Well here it is! Chapter 6, took a while to write so please review, follow, other boring stuff. I'm not sure if I should have broken it down into seperate chapters but I decided to make it one big one :D Enjoy!
Jason I
No, no, no! This can't be happening, thought Jason as he helplessly glances over at his friends. He had failed them, all of them…or so he thought. He took another quick look at Hazel, Leo, and Piper who didn't look so could compared to the two giants, Otis and Ephialtes. His disappointment turned to anger as he looked at the monsters. They were ruining everything and for what? Just to be featured on Hephaestus T.V? They couldn't get away with this.
As Coach Hedge fired the ballistae, Jason jumped over deck and flew as fast as he could to try and save his friends. He couldn't just let them get captured like this…especially Piper. He had no plan, and no way of defeating the monsters. He recalled how he and Percy had hardly managed to defeated the giants, and with the help of a god, a snobby god.
"Jason no! You can't face them alone!" yelled Thalia. He knew that she was probably right be he didn't care. He needed to at least help his friends. It could not end like this. He flipped his coin as he landed, as the coin landed it changed to a double edged sword, giving a fearsome look. It was just what Jason needed.
However as he charged, Otis regarded him with an amused look, as if he were an ant fighting a lion. True…but Jason had one thing that the giants didn't. A good reason to fight, and kill whatever came in his way. Just as he was about to leap into the air, roots sprouted from the ground and tried to keep him back but he quickly lashed his sword, breaking the bonds. Unfortunately, as he sliced off one root, two came to take its place. He slashed and slashed and still, slashed but it was no use. The roots were not pulling him down but simply restraining him, as if they were a distraction. A distraction!
He looked at the giants and his friends but they were no longer there. He was too late and his friends had been captured. Leo, Hazel, and Piper all gone! Captured! The roots then went back into the ground. Greif overwhelmed him, but with grief came more determination. He would not let it end like this. He would not fail his friends again.
Thalia, Nico, Grover and Frank rushed to him from the ship, all ready for battle, but they too, where too late. He figured Rachel was still passed out. "Jason" Thalia panted, "Where-where are they?" She looked around as if they would be hiding somewhere.
"I don't know where they are" said Jason grimly, "I got distracted and they just-"
"Over there! What is that?" shouted Grover while pointed to where their friends had disappeared.
On the ground, which looked smeared as if there had been a miniature explosion was a card. An address card! Jason and Thalia ran towards the spot where the card lay and Jason picked it up, seeming eager for a clue.
On the card were tiny letters etched onto it. It read: Πάρκο Δεξαμενής .
"One second, I think I can locate where this park is" said Thalia as she pulled out a device from her pocket. It looked like a smartphone but on the top was a crescent moon, the symbol of Artemis.
"Wait how do you know it's a park?" asked Jason, but then he realised that Thalia could read Greek like every other Greek demigod. It was just how they were born.
Thalia furiously tapped into her "Artemis smartphone thing".
"Here it is, it's called the Parko Deksamenis, and well…it's in Athens-Greece" She said, "And if we go there now, we should reach by sunset, and besides, it's the only clue we've got"
She stuffed in the device into her pockets and took off her backpack. She dug around in it for a while but eventually pulled out 5 smaller machines that looked like a walkie talkie.
"Here, take these, "she said handing them each one, "These are Bluetooth walkie talkie's, no monsters can pick us up with these…I guess you can say the Hunters of Artemis have been busy" she smiled.
"Well then that settles it" said Nico. It was his first time talking ever since Rachel's "incident" with Gaea.
"Yeah," said Jason, "We're going to Athens"
Let's just say, Jason wasn't the best captain for the Argo two. They first spent just an hour learning the controls from Leo's Handbook of "If things go horribly wrong and someone else has to drive the ship" which wasn't very helpful, also the fact that Thalia hated to travel by air, but they had no choice. When he had tried to explain her, she gave him a fearsome look that meant, watch it buddy,and retreated to her room, well it was Annabeth's room for the time being…
Once Jason had gotten the Argo II in the air and was steering the ship, he recalled all of what they had been through in the past few weeks and how so much had changed. The romans had turned against him, he had ran away from camp, and now, everyone was split up with Percy and Annabeth in Tartarus and Leo, Piper, Hazel in who knows where? They were just following the address that Thalia had typed into the GPS system Leo had installed (that apparently worked in Greece too). Luckily no monster or god had challenged Jason into coming to Greece, but just to be safe he had Frank turned into an eagle and patrolling around the ship.
