So, thanks for the reviews! Here's the second chapter. This whole thing is about four and a half pages long, and read this slowly (So you won't get the tone that this is too fast-paced). I haven't been able to write very often, with all the school (A four page book report due soon, ugh) and midterms coming and I got a huge cold a couple days ago. And I have trouble coming up with Leo's weird jokes :P

Jason

Jason saw :

Percy run in the ship, despite his fear of Jupiter, and come out carrying Annabeth.

The look of anguish on Percy's face.

The blood that stained Annabeth's hair.

Percy calling for a medic.

The Apollo kids come and take Annabeth out of Percy's arms.

And Jason witnessed the cruelty of the gods.

Jason wanted to stop Percy as he rolled back his hair, and looked as though he might pull it out, one strand at a time.

"Why?" Percy screamed to the sky. "Eight months wasn't enough for you?"

"Percy," Hazel touched his shoulder.

"I'm fine!" Percy shrugged his shoulder out of Hazel's grasp. Jason stepped forward. "I just need some water. Reyna, take over, I'm going for a swim."

Jason watched as Reyna advanced, looking tentatively at Percy as he went knee-deep into the Little Tiber, and shot towards a little bunch of trees a little ways to the right.

"He's coming back, right?" Jason asked.

"He will. The water will calm him down." Said Frank, looking in the direction of Percy.

"Didn't I say 'fall back'?" Reyna shouted at the legion.

They left, including the lares, and Octavian was left there, holding a sliced open penguin pillow pet and smiling maliciously.

"Oh," he said. "If only I could have foreseen this earlier! The ship is a bird, but it doesn't fly." He held up the penguin carcass like a trophy.

"Shut up, Octavian. For once, I'm glad I lost my memory. It didn't have you in it," Jason struggled to control his temper.

"Well! Reyna, I hope you've realized that neither Jason nor Percy are suited for the praetor positions, what with their unstable personalities! I'm off to fulfill the esteemed augur job that I am so fitted for. Just look at me! Why, I'm good enough to have two jobs at once! As augur, and praetor." Octavian smiled smugly, and pranced back towards camp.

"Gods, I fear what sort of person would bear a child such as him." Reyna spat.

"What'sthat!" Leo shouted, flinching back, apparently unaware of Octavian. A faraway giant watery hand grasped a tree and smashed it against the ground.

"Percy," Frank answered. "He's just venting." They watched from a distance as Percy was raised a hundred feet off the ground in a tiny jet stream.

"Ughhh," Hazel moaned, falling down.

"Ummm…" Frank stammered, unsure of what to do in front of Jason, Piper, Leo, and Reyna, who were all unaware of Hazel's flashbacks. "Oh, no! I, uh, should go take care of her. Hazel, um, no need for worrying, Hazel gets these occasionally.
"I'm going to…Uh, take Hazel back to her bed." Frank half dragged half carried Hazel in the gates.

"That was weird," said Jason. Leo had sat down with a pile of screws, pipecleaners, and a bucket-arranging them in a strange pattern-, and Piper and Reyna looked as if they were going to duel each other. "Should we be worried?"

"I don't know, Frank said Hazel got them sometimes." Piper stripped off her cardigan, leaving a purple tank top underneath. Jason glanced at her, thinking about how even without makeup, and that pimple that had appeared on her forehead, Piper still looked stunningly beautiful.

"Without Percy, Frank, and Hazel, we can't conduct the meeting." Reyna was having a staring/poker face contest with Piper. "I say we move it later. Maybe in the infirmary when Annabeth is a bit better. Agreed? Jason?" She said lovingly, almost as powerful as charmspeak. Jason suddenly felt uncomfortable.

"So, according to this awesome diagram made by the supreme commander of the Argo II, and the way we malfunctioned, it looks like the spark tube broke, and the huge hole. That doesn't explain the loss of height, though."

Piper and Reyna gripped each other at the elbows.

"Temporary truce, in the hopes that the earth doesn't die." Reyna said, all official-like.

"Hi…" Jason said awkwardly.

"What does a temporary truce with Piper have to do with the ship?"

"Hey, we're still welcome here, right? Because if not, that would suck. A lot. We would be stuck living out here fixing Argo II with archers aimed and ready to fire at us." Piper picked up a stone that lay near the hole.

