She learns that charmspeak is a gift from Aphrodite. When the employee accused her of theft, Piper’s father, Tristan, sent her to the Wilderness School.

Likewise, Piper has always been able to persuade people into giving her things-most recently, a BMW. Furthermore, Hephaestus’s status as god of the forge parallels Leo’s own skill with invention. Leo was, as a child, exposed to fire by his “Tia Callida,” and eventually learned he could create fire on his own, a skill he stopped using after his mother’s death by fire. These identities explain long-standing questions and problems in their lives. The camp has suffered much loss recently, due to a war with the Titans.Īt Camp Half-Blood, Leo discovers he is a son of Hephaestus, and Piper learns she is a daughter of Aphrodite. They are disappointed to find these three rather than their missing friend Percy Jackson, a son of Neptune. Coach Hedge is taken by a ventus, but soon, teenage demigods Annabeth and Butch arrive on winged horses and take Jason, Leo, and Piper to Camp Half-Blood. Jason fights them off and rescues Piper from death, in the process displaying his ability to fly.

The mystery of Jason’s identity is partially unraveled when a group of venti, or storm spirits, attack the campers. Only their supervisor, Coach Hedge, can confirm that he’s never seen Jason before. The two tell him that they’re all problematic teenagers who were sent to the Wilderness School for reformation. Likewise, the boy in front of them, Leo, believes he is Jason’s best friend. He is sure he wasn’t there a moment before and confused as he learns that she believes she is his girlfriend. He wakes up on a bus holding Piper’s hand. At the beginning of the narrative, Jason has lost all of his memories and does not even know his last name.

The lost hero series