Chapter 9

The million eyed driver!

Hi guys! It feels ages since I updated. So sorry for the wait. It was vacation time out here so obviously you can guess the whole picture! Family meetings, outings...total nightmare!

Last period was gym which wasn't exactly seventh heaven as the rest of the classes that day. Or at least to Apollo. He fell down from the climbing rope thrice, almost drowned in the pool, came last on the track and tripped on a basket ball and made a complete fool of himself. It was safe to say that the sun gods day was not looking so bright.

It was always him who had the rotten luck, he couldn't help notice. All the other gods was actually having a good time.

Athena came first on the track, Artemis did wonders in gymnastics, Poseidon was chosen as the swim captain, and Ares was the school's new heavy weight lift champion. Even Aphrodite, the goddess who only cared about her hair and screamed so loud when her nails chipped that your ears busted had become the star of the cheer leading squad!

Give me a Mercedes convertible and see what I can do he thought. Sadly the school did not use auto mobiles in gym and Apollo's talent to drive and crash a car in the most spectacular way went unnoticed.

When gym ended the gods walked outside together.

"Ughhh! Please don't tell me we need to go back to that hut!" Ares said.

"And travel back in that bus." Artemis joined "Ill seriously cut out that jerks hand if he touches me again!"

"Let's run away!" Apollo suggested.

It was when they were in such a serious situation that a black limo pulled up in front of them.

The driver's glass rolled down and a man looked out. He had on a cap, a pair of ray bans that covered almost all his face, a long sleeved shirt and gloves on his hands. It was hard to say what colour his skin was.

"Has he like ever heard about summer clothes?" inquired Apollo.

The man raised a board that said get in the car.

"Yeah sure man" Ares joked.

"Yeah a total stranger shows up who looks like he's trying to suicide by getting burned in a black limo and tells us to get in the car" said Apollo "If you're trying to kidnap us could you make it less obvious?"

"I'll call the police!" said Aphrodite before remembering she didn't have a cell phone.

"Why? Just shout, there are kids all around! But I don't think it will come to that" said Artemis cracking her knuckles.

The man just sighed and stuck out his tongue.

"Men are so immature-eeww!" Artemis backed off when she saw a pair of blue eyes on the man's tongue.

"Gross. Do you ever brush?" Ares grunted freaked out.

"Guys, its Argus!" said Athena. Argus sighed in relief when they recognised him.

"Who's Argus?" asked Aphrodite.

"The head of security at Camp Half-Blood" supplied Poseidon "He occasionally drives the camp van and keeps an eye on things...so to say."

"Come on. If it's Argus, it's safe!" said Athena and got n the car.

"Hold on a sec!"Said Ares as the other gods piled into the posh car. "How do you trust a man with a million eyes?"

"You don't" came the muffled reply from inside the car.

"I am not coming" Ares declared.

"Oh, cool! Is that a mini fridge?"Apollo exclaimed.

"What! Where?" Ares demanded and leaped into the car. He seriously needed a Twinkie.

Great! Now I sound like that creep in Zombie land he thought but without any breakfast and majority of his lunch strewn around the cafeteria had seriously taken a toll on him.

"Where's the Twinkie?"Ares shouted angrily as he pushed aside cocks and bars in the limos fridge. "I want a Twinkie!"

Apollo smirked at him "You do know you sound like the guy in zombie land, right?"

"Yeah, I do." Ares muttered as he sat down. Without a Twinkie.

"Here have a Snoball!" Apollo joked

"Argus?" asked Athena "where...where are we going?"

Argus didn't speak.

"Dude we don't care that you have eyes on your tongue! Just answer the lady!"Apollo sighed.

The gods tried hard but Argus was shy in nature. Curse Hera! Why couldn't she have created him with a affective confidence button?

At last Argus spoke. "Zeus wants to talk to you"

Crap. Did he find out about today's fight?

Oh. No.

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