Chapter 10 - The quest
As I reached the Rec Room everyone stared at me as I entered. "Uh, other Seaweed brain can't be here to you know." I looked at Clarisse who was the one that just spoke, we had never been introduced before but with my powers, I plucked out tiny details of her, her name, age when she arrived at camp. I startled her when I said her name,"Clarisse La Rue, I have every right to be here, I am co-counsellor after all." I took my seat next to Percy and waited for the meeting to start.
Chiron came in to the room, saw me and didn't bother questioning why I was there, probably a little shaken up still from before and in case something happened like it again. He cleared his throat to speak but Zoë chimed in," We don't have time to sit around and discuss the prophecy, Artemis needs our help!" Chiron looked at her and said, "And where will you start?" Bianca seemed a lot more confident than she did at the Military school. "We go west." she said, as simple as she could. "The Oracle said to go west, five will go west to the goddess in chains." Zoë perked up a bit and said,"precisely, we will take 5 hunters and go." I leaned forward and said, "Zoë you're missing something important, 5 shall go west to the goddess in chains yes, but it also said Hunters and Campers combined."
Grover perked up slightly, "Yeah 3 Hunters 2 campers. I'll go and Arc should come too, he has a car for a start." Zoë was about to object, but I beat her to it, "Grover as much as I want to save Annabeth as well as Artemis, I can't go. Im not driving a Hunter around let alone 3. Plus im leaving myself, tomorrow morning." Everyone looked really puzzled on the 2 things I just said. Percy leaned forward, "Wait what about Annabeth and leaving where?" I looked at everyone and leaned back in my chair. "The day before we met, I had a dream that Annabeth was in a dark place, it could have been a cave im not sure. She was holding something. Straining at its weight. Then this morning, I went to get some sleep and saw Artemis helping her with her burden and took the weight of what ever it was she was holding." I didn't realize at first it but the room suddenly got filled with the smell of the sea. I realized that my hand was starting to faintly glow and moved my hand away quickly so it was under the table. "And im going back to my home in the morning, there are somethings I have to take care of back there." I looked up at everyone's faces and they were all shocked on what I just told them. Grover then perked up and said, "Thalia what about you? Will you come with us to save Annabeth and Artemis?" Thalia hesitated slightly and I could hear Percy screaming in his mind saying, "Say no, please say no!" Thalia nodded her head in agreement. Zoë looked up at us and said," Well that settles it, Bianca, Phoebe, Thalia, Grover and I will go on this quest." Percy was now bursting, "Hold on, I need to go on this quest too, I got Annabeth in this mess, and it was me that suggested that she should come with me and Thalia to Denver!" Grover then suddenly realised the problem, "Oh yeah, sure Percy I will step down and-" Zoë cut him off, "No." Percy looked wide eyed at her. "You can't deny me on this quest." Zoë and Percy had a starring contest. "I can, because it is my quest. Grover will come as he is a Satyr and not a boy, I will not go with a boy on this quest, and that is Final!"
The room grew a lot colder after that, so we went back to discussing the prophecy. "Stay away from a desert" I said. They all looked at me puzzled. I rolled my eyes, "One shall be lost in the land without rain." Then it hit them and we carried on discussing. Chiron announced that they would leave tomorrow morning, and that they should get some rest. Everyone got up to leave but the Stoll Brothers talked to Zoë and gave her a shirt and said, "Give it to Phoebe, she was looking at it earlier." I read Percy's thoughts and I knew, he knew they were up to something. Connor smiled and winked at him and they all left.