Chapter 3
(Thalia, Around 9 Years later)
I walked back towards the source of commotion which caused a flood of campers to flock at the campfire. Chiron started up the tale of the Savior of Olympus Percy Jackson, the man who disappeared before the Gods could give him godhood like the rest of the remaining 7. He began where he had left off last time, the battle for Olympus after Annabeth took the poisoned blade. Each camper sat eager to hear more about the faithful warrior. Yeah faithful my ass. He left us when we needed him the most, rebuilding the camps required the Gods to place the Hunt on a temporary hiatus and forced me to help Jason lead the efforts. Work was slow the fields needed to be cleared and the cabins needed updating so even the romans could stay at camp half-blood. Search party after search party was sent out in attempts to find that lost hero but it was to no avail.
The fall of Kronos brought the story time to a halt and Chiron told all to go off to bed before the harpies were released upon them. The crowd dispersed and broke up into cabin groups filled with both Greek and Roman. Frank wandered past for century duty (each of the minor gods of heroes took shifts) out by the pine muttering about the lost hero. "What could he be doing now" he questioned, "certainly not an assassin, that would be ridicules and we all know chaos has been sleeping for thousands of years." Hazel walked up and continued his questioning with him. I looked up and saw the silver cabin before me, a few cobwebs proving that the hunters rarely came by anymore. Opening up the door only to be greeted by Phoebe standing guard. I wandered past a few fellow hunters and crashed upon one of the many empty beds found in Artemis's cabin, only to be poked by a small frail girl about 10 years of age, Amelia I think is her name. "Hey Chiron was asking for you". "Thanks" I replied as a began to run outside towards the big house.
"Thalia" Chiron announced "Thank you for finally joining us". "Sorry I came as fast as I could". Chiron cantered back to the front of the room and addressed the new gods and goddesses that took over Mr. D's position, "Zeus has asked Artemis to hunt down Percy, He has decided that we can have someone of that power alone in the world." He stated with a hint of sadness in his voice. "But if he truly left us shouldn't we just respect his wishes?" Hazel asked as she looked to Frank for support. "Yeah if this is what he wanted then let him have it." Frank agreed. "Father wants him dead or alive" Jason sighed and looked down, "He knows Artemis has a chance at doing the first only she can track him down, and he knows he won't go without a fight.". Then it all became clear to me, "another war is coming isn't it?" I asked knowing that only a few reasons would bring my father to try to find the son of Poseidon. "Well we don't know that for sure yet Thalia" Piper stated trying to defuse the situation at hand. I didn't like this one bit.
I walked back towards the silver cabin wondering just what could have happened to bring our salvation to leave. We all lost somebody in that war, the hunters numbers have never been so low, but to leave camp? The place he fought for and his girlfriend died for? It just didn't make any sense, then again nothing made much sense anymore. I wandered back in nearly waking Phoebe up, and I sat on my bed for hopefully the last time this night. I just wanted all of this trouble to end.
