Hi again:) this is the third chapter hooray! also, i know i updated on chinese new year but i forgot to say something so.. HAPPY BELATED CHINESE NEW YEAR GUYS:) plz read and review

Disclaimer: all characters and sadly the argo II belong to rick riordan (cuz who wouldnt want a 'spanking hot war machine'?)

The Earth's Possession

Chapter 3: There's good luck, then there's bad luck, then there's demigod luck

JASON

Jason really hated Gaea right now. First off, she had captured Nico di Angelo, the only one of them who had a chance of figuring out where the Doors of Death were. Hazel didn't exactly strike him as a typical Underworld child. Then, Gaea sent a whole bunch of monsters to attack Nico, which wouldn't help the seven any if he was dead. Finally, she sent a monster to attack them. Not any monster though, a hydra. Of all things, she HAD to send a hydra. (A/N *insert -.- face here*) Jason rolled his eyes but grabbed his gladius and charged. The hydra spit poison at him and he had to roll to avoid it. Jason growled in frustration. In all honesty he wanted to blast the hydra to bits with a lightning bolt, but he knew Leo would freak out if he electrocuted the Argo II. He surveyed the scene around him while fighting off one of its heads.

Piper was clutching Katoptris (A/N is that spelled right?) and looked like she wanted to charge the monster, but was frozen in her place. Jason sighed in relief. Then he winced as he realized how that might've been interpreted. In his eyes, Piper was a great fighter, an awesome demigod and his Beauty Queen. It was just that he didn't want her to get hurt at all. Leo was fighting the hydra head-on, his hand engulfed in flames. "FLAMEON!" he heard him shout. Jason couldn't help but feel a smile tug at his lips when Leo said that. Frank was flying above the hydra, in the form of a hawk trying to decapitate it. Hazel had drawn her spatha and was swinging a bit wildly, also trying to take off one of its other heads. Percy looked like he was guarding Annabeth as she searched the cabinet behind her for something. Jason couldn't help but feel a bit left out of the loop as he wondered what it was.

ANNABETH

Annabeth cursed. All she wanted was to find some stupid rope! Was that too much to ask for from the gods?! Thunder rumbled above. Ok, apparently it was. Hera was still banned from Olympus (A/N forgive me if that's wrong) so she wondered if the gods hated their little quest as much as they hated her right now. She sighed and continued her search. Percy turned around and looked at her.

"Have you found it yet, Wise Girl?" he asked with a hint of mischievousness in his voice. Annabeth smiled. Leave it to Percy to be able to tease you in a life or death situation. Actually it was one of the reasons she loved him. Annabeth quickly shook her head in response to him and resumed her search. After what seemed to be eons, she finally found one coil of rope. She silently thanked the gods before telling Percy that she had found it. Percy smiled and called to Leo.

"Leo, once I slice all the heads off, I need you to shoot fireballs at all the head stumps!" Percy instructed to Leo, who gave a quick nod to show that he understood. Frank didn't look very happy with that plan so he flew up high into the air, watching the plan unfold. Annabeth grinned as she tied the rope into a lasso and rounded up the nine hydra heads. Percy and Jason both charged in with their swords and cut the heads off. That's when the plan went wrong. Leo made a giant fireball, but aimed it at the heads. All the heads caught fire and burned to a crisp while the head stumps grew back, only this time, the seven were faced with an eighteen headed hydra. Everyone groaned.

"LEO! WHAT IN HADES' WERE YOU THINKING?!" Annabeth screeched. Leo stared at the monster.

"I thought you said that we needed to burn the heads!" he protested. Annabeth tried not to explode.

"No, we need to burn the head STUMPS. STUMPS! Let's try this again," Percy exclaimed, exasperated. Just as he said that, the hydra spit poison on the rope and the rope started to disintegrate.

"… Now what?" Hazel asked. Annabeth stared dumbfounded at the remains of the rope. For once, the daughter of Athena didn't know what to do. She HATED this feeling. It was completely unfamiliar to her. Just when she was about to announce this, Leo exclaimed,

"I have an idea!"

********Was going to end here with a cliffhanger but decided not to*********

Leo dug in his tool belt for a little while and triumphantly produced a coil of metal rope. He grinned madly.

"Not only is this sturdier than the old rope, it's painful too." Hazel and Piper seemed a little uncomfortable but they agreed to the plan anyways. Jason and Percy grinned along with Leo while Annabeth just nodded. Frank circled overhead and continued trying to claw the hydra's eyes out. Hazel used her powers to bend the metal into another lasso and Annabeth played cowboy again and caught the hydra. Percy and Jason both cut off nine heads each and Leo summoned another giant fireball and this time, hurled it straight at the hydra's exposed flesh. The monster hissed in pain as it spit poison everywhere, trying its best not to die. Everyone had to jump to dodge, but Hazel got a bit of poison on her leg and cried out in pain. The last of the hydra's essence returned to Tartarus as Frank transformed back into a human.

HAZEL

Hazel's leg felt like it was on fire. She clutched it, probably whimpering something along the lines of, "Oh my gods, Pluto save me." "Hazel!" Frank cried. She bit her lip to stop the trembling and looke dup to see Annabeth examining her leg. Annabeth sighed in relief.

"It's not that bad, it'll heal if you eat some ambrosia." She nodded to Frank who searched through the cabinet and gave Hazel a square of ambrosia which she accepted gratefully. She ate the food, a smile tugging at her lips at the taste. For whatever reason, ambrosia always tasted like beignets sprinkled with chocolate and sugar. It was the first thing that her mother had bought for her after they had discovered Hazel's "gift". Hazel looked up out of her daze to see Percy smiling at her.

"Demigod luck sucks, huh?" he asked. Hazel felt another smile coming.

"Sure does. I mean, the gods can't hate us THAT much, can they?" Leo asked. Thunder rumbled above again and the earth seemed to shake underneath them.

"I'll take that as a yes…" said Piper. Everyone laughed. Since some of them were tired, Hazel, Percy, and Frank decided to go down to their rooms and take a short nap. Annabeth remained in the room. Hazel thought she saw something like a glare towards Jason but thought she just imagined it so ignored it.

"Well kiddies, Uncle Leo has to drive this beauty so all the little girls should go and take their naps right now," he said while grinning. What he got for that comment was a scratch on his arm that looked vaguely like a cat made it, a shower of precious gems on his head and a thorough dousing of seawater. The others looked like they were trying to stifle laughing fits and Leo just let his arms hang down by his sides.

"Have I ever mentioned how much demigod luck sucks?"

and thats the end of it. i'll try and update by next week for anyone who reads. bye!

(spoiler: someone unexpected come in in chapter 4) read and review!