Jason's eyes snapped open
"That wasn't me, it can't have been me, I would never do that" He told the goddess, he wanted her to believe him
"That was you Jason; I did warn you that you may not like what you see"
Hestia gave him a look of pity
"Is that the reason the gods want me dead?" Jason asked her, she nodded
"Why" Jason asked her, he felt wetness in the side of his eyes, he blinked and dried his face, somehow he remembered…it was bad to cry, it was wrong, it showed weakness
He shook his head, trying to get rid of his memories, he was happy not knowing who he truly was…a cold blooded killer, the enemy.
"The gods want you dead as you were one of the Titan lords best soldiers, you killed many people, you were one of Kronos' body guards, the gods want to kill you as they believe you still are faithful to him and now you have your memories back they will be able to read your mind and see all the things you have done, they will not let you live"
Hestia added more wood into the fire
"Also they believe you are lying, you turned up at the camp on the third day of the disappearance of Percy Jackson, the gods consider you a spy for Kronos and also…The gods believe you kidnapped Percy"
"What?" Jason shouted "I've never meet him, I've been to that school all year, Leo and Piper told me"
The goddess looked at him with sad eyes
"Jason…in our world we have a thing called Mist"
"Yeah, it stops mortals seeing monsters, my father told me, I remember now" Jason felt lightheaded, he felt sick
He looked at Leo and Piper, he wanted them to believe he was a friend and not an enemy but when he looked both his friends were deep asleep on the floor
"Why are they like that for?" Jason panicked
"Jason, the Mist also can fool demigods, I have hid you for a year until the heat died down and the other week I placed you on a bus, I travelled far until I sensed two demigods, I took you to them, I put the mist over their eyes but when they wake…they will know you are not their friend, they will fear you, hate you maybe"
Jason shook his head
"NO you lie" he screamed getting to his feet "You're a goddess, you tricked me, this is a trap, none of it's real"
Hestia turned to him
"Please sit back down, Jason think about yourself; you remember everything about yourself…what happened to your mother?"
"You have no right to know" Jason's eyes burnt with tears, but he knew.
His father wanted a strong demigod to take down the gods, his mother didn't want him to take Jason, told him to go find some other child, his father had turned her into ash and dragged Jason from the house
Jason sat down, he remembered everything, the anger at Luke, how he wanted to be powerful and all the battles he had ever fort
"Can you make it go away?" Jason asked her
"I'm afraid I can't….your friends are waking"
Jason looked down, Leo had lifted his head and Piper sat up.
Piper gripped Leo's hand, he turned and looked at Hestia and than at Jason
"Who the hell are you" Leo said, his voice told Jason he was upset "I remember you and me sitting down playing hangman in class…but I've just met you"
Piper sniffed, tears trickled down her nose
"I told you he wasn't to be trusted" the cold voice said to Leo
"I have memories of you, how can that be?" Piper cried, Leo hugged her
"Are the gods still after me and Piper?" Leo asked both the goddess and the cold voice
"I'm afraid so" Hestia said
"And it's all his fault" The cold voice said
"And it's all his fault" Leo repeated in a shout pointing at Jason
"No, Leo please, you may not be able to remember me, but I am your friend" Jason pleaded
"No Jason, you are NOT my friend, I don't even know you, I have a memory, I guess it's not real but I once told you why I ran away six times from my mother…if any of this is real you will be able to tell me why I ran away"
Leo waited, but Jason had no idea what he was talking about
"I can't" Jason muttered
Hestia stood up
"I must go now, the gods will be expecting me back soon" Hestia vanished
"She's gone to tell the other gods where we are" Piper moaned, she put her hand to her mouth
"She won't, she has helped me before" Jason said
Jason turned away from his friends, trying to clear his mind. Something knocked him over
"Leo don't" Piper's voice shouted
Jason's head hit a tree branch as he fell; Leo had dived onto him and started hitting him
Jason turned around and kicked Leo in the stomach, he rolled off Jason
"Look please, we have to stay together, the gods want to kill us" Jason said
"No, the gods want you dead and we got sentenced to death just because some goddess chose to sit you next to us and mess with our heads. I don't even know what's real anymore!" Leo screamed back at Jason
Leo felt nothing but hatred for every single god, they were all playing with him. His hand rubbed on the handle of his sword
"Fight me" Leo said, he took out his sword and waited for Jason to take his out
"Leo I'm not fighting you, you're my friend" Jason said
"Call him a coward, say he is more of a coward than my host was, he'll understand and it'll provoke him" The cold voice said
"You won't fight me? You are a coward Jason; you're more of a coward than his host was"
Jason's insides burned with hate, he remembered wanting to please Kronos, his anger blinded him
He took out his coin and flipped it, Leo raised his sword. Jason ran at Leo and carved into his side
