The Monster's Revenge
Book 2 The Half-Blood series
1. Back at Camp
Back at Camp
I lounged on my bed. I had just trained for 3 hours straight with Will. I was completely exhausted. Suddenly Kiara, Will, Tristan, Alek, and Kali bursted through the door yelling "Happy 15th birthday Jack!" They pulled out a cake.
"Lemon meringue cheesecake? You shouldn't have." I said.
"I made it myself." Said Kiara.
"Even better! Thanks sis." I said as I walked over and hugged her.
"I hope you realize, this counts as my present." Said Kiara.
"Here you go bro." Said Will, as he tossed a present to me. I thanked him and unwrapped it. It was a watch.
"It's an ordinary watch, nothing magical about it. But, it tells when your passing through time zones, and it's water resistant up to 1000 feet." Said Will, satisfied with his gift.
"Here's your gift." Said Kali as she handed me a little silver box.
"Um... thanks. What is it?" I asked. Will and Kiara looked at each other as if they knew what it was.
"Anyways," Said Kiara, "I'll cut the cake." Kali and I walked outside with our cake. I took a bite.
"You wanna go to the campfire together tonight?" I asked.
"Sure, I'd love to!" she said happily.
"Ok." I said. We stood there overlooking a beautiful sight, until Alek ran out.
"Dude, there's an Iris message inside for you from your father." He said.
"I'll be right there." I said. We ran inside. Will was talking to Zeus.
"Um dude... That's for me." I said.
"Yeah, yeah, you'll get your turn with dad." Said Will.
"But he's calling me! I should get to talk to him!" I yelled.
"Well I want some time with him! Yeesh!"
"Um, guys?" Said Zeus.
"Well I wanna talk to him!"
"To bad, I'm talking to him!"
"Children?" Said Zeus.
"I'm gonna talk to him one way or another!"
"Well that just too ba-"
"BOYS!" Yelled Zeus. We turned towards him, and stood up straight.
"Yes dad?" We both said.
"I'm a busy man, and I don't have time for my 15 and 17 - by the way happy birthday Jack - my 15 and 17 year old kids' childish behavior!"
"Sorry dad." We both said.
"Now, Jack, I wanted to give you $10,000, and these 1,000 drachmas for your birthday. Enjoy." Suddenly, he disappeared, and money came flying every which way, and then it was raining drachmas.
"I'm rich!" I said.
"Well, we gotta go, happy birthday." Said Tristan, as him and Alek backed out of the room.
"Wait! Drop it!" I said. They sighed, and dropped about $3,000 out of there pockets.
"Now get out of here!" I said.
"See you tonight." I said as I hugged Kali goodbye.
"Later." She said.
"I stopped reading War and Peace. Now I'm reading The Odyssey." Said Kiara.
"Good for you." I said, as I got in my bunk.
"I'm gonna catch a nap before I go to the campfire tonight so, be little bit quieter." I said.
They walked out of the room.
"We gotta go anyways. Goodnight little bro."
"Night Kiara." I fell into a deep sleep. A dream began. It was 2 summers ago, at Dark's palace, before it was destroyed. He was sitting in his throne, with Ike next to him.
"I'm coming back soon." Growled Dark. Ike ran towards me with his mighty club and when he was about to hit me, I awoke into another dream. Now I was standing in a submarine, deep in the sea. Satyrs ran around looking at speed and depth spindles.
"Sir," One of the Satyr's said. "Your visitor is here." I looked at who he was talking to. A man with a black beard, a glass of fruit juice, and a triton.
"Poseidon? Is that you?" I said.
"Jack! Long time no sea. Get it? Sea? Oh that's a good one." Said Poseidon laughing. All the Satyrs turned towards him and laughed.
"Yeah... good one." I said.
"I know right? Anyways, I just wanted to know how Alek is. What's he been up to lately?" Asked Poseidon.
"Well... he did kill a god 2 summers ago." Poseidon turned towards me.
"No kidding? That's nice." He said.
"Yeah. I kinda have to go. The campfire probably starting."
"Alright, be free." Said Poseidon. I suddenly woke up. I got out of my bed, walked to the campfire, and saw Kali. I gave her a hug, and the campfire began. I told her about my dream.
"That's not really a good sign. I think he meant it. When he said he was coming back." Said Kali.
"Yeah. Anyways, my mom invited me to come home and, I thought you might want to come with. When I get there, where gonna take a vacation and, it would be nice to have you there so, do you wanna come?" I asked. I smile came on her face, and her eyes began to twinkle.
"I'd love to. When do we leave?" She asked.
"Tomorrow at noon." I answered. She put her head on my shoulder.
"Ok." She said. When the night was over, I went back to my room, and went to bed. A dream began, and I was back in the submarine. Poseidon sipped his fruit punch.
