Review please, it makes my day! I know I said this chapter would be long, but it won't. I'm sorry, got HW to finish and a test to pretend to study for! (My parents make me study, so I lock myself in my room (with no computer) and just read the PJO books. I've never needed to study in my whole life so far.)

Disclaimer- Hazel- WASSAAP

Me: Hi, you know Rick owns you.

Hazel- NOOOOOOO! I hate him! He makes so many cliffhangers and throws Percy and Annabeth into Tartarus!

Me: IKR!

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XVII

Hazel

Hazel woke up buried under something hard. It felt like wood. She groaned, and shoved it off of herself, and covered her eyes as the daylight blinded her.

The snow had stopped, replaced with a warm, July sun. Hazel stood up and tried to get her bearings. She was in a relivately desert-like area, with the sea to her left and a large cliff to her right, so that she couldn't see anything except the small beach that the Argo had crashed onto.

The Argo II's left side was shredded, and supplies were strewn everywhere. It was right side up, and looked like one of those ships run aground that you see in the movies.

The mast had snapped. "Guys?" She called out.

A muffled voice yelled, "Over here, help! The mast is trying to suffocate me!"

Hazel stumbled over to the voice and found Leo trapped under a sail. "Yo, Hazel! Help me, will you?"

She helped lift the mast just a bit for Leo to crawl out. "Thanks," he muttered.

"Um, what happened?"

"Ah, snowstorm, wind, couldn't see, smashed into the ground, ship…" Leo looked at the mauled Argo II. "MY ship!" he cried and ran over.

Letting Leo do his own thing, Hazel walked around the debris, helping the others get out. In a while, everyone was gathered, with only minor injuries.

Piper said, "so, um, what now?"

"We have to try and hook up with the rest of Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter, assuming they didn't drown from the storm." Jason looked over at the cliff. "I'll fly around, see what I can find. Piper and Nico, you can help Leo do some emergency repairs."

For once, the son of Jupiter, a natural leader, didn't look very keen to take control. Usually Percy would think up stupid ideas, and Annabeth would scold him and come up with a brilliant plan. Hazel felt another pang of guilt as she thought of them.

Don't mourn over the past, she told herself. Think about the future and saving them。

"Um, Frank, if you could help me-" Jason started, but Hazel cut him off.

"No, I want to talk to him for a second," she looked him in the eye, and Frank averted his gaze.

"All right then, everyone. Get started." Jason shot up and Piper helped a still weak, but healing Nico over to the Argo II, where Leo was madly patching up the ripped apart hull.

"Frank…" Hazel started.

"If you're here to say you're sorry, don't. I respect you decision, Hazel and won't hate on it."

"It's not that. You're firewood… if you'd like it back…" Hazel took out the stub and held it out.

"No, I still trust you with my life, even if you turned me down. Can you keep it, please?"

Hazel gulped. "Ok, then."

(A/N Frank is still cool, I just ship Lezal.) *insert linebreak*

Later, Jason flew back with some good news. "The support is docked only about 40 miles from here, and teams have found ruins of Troy already," he said.

"Great. I'll get Leo to hurry," she replied and walked over to the wreck.

"Leo!" Hazel said. He didn't respond, even though he was 5 feet away.

"Earth to Leo!?"

"LEO!" she shouted. Still nothing. Sighing, Hazel walked up to him and planted a kiss on his cheek. Instantly, he straightened up and looked around confused. "What, wait what? What monsters? Where am I?" Then he saw Hazel. He turned red at the sight of an unhappy Hazel with her hands on her hips.

"Oh, um, yes?" he asked sheepishly.

"Finish up the emergency repairs. Everyone else is very close and they'll help patch the Argo II up."

"OH, that's good," he said simply and went back to his Leo World.

The rest of the day shot by as Hazel tried to understand what hydraulic pressurizes and truss beams were as she helped Leo make fine adjustments with her generally small hands.

At around 7, Leo made an announcement on the loudspeaker. "This is your awesome, epic, cute, hot, cool, scrawny (Team Leo!), and wonderful supreme captain general centurion commander of the awesome Argo II made by myself, Leo Valdez speaking!" Fireworks shot into the sky.

"We are ready for liftoff. Please stay seated. Camp Half Blood will not accept the responsibility of any injury or death. Oh, and try to keep any monsters from attacking the ship. Peace out

As Leo piloted the ship to the rest of CHB and CJ, everyone ate dinner and chatted about stuff. Normal, teenager stuff. For once, even if for a short time, Hazel felt as if she was normal and could take a break from saving the world.

If this made her tired, she wondered what Percy and Annabeth had gone through. If it was one they deserved, it was retirement from being the gods' pawns.

Later, when they landed, Conner and Travis took Hazel and the others to what used to be the gate of Troy. Even after 2000 years of erosion, Hazel's breath was taken away from the sight. Many of the structures were still quite intact. The cobbled streets were still clear. Descendents of the plants that were once the gardens of the city still grew in remarkable cohesion.

"Wow," she said. Nico nodded. "Wow," he agreed.

They were here. The first step into saving them. The first step into defeating Gaea.

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Quote of the chapter- Just say No to drugs. Because if they're talking to you, you've probably had too many.

Entertainment of the chapter- Mass Effect 3: Omega. WAS AWESOME, though I feel it focused too much on the game play and not enough on the story and characters.

Song of the chapter- Tristan by Two Steps From Hell (2SFH all day!)

In terms of updating, since this is a day early, the next chappie will be sometime next weekend. LET'S HIT 300!