Immortal Half-Blood

Jason

Seymour the leopard howled. His mouth freezing half-open. The arcade stopped pew-pewing. The fire stopped crackling, its flames hardened like glossy glass. The masks stared down at him with their grape eyes and leafy tongues.

"Apollonia, Chiron?" he paused. " What's going—"

The legendary warrior and the old centaur were frozen too. He jumped off the couch but they just kept staring at the same spot, Apollonia had her eyes downcast and her beautiful brows furrowed. Their eyes didn't blink, their chest didn't move.

"Jason" a voice creepily said

For a moment, Jason stupidly thought it was the leopard who spoke. Then dark mist flowed out of the leopard's mouth and had an even worse thought go through his mind: Venti

He quickly grabbed his coin from his pocket, then with a quick flip, he was armed with a gleaming gold sword.

The mist formed into a woman in black robes. Her face hooded, but her eyes glowed in the darkness. Over her shoulders was a goatskin cloak. He wasn't sure how he knew but he knew this was important and he recognised it.

"Would you attack your patron?" The woman chided. Her voice echoed in his head Lower your sword

"Who are you?" Jason demanded, "How did you—"

"Our time is limited, Jason. My prison grows stronger by the day. It took me a full month to gather enough energy to work even the smallest magic through my bonds. I've managed to bring you here, but now I have little time left and even less power. This may be the last time I speak with you. You must make your soulmate fall for you, she will not like you as her soulmate at first because of your name and where you hail from but your relationship is most essential to the future."

"You're in a prison?" Jason asked still not lowering his sword "Look, I don't know you and you are not my patron"

"You know me" she insisted "You have known me since birth"

"I don't remember, I don't remember anything"

"No, you don't. That was also necessary. Long ago, your father let me choose between you and your sister as a gift to placate my anger. I picked you, he named you Jason, after my favourite mortal. You belong to me."

"Sister?" Jason asked starstruck then snapped out of it, "Look lady, I don't belong to anyone"

"Now is the time to pay your debt. Make your soulmate fall for you. Find my prison. Free me, or their king will rise from the earth, or I will be destroyed. You will never retrieve your memory."

"Is that a treat? You took my memory?" Jason asked, getting pissed.

"You have until the solstice, Jason. Four short days, remember what I said. Do not fail me."

The woman dissolved, and the mist curled back into the leopard's mouth. Time unfroze. Seymour's howl turned into a leopard cough as if he choked on a sausage. The fire crackled back to life, the arcade machine let out a few pew-pews and Chiron and Apollonia's chests went back to breathing. 

"My guess is the lady in the mist" Jason offered an answer.

Chiron and Apollonia looked at him in surprise, "Weren't you just sitting... Why do you have your sword drawn?" Chiron asked.

"I hate to tell you this," Jason said, "But your leopard just ate a Goddess"

Jason told Chiron and Apollonia about the frozen in time visit, then finished off with the mist woman figure disappearing into Seymour's mouth.