CARTER

Great.

Just.

Great.

Suppose my situation is an ice cream cone with sprinkles and whatnot.

Cone = me

Ice cream = pains from fighting the monster

Chocolate syrup = ending up in acamp for Greek kids

Sprinkles = Sadie.

Now, imagine me holding all of that on my own shoulders. Yeah, I know. It's a lot.

Especially with Sadie on it.

I closed my eyes and groaned. Why did she have to come now?

"Is that your sister?" Percy asked.

"Yeah. I better get out there." I replied, getting off of the bed.

As soon as I stood up, a wave of nausea overwhelmed me.

"Whoa," I muttered, and Percy came to help me up.

I wanted to walk faster, but I couldn't. Slowly, we walked out of the infirmary, and Percy yelled out a name:

"Annabeth!"

A girl with blond hair ran over. "What, Percy? If you haven't noticed, we have an unknown person on our beach!" she exclaimed, pointing at Sadie.

Oh yeah. Sadie.

"Her name is Sadie. She's my sister." I said casually, as if all of this was completely normal.

Annabeth turned to me."Really? Well, why don't you stop talking and go over there and tell her to calm down? She's disrupting everything!"

"Annabeth, chill. He just woke up. Give him a little time, Wise Girl." When Percy said "Wise Girl", Annabeth's face reddened.

She sighed."Fine. Come on…" she looked at me quizzically."What's your name?"

"Carter," I answered.

"Come on, Carter." she said, taking Percy's hand in hers.

Oh, so this must be Percy's girlfriend!

I guess I must have been looking at Annabeth for a long time, 'cause Percy grumbled, "Look ahead, kid."

I felt myself blush and looked ahead immediately. Annabeth has looks, I'll give her that. But, I will always choose Zia over any girl.

We walked to the crowd that had formed around Sadie. She was talking to a very tall man.

I looked at Percy and asked him who the man was.

Percy answered."That's Chiron." he said."He's the best teacher anyone could have." he added with asmile.

Annabeth looked at him, and they shared a "you-know-it" look.

We pushed through the crowd until I was the person at the front of the crowd.

Now you all are probably thinking, Give Sadie a hug, she's you sister, blah blah blah.

Sorry to crush your dreams, but that's not what happened.

Mainly because the first thing I noticed were hooves that belonged to a horse, that belonged to a… man.

I tried to control myself, I really did. But when you see a guy who's a horse waist down, self control isn't the first thing you think of.

My mouth flew open, and Percy nudged me. "This is Chiron, Carter."

I closed my mouth, and then opened it again."You're…"

I trailed off.

"Chiron!" Percy filled in my unfinished sentence with irritation. "Remember, Carter? He's Chiron."

I swallowed slowly (and loudly) and nodded. "Yeah, of course. How could I forget? Percy told me a lot about you."

Chiron nodded and smiled, as if he knew that I actually wanted to say "You're a horse." Either way, it didn't matter anymore, because Percy seemed pleased with my answer.

"Hello?" Sadie said, snapping her fingers. "Am I just supposed to stand here?"

Her British accent was very faint noon land you only noticed it when she was talking really fast.

Percy turned to her. "So, you're Sadie."

Sadie gave me her "I-can't-believe-you-told-them-our-names-now-monst ers-are-going-to-follow-us-everywhere-this-is-all- your-fault" glare. I shrugged it off.

Annabeth noticed Sadie's glare. "Don't worry, Sadie. We're not going to do anything to hurt you guys in any way."

Sadie looked at Annabeth carefully, and then looked at Percy.

"You know who I am. I think it'd be fair if I got to know your names." she said.

Percy scoffed. "Who said life was fair?"

Sadie narrowed her eyes, as if she were going to do a spell on Percy.

But Annabeth's voice beat her to it.

"Percy," she said with steel in her voice as she gave Percy a glare. "His name's Percy. I'm Annabeth, and that centaur," she continued, pointing to Chiron, "is Chiron."

"If you need anything you can ask us, we'll be glad to help." Chiron said. Turning to Annabeth, Chiron then said, "Annabeth, I believe you have this under control. I'll be in the Big House if you need me. I'll have to explain our situation to Mr. D…"

"Sure, Chiron," Annabeth said.

Sadie nodded uneasily. "Right…" then she looked at me. "You ready to go?"

"Are you crazy?" I asked. "I wanna see how this place runs!"

She gaped at me. "I come all this way to find you acting like a toddler? This is so not happening."

"Oh yes it is." Is aid. "We'll leave after we—"

"After? Are you out of your mind? Carter these people belong to Greek gods, who knows if there's some rivalry between them and the Egyptian gods?" she yelled.

"'These people' are right here, and there's no rivalry between the Greeks and Egyptians either," Percy muttered.

"How do you know?" she asked.

Annabeth took out a sleek device out of her back pocket and typed something in it. "According to Google, there hasn't been anything major between us. As a matter of fact—" Annabeth was cut off from a groan.

"Annabeth, as much as I love you, I don't think we need a history lesson right now." Percy said, exasperated by the whole situation.

Annabeth gritted her teeth and ignored Percy's comment."My point

is that there's nothing bad between us. No one can hold anything against you."

Sadie shook her head disappointedly at me. "Fine. But only for a few hours. Oh, and when we get back to Brooklyn, you're dealing with Bast."

"Fine," I grumbled.

Suddenly, the smell of something sweet and sour overwhelmed everything, and I had to hold my breath for a second.

"Staying? Surely, that can't be happening." A masculine voice said behind us.

Percy sighed and face palmed himself.

"Mr.D…"

Ugh.

I made two versions of this chapter.

The first version sucked so much, that I had to make another version.

And I also have to study for my finals and whatnot.

*sigh*

Your extremely tired friend,

🍒🍒🍒Cherry🍒🍒🍒