Ghost suitors

Piper’s visions were right, the suitors were now back, haunting the place where
they’d died...


Around the courtyard, ghosts and ghouls rose to their feet and drew weapons.
‘Beware!’ Piper yelled at the crowd.

The ghouls and ghosts closed in – two hundred of them facing Jason in
anticipation, as if he might lead them in the national anthem.
The hunter who never rests.
Jason didn’t know who that was, but he had to warn Reyna and Nico.
Which meant he had to get out of here alive.
He looked at Annabeth and Piper. Both stood ready, waiting for his cue.

THE FIGHT W AS GOING GREAT – until he got stabbed.
Jason slashed his gladius in a wide arc, vaporizing the nearest suitors, then he
vaulted onto the table and jumped right over Antinous’s head. In midair he
willed his blade to extend into a javelin – a trick he’d never tried with this sword
– but somehow he knew it would work.
He landed on his feet holding a six-foot-long pilum. As Antinous turned to
face him, Jason thrust the Imperial gold point through the ghoul’s chest.
Antinous looked down incredulously.
‘You –
’
‘Enjoy the Fields of Punishment.
’ Jason yanked out his pilum and Antinous
crumbled to dirt.
Jason kept fighting, spinning his javelin – slicing through ghosts, knocking
ghouls off their feet.
Across the courtyard, Annabeth fought like a demon, too. Her drakon-bone
sword scythed down any suitors stupid enough to face her.
Over by the sand fountain, Piper had also drawn her sword – the jagged
bronze blade she’d taken from Zethes the Boread. She stabbed and parried with
her right hand,


Soon no more enemies faced him. The remaining ghosts began to disappear
on their own. Annabeth cut down Hasdrubal the Carthaginian, and Jason made
the mistake of sheathing his sword

BoO ch.2,3,4