"Uhhhh..." Piper groaned, clutching her throbbing head. She lay on her back and opened her eyes to see the blurry figure of a person leaning over her. She blinked a couple times to clear the fogginess from her eyes.

A figure of a man with close cropped blond hair, piercing blue eyes, and a scar on his lip peered down at her, concerned. Everything came flooding back into her mind and Piper scrambled back, panicking. Was this one of the guys who tried to kill her?

"G-g-get away f-f-from m-me!" Piper stammered. The guy looked at her with pity in his eyes. He sat down in a criss cross position and looked at Piper.

"It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you," he says. Piper then noticed his clothes. It looked like a police uniform, but it was ripped to shreds. His shirt and pants had holes and rips and stains-blood?- on them. His eyes looked tired and dull, and his expression showed no hope. He had cuts all along his bare arms, and a fresh bleeding wound on his forehead.

Piper scanned her surroundings. The two of them were in a dark cell with stone walls, and a hard stone floor. There were no beds, only a single blanket in the room. There was a small lamp but it barely provided light. Other than that the room was empty.

"Are you-what happened to your head?" Piper asked. The guy lightly touched his forehead and inspected his now bloody fingers.

"It's still bleeding?" He mutters. "Oh, I was trying to escape again and they threw a brick at my head. I woke up a couple of minutes before they threw you in here," he explains.

"How long have you been here?" Piper asks. Jason scratches his head and stared at a wall.

"I don't know, honestly. This guy took me when my fellow agent and I were inspecting a murder...a murder of...of my long lost sister," Jason says. Only hours ago did a guy named Ethan tell him that the one murdered was Thalia Grace, his only sibling who he had thought was dead.

"I think a couple days, maybe almost a week?" Jason says. Piper winces.

"How do we...how do we get out of here?" Piper asks. Now Jason winces.

"I've tried everything. Knocking out a guard and running, but they have people everywhere. Pretending to pass out and then attack them when they're off guard, but they are ready for anything. I even tried to befriend a guard or two, but they were strictly on their own side only. They told me their group was going to take over HalfBlood City first, and then move onto city after city until they...until they rule the world," Jason explains. Piper gulps.

"Do you know who their group is?" Piper asks. Jason grits his teeth.

"At first I was sure that it was the old druggie and killing group, the Titans, but then I realized that it was a group much more powerful. They told me that the Titans disbanded seven years ago, and ever since the remaining members have formed another group with dangerous people from outside HalfBlood City," Jason says.

"Then did they tell you who they are?" Piper asks, absentmindedly chewing her lower lip.

"Yeah, I got it out of one of the guards. It basically secures that were dead from this moment on, but...I might as well say it if you really want to know," Jason says. His eyes dart around like someone would attack him at any second.

"They call themselves...the Giants."