"You are. Maybe not by Octavian, and the people he blackmails, but other than that you're golden." Reyna glared at the bowmen who were positioned at the gate. They withdrew.

"Where is brother?" Despite being over 6 feet tall, as heavy as a tractor, and holding a huge club that dragged on the ground, Tyson managed to draw close to the small group without their noticing.

"Brother-used as 'bother' as in 'Oh, brother.' Or brother, a sibling. Older brother, younger brother. Relation." Ella fluttered nervously above Tyson. "Ella doesn't like being outside gates. Gates. Protective. Use in keeping unwanted things out. Outside gates leaves you unprotected and vulnerable to. Vulnerable. Ella going inside." Ella turned around a zoomed inside.

"OhmygoshisthatwhatIthinkitis?" Piper fell backwards, and with Leo, they scooched on their butts behind Jason.

"Cyclops." Jason flipped his ancient coin, arranged his legs in a defensive stance, and caught his sword.

"Stop!" Reyna said forcefully. "This is Percy's brother, Tyson, the friendly-cyclopes-who-played-a-major-part-in-defeating-the-army."

"Oh." Jason withdrew his sword. "Percy's brother?"

"Neptune dates around," Piper said immediately. She had learned a lot about Poseidon/Neptune when her dad had acted in that Greek movie.

"That totally explains the nine billion foot tall person with one eye." Leo said sarcastically.

"Where is brother?" Tyson repeated.

"He's somewhere over there, Tyson," said Reyna, cautiously. A Cyclops is not one you fool around with.

"BROTHER!" Tyson called. A flock of huge bird things erupted from a mountainside and flew north as fast as they could.

"What, Tyson?" Percy appeared next to them.

"Who-AaaA!" Leo screamed.

"Stop it, Leo. I came from that mountain over there in a hurricane. Anyways, skip the introduction, where's Frank and Hazel?"

"Hazel fainted and Frank took her inside." Percy's toga had fallen to his waist, and ripped in half. It looked like a pair of really baggy white pants, and there was a scar on his left pectoral from the battle with Kronos.

He's hot, was all Piper could think.

"Horse-man sent Iris message. Said to ask you to Iris him."

"Okay. Thanks, Tyson. Can you go and take Mrs. O' Leary out on a walk real quick? With Ella?"

"Walking with Mrs. O' Leary is fun. Tyson will go."

"Thanks, Tyson." The ground seemed to rumble as Tyson ran back.

"Okay, back to business. I need to Iris message Chiron soon, so let's make this quick. Reyna, since we obviously can't conduct the meeting now, have you set a time or place?"

"Yes, we're thinking of doing it in the…infirmary. When Annabeth wakes up." Percy winced.

"That's. Fine with me. Great idea, Reyna."

"Now, concerning the praetor position,"

"I'm fine with stepping down. Jason is the original praetor, and he is back now."

"This whole thing is about switching places so we can learn to trust each other. As previous praetor, I think you should keep it. As long as we have to fight together. Agreed?"

"No objections. Motion passed!"

"Praetor Percy, the medics say that Annabeth has a concussion. She should be awake in a couple of hours to tomorrow. Not sure if she suffered any brain damage yet." A small girl maybe around the age of twelve, wearing a white nurse band around her arm, came running to them.

"Thank you, Crista, you may leave now." Reyna spoke instead of Percy, who was at the moment frozen in complete silence.

"Heh, he, ha!" Percy went from a small laugh to a manic, crazed shout.

"Percy!" Jason gripped him on the shoulder.

"She's okay! She's great!"

"Piper, get me a bucket of water, please."

"Sure thing." Piper grabbed Leo's bucket, ignored his shouts, scooped up some water, and handed Jason the filled pail.

"Thanks." Jason dumped the bucket over Percy's head.

"Oh my gods. Thanks. I wasn't really doing all that stuff I was thinking I was doing, was I? Never mind." Percy looked embarrassed, and drew the water from his hair and his clothes. He dumped it on the ground.

"So, what do you think happened to Annabeth?"

"I dunno. She might've hit her head on something when the ship hit the building."

"What even happened to Argo?"

"I don't know," Leo was fixing his little diorama. "One second everything was great, and the next it was like the earth was pulling us down."

The earth was pulling them down. The thought dawned on them.

"Gaea."

I hope you liked it! I've been trying really hard to finish this in my sick state, and I have a midterm on Monday. Tell me what was wrong with it, or whatever.