Jason

This has been a long week. Monday: sent on a quest without Piper. Tuesday: nearly ripped to pieces by harpies. Wednesday: lost arm wrestling to Percy, got stuck babysitting a satyr. Thursday: missed an epic hellhound battle. Friday: got punched in the stomach by Percy.

I'm not complaining. Really.

My life just sucks and I know it.

Okay! I'm complaining.

I hate being the odd one out. I decided to call Piper to get her caught up on everything. When I told her about Hazel and Leo, she did this adorable little squeal.

"Oh. My. Gods. I so called it! Annabeth owes me five drachmas!"

"I didn't know a daughter of Athena could be stupid enough to bet on romances against an Aphrodite kid."

Then, when she had finished her happy dance, she suddenly got very serious. "Wait. Like, is it serious? Because if it is, Frank is going to die!"

I cringed and she gasped, clapping a hand over her mouth. "Sorry! Oh, that was SUCH a bad choice of words."

"But he is going to be really upset." Piper said, now close to tears.

"I know Pipes, I know…"

"Is she really interested?"

"Well Piper, I don't know." Rolling my eyes, I added, "They were making out last night and they've been goo-goo eying each other all day. What do you think?"

And that's all it took. Instantly, her shaky, sad expression hardened into a Level 4 Piper Face. I raised my hands in surrender and backed up about a foot.

See, she does this death glare, and it's so scary that we've given it different levels of intensity. We call it the Piper Face because, well, it's pretty self-explanatory. She's the only one who can do it well and everyone is scared of it.

"Piper! Stop! Please!"

She laughed and broke her concentration as Leo peeked around my door.

"Hey Leo!" She said happily.

"Piper! You know, Jason REALLY misses you."

""Yeah, I know." She smirked.

"So uh…did Jason tell you about Hazel fighting that hellhound?"

"Yeah, and he also told me that you were making out with her last night!" She laughed as he blushed.

Suddenly, Leo turned an unnatural shade of green. "Don'ttellFrankpleasePiperhe'llkillme!"

"Okay, but you're going to have to tell him sooner or later."

"I will." Leo sighed with relief. "Now, I'll leave you two alone." He winked at Piper and shut the door behind him.

Annabeth

"I can't take it anymore!" I yelled as I burst into Percy's room.

"Whoa…take it easy, Wise Girl!" He said as he grabbed my shoulders and looked me in the eye. "What's wrong?"

"This quest! Or scavenger hunt or whatever! I hate it! We need to go to Mt. Olympus and get Zeus to stop this right now!"

"Well how do suggest we do that?" Percy asked with a smirk.

"Well…if we get enough of the gods on our side, he'll have to stop it."

"Right now we have Pluto and Mars. The odds aren't very good, Wise Girl."

"No, but our appeal might be, Seaweed Brain."

"All right. Let's go talk to everyone else and see what they think."

I reached for his hand as we walked towards the engine room.

Leo

Annabeth wants us to go and try to reason with the gods at Mt. Olympus. It's a crazy idea, but if it works, we might save Frank's life.

But then I have to tell him about Hazel… what if she goes back to him? No. Leo, seriously. We're talking about Frank's life here.

"Okay, I'm in."

"Me too." Hazel sighed.

"Jason…?" Annabeth looked at him hopefully.

"All right." He said, reaching for his magical goblet.

I set autopilot to take us to the Empire State Building and, due to the new boosters I installed, we were there in ten minutes. We sat inside the Argo for a few minutes and made a plan.

Once we reached the 600th floor, I took a deep breath and led the way into the enormous throne room. Zeus was the first to thunder angrily, "Why are you here?"

"Percy?" Poseidon asked, puzzled.

"Annabeth, why are you and your friends interrupting this important meeting?" Athena frowned at her daughter.

Hazel smiled at her dad, who winked in reply.

"Lord Zeus, we are here on behalf of our friend Frank Zhang," Annabeth began, "We do not appreciate this game that you have created."

Zeus scoffed, "It isn't a game, it's a quest. Don't you usually like those?"

"A quest is a mission to defeat something evil. You are trying to kill Frank and we are trying to stop you. If this is a quest, then you, Lord Zeus, are the evil we face." Hazel replied spitefully, shocking everyone.

"I, for one, agree with her." Pluto said.

Mars added, "Same. I'd prefer that you didn't kill my son without my permission."

"I think these Mars raises a good point. You didn't discuss this with the rest of us." Athena added.

"Why don't you take a vote? We'll continue on this quest if you win, but if we win, you stop this game, spare Frank's life and promise to issue no more quests." Percy suggested.

"Fine." Zeus growled angrily.

Athena, Mars, Pluto, Hera, Hephaestus, and Poseidon sided with us, but Zeus, Apollo, Hestia, Hermes, Dionysus, and Artemis disagreed.

Aphrodite had not voted. Jason turned towards her. "Why didn't you vote?"

"Darling, to save Frank would end an adorable romance. To kill Frank would endanger another romance. Can't you see that? I am torn between the two." She replied with a sigh.

"Aphrodite, you must make a decision, or Zeus will kill all of us, and there will be no romance." Hazel said.

"You have a point, my dear. All right, my vote goes to…Zeus."

Percy gasped and Hazel collapsed into my arms, sobbing. Annabeth turned to hug Percy, and he held her tightly.

Frank was going to die.