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Chapter 18: Jason
Jason hadn't expected Piper and Reyna to last that long together. Piper had just been trying to be friendly at first, starting a conversation. When they first stared arguing it had been friendly enough, but by the time Annabeth had come, they were getting violent. Jason had been wary of Piper and Reyna meeting for a while now. He knew that Reyna hadn't been his girlfriend, but he had remembered enough to know that they had really liked each other.
Jason walked into the pavilion and sat down alone at the Jupiter table. A few minutes later, Lupa walked in.
"Settle down!" she howled, her voice a little fiercer than usual. "As you can see, we have the arrival of three Greek demigods with us, but they will not be treated as enemies!" Annabeth, Piper, and Leo were sitting at small table set up in the corner of the pavilion. People glanced at them suspiciously, as if trying to see if they were spies, while the three tried to look insignificant, but to Jason they just looked nervous and anxious.
"Also," Lupa continued, "As you can see, Jason Grace has returned to our camp!" Everybody already knew, but a great amount of cheering went up. Nobody got up, Lupa would probably punish them if they did, but the noise was deafening. It was Jason's turn to try and look insignificant.
After dinner, when Reyna and Piper where done helping with the dishes, Jason caught up with Reyna.
"Hey," he said. "Reyna, I remember you, and a lot of things we did. I remember Bobby, and Hazel, Dakota, Gwen. Please don't be mad at Piper because of that. I don't want you guys to be enemies, and I don't want to have to choose sides. Please be kind to Piper. I'll ask her the same thing for you later." Jason hoped he didn't sound like he was pleading.
Reyna studied him for a moment. Then she sighed. "Jason, all I know is that when you got back today, you were friends with Greek demigods. They are supposed to be our enemies. And not only friends, but one of them is your girlfriend?" she shook her head. "I'd have cooperated if they didn't get in the way. I'm only going on the quest because I haven't had one for so long. I almost don't want to go, because of your new friends." she started to turn away.
Jason didn't understand what was going through Reyna's head. "Reyna, when I woke up on a school bus, that's what Piper and Leo they told me! They were fooled by the Mist! As for the prophecy, we have to work together. Its the only way. If we turn against each other, then you're right, there's no way we're going to cooperate." Jason wanted to push some sense into this girl. What did she have against his friends?
Reyna just sighed, "Alright. But don't expect me to treat them like they're my best friends. I don't know what you think, but I don't want to trust them, as allies, as friends, or anything more." she turned and ran towards her cabin.
This is a lost cause. Jason thought, and headed back to his cabin.
That night, Jason dreamed what seemed to be flashes of a battle. It was in Athens, somewhere close to the Parthenon, and there were things exploding, forests burning with Greek fire, and the sound of swords clashing together. Jason also heard whispers around him of voices he didn't recognize. They kept saying, "Hurry! Hurry!"
Percy
Percy still couldn't believe that he was seeing Annabeth again. By this time, he had remembered pretty much everything, and a lot of what he had done had been with her. And now she was here.
Percy left her with Piper and Reyna and headed towards the woods behind his cabin. Eventually he came to a small tool shed. Inside were swords, arrows, javelins, spears, and a bunch of other weapons and tools. Percy walked to the corner of the room and opened a big chest. Inside, under a bunch of really old, abandoned armor, was a notebook and a pencil. Percy took it out and sat on the chest, flipping through it. Inside he had wrote down people who he remembered, places he remembered, adventures he had had. He had tried to draw some of the things that he remembered, like people and places, but he really wasn't that great an artist.
He kept this notebook to remind himself that he had had a life before coming here, and that there were people he needed to see. He didn't keep it in his cabin, because he didn't want somebody to unexpectedly walk in on him a see him flipping through the book. Barely anybody ever came in here.
Finally he flipped to a page where there was a picture of him and Annabeth, paper-clipped into the book. They were standing arm in arm in front of a big blue house, four stories high, kind of like the one here. He had found this picture in his pocket a few days after coming to Legion Camp.
Percy sighed. So their arrival proved it. This picture, along with the fact that there were suddenly a bunch of Greek demigods in the camp, proved that Annabeth hadn't been fooled by the mist about him like she had told him Piper and Leo were about Jason. Proof that there was another camp, for Greek demigods, where he had had his home before coming here.
In the distance, Percy heard the bell ring for dinner. He quickly put away the notebook and rushed towards the pavilion, cautiously creeping back around his cabin. Bobby had almost caught him going towards the little shack once, and he had had to make up some story about a run-off pegasus. That had been a close call.
Percy stopped in front of the pavilion when he saw Reyna and Piper arguing. He didn't want to get involved. Quickly he passed them, and Annabeth caught up with him and said, "It looks like our little trip won't be as easy as we thought."
Percy nodded. If Reyna and Piper weren't going to get along, then they had a problem. Reyna was very, very fierce and aggressive in her fighting, but Percy knew enough about daughters of Aphrodite to know that Piper would cause some problems too.
At the start of dinner, Lupa made the announcement about Annabeth, Leo, and Piper, and about Jason being back. Expect for that, and the Roman camp being exited about Jason being back, dinner went surprisingly calm.
As he was heading back to his cabin, Annabeth caught up with him. He noticed Jason and Reyna talking a little ways away. He wondered if Jason remembered her.
"Hey," Annabeth said. "There was a capture the flag game scheduled for tonight at camp." she said.
Percy smiled. "I remember that the first time I played, you almost got me killed with your plan."
Annabeth just smiled. Then, as she was looking towards the forest, she became serious and said, "Have you guys heard anything about Gaea's threat here? I mean, before we came?"
"No." Percy said. There had been nothing to suggest another war was coming. There had been a few earthquakes, but Percy had thought that that was his dad mad about something or other. Had he been wrong?
"What are we going to do?" she asked sadly. "This is way worse than Kronos. And there's only seven of us going to Greece. How can we possibly beat Gaea and her giants?"
Percy stared at Annabeth. He remembered enough about her to know that she wouldn't just give up like that. She usually tried to find loopholes in the enemies' plans, and she would always make her own plans about how to deal with something like this. She was even better than Reyna. Percy decided to try and calm her down and work things out in the morning. "Hey," he started. It felt strange to be comforting her again, after all this time. "We're going to be fine. Besides, we'll have a lot of time to think on the way there. And as Bobby and Piper said at the meeting, I'm sure there will be more people helping us in the end."
Annabeth nodded and walked towards her tent, where Percy could see Piper unzipping the entrance flap.
That's chapter 18! Plz plz plz plz review! I want to know how im doing. Hope u liked it!
