Vanished

Chapter Eight - Jason - A Quick Stop to Madrid

"Every one on the deck, please!" Leo ordered through the intercom. Somehow he had made the intercom system so well that it sounded exactly like Leo's voice. No staticky noises just Leo's giddy voice.

Jason was in the middle of doing sit ups. Be wanted to be in good shape if he was going to be fighting anything. He had just finished his forty-ninth sit up. He looked up and did the fiftieth sit up before getting up. He began putting his shirt back on when Piper came in. She didn't flinch when she saw him shirtless. It wasn't the first time. Piper was never bothered by nudity, she was used to it first some reason.

"I just came to get you." she said and leaned on the door.

"It's fine, I'll meet you up there." he replied.

She nodded and left. One of her beloved harpy feathers fell out of her chestnut colored hair. She hadn't bothered to pick it up and just left. He slipped on a pair of slide on shoes and headed up to the deck. A few of Leo's robots shuffled around his feet as he walked around, offering him all sorts of snacks.

Frank looked incredibly drowsy and kept rubbing his eyes. He wasn't ready to wake up from his nap. He decided decided to turn into Siamese cat and lie down on the floor. Piper leaned down a picked up Frank and held him on her lap and pet him repeatedly, he purred and closed his eyes.

Annabeth walked over and began to let him as well. The girls love it when Frank turns into a cat. Or any type of furry animal, that is...

"Okay, Frank, Mr. Spotlight stealer, I need every one's attention, including yours so if you could please turn back into a Frank that would be appreciated." Leo said staring down at Siamese cat Frank with his arms across his chest.

Frank hissed and pawed at Leo and jumped off of Piper's lap and onto the ground where returned to human form.

"You're lucky, you don't speak cat." Frank said looking down at Leo while shaking his head.

"Anyway," Leo looked directly at Frank. "We will be making a quick stop in Madrid. I need to ask an old friend for some help..."

"You think they can help us find Reyna and Hazel?" Jason asked.

"I've got a gut feeling that she knows something about what happened. But she's a mortal so you guys need to have to be prepared and an immense amount of patience. The Greek gods stuff will be new to her." Leo said.

"Is she pretty?" Calypso asked.

"Uh, it's in my best interest not to answer that question." Leo's eyes widened and he avoided eye contact with his annoyed looking girlfriend.

"Is she smarter than me?" Annabeth asked. "Well, for a mortal."

"Stop asking me question that might result in my death!" Leo pleaded.

"No one is smarter than my Annabeth." Percy said smiling and wrapped an arm around Annabeth who looked up at him with a smile. Piper shifted uneasily and Calypso stared at ground shaking her head. What was going on?

"Ew, not in the mood for PDA, please." Nico said rolling his eyes.

"We'll be landing in Madrid soon so every one returned to their separate rooms while the Argo II lands. When we get there, I'll go see if my friend will help and hopefully be back by 3 p.m. if anything happens, I'll Iris Message you guys. Please stay here." Leo said. "Meeting over."

Jason returned to his room and sighed. He'd been spending the past few hours on the Argo II doing absolutely nothing. He couldn't get Reyna and Hazel out of his mind. He needed to find them. Not only for him but for Nico.

Nico was just beginning to open, be more...outgoing in a way. Sadly, those qualities were beginning to slowly deteriorate. It would start with little things like when he was interrupted he would stop talking until the conversation was over. He would begin to pull away when people touched even by accident. Now he was locking himself in his room and not speaking to any one, not even Jason. Whoever had taken Reyna and Hazel was definitely targeting Nico and Frank. Nico might just fall apart if he loses another sister. Percy had told Jason what Nico was like before his sister Bianca had died. He couldn't fathom how Nico would react if something happened to Hazel or Reyna or both of them.

And Frank...Jason wouldn't now what he would do if Piper just disappeared out of the blue. Frank is handling it a lot better than Jason would have expected him too.

Jason closed the door behind him and sat on his bed. He pulled out a golden drachma and shone into the near his bed. "Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Will Solace in Camp Half-Blood, Long Island Sound."

A shimmery image of a lanky boy sporting a bow on his back with golden blond hair aiming an arrow at a flimsy makeshift target of tissue paper and marked with sharpies. "Hi Jason, did you need something from me?" Will asked, looking at Jason and let the arrow fly. It soared through the bullseye even when he wasn't looking at his target. Will Solace sure was the master with a bow but Apollo's children have a knack for accuracy and archery, so why not both?

"Why do you assume that I always want something from you?" Jason asked grinning.

Will rolled his eyes. "Then you want information about Nico. If you really want to know about him why don't you talk to him yourself?"

"Why so hostile?" Jason asked.

"I just miss them. It makes me cranky." he replied and kept volleying arrow through the hole in the tissue paper where the bullseye once was.

"And I do try to talk to him but he doesn't open up to me like he does to you, considering you are his boyfriend." Jason said.

Will cringed at the last word. "Well he refuses to admit it." Will said bitterly. Every one in Camp Half-Blood knew that Will and Nico were basically dating except for the fact that Nico denied it repeatedly which was just one big blow to Will's confidence. Jason could imagine that it hurt.

"Do you know if Nico is doing okay...Has he talked to you since we left?"

Will frowned. "No, why?"

"He's been acting different." Jason replied.

Will lowered his bow, "Did you ever think maybe he just wants to be alone? His sister and his best friend just went missing and you expect him to be exactly the same?" Some one in the distance called Will's named. Shouting came from the forest. "I have to go." He said and with the wave of his hand Will Solace was gone.

Jason stared at the area where Will's image had just been. He was now staring at himself in the mirror. Jason studied his looks, he hadn't changed that much, now that he was eighteen he was a few inches taller. Still taller than Percy and his muscles were more defined. As in facial looks, Jason hadn't changed that much.

"We're officially in Madrid, Spain!" Leo voice sounded through the intercom which started Jason and made him jolt in surprise. Little crackles of lightning escaped his fingertips. "Enjoy the view from the ship because I advise you not to leave. I'll be back in hopefully less than three hours!"

Jason left him room to get some air. It was only him and a dog roaming around sniffing things. It might've been Frank. Honestly, Jason didn't really care.