A/N I had some extra time before swim, so here's chapter six, where we see *hit on the head and gagged by Alex*
Alex: Mickey doesn't own PJO. SWEET REVENGE!
Chapter 6-Just my Tyche
Penny POV
"What?" sputtered Alex. "He can't come with us, Chiron. He-literally-just got here."
"None of the other cabin leaders were willing to come along."
Hunter walked to the middle of the room and sitting down next to me. "What's wrong with me coming?"
"Stay out of this." I warned. When Alex got mad, he got mad. And I mean, sacrifice you to the Ares cabin mad. Hunter sighed, but took my advice.
"Alexander, he seems to know what he's doing, and as long as you have at least one day to train him with weapons properly, then he may go."
About five minutes and a heated argument later, Alex was begrudgingly taking Hunter and I down to the weapons arena for last minute training. Well, technically just for Hunter, but I decided to come anyways.
"Just my luck." I heard Alex grumble.
Hunter was talking about his dad. "I've got some training with weapons-" seeing Alex's murderous glare, he hastily added, "mortal weapons though- knives, stuff like that. My dad used to try and take me hunting, but I was never very good."
"You're named Hunter."
He laughed. "Dumb, right?"
"Yeah."
We lapsed into silence for a little while, until Hunter asked who my parent was.
"Hecate. Goddess of magic."
"So…are you like a witch or something?" I clenched my fist and saw a few blue sparks leak from it. Hunter jumped back in surprise. "What the…"
Alex laughed, short and harsh. "Did Sparks set off?" he said in the same tone of voice. I growled and a few more blue fireworks came off of my hands. Alex raised his. "Hey, sorry, not my fault."
The magic subsided and I noticed Hunter was now walking about five feet away from me.
This was going to be a long quest.
Alex showed Hunter the different ways to disarm an opponent (using me as the dummy) how to knock out an opponent (still me) and how to brutally murder an opponent (I made him use a practice dummy here.) Hunter picked up on things fast, and it seemed like no time at all had gone by when the dinner horn had sounded and we were struggling to get to the mess hall, sweaty and disoriented.
"That…that was fun." Hunter gasped for air.
"To a certain definition of fun." I muttered, trying to catch my breath. Alex walked just ahead of us, panting slightly, but not as much.
When we got to the mess hall, all of us split up- Alex to all his blonde buddies at the Athena table, Hunter to the completely empty Tyche table, and me to the full-to-the-brim Hecates, of every nationality and hair color you could imagine.
I got up and scraped a portion of my meal into the flames.
Mom, please help me with this quest.
The smoke rose into the air and disappeared.
That night, I packed all of my things-of course, the ones I had systematically unpacked two days ago. What I would need for the quest would be stored in my backpack-a bottle of water, a change of clothes, some extra weapons from the cabinet, my old black leather jacket that still had two holes from Snakezilla's teeth, etc. The most important thing would be stored on me- my silver dragon cuff from Pearl.
I took it off for a second and looked at it. It was a nice piece of jewelry even if you didn't know what it did. I was just glad it didn't activate when we took Hunter to sword practice earlier..
"Sword!" I said, thinking out loud. That's what I had forgotten.
I dropped the silver bracelet on my bed, and began to search the cabinet for a well-balanced sword. I couldn't find one. Groaning, I reached back onto my bed for the bracelet, and felt a shiver of shock run through my arm as my fingers skimmed a sword hilt.
Lifting it up, I saw that it had a dragon head with two sapphire blue eyes for a hilt. Its silver blade had the words 'solum Deum times' inscribed in flowy handwriting, and suddenly I realized it; this was my bracelet.
"Um….how do I get this back to normal?
At the word 'normal' the sword shrank back into the dragon cuff.
"Okay….javelin."
Nothing happened.
"Spear?"
The cuff remained just that.
"Bow and arrow."
After a while, I determined that the cuff only had two commands- sword and normal. I put it on my bunk side table shared with Amy, who was in the bed above me, and fell asleep.
When I showed up for the quest the next day, my dark brown hair was in a short ponytail so that it would stay out of my face. I had even checked it in the mirror-it was the same as ever. Wavy, nearly black shoulder length hair, and blue-green eyes that annoyed me to no end. Alex was lucky- nobody could ever question his eye color, but Hunter was in the same boat as me-the black swirls in his eyes put me off the color at first.
Alex was already at the top of Half-Blood Hill, waiting for Hunter and I. His backpack was identical to mine-black- and he was tapping his foot anxiously. A gold ring hung on his camp necklace, with a light gray stone set in the middle. When I reached him, I pointed at it.
"What's that?"
He rubbed it protectively. "Mine."
Hunter came running up the hill, carrying his backpack-which had red panels down the sides that earned an eye roll from Alex-and a metal circle. When he got closer, I began to wonder if it was a metal Frisbee of death.
"Sorry I'm late." He huffed. "Some Hephaestus kid stopped me on my way up here and gave me this."
"What kid?" asked Alex warily.
"She said her name was Carly, I think."
I was skeptical, but Alex nodded. "Beckendorf. Okay."
"Why?"
Alex shook his head. "Some of those kids just want to play pranks on you."
"Before a quest?" I asked in disbelief.
"Penny, not to put too fine a point on it, but you've made some enemies here."
"Not too many.."
Alex began counting them off on his fingers. "Cain, Lucy, the entire Ares cabin, all the people on the Red team you hit with magic, all the people on the Blue team you hit-"
"I get the point."
He smirked, his blond hair like a halo around his head in the rosy light of dawn. "Thank you."
The moment of Alex's gloating was (thankfully) broken by Hunter. "Should we get going?"
And on that happy note, we set off on our quest.
A/N There we go! Another chapter down for the count. What will happen on the quest? P.S. Hunter is my own OC no indecision like with Monique. As Alex so nicely did the disclaimer earlier, I don't have to do it now….Please read and review, and if you have done so THANK YOU SO MUCH!
