He saw it un-roll before him, the great majestic sea
Percy's POV:
He saw it un-roll before him, the great majestic sea. His thoughts consisted of only a few things, how beautiful it was, how majestic, how grand. These thought wavered in his mind as he laid down, slightly sinking down into the soft warm sand. He closed his eyes and began to relax for the first time in months he was free.
Free of the pressure of the prophecy. Kronos was dead and the whole world (or at least the part that knew about him) was rejoicing.
He recalled the last week. Just seven days ago he had slain the titian lord, and then he went from Olympian party to Olympian party. He had been crowned with golden laurel after golden laurel, been to so many speeches about how brave he was that he actually had fallen asleep at the fourth one.
His dad had been there, Poseidon lord of the sea, all of camp Half-Blood was there too. Even Grover was there, (and with his special new friend Pan) his mom had also been invited to Olympus, one of the few mortals ever to set foot there, much less see it.
And just a few hours ago when I had gotten back I came home (to camp half-blood) to find that that my cabin had been decorated and colored, signs hung, and banners waving, it literally radiated power.
Finally I managed to escape from it all and just come here to lie down for a bit, to get over the fact that I had not slept in about three days.
Then my perfect serene world practically shattered when someone spoke, "Percy," it was Annabeth, I could tell. "Percy," she said again. I blinked, as a fuzzy vision of Annabeth came into view. "hhuummm," I said groggily, "come on seaweed brain," she said, a playful smile dancing on her mouth, "or we'll miss the meeting with Chiron." "Don't want to go," I replied sleepily.
She grabbed my hand and pulled me up, jerking me to my senses. She led me towards the Big House and into one of the many rooms. Chiron sat there, in full centaur form, while a group of about 12 nervous campers sat at one table on the opposite side of the room and four chairs sat at the other end. Two of those were occupied, one by Selnia and the other by Clarisse. Annabeth led me across the room as we sat down on the two empty seats.
Annabeth's POV:
I leaned over him, he looked so peaceful lying there, so content, yet tiered. His handsome features seemed to finally relax into a peaceful (or as peaceful sleep that you can get while being a half-blood) sleep.
I couldn't, though I had to, but I can't, oh fine I will.
I leaned over him and said softly, "Percy, Percy" he blinked and looked up at me, "hhuummm," he replied sleepily, I smiled, "come on seaweed brain, or we will miss the meeting with Chiron" I said.
Then without thinking I bent down and grabbed his hand and pulled him up to his feet. I led him across the camp towards the big house, I could fell people's eyes drilling into me but I didn't care. I led him into the big house and then down the hall into one of the meeting rooms. I plopped him down on the empty seat next to me and Chiron began to speak.
Percy's POV:
Chiron smiled when we sat down then he faced the rest of the room and began to talk, "well now that we are all here I would like to talk to you all about, say… helping some of the undecided campers become, well, decided. As you know the Hermes cabin is becoming quite overcrowded, and I thought that if some of our more experienced campers were to say help them out them maybe we can spare some people a life of never being claimed." He paused and looked around at us all, and then he spoke again, "you know none of you have to agree with this, it's just a thought." Then I did something very impulsive (gur you ADHD) I stood up and said, "I think that it is an excellent plan, and I'm in for it." "Thank you Percy," Chiron replied.
"So are we all in agreement about caring out this plan?" all the kids nodded their heads, "great," Chiron said.
Then he looked over at Selina, "so in Selina's group we'll have, Mary, Erin, and Ellie.
With Clarisse we'll put Jack, Ben, and Lance.
Annabeth, you're in charge of Drew, Alyssa, and Henry.
So that leaves Rebecca, Harry, and Stewart with Percy." He looked around at all of us and beamed, he sure seemed pretty excited about this.
Then Clarisse stood up and said, "Yo, my group! Go get your weapons and armor and meet me at the battle arena in 15 minuets." As Clarisse walked out the door she was followed by Jack, who looked a lot like Clarisse, he was tall-ish and muscular and had this wild look in his eyes. Ben on the other hand looked extremely scared; he had curly brown hair that reminded me of Demeter he also seemed kind of pathetic. Lance seemed to be bored with the whole thing; he had tan skin and muscle-ly arms.
As they walked out of the room Selina stood up, clapped her hands together and said in the most preppy voice that I have ever heard, "so, my group lets just follow me and have a nice, little talk!" with that she sauntered out of the room.
Next thing I knew was that Annabeth was leading her group outside, I caught something about the climbing wall and forges.
I looked around to my group. I didn't know any of these kids, they were all looking off into space when I stood up and cleared my throat.
