Book Cult (New and Improved)

Piper LI

A/N: I just want to clear up a couple things for everyone!
1. Due to plot reasons, I will not bring any more characters from the future. Leo will be the only character from the future.
2. I'm not planning on doing BoO or SoN (due to plot). I'm going to be doing MoA and HoH.
3. Leo's from the timeline in between HoH and BoO.

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"Piper LI," Hades began.

"JASON!"

The goddess of love and Thalia winced.

"It's okay," Leo was quick to assure. "Jason's still alive."

Piper kept calling his name as she held him, though she'd almost lost hope. He'd been unconscious for two minutes now. His body was steaming, his eyes rolled back in his head. She couldn't tell if he was even breathing.

"He doesn't sound very alive to me..." Thalia said, nose still red and runny from her earlier crying. She sniffled.

Leo searched through his tool belt and pulled out a tissue box.

"Thalia." he tossed it over to the hunter. She easily  caught it.

"Thanks." she said before blowing her nose. 

"It's no use, child." Hera stood over them in her simple black robes and shawl.

"Would it kill you to sound more sympathetic?!" Aphrodite snapped. "It's your fault he's even like this."

"I told you, I didn't mean to-"

"That still doesn't mean you didn't ki-" Thalia stopped herself. He's not dead. Leo said he's not dead. "Hurt him."

"If he had closed his eyes like I asked..." Hera said, before huffing. Why didn't he just close his eyes?

Piper hadn't seen the goddess go nuclear. Thankfully she'd closed her eyes, but she could see the aftereffects. Every vestige of winter was gone from the valley. No signs of battle, either. The monsters had been vaporized. The ruins had been restored to what they were before—still ruins, but with no evidence that they'd been overrun by a horde of wolves, storm spirits, and six-armed ogres.

Even the Hunters had been revived. Most waited at a respectful distance in the meadow, but Thalia knelt by Piper's side, her hand on Jason's forehead.

Thalia glared up at the goddess. "This is your fault. Do something!"

"How dare you!" Hera glared at Thalia. "You should be grateful I even bothered to unfreeze you!"

"Why should I be grateful?! Look at what you did to him!" she shouted.

"That wasn't entirely my fault!" Hera shouted back. "I warned them and he didn't listen!"

As the two were having another shouting match, Leo wondered if he should use his whistle again. 

Thankfully, he didn't have to.

"Enough!" Zeus exclaimed. The two went quiet but they were still glaring daggers at each other.

..."Fix him!"

Hera's eyes flickered with power. "I did warn him. I would never intentionally hurt the boy. He was to be my champion. I told them to close their eyes before I revealed my true form."

"Um ..." Leo frowned. "True form is bad, right? So why did you do it?"

"Just to try to kill a giant who already left." the daughter of Zeus said, shaking her head.