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Chapter 15

Jason

Jason knew what he saw.

There was no mistaking it.

Right before the Iris message closed, that flash of pink passing by?

One of those flying pigs.

Jason walked down the hallway below deck in a rage.

He was pissed at the pigs.

He was pissed at the gods.

He was pissed at everything except for all the people on this ship.

But he wasn't pissed at Nico. He couldn't be pissed at Nico right now.

He stormed down and banged on Frank's door. "Frank? Open up, I need you."

Frank opened the door. He looked a little embarrassed but he said, "Hey, dude, what do you need?"

Jason could hear weeping from behind him and he guessed Frank was trying to comfort Hazel.

"We need to dissect that pig. Like, now," Jason commanded. "It means more to us now than ever."

"Oh, can't we just forget about those stupid pigs?!" Hazel wailed from inside. "We need to spend all our time getting to Greece, not worrying about some stupid animal that we shot and is already dead!"

"I'll explain on the way," Jason replied, ignoring Hazel's comment. "Bring Hazel and I'll tell her, too."

Frank nodded. He closed the door behind him and Jason could hear Frank asking, "Would you please come with me? It would make me feel better if you were there."

Jason waited outside the door, and when Hazel and Frank emerged, Jason's heart sunk a little at the sight of her.

Her eyes were red and her hair was a mess and she looked so crushed.

Jason fell into step beside them and they walked down the hall to the stables where they had decided to keep the dead pig, too.

"When the message closed," Jason began. "I saw something behind Nico when the message closed. It was one of those pigs."

"I knew I saw something," Hazel gasped, the anger burning through her voice.

"So, I want to know what is going on with these pigs now before our situation gets any worse." Jason sighed as he opened the stable door.

Frank threw the not moving pig over his shoulder, the arrow still sticking out of it, and they walked off to Leo's room.

"Leo?" Hazel called.

"WHAT?" Leo shouted to them from inside his room. "I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU!"

"WHY DON'T YOU OPEN YOUR DOOR, THEN?" Frank bellowed.

"WHAT? HANG ON; MAYBE IF I OPEN MY DOOR I COULD HEAR YOU BETTER!" Leo replied.

The door swung open, and Leo stood by with one finger in his right ear and the Archimedes Sphere sitting on his desk, with a wrench, some various sized screw drivers, and a tiny hammer.

"So, what was that you all were saying?" Leo smiled at them.

Frank jostled the dead pig over his shoulder. "Dissection. Wanna come?"

Leo swallowed hard. "I don't know, guys, I mean, with this whole Nico business, I was thinking I could try to unlock more secrets about the Archimedes Sphere," he pointed to it, "and see if maybe there was a teleporting function."

Jason sighed.

"Leo, I understand you want to help," Hazel stepped in, "but Jason and I saw a pig fly past the Iris message and he, and I do too, really, wants to know what we're up against."

Leo was quiet. He turned to look at Jason and asked, "Are you sure that's what you saw?"

Jason nodded.

"Then let's go," Leo sighed.

"Um, go where?" Frank asked.

"Follow me," Leo replied.

"I built this place for experimenting on any new materials or chemicals we found," Leo admitted as he led them down the staircase that had been hidden under the floor boards of his room.

"Wow, Leo," Hazel commented as they entered the huge space.

Leo nodded.

The space was huge. It was dark and lit only by harsh purple and green lights.

The staircase ended and they walked up to a large, glass surfaced table.

Under the dark glass was a series of dull green lights.

"Lay the pig down there," Leo sighed and pointed to the shiny surface.

Frank placed the pig down and Leo pressed a button under the table.

Jason heard a faint click and a drawer slid out right in front of him. He had to jump back to avoid getting hit.

And he backed into something hard.

He turned around and saw that he was staring at a large pile of celestial bronze plates.

He had been wondering where all the leftover plates had gone to.

He turned back around and asked, "Okay, so, who wants to perform the dissection?"

"Gods, it's like biology class all over again," Leo moaned. "I guess I'll do it."

"Okay, great," Jason replied. He stepped up next to him, and Leo was pulling a pair of goggles over his head.

Where did he even get those? Jason thought.

Leo picked up a scalpel form the drawer and held the dead pig down on the table.

He took a deep breath, sighed, and made a long incision next to the protruding arrow.

He pulled up some of the tough pig skin and gasped.

Jason peered over his shoulder, and he gasped, too.

What? He thought, panicked. No way. That can't be!

XP! Cliffhanger!

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