Olympia : Expansion Arc

Chapter 10

Jason has enough to stress about with training and his friends now being in a state of turmoil thanks to Percy.

But when he got that emergency call from Annabeth, he dropped everything and went to the Orphanage.

Surprisingly, Reyna wanted to tag along.

"He's a friend of mine as well." Reyna said when Jason asked why she wanted to come with him. "Plus, Annabeth called me."

Jason had no reason to argue with her so they headed to the Orphanage.

Almost everyone he knew that knew Percy were here, but everyone was talking in a hushed tone as if they were in a funeral.

"Hey, Jason." Thalia greeted him and gave him a hug, to which he returned it.

"Hey sis," Jason said. "What's going on here?"

"Something happened to Percy." Thalia said grimly. "Annabeth will explain. We're waiting on Artemis."

After Thalia had mentioned it, only then he realized that Artemis was the only one wasn't here.

Jason see Nico was bandaged on the head as he sat on the couch next to Piper and Bianca. Jason went over to him. "What happened to you?" Jason asked.

"Great seeing you too." Nico grumbled. "Got whacked on the head by some guys."

"Who?"

"Later," Nico said. "After everyone's here."

Jason nodded. He scanned the living room of the Orphanage. Frank, Leo, Hazel and Annabeth were talking quietly. Annabeth looked miserable as her eyes looked puffy and her nose was red, like she'd been crying recently.

Reyna was in talks with the recruits that Jason had previously saw with the Rebellion, Clarisse and Will. Thalia taking care of two odd looking pair of kids, one with sky blue hair and the other with flaming red hair.

"I don't think I've seen them here before." Jason gestured at them.

"They're new kids." Piper supplied. "Twins. Red one is Mia and the blue one is Eli. From what I've heard from Hestia and Annabeth is that they are really good."

"How good?"

"Almost-as-good-as-Annabeth kind of good."

Jason whistled. "They got potential huh."

"Yeah, well, they're devastated." Piper said. "They're orphans and Percy brought them in yesterday."

On cue, the door opened, revealing Artemis who was accompanied by a member of her team. It was the girl from their Muspelheim dungeon raid. Zoe, was her name.

As Artemis entered, the room instantly quieted down. All eyes were on her and she clearly wasn't having a good day.

Piper was the first to move as she went over and gave Artemis a hug. "Come, sit down for a second."

Artemis nodded weakly as Piper led her to one of the couches. It seemed like no one wanted to move. After what had happened in the span of just twelve hours, Jason figured that Artemis was currently an emotional train wreck. No one was going to mess with her.

Annabeth walked up to her slowly. Jason could see the guilt in her eyes as she twiddled with her thumbs. No one made any sound as they watched.

"A-Artemis," Annabeth said shakily. "I . . . I'm sorry. It was-"

Artemis stood up. At first Jason thought Artemis was going to hit her and the two of them were going to be in a fully-fledged fist fight. But to everyone's surprise, Artemis hugged Annabeth tightly.