After the Blood of Olympus- Complete

Chapter 8 JASON

Jason readied his gladius, prepared for a fight. This was going to be ridiculous. If they weren't going to be able to see, they could easily kill somebody with the group instead of a gorgon.

Jason stabbed lightly in front of him with his gladius, getting a small squeak from Hazel.

"Sorry!" He whispered.

He did it again, and this time he heard a nasty shout like a gorgon. He stabbed harder in that direction, getting a shriek from the thing, than stabbed hard in the stomach.

It sounded like the others were trying to do the same. As he blindly stabbed his gorgon, not hard enough to kill it, in case he accidentally stabbed one of his friends, he heard the other gorgons make in "ow" noises like they were getting stabbed to.

Then the gorgon started fighting back. The women took a sword to his leg. He really hoped it wasn't imperial gold, because he really wasn't in the mood to deal with that at the time.

Then he took a big risk. He could be fighting Medusa. If opened his eyes for the final, fatal stab, and it was Medusa, he'd die.

He slowly opened them, to reveal a blue woman with an elephant trunk, not medusa. He reared back, and gave a final blow. The woman fell to the ground.

Jason, eyes opened, turned to the right to see the back of Medusa's head, who Percy was fighting in the same way Jason had tried to kill the elephant woman.

"Percy!" Jason yelled!"Keep your eyes closed! You're fighting Medusa!"

Percy yelped, whist Medusa laughed.

"You don't stand a chance, Jackson! Not with closed eyes!"

Jason turned to the left to see Frank fighting a purple skinned one with a dog tail.

"You can look, Frank."

"Oh," Frank opened his eyes and stabbed the dog women in the face, killing her.

Jason felt a tap on his back. His eyes snapped shut, and her turned around.

"Don't be afraid," it was Medusa," just look." Medusa tickled his eyelid with a snake, giving him the urge to open it.

"You could be everything. Fane Fortune. I will give you anything. All you have do is LOOK."

"Don't look, Jason!" he heard Annabeth yelled.

Jason heard someone creeping behind Medusa, but apparently she didn't.

Someone was about to kill her from behind.

Jason heard a scream.

"Hazel!" somebody yelled.

Jason reacted by stabbing hard where Medusa was, and he felt a body slump down into his arms.

He opened his eyes to see the back of Medusa's head. He dropped her to the ground.

He looked up and what he saw almost made him faint.

In front of him, he saw a done figure. Hazel.

"What happened!" he yelled.

"It was Medusa," Percy said," She turned around when Hazel was about kill her and turned her to stone."

This was awful. He couldn't believe this. He took some ambrosia out of his pocket and ate some for his leg wound, wondering how to help Hazel.

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It took Jason, Percy, and Frank to carry the Hazel statue, who's face was twisted with a look of horror. She was so heavy now that her enteral organ hah been transformed to stone.

"What are we gonna do?" Piper asked Annabeth.

"Piper. You know what to do."

"Would I ask you if I did?"

"But it's obvious. Charmspeake! You have to charmspeake Ares into telling us how to save Hazel.

"Okay," Piper replied.

"Where are we supposed to meet Ares?" Leo questioned.

As if on cue, the paper with the address on it floated into the air, then flew to Jason.

"Cafe," Jason read," we have to go back to the cafe."

They made there way back to the cafe, and even though it was only a mile's walk, it was really hard considering the statue.

"Do you think you can charmspeake Ares?" Annabeth looked at Piper.

"If I try hard, I think I'll be able to."

"Good. But I'm not sure how easy he'll be to convince, though."

"I'll try."

They walked into the cafe parking lot. Nobody seemed bothered by the statue of a 14 year old girl. Jason wondered what the mist was making the mortals see.

After what seemed like forever, Ares finally pulled up in his Harley.

"You got the tape?" he asked, not worried at all about Hazel.

Leo tossed him the DVR, and when Ares caught it, he smashed the center of it between his thumbs, took the insides out, ripped it up, and threw it to the ground.

"Hope he has a good time fixing that one."

"So," Annabeth spoke up," what are you gonna do for the quest?"

"I'm gonna give bus tickets to Kansas."

"Why Kanas," Percy asked.

"Well it's a lot closer to LA then New York, isn't it!"

"Of coarse it is, Lord Ares!" Piper said, " and we thank you! But we have a question."

"What." he sounded annoyed.

Then, putting what sounded like every ounce of charmspeake into her voice as possible, she said, " Our friend has been turned to stone by Medusa. How do we help her?"

Convinced, Ares replied, " I'm not the right god to ask that, but I know who can help. It just so happens that they are in a Kanas City."

"Who?"

"You'll see. But they might be hard to find. You should look around places where there aren't much people. I know they can help with Medusa victims, though."

"Thanks!" Piper said, taking 7 tickets from Ares.

Hopefully the mist made people see Hazel as something that belonged on a bus, but if it didn't, they had Piper's charmspeake.

As they walked to the appointed bus station, Annabeth said," Percy once had a problem with an exploding bus, okay. So I'm not sure how safe this is."

"I'll be fine. Hopefully their will be a lot of mortals on the bus."

They stopped by a fast food place and got a milkshake to prepare themselves for anything they had to deal with in Kansas.