A Demigod Tale

Chapter 21: Well Crap

"What? No way," Piper said. "That's impossible. He would be dead! People can't just share a body with a god."

"Are you forgetting Percy's story about the Egyptian magicians? How they host gods and he did too?" Leo asked. He felt very smart right then, being able to back up his theory with facts. This must be how Annabeth feels all of the time, he thought.

"That doesn't prove anything," Jason argued.

"I have more evidence!" Leo said. He ran out of the room and returned a short while later with a laptop. He had modeled it after the laptop Annabeth had. Even though she had lost it in Tartarus, Leo was able to pull most of the circuitry out of his toolbelt. He made a bunch of demigod-friendly laptops after he had figured out how it worked. He opened his and pulled up two pictures. One of Jordan and one of Jimmy.

"How did you get a picture of Jimmy?" Percy asked.

"Chiron asked me to put some security cams in around the camp. He wanted to make sure they're weren't any nighttime brawls and nobody snuck out without the possibility of them getting eaten."

"Oh."

"Yeah. Anyways, look at the pictures. See any similarities?"

"I mean, maybe. They're head shape is kinda similar," Frank said.

"That's not all. Look, they're the same height and build. And watch what happens with a couple of filters," Leo said. He used a filter to make Jordan's hair darker and his eyes red. "See it now?"

"Holy Hera," Percy muttered. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. "You figured this out? On your own?"

"Hey! I'm smarter than I seem! I'm the only person to find Calypso's island twice, aren't I?"

"True."

"If Jimmy and Jordan are really the same person, why aren't we all dead? And why did he say he wanted to torture Jordan?" Hazel asked, confused.

"Maybe he was trying to throw us off of his seat. He was nowhere to be found when Jimmy attacked, and he refused to help with the trap. It all makes sense now," Annabeth said.

"So what should we do?" Piper wondered.

"We should try and trick him into revealing his plan to us. If we pretend we've found a way to get rid of Jimmy without the Olympians, he might try and get rid of us."

"I don't know. You saw what he did to Mr. D, Wise girl. I would rather not be trapped in my worst fears."

"I could try and get into his dreams," Nico suggested.

"I think we should go with Annabeth's plan. If we can lure Jimmy out into the open, the Olympians could handle it from there," Jason said. After a few more minutes of increasingly loud conversation, they decided to go with a version Annabeth's plan. Hazel and Annabeth would go to Jordan saying they found a way to get rid of Jimmy. They would lead him to Zeus's fist and Hazel would pretend to start exiling Jimmy. When Jordan let Jimmy out to deal with Hazel and Annabeth, the others would launch a surprise attack and distract Jimmy long enough for one of the Olympians to arrive and take him out.

"Alright, let's go," Annabeth said. She and Hazel started looking for Jordan while Nico shadow traveled everyone else to Zeus's fist. Annabeth and Hazel found Jordan trying to learn how to throw a spear. They watched as he threw one and it went about a foot before dropping to the ground.

"Jordan!" Hazel shouted. He turned around and looked at her as he threw another spear, this time almost hitting his instructor. "We have something to tell you!"

"I'm a bit busy."

"It's about the knife!" she yelled. Jordan hesitated, but walked over.

"Come with us. We have something important to tell you," Annabeth said.

"Oh, this sounds totally legit."

"Just come on."

"Fine," Jordan said. He would have argued more, but what's the worst they could do? They couldn't kill him. Not with witnesses around........and they were taking him into the forest.........Oh crap.

The girls lead him to Zeus's fist. "Hazel found a way to get rid of Jimmy without the Olympians."

Jordan's face lit up, which surprised Annabeth. She had expected him to become hostile. If he and Jimmy were the same, why would he be excited? "You have? Great! What do you need? Do you need the knife? I have it with me!"

"Um....yes. Yes, we need the knife. We think it....might be a power source for him! Yeah, and if we destroy it he'll be weak and have to leave. That's it," Hazel fibbed. She had also been caught off guard by Jordan's eagerness to get rid of Jimmy. They hadn't planned for that.

"Here you go!" Jordan said as he happily handed the knife to Hazel. She felt a shiver of fear run up her spine when she grabbed it. She wondered what to do next. She put the knife on a stump and summoned a diamond. She might as well destroy it while she had the chance. She picked up the diamond and brought it down as hard as she could on the knife.

Nothing. Not even a scratch. The knife lay on the stump looking brand-new. The diamond was not so lucky. The tip had been chipped off. The hope in Jordan's eyes faded, replaced with sadness. "I'm sorry Jordan," Hazel said. She meant it. The hope in his eyes when he thought they could get rid of Jimmy was real. So was the sadness in them when Hazel handed the knife back to him.

"Hey, you tried. Look, I'm sorry about the whole trap thing. It's not that I don't want to help. I can't. It's....really complicated."

"Jordan, are you Jimmy?" Leo burst out as he burst out of the trees. Jordan looked both shocked and offended.

"We aren't the same person."

"Drat! I thought for sure you were both in the same body."

"We are, but I'm not him."

"What?"

"I am not a psychopathic Olympian. I am a demigod with problems."

"So you don't want him to take over the world?" Jason asked. Jordan looked at him like he had just said he hated Gummy Bears.

"WHy the heck would I want that?!" Jordan exclaimed. He took a deep breath. "Please don't tell anyone," he pleaded.

The other demigods looked at each other. They came to a silent agreement. Percy looked back at Jordan.

"We won't tell unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Until then, we'll help you look for a way to get rid of Jimmy."

Okay, I had to re-upload this chapter because for some reason it repeated itself. It had the same chapter twice. I fixed it though!