out and waited for the cabin to go quite.
She got up quietly and peered out the door, the night was quite, the Harpies were somewhere else in camp, she went out the door and closed it quitely behind her.
The Hermes' cabin was just up a little bit; she listened at the door...
In his dream Jason had his sword out again, he was walking through a dark place like a tunnel, they was someone behind him, he could hear a person walking behind him, but he had better things to do right now…
They was a light at the other end, he crept along until he could look around outside in the light.
A group of people had their backs to him, he crept up behind them and stabbed the first person in the back, the second person screamed and tried to run away but Jason ran after him and killed him.
A third was a girl, she looked at him with big eyes, she was very beautiful and it would be a shame to kill her but she was the enemy…he grabbed his sword hard as he ran her through
Now it was time to deal with the person following him, he turned back into the dark and felt around until he felt him.
He dragged him into the light and held his curly black hair
"Leo!" Jason felt sick but he had to…he held his sword to his friend's throat and pushed in, the dark eyes went dull….
Jason woke just like the did the night before, gasping for air.
This time someone was there
"Shh, you need to leave now, all of you" Annabeth whispered to him
"What" Jason whispered back, tears running down his checks as though he'd really just killed his best friend
He looked to the bed to the right, Leo was sleeping, Jason could hear him breath
"Get up, you're in danger, help me wake these two" Annabeth moved to Piper and shook her shoulder
Jason went to Leo and touched his throat, thankfully it hadn't been cut
"Leo, Leo get up" Leo let out a moan so loud he made the person in the bed opposite stir.
"Get up elf boy" Jason murmured to him and slowly he opened his eyes
Piper, Annabeth, Jason and Leo quietly made their way out of the door, Annabeth waved at them to follow her
"What's going on?" Jason asked her
"When we get out of the Camp I will explain" Annabeth hurried them back up the hill, past the pine tree and down the other side
"We shall be free to talk now" Annabeth handed Piper, Leo and Jason a bag each
"I've packed for you, the gold coins are called Drachma, you can use them for non-mortal purchases, you have ambrosia and nectar be careful with it, too much can kill you and here's a sword for you two"
She handed Leo and Piper a sword.
"Today I heard Chiron and Dionysus talking about you three, the gods seem to think you three are a danger, you must run, If the gods find you they will kill you. They were going to send for you tomorrow and Chiron was going to take you to Olympus and kill you. You must run do you understand?"
"We must run" Leo repeated, "Yeah think so"
"Why are you helping us?" Piper asked her
Annabeth looked at Jason
"I'm helping you as I still believe you are the sign that will help me find my boyfriend Percy, I got a prophecy from a girl called Rachael and she told me to find someone with one shoe and that was you. I don't trust you as I think you are hiding something from me and the gods but as the gods have condemned you three to death and if you three were dead I would not stand a change to find Percy"
"And that in a simple way would be…?" Leo asked
"I believe you can find Percy, the fates work in strange ways, I believe I must save you, to save Percy"
Annabeth looked at them
"You haven't got any knowledge of Greek Mythology have you?" She asked
All three said "No"
"Quick lesion then, listen up, don't say the gods names, names have meanings and they may find you"
She paused to catch her breath
"Monster can be killed with Celestial Bronze only, which is what these blades are, Places that look good are more likely to get you killed, I've been to a few good places and nearly died"
Now she looked up at the sky
"The moon goddess is Artemis, she is also goddess of the hunt so that means at night when she is in her chariot she can see everything and in the day she can hunt you down like an animal so keep under cover at night, or she will see you.
"During the day Apollo her brother will be flying the skies, he is also god of Archery, which means if he wants an arrow in you, he'll have an arrow in you, so watch out for him too, he could also be with Artemis at night or day"
"Now get going, Dionysus will know soon enough you have escaped and when he does all the gods will be after you, so go"
"Oh wait" Now she turned to Leo "Your father is Hermes god of thief's, you'll be able to steal food and clothes quite easy. Also Hermes…well he may be the only god on your side, if you are in great danger pray to Hermes, he may listen to you"
"Why are the gods so brutal?" Piper asked "I though the gods would be like…you know, godly or something"
Annabeth almost laughed
"Wait till you meet the bad ones keep out the way of Ares, Hera or Hades, the ones after you are more, shall I say, sociable"
"I must return to bed, before someone notices I am missing, goodbye and good luck"
Annabeth turned away and ran back up the hill without waiting for them to say bye to her
Jason looked at his two friends
"Just us now" he told them
Together the three wanted demigods turned to the woods to their left, as they entered the woods the moon still shone down through the tress, Jason looked up imaging a formidable goddess staring down at them.