WHOO JANUARY 3RD! Yup, I'm 14 years old now :) And happy birthday to ChildOfWisdom too! Yup, we have the same birthday. And happy early birthday to Cadee C, whose birthday is tomorrow! Wow, lots of birthdays... Now, here's that birthday chapter I said I would post today. Enjoy! :)

Jason's POV

Getting transported halfway around the world was actually no big deal. One second, we were on the Argo II, and then the next second we weren't. I just blinked and everything around me changed. The sun was starting to set and it looked around 5 in the evening.

Then, I realized where I was. Juno, or Hera to the Greeks, could have sent us anywhere in Camp Half-Blood. The cabins, the Big House, maybe even right on top of Half-Blood Hill. Anywhere the battle was going on.

Instead, Piper and I didn't even get sent into the camp. Half-Blood Hill was way behind us. From what I could hear, the battle was still going on. In front of us was Octavian.

"Fellow Romans, you all battled hard today!" Octavian yelled to the small crowd of Roman soldiers in front of him. He didn't even seem to notice Piper and me. "By tomorrow, the graceus camp will be defeated!" Most of the Romans noticed our sudden appearance and were starting to recover from their confusion. Reyna, looking rather bored, was off to the side leaning on Scipio and watching.

As Octavian blabbered on about courageousness, destruction, and how the Romans were better than the Greeks, the Romans in the crowd started shouting and reaching for their weapons.

"Fourth Cohort, attack!" someone in the crowd yelled. They all charged, weapons raised high.

Octavian was soon stumbling backwards, shouting, "Stop! What are you doing? I demand that you—GAH!" That last part was because he was pushed down and run over by a swarm of angry Romans. I braced myself for the attack, hands clamped around my gladius.

"Stop!" Piper yelled. Her voice was panicked and the charmspeak wasn't as strong, but it still made the Romans pause. "Jason," she whispered, her voice dripping with charmspeak. "You talk to them."

I was bursting with the sudden urge to have a nice, long chat with the Romans. "Hey dude!" I shouted at a random Roman. "What's up?" He looked confused, and Piper shook her head and sighed in exasperation.

The charmspeak was starting to wear off on the Romans. "Uh, attack?" one of them said.

"Yeah," said someone else. "Attack!" They all charged at us again, and Piper, though she wanted to leave charmspeak as a last resort, was getting desperate.

But it wasn't Piper that stopped the attack. "Stop!" someone screamed. All the Romans froze when they heard that voice. "Jason," the voice said. The crowd parted, showing Reyna walking towards us. "You're full of surprise appearances and disappearances, aren't you?" she mused. "You disappeared with no warning nearly a year ago, then appeared on a Greek warship, then left Camp Jupiter in chaos, and now you're back."

"Yeah, I guess," I said.

"Explain your sudden visit, if you don't mind," Reyna said. Octavian started to protest, but Reyna stopped him with just a flick of her hands. Even with Octavian leading the attack on Camp Half-Blood, Reyna still had power over him.

"Juno sent Piper and me here to stop the Roman invasion on Camp Half-Blood. Leo didn't mean to fire on Camp Jupiter. He was possessed by an eidolon. He had no control of his actions."

Camp Jupiter looked suspicious and Octavian was giving us a death glare, but Reyna looked deep in thought.

"How do you know he's telling the truth?" Octavian shrieked at Reyna. "He has no proof! He's lying!"

"I don't know. I have no idea whether he's lying or not, but I can easily find out. Aurum!" Reyna called. "Argentum!" Two automaton dogs, one gold and the other silver, appeared at Reyna's side. Their ruby eyes watched me with their penetrating gazes. "Jason, tell them your story. Keep in mind what happens to liars."

As I retold what I had just said, Camp Jupiter watched expectantly, waiting for me to get torn apart by the dogs. But that didn't happen.

"Jason speaks the truth," Reyna declared. "Aurum and Argentum are never wrong."

I smiled smugly at Octavian, who was fuming and obviously wanted to strangle me and Piper, and maybe Aurum and Argentum as well. The Romans were silent, trying to understand the new information that they were just given.

"One more thing," I added. "Juno chose seven demigods, combining Greeks and Romans, because she wanted us to work together." I grabbed Piper's hand, and said, "The seven of us learned to work together. We all want the same thing, to defeat Gaea. The seven of us learned that Greeks and Romans aren't all that different. We've come here hoping we can show both Camp Jupiter and Camp Half-Blood this. It's possible for us to work together."

All eyes were on Aurum and Argentum. Again, they didn't attack.

"It's true then," someone in the crowd said. "Juno wants us to work with those Greeks." Piper and I waited while the Romans were murmuring to themselves. Some believed what I had said, but others were still doubtful, even with Aurum and Argentum not tearing me to pieces.

When it became clear the murmuring wasn't getting us anywhere, Reyna shouted out, "I believe Jason speaks the truth. I trust Aurum and Argentum. I believe Romans could work with the Greeks as well."

Everyone gaped at Reyna. Finally, someone else spoke. "I believe as well." Shouts of 'I believe' sounded throughout the crowd. Those that were doubtful didn't dare speak. You just don't go against Reyna.

"Well Fourth Cohort, we've got some work to do," said Reyna.

As the Roman legion marched to Camp Half-Blood, Reyna mounted on her pegasus Scipio and rode alongside Piper and me.

"The Romans are fighting in cohorts," she explained to us. "The Fourth Cohort was resting. The other four are out there fighting Camp Half-Blood."

"The Greeks weren't very prepared, were they," Piper said.

"They were expecting us, but yes. They weren't very prepared."

"How's the battle going?" I asked.

"The Romans have more warriors. It seemed like we would win at first. But the Greeks have this weapon, this green thing we've never seen before, that destroys everything. Absolutely everything."

"Greek fire," Piper and I said at the same time.

"Yes, I think that's it." Reyna looked over the heads of the Roman legion at Camp Half-Blood. "Looks like we should hurry up. I don't think the Greeks or the Romans can last much longer."

You like? Yeah, I know... I could have made it longer. Sorry about that. Anyway, leave a review! Please? Make this birthday girl happy :)