"I still need to talk to you." He said.
"We think we've detected Ike in New Orleans. He's set up a small hideout, in, the graveyard. He's raised an army of skeletons from the bones in the coffins and frankly, he used quite a large burial ground. He has an army of exactly 1,327 skeletons." Said Poseidon
"You're telling me, that Ike survived? And now he's going to rebel against camp Half-Blood? Seriously?" I said.
"I'm sorry to say, yes, and he's building more by the minute." Said Poseidon.
"Well this day just keeps getting better and better. I'll have to tell Chiron about this, and assemble my team." I said.
"Your, team?" Asked Poseidon.
"Yeah. Bobby, Kali, Tristan, Alek, Will, Kiara, Tyler, and Jose. Originally, Chiron would only let us have 3 people, but we work so good together, that he's letting us be a group. Your son tracks, Kiara maps, Jose forges us weapons, and Tristan, Tyler, Will, and I fight. And so does Jose." I said. We met Tyler and Jose, a few months ago. Tyler is son of Poseidon, and Jose is son of Hephaestus. Tyler is a darn good fighter, and Jose makes a razor, razor, sharp blade. The team is a lot of fun when we're on quests.
"I'll come see you if I need any help, or maybe some reinforcements. Bye." I said.
I went to see Chiron and told him about my dream and that I wanted to take the team.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" He asked.
"I took down his master, so I think I can handle him." I said.
"Yes, but he's stronger then his master, and that's why Dark picked him. He's extremely strong, and he has an amazing army. You don't stand a chance. Not even with your team." Said Chiron.
"We can handle it. Plus, we have Poseidon's help to. He said that if we needed any help, he'd send us reinforcements. It's all good." I said.
"Well." Said Chiron, "Ok. Argus will fill up the old hippie van he has. You are dismissed." I walked to the old RV that me and my team had meetings in, and got inside.
"Guys, we've got a mission!" I said.
"What mission?" asked Tyler.
"We're going to New Orleans, to track down Ike. He's building a very large army of skeletons, and we have to stop him." I said.
"Well that's just great. I don't know this guy, and I don't want to." Said Jose as he sharpened his sword.
"Well," Said Tyler, "Jose, we have to come on this quest. It'll be our first one, and it's somewhat important so, we have to go. Please?" Said Tyler. Tyler couldn't go without Jose, because Jose was like Tyler's bodyguard. Plus, he made some good tacos! Jose sighed, and agreed to come.
"But what about the Vacation?" Asked Kali.
"Oh, yeah. Guys, Kali and I are going on a vacation so, we can't come." I said. They all nodded.
"We'll drive you to New York." Said Will.
"Great! Chiron's starting up the old hippie van for us. Meet you outside. Bye!" I said. I got back to my cabin, and grabbed my already packed bag.
"Hop in Jack, we've got a tight schedule." Said Will clapping. I got in the van, and sat at the small table inside next to Kiara.
"Ok," Said Kiara, "We need to reach New Orleans as fast as we can so personally, I'd just take Argus's super fast SUV instead of a hippie Van that goes 100 miles an hour at the most but, I'll have to deal with it. Just go straight at 50 miles an hour and we should be at New York in about an hour. There we'll meet up with Poseidon, and he'll take us to New Orleans from there." She said. Will started the car, and the one-hour drive was kinda awkward from there. No one would look at me. It was like I let them down.
"Alright guys, I'm sorry but, my mom and I have Been Planning this for months. I couldn't let her down. She already paid for it." I said.
"Where are you going?" Asked Tristan, looking out the window.
"First, a Miami Florida beach house to check out the beaches for 2 weeks, then stop by Disney world for 10 days in an imperial suite, go to the Australian Outback for 4 days in a 4 story mansion, and the last thing we'll do is spend a week on our own private island. It's 1 month deal. You get to put in what you want to do for one month. It includes 3 meals a day, a yacht, jeep, mustang, private jet, pilot, 4 maids, 3 butlers, $5000 travel money, and an all you can eat buffet in each bedroom. Limit six people." I said.
"How much does that cost?" Asked Alek.
"$10,000 a person." I answered.
"How are you gonna pay for that?" Asked Tristan.
"We where originally gonna take it straight out of the bank account but, Drachmas are solid gold, worth $500 dollars a coin so, I used that." I said.
"Where here!" Said Will. Kali and I got out, and Will drove away. We walked inside, and up the stairs. I pushed my little key into the lock, and turned it. The door clicked open. We walked in.
"Mom," I called, "I'm home!" She ran out of her bedroom.
"Jackson, Darling!" She reached out and hugged me.
"I'm so glad your home." She said.
"Glad to be home." She grabbed her suitcase, and we all got into a taxi downstairs.