Will arrived home after a two week journey on horseback, especially if a carriage carrying a princess was involved. Normally the journey would take 6 days at max if it was just Will and his entourage (without the carriage). But he had to bring Princess Drew of Aphrodite's kingdom with him on his journey back home.
As Will's job as the grandson of King Zeus and son of Prince Apollo, he had to represent them and be kind to others, including her. He was kindly asked by Queen Demeter, whose kingdom was in between Hades and Aphrodite's, to take Princess Drew to her home since her stay at Demeter's was over. (She was with Demeter to learn the many ways of not gaining weight by eating certain foods.) Throughout the journey to Aphrodite's palace, Drew kept complaining about the heat and how it was ruining her hair by making it frizzy and her precious face because it's too delicate for this kind of weather (though I'm sure she's just saying that because she doesn't look presentable to the guards).
After we dropped her off at her home, we made it to the kingdom within a couple of days from Aphrodite's castle.
Upon arriving home, he had to greet his family members announcing his return before being able to go off to his room where he can dream of memories he shared with a certain prince.
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Two months later after his return, he was summoned to court to discuss about a quest that he and a few others, namely Lou Ellen, Cecil, and Grover (who happens to know his way around those woods because he lives there), would venture on to defeat a couple monsters that were terrorizing a couple towns not too far from the kingdom.
There had been rumors about monsters of all kinds that have been attacking two specific villages in the heart of No Man's Land, a territory that all the leaders of the nearby kingdoms agreed to leave alone until further notice. It was also unknown of how the two villages came to be for no one should be able to survive there with the amount of monsters that roam those lands. Surely people from those villages would die.
Anyway, Will's quest is to take down 10 monsters (doesn't matter what monsters) and bring something back to show that he and the others did in fact take down whichever monsters. For example, if they encounter Medusa and manage to vanquish her, they would take her head as a "souvenir" or if they come across the Minotaur, they would take a horn or something to show that they vanquished him.
"So, are we ready?" Grover asks the other three as he puts on his satchel.
The other three look at him in confusion. "Where are the horses?"
"Horses? We're going into The Forrest, which is in No Man's Land, where many creatures of the night roam, and you want to bring horses? Are you crazy!?"
"... yes?"
Grover sighed before exiting the Outer Court of the castle.
"Hey! Wait up!"
Cecil, Lou Ellen, and Will ran after him to catch up.
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"Ouch! Stop pushing me!"
"I'll stop pushing you when you stop whipping your hair back to hit my face!"
"I'll stop whipping my hair when you stop pushing me!"
"Well too bad, 'cause I'm not stopping until you stop!"
"Ugh! You're such a kid!"
"Nuh-uh"
"Yeah-huh"
"Nuh-uh"
"Yeah-huh"
"Nuh-uh"
"Yeah—"
"Guys! Can't we be civil to each other just for once?"
"We will be civil, once he—"
"We're here. Camp Half-Blood"
Author's Note: I'm sorry I haven't been updating very much... I have a bit of a writers block and other things going on in my life so I won't be able to update as much as I want to. Plus this is my gift to my readers while I disappear for almost a week due to marching band camp, which lasts from 8:30-21:00
