Jason then saves Piper by diving into the canyon and using his sudden abilities to control the winds to bring them back to the skywalk. Hedge is taken instead, and both the wind spirit, Hedge, and the storm disappear. The wind spirit shakes her off, and she falls into the canyon. He then decides to take Jason, but is stopped when a recovered Piper climbs onto his back. Dylan summons two more wind spirits, but Jason easily fights them off.Ī hole opens up in the clouds, and Dylan states that his mistress is calling. By instinct, he pulls the coin out of his pocket and flips it, turning it into a glden sword. Amazingly, Jason survives, though he loses a shoe.
Dylan, however, summons a blast of lightning and uses it on Jason. Hedge reveals himself as a satyr and goes to rescue Leo, but not before ordering Jason to fight Dylan off. Dylan causes a burst of wind to send Piper crashing against the doors of the skywalk and to push Leo to the edge of the skywalk. Their conversation is cut short when a storm appears, and a class member, Dylan, reveals his true nature as a storm spirit. Jason cannot understand the supposedly cryptic words that Hedge uses. He is then approached by the chaperoning teacher, Coach Gleeson Hedge, who divulges that Jason must be the special package that the camp told Hedge to retrieve, along with two other half-bloods. Things get stranger for Jason when he finds a golden coin stamped with the word Ivlivs on its front. When they reach the Grand Canyon’s skywalk, Leo and Piper try to get Jason to remember things as they remember them, but are unable to. They explain that they, including the other kids on the bus, are from the Wilderness School, a school for delinquent or troublesome children where Piper had gotten sent to for allegedly stealing a BMW, although she claims that people "just give her things", and Leo by running away from his numerous foster homes.
He is sitting next to Piper McLean and Leo Valdez, who claim to be his girlfriend and best friend respectively.
Jason Grace wakes up with amnesia on a bus headed towards the Grand Canyon. After a while, "playing with that idea gave me the idea for the new series." After such requests, he began to think how the Roman aspect of the gods would be after moving from Greece to America.
He also decided to add the Roman gods after many readers requested for Riordan to write a new series on them, who were actually just the Greek gods with Roman names and slightly different personalities. He says that it was his way of letting his readers "revisit that world in a fresh twist, but also to catch up with Percy, Annabeth, and the rest of the gang from the first series."
Riordan set the book two seasons after the events of The Last Olympian (during the winter) so that previous characters could be involved and so readers wouldn't be confused. Although initially nervous, Riordan later found that most fans enjoyed the new format which allowed them to learn more of each character. The narrative is told from the three main characters Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Leo Valdez's perspectives. After creating the story line, Riordan created three new main characters, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Leo Valdez, but kept the previous main characters, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase as secondary/main supporting characters. Rick Riordan began writing a second series after realizing how many Greek and Roman myths he hadn't been able to explore and twist into tales for modern-day readers in the first series.