anti hero - percy jackson ²

vi. home (not) sweet home

"nice to see you too, mom"

Thing seemed to be going alright—at least until Leo started talking to himself.

"Shut me up" Leo said. Cassandra doubted he meant to say it out loud.

"What?" Piper asked.

"Nothing" He said. "Long night. I think I'm hallucinating. It's cool."

Cassandra let out a small snort, but Piper and Jason didn't seem very amused by the idea that they had a sleepless and hallucinating dragon driver.

"Just joking" Leo assured. "So what's the plan, bro? You said something about catching wind, or breaking wind, or something?"

As they flew over New England, Jason filled them in on the plan. First, they needed to find Boreas and ask him for information on—

"His name is Boreas?" Leo interrupted. "What is he, the God  of Boring?"

"He's the god of the North Wind" Cassandra corrected through gritted teeth. "And my grandfather."

Second, they needed to find the venti that had attacked the trio at the Grand Canyon—

"Can we just call them storm spirits?" Leo interrupted again. "Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks."

And third, they had to figure out who the storm spirits worked for, so they could find Hera and free her from her prision.

"So you want to look for Dylan, the nasty storm dude, on purpose" Leo said. "The guy who threw me off the skywalk and sucked Coach Hedge into the clouds."

"That's about it" Jason said. "Well... there may be a wolf involved, too. But I think she's friendly. She probably won't eat us, unless we show weakness."

Jason told them about a dream he had—a mother wold and a burned-out house with stone spires growing out of the swimming pool.

"Uh-huh" Leo said. "But you don't know where this place is."

"Nope" Jason admitted.

"There's also giants" Piper added. "The prophecy said the giants' revenge."

"Hold on" Leo said. "Giants—like more than one? Why can't it be just one giant who wants revenge?"

"Because we're demigods" Cassandra said. "Things are never that easy. It's probably best that you get used to it."

"I remember in some of the old Greek stories, there was something about an army of giants" Piper said.

"Great" Leo muttered. "Of course, with our luck, it's an army. So you know anything else about these giants? Didn't you do a bunch of myth research for that movie with your dad?"

"You dad's an actor?" Jason asked.

Leo laughed. "I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. But yeah, her dad's Tristan McLean."

"Isn't he that guy on Megan's poster?" Cassandra asked. When Piper seemed confused she clarified by saying, "In the Aphrodite cabin."

"What was he in?" Jason asked.

"It doesn't matter" Piper said quickly. "The giants—well, there were lots of giants in Greek mythology. But if I'm thinking of the right ones, they were bad news. Huge, almost impossible to kill. They could throw mountains and stuff. I think they were related to the Titans. They rose from the earth after Kronos lost the war—I mean the first Titan war, thousands of years ago—and they tried to destroy Olympus. If we're taking about the same giants—"