Heroes of Olympus: After Gaea

Piper

Piper didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Leo was driving at an alarming speed, loosing the police almost instantly. They didn't know where they were actually going.

"Leo, where the hell are we going?" Piper asked him.

"I don't know." He admitted, continuing to drive in the same direction.

In virtually no time, the coach stopped.

"What's happened?" Hazel asked, opening the door.

The door dropped to the ground as she did. She looked outside and her head fell into her hands.

"The wheel's fallen off." She groaned. Everyone went off to check and, surely enough, the wheels had fell off the coach.

The coach was nothing but a piece of blue and yellow junk of metal.

"I can fix it." Leo insisted.

"We have two days left," Calypso said, nearly in tears, "we have no time."

Piper sat down, defeated. What could she do in order to get to Atlas in time? She thought of Festus. Leo built him in that he could detach the head to put on the ship when the Argo II was being used, and put his body back together when not and Festus could just fly around.

"Leo," Piper said, turning to the Latino boy who was comforting Calypso, "is Festus' head on the ship right now?"

"Yep." Leo replied, kissing Calypso on the forehead. She calmed down and snuggled into him and closed her eyes. Piper would've found it cute, but she was in serious mode at that moment.

"I can Iris Message Jason and tell him to attach Festus and the body together then you call Festus to take us there." Piper told him. Leo thought for a minute.

"Jason probably can't do it." Leo responded, trying to not move in case he'd wake up Calypso.

"Well, you better try." Piper told him. "Oh, and wake up, Calypso."

Calypso woke up instantly, stretching but getting up in a flash.

"What did I miss?" She asked, surprised.

"You were asleep for a minute, Sunshine," Leo told her, "so a whole plan."

Piper went to set up an Iris Message near a stream and prayed to see Jason. A blonde boy with piercing blue eyes appeared in front of her.

"Jason." She breathed out, smiling. She didn't realise how much she missed him.

"Piper. I've missed you so much." Jason responded. Piper wanted so bad to just quit the quest and run back to Jason again, him telling her it'll be alright. But, the world would've potentionally get squashed in two days, so she couldn't.

"I miss you so much too," she replied, sighing, "but we need you to do something important."

"Yes?"

"Jase! My guy!" Leo shouted, butting in.

Piper and Jason rolled their eyes but laughed. They never could get angry with their best friend.

"I'm good, Bro." He responded.

"How's your threesome with that stapler and brick?" He grinned.

"Piss off, Valdez." he laughed. Jason's laugh was deep and rich. It was manly just like him. Piper was still waiting to see the day that his inner feminity was to shine through. "Piper said there was something important I needed to do?"

Leo explained to Jason, which was better as Piper didn't even know how Leo made the head connect and detach. She looked at the last coin in her hand. She decided to call Percy.

There was another lake a great distance away from Jason's call. Quickly, she walked there, praying to Iris if she could allow one more call for today.

Her prayers were answered, as she got to see the son of Poseidon's face as soon as she dropped the coin in the water.

"Hi, Pipes! What's up?" Percy smiled. Piper grinned slightly.

"Please don't say-"

"The sky." Piper said smugly. Percy groaned.

"I despise you."

"No you don't." Piper insisted. "Anyway, what's going on?"

"Apart from the fact that I'm totally third wheeling with Nico and Will, and we fought a goddess, and we were flung from the sky by a Harry Potter character, I'd say everything's going swimmingly." Percy assured Piper.

"Oh, cool. Nothing out of the ordinary."

They spoke for a while before Leo yelped.

"Eureka! You smart bastard! You fixed it!"

"I think that's my cue to leave." Piper smiled sadly.

"As soon as we all are at Camp again, we're getting another couple together."

"A certain child of Demeter and child of Hermes?"

"I like how you think," Percy winked at Piper, "yiasou!"

"Yia!"

Not a second later was there a massive shadow covering the sky and a blast of heat from above.

"Hi, Festus!" Hazel greeted, patting the now landed metal dragon. "You gonna take us four to Atlas?"

Festus grunted, but Piper didn't understand. Thankfully, Leo translated for her.

"Come on guys, let's save Calypso's lovely dad." Leo exclaimed. Calypso gently hit him round the head and Leo yelped in a non masculine way.

"That wasn't me." He promised.

They sat with Leo nearest to Festus' head, then Calypso, then Piper, then Hazel. Festus took off, Piper so scared that she gripped onto Calypso tightly.

When we meet at camp. Those words struck Piper. She was excited to be able to relax once she reaches camp, but where would Jason be? Sure, he was no more praetor of Camp Jupiter, but he was still their hero. He seemed more of a legend than a person to the Romans. He was not fully Roman yet fully Greek anymore. That was sorted in the House of Hades.

Then where would he be?

Would he give up his camp for her, Leo and his other friends, or would he return to his orginal home, where he'd return to his responsibility as an unofficial leader of Camp Jupiter?

"Pipes?" Hazel muttered. "You zoned out."

"What are you and Frank going to do regarding our different camps?" Piper asked.

"Frank has a responsibility, so he needs to spend time in camp." She pondered. "But, our friends are all in Camp Half-Blood, as so is my brother. I don't really know. I'm from Camp Jupiter, after all. My dad's a Roman. I'm Roman."

But did that matter? Was it not a matter of acceptance? Jason was the serious, mysterious hero like a Roman, but she knew he felt more accepted into Greek life. Besides, his girlfriend and best friend were Greek. Her thoughts were interrupted by a certain son of Hephaestis.

"We're at our destination." Leo said grimly.