Immortal Half-Blood

Battle Cry

"Cyclops!" Jason yelled. 

"Whoa, lightning head," Apollonia sat behind him on the bronze dragon, holding his waist to keep him balanced. They flew peacefully through the winter sky as if nothing had happened. 

"D-Detroit," Jason stammered. "Didn't we crash-land? I thought—" 

"It's okay," Leo said. "We got away, but you got a nasty concussion. How are you feeling?" 

"How did you— the Cyclops—" 

"Leo and Apollonia ripped them apart," Piper said, "Leo, especially was amazing. He can summon fire—" 

"It was nothing," Leo said quickly. 

Piper laughed, "Shush, Valdez. You were awesome! Get over it!" 

Piper told Jason about how Leo and Apollonia defeated the Cyclops family; how they freed Jason, then noticed the Cyclopes starting to re-form; how Leo had replaced the dragon's wiring and gotten them back in the air just as they'd started to hear the Cyclopes roaring for vengeance inside the factory.

Then Piper told him about the other kid the Cyclopes claimed to have eaten, the one in the purple shirt who spoke Latin. 

"I'm not alone, then," he said. "There are others like me." 

"Jason," Piper said, "you were never alone. You've got us. Hell, you even have a fated soulmate, you lucky guy!" 

"I—I know... but something Hera said. I was having a dream..."  He told them what happened in his vision, and what the goddess had said inside her cage. 

"An exchange?" Piper asked. "What does that mean?" 

"Hera is truly testing me this time," Apollonia mumbled.

Jason shook his head, "But Hera's gamble is me. Just by sending me to Camp Half-Blood, I have a feeling she broke some kind of rule, something that could blow up in a big way—" 

"Or save us," Piper said hopefully, "That bit about the sleeping enemy— that sounds like the lady Leo told us about." 

Leo cleared his throat, "About that... she kind of appeared to me and Apollonia back in Detroit, in a pool of Porta-Potty sludge." 

"Did you say... Porta-Potty?" Jason asked. 

Leo told them about the big face in the factory yard,  "I don't know if she's completely unkillable," Leo said, "but she cannot be defeated by toilet seats. I can vouch for that. She wanted us to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge.'" 

"She's trying to divide us." Piper choked up. 

"What's wrong?" Jason asked. 

"I just... Why are they toying with us? Who is this lady, and how is she connected to Enceladus?" 

"Enceladus?" Jason asked. 

"How do you know that name?" Apollonia asked sharply.

"I mean..." Piper's voice quavered. "That's one of the giants. Just one of the names I could remember." 

Apollonia got the feeling there was a lot more bothering her, but she decided not to press her right now. She had a rough morning for someone new to this world.

Leo scratched his head, "Well, I dunno about Enchiladas—" 

"Enceladus," Piper and Apollonia corrected. 

"Whatever, but Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear, or something?" 

"Porphyrion," Apollonia said, "He was the giant king... I fought him in the first giant war"