Happy 13th Birthday to ME! My day has been pretty awesome so far. My mom got me Edible Arangments! And i got a lot of Barnes and Noble and iTunes money! Plus, by Band Class performed Happy Birthday to me! Here's a shout out to my friends reading this: Thank you all so much for being so wonderful!

So Jason is the final point of view! His POV is the hardest for me, so please don't get mad if this is bad! I'm just watching Practical Magic right now (great movie) and doing more homework. I know, homework is gross...

Sorry for typos and OOCness.

Happy Reading!

Chapter 4

Jason

"And the monsters of the Mare Nostrum strike again," murmured Jason as he readied his sword.

He was exhausted. Utterly and completely fatigued. His body ached from the fight against the twin giants, and he still couldn't believe that Percy and Annabeth were gone.

He should've done more to save them. Even though the others said that he would've been sucked down too, he still could've tried. He was good at flying; maybe he could have dragged them out into a safer zone. I wish Coach Hedge would just give him a smack on the head for being an idiot.

Jason half blamed the statue. The Athena Parthenos stood tall on the deck of the Argo II. Athena's eyes seemed to bore into Jason's every time he looked at it, as if saying, Stupid Rome. Stupid Praetor. Stay out of my way before I kill you.

Jason knew that if statues could kill, this would be the one to stay away from. But then again, Terminus helped Percy kill Polybotes, so if Terminus could do that then who knows what the Athena Parthenos could do.

But if this Athena statue could do anything, it certainly wasn't helping them while they were being attacked by the Loch Ness Monster.

Okay, so maybe it wasn't the Loch Ness Monster, but it looked enough like it. It stood 50 feet out of the water, and Jason guessed that was only half of it. It's long, elaborate fins stuck out of the water behind it. The monster was teal blue and dark green, but the huge dorsal fin was purple and red.

Jason could see rows of razor sharp teeth in its mouth. It snapped and snarled at them, spewing water and acid from mouth and nostrils. It had about five tongues, one in its mouth, and two on each side of its neck. It looked like a mixture of some crazy dinosaur, a sea monster, and a hydra on steroids.

Jason decided to name it Nessie.

"Where's Percy when you need him?" grumbled Hazel, swinging her cavalry sword at one of the tongues as it came near her head. It darted just out of reach.

Jason felt a pang of jealousy, which he wasn't used to. Ever since he had heard of Percy, this feeling was becoming more and more consistent. At Camp Half-Blood, he was all everyone ever talked about. And once he had arrived at Camp Jupiter, all of his old friends were sticking with Percy, as if Jason were nothing anymore.

And Percy didn't even act like he was all that. He and Jason had been great fighting partners against the giants, but Jason couldn't quit remembering when he and Percy had tried to kill each other. It had been sick, but since then, Jason had kept wondering who the stronger demigod was.

Even Nico had said Percy was the most powerful demigod he knew. Jason had seen Percy in action, and he knew that he was super tough, but Jason kept thinking, What else can he do?

Jason absolutely hated the feeling. Especially since they were friends.

And then there was Nico. Nico frankly scared Jason a little bit. He couldn't completely trust the guy. He had been ling to both Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter for months about Jason and Percy.

But Jason wasn't going to trouble the kid now. He could see the haunted look in his eyes. Tartarus must've been really terrible. Now, Jason could only hope that Annabeth and Percy would survive. There was nothing he could do.

He hated the feeling of uselessness even more than jealousy.

Jason lunged to the side as one of the samurai tongues shot at him. He vaulted over it and slashed down, but he missed by a fraction of an inch. He cursed as he landed.

He glanced to the right. Piper was fighting with Katoptris instead of the horn of plenty. Apparently Hedge had given it back to her. It was good that she was fighting with it again, because Jason wasn't sure how the horn would come in handy in this situation. And charmspeak probably wouldn't do a thing.

Next to Piper was Frank, who had turned into cheetah. He was scratching and lunging at the monster anytime it came within reach.

Jason could hear Coach Hedge behind him. "You want some of this? I'll give you some of this. This goat is ma-aa-d!"

To his left, Hazel was still attacking in monsters, trying her best to hold two of the tongues at once. They slashed and cut at her, but she was doing a good job at holding them off. But like everyone else, when she tried to cut one of the off, she came too short.

Nico was fighting with his black iron sword. Jason remembered Nico from camp, and Nico had never been part of the camp games, so this was the first time Jason had seen him fight, and truth be told, he was better than Jason had expected.

For a fraction of a second, Jason was about to look around to try and find Percy and Annabeth. He shook his head and kept trying to hold off the monsters lunging head.

So where was Leo?

Jason hadn't seen Leo since he had gone down to the engine room about two hours ago, holding the Archimedes Sphere in both of his hands. "I want to learn more about how this works," he'd told them, his eye giddy with excitement. Jason had been afraid that he was going to light something on fire if he kept talking to him, he Jason had let him go on.

