Ok, um its the next day in the story now so yeah.......Im bored.....I know....SMILEY DOMINATION TIME! =) =~) =~D =D =~P =P =p =~p ={D ={ ) =~O ={O =O and don't froget..... cyclopes smiley o~) Tyson will be happy!

ok enough smileys on with the story.... Oh and I don't own PJO, or Ramen Noodles (which I love) =~D o right i said no more smileys =~( but i love smileys

I woke to the smell of shaving cream and knew only too well from Jess spending the night before that I should be careful, then I rembered "The Boy" was a son of Hermes, there for probably loved to pull pranks. Sure enough when I clenched my hands into fist one was full of shaving cream. The Boy haden't noticed that I had woken up yet from where he was sitting in the corner of the tent opposite me, spinning his sword in the air over and over. But he would know soon enough. I snuck up behind him carefully, then....I shoved my hand full of shaving cream right in his face! He yelped in surprise then turned around to glare at me but was doing a pretty bad job at it seeing as he was trying to wipe shaving cream out of his face at the samed time. I smirked at him.

"That's what you get for trying to prank a girl who's been friends with Jess her whole life," I said proudly. He just glared at me a moment more then went to wipe the rest of the shaving cream off. I couldn't stop laughing, I mean I just backfired a prank that a son of Hermes had pulled! Or tryed to at least.

After he wiped all the shaving cream off he asked me if I wanted anything to eat. I took one look at the dried food packets he was holding and then told him that I would eat my own food. He just shrugged. I gathered a handful of sticks and set them up for a fire.

"You can't cook your own food it will take way to long to build a fire!" he said.

"Not if your me it won't," I said, I'd built tons of fires in the woods with Jess before. In a matter of seconds I had a good amount of dry sticks and branches and logs. Then I got out my whip.

"Are you actually gonna try what I think your about to try?" The Boy asked doubtfully.

I shrugged, "It's worth a try, plus it looks like fun." I said. I whipped out my whip and hit the sticks and logs directly. Nothing. I tryed again. Nothing. He looked at me smuggly. Oh well, I didn't really think it would work. I tryed one more time just for the heck of it, then it was my turn to look smug, because it actually worked! He stared at the fire in disbeliefe then shook his head and walked off. I got out a pan and filled it with water from a jug I had brought then dropped a package of Ramen Noodles in, I thought about it for a sec then glanced back at The Boy who was looking at his food in discust before putting them back in his bag. I dropped another package of noodles in the pot.

I walked over to where The Boy was sitting and plopped a bowl down in front of him then sat acrossed from him and ate mine.

"Ur, thanks." he said, probabley still mad about the shaving cream thing.

"Don't mention it," I said smiling. When I was finished eating I walked over to the fire and stomped it out. Then I put away the pan and bowls and stuff. I packed up my bag and any other cooking or food stuff that I had missed. While I was doing all this The Boy packed up the tent. Not long after and we were on the road again, or trail in the forest I should say because it wasn't really a road.

"How much farther is it?" I asked at last.

"Well uh....I don't really know." he said truthfuly

"You mean your a son of Hermes (god of traveling) and you don't even know where were going or anything!" I yelled.

"Well, ah I know the general direction." he said, pointing.

"Great." we walked in silence after that. I was mad. We didn't even know if we would be there within the next few hours, or days.

We spent another two uneventful nights in the woods, before coming into a city that I didn't know the name of. We looked for a bus or taxi or something, then we saw a strange looking taxi. It was gray and was speeding down the road. But there weren't any other taxies around so we had no choice. Strangely no one on the strret seemed to notice it. Of coarse now I wish that we would have just waited for a different taxi because the three sisters driving were definatly NOT normale. When we first got in they looked fine, from the back, but then they asked for a golden Drachma, not normale mortal money. The Boy handed them some and when they turned around to take it we both gasped. They didn't have any eyes, except the one in the middle, she had one eye, who was trying to keep her sister on the right from taking it. The sister on the left yelled at us "It's rude to stare you know."

"Oh...uuummm sorry." I said, "Can, can you t-ake us all the w-ay to Half-blood Hill?" I asked, stuttering.

"Maybe If you give us another golden Drachma." Was their answer.

"Oh uh sure," said The Boy as he stopped staring at last. He handed it to her and off we went.

It was the worst taxi ride ever! I was so glad to finally be out of there, I was sure I should have died all ready the way they swerved and went sooooo fast! But atleast we made it.

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