Jason

I woke up with a start, not exactly pleasant dreams when you're dreaming of New Rome up in flames. I took a minute to think about what just happened. Is this a warning of the future? Or did this happen already? Before I could think about this anymore I had to acknowledge the Emo in the room.

"I never thought of you as a heavy sleeper, kind of thought that you're the person who wakes up at 5:30 in the morning everyday for no particular reason. Glad to see the water worked though.", That's when I noticed the water dripping from my face and realized I was drenched. Nico looked older than he seemed, he was placed oh so delicately in the shadows of the room as if he was inching away from the impending sunlight. I patted the side of the bed and he refused, I supposed he prefer the dark (go figure).

"Well little cousin, what can I do for you?"He was one of the few people that haven't been at camp for at least three months, the list included Grover, who was busy doing nature stuff, Chiron who was busy in Montana stopping a centaur civil war was it? And Dionysus who (thank gods), was busy in Greece for some reason (not that I'm complaining). I couldn't help but feel sympathy for the guy, you can see he's been through a lot, in fact too much not just for his age but for anyone, it's insane he's still alive.

He gave me a frown and said, "First, don't give me that look I don't want your sympathy-", ouch "-second, I'm mad at you-", what what?, "-and third, meet me at the big house in ten". And with that he vanished, leaving the shadows of where he was. I got up and took a shower and got ready as I thought about what he meant, and the only reason he could be made is for one thing, or person in this case. Percy.

I headed over to the Big House, or at least what was left of it, which to be fair is a bit cruel. Leo's been working on it since the incident and it looks somewhat good. Apparently they were lucky to salvage all the spoils of war except a scarf that Percy and Annabeth retrieved (not that she was complaining afterwards), inside there was Nico, Annabeth, Clarisse, Piper, Leo, and Grover. When Grover found out about everything, he was a mess. He barely talks to Annabeth no matter how many times she tries since he believes that Percy wouldn't do anything. I sat down next to Piper and Leo as Nico was deep in thought.

"What I miss", I asked Piper but obviously Leo had to answer "He's been like that for a few minutes now, but he hasn't taken his eyes off Annabeth and if looks could kill, she would've been sent to Hades the hard way. Piper rolled her eyes but agreed with what Leo said. Finally, Nico began.

"I'm assuming you guys are wondering why I asked for you all to come here", he said without taking a single minute to blink, Annabeth looked queasy in her seat and shuffled around uncomfortably.

"Maybe you brought us pomegranate donuts from the underworld?"Leo said as a joke, nobody laughed. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

"No, I didn't. I brought you guys here because I was gone for three months and apparently you all KICKED PERCY OUT! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR GODS DAM MIND?" (sea what I did there :)), now everyone shifted uncomfortably, I realized that Grover was sitting next to Nico and looked equally as pissed as the Son of Hades.

"We wouldn't have had to kick him out but Nico he was genuinely insane" said Leo, not so confident enough to look Death in the eye. Annabeth began to say something but Nico snapped his neck towards her "You. Your the reason why he's gone. I thought you're a "daughter of wisdom"-" he said with finger quotes "- aren't you supposed to be smart and maybe realize that all this-", he acknowledged the burtness of the Big House "-wasn't his doing", that's when Annabeth got equally as mad.

"Nico we all saw him do it-" she waved towards Piper and Leo specifically, "-plus he did so much more before that as well, if you asked me we should've gotten rid of him earlier.". That's when the room got awfully quiet, a sudden chill went through my skin, Piper held my hand as we waited for the storm.

"He saved us MULTIPLE TIMES, what reason could HE POSSIBLY HAVE TO DO ALL OF THIS, YOU ACT LIKE WE'VE HAVEN'T DEALT WITH STRANGER THINGS ANNABETH.", around the room a sudden darkness took over, Grover had to put a hand on Nico to calm him down as around Annabeth's chair skeleton hands grab on the legs of it.