Jason assumed he was still down there, but he wished that Leo would just lose the Sphere for a few minutes and help them fight off the monster, but he couldn't just run down there and ask him, now could he?

He jumped up as the monster spit acid at his feet. The deck melted a little bit where the acid was, creating a hole. Jason side stepped the hole and switched his sword to his other hand for a minute.

They needed a plan, and Jason was fresh out of them.

Jason yelled a raised his sword into the air. A storm cloud formed above him and lightning streaked out of the sky. His friends hit the deck as an instinct. The lightning hit the sword and reflected off of it, hitting Nessie in one of its big blue eyes.

The monster shrieked a reeled back in pain. The tongues came closer to the body as it convulsed and spewed acid everywhere. The others rolled away and hid behind the mast until Nessie disappeared below the surface of the water. Then they got up and gazed over the railing like Jason, watching the water bubble below them.

Jason felt a little bit triumphant. At least he had done something right.

But that feeling went away when he saw the sea monsters head pop out of the water. It shrieked in rage into the air, and then focused its eyes right on Jason. He gulped. And Nessie lunged.

Jason probably would've been dinner if Hazel hadn't tackled him. Nessie's head sailed right over him, and then she pulled back and started flicking her razor sharp tongues at them again.

"Watch out, Jason," informed Hazel. He nodded. He couldn't afford to die now.

"I got this, you guys!" screamed a voice from below deck. That was Leo. He was fine, and he'd finally realized that they were in trouble.

"Glad you could join us," yelled Piper angrily, slashing at the tongue.

"Yeah, quit your complaining," he yelled back. He came out holding the Archimedes Sphere in both hands. He just never seemed to get rid of that thing now.

"Can you drop the ball?" asked Nico. "We really don't have time for science experiments." Frank glared at him in his cheetah form, and for a second, Jason was afraid Frank was going to forget about Nessie and attack Leo instead.

"It's not a science experiment!" Leo protested as he pressed buttons on the side of the sphere. "This thing is going to save your ungrateful butts."

He held the thing out in front of him and screamed, "TEAM LEO FOR THE WIN!" The sphere began to glow a dull blue color. Tiny legs sprouted from the equator, and the ball held itself up.

Like a Rubik's Cube, it shift and turned into a new pattern of ancient words and symbols that Jason couldn't understand. They turned until they were set up in a certain code. Or, Jason guessed that's what it was.

A ray of light shot out of the sphere and hit the monster in the neck. The monster shook, waving its head around in pain.

"What are you doing?" screamed Frank, who had turned back into a human.

"Just wait for it!" Leo ordered, smiling at the sphere. The beam was still coming out of it and still hitting Nessie. Jason couldn't see the effects. But then, the monster began to shrink rapidly.

How this ancient invention could shoot shrink rays out of it, Jason had no idea. But he wasn't about to complain.

"Get out of the way!" Leo yelled suddenly, sprinting forward in front of them, his hands cupped. The monster was so small now, only a forth of the size it had once been, and it was still shrinking.

None of them moved, they just watched in amazement. Soon enough, the Loch Ness Monster was was only the size of a person, and it was frozen in midair.

"Jason!" Leo yelled. "Turn it off!"

"What? How?"

"There was finger holds on the sides. Fit your hands into it and push down until you hear a click. Hurry!"

Jason ran to the Archimedes Sphere, dodging the ray and going behind it. He put his hands on either side. To his surprise, Leo was right; there were places to put his hands. He put his hands on it and pushed as hard as he could, and the ray shut off almost immediately.

Jason looked up to see Leo catch Nessie in his hands, since it was only the size of a toy dinosaur. Leo laughed. "I think I'm going to keep it as a pet!" he announced.

They were all so mad at Leo, but they couldn't help but smile. "How'd you know how to do this?" asked Jason, holding the ball and staring at it.

"I've been trying to decipher the codes for a few hours," Leo said. "This thing might be the key to defeating Gaea. I only just realized it was a shrink ray, and that's only from one of the codes. You can probably make things grow too! I got to study it more."

"Well, I was going to scream a little bit, but I have to say, good job," Piper told him, smiling a bit.

"Why, thank you, Beauty Queen. Also, I was just thinking, what if we shrunk the Athena Parthenos?"

"What?" everyone asked at the same time.

"Hey, don't gang up on me. I'm just saying, when we go to Epirus, we can't just carry a giant statue with us! So why don't we shrink it and then make it bigger when we need it again?"

Jason looked around at the others. They looked uneasy, but Jason thought it sounded okay. He shrugged. "Give it a go."

I wasn't proud of the chapter, so I'm sorry. I'm so busy, and I tried my best. Give me a break, it's my birthday!

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