Ok- so this chapter has A LOT of explaining in it. Hopefully, that won't be too awfully boring... so anyways, here's Leo with a message!

Leo: Hello, earthlings. Audree a.k.a. DaughterOfGaea wants me to say that she doesn't own Heroes of Olympus or the Kane Chronicles. *whispers* She's just too ashamed to say it.

Me: What did you just say, Leo? *aims bow and arrow at Leo's face*

Leo: Um, I said that you are pretty?

Me: Nice try. *pulls wand out of the Duat and points it at Leo* Tas!

Leo: AAAAHHHHH! *own tool belt ties him to a chair*

Me: On with the story! *goes to find a camera to capture Leo's struggle*

Piper

STANDING ON A GREEK WARSHIP WITH A GIANT STATUE. How romantic.

Having a conversation with Jason was a little hard considering the Athena Parthenos. We had rescued the statue a couple days ago when Annabeth found it. But now that she and Percy were in Tartarus, it didn't make me feel any better.

"So… why are we out here again?" Jason asked.

I had dragged him out onto the Argo II's deck to tell him about my vision. My dagger, Katoptris, sometimes showed me glimpses of the future. It first belonged to Helen of Troy; it really was a miracle that the poor girl didn't go insane.

"My knife," I whispered. I didn't want anyone to know about my vision yet, and I was hoping that they couldn't hear me below decks. I unsheathed my dagger and looked into it. "I had a vision. It was these two kids, maybe a little younger than us. They were talking to this woman in an Iris-message, but I had no idea who she was."

"Could it have been Gaea? She could've fooled them," Jason proposed. His golden hair was blowing in the wind, but he didn't need any breeze to make him look hot. I wondered if he had realized that, and was making the breeze himself. Jason was a son of Jupiter (or Zeus, whichever.) so he could do stuff like that.

"I don't think it was. I mean, can Gaea Iris-message in her sleep?" I asked. Jason looked up at the marble statue as if expecting an answer. Leo, our ship's captain, had insisted on giving the statue a companion. So within a few days, he had sculpted a five-foot tall bronze sphinx and set it next to the statue. Why a sphinx and not another statue, I had no idea.

"I really wish I knew, Pipes," he said. I loved it when he called me that. "We should really tell the others. Maybe they can-" He didn't get to finish his sentence before he was attacked by a UCO (unidentified crashing object). I couldn't really see what it was until it- or should I say they- stood up.

First, there was the girl. She looked about 13 maybe, with straight, blonde hair that had little streaks of purple. She had startling blue eyes that said mess with me, and I'll grind you to a pulp. She wore faded jeans, a brown leather jacket, and combat boots. She also wore a strange charm on a chain around her neck, and I just thought that it looked like my hair in the morning.

Then there was the boy. He looked a little older than the girl, but they had no resemblance. He had cocoa-colored skin, dark brown eyes, and a mop of curly black hair. He was wearing white linen clothing, and carried a wicked-looking sword that curved into a wide U. He also wore a charm that looked like an eye with a squiggly line.

I didn't know what to do, and Jason wasn't going to do anything while lying on the deck, so I called for reinforcements. "Stay back!" I yelled at the pair. I had used my charmspeak, a helpful Aphrodite power, and the two backed up. "Help! Someone! Leo!" I heard a banging noise coming from down stairs, hopefully some help. But then, my plan went wrong.

The girl looked at me and grabbed two things out of mid-air: a long white staff and something that looked like an ivory boomerang. Then she pointed her boomerang at my dagger and yelled, "Ha-di!" Something glowed above me, and my knife broke into pieces.

"What?" I screamed. "Why you little-" I was cut short by my friends running onto the deck.

First came Leo, a son of Hephaestus. He was short with curly, dark hair and had tanned Latino skin. He was wearing his customary army jacket and trusty tool belt. He grabbed a hammer out of the tool belt and lit it on fire. I know what you're thinking: How can someone keep a hammer in a tool belt and light it on fire and still live? Well, he found the belt in Bunker 9, a secret workshop at Camp Half-Blood. It could hold anything. And the fire, well, that's a gift from his dad. Leo's immune to fire and can summon it at will.

Then came Frank, a son of Mars. He was a big, klutzy Chinese-Canadian fellow who was a master at archery. He also had a gift from his dad: shape shifting. He could turn into anything he wanted- and in this case, a tiger. He prowled around the boy and the girl while snarling viciously.

Next came Hazel, a daughter of Pluto and Frank's girlfriend. She had dark skin and frizzy caramel hair. She had a special power of summoning valuable gems and metals, but if anyone touches them but her, well, you die. Technically, she was supposed to have died about 70 years ago. Gaea had possessed her mother and taken advantage of Hazel. Gaea used Hazel to awaken one of her giants, but Hazel had slowed down the process by dying. Then, she was rescued from the Underworld by her half-brother.

Her half-brother was Nico, a son of Hades. He had recently joined our quest when we rescued him from a jar and two ballerina giants (long story). He was pale skinned and dressed in all black from his hair to his sword, which was made of Stygian iron.

And last but not least came our chaperone, Gleeson Hedge. From the waist up, he looked like a short, pudgy man who was in need of teeth whitener. But from the waist down, he looked like a furry farm animal. He was a satyr: a man-goat. He ran out swinging his club and yelling, "Die!"

But all the commotion didn't faze the boy and girl. The boy was swinging his sword at Frank, who was still in tiger-form. The boy had a blue aurora flickering around him, but I didn't want to know what would happen when he was fully surrounded in the blue light. The girl kept screaming at Leo "A'max!" and setting him on fire. But Leo kept on fighting, trying to wrap the two up with rope, which seemed to confuse the girl. Hazel was by his side with her sword drawn and a handful of diamonds ready to throw.

I guessed that Hedge had just woken up from his nap because he was actually running away from the fight. He started to get into a brawl with a post and kept swinging at it with his club while yelling, "Bring it on!"

While I was standing there helpless and weaponless, Jason was still lying on the ground next to me. Through all the commotion, Leo had wrapped the duo up in rope and stuck duct tape on their mouths. I knelt next to Jason and shook him. "Oh, gods," I said, "they knocked him out!" I bent down further and put my hand on his heart. I sighed with relief. "Good. Good. His pulse is fine. Frank, can you carry him to his room?" I asked. Frank, who had changed back to human, hobbled over.

"I guess," he said. He slung Jason over his shoulder and headed for the stairs. I shot him a look of distaste and set my eyes back on the pair.

"So," I said, "what kind of monsters are you?"

Don't you just love a sassy Piper? Oh, Jason why do you have to always get knocked out? And Leo- wait, how did you escape the chair?

Leo: Uhhh... *runs for his life*

Me: Oh no you don't! *shoots and arrow and pins Leo to the wall. Grabs wand* Ha-wi!

Leo: *hieroglyphic appears and he slaps himself repeatedly* Seriously!?

Me: Don't mess with me.

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