Still in his daze, Jason didn't notice Nico come to his side, and also didn't notice the time that had passed because Nico pointed a hill of grass to their right. "That's the spot according to the GPS" said Nico, "We are here"
Jason realized that Nico was right, and the sun was just setting.
"Great, uh, call everyone here, and lets go see what we can find here in this place" said Jason.
Soon, when everyone had assembled at the upper deck, except for Rachel who Nico said would be fine soon, was still passed out, Jason took lead.
"Alright, we don't know a lot about this place, so we have to be careful" said Jason as he paced the deck, "Thanks to Thalia we can split up and still have communication so that should help us a lot"
He also explained that they would land the ship on the park and go "exploring" to see what they could find. They would meet back at the ship in an hour.
Using his "son of Jupiter" powers, Jason quickly landed the ship and everyone got off, well except for Rachel and Coach Hedge would have the most "important" job of all: guarding the ship from fearsome tourists. They had split up in groups of two. Jason and Thalia would go explore the East side of the park while Nico, Grover and Frank would explore the west. Once Jason repeated the plan again, they split up.
Jason would have liked to think that they had quickly found another clue to where their friends where, but he was wrong. We've been searching for hours and still nothing! Thought Jason, he glanced at his watch; it had only been 20 minutes.
About another 20 minutes later, a scared, pinched voice, spoke into their headset. "Uh…you guys might want to come here, near the benches, and take a look…" said Grover, he didn't explain anything more.
Jason and Thalia ran, at incredibly fast speeds, even for a demigod. Jason would have preferred to fly over their but he didn't want to leave Thalia alone.
Once they had arrived, they saw Nico, Grover and Frank peering into a small…camcorder? Jason hoped they weren't updating their Facebook picture…
"Guys check this out" said Nico looking grim as ever.
He handed Jason the camcorder and what they saw only baffled them even more. It was Leo, but he looked…happy. In the video, Leo was sayng:
"Hi guys! I'm glad you came! We escaped and… are… still heading back to the place we were "captured" We should arrive by 5! So be sure to "count" till 5! Maybe we can drive over at a casino! I hear the club hotel casino near Loutraki is amazing! I just knew you...all of you guys would come but there is no need to be rescued, see you and remember to count to 5" Leo smiled into the Camcorder; "E-everything is nice and chilled"
The camera went dead, and Jason's face flushed. Around 6 months ago, Jason had made a code with Leo, if anyone ever was in trouble, that was their code: Nice and Chilled, but he hadn't mentioned it to anyone…EVER.
Jason's hands felt shaky, "T-they're in trouble" he said, "Nice and Chilled is our code, and he wasn't looking normal"
"Yeah he kept saying five so many times" said Grover.
"And he looked a little upbeat than usual. Or is he just always like that?" said Frank
"That's it! Jason hand over the camcorder…I think I know what going on" said Thalia as she grabbed the camcorder from Jason's hands. "They probably had some time to steal a camera from tourists, and since the giants were nearby, they convinced them to leave a message saying they were okay, but there is a reason why Leo kept saying 5, here look at this…"
Thalia kept skipped the tape by 5 seconds and what they saw was just too horrific. When she skipped at every 5 seconds, Leo said: We are still captured. 5! 5! Drive at Casino, the Hotel Casino Loutraki. The screen once again went blank. Grover looked as if he were about to faint, Frank looked as if he wanted to turn into a mole and hide in the ground, Thalia had a concerned expression on her face, and Nico looked even more sick. Their friends had been captured and taken to a casino? What for? Did the giants want to gamble?
"No, the giants are there to make a deal" said Jason as if answering everyone's question, "and we have to be there by 5 am-I think- or they'll be sold off to Gaea…"
"Well according to my tablet, the place isn't far away from here, only a couple blocks, right in the city" said Thalia.
"Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" said Jason, his determination once again rising. He willing himself to believe that his friends would be saved and that he would finally defeat the giants, with or without a god.
They couldn't use the Argo II of course, since the casino was only a couple of blocks away, but they had to hide their weapons and keep a look out while the walking through the city. The city was just as awesome as someone would have thought Athens to look. It was like a mixture of ancient and modern technology.
