Jason POV

"Come on Jason! I thought you were the son of Zeus!" I hear Percy taunt. I feel myself getting tired. Still, I handle the sword and swing. Clash! Man, Percy is the only person who has stayed this long fighting against me.

"Oh yeah? If you're the son of Poseidon, then why am I still fighting? Why haven't you unarmed me?" I taunt back. The slash his arm, and grin. But he surprisingly grins right back.

"You're going down Grace."

"It is you who is going down Jackson." While I say that, he slashes at my leg, and I feel the sting. Ouch. We keep fighting till we're both drenched in sweat. I feel that I'm about to lose when the conch signaling dinner goes off.

"You got lucky Grace." Percy says while shaking my hand.

"Nah, I was going to win." I retort. Percy smiles while we both dry ourselves off with towels. We both head of to dinner. Percy has been my best friend since I got here. He was here since he was twelve, and I was here since I was thirteen, I'm a year younger. We should be enemies since his father is Poseidon and my dad is Zeus, but I have to admit he is pretty cool. I guess old rivalries stay old. We sit at our individual tables and listen to Chiron talk. Finally, we get up and do our offerings, and eat. Man, Percy knows how to eat. If there was an Olympic Sport for eating, he would win gold every time. I, however, am more civilized. I eat my chicken leg with a knife and fork and same with the spaghetti. What? I don't like to be a slob. After we finish eating, I hear Chiron call my name and Percy's name. We do a 180 and walk towards him. "Yes Chiron?"

"Percy, Jason, I have a job for you. Now, it's not a quest, but when I tell you what it is it might as well be."

I look at Percy confused but I nodded at Chiron, "What is it?"

"Well most of the satyrs are out looking for Pan and the ones that aren't are either too old or injured. But we have gotten in tell that there are two demigods out in the mortal world, that have not yet been claimed or have made it to Camp Half Blood. We are baffled about how they haven't been bombarded with monsters, as they are the children of powerful blood. So, I am sending you two to find these demigods and bring them to camp safely. All we know is that they are fifteen, both of them, and go to Goode High school. Since they are about the same age as you, you will probably find them."

I think this is a little bit child's play, I bet so does Percy, but we nod anyway. "We," I look at Percy and he nods,"accept this job."

"When do we have to leave?" Percy asks.

"Tomorrow. They are powerful and we don't know how much time we have." Chiron replies.

"Okay, I'll start packing then. Do we, do we live with our mortal parents?" Percy asks carefully. I know Percy is trying to look out for me, because my mortal parent is dead, died in a car crash. But it still hurts when I hear about her.

"Yes, but since Jason is incapable of doing so, I have contacted your mother and Jason will be staying with you Percy." Percy and I both grin. Yes! My best bro and I are gonna be house mates, or roommates, depends on the living space. Chiron clops away and I decide to go and pack.

"Perce, I'm gonna go pack for tomorrow, since tomorrow is Sunday, we can start fixing up tomorrow." I say.

"Yeah, and since it's only October, we can say that we just moved here."

I high five him and say, "Good thing we figured this out. School is going to take some getting used to."

The next morning, Percy and I load our things in the back of Argus' truck. "You ready for this?" I ask.

"Hades yeah! This is going to be awesome! Goode High, look out. Here comes Percy Jackson!" He throws his fist in the air and I can't help but laugh.

"Alright Barnacle Boy, let's go." I get in the truck before Percy can glare at me.

"Whatever, Superman." Now it's my turn to glare.
We ride all the way to Percy's house while talking about high school and girls. Girls, well I haven't opened that topic in a long time. Not since my old girl friend, Reyna, left to become a swords trainer at Mount Olympus. She didn't want to leave me, but I forced her. I convinced her it would be a can't miss opportunity. She broke up with me, saying she didn't want to tie me down, and I didn't say a word. Woah, did it just get too depressing? If so, let's talk about something else. When we finally get to the apartment, I thank Argus for the ride and Percy unlocks the truck. Argus doesn't talk much, so he just nods at me. I help Percy take out the bags. There were three bags, one was mine and two were his. I guess it must be clean clothes and dirty clothes, I don't know. We lug the luggage upstairs and ring the door bell. When opens the door, her eyes soften when she sees Percy.

"Percy." Is all she says before she pulls him into a hug. "I missed you so much. My little boy." She starts crying.

"Mom, mom. It's okay. And I'm a big boy now." Percy chuckles. Ms. Jackson pulls away and Percy wipes a tear from her eye. "I might be a big boy but I'll always be your boy." I stand there watching them talk and feel awkward. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love families rejoicing, but I just feel awkward standing there quietly. Percy must have seen me standing there fiddling with my fingers, because he said, "Mom. We're being rude."

Ms. Jackson notices me and gasps. "Jason! I haven't seen you since you were thirteen! I am so sorry. This was very rude of Percy."

Percy looks shocked, "Me?! What did I do?"

"You," she puts an emphasize on the 'you'," forgot to tell me that Jason was here." Percy still looks shocked, but he decides to stay quiet. Ms. Jackson pulls me into a hug. When she pulls away, she lets us in and gives us our room. Guess what, we're roommates. "I thought you boys would like to be in one room together but if not, I have an extra room for Jason."

"No, no. It's okay. I don't mind sharing a room with Percy. Even though he's a slob, and always leaves food crumbs and has smelly clothes..." Ms. Jackson smiles while Percy just looks red.

"Hey, I get it. I need to tidy up a little." Ms. Jackson and I just laugh at him.

"Well, I'm going to go cook dinner. It's roast chicken and corn. And for dessert, we are having blue cookies."

Percy just squeals like a little girl. "Yes! My favorite!" Come on man, reputation.

"Come on man, reputation." I say by accident. Percy quiets down realizing his outburst. Once again, I laugh. He just glares at me. We start unpacking and cracking jokes. When we're done, we go eat dinner and I learn more about Percy. I didn't know Percy had such a soft side. After dessert, which was delicious, I go inside and go to bed. I packed my backpack and layed out my clothes, a red t-shirt and blue jeans with red converses. Finally, I nod off to bed. This is going to be a long "quest."