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jason Grace grimaced as he struggled to hold his own in combat. This older blonde boy he encountered at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais was incredibly skilled in swordsmanship. And his sword....it was the strangest sword Jason had ever seen. Half tempered steel and half...it looked like bronze? But it glowed the way Imperial Gold did, as if it were made with magic.
"Who are you, what were you doing on Mount Orthys, and where did you get that sword?" he asked.
Luke sized him up. Purple shirt. A tattoo with ten lines. So, he was a Roman demigod, and a fairly seasoned one at that. Seemed powerful too. Perhaps he could be recruited to the cause.
"I'm Luke Castellan, a son of...Mercury," he replied. "And you?"
"I am Jason Grace," he answered, flipping his blade Iulius to return it to coin form. "...son of Jupiter."
"Huh okay," Luke said, nodding his head. "That's pretty cool."
Pretty cool?
"Maybe you didn't hear me correctly, I said I'm Jason Grace...son of Jupiter." Jason repeated.
"No yeah, I heard you the first time."
"You don't...you don't sound very impressed."
"What? No, I am very impressed!" said Luke, in a tone of voice that didn't sound like he was very impressed at all. Jason pressed further.
"Perhaps you haven't read the Sibylline books," he continued. "There's a prophecy regarding how a demigod child of the Big Three will make or break this world when they turn sixteen."
"Yeah, I know," said Luke.
"Yeah, so..." Jason faltered. Luke didn't seem to understand how important he was. "So...I'm going to fulfill that prophecy when I turn sixteen..." Luke still wasn't getting it. "...because...because I'm the only existing child of the Big Three?"
Luke's face furrowed in confusion...
"The only child of the..."
...then suddenly flooded with understanding.
"Oh yes!! Of course! You....the only child of the Big Three! Yep! Mmhmm! That's you alright. That's very important!"
"You don't.... you don't sound like you mean it," Jason said somewhat lamely.
"No, I do mean it!" Luke insisted. "I just uh...you know, forgot which prophecy you meant."
"You forgot...the prophecy in the Sibylline books of world-ending proportions?"
"Yep! Just uh.... just forgot about it the way you forget about prophecies like that, but then you reminded me of it. Mhm!"
"Okay....well good!...that you remember it now....because I'm very important!"
"Yeah"
"Mhm"
"Ok then."