And I'm back with Part 2 :D It was a little tough to write but I survived. I updated and edited this chapter because I found some mistakes :S sorry about that. I hope you like it…if you did, please review, follow, favorite, etc. Here it is…enjoy!

Piper II

You know what? This day is just awesome! Thought Piper as she sat on her bunk totally exhausted. So first, her idiotic boyfriend and Frank had risked their own lives to save the rest of their friends. It was heroic…in an annoying way. Piper wanted to help! She did not want to get classified as the girl who did absolutely nothing. This was not another twilight. When people thought about Aphrodite, what did they think? Exactly, a pretty little girl, wearing 20 pounds of makeup and staring at a mirror all day, and although Piper hated to say this, it was true, however she was the only daughter of the goddess of love who wasn't really into beauty, she was more into murdering monsters…that was fun. Then there was Apollo with his poetry skills that made Chuck Norris cry. Actually that was going way too far, nothing beats chuck Norris. Finally, he had basically given them a death sentence and then had disappeared. Just like that! Even after thousands of millennia, the gods still had a lot of learning to do.

What was the death sentence exactly? It was when the Athena Parthenos would come into play…but to take it to the Athena Parthenon would be literally impossible. They would have to fight through dozens of traps, fight a whole bunch of monsters and do all of this while tolerating Leo.

She thought of him as a brother of course, but sometimes he just got so annoying she couldn't bare it. He was dedicated and all, actually, while the rest of the crew was getting ready and Jason was with Thalia creating a plan, Leo was take charge of the whole ship while trying to work on some new inventions he found on the quest. Piper wasn't really into mechanics but she and her friends could use any help they could get, and according to Leo, the new inventions that Archimedes designed probably could blow a dozen monsters per second. Now Piper wasn't great in math but that was pretty good for 212 BC technology. Leo, in her opinion, was a nice and sweet brother according to Piper, but lately he seemed so caught up in machines and gadgets, it was as if he put all his guilt and depression into creating things. Engineers… thought Piper. But at least Leo seemed to get along with his girlfriend well…His girlfriend being the Argo II.

Piper had just finished putting on her armor as the alarm bell rang and Leo's voice came over the intercom. "If you guys are done relaxing, come to the mess hall, and make it fast" said Leo and the intercom went silent.

Piper guessed that whatever it was wasn't good because as she entered the mess hall, everyone's faces looked grim. The only person who had an appetite to eat was good old Grover, who was munching down a can of…budligh-no, coke, yeah let's make it coke. Piper couldn't begin to imagine how someone could eat metal and not throw up blood, but she dare not ask. Saytr's both annoyed and scared her and she could thank Coach Gleeson Hedge for that.

"Ok so, we're here…that's the good news," said Leo while glancing at people and then returning his gaze back to the map. "But guys, I just took a look though my binoculars and thermal vision goggles and well, the place is guarded by about 70 giants and uh, Cyclops, according to my intel"

"Oh great, don't we all want to hear Leo's intel? It's so rare anyway" said Frank smirking at Leo, but then he received a giant punch from Hazel, and a deadly glare from Leo saying, watch you back buddy.

"Ok, that's just what we expected," said Jason while he paced the room, "So me and Thalia have discussed the plan and went over it a couple of times and we should be good, so here is how it works" he glanced at everyone in the room as if someone might object. But no one did, not today, they had lost too much.

"Okay, so we are going to split up into 3 teams, and we each have our own objective" he continued, "The first team will be Coach, Leo, and Hazel…we figure that the part of the key will be underground or under some sort of trap and that is where your specialties come in and we need you to find the missing part, next we have team two who are in charge of killing out the monsters and actually sneaking into the building which will be when we launch our attack, and that is, Thalia, Nico, Grover – we figure you can play your reed pipes-, and me who-"

"It's Thalia, Nico, Grover and I, "said Leo

If Leo was trying to annoy Jason, it worked.

"Okay man, I can't care less right now" said Jason, "Anyway, the last team: Rachel and Piper, we need you to be our assists okay? Someone might get injured, or someone's back might be unprotected, then that is where you guys come in to save us okay? Also see if you guys can find anything or any clue in the Parthenon. Thalia has more of those walkie talkie things so that'll be how we communicate"

Piper hated this more than anything. So they were supposed to be some sort of last resort or something? She felt excluded as if they didn't have a right job for her. She worked hard to keep back her biting comments. She turned to face Jason in the eyes and said, "stay safe, for all of us" and kissed him. They needed all the luck they could get. And what had Apollo said earlier? "Your numbers aren't looking good". That was all the encouragement she needed. She had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

"Well then let's get this show on the road!" said Jason, "I also want you guys to be prepared for anything like a fire, archers, or even modern technology"

And after that, everyone had 5 minutes to get their things ready and meet by the front of the ship to depart. Piper hadn't taken a look outside the ship yet, but right now, she din't want to see Greece, she just wanted to go back home. Her real home. The only problem was that she didn't know what her real home was.

