LOST AT SEA | jason grace

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞.

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑠

"𝚂𝙷𝚄𝚃 𝚄𝙿, me," Leo said.

"What?" Piper asked.

"Nothing," he said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool."

"If you're hallucinating I'm getting off right now." Lorna said.

"Just joking." Leo said. "So what's the plan? You said something about catching wind, or breaking wind, or something?"

As they flew over New England, Jason laid out the rough plan: First, find some guy named Boreas and grill him for information-

"His name is Boreas?" Leo had to ask. "What is he, the God of Boring?"

Second, Jason continued, they had to find those venti that had attacked them at the Grand Canyon-

"Can we just call them storm spirits?" Leo asked. "Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks."

And third, Jason finished, they had to find out who the storm spirits worked for, so they could find Hera and free her.

"So you want to look for Dylan, the nasty storm dude, on purpose," Leo said. "The guy who threw me off the skywalk and sucked Coach Hedge into the clouds."

"That's about it," Jason said. "Well ... there may be a wolf involved, too. But I think she's friendly. She probably won't eat us, unless we show weakness."

Jason told them about his dream- the big nasty mother wolf and a burned-out house with stone spires growing out of the swimming pool.

"Uh-huh," Leo said. "But you don't know where this place is."

"Nope," Jason admitted.

"There's also giants," Piper added. "The prophecy said the giants' revenge."

"Hold on," Leo said. "Giants- like more than one? Why can't it be just one giant who wants revenge?"

"I don't think so," Lorna said. "I remember in some of the old Greek stories, there was something about an army of giants."

"Great," Leo muttered. "Of course, with our luck, it's an army. So you know anything else about these giants? Didn't you do a bunch of myth research for that movie with your dad?"

"Your dad's an actor?" Jason asked Piper.

Leo laughed. "I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. But yeah, her dad's Tristan McLean."

"It doesn't matter," Piper said quickly.

"Okay? The giants- well, there were lots of giants in Greek mythology." Lorna explained. "But if I'm thinking of the right ones, they were bad news. Huge, almost impossible to kill. They could throw mountains and stuff. I think they were related to the Titans. They rose from the earth after Kronos lost the war- I mean the first Titan war, thousands of years ago- and they tried to destroy Olympus. If we're talking about the same giants- "

"Chiron said it was happening again," Jason remembered. "The last chapter. That's what he meant. No wonder he didn't want us to know all the details."

Leo whistled. "So ... giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the time to bring up my psycho babysitter."

"Is that another joke?" Lorna asked.

Leo told them about Tía Callida, who was really Hera, and how she'd appeared to him at camp.