Hi! I'm BAAAAACCKK!
Grover Appears Again
Big G: !
Me: If I promise not to make you forget how to tie your shoes will you stop screaming?
Big G: NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yes OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Me: Okay I promise not to make you forget how to tie your shoes. On a happier note
Shoesy Woesy Woosy Shoes Make You Forget How To Tie Shoes!
Big G: But you promised!
Me: My fingers were crossed
Big G: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Bye the way, this story takes place after Titan's Curse. I read the rest of the series, but I want more characters to work with so I put it after TC.
Once again I say, why can't anything be easy?
Right before we got into line for the train, guess what happened. Yep your right, we got attacked. By a hell hound, and it wasn't looking very happy.
"Uh oh." I said.
"Percy, we need to go, like, now." said Annabeth.
"No duh, but how are we gonna do that."
"Run like crazy to the train."
"Works for me."
With that said, we ran away. As quick as we could we shoved our tickets to the ticket holder and we crashed through the doors of the train. We took our seats as quickly as possible so we could catch our breath.
"What about the Hell Hound" I asked.
"What Hell Hound?' said Grover pointing out the window to the terminal.
He was right. The creature was gone. Whooph. What a relief. I slept almost all the way on the train, even though the ride was only about two hours long. When the train stopped at the terminal and the doors opened I just really wanted to go outside and stretch. Apparently Annabeth and Grover thought that too. We got outside, stretched, and left. We really needed to get to this new Half-Blood. If we didn't get there soon enough she might get attacked without any experience at all. That would be really really bad.
"How far away are we?" Annabeth asked.
"Well, we'll need to take a taxi to the outskirts of the forest then we have a five-minute walk to the cabin." replied Grover.
"Okay, we should get going." I said. "Does anybody have any money?"
"I have twenty dollars left over from paying for the tickets." said Annabeth.
"Good. I get us a taxi."
I walked to the edge of the street and waved to a passing taxi. We climbed into the cab.
"Take us to the Forest nearest to this train station please." said Grover.
"Okay." replied the Taxi Driver.
We rode in silence again. After ten minutes of driving we reached the edge of a forest.
"That will be 18 dollars please." said the cabbie.
Annabeth gave him the twenty dollar bill telling him to keep the change.
Grover led us through the woods. The scary woods. The dark, and very scary woods. I was expecting that Hell Hound to jump out at any second. I felt a hand slowly creep behind my back and it touched my back eveeerrr sooooo slooooowllly.
"We're here." said Grover.
Whew. I thought it was a chainsaw murderer or something. I should never have seen that movie.
In front of us was a cabin. Not a scary cabin like in rated R movies but a nice cabin with flowers and ferns and ficuses. Oh my!
"So, uh, what do we do? Knock?" I asked.
"Yes." said Grover as he walked right up to the door. He knocked on the door several times. I heard stamping feet run up to the door.
Someone flung open the door. It was a very tall woman with an apron on. I smelled cookies baking inside the house.
"Hello Grover." said the lady. "Would you like to talk to Rowan?"
"Yes please." he replied.
"Okay, come right inside while I call her down."
We walked into the house. The aroma of baking cookies was drowning me in heaven.
"Rowan! You have visitors!" cried the lady.
"Okay Mom!" I heard someone yell. "I'll be right down!"
I heard more stamping feet and a girl flew down the stairs. She was a redhead with dark blue eyes, like the color of the ocean during a storm. Sadly to say it, she was taller than me, but only by a couple of inches.
"Hi Grover." she said. "And who are you?"
"Hi Rowan, can we talk outside?" said Grover a bit nervously.
"Sure."
We followed the girl out the back door to the back of the house.
"So, who are you guys?" she asked.
"I'm Percy, and this is Annabeth. We're friends of Grover's" I said.
"Hi, I'm Rowan." she replied. "What did you want to talk to me about Grover?"
"Um well." Grover shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot. "Were you adopted, or had one of my parents remarry?"
"Well, that's kind of an awkward question because those adults are my aunt and uncle." Rowan said looking almost as uncomfortable as Grover did.
"What happened to your real parents?" I asked.
"I don't really like to talk about it. Why are you asking me all these personal questions?" she asked me.
"Well, we think one of your parents might be a ... god." said Grover even more uncomfortably.
"What? You mean like Greek gods?" she said with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Yes."
"Well, that makes sense I guess. But why are you telling me this?"
"We need you to come with us to a safe place. It's too dangerous to have you by yourself." I said.
"Where are you going to take me?" she asked with doubt.
"To a...summer camp. For demigods. You'll get to train how to defend yourself and learn about your parent there."
"Okay. I guess I'll just pack my stuff and say bye to my aunt and uncle. Can you guys wait right here?"
"Sure."
She walked back into the house.
"That was easy." I remarked.
"Yeah. I thought she would at least deny it." said Annabeth.
We waited for a few minutes and I saw Rowan through the window saying bye to her aunt and uncle.
It was a very strange goodbye. She kissed each of them on the forehead and I heard her say "Hlutr efna"
She walked out with a backpack slung over her shoulder. For the first time I noticed she had a bracelet on each wrist one had a ring of axes on the design and the other had a rind of war hammers. Huh.
"Are you ready to go?" I asked.
"Yes." she replied.
"Before we go I wan to ask you something."
"Sure. Ask away."
"What did you say to your aunt and uncle?"
She seemed a little startled at the question.
"I said uh, good bye in Norse. My parents made me learn it."
"Okay. Now we can go."