Chapter 7

Percy becomes a fugitive

I guess you want me to tell you that I was just faking the fear to add more suspense, and that I was completely calm, right?

Wrong: It took Grover and Annabeth at least three minutes to calm me down before we went and looked for Kyle and Percy. I was shaking so hard from the fear that Annabeth had to keep telling me it was ok. Eventually she just held my hand. We finally saw Kyle—who was sopping wet—and Percy—who was dry—were looking around for us. I was so relieved that I nearly started crying.

However, as we approached them after Grover gave them a great big goat hug I tried to look angry, but I don't think I fooled them. Percy and Kyle seemed rather calm for falling off something six hundred and thirty feet in the air. Then the crowd parted as a woman on a stretcher passed by saying something about a fire breathing Chihuahua. That's when Kyle and Percy told us about Echidna and her Chimera which was just lovely, and to top it all off Percy needed to go to Santa Monica because Poseidon's water spirit summoned him there.

Grover was all for it, but I wasn't. However, before Annabeth could speak a news caster was giving a description of Percy and then we all ran back to the train avoiding cops along the way.