𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐝𝐲; 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝖻𝖾𝗍𝗁 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗌𝖾

Who wants a hotel when you have a sewer

Ivy's mind was completely clouded by all the possible—and mostly terrible— explanations for monsters now being able to reform.

If they couldn't die now, what were demigods going to do?

All she had wanted after the war was to live a somewhat normal life, but another great and possibly worst threat had to be thrown at her instead.

Fan—fucking—tastic.

The wind kept blowing at her while they soared through the sky on Festus. She was still sat behind Leo, but now Jason's unconscious body was behind her.

She was only pulled from her thoughts when said boy suddenly jerked awake.

His eyes snapped open. "Cyclops!"

"Whoa, sleepyhead." Piper warned from behind him.

"And Aurora finally wakes up" Ivy said as she looked back at him. Thank gods he hadn't seriously died. "Nice to see you're not dead"

Jason looked more confused than ever. And he was practically always confused.

"Thanks, but. . .D-Detroit," He stammered. "Didn't we crash-land? I thought—"

"It's okay," Leo said. "We got away, but you got a nasty concussion. How you feeling?"

"How did you—the Cyclops—"

"Leo ripped them apart," Piper said. "He was amazing. He can summon fire—"

"It was nothing," Leo said quickly.

Piper laughed. "Shut up, Valdez. I'm going to tell him. Get over it."

And she did—how Leo defeated the Cyclopes family with just a bit of Ivy's help; how they freed Jason, then noticed the Cyclopes starting to re-form; how Leo had replaced the dragon's wiring and gotten them back in the air just as they'd started to hear the Cyclopes roaring for vengeance inside the factory.

They also told him about the other purple shirt latin speaker boy the cyclops had mentioned.

"I'm not alone, then," He said. "There are others like me."

"Jason," Piper said, "you were never alone.
You've got us."

"I—I know ... but something Hera said. I was having a dream..."

He told them what he'd seen, and what the goddess had said inside her cage.

"An exchange?" Piper asked. "What does that mean?"

Jason shook his head. "But Hera's gamble is me. Just by sending me to Camp Half-Blood, I have a feeling she broke some kind of rule, something that could blow up in a big way—"

"Or save us," Piper said hopefully. "That bit about the sleeping enemy—that sounds like
the lady Leo told us about."

Leo and Ivy shared a look at that. The boy cleared his throat. "About that ... she kind of appeared to us back in Detroit, in a
pool of Porta-Potty sludge."

"Did you say ... Porta-Potty?"

The pair told them about the big face in the factory yard. "I don't know if she's completely unkilable," Leo said, "but she cannot be defeated by toilet seats. I can vouch for that. She wanted us to betray you guys, and I was like, 'Pfft, right, I'm gonna listen to a face in the potty sludge.'"

"She's trying to divide us." Piper said, suddenly very tense.

Jason seemed to notice. "What's wrong?"

"I just ... Why are they toying with us? Who is this lady, and how is she connected to
Enceladus?"

"Enceladus?" Jason asked.