XVII Piper

Dragging Jason out by his shirt was the closest she'd been with him since they got here.

She realized what she was doing and blushed. She quickly let go of her hold on the boys.

"Man, are they always going to be on the make-up make-out after a fight thing every single time?" Leo asked.

"Leo, shut up." Piper told him.

"Yes ma'am." He mock saluted.

Piper rolled her eyes.

"I'm just confused about everything. My half sibling came back from the dead and her used to be dead boyfriend which was your-" She pointed at Leo.

"Half sibling has been captured by the enemy. Nico who was formerly captured escaped and now those two back there look like they want to strangle each other." Piper said.

"Shouldn't we tell the others this?" Leo asked.

"We could call a private meeting for those going with us in the quest later. We already discussed that other than the chosen seven some campers from both Camp Half blood and Camp Jupiter would come along. We'd need all the help we could get but we also need to keep at most only how much the Argo II can carry."

"About forty for a comfortable minimum and about fifty five for the maximum. That's if we're talking overnight stay but If it's for transportation purposes only I'd say about eighty five." Leo said.

"Well the plan is we'd split. Only forty would come the rest will be brought back to camp tomorrow.
so minus the seven chosen ones that leaves thirty three. About-" Piper organized the number in her head

"Seventeen from Camp Jupiter and sixteen from Camp Half Blood." Jason said.

"Sounds fair. Calculating that all with the seven included that would be twenty flat from both camps." Piper finished.

"Yep." Leo agreed.

"We did agree from the last senate meeting that the campers chosen to come would rendezvous in the Argo II later."

"Actually it's about now. It's like 9:30." Leo said checking a watch he pulled from his belt.

"Let's go meet up then." Piper said.

She was internally happy that she and Jason were able to have a somewhat not awkward conversation.

Leo led them to the entrance of the Argo II.

About twenty two Roman demigods along with thirty six Greek half bloods were waiting.

The Romans brought there duffel bags.

Octavian and Reyna were there to allow the roman demigods to settle in the ship before take off tomorrow.

Octavian was trying to get people to listen to him but no one seemed to care what he said anymore.

"Come on Praetor. There are forty Greeks that would be on that ship when only twenty Roman soldiers. We're out numbered. They could be planning to attack at night..."

"Octavian, enough." Reyna ordered.

"Bu-" he stopped himself. Piper guessed he actually remembered who was in charge here.

Although Octavian didn't look happy about it.

Some Greeks nudge their half roman siblings. Most have gotten connected. A lot of them dropped their suspicions.

"Does he always get whipped like that?" Leo asked his Vulcan half sibling.

The said sibling muffled a laugh like some of the other Romans. Reyna even had a small smile.

Octavian turned pink in the ears.

Most Greeks chuckled while most Romans just smiled.

"We aren't gonna do anything like that, Hon. We have more important thing to do than make you hide under your covers at night." Drew said while adding some lip gloss.

I'm happy she isn't coming along. We were dropping her off tomorrow.

Everyone was staring at Drew either weirdly or amused.

"What?" She asked looking up from her mirror.

"I just meant wouldn't the quest against mother earth be more important than plotting against the exact people you need to work with?"

Most of the Greeks looked at her as though she had grown another head.

Seriously when the girl who didn't care about anything else but make-up and her wardrobe say something important like that people would start wondering why wasn't Octavian sent to the looney hut.

"Okay...Anyways, Romans welcome to the Argo II." Leo said opening his arms in a welcoming way.

He had a proud smirk plastered on his face.

"I, as the Supreme commander of this fine transportation would be-"

"Leo." Piper interrupted him.

"Just go give them a tour." She said.

"The meeting room is in that hall. A capacity of fifteen people. Lower deck are the rooms. The left side are for the girls and the right side are for the boys. The seven from the quest have individual rooms though. Right now since we need to carry about sixty or so, we'll have to scooch make room..." Blah blah blah.

The Greeks knew where everything was.

They helped building it.

The Romans were actually impressed. Piper knew anybody would be impressed.

As the Romans were passing the special rooms for the seven chosen, We all noticed the sharp closing of Annabeth's door.

Piper, Jason and Leo shared a knowing look.

"That's Annabeth's room and beside that is Percy's." Leo told the Romans.

"Each of the rooms were personally designed by Olympus' official Architect."

The Romans looked awed.

"Who's their Architect?" Reyna asked.

"No one else but the awesome Hero of Olympus' Girlfriend. Annabeth Chase." Leo said.

"Percabeth will get a kick outta the titles." Leo whispered.

Piper rolled her eyes.

She noticed she's been doing that a lot lately.

The Romans were shoked.

"The blonde girl?" one asked.

"Yeah. She designed the rooms to the liking of everyone. And taste and everything." Leo said.

"Wanna see Percy's room? It's freaking' Blue!" Leo was really acting a like a kid.

Though Piper was impressed with Annabeth's workmanship.

Leo didn't wait for a response. He opened Percy's door and Reyna and Octavian went in while the others just peeked.

"Wow." Reyna said. The others also had their jaws dropped wide open.

Piper couldn't blame them. The room was Amazing.

With that porthole that could give a beautiful scenery of the ocean if they ever sailed over it.

Blue wallpaper-wave like designs and other blue furniture and blue floor.

"If I would be so honest. This is probably the Best room on this ship. Annabeth really took time and a lot of effort to put this all together." Jason said a little jealous.

Piper chuckled.

"Our rooms aren't that bad either." She said.

Piper was thankful that he room wasn't anything resembling a Daughter of Aphrodite.

First of, it wasn't Pink.

Second, It didn't resemble a barbie house.

Third, She could actually breath normally.

Piper didn't realize Leo was done explaining about the lower decks under them.

"-So yeah. There. Anyways there will be a meeting later in the meeting room. We need to discuss some things."

"Like what?" Octavian asked suspiciously.

"That's why were having the meeting dumdum. To inform everyone." Drew said nonchalantly from the hallway.

She was just passing by to get to the girls side.

Piper thought that Octavian really has to think more, He's hopeless if Drew's the one to own him now and then.

"Leo, is that all?" Jason asked.

"Uh, I guess. You guys could go down the hall to settle in the rooms. Feel free to group yourselves in any way you like."

The Romans slowly dispersed.

"We'll see you at the meeting room." Reyna said before Leaving.

Piper didn't know what to think of that girl but she wasn't going to let her feeling be a danger to their quest.

The remaining demigods left Percy's room but not before Piper stole a blue cookie from the secret compartment that Annabeth showed her.

The cookies were from Percy's mom. At least that's what she's told. Annabeth decided to put a secret compartment full of blue treats just for Percy.

Isn't that sweet?

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