Jason Grace didn’t know how to feel. Everywhere he went, he was reminded of who he wasn’t, who all these people seemed to love praise and even pray to?
Don’t get him started on the last one, the kid in front of him just burnt his peanut butter jelly sandwich to Percy! A peanut butter jelly sandwich! All he knew was that there was this kid, some son of Poseidon who was THE PERSON TO BE. He grumbled thanks to his dad, scraping off his meat brisket into the fire.
As Jason walked back to his seat, he continued his thoughts. He wasn’t being arrogant or wanting fame or anything, he just didn’t understand why people were so upset that this Percy guy was gone. Wasn’t he a son of Poseidon, did people like Poseidon here? They talked about HIM, like he was Hercules himself! What special thing did the guy do huh?
“Hey, that’s the new kid!”
“I want Percy back, not some no good Zeus kid, he doesn't even play with the kids!”
“Ugh, he’s so self obsessed, did you see the way he walked around camp with Piper, we get it man, you got a hot girlfriend!”
“Percy was never like this… I miss him”
Jason understood, he did really! They missed their little Hero, Percy Jackson, and they didn’t want replacements. But it wasn’t like it was his choice to be there you know. “Ughh, why can’t these people just shut up already?” He sighed.
Three voices sounded. Piper, Leo and… Annabeth. What on earth were they doing at his table? Athena’s daughter seemed to have read his mind “We’re here, because we’re four of seven. You three know each other, but you three don’t know me. And if you guys are going to help me get Percy back, then we’d better get to know each other quickly!”
Great, Woo Hoo Jason! Just your luck man, another Jackson fanatic.
“What’s your problem with Percy,” a dangerous tone.
Ah, that came out loud. Too loud. “I don’t have a problem with him, he’s cool, it’s just other people you know? I get it, you people would really rather have Percy around, you see him as a myth, a legend a hero! But don’t take that out on me you know?”
Leo and Pipes hung on the Percy bit more it seems. “No fence to you Annabeth,” Leo stuffed his mouth with…mashed potatoes? “but why’s he such a big deal round here anyway?”
“Gotta agree there, a kid in front of me literally offered up his dessert to Percy at the fire, he is a demigod right?” Piper asked.
Annabeth couldn’t seem to tell if to be offended on Percy’s behalf, but she managed to pick a more neutral tone.
“Percy, I guess you could say he’s another coming of the old heroes, I’m talking Hercules, Theseus — that kind.
He’s just done so many things we never thought possible, even before he had any training whatsoever, he killed a fury and Minatour
One week into camp, he was sent on a quest to retrieve Zeus’ lightning bolt, and to do so he killed the furies, Medusa, Chimera, and the biggest thing he did, he beat Ares in a fair duel.
His next year into camp, he ran away from camp with me Grover and… someone else, we rode across the sea of monsters on a lifeboat, then later a pirate ship and went to a cyclops lair, the old kind mind you, Polyphemus, and tricked Luke to showing that Chiron here was innocent after him having been framed.
Third year, fought and defeated the Nemean Lion and killed so many skeletons, befriended the Ophiotaurus aka a really important monster and saved its life multiple times, fought Atlas the titan, and held the sky.
Fourth Year, he navigated the labyrinth with me, killed a bunch of guys, and blew up Mount St. Helen with his powers, yes the one in the news. Then proceeded to do a lot more, I don’t like talking about that year…
Finally, last year, led us, all the demigods and hunters of Artemis into a war against the Titans, fought Kronos himself and bathed in the river Styx, and defeated Hades in a duel right after, though that may have been the Styx helping.
There’s just so many things I haven’t mentioned, like he was offered immortality and rejected that shit,”
By the end of it, Annabeth’s tone was a bit nasal and cracked. Jason was staring. At some point his draw had dropped ,and yes it just hung there like in cartoons.
Even Leo stopped fidgeting, seemingly stuck on ‘Mount St. Helen’. Pipes, she straight up said “Yup, lemme just go over there and offer my strawberry yoghurt to him.”
Jason, man he got it, he got all that Percy Hype . He was just a little bit crushed too, him fighting the titan Krios, it just seemed like a bunny’s task compared to whatever this guy did. He understood the weight of whatever this guy accomplished!
(But yes, he was still not happy about being compared with the guy, that was just plain mean!)
“Soo, getting to know each other huh, uhm, that sounds cool…” Jason glances over at Annabeth who seemed to have started tearing up, trying to break, whatever kind of shitty atmosphere this was.“Mhm, why don’t we, get on to that…”
