How Do You Say Gods- Titan's Curse

1: MY RESCUE OPERATION GOES VERY WRONG

April Fool's!

Here's the start to the next book because I was too excited to wait! The one I've been looking forward to the second most, since Hammer of Thor is ages away!

Updates are still only going to be once a week though. I have limits.

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Jason got particularly excited the next morning when he saw the book was purple like the faded shirt he still wore, but Nico and Thalia's uneasy looks weren't a promising indication he was finally going to get some answers of his own. It was a bruised, dark color, the black 3 on the spine was more forbidding than anything.

"There's nothing stopping us from skipping around," Will offered to Jason, still wanting to spare Nico having to share his story if he didn't want to yet. "I'll bet we meet you eventually and Oceanus is just as terrible knowing what year it is, maybe you're in one of those," he gestured to the next stack with roman numbers on them, the golden book with an earthy brown Numeral I on the spine was as promising a start as he could offer.

"No," Jason shook his head no matter how much he looked at it with yearning now. "We've come this far, and I really want to hear about Thalia and Percy becoming friends." It wasn't an entire lie either, she fascinated him the most of these greek kids, even more than Nico. His mind kept lingering on the way she interacted with Percy. He wanted that connection with her, maybe she reminded him of his lost best friend that only existed in his mind? He just knew he wanted to hear of her time properly out of the tree now. It was probably selfish, but better than that now daunting book.

It wasn't glowing, but the idea of being someone's golden boy left him feeling like he should be stretching for all the weight off his back. He was happy while reading, enjoying the company and the unassociated story to him, no need to dredge up his problems yet when they hadn't even finished Percy's.

Nobody else raised argument, even if Nico stiffened in his seat and regretted finally letting Will needle him into eating a singular pancake for breakfast, like the book was going to start with Bianca's eulogy.

Instead, Alex read the new chapter title with as high a spirits as ever, laughing his butt off and telling Percy, "are we surprised?" He had somehow found a way to change clothes, again. Today wearing dark pink slacks and a vibrant green suit jacket over a light pink cashmere sweater, with the same altering two colors mixed into the high-tops of the past two days.

"No," Percy frowned, he looked as unhappy at the book as Nico felt.

'Who gets kidnapped now?' Hearth demanded in exasperation, already bracing himself for the next wave of trauma they'd all nearly die in.

'Like they'll tell us,' Magnus reminded at the growing list of Percy's friends. Had Kronos already found a way to pull Thalia aside? Had Tyson never made it to Poseidon's kingdom? Was Grover already needing help from another Pan quest? Oh, gods, it wasn't Annabeth having to get away from her dad was it-

"Magnus!"

He startled and looked at Alex and Thalia, having the feeling it wasn't the first time someone had tried to call his name. Even Percy was watching him with an oddly familiar look of concern.

He didn't seem to know how much he looked like his cousin when he was thinking deeply about something, but Alex wasn't going to let him dwell on it. With no further context to joke off, Alex began reading with flaming curiosity what he was missing that had so many of their companions on edge.

...my mom packed a bag of weapons and snacks and took me to a boarding school.

"What kind of snacks?" Magnus asked at the same time Alex did, "what kind of deadly weapons?"