Elspeth ran through the woods, leaping and jumping over branches and logs, dodging round trees. She was playing tag with her best friends Aurora and Tempest. They were bored and had nothing better to do. THUMP. Her foot hit something metal and she fell over. Bending down to see what it was she began to scrape away the dirt. It was a big metal box. Aurora and Tempest ran into the clearing.
"hey, look at this," They bent down to look, then began to help her scrape away the mud, their game forgotten in there curiosity. After a while, they hauled out the box. It was locked. We spotted Chiron.
"Chiron, guess what we found,"
"What is it child?" He replied. We showed him the metal box, he stared at it in amazement,
"But we don't have the key," We said.
"I believe I may have a solution," He replied. He reached up a took a necklace from around his neck, on it was a small silver key.
"Piper gave me this, just before she died," He explained.
"piper, as in piper McLean, as in THE piper McLean!" Tempest yelled, awestruck.
"Yes child, that piper," Chiron smiled.
I took the key off him and put it in the lock, holding my breath, I slowly turned it. Then, prising off the lid I gazed at the contents inside. There was a blanket covering the rest of the stuff, wait , no not a blanket, a shroud. I picked it up and shook the dust off, It was a deep purple and was covered in stitches, there were images and names. The name Perseus Jackson was beside a trident, Thalia Grace, beside a bolt of lightning. Annabeth chase, a silver owl and so on and so on. The whole shroud was covered. I placed it on the ground beside the box. I looked in the box, a small jewel, a ballpoint pen, a Yankees baseball cap, a gold coin, an old tool belt, and an arrow . The artefacts of legends and somehow I knew that they weren't just replicas. And beside that was a hard backed brown, leather diary. On the front it said,
The diary of Annabeth, Percy, Frank, Hazel, Leo, Jason and Piper. Heroes of Olympus.