Chaos Rising |BOOK 2| Harry Potter x PJO |Alexandra Marine|

PIPER McLEAN

I ran from the BART station towards the Camp, dialing Ariana's number on my phone. If the Camp really wanted me this urgent, it must have been a real problem, I realized. I put on my EarPods, waiting for Ariana to pick up the phone. She had sorta turned into the unofficial leader of the Camp ever since she had come back. At first it did look a little unfair to me, but with those brains, I wondered why Chiron hadn't started to search the world for her once the Second Prophecy had been uttered by the Oracle.

'The person you are dialing is currently unavailable. Please try again later.' 

The line went flat. I sighed.

The tunnel was only a few feet away. I opened up the phone and dialed Leo's number. 

I ran towards the tunnel. Two kids stood at the front entrance, and although they stood sincerely, their eyes scanning for any sort of threat, their eyes were also looking for hope.

"Hello?" 

"Leo!" I sighed. "Where's Ariana?"

"She left. You realize it's midnight, right?" Leo's voice came. "She already sacrifices half her sleep for us and the rest she's currently doing her Death Eater job."

"Right, right," I rolled my eyes, "I'm at Jupiter now."

"What?!" the sound of shuffling came on the other side. "PIPER, WHERE ARE YOU?"

"I'm at Camp Jupiter," I replied hurriedly, "I got a call from Hazel-"

"What happened?" 

"One minute," I said. I nodded at the demigods at the tunnel. They were pointing their swords at me. "I'm Piper McLean, a part of the seven demigods that saved the world. I'm Hazel's good friend. I got a call from her-"

"Just go in, quickly," the demigods said. "We don't have time."

I nodded and went in. "Anyway, Hazel called me," I told Hazel. "I don't what for, though. She didn't say anything."

***

"Hello?" I'd picked up the phone.

"PIPER!" Hazel had screamed. "PIPER- CAMP-"

 "Hazel?!" No answer. "HAZEL?!"

"Help us," Frank's voice had whispered into the speaker. "Help the-"

"Frank?!" I panicked. "Frank? FRANK! What happened?" I jumped out of bed at once. But the call had been cut.

***

 I shivered at the memory. "That's what happened. I'm at Camp Jupiter now. I had to inform someone," I told Leo.

Leo didn't answer for a short while. His voice shivered as he spoke again, "Okay. I got you."

"Thanks."

"And Piper," he added shakily, "keep me updated, will you?"  

"Yeah," I whispered back. I was scared too. "What do you think it was, Leo?"

"I don- I can't imagine why anyone would want to hurt Frank, of all people," Leo said. "And Hazel..." his voice cracked.

A group of young demigods, probably in their late teens rushed to me. "Are you Piper McLean?" a girl asked. She was wearing leather armor, carrying a sword. A red jewel gleamed on her neck- probably a family heirloom.

"Yes," I extended a hand to her. "I got a call from your praetor-"

"You need to come with us," the girl pulled me by the wrist. "I'm Claudia by the way. Legacy of Mercury."

I was too busy to pay any attention to everything else she was saying as Claudia pulled me through the bunkers towards the Praetor's camps. 

"This is where it happened," Claudia said.