I'm baaaaack:D! With my first Tratie story ever! You don't know how long it took me to come up with the plot for this story! But I came up with how the first part of this story should go and I got bored and thought "Eh, what the heck" and just ended up typing this up! Now, to the story!
I didn't miss you disclaimer one bit! But of course, you just had to come back into my life. Rick Riordan owns PJO and HoO, I don't, blah blah blah. But someday, I will… *laughs evilly*
Katie
I stepped out the door of the Demeter's cabin. I smiled and took a deep breath, and the smells of the many different flowers planted on the sides of the cabin wafted into her nose. The day felt so peaceful, so comfortable, so…
Something sticky and brown fell onto her head, and started dripping off her hair. Stunned, I slowly lifted a hand to my hair and brought it back to my face, which was covered in the stuff. The smell made its way to my nose, covering up the scent of the flowers fragrance. It was chocolate.
I looked up, and sure enough, globs of what was once chocolate Easter bunnies, were nestled on top of the grass roof dripping off the sides. I could feel my face reddening.
"TRAVIS STOLL!" I yelled.
A mop of curly brown hair with a mischievous smile jumped out from behind a bush not far from her cabin. "Yes, Katie-cat?" he asked politely.
"How many times do I have to tell you to not put chocolate Easter bunnies on the roof of my cabin?" I said trying to sound calmer, but failed.
Travis put a thinking face on and started to tap his chin with his finger. "Hmmm, let's see, one- two, wait you didn't tell that time, you just punched me in the face- three, four-"He said counting off his fingers.
"Travis!" I screamed, getting his attention. "Just clean up this mess, and when I come back out here, my cabin better be the way it was before." I said in a deadly tone, and then marched back inside.
I could feel my campmates eyes boring onto me when I made way to the bathroom. I marched into it and slammed the door behind me. I turned toward the mirror and looked at myself. My black hair was caked in the chocolate, so instead it made me look like I had brown hair. My face was still red from my encounter with Travis, and I sighed.
What am I going to do with him?
I walked back out my cabin, but more cautious this time. Travis could've token advantage of his "cleaning job" and who knows, maybe put a water balloon here and there. I looked up at the roof. My eyebrows shot up, the grass roof was spotless.
"Ah, Katie dear!" a voice called out from behind me. I whirled around to find Chiron motioning me toward him.
I walked up to him and asked "Yes?"
Chiron looked around as if afraid someone was eavesdropping on them and said in a lower voice "I need you to do me a favor." I nodded to show him I with him so far and he continued "I'm leaving for the weekend, for an, ah, emergency meeting with the party ponies."
I raised an eyebrow. "The party ponies?"
Chiron nodded. "They need some help with- well let's just say it involves a nymph, couple of ogres, and a hot-air balloon- long story that I'm not going to get into- so I need you to keep an eye on something for me."
"Sure, what?" I asked.
Chiron started to dig out something out of his pocket, and fished out a key. "This. It's the key to my safe."
"What-"I started to ask but he cut me off and said "Inside the safe holds an arrow. Now, I don't want you to go snooping in my safe trying to find that arrow- but I know you wouldn't do that- but the arrow is poisoned with the blood from a Hydra, so one touch from the tip-" He made a cutting motion across his neck "-and you're dead."
I started to make a connection with what he said and started going through my Greek mythology. "Wait, isn't it you were killed by that arrow? Because I thought Hercules accidently shot it into your thigh-"
Chiron cut me off again and said "Another long story I'm not going to get into. Now, I trust that you're going to keep this key safe?"
I nodded and he placed the key into my hand. "Wait, why do you want me to watch your key?"
"Let's see, Annabeth isn't going to be here till tomorrow, and Percy, well you know how he is with a bow and arrow, so I wouldn't trust him with the key to a poisonous arrow. And, well I just trust that you can do this little job for me, okay?"
I nodded, and clenched on tightly to the key, because even though this is a "little job", I knew that if I lost the key there would be big consequences to pay. I watched Chiron gallop away, and then dropped my gaze to the metal object in my palm.
"Hi Katie-cat." Someone whispered into my ear. I jumped and turned around to find a specific son of Hermes.
"Don't call me that." I said, then asked in an irritated tone "What do you want Travis?"
"Geez, someone's not in the mood today. What happened, got off the wrong side of the bed this morning?" Travis said in a teasing voice.
"No, but apparently I went out the wrong side of the cabin. I should've just crawled out the window." I muttered.
"Oh, c'mon, don't hold a grudge. Besides, you look cute when you have chocolate all over you." Travis said.
My ears perked up to that. "You think I look cute?"
Travis blushed- wait Travis blushed?
I laughed and poked his cheek teasingly. "You're blushing!"
Travis swatted my hand away and said "Men don't blush!" I rolled my eyes and he asked, gesturing at my hand "What's that?"
I looked down and noticed he was talking about the key. I looked back at him and asked a little irritated "Why do you want to know?"
Travis held his hands up in defense and said "I was just asking!"
I rolled my eyes. "Chiron gave it to me. He told me to watch it for him."
"Well, I don't think a key is going to go anywhere." He said.
I ignored the mischievous glint in his eye and said "It's not, and I'm going to make sure of that."
The next morning, I yawned and sat up in my bed. I stretched and looked around. Everyone was still sleeping. I checked my clock, and it read 5:47. I then checked under my pillow, where I put the key that Chiron gave to me. It wasn't there.
So I did the natural thing. I screamed.
Anyone have suspects on who stole the key? I think it's quite obvious who did, or is it just obvious to me since I'm writing the story?
Also, did Travis have a specific nickname for Katie in the series? I forgot if he did… I'm a very forgetful person! So I'm just going to go with Katie-cat since that's the nickname he gives Katie in most of the Tratie fanfic's I read.
I know Chiron isn't part of the party ponies, but I just had to find a way to get him a reason to give Katie the key!
Sooooo? Like it? Love it? Hate it? Dying for the next chapter to come? Sorry for the time-skipping, I promise there will be less of that! And don't worry, bucket loads of Tratie is coming!
Don't forget to review! And if you have a question, don't be afraid to ask me it! I'll answer it in the next chapter!