After about four minutes, the alarm bell went on again. A signal for everyone to assemble. It was time for some action.

Piper walked to the front of the ship and actually took a look outside. The weather was nice and calm right now, but she could see a large storm forming off to the east of Athens, as if something large was coming. Besides that, they were near the country side with plains everywhere, and on a hill was a massive crumbling building with large roman-like pillars. It was shaped in a rectangle as the White House but instead of walls, where just more and more pillars! Around the large building, were smaller, also crumbling buildings each for the goddess Athena. Piper concluded that these monsters probably had a lot of guts to take over the most prized place of a god, or maybe they had a good reason not to be scared…

Once they were about 30 meters from the Parthenon, they formed a huddle and Jason explained the plan again.

"Alright, so we'll hold off these giants, while Leo and his team go into the Parthenon and try to find where this key piece actually is, Piper we could also use your charmspeak to distract the giants while we uh, slaughter them, and Rachel I want you to collect clues for the next piece of the key"

"Uh, sounds good" said Rachel who just stared at the monument.

Then they all began creeping their way up to the monument. Piper could make out two Cyclops's patrolling outside the building, that meant that the rest where either inside or outside…just waiting for the right moment. It was deadly quiet as they made their way through.

"I don't like this one bit" said Thalia. If she didn't like something, that made it a good reason for you to not like it as well.

Only one way to find out, thought Piper. Then as they arrived at about ten meters away from the Cyclops's who were both about 10 feet, everything seemed to stop for a second and Piper could feel her own heartbeat, and a cold chill passing through her.

Then Jason said one word. And that was: "Go". And they all charged together. They would all try to overwhelm the enemies and then split up into their groups so that the giants would not notice. Jason tosses his coin and got a sword, Thalia pulled her own sword and deadly shield, while everyone else pulled out their own weapons. Jason was the first to reach the dazzled Cyclops's and he took no time at stabbing the monsters through the heart. When the dirty job was complete, they simply threw the bodies off the hill. And then they waited.

What were they waiting for? No one knew. But it seemed unusual that there had been 70 Cyclops here just a few minutes ago, and now there were none. Everyone looked around them and their muscles tensed as they waited and waited.

And then, a deafening war horn sounded behind them and they found themselves facing a massive squadron of Cyclops's and giants. This was one battle that they could not win, but Jason seemed to think otherwise.

He turned to Leo and said, "Go! Your job is somewhere else, we'll distract them, and you find the key", Leo seemed to object but Jason just kept saying "GO!"

So with half their team gone inside the building, things began to seem pretty dark for Piper. As they engaged the enemy, she tried to talk with them as Jason sliced off their heads. A good battle plan and combination.

Jason seemed like a robot who would just never tire…just like Thalia. It must have run in the family. Nico was just as good for a kid a few years younger. He seemed like Tarzan with his long hair. Now all he needed was a loincloth.

After about 5 minutes of butchering helpless monsters, Leo's voice came onto the headset. He sounded exasperated.

"Okay, we're in the building and man it looks awesome!" said Leo, "We are working on find something that looks like a key, but Hazel says she can't detect any metal nearby, and neither can I…I'm beginning to think that this is a trap"

"Don't worry, we are holding fine here," said Jason through heavy breaths. They certainly were not "fine". "Just keep looking"

Piper didn't see any point of this. Why did they need 10 pieces of key for? Why not just use some super glue and close the doors or something?

Hours seemed to pass and pass, and still no word from group 2. Piper began to grow anxious to hear Leo's annoying voice.

As Thalia was finishing off a giant, he groaned and said, "So many sacrifices to keep one at sleep, soon you will all be asleep in blazes!"

Thalia grabbed his collar and punches his face.

"What do you mean blazes?" She spoke.

"A motions sensor can set off many things daughter of Zeus…Especially for those who go right in front of it" said the giant and then turned to dust. With all these monsters they were killing, she figured that Percy and Annabeth would have a hard time in Tartarus.

