Toby POV:

Oh my god. The world hates me. It's official! So apparently, Chiron found out that Nico and I were having some problems, so he found us a quest to do together. Fortunately though, Calypso is also coming with us. I just don't understand why Chiron would the anger issue guy go on an unsupervised quest with the guy who pisses him off the most. It baffles me. I learned that word this week. Recently, I've been convinced to start taking online classes to get my GED. But since camp can't really have electronics, I go home on the weekends to do school and to see my parents. So i'm pretty sure that only two of the three people going on this quest will come back alive. The quest itself is simple. All we have to do is go to Camp Jupiter in California and tell the praetors Reyna and Frank that Chiron would like to make an arrangement to connect the camps somehow. I'm the oldest so I will be the leader of the quest, but it also means that the monsters will be able to tell who their target is. Calypso and Nico also have a very strong "scent" because their grandfather is one of the big three so we'll have to move across the country quickly and ninja-like. Hopefully we will be back home within two weeks. If we behave for the next two days, we might be allowed to fly the pegasi but Chiron can be very indecisive.

3 Days Later

One day into the quest and Nico and I are already on bad terms with each other. We didn't manage to get the pegasi but that's ok. It's both good and bad that we didn't. The good part is that I get to spend more time with Calypso, but the bad part is that I have to spend more time with Nico as well. So back to what happened with Nico… a couple of hours after we left camp, we had made it into northern Pennsylvania. Nico suggested that we stop for the night because he was tired. I said that we could still go for another 90 minutes because the sun hadn't set yet and we couldn't waste any time. Nico then asked Calypso what she thought because of the whole "twins always agree with each other" crap. She made me so proud. She said that she agreed with me because 1. I was the leader of the quest, 2. the sun was still shining, and 3. she wasn't tired and neither was I therefore we didn't need to stop because her brother was bitching about being tired. We stopped near Pittsburgh in a little town named Indiana. Apparently it was St. Patrick's Day. A little fun fact about Indiana, it is home to a party collage. There were mobs everywhere and the police were riding horseback because they couldn't get cars onto the street. We walked passed some apartments and saw someone filming a harlem shake video. This is my kind of town. Eventually though, we found a nice comfy dumpster to sleep behind. The next day we made it all the way to Indiana the state. So far we have only ran into minor monsters like harpies and such. I'm starting to get worried though. I never have this much luck.

I was right. For some reason I always have to be right. It's now the 5th day of our quest. So we were just crossing the border into Colorado when seven monsters came rushing toward us. Nico, the little coward, ran away. Calypso has great reflexes and is always calm, somehow. Oh gods. What has gotten into me lately. Anyway, I've dealt with these monsters before in simulations at camp. They're called dracaenae. Percy, Annabeth, my parents and everyone else who participated in the second titan war have fought them. They're not too hard to kill so Nico had no reason to run away. All you really have to do is slice them in half and divide the tails. After Calypso and I dealt with them we set off to find Nico. I tried to convince Calypso that we would be better off without him. She insisted that he was important. How though, is the question. He couldn't have gotten that far because whenever he was at camp he would never run or do any endurance training. And besides, he ran east instead of west. So I asked Calypso, "How do you know that he's important to this quest?" "Because dad said that Chiron always has a reason for sending people on quests and if they aren't important or valuable then they wouldn't be going in the first place." So I said, "Fine. We will wait here until tomorrow night and if he still isn't here by the following sunrise then we're going on without him. Deal?" "Deal." she replied. The next morning, right after we finished our minuscule breakfast, Nico walked into camp. Joy. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" I yelled at him. "I ran. Like a sensible person." he said. "WE'RE DEMIGODS WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE "SENSIBLE" AND AND RUN AWAY FROM MONSTERS! Especially not in the opposite direction." Was I pissed? Yes. Majorly. And then he did the unthinkable. He gave me the finger and said to Calypso, "Come on Callie we're leaving this bastard here to die." "NO" replied Calypso. "What did you just say to me bitch?! You'll do what I say NOW!" Oh my god. I'm going to kill him. "I can't believe that I EVER thought that you would be a good person and not think with your ego instead of your brain. I'm staying with Toby." Oh my god. I love her.