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And finally what you've all been waiting for. . . (Dramatic pause) . .Chapter 2!
Chapter 2 The Quest for Artemis
The group spent the night at the camp, and Percy couldn't help noticing Kat slip out of the tent. Percy followed her using Annabeth's baseball cap. Kat sat down on the beach and the cold waves crashed against the shore.
"Oh, please, not two weeks." Kat said aloud, "claim me before the two weeks are up." A wave crashed against the shore, spraying her with sea water. She shivered and got up and left.
Early the next morning, Kat and the others were waiting for Artemis's twin brother, Apollo, he was going to take them to camp. Kat waited impatiently with the others, and couldn't help but notice the Hunters looking upset. They absolutely hated Apollo, she realized.
"Step back and shield your eyes everyone," Artemis instructed everyone. Everyone shielded their eyes, and a giant bright fireball thing landed in front of them. It happened to be a hot (as in cool) car.
"Wow, Apollo's hot," breathed Thalia next to Kat, as Apollo stepped out of the car. Percy grinned,
"Thalia, he is the sun god." Percy pointed out.
"That's not what I meant." Thalia said. Percy and Kat rolled their eyes.
"What's up little sis, it's been while since you needed my help." Apollo flashed a perfectly white smile at the hunters that would make a normal girls swoon. The hunters gave him cold glares. Apollo grinned, icy glares.
"Brother, we've argued about this before, we are twins. We are the same age, I am not younger than you." Artemis protested, "I need you to take my hunters and these four demigods."
"Where to, little sis?" Apollo flashed another perfect smile.
"Camp Half-Blood," Artemis said calmly. The hunters groaned.
Apollo laughed, "really Camp Half-Blood? Alright, everyone in," Apollo motioned to the hot car.
"Um, how are we going to fit?" Nick voiced what everyone was thinking, "sir," he added as an after thought.
"Oh, I forgot," smile," to change," grin, "the car," Apollo grinned at the hunters like it was a very funny joke. Icy stares. "Okay." The car changed into a big enough car for them all. The hunters and Bianca crammed themselves in the back row. Percy opened the door and Thalia, Nico, and Kat climbed into the front. Percy climbed in after them.
Kat and Nico were escorted to the Hermes Cabin until they were determined. Kat thought this was terribly funny for some reason, and it took awhile for her to stop laughing at the term 'undetermined.' And that very night they played capture the flag, and the campers lost again. Capture the flag ended with Thalia and Percy's fight, and Oracle of Delphi taking a walk to see Thalia's enemy, Zoe Nightshade. But Percy remembered very clearly, Kat running around with a sword, he was pretty sure wasn't one of the extra ones. He also noticed she knew how to use it. He decided to ask her about that later. Meanwhile, Kat lay on a section of Hermes Cabin thinking. She was occasionally slapping the Hermes campers from touching her stuff. She seemed to know where everyone was at all times. Kat enjoyed a few of the camp activities, but mostly spent time alone in the woods, near the beach, Percy even caught her in his cabin a few times. Kat was strange to most people, even the best pickpockets in the Hermes clan could not pickpocket her. She helped Malcolm, a son of Athena, figure out a great battle plan, for the next time the hunters visited. She had a temper that sparked as easily as a child of Ares. And was so quiet you wouldn't know she was right next to you until she spoke. Percy was now more than interested, to find out her godly parent. She seemed like a jack of all trades with the gods, and decided Hermes, only for second, when he realized she could only catch the Hermes kids pickpocketing, she did not pickpocket. She loved riding the pegasi, so he ruled out Poseidon, but then he had Blackjack. Percy soon put Kat's godly parent behind him in his worries for Annabeth, he kept having vivid nightmares, and sometimes woke in cold sweat. After a little spy work with Annbeth's hat, he realized Zoe would be leaving secretly, tomorrow morning. He packed a sack (no donuts for Blackjack) and waited until he saw the two hunters, Thalia, and Grover leave camp. Percy slipped out of his cabin and walked passed the other cabins to get to the stables. There he found Blackjack munching an apple. Percy climbed on Blackjack and they flew away.
Kat knew something was up when she saw Percy slip into pegasi stables, so she of course followed him. Kat listened to Percy's argument with Blackjack, and watched him mount Blackjack and fly away. Kat didn't hesitate one moment, she found her favorite pegasi, Morning Mist, and mounted the almost pure white pegasi, and flew after Percy. She caught him on top of a building in New York, tied in grape vines, with Dionysus cackling.
"Hi, Mr D, it's great to see you here," Kat faked a grin, and hoped Mr. D wouldn't catch the sarcasm.
"Ah, Pat it's wonderful to see you here," Mr. D smiled at her, "can you talk sense into this boy?"
"Kat, and it depends, Mr. D," Kat said, rather shocked at Mr. D's expression towards her. Kat cut the grape vines that held Percy, the grape vines grew in seconds around Percy again. Kat groaned, "Mr. D we have a problem."
"Of course we do, dear," Percy's mouth dropped open, Kat choked, "a dangerous boy just escaped from camp. Shall I turn him into a dolphin?"
Kat seemed unfazed at the thought, instead she burst out laughing. Mr. D and Percy both looked confused.
"A dolphin, you're kidding, that just puts him in the water, and he loves water! I would just let him go on the quest. Who knows? He might die. And you would have gotten rid of a demigod, and that is one more dangerous demigod gone." Kat was choking on her laughter by now. But Percy looked angry, and Mr. D looked thoughtful,
"But who would be watching him to make sure he doesn't do anything wrong?" mused Mr. D.
"I would of course!" Kat said, her laughter stopped.
"Hmmmm. . ." Mr. D thought, "I like your idea, Pat! You've always had a good head on your shoulders. I wish you were mine, but no P-" Kat gave him a sharp look, "your father always gets the good ones." Mr. D yawned, "now, I must be off." Kat and Percy closed their eyes and Mr. D was gone in a flash.
"Finally, Mr. Sassy Grape Man is gone." Kat sliced through the grape vines holding Percy.
"What was that all about?" Percy snapped.
"What?" Kat looked innocently up at him.
"About me dying!"
"It got you away from Grape Man, didn't it?"
"Well, yeah, that's not the poin-"
"Are you going to complain? Because I could call Grape Man back here," Kat smiled a mischievous grin.
"Thanks for getting Mr. D off my hands," Percy said hastily, "now I have to go."
"We have to go," Kat corrected him, "you heard Grape Man, I am literally a dolphin if I don't come with you."
Percy glared, Kat smiled innocently,
"Fine!" Percy huffed.
"Yes," Kat whispered, "Finally."
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