IV

Piper

Piper looked at Annabeth. Still making the face Piper had never seen before she was reunited with Percy. Being a daughter of Aphrodite, Piper knew this was love. She wished she could still feel the same way about Jason without feeling hurt. Betrayed was more like it. A month with his memory back and Jason suddenly just remembered Dirty Blonde.

Annabeth stopped kissing and a particular group of girls went "awwww", it was obvious that it was the daughters of Venus. Piper could help smiling for Annabeth; it was the first time she had seen her truly happy. Piper also loved the fact that she wasn't the least bit intimidated by the she-wolf who was now getting annoyed and growling. Piper knew this was Chiron's roman counterpart, Lupa. Looking into the she-wolf's eyes, Piper saw what looked to be a forced attempt to put up with all the events that had happened in the past twenty minutes.

"Percy, look at me," Annabeth said, "Do you remember me?" she asked looking intensely into his sea green eyes.

The boy gave an ear to ear smile, "Annabeth!" He said with a powerful feeling of love, and as if it never happened, Percy kissed her again.

"How did you get your memory back?" She asked when their kiss was over.

The she-wolf stepped in-between the two of them and answered herself.

"That is to be said when you tell us everything you know, starting with how you came to possess my greatest trainer and ending with why you are here." Her voice was more powerful than any charm speaking Piper had ever done, and though it was an optional thing to do, it seemed useless to disobey the great wolf.

Annabeth told her everything that was to be told, leaving out the answer to them being there.

"This doesn't explain why you are here, if it has anything to do with the fact that my trainers are around, please note that residence of Campo Legion can handle nothing but anything. Say what you must or get off of my land." She had a cool feel about her that meant simply tell her what she wanted to know or death.

Annabeth had been looking at the wolf stunned, but Piper knew that was an act. She was really putting a plan together. A plan was needed because their Camp Director had been clear when he explained that we needed to smooth Lupa into the idea of the two camps helping one another. Annabeth was now looking at Percy, apparently pleading for help; the daughter of Athena was out of a plan, the cause just hadn't been that important for a plan, just simply more time to explain everything to Lupa.

"Lupa, maybe we should give them a chance to settle in, I mean you know where we come from, you gave me a cabin, why not them. We'll get things sorted out soon."Percy said, saving Annabeth from coming clean now.

"For now," Lupa said, "Reyna, you show the girls their cabins, Percy you show the boys theirs, and until I know why these Greeks have come, they will not be allowed to leave Camp Legion."

Piper didn't like the idea of staying here. She already didn't like the warfare surroundings, Dirty Blonde, and the crazy wolf they all obeyed. She defiantly didn't like the idea of Dirty Blonde showing her to her cabin. She was sure she'd get some dump to stay in.

Everybody cleared and Piper, Annabeth, Leo, Jason, Percy, and Reyna all set down the walkway to the cabins, Annabeth and Percy holding hands, Jason and Leo lagging behind, Jason avoiding Reyna and Piper, and Piper and Dirty Blonde standing far apart. Piper saw Annabeth and Percy and thought how Percy cared enough about Annabeth not to go out and cheat.

The cabins had an opening so that the boys could walk past the girls' cabins to theirs.

With the boys gone, Annabeth was obviously uncomfortable. Piper would have been uncomfortable too if she'd been between warfare. She tried not to focus on Reyna and have a good time viewing the nature of the people she'd be sharing the war with. This sounded weird to Piper. Just two months ago she had been running in gym and listening to Coach Hedge pound her into doing more, now only to find that he was actually a goat man sent to protect her and her friends because they were all a part of this exclusive club of kids mixed with godly blood and human blood, and an even more exclusive club of only seven. Wars and blades were now her life and she hadn't found it surprising.

The roman camp had cabins just like Camp Half-Blood. Except the fact that they were all less grand and not as built up and decorated. Piper wondered why their cabins were smaller and plain. She put up her difference and asked Reyna.

"Um… Dir-…I mean, what's your name again?" Piper asked Dirty Blonde. Reyna looked taken aback.

"It's Reyna, why what's yours?" She replied with a snort. Piper glanced at Annabeth, hoping she could encourage her.

"It's Piper, and I was asking because I wanted to know why your cabins were so… small and…err... plain?" Piper asked trying not to call her camp a pig's dirt bag.

Dirty Blonde laughed, "Yea I suppose your camp is like a walk in the park, anyway, the roman Gods don't waste their time having more kids than they need so there aren't more than about three hundred and we don't need all the space. Also we're all about training. The gods have fewer kids than they need. They don't admit it but they need us and we have to serve them for whatever reason they do and ever will need us for, so we train, day and night. No time or need for decor in Camp Legion."

Piper thought these kids were way too strict. No wonder they needed the Greeks. She knew they were like this but she didn't know that they were so gray. Piper hoped at least one person that belonged to this camp wasn't like this. Even Jason didn't have a funny bone in his body. Camp Half Blood actually softened him up.

Reyna walked them up to a spare cabin. It was big enough for three people and the lights were on inside. Piper figured that there was already a person in there.

"There you go, um… I guess I'll be seeing you girls later, see you." Reyna said with an attitude when she looked at Piper but very positive when she spoke towards Annabeth.

Piper and Annabeth walked in and they found the one thing they had never expected to find in their room.