A/N: Thank you all for reviewing and submitting me characters to use. I wanted to clear something up; I do have a plot for the fight that's coming up. I have put hints in the last three chapters, so if you caught on, you might know what's happening. And, lots of stories I've read ask readers to SYOC, so this is not rare. Also, I'm going to make Alex better, like the perfect guy for Jackson. He just might seem mean around people, but that's how his personality is going to be. Thank you all for reading and I will add Percy's love interest next chapter, so you can still submit characters. The info for the SYOC is in Chapter 4. Now, on to the story!

Chapter 5

Jackson's POV

I kind of feel bad for leaving Percy. I have to talk to him about Alex and me. I'm not sure if he's okay with it, but I must know. Once we sit at the table for dinner we all scrape our food into the fire, which my squad thinks is ridiculous, we eat in silence. Once I finish, I look up and see Percy finished eating too.

"Percy, walk with me." I tell him and nods as he gets up. Alex looks at me with a confused look. "I just need to talk with him about some stuff. Don't worry, Alex." He nods and goes back to eating.

Percy and I walk to the beach in silence, which is kind of annoying.

"Say it, Percy. What's on your mind?" I order him.

He sighs. "I just thought we had something."

Now it's my turn to sigh. "I'm sorry if I led you on. I really do like you. Trust me, if Alex never came back, I would want to be with you. It's just, when he hugged me, all the feelings came rushing back."

"I understand, Jackson. It's all right. I'm just a little depressed though."

"About me and Alex?" He shakes his head. "Then what?"

"You all have boyfriends and girlfriends, and then there's just me."

"So to sum it up, you're lonely?" He nods. For a moment I just stand there awkwardly, then an idea pops in my head. "What, what if I can set you up?"

"I can't ask that. I don't even know whom you are thinking of. What is she's crazy?" I laugh.

"No, she's not. She real nice, and I think you'd like her. How bout it?"

He sighs. "It couldn't hurt to meet her."

"Yes! All right, I can get in touch with her tonight or tomorrow morning and she will probably come soon. Depending if she is on a mission or something."

"Thanks, Jackson. You're a good friend." He starts to walk back but I grab his arm. "What?"

"Try and get along with my squad. They've had it rough, and I haven't seen them in a long time. And don't worry about Adam or Joey, Lexi and Amber have them trained well. Also, Alex is harmless. He just hides behind a tough guy attitude, he's really nice once you get to know him. Please pass that on the Nico and Thalia for me."

He nods. "No problem. Just one question."

"Shoot." I tell him.

"How come when we were in the cabin and Amber called you boss, you all laughed?"

I chuckle. "Just an insider. Don't worry about it."

We walk back to the table and see everyone laughing. Me and Percy both put on confused faces. My squad and Nico and Thalia are getting together, what's with that?

"Someone's getting along." I tell them and they all stop laughing. "What was so funny?"

"Oh, you know." Lexi says to me while giving a sly smile. I give a questioning look.

"I didn't know you were afraid of spiders. The big, bad second in command of Chaos is scared of something so small." Thalia says while laughing.

"Who told?" I ask angrily to my squad and they all point to Lexi. Even Nico and Thalia point. "I'll get you, you do know that, right?"

Lexi looks at everyone. "You do know she's going to torture me now, right? You just ended my life. I'm dead!" Lexi says dramatically and we all laugh. "Easy to laugh when it's not you all being tortured." This makes us laugh even more.

"Whatever, I'll get you later when you least expect it. Now we have a party to go to at the Zeus cabin." They all nod and we get up to go to the cabin.

Once we get to the Zeus cabin it's 7:15. We go inside the cabin and all the immortal campers are there and the older cabins. No one under the age of sixteen is here. This must be a party just for older kids then. Doesn't matter to me though. Nico, Thalia, and Percy all go off on their own with each other. That leaves my squad and me. I turn to my squad and see Lexi and Adam go off together, same with Amber and Joey. Now I'm all alone with Alex.