Thalia led the way and soon, after about 10 minutes, they were standing in front of a huge casino that would have done well for Bill Gate's house. The place was extremely luxurious and Jason was just hoping that they wouldn't have to blow the place up. They had "borrowed" suits and tuxedo's to fit into the crowd because well, 4 demigods wearing shirting that read: Camp Half-blood and Hunters would have been a bad idea. And besides, the owner of the clothes didn't seem to mind once they had knocked him out.
"Okay so here is the plan" said Thalia, "I'm using the mist so that we look like adults, so just act normal, watch a few games if you want, but also keep an eye out for monsters…you guys have the walkie talkies so use them if you find anything. I don't think this place needs a membership so we can just walk in"
And with that, she began walking towards the casino with the rest trailing behind. The place looked just as fancy as it had on the outside. It had royal carpets with chandeliers hanging from up above and very rich people gambling. It looked like any other casino, just fancier.
It had been only a couple minutes, they had all split up, which might have been a bad idea, and Jason was watching a classic game of poker, when he saw Otis wearing a tuxedo open the back door, look around him once, and walked into the halfway that said "employees only".
"Guys," spoke Jason into the microphone on his ear, "I think I found a lead, meet me at the back door with the red sign but make sure it's not obvious, I just saw Otis walking into the staff hall, and I'm guessing the staffs aren't so friendly…"
When they had all assembled, they tried to keep calm faces while they tried to talk, which was hard for Thalia.
"Okay so I just saw one of the giants walk in here, I'm not sure why people aren't noticing an 8 feet giant…he's probably using the mist, but we've got to get in there" spoke Jason.
"One sec, I think I can open this," said Nico. He pulled out two, thin, metal rods that where bent in the shape of an "L" and pushed them into the lock. After a few twisting and turning, the lock finally gave and opened.
"Learnt a few things staying with my dad" grinned Nico, which was the first time Jason had seen him grin.
Jason took the lead and the rest followed in. One by one they entered. The hallway was filled with various doors which didn't seem locked. They didn't want to spend too much time looking in each room the doors led too and they didn't hear anyone either so they continued ahead.
They had just passed by the third door when they heard kicking and shuffling inside the room. They all glanced at each other nervously, as if preparing for the worst.
Jason quickly tossed his coin and it turned into a sword again, and Thalia pulled out her sword and baffling shield. He opened the door, ready to have a fight to the death if that's what it took to save his friends.
As he entered the room, everything seemed to go into slow motion. He was bursting through the door with his friends behind. In three separate chairs, were Leo, Hazel and Piper, all gagged and trying to scream. They seemed to calm when they saw Jason and the others.
Thalia took off their gags and bonds and they fell on the ground coughing and trying to get up. Wow, sitting in chairs all day has really made them weak, thought Jason but he dare not say it.
"Uh, thanks for rescuing us" said Leo, "I wasn't if you'd be able to find the hint"
"Leo that was brilliant!" said Thalia, as Jason helped Piper up and hugged her.
Afterwards, Jason took a look around the room. It looked like a typical storage room with shelves for stocking supplies. But instead of boxes, there were jars of, well, powder, but Jason thought little of it. He had his friends, now they could just leave, but he knew that wasn't going to happen.
"Well, let's get out of here while we can!" said Leo, "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, I don't know why but I can't seem to be able to control my fire power, thing"
When he said that, Frank gulped and retreated a couple steps.
"Hey its fine man! Don't worry about it, once we're out just-" Began Leo, but he was interrupted by the loud sound of a door locking from the outside.
"How lovely! You all just walked right into the trap! I do hope you guys will enjoy this! I'd watch Leo's fire, if I were you!" spoke a man. Jason had a feeling that it was Otis.
Jason could no longer contain his rage. He began pounded on the door and cursing, when Piper put a hand on his shoulder. He had failed again.
"Uh, guys do you smell that?" said Frank
"Sorry man, the giants gave us beans" Began Leo
"No not that! I smell it too" said Thalia. Actually, not they all began to smell it as well. It was a sweet but strong smell. It seemed to be coming from the jars…
"I think it's this" said Nico, grabbing a jar full of powder.
Leo shrieked, "Oh gods, no! It can't be!" He seemed to back away from the jar.