Thalia's eyes widened. "LEO" she gasped into the microphone, "You HAVE to get out of their right now!"

"What? But why? We just need to-"Leo's sound was cut short by two short beeps that seemed to come behind him, and then another that sounded from the left, and another.

"What is going on in there?" Rachel said

"Um guys, well we didn't find any key, but we did find," Leo gulped, "…a bomb,"

Thalia and Jason looked at each other nervously while they were still fighting.

"And would you look at that…there's key, behind the bomb, and wow, I know some information behind disarming these Greek bombs and I think I might be able to disarm it so this place doesn't blow up, I don't think that the key has any bomb or detonator attached on to it" rambled Leo.

"Okay that's great, Hedge, you go and retrieve the key and Hazel, you help him, but just hurry!" spoke Jason as he sliced off another monster head, "We can't hold on here for ever"

"Guys we have another problem, the bomb is simple enough, but there are like dozens of wires here with no color, some are fake and there is only one real wire…which gives us a 1/20 chance…pretty bad" said Leo as he seemed to be looking at the bomb.

"BUT, luckily, you guys have a Leo on the job, see, the real wire still has electricity running through it and, oh great, here is a timer, anyway, I can create a short circuit and connect an ammeter, thanks to my lucky belt of course, and find out which wire is the real wire, and after that, we just need to cut it but I need time" Leo spoke into the microphone.

"Okay, you had me at luckily but I don't care, just do it" said Thalia, "And Hedge, the fast you get that key, the better!"

"Alright everyone chill out, I got this" said the Coach.

"Okay Hazel, keep us informed on what's going on in there, we need to have communication because if this is a trap…" Piper didn't' need to finish.

"Alright, alright, leave the boring job for me, but anyways, Leo working on detonating a bomb, meaning that it's probably going to go off, and the goat is going to get the key" said Hazel.

"I've almost reached the key, it wasn't exactly behind the bomb, but I've just about got it, so Leo…you're sure it's not going to explode or anything right?" said Hedge.

"I'm positive, now just get it and we'll be on our way and-"

Then Piper heard the last thing she would want to hear. The painful, dreadful, agonizing sound of

Another

Beep.

But this time, the sound was a little muffled and she soon realized that the sound had probably came from Coach Hedge as his breathing became heavy. For a second, everything became quiet, and Piper heard the distant sounds of lightning.

"Uh, Leo, that was y-you right? You defused the bomb right?" said Jason, sounding alarmed.

"What? No, not me, it was probably just a-"

"It was me, I-I think I stepped on a, uh, wire…and," now the Coaches voice was rising, "Do I smell gasoline?"

"Leo what is going on?" yelled Jason.

"Guys, switch to channel 2 on your headsets, this is not good, and the coach shouldn't be hearing this" said Leo. They all quickly pressed the arrow button on their headsets.

Leo took a heavy breath. "Ok, what he's stepping on, the wire, I-I think it's a trip wire…I've seen these before, If he lets go of that wire, my guess is that fire…maybe Greek fire will be let out and, well, probably kill him and anyone near him, I might be able to uh, I," he sounded frustrated and exhausted, they all were, "I don't know just-just let me think okay? I've disarmed the bomb which is good, but now Hedge is trapped and I think he knows it, so that's why we have to reassure him"

Jason slammed the hilt of his sword against the head of a Cyclops. It went down hard, and Piper could tell he was angry. This was not supposed to happen! They had to help the old satry even if he was annoying.

"Piper, go and help Leo, and Hazel come outside here, we need you" said Jason with a grim expression, "Their numbers aren't looking so good"

Piper dodged arrows, swords, angry curses, and even a nasty sock to get the Parthenon, and once she arrived, she wished that she was back aboard the ship, and on her bunk, because what she saw, made her heart stop.

Leo had disarmed the bomb, but now they faced another problem. The clumsy satyr was just a meter away from a half column on which the part of the key sat. And under his left hoof was a wire under him. This was when Piper actually realized the problem. If the Coach let go of the wire, on him, would fall Greek fire from a hollow tube up above. How could they have not seen that it was a trap? Piper blamed herself for it even though she didn't really have anything to do. That's what humans do. They blame people for things they can't solve.

And man, the coach looked more terrified than Piper had ever seen him. He was sweating like a rag being wringed out dry. Leo was near the wire, studying it. And Piper ran up to him.

