"Where are they? Their late." I looked at Lauren. "That suprises you?" We were about to leave to go to my dad's "house" for the weekend, but Travis and Connor Stoll weren't here yet. Typical sons of Hermes.
"Let's just go to their cabin. I'll wake them up when we get there." said Tricia. "How are you gonna do that?" I didn't really want to know. She had that evil grin on her face. I knew I was gonna enjoy this.
The three of us left our bags on the top of Half-Blood Hill, and quietly ran down to the Hermes cabin. It wasn't as crowded as usual, which was strange, but it made it easier to walk around. For some reason, Tricia insisted that she just stand in the doorway. So she did, and Lauren and I continued in looking for Connor and Travis. We heard them shouting, and soon found them.
"Why'd you do that?" yelled Travis. "I didn't! You wet yourself." Connor yelled back. "No I didn't!" "Yes you did!" "Dude, I haven't wet the bed since I was six!" "Remember last year?" "IT WAS A BAD DREAM!" "Guys!" I yelled. Hermes kids must be sound sleepers, because none of them woke up. I heard Tricia laughing in the background.
"We gotta go." "But he-", started Connor. "Neither one of you wet the bed, now lets go!" "But why is it-" Travis stopped. They looked at each other and cursed. Lauren and I started laughing. This is the benefits of having a friend who happens to be Poseidon's daughter.
They grabbed their bags, and we all sprinted back up the hill where Mrs. O'Leary was waiting for us. We hopped on, except me of course. Did I mention I was the daughter of Hades?
As soon as everyone was comfy (or as comfy as you can get on the back of a hellhound.) and we took off.
When things finally came back into focus, we were in front of the Hollywood sign. It's amazing how shadow travel got us from New York to California in a few minutes. Mrs. O'Leary seemed pretty tired, but I guess since I had been doing this so often lately it hasn't affected me.
In front of the "H", I said the words my dad told me and the portal opened almost immediately. Charon recognized us (although for some reason he didn't look happy about it, but he never looks happy, so I didn't take it personally.). Instead of have of having to use his boat-thingy, he let us take my dad's "super wave runners of death." (dun dun dun).
Hades was waiting for us outside his throne room. When he saw the rest of my friends, he just rolled his eyes. "Honey, their just kids! Be a little friendlier," said Persephone, when suddenly a voice screamed, "Cereal's ready!" I groaned. "Why didn't you tell me she was gonna be here," I said. You think I knew?", he said.
She walked in and glared at me. "You didn't tell me they would be here this weekend." "I assumed you knew! They always come the first weekend of every month." Hades said. Demeter rolled her eyes and sighed. "Fine. We have plenty of cereal anyways. I need to talk to Chiron soon. They must not feed those kids anything if they all look like that," she said. "Actually, I don't like cer-," Connor started, but Lauren elbowed him in the ribs, and Tricia gave him the death glare. "We would love some cereal, Lady Demeter. Thank you for your hospitality." Tricia said sweetly. I heard Travis mutter "suck up" and Lauren's fail attempt to laugh silently. I smiled.
Demeter seemed pleased. She handed us each a bowl of cereal, and we ate in silence. When we had finished, me and my friends left to go to my room. We put our bags away, and agreed on what to do. We would go visit Silena and Beckendorf in Elysium, then probably play freeze tag in the fields of asphodel and play ball with Cerubus. So we started the long walk to Elysium.
Instead of the normal 45 minute trip, it took close to 3 hours. The Stoll brothers get distracted by the smallest things, from shiny black rocks to going up to ghosts and trying to shake their hand, then when the ghosts hand goes through theirs they yelled, " Cyk!"
We finally got to Elysium, and talked to Silena and Charlie for a while. They loved seeing us, even if they were ghosts.
On our way back, we saw Tantalus. He had been a substitute for Chiron a while back, and he hated us. I had no idea where Travis got the cereal o how he kept it from spilling all this time, but he went over to Tantalus and would hold it just out of his reach. Eventually, Tantalus lunged at Travis and scared him. He walked back soaking wet with Cheerios in his hair.
We got back to our rooms and crashed. I needed the sleep. I was defidently feeling the shadow travel effects. Everyone jumped out of bed the next day, scared and very confused. Demeter had used the intercom and screamed "CEREAL!" and apparently knew a song about it too. We ate our cereal, then went to play freeze tag in the fields of asphodel.
Let me tell you, if you had to pay money to watch Travis and Connor play freeze tag, do it. It's the funniest thing ever! They tend to think some ghosts are solid like humans, so they try to tag them and fall right through them. They'd also trip a lot. Time flew to fast though, and soon we had to leave. We grabbed our bags, told Demeter, Persephone, and Hades bye, tossed Cerubus a few rubber balls, and left. No one was sad though. We'd be back in a month!