"Annabeth honestly this doesn't sound like Percy, you mean to tell me that it was him when we've dealth with things that have no explanation yet we found out it wasn't what it seemed to be?", She opened her mouth to answer the satyr but found no words and kept it shout, that's when Nico acknowledged me.

"He trusted you Jason. We didn't you stand up for him he's your friend too", he didn't yell at me but he might as well should have, it wasn't anger, it was disappointment.

"Guys", I stood up to make it a point, "we failed Percy, I failed Percy, we couldn't give him the benefit of the doubt? I know my cousin, and I feel like we're dealing with something stranger than before.". Nobody said anything for a few seconds but thats when Clarrise stood up, "The pricks right" ouch. "We should've gotten to the bottom of this and helped Prissy". That's when Nico walked out with Grover, Leo looked pure white and Piper was too stunned to speak, with Annabeth looking close to tears but didn't move, so what was my choice? To go after Nico and Grover, as I got up Piper grabbed my hand.

"Jason, we saw him. I saw him. Isn't that enough for you", it made sense to believe her, but still.

"I need to find out what's going on Pipes" I gave her a kiss on the cheek as I walked out only to be stopped by Clarisse. "If you're going to go find him, and when you do, give the prick a punch from me alright?", that's probably the nicest thing Percy's going to get from her so I nodded, and ran off to where Nico and Grover were.

"Are you coming?" Nico asked?, On his left Grover was tearing up, he gave me a hug and said "give him a hug for me if you find him, if he's not, not-", he couldn't even finish what he was saying without crying, Nico placed a hand on his back and locked eyes with me.

"Well Death Breath, where are we heading off to?" I asked, he looks towards the forest deep in thought

"I have a few ideas, a few people we can ask and a few locations we can head off too", with that we went into the forest in search of a lost hero.

Percy

This was simply awful, down right bad. I mean what can we do about this? Who can help us? And more importantly? Who was going to tell Frank his fly was down? Those were the questions on everyone's (me) head. Why? Because Reyna had the Second, Third, and Fourth set up a perimeter around New Rome and Camp Jupiter in an attempt to protect the border. Leaving the centurions, the First Cohort and Me and Reyna in the same place.

"Centurions, I believe we're going to need a senate meeting about today's events, this is an emergency meeting so get everyone and everything ready in two hours please. First Cohort account the damage and set up defense reinforcements around the perimeter and Frank.", They both made eye contact, without telling him Frank realized his fly was down. Crazy. With that, everyone left leaving me and Reyna in the same spot, I looked over the spot I fought Eris watching the ice melting, as Reyna began to walk, without much to do I followed her.

"So is there anything I can do?" I asked her as she was deep in thought, I realized she was limping heavily so I offered her earthshaker to use as a walking stick when reluctantly she took.

"Thanks", she said as she held the weapon of mass destruction as a crutch. "You could join us in the senate meeting since I'm assuming they'll be trialing for your innocence as well. That didn't sound like a lot of fun. She must've seen that I was worried about that and said "relax, a majority of them were in favor of you when you became Praetor and most of them trust, Frank and Hazel will most likely be witnesses to the other you we saw. And.". She stopped walking and looked at me and I noticed how beautiful her eyes were. Even though she was bruised and covered in dirt, she was still standing and confident. "I'm assuming if they don't go for trial they'll be offering you a position as Praetor, since Frank stepped down.". It dawned on me that the army was cheering for me to be Praetor, which made me feel a lot of emotions. The first was embarrassed and the other was excited to work with Reyna again. Another part of me was doubt, doubt I can do the job good enough, I was only Praetor for a week which didn't leave much negative impact but what if I failed this time. Another part of me wanted to know why Frank stepped down and whether or not it had to do with what Scotty told him. I must've looked like a mess because Reyna smiled and said "you don't have to answer me know, your welcome to come with me to my villa, and unfortunately for you you'll have to wear a toga this time they set up the rule after you left. Frick.

Btw if anyone has any suggestions ill take them and if you want longer chaoters better plot im open to any help since I wanna make this a good story so yeah thanks :)