"Guys if I'm correct, that right there is nitroglycerin…" said Leo as if that explained everything
He sighed, "Well if any of you guys were paying attention in science class, you'd know that nitroglycerin is used in explosive devices…l-like bombs and stuff…and I'm not feeling so positive of my fire powers today…"
Thalia seemed to grasp what Leo was thinking. She gulped. "So Leo losing control of his power and this place blazing up like a nuke"
Everyone looked at Leo, some symathetic, and some scared faces (especially Frank). "And Leo... is the detonator".
Jason was the first to break the silence. It would not end like this and they would close the doors of death. Jason felt the adrenaline pumping through him.
"Nico, can you try to open this door again? Or you, Leo" said Jason, frantically.
"I can try but even if we do, we'd have to go through so many monsters waiting outside" said Nico with Leo nodding. They both began to open the door.
"Leave that to me," said Jason "And Frank…will you help?" he glanced over at him.
He hoped that maybe Frank could turn into a bear or something so that they could actually kill some giants.
"Wouldn't miss it" said Frank.
The door clicked open to an empty hallway just as gasoline began to drip into the room.
"We've got 5 minutes at best," said Leo, "The giants don't need me to blow this place up if they're plan doesn't work, they just want to get on TV"
"Okay so you guys get out, Thalia, you pull the fire alarm and get the mortals out of here… me and Frank have a score to settle" said Jason
As they all were leaving to do their duties, Piper went up and kissed Jason.
"Come back to me, Jason" she hugged him.
Jason wondered if it would be the last time he would hug Piper…but he couldn't waste time thinking that. He had to find the giants and kill them once and for all. But even if he did kill them, they would still come back again, as long as Gaea let them. No, he needed a permanent solution. An idea began forming in his head. "Alright Frank, this is what we do" he began…
After Jason told Frank his idea, he looked for the giants, which wasn't very hard since they were right in front of him. The sprinklers hadn't turned on, which was a good sign. He just needed to distract the giants long enough so that Frank could do his job.
"Hey, you cowards! Why don't you fight me?" said Jason as the fire alarm turned on and people ran, he hoped that he hadn't overextended but the giants just laughed.
"If it's a fight you want kid, it's what you'll get" said Ephialtes. He grabbed a poker table near him and threw it at Jason who easily dodged. The mortals screamed, Jason wasn't sure what they saw through the mist but it couldn't have been good.
He kept dodging and taunting the giants which seemed to annoy them.
Finally, Otis couldn't seem to keep a "friendly" face anymore. "ENOUGH!" he bellowed, "You will not destroy our plan again, son of Jupiter!"
And the giants began charging him, and he hoped Frank had followed his plan, because he would soon become dinner for these giants.
He also had to maintain his distance from the beast, because if Jason's idea worked, the giants were in for a hot surprise.
As if right on cue, the sprinkler system turned on and a fire dazed to life in the hallway. Frank had done it! He had faced his fears and had saved Jason! All he had to do was wait until the fire reached the giants.
Unfortunately, as the fire quickly spread throughout the casino, the giants were slow to figure out what was going on as they took a moment to stop and congratulate each other and laugh at Jason's "failure". Idiots, thought Jason.
See, the sprinkler wasn't only spraying water, the plan had been that Frank would go into the basement (he probably transformed himself into a snake and had moved through the vents) and mix the water tanks and pipes with Nitroglycerin, and when the "water" had been sprayed on the giants (and some on Jason) it had made them flammable and practically walking bombs.
But Jason didn't have enough time to think about it. He had to get out before the whole building exploded. Just as the fire had reached the giants he ran towards the exit and hoped that Frank had gotten out as well because just as he exited, the building went up like a nuclear bomb! He thought he could hear angry moans coming from inside of the building but he wasn't sure. He could also make out the others climbing the hill towards the Argo II. He heard sirens nearby and knew he only had a couple of seconds before his name was on the most wanted list in Greece.
Jason ran until he was out of harm's way, and soon Frank was next to him panting. They looked at each other and smiled. They bumped each other's fists. They had done it! They had killed the giants without the help of a god! Jason figured that the giants would have been obliterated into so many pieced that they'd never be back. He imagined 007 theme music playing behind him.
"C'mon," said Jason, "Let's go see our friends"
Well there it is! Chapter 6. It was a pretty long chapters based on plot, and action. So Frank and Jason seem to get along pretty well :D The next chapter will be on Percy's POV. Lets see what they can find. :D Thanks to all the viewers, you're all amazing.
So until next time, Gooodbye and be sure to follow :P