"Let's get a drink and walk." Alex tells me and I nod. "Alright, I'll get us a drink. Be right back." He walks off to a table and gets two red cups and fills them up with something. He comes back and gives me the cup.

"What's this?" I ask him.

"I think it's beer. I have no clue how they got it, though." We both take a sip. "Yeah, definitely beer. Come on, let's walk on the beach."

"Why the beach?"

"I overheard some kids saying that the party is also on the beach." I shrug and we walk.

As we're walking I see Thalia, Nico, Percy, Piper, and Leo talking and laughing. I guess they are putting their differences aside, I'm happy for them. We continue walking and I see Lexi, Amber, Joey, and Adam all playing beer pong. I chuckle as Alex and I continue to walk to the beach. Once we get there we sit on the beach.

"I have to ask you something, Alex."

"Ask away."

"Where were you these past years? You all went MIA for so long. What happened?" He cringes as I ask him. I put my arm on his shoulder and his body relaxes.

"We were captured and being sold. We were all sold multiple times for high money. They were selling us because we were strong and we could get stuff done. We were all separated at first. Then we got together again once we were all sold again. We broke up and got together multiple times. We finally got together and ran away. We would of ran away earlier, but we weren't being fed, so we were weak. It was horrible. Once we ran away we found our ship, which they actually kept in good condition, though nobody used it because only we know how to fly it." He tells me.

"Where were you all last?"

"On the planet Zanop in Sector 5 of the Fornax Galaxy." Once I hear were he was my suspicions about the Zanopians grow even more. The Zanopians live on Zanop.

"And when you were escaping, the Zanopians hit you out of the sky with a Candor?" I ask him.

"Yeah. Something happened though. Even before we left, the Zanopians were treating us worse than before. Like something ticked them off."

I sigh. "I know why they were acting like that."

"How?" He asks me.

"A few years back I almost wiped out the entire Zanopian race. They didn't like that much. And earlier, before, you got here, Chaos told me he had a meeting with the Zanopians. I guess it didn't go well because your ship was hit."

"Oh, well it's okay. Everything will work out. And Dani?" He looks right into my eyes. Hearing my name makes me smile.

"Yes?"

"I love you and I've missed you so much. Sometimes the thought of me seeing you again was the only reason I got by."

"I love you too. Once I found out you were all MIA I shut out the rest of the world. I was a soulless assassin and killing was the only thing to get my mind off losing the squad and you." I kiss him. We end up making out for a while until we hear laughing behind us. We both turn around to see my number one fan and his girlfriend. Annabeth and Mark.

"Aw, you have a boyfriend, Jackson? I'm surprised any guy actually wants you." Mark say and he and Annabeth laugh.

I feel Alex's body tense up beside me. I put my hand on his shoulder but he is still tense.

"Watch who you are talking to, kid." Alex says and it makes me laugh in my mind. Alex and I have always had a low tolerance for people with attitudes and bad manners, another thing I love about him.

"It's okay, Alex. I've already had this fight with him. He's nothing. He's probably drunk anyway." I tell Alex.

"Alright, Jackson." He puts an arm over my shoulder.

"You two are horrible. And Jackson, when we had our fight, I wasn't even trying." Mark smirks.

Alex then pulls me close to him to signal me to stop but I can't help myself.

"Listen closely. Your father and the rest of the Olympians gave me the permission to punish you if I feel it's necessary. You don't want my punishments, they're not fun." I tell him.

Alex laughs. "That's an understatement."

Mark says something under his breath. "Whatever lets go Annabeth." He takes her hand and they walk back to the Zeus cabin.

Alex looks at me. "I don't know how you put up with these kids, Dani."

"Trust me," I smile. "I don't know how I do it either." We lie back on the sand and look up at the sky with the stars twinkling.

Percy's POV

Once we got to the party Nico, Thalia, and I leave the group and we go stand by a corner drinking the beer that is being served.

"So what did Jackson want to talk to you about when you two went walking at dinner?" Thalia asks me.

"She wanted to set me up with a girl." Thalia and Nico smile.

