Chapter 2
Journey to camp
"Dad! I can't close my suitcase!" I shouted.
He came upstairs and told me to sit on it and then it would close so, I sat and he zipped and he tried to pick it up but he couldn't, it was too heavy for his wimpy little arms, "what have you got in there? Bricks?" he asked
"No, just my shoes," I said and we grinned at each other, sometimes he understands me so much more than mum does, especially about shoes, mum doesn't really understand my love of trainers but dad does, he loves them too! I don't think that he ever wears his nice shoes apart from when he go out on special occasions, otherwise he is either wearing sandals, flip-flops or trainers. I guess he takes after his dad with the flip-flops. "I'll just drag it dad, the bottom is a bit messed up anyway from all the other times when you couldn't carry it!" I giggled
By the time I had stopped giggling and had dragged my suitcase down 2 flights of stairs to the front door the twins had each texted me twice complaining that they couldn't fit everything in their suitcases, even though they share most of their clothes because they are the same size. We waited for their arrival so we could go and take dad's boat to camp. Dad and Nico are coming with us so they can see Chiron and mum and Grover are going to see us off from the port
Finally, the twins and Nico decided to turn up and we all got in Nico's jeep and drove to the seaside. Just as we were about to set sail in dad's boat Thalia iris messaged the twins saying that they will be fine at camp and not to worry. We set off and left Annabeth the car so that she and Grover could get back home. Grover was staying with Annabeth for a couple of nights as he had not had a chance to catch up with Annabeth and Percy very often because of his quest to save the wild.
Once we had been on the boat for about 3 hours we were starting to see the mainland which would have cheered me up but even with dad using the sea to help us get there faster it would still be another couple of hours until we got to camp and it was already 8pm so we probably wouldn't get there until about 11pm and then we would have to get to the cabins and take out all our stuff.
Once we had docked and unloaded it was about 10 fifty and we still had to get to the main area of camp. Thankfully there was a taxi waiting for us to take us there. I guess that dad IM'ed Chiron to tell him when we were going to arrive while I wasn't on the deck. The ride was quite uneventful until we were about a mile away I think, then the taxi driver just decided to stop and chuck us out. We started walking in the general direction we thought camp was but when suddenly a wolf appears from the woods lining the road, then another appeared, I could feel a scream coming but I managed to keep it to a quiet little squeak. A group of girls all dressed in white with bows and arrows on their backs emerged from the trees and Storm ran up to greet her mother while Skyla walked up slowly, cautious of the wolves.
"Storm! Skyla! How are my two beautiful daughters?" Thalia said
"You know mum, if you stay with the hunters then you will stay as a 15 year-old and so are going to be older than you soon!" Storm said.
"Yeah, so if you come to see us at school you might want to call us cousins or something!" Skyla joked as she hugged her mum.
"Thalia!" exclaimed Nico
"Hey dead-boy! Hey Percy, Hey Annabeth" she replied happily. The six of us were having a group bear hug when Artemis cleared her throat. "Oh, sorry my lady" Thalia said. Then they ran off back into the woods.
"Well that was a long conversation wasn't it?" Percy said sarcastically.
"At least she came, and we got to see her, which is more than we have had for a year." Storm said optimistically.
We finished the final leg of the journey in silence and could see the cabins when dad raised a question that I myself had been wondering about on the boat. "Who's cabin will the girls go in, because I don't think that the Athena cabin would be so happy if they had someone who is ΒΌ Poseidon in their cabin. And will the twins be in Nico's Hades cabin or in the Zeus cabin?"
"I'm not sure, we should probably add that to the list of things to ask Chiron, look here he comes" Nico said
"What should you be asking me?" Chiron said as he came up from camp.
"What cabins will the girls be staying in? And we also think that there should be a Big Three table instead of three individual tables because there was never many children of the Big three and I always had to sit on my own on the Poseidon table." Percy said
"Ah, I'm not sure about the issue with cabins but I think that the issue with the table can be easily solved, you can sit at the big table temporarily until there is a new table fixed up for you."
"Can I sleep in Grandpa's cabin dad?" I asked
"Can we sleep in your cabin dad? The one you designed with Annabeth?" the twins asked.
"Yeah I guess you can sleep in dad's cabin, if he doesn't disagree," dad said
"Yeah I don't see that there's anything wrong with sleeping in the Hades cabin" Nico said.
So we took all our stuff to our cabins at the end of the set of cabins and went in the cabin. To find a huge Cyclops in there, this time, I didn't try to hide my scream; I let it out, load and clear in the girliest scream I could. Dad came in with Riptide out and saw the Cyclops in the room.
"Tyson!" he exclaimed and went to give the Cyclops a hug.
"Percy!" Tyson shouted.
"Who is that dad?" I asked.
"It's my half-brother Tyson, I first met him in year 8 I think it was, he saved me from some cannibals. What are you doing here? Why aren't you in the forges?"
"I think that dad knew that you were coming because he said that I should have a break and come here for a bit."
"Oh, cool!" dad said
Dad and Tyson had a conversation catching up with all that they had missed in the years that had passed. I fell asleep in one of the big beds while they were still nattering away like a pair of old women.
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