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II Senate Meeting

"Take your weapons out!"

Percy heard the familiar shout of Terminus stopping everybody going to the Senate meeting. The Greeks were slow to catch on, but they eventually realized that this statue who had no arms was telling them to take out all their weapons.

Leo tried to get past the statue, but was stopped.

"Hold it right there, mister, that belt of yours is carrying weapons, I can feel it. Give it to me now, or I'll strangle you!"

"Strangle me? You don't even have-arghhhhhh!"

Percy shoved a gag into Leo's mouth, stopping him from saying "You don't have any arms." because he remembered the last time he had said that, and it wasn't a good experience.

"Just hand in the toolbelt."

"No! This toolbelt is magical, I keep it with me all the time, and I've never took it off since I found it in Bunker 9."

"Bunker 9?"

"Oh, I forgot, you weren't there. Well, I discovered this amazing bunker in the woods. It served as a refuge for demigods during the civil war."

"Okay… and tell me why there would be a magic toolbelt in there and why you cannot take the toolbelt off?"

"I'll take it off, jeez, don't have to be so angry."

"Will you two GET ON WITH IT!" yelled Terminus.

Leo, Percy, and everybody else handed over the weapons, and Terminus finally allowed them over the border line. Once they got into the Senate, they saw that Octavian was already there. Reyna sat stiff and silent in her seat. When the meeting began, Octavian immediately said that since Camp Half-Blood hadn't managed to produce anybody to be on the quest for the Great Prophecy, it was natural that Rome should step in and substitute them. Then, without giving anybody any time to object, he produced his candidates. They were two of his meanest, most loyal cronies, and everybody there knew that they would keep Octavian informed about the quest. Almost everybody objected, but Octavian said that he had "read the future" and knew that they were chosen. Nobody could object because if they did, they would be challenging Octavian, and nobody wanted to challenge Octavian.

The next matter was who was going to be the leader of the quest. Octavian said that his candidate, Joseph, should be the leader. He was Roman, and he had the most senior rank. That worked well, until Jason pointed out that Percy was praetor, and therefore held the most senior rank. The ensuing "fight" lasted about five seconds, which ended up with Octavian taking a punch in the head, and reluctantly agreeing to let Percy become leader.

After the meeting adjourned, Percy found himself with Frank. Frank was one of his relatives, so he was pretty sure he could trust him with a secret.

"Frank, have you ever felt like you liked a girl before, but now after several months apart you sort of fell apart yourselves."

"No, not really why?"

"Well, I used to really love Annabeth, but I'm not so sure now. She's beautiful, but I just don't know."

"Dude, Annabeth is perfect for you, she's smart, cute, and funny. She obviously cares about you."

"Well, you can't force love, Frank. I feel bad about thinking about dumping her after she spent the better part of eight months searching for me, but I don't feel the same way I do before."

"Well, if you have to break up with her, don't go out with anybody else for some time."

Frank was looking out at the sea, so completely missed Percy's look of panic and disappointment.

(A/N Please don't climb through a window in my house and kill me, Percabeth fans. I just felt sick of all those Mark of Athenas because every one of them have Percabeth in them.)

Suddenly, there was a huge explosion on the other side of camp, near the River Tiber.

"Holy Crap, what the hell was that?"

"Don't ask me, do you think I have superhuman sight?"

"Not the time to get smart with me Frank, and if that was supposed to be a joke, then just do me a favor."

"What might that be?"

"Shut up and follow me."

Percy ran full pelt towards the source of the explosion.

Meanwhile on Mt. Olympus

"Do you have a rat, I'm hungry."

"Shut up George, don't you ever think about something other than rats."

"I'm hungry, I need a rat. Even when Hermes was inventing the Internet he still had time to give me a rat."

"He's too busy."

"Yeah, sitting on the steps of the Mt. Olympus throne room sulking because Zeus won't let him deliver the mail is called busy."

"George show some respect, do you want him to put us on mute again."

"Ugh no, but still, I'M HUNGRY!"

"Will the two of you SHUT UP?" yelled Hermes.

"Hermes! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO MUTE YOUR PHONE WHEN YOU ARE NEAR THE THRONE ROOM?" Hera yelled.

"Hey maybe we can get into a real fight. I remember the Titan War. Laser mode was really fun."

"SHUT U-"

"Happy?" asked Hermes.

"Not particularly." Replied Hera.

Then, Hephaestus came over and said, "I just caught Ares and Aphrodite in another trap. You wanna come and see?"

Zeus sighed."This is getting old, Hephaestus, and when I mean old, I mean millennium old. "

"I will!" said an enthusiastic Apollo.

"Boys." Athena, Artemis, and Hestia said together.

Back at Camp Jupiter

As it turned out, the explosion was caused by Leo, who had burst into flames when one of his fellow cohort members had pushed him over his anger limit. The thing that had blown up was a barrel, lying off to the side. The cohort guy had been sent to the infirmary, and it didn't seem like he was going to be coming out anytime soon, but Leo wasn't exactly in a great position either. Octavian immediately called out saying that the Greeks were untrustworthy brats who should be rooted out. Especially fire users. He immediately had the Second and Fourth Cohort behind him. The Greeks were forced to scatter, and by the time Frank and Percy arrived on the scene, the two cohorts had turned into a mob.

When they saw Percy, they began chanting, "Kill the Greek, Drive out the Greek."

Percy and Frank were forced to make a run for it. All the Greeks who had managed to get away, plus Hazel and Frank, who were part of the Great Prophecy regrouped in the praetor villa. They had all managed to get their things they needed to sail to Greece. Soon, the Greeks and the five of the Seven made a dash for the Argo II. They all made it, and soon were in the air. They managed to make it out of danger, but Jason had a tight pit in his stomach, because they had been forced to leave Reyna behind. He hoped that she would understand why he left, and why he didn't tell her about it beforehand.

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