Chapter 3 - Some Of The Truth
Thalia, Grover, Annabeth and Luke awoke inside their next reststop just a few miles away from Camp Half Blood. They sat around and ate food as they tried to think about how they got here and where they just were, but none of them could remember. That was when they were attacked. The hut shook, as if an earthquake was happening. It was about 8pm when they saw the hill to Camp. That was when they were cornered. All of them looked shook up and Annabeth had sprained her ankle running through the forest towards camp. Thalia being the brave hero decided to hold off the army of monsters by herself, to save her friends. That was when it happened. Thalia sacrificed herself, Zeus took pity on his daughter's death and turned her into a pine tree that protects the camp, with a magical border that allows demigods in and out but monsters stay out.
Grover took Annabeth and Luke to Chiron, where he was sitting at a table inside a blue house, Grover told them it was called The Big House, Chiron greeted them and told Grover to go see the Cloven Council. Luke and Annabeth followed Chiron, in wheelchair form but had told them he was Chiron as in the Centaur, inside they sat around a ping pong table and talked about their journey. When it came to the part about meeting Arcmelos, things were a bit of a blur at that point, they could only remember the sound of the car I was driving, a Subaru WRX, with a Yellow and Black livery and something to do with Rockstar Energy. It felt as if someone had plucked that part from their mind and there was now a big gap. They finished their story and looked at the corner of the room, when they looked closer at the magazine, they saw an advert being shown on for the X Games in LA in 2 weeks time. That sparked something in their minds about me. They told Chrion that they should go to LA in 2 weeks to see the X Games, because they knew that it was important somehow.
2 weeks later, Argus the head of security who has litterally a million eyes watching everything around him, dropped Grover, Chiron, Luke and Annabeth off at the LA stadium where it is being held. They got inside showing their tickets on the way in. It was just in time for the first heat of the Rallycross portion of the event, followed by the elimination rounds until two remain from two categories who go on a head to head with eachother, to be crowned X Games champion. After walking around the Paddock, they see a familiar site of the Yellow and Black truck and tent. They see that it is vacant so they assume im on the starting grid, and as if on que, music blares from the speakers around them and im first on the grid as I qualified pole. The song is distinctively for my arrival due to it being, Van Halen - Panama, so the four of them go to the nearest place to see me sitting on the grid waiting for the competetors to arrive. As they stood awaiting for the race to start the commentator was going over my details, where I am from, my age and the fact I was the youngest to compete in the X Games. Several minutes of waiting later I went on to get first in Heat 1 and beat the competators in the knock out rounds, meaning I was head to head, with the same man that inspired me to do this 2 years ago, Tanner Foust. The race was for 10 laps and we both had to take a 5 second stop and go on our starting box and had to serve 2 joker laps to even the score. It was the last lap and the last few corners. The crowd erupted when I over took Foust up the inside at the last hairpin and won the X Games. To top it off and to show off a bit, I took a victory lap, doing Gymkhana moves that even Ken Block would be happy with, as I arrived to the podium, I looked out over the crowd to see 3 familar faces and one I had never seen before.
On my way down from the podium, I signed autographs and my main sponsor, Rockstar Energy, handed out cans of drink to the public, in celebration. I got back into the car and drove back to the Paddock, where the 3 faces I knew, were standing but the other was in a wheelchair, again with the help of The Mist I delve deeper into their minds revealing their names and ages. I parked up, signed some more autographs and got a few pictures taken with the car, trophy and some parents' kids. After they left, I looked at Chrion and said "So what does, Chrion the Centaur, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, Grover Underwood the Satyr and Luke Castelan, Son of Hermes want with me this time? And I see that the rumour back at Camp was true." Stunned, Chiron spoke up, "How did you know who we are, and -" Luke cut in "And what Rumour, what camp?" I looked at Chiron and explained how I can manipulate The Mist to read minds and cover certain aspects of my life, "Like my scent for example, I can cover it so monsters can't discover me and find out who my godly parent is, and to answer your question Luke, the Rumour of Thalia Grace, Daughter of Zeus, I heard back at Camp Half Blood she was turned into a pine tree, that now protects your Camp." They all gave me a stunned but puzzled look. Grover was the first to speak up, " Ive never seen you at camp Half Blood Before, so How?" "And who is your godly parent?" Chiron and Annabeth ask in unision. "Grover, I meant my Camp Half Blood in London, at the Battersea Powerstation, and Annabeth and Chrion, I was taken there and raised by the god who overlooks my camp and who just so happens to be my father. Posiedon."
After an awkward minutes silence, Chiron says "You must come to our Camp Half Blood, where we can train you to stay alive and if you are a son of Posiedon, what is this about The Mist?" I then go over the story that I told Annabeth, Luke Thalia and Grover the first time we met, and ended the conversation by waving my hand, and they all blacked out, waking up in the van ride back to their camp, with Argus at the wheel, and their memory fuzzy on where they were and what just happened. They had forgotten meeting me and the story I had told them, again for the two demigods and Satyr.
