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.
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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.