Chapter 2
I Accidentally go to Mars
I started out running to the place where I had seen Annabeth on TV, but then I remembered that I was now a god, and I could go wherever I wanted whenever I wanted. I focused on my destination as hard as I could, and then I felt myself traveling through space. Literally. When I stopped, I looked around at my surroundings. It didn't look anything like New York. It was red and rocky, with a dark sky with a bunch of stars. Whoops. I had spent too much time looking at Discovery Channel. I prepared to leave Mars, but then I felt myself suffocating. I remembered that I couldn't breathe in space. I felt myself dying…
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was not dead. Because I was a god, I supposed. The second thing that I noticed was that there was a half goat standing over my bed.
"So, I hear you are a god," said Grover, my best friend. He was also now the God of the Wild. My only friend that was a god.
"Yeah," I replied.
"I hear Annabeth is mad at you."
"Oh, not you too, Grover. You're my best friend. Don't get mad at me."
"Hey, I'm just saying."
I hoped that Grover wouldn't hold me up for long, because I had something that I needed to do.
"Yeah, I know, you need to look for Annabeth. But there's no need."
I did not understand him at all.
"I brought her here."
"Can I talk to her right now?" I asked.
"Sure. But do me one favor."
"What?"
"Give me your soda can."
Now there was the Grover that I knew. I gave him my soda can. How I got it in the first place, I did not know.
"Come in!" he shouted into the hallway.
Annabeth walked into the room.
"I'm only here because Grover told me to come, not because you want to talk to me. And if you want to say sorry, I already told you, you shouldn't even try," she said.
"Okay, but just listen to me—"
"No, you listen to me!" she cut me off, "do you know how I feel right now!"
"Actually, I do," I replied truthfully, "remember when you were about to join the hunters?" Annabeth looked guilty for a second, but then reverted to her normal expression.
"But did I?" she snapped back, "No, I didn't. And you should have thought about what you were saying before you agreed to anything, like I did."
She had a point, but I couldn't let her know that.
"Fine then, if you hate me so much now, then why don't you just leave?" I told her.
"Okay, I will." She stormed out of the building with as much stomp as she could muster.
Great. Now not only was Annabeth mad at me, but I was mad at her, too. And the weird thing was that I still loved her.
"What did I just do?" I asked Grover.
"Nothing I would have suggested doing, but what happens, happens. Now, though, you should get some rest," he answered.
I lay down, hoping for a dreamless sleep, but of course, when you're a demigod (or full god, in my case) you can never do that.