"Ha!" Rob laughed, "no wonder you're related to a greek boy! Fifth cohort is filled with nothing but Greeks and losers."
Jason flinched as Percy and Thalia narrowed their eyes in anger. Julia looked at them from the corner of her eye. They looked like they were going to do something, but luckily cooler heads prevailed.
"So what does a cohort do?" Percy asked holding in his anger.
"It is a group of the army," Julia explained as she took them further into the camp, "each legionnaire is assigned a cohort and then they are trained in said chorot." Julia then went on to further explain the working and dealings of the cohort.
The small group soon arrived at a two story wedge of white marble with a columned patio like and old fashioned bank. Roman guards stood out in the front and over the dorray was a large purple banner with the words, 'SPQR' written on it with gold.
They entered the building and Percy was again enchanted by the sights before him. On the ceiling was a mosaic painting of Romulus and Remus underneath a giant wolf. If Percy remember his Roman history right that wolf was Lupa. The floor was polished marble and along the walls was a glass display filled with medals and awards.
In the center of the room was a huge desk filled with paperwork and scroll and on the other side was two chairs with two different workstations. One station had papers neatly arranged and organized while the other was complete chaos.
Julia sat down in the organized area, Percy figured her for the serious type while Rob just looked like he liked to punch things and didn't really seem like the kind to sit behind a desk.
"So," Julia began, "explain."
"What do you want to know?" Percy asked.
"Everything."
For the next ten minutes Percy and Thalia took turns explaining all they knew to Julia and Rob. They told them about the civil war, about how the Gods separated them using the Mist and about how each God had two forms, one Roman and one Greek.
At the end of the explanation Julia spoke up, "you want to join forces. Why?"
Thalia answered, "it would be easier to fight the Titans with a coordinated attack force rather than doing it separately."
"Okay, reasonable answer," Julia nodded, "but why do you want to?"
Thalia looked at Jason, "so that I can protect my brother."
"You believe that he is in danger?"
"As long as he is a child of Ze-Jupiter, he is a child of the prophecy and he is in danger."
"You speak of the great prophecy," Julia asked an Thalia nodded. "Do you believe that we cannot protect one of our own?"
"No, but I'm his sister, I don't care if your are capable or not. I will always believe that he will be the safest with me."
Julia nodded, "understandable. Alright….we are going to call a meeting of the senate. We shall consider your demands there." Julia then wrote down something on a piece of paper which suddenly disappeared in a flash of gold.
"What happened to the paper?" Thalia asked.
"It was sent to all the members of the senate," Julia explained, "we should be hearing back from them soon. If we are lucky we can have the meeting in an hours time."
"A senate?" Percy asked.
"Yeah senate," Rob spoke, "we aren't the leaders of the Roman camp, just the military base. It is the senate that makes decisions on what camp Jupiter can or shouldn't do."
Percy was impressed, "damn, you guys basically have an entire system government planned out. I'm impressed."
"Of course you are," Rob huffed, "after all you are a Greek. What is the governmental body you serve? A dictator?"
"Well we don't really have a governmental system per say," Thalia explained, "we just have the heads councillors and Chiron to lead us."
"You don't have any proper leader?" Julia asked in shock, "your battle strategy must be in ruins."
Percy shrugged, "we manage."
"Well we don't have an official leader," Thalia explained, "but we do have someone we all listen to."
"You?" Jason asked.
Thalia chuckled, "no little brother."
Jason was confused, "then who?"
Thalia looked at Percy, "him."
"Him?!" Jason asked in surprise.
Percy chuckled, "why do you sound so surprised little dude?"
"It's just- I mean, you're not- well, not exactly," Jason took a deep breath and calmed himself down, "what I mean is that you don't exactly feel the type."
Percy smiled, "yeah I know. I tend to give people that feeling."
"I-I'm sorry," Jason apologized, "it's just that Thalia was a lot more, well, open than you and I-"
Percy laughed as Jason talked so fast he tripped over his words, "relax little dude, it's fine. And it's understandable, Thalia was on a role, so there was nothing for me to do or say. And I don't know about you, but I have found that doing anything to interrupt or irritate you sister is a bad thing."
"Yeah, like waking her up by pouring water on her," Thalia mumbled under her breath.
Jason nodded, "right...sorry again. It's just that, you seemed kind of….laid back?"
"That's because I'm kind of a laid back guy."
Thalia laughed, "yeah right! You're only 'layed back' when you're with me or a friend. You basically spend your free time killing zombies and training. You, Percy Jackson, are one of the least laid back people I know."
"We coming back to the, 'I don't know how to have fun' argument aren't we?"
Thalia nodded, "yeah, we are. And we will be returning to that, the moment we go back to camp, leader."
Rob laughed, " Haha! This little shrimp is your leader?!"
Thalia nodded, "yeah, and?"
Rob was stunned at Thalia's bland tone of voice, "b-but why?! You are clearly stronger than him. After all you are a daughter of Jupiter and he's...ah, what are you again?"
"Son of Poseidon," Percy said with a casual shrug.
"What?!" Rob shouted as he stood up in shock. Even Julia looked surprised at that while Jason just looked startled.
Percy blinked, "ah, did I say something wrong?"
"Your a son of Neptune?!" Rob yelled out.
Percy nodded slowly, "ah, yeah, I guess."
"Oh shit," Julia cursed as a look of tension came on her face, "this so bad."
"Why is this bad?" Thalia asked.
"Because a son of Neptune is considered bad luck," Jason explained, "camp Jupiter used to be in the San Francisco Bay area, but then a child of Neptune accidentally caused a giant earthquake killing lots of people and forcing us to move."
Percy was in shock, "woah, that must have been quite some child of Neptune. I don't think even my powers are strong enough to do that."
"Really?" Thalia asked in surprise, "that seems strange."
Percy nodded, "yeah, but it makes sense. A child of a God or Goddess with many domain can only focus on one domain of their parent. Like Nico and Bianca, Nico is great at shadows controlling, but Bianca is better at controlling the Earth, see? I'm not perfect at Earthquake control, but I am very good with water. Maybe John can use Earthquake control better than me, but he hasn't really tired."
Thalia nodded while Julia and Rob were busy discussing amongst themselves. Finally they came to an agreement and Julia spoke up.
"Percy I want you to promise us that as long as you are here you shouldn't use your Earthquake powers."
Percy nodded, "done. No problem."
"No, I mean I want you to swear on the Styx."
"Hmm, my Earthquake powers are a big part of my powers, is it alright if I only swear to only use them if there is an emergency?"
Julia and Rob shared a look and they nodded, "that is acceptable."
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