CHAPTER III - JASON - THINGS AREN'T WHAT THEY ALWAYS SEEM

After Frank and I had hoisted the table up Leo took the Celestial Bronze Box and examined it, he shook it, tapped it, and even tossed it in the air and caught it a couple of times. Finally he said,"This, is a top A grade Vault, that can be only unlocked by the key, on the inside there are words carved in, Βάλτε το άγαλμα της Αθηνάς (Put Athena's statue), that's it. Anyways, anything can be locked up in this box, after all it is an ETA box, so we can put whatever we need to guard the most in here. This is the lasted model, and it NEVER gets full, SWEET!" Leo said looking positively hyper.

"Yeah, but what about the key?" Piper asked passing it over.

"Hmmm, imperial gold, it has the "v" symbol, it's a VOLCANIC PRO, this key can almost unlock/lock anything that has an imperial gold lock or celestial bronze lock! This also has stuff on it, stuff written in Latin, in other words stuff I can't read, Jason, you decifer this." Leo told as he passed the key to Jason.

I took the key from Leo and inspected it, it said, Minerva's, hortus in Olympo,"Basically, it says In Minerva's, or Athena;s garden in Olympus."

"Well that clears it up, lets look at the prophecy," Piper said

I don't know whether it was charm speak or whether everyone actually agreed with her.

"To save the bronze swords from a certain fate, Five of the Seven will now wait, the reunion with the family opposite lovers, will result in the release of the anger of a mother, to reunite the camps banes to each other, Athena's acceptance must be won over," Frank recited

"I don't know about you, but that prophecy seems awfully clear..." Hazel pointed out.

"We should at least base down the facts," Frank argued back.

"HEY! I got what it means!" Leo exclaimed. We all turned to look at him slightly shocked, "Hey I can be serious at some times. Anyways Bronze swords, that means camp half blood, to save it from being like plummeted into nothing we gotta hurry. The reunion with Percy and Annabeth will get rid of some Anger some mom has, and the last two mean that to reunite the two camps we have to have Athena's acceptance. The only part I don't get is why." Leo stopped talking.

"Wow Leo, you actually are smart!" Piper exclaimed.

"Shocker," Leo shot back.

"Well that's strange," Frank suddenly said.

"Whats strange," I asked.

"The book, there's nothing in it except this rectangle!" He exclaimed gesturing wildly at the rectangle nestled in the hollowed section of the blank book pages.

"That is no black rectangle," leo said giddily like a kid on christmas, "that's an ETA holophone! It contains like a visual message! Pass it to me, I'll turn it on." Frank reluctantly forked it over and leo did a comination of weird taps on the screen, and then suddenly a movie screen appeared in front of them.

"THOSE ROMANS HOW DARE THEY TAKE AWAY MY BATTLE POWER! NOW ALL AM IS THE GODDESS OF 'sMaRtS' pah! They're in for it," Yelled the goddess flickering in the form of Athena or Minerva,"That's it, they'll pay," she muttered a few words,"The mark of Athena shall burn through ROME forever! until its demise, and even after that, until the very last roman is killed I will not rest! Unless of course one of my GREEK children will take my coin and release the roman war goddess part of me trapped in the statue!" Athena said, her form fully Athena, she called an owl, "FLY my messenger, take this to the first Greek Athena demigod you see!"

Then, the screen turned black

"Well that was some lovely after dinner entertainment," said Leo.

"No time to ponder over that, we have an iris message to send."

Piper nodded and pulled out a silver drachma and a spray bottle out of her pocket, Leo took the spray bottle and started squirting, until a rainbow formed." "Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow accept my offering!" she chanted as she tossed the coin into the rainbow. "Show me, the campers at Camp Half-Blood!"

The scene changed all the campers were at the bonfire. Frank and Hazel introduced themselves. And then Piper started telling the story, Frank, Hazel, Leo, butted in and told them details. Soon an enchanted voice called for another drachma, piper flipped another one and continued, about where Percy and Annabeth were, what happened in the cave. Then they recited the prophecy and told them shocking news about Athena. She ended the talk with how the Romans were going to invade camp.

"Chiron, we're gonna be there in about 36 hours, the Romans in 3 or 4 days, prepare all you can for a DEFENSIVE strategy to stop their idea that we want to fight." Leo said

"Alright Leo we will do as you say, and Nico, you knew about the double camps," Chiron asked, Nico blushed,"we will continue this talk when you return. We hope to see you here soon, in one piece."

Our time was up, now all we needed to do was get their as fast as possible, and bring peace between the two sides.