"Oh my Gods, Percy. You might get a girlfriend!" Thalia tells me.

"Yeah and she also told me something else. She told me to tell you both to don't worry about her friends. They won't do anything to you both. She says Adam and Joey won't do anything because Lexi and Amber won't let them. AKA, they are whipped." We all laugh. "She also says not to worry about Alex. He is just defensive, but she says he's cool once you get to know him."

"Alright, if Jackson says they're cool, than that's that. Besides, at dinner they were all pretty cool." Nico says.

"Hey, mind if we join you?" I turn to see Piper with Leo.

"Sure. Why not?" I tell them and they both smile.

We end up talking for a while and they seem genuinely nice to us. After a while of talking Leo decides to make things fun.

"Dare me to do something?" Leo asks and we all tell him yes. "Alright, dare me to go up to that girl with pale skin kissing that guy over there while acting drunk and pull her off of him and kiss her?" He points to a girl and I see it's Lexi and Adam. She will definitely punch him. I look at Nico and Thalia and the figured it out too.

"Sure, man." I tell him and he starts to walk over to Lexi. Nico, Thalia, and I burst out laughing.

"What are you three laughing about?" Piper asks us confused.

"That girl over there is Jackson's friend and she is real tough. She's probably going to punch him. Then, her boyfriend will punch him too." I tell her and she laughs.

"Oh, this is going to be good." Piper says.

We watch Leo. He goes over to Lexi and Adam. On the way there, he sways back and forth and side to side looking completely out of it. He goes up to Lexi and pulls her away from Adam. He gives her a sloppy kiss and she automatically pushes him away and punches him in his face. Then, as expected, Adam punches Leo in the face as well and punches him in the stomach. Apparently Piper can't take enough of this and goes to his rescue.

"I'm so sorry, you two. He is really drunk. I hope you two don't hold this against him." Piper explains to them.

"Just make sure he doesn't do that again." Adam says holding Lexi protectively. "Come on, Lexi, let's go play beer pong with Amber and Joey." They walk away and Piper and Leo walk back to us.

"Nice job, Leo." I tell him while laughing.

"You knew they would punch me!" He accuses us. We all just laugh, even Piper laughs. "You are all cruel!" He pouts.

We talk for a little while more before Alex and Jackson come in. We wave them over and they join in our conversation about fighting rabid monkeys. I don't know how we got that topic, it just came up. After a while Ashley, David, and Mark finally make an appearance.

"Hey, everyone. Thanks for coming! We have a little something for our new favorite member of camp." Oh gods, I hope they don't do what I think they're going to do. "Jackson, can you come here for a second?" Jackson shrugs and walks up to them.

When Jackson gets to them, they all pull out Silly String. They then proceed to put it all over her body. The thing is, it's not Silly String. Once they pushed the button to make the string come out, Greek fire was coming out of it. I look at her and I can see her eyes getting mad with anger. She is going to go into killing mode.

Before anything can happen Lexi and Alex run up to her while Joey, Adam, and Amber run up to Mark, Ashley, and David. Joey, Ashley, and Amber punch each of the three and the Silly String comes out of their hands. The three on Jackson's squad then proceed to twist Mark, David, and Ashley's arms all the way back. I can tell if they put a little more pressure they will break each of their arms. I look over at Jackson to see what Alex and Lexi are doing. Alex is holding her hands while looking straight into her eyes, not talking at all. Lexi is whispering something in her ears. Soon after Jackson comes back to normal. Her eyes go back to her normal red color. Alex and Lexi have a relieved look on their faces. I guess they did this before.

Well, this was an interesting party.

A/N: Chapter Five is here, my friends! Did you all like this chapter? I tried to make Alex seem nicer, how'd I do? Oh, and did you like the party? I liked when Leo got beat up my Lexi and Joey, did you like that? And what do you think Jackson will do to Lexi for revenge? Any improvements you want me to make? Any things you don't like? Keep sending the SYOC for Percy. The info you need is in Chapter 4. Well, thanks for reading and please REVIEW! :)