Leo screamed in agony, the blade smashed into his ribs. Piper screamed
Leo hit his sword into Jason's legs but he just jumped away unharmed, blood was dripping down Leo's back and he felt faint
"You can't win this fight demigod" Jason told Leo in a hard cold voice Leo had never heard before
Leo got up on his feet, half blinded by his pain; he stabbed at Jason who just stepped to the side
Jason grinned "Prepare to die"
Leo met his blade but Jason kicked him, Leo fell back down, his sword falling out of his hands
"No Jason please don't hurt him" Piper cried
Leo felt the sharp blade slash his chest, he screamed even more
"Stop, please" Piper begged as Jason brought the sword down again, this time it went through Leo's leg
Jason raised his sword again, he forgot Leo was his friend, to him Leo was an enemy who needed to be killed, he had learnt from Luke not to trust friends
The sword came down as Leo tried to crawl away, the blade meet his back, blood fell out of Leo's mouth
Leo fell to the floor again; Jason stepped over him and held his sword over Leo, point down, ready to deal him a fatal blow
Leo closed his eyes, he remembered someone friendly who had come to visit him once when he was really young…after a monster had attacked him, this person was a man, with curly black hair, blue twinkly eyes
'Father help me' Leo muttered, Jason plunged the blade down…
Hermes jerked upwards, his heart beating fast, a hundred things raced through his mind. He stood up off the park bench what he'd been sitting on for days without moving,
His son needed him, Hermes heard him praying for help
Hermes vanished
Apollo had been watching, he hated himself for betraying Hermes but he had to, he closed his eyes and with his prophecy powers he could see where Hermes had gone.
He ran into the throne room
"Father, Hermes has answered the call from his son; I shall follow him and bring the demigods back here"
Zeus nodded to Apollo who vanished
"Father help me' Leo muttered, Jason plunged the blade down but it hit the floor, Jason looked down and saw only grass
Some powerful force pushed him back into a tree where his head slammed into the trunk; he fell down into the roots and didn't move again.
Piper looked at Jason, she felt half afraid for him and half angry. She turned her head to the newcomer.
He looked like Leo. The sun was coming up, lighting up his elfish features.
The man was looking at Leo's wounds; Leo seemed to have passed out
"Are you a god?" Piper asked him, he nodded
"Yes, have you got any Ambrosia or Nectar?" Hermes asked Piper
"No, is he going to die?" Piper said quietly, her face hot with tears
"Don't know, he's bleeding badly" Hermes lifted Leo's limp body off the floor and turned and walked into Apollo
"What are you doing here Apollo?" Hermes asked, raising an eyebrow
"Was going to ask you that" Apollo said
"I need to help him and you won't stop me" Hermes turned around and walked away from him.
Apollo was getting sick of this, Hermes may be suffering from lose or depression but his rebellious behaviour was really getting to him now.
He got out his bow and fixed an arrow into it and aimed at Hermes
"Drop the demigod Hermes, help me with the girl, Artemis will be here soon, you will be out numbered"
Hermes turned his head at Apollo and saw him with the arrow, he grinned in an elfish way
"So, just when did you turn into father?" he asked the sun god
"Drop him and help me with her" Apollo shouted "You should be helping us bring them in, father has ordered you"
Hermes moved his hand over to Leo's back and pressed down, while keeping his other hand over Leo's side, trying to stop the blood.
Hermes quickly held onto Leo with one arm and pulled his Caduceus out, knocking Apollo's arrow away
"Drop him" Apollo shouted again
Hermes looked at the girl, her eyes meet his
'Run' Hermes spoke into her mind, her eyes went wide and her mouth opened in shock but she understood.
Piper turned on her heel and made a run for it
"Stop" Apollo shouted at her, he lifted his bow and reached behind him for an arrow but they had gone
"Hand me my arrows back thief" Apollo warned, he grabbed his arrows from Hermes and looked around for Piper
"Don't worry, Brother, she didn't go far" Artemis had arrived, holding Piper in her arms.
Piper kicked and bit the goddess but Artemis was too strong and held on
"I'll be telling father about this Hermes" Apollo told Hermes, who shrugged, he had taken Leo's jacket off and wrapped it tightly around Leo's wounds and he was stroking Leo's hair
Apollo picked up Jason and Artemis dragged Piper, she was normally a gentle goddess to young females but with Piper she showed no pity for her as this girl and her friends were responsible for Thalia's injures
"Brother can you do something about her?" Artemis asked as Piper dug her nails into her arm
Apollo clicked his fingers and Piper went all weak and floppy
"Ough" Piper groaned as Artemis carried her to a chariot, Apollo made sure Hermes came with them.
Hermes came back with them to heal Leo, but he knew it was hopeless; Zeus would kill them all without thinking twice about it
The three of them and the demigods landed on Olympus and Zeus meet them
"I have spoken to Hestia and she has convinced me to postpone their executions for now, take all three of them to the dungeons, we shall hold a trial and their fates shall be decided there"