I am so sorry for the wait but I will update more regularly now but just know I will never give up on this story ever I promise.
Percy lazily climbed out of bed the next morning and had completely forgotten he was under water, let alone in Khenemu's palace so naturally he fell to the floor of the room but floated above it and then of course he realized it and immediately flew right up and managed to hit his head on the bed frame.
"Ow…" he whispered to himself cradling his head and sitting on the bed trying to calm down as memories came flooding back.
It was then he noticed a white skirt on the bed with a green belt as well as a thin gold and green crown which assumed to be Egyptian.
He put them on and they all fit perfectly, though he was tempted to keep on his pants instead of walking around with a skirt.
Percy swam to the window and saw people zooming by some swimming out of windows others just swimming, Percy decided he'd swim out the window for the experience and to be able to say I jumped out of a palace window and lived.
He swam down to the court yard where Khenemu was standing talking to a very pretty woman and with two young boys all of which seemed excited with smiles.
Percy swam up to them very slowly because well he was nervous and scared what fi they really didn't like him. They could be talking about something else.
"Oh there he is," Khenemu said pointing to Percy as he reached the small group.
"Good morning….sir," Percy added on the sir trying to use his common sense and manors at the same time.
"You don't have to call me sir Ken will suffice and allow me to introduce you, this is my wife Shorestik and my sons Sytket and Leeket."
He pointed to each of them as he said there names and Percy shook their hands.
Skylet was a century older than Leeket and seemed more Percy's age than Leeket who looked about a year or two younger and his wife Shorestic was more than happy to have him.
"Come it's time for breakfast," and with that they all swam to the dining pavilion but Percy lagged behind uncharacteristically shy.
That was until Skylet let himself fall behind as well, "so Percy do you do any umm sword fighting things or maybe your more of an archer?"
"Oh yeah it's one of my favorite camp activities but no archery I suck at that," Percy said grateful for Skylet's conversation starter.
"Oh that's good because…so do I, I couldn't hit a target to save my life," Skylet said as they entered the gold and silver covered pavilion and sat next to each other.
"So you guys have a camp just for the children of the Gods….that must be cool."
"Yeah sometimes for those who know who their godly parent is," Percy sighed thinking of all the faces of the unclaimed waiting in cabin eleven.
"What do you mean?"
"The gods well the Greek gods can be forgetful and sometimes don't' claim their children and so they wait in cabin eleven, that's Hermes' cabin you know the wing footed messenger god."
"Yes, I am familiar with the name."
"Yeah so that's one downside but other stuff is good like the food, the training arena, and capture the flag is loads of fun."
A silence fell upon them as they ate in quiet until Percy got curious, "do you guys have something like a camp and demigods?"
"Umm no but we have magicians and their kind of like our kids not biologically but the way we treat them they are seen as such…I guess."
Percy couldn't help but to think that he and Skylet would be good friends.
"That's cool too I mean magicians like the ones you hear about in the old stories?"
"Yep there is one old story that we don't get into that often."
Percy raised an eyebrow wanting to know more, "You can't say that and not tell me more."
Skylet laughed," Yeah I hate it when people do it to me so I'll tell you, Moses the story of Moses so bad in fact we tried to erase it from history."
"I saw a documentary on that….I don't normally watch them but nothing else was on, it said you guys don't record battles you lose."
"Well no but it's not just for the sake of our pride, who wants to remember bad memories….but it is a good treatment to our scarred pride honestly.
Percy and Skylet talked a bit longer making jokes and laughing even after Skylet's mother, father, and brother left.
"Hey me and my friends were going to play man hunt in a bit if you're interested."
"Yeah that sounds like fun."
"Okay meet me in the courtyard in like ten minutes."
"Okay," Percy swam off but couldn't help but to think maybe this will be better than camp.
