PLEASE READ FOREWORD AND AFTERWORD!

IMPORTANT!

HEY PEOPLE! I- *READERS THROW SPEARS*

ALRIGHT, I KINDA DESERVED THAT SINCE I STOPPED POSTING FOR LIKE 3 WEEKS, BUT HEY I WAS SUPER SICK FOR A LONG TIME. I'M STILL SICK, BUT SLIGHTLY BETTER. WHILE I WAS SICK, I STARTED WORKING ON A NEW STORY! YAY! MORE ABOUT THAT AT THE END, NOW, I SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR ALL THIS LATE WORK.

SO… I WILL RESPOND TO REVIEWS!

Wonderland Princess of Hearts: Thank you sooooo much for that review. If I had not been checking my emails and seen that encouraging review, I wouldn't be writing right now. I decided to ditch the AU story for a while to get this chapter in. I'm really excited about the AU, so I might take a break on this story to post more for the AU. Of course, I'll post some of this every week or two. I'll juggle the two as best as I can. Now… about that suggestion of Patrons for each of the Nine…..

THIS STORY IS IN JASON POV

BECUZ JASON'S GONNA GET SOME COMPANY…

Jason, Champion of Flowers

I fist bumped Percy and sheathed my gladius. "Well, we dealt with that quite well, eh?" I asked him as he deactivated his frosty armor.

"Yeah, I wonder who's gonna atta-" Percy never finished.

There was a huge bang as a flame erupted on the ship. Leo growled, but it was Percy who reacted first. With inhuman speed, Percy had his armor, shield, and sword activated. With a single lunge, his sword in a reverse grip, Percy pinned the intruder down, blade on the neck.

"Who are you and why-" Percy stopped as the figure stopped flaming and revealed… Hestia, goddess of the hearth and home.

I stifled a laugh at Percy who was scrambling up and bowing low to Hestia.

"It is alright, Perseus Poseidon Jackson." Hestia said, fixing her light tan dress.

I saw Percy cringe at the sound of his full name. Ha, another thing to tease him about!

Then, Hestia turned to address all of us, "My friends, if you are to survive, you need gifts as Perseus here has. Now, being the goddess of the hearth, I can not choose one of you heroes, so I will choose all. You will, all Nine of you, will carry my blessing of Fire. Of course, Leo will have additional powers, such as healing in fire and ability to create Greek fire. So let us begin!"

We wasted a good two minutes staring at her, mind blown. She face-palmed and just held up her hand transferring her power. The second the flickering flames enveloped me, it felt like… the days back when I was just 1 year old and mom was fine, not cranky and weird, but still nice because of Jupiter. It was a nice sudden warm feeling. I wonder how Percy would be feeling right now, cold and hot. For a second, I was jealous, Percy had power over water, ice, and fire. I pushed the thought aside as the warm feeling crept into my skin.

The glowing stopped and I looked at myself. I didn't really change, but there was a slight warm feeling in my chest.

"Thank you, Lady Hestia." We all muttered, bowing low.

"You are welcome-" Hestia never finished.

With a bright flash, a huge rose burst up from the ship deck.

"Wow, Leo, you never told us about the exploding rose trick." Percy raised an eyebrow sarcastically.

The rose petals were blasted off and one flew smack in Hestia's face.

Bursting out of the rose, came… Demeter.

"Oooh, Hestia, my dear," Demeter said politely before facing us, "Now fire and gifts is great and all… but you know what's better? Flowers, plants, trees, and patrons!" Demeter directed the last sentence at me.

Oh. My. Frick. "Jason Grace, Son of Zeus, Child of Rome, do you accept me as your patron. Do you willing become… My champion, Jason Grace, Champion of the Flowers." Demeter implored.

I tried to keep a straight face. Jason Grace, Champion of Flowers?! Oh yeah, the monsters would think I'm real frightening.

Before I could politely deny, Percy fell to the floor… laughing like crazy. "Hahaha! Jay-Jason! Flowers! Ha! Terrifying! Hahaha!" He was clutching his stomach and rolling on the floor now.

Demeter looked furious. A huge thorn covered stem rose up and lashed out at Percy. Before I could run to his aid, it shriveled up and died. I looked at him in awe. "Water God's son, remember?" [A/N: In the Sea of Monsters movie, Annabeth said "Goddess of Wisdom's Daughter, remember?"]

Demeter frowned and asked me again. She was looking at me with fiery eyes worse than Mars so I consented and let myself be overwhelmed by the flowers. My last thought was, Why couldn't I have cool powers like Percy?

IMPORTANT AFTERWORD!

NAME CONTEST FOR MY NEW BOOK!

So, basically, my new book is an AU. (duh)

Instead of being demigods, they will be teenage immortal monster slayer groups. The two groups will be concealed as a social group in two universities. The first group is ten all female people. They attend Athens University in San Francisco. They go by the Hunters (No Artemis) but they can't let mortals know so they pretend to be the Athenians, a late-night party social group. Their leader is Annabeth (duh)

The second group is composed of ten teenage immortal boys. (As you can guess, the ten boys and the ten girls fall for each other)

The boys attend Olympia University in New York. They go by the Warriors, the Hunters rival Monster Slayer group. Of course, the Hunters don't realize the boys are the Warriors. And the Warriors don't realize they're the Hunters. The Warriors are under the name, Spartans. The Athenians and Spartans both are top in the social group, good-looking, good grades, and crazy party-members. Athena doesn't realize what she's done when she invites the Spartans over as a 'friendly' gesture between rivals. *Cough* Spying *Cough*

What starts of as an attempt to gain the top position as best Social group in the mortal world leads to a love story.

WOW! HOW AM I GONNA FIT THAT IN THE SUMMARY BOX FOR THE NEW STORY!

ANYWAY, THE GROUPS ARE AS FOLLOWS…

ATHENIANS SPARTANS

Alpha leader- Annabeth Percy

Leader- Piper Jason

Leader- Thalia Nico

Drew OC 1

Calypso Leo

Silena Beckendorf

Katie Travis

OC 2 Connor

Juniper Grover

Hazel Frank

TRAITORS- Rachel Luke

YEAH! SO, THAT'S THE CHART AND TRAITORS MEAN THAT THEY TURNED TO THE TITANS GROUP. IF YOU NOTICED, THERE IS AN OC 1 AND AN OC 2. YOU PEOPLE GET TO DECIDE THE NAMES OF THOSE OCs… IF YOU HELP ME. I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE STORY SOOOO… IF YOU REVIEW A GOOD TITLE TO ME THEN YOU WIN AND GET TO DECIDE NAMES! So, to enter the contest, you have to tell me your idea for the title and the names of the two OCs via review.

Note that I will not post ANYTHING until I get at least three reviews, hopefully on the contest. So, I'm blackmailing you, reviews= love = story. So until you post those reviews, I'm not typing anything, so get those reviews out! Three at least! Hopefully more. I need to make sure people are still listening to me and will read my new story. Honestly, I am so EXCITED about the New Story, so post soon! I'm itching to write!

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