"Okay, I thought that maybe we could cut the wire from the sides and pin the remainder of the wire to the ground from a rod, but that won't work, our enemies here have attached another trap if we even decide to cut or move the wire," said Leo, even he sounded scared, "But I can think of another solution, maybe if we can get water or anything else that has the same weight as Hedge's foot, then maybe we can put that weight on the wire and remove Coach's leg"

Then Thalia spoke to Jason, but everyone could hear her, except for Coach Hedge. "Jason, do you know what the probability of that even working is? What if it doesn't work? Then we lose two people instead of one…is it, is it really worth doing that? Just think about it" said Thalia. Piper was shocked after hearing this. They couldn't just leave the Coach!

Jason seemed to think of what Thalia spoke, "I, I don't know, the Coach is always here to help us, well most of the time, but we need to be there to help him, but Leo, man your trying to save someone who just can't be saved, I-"

"OH so now we're just supposed to leave him? Watch him until his leg gets tired? And what are we doing this for? To respect so gods who don't even care about us? Well at least we care! That's why we're doing this right? To keep the peace right?!" said Leo.

Piper wanted to believe Leo, but what Jason spoke was also true. She figured that Leo blamed himself for what had happened to the Coach because he had been in charge. And to just let the poor guy die didn't seem like the heroic thing to do.

"Fine, you've made your mind so do it, but let's come back in one piece okay?" said Jason, and he cut himself off.

This time, the Coach spoke up, "Why isn't anyone talking to me? So it's true huh? Leo, you need to leave me, there is no hope, and you'll end up getting yourself killed as well". Piper realized that the guy had fresh tears rolling down his face.

"Listen man, we are going to get you out of this, and ARE going to see another day again, you-you just have to trust me, now I'm just going to go and get water okay? I won't leave you…I never will" Said Leo sympathetically.

"Leo, I have some water with me and my helmet, I think it might do the trick" she said.

"Uh okay great," said Leo, who's fingers where shaking.

"Leo, I want you to take the bomb away, you know, just in case if I…" said the satyr, "And Piper, can I have some water?"

"Okay, Piper give him some water, I'm going to go take this bomb away, but I will be back! I promise you" said Leo and he ran off with the bomb.

Piper handed him the water canteen and he immediately opened it through shaking fingers and filled his mouth with it, then he burst it out and from his pocket, drew and threw a drachma into the mist. The hedge prayed silently in his mind and soon, Piper saw that in the mist was a...female? Piper couldn't tell who it was from where she was looking but they seemed to be family to the satyr.

"Uh, hey darling. I-I just wanted to say that, I, uh love you," he said as he wouldn't meet her gaze. Piper couldn't hear what the other side said but she did hear what the Coach said back.

"No, no everything is fine, I'm just uh," his voice was shaking now, "I'm just at work, ah okay I'll talk to you later okay? Tell the kids I love them, bye now" and the image disappeared and the satyrs eyes seemed to droop.

Piper tried to encourage the goat, but telling him that things were going to be alright and that he was okay, but he simply looked up at Hazel sadly, switched to channel 2, and said "I'm tired Piper, so very tired, you know why I listen to the radio all day? Because I dread the day that something bad will come up, and someone has died, now it's my turn" then his voice gained a more rapid tone and Piper took slow steps back. The satyr was saying his final words.

"This…all of this, isn't worth it, the gods…they don't know what it's like," he took a heavy breath, "Leo, we don't fight for the gods, we fight for ourselves, so many people have died for freedom" then he took his hoof off the string.

"Earn it"

Piper looked back as she heard a giant explosion and could make out flares around the coach engulfing him. She was sobbing, she thought she had failed.

Leo had just reached the room when the flames died out and where the coach had been, was a tiny, beautiful sapling.

Leo fell on his knees and began sobbing and yelling. He muttered curses and shouts, but to who? The coach was gone and they had failed to save him.

Piper walked to where the sapling was and buried it to the now exposed dirt, and planted the sapling. On the dirt she wrote:

Here lies Gleeson Hedge

A brave satyr

Who died to keep the peace.

O.O So he's dead? Unfortunately yes, I needed him somewhere else…And I hope I'm not giving away too much if I say that we will see the coach again at some point. But for now, chapter 10 awaits! I hoped you liked it, sorry if it made you sad or mad. Next POV is Percy :D

Please, if you have any questions, please ask me, and I will gladly reply. Thank yew! AND UNTIL NEXT TIME…GOOOODBYE AND REMEMBER TO FOLLOW

Also, does anyone know what show was like this? You probably won't since it's Canadian but oh well…