Chapter 10 (Thursday Night)

Nico POV

We were all getting ready for bed that night. Thalia was in the shower, I was changing, and Percy was rolling out two sleeping bags for me and him. We were giving the bed to Thalia since it was her birthday and everything. Then I remembered Thalia's present from Percy and I.

"Hey, Perce!" I said

"yeah?"

"Do you think that we should give Thalia her present?"

"What present?" Thalia said from the doorway in nothing but a towel. I blushed and turned away.

"I- we, we, um got you-" Percy chuckled.

"Thalia, put some clothes on. Can't you see poor Death Breath is embarrassed?" I glared at him while Thalia took in my blush and blushed herself.

"Well, Fish Face, do you think I could borrow a shirt or something? All I have are my hunter weapons and some clothes. I didn't think to bring pajamas." He tossed her long, red T-Shirt and she put it on over her towel, then let it drop. The towel pooled around her feet. That did nothing to help my blush.

"So what present were you talking about?" She was looking at me.

"W-well, me and Percy got you something. It was more like made I guess though, not really bought. I brought it with me from the Underworld. Um, do you want it now or…"

She was smiling. "Sure."

I got up and pulled a small rectangular box out of my bag. She opened it and pulled out the necklace. It was a small bronze chain with charms on it. There were 3 small glass looking bubbles, her silver bow, then 3 more little bubbles. The bubbles each had a Greek letter on it. It also had two little hearts at the end, one black and one blue.

"It's beautiful." She hesitated, "But I don't really wear jewelry." Percy chuckled and said in a mysterious tone

"Oh, I think that you will like this one," then he switched back to his normal voice, "We call it an Escape Necklace. We also made ones for ourselves so that we can all match. Except ours have smaller versions of our swords on it instead of a bow." I cleared my throat.

"We made some deals with some gods. The two hearts will open a direct Iris message to one of us when you smash it. The blue is for Percy, black for me. The bubbles each also do something. The one with the Beta lets you breath under water for up to 2 hours, this one of them will take you from anyplace and transport you to the ocean, that one will let you shadow travel, this one will let you fly for up to 3 hours, this one will show you the way to either one of us if you are ever lost, and the last one will heal any wound you get in combat. All you have to do is break them." I said pointing to each one.

"Yeah, the only thing that we couldn't fix though was that they don't automatically replace themselves. Oh and the chain is made out of Celestial Bronze, so it won't break." Percy added.

She had tears in her eyes by the time we were finished.

"Thank you!" She pulled us into a hug, "I am glad that you guys will always have my back. No one has gone through so much trouble for me since L-luke." She held up the necklace. She then gave us each a kiss on the cheek and said good night, before climbing into bed. I fell asleep with a goofy grin on my face that night.

Percy POV

When we arrived at camp the next morning, all heads swiveled to us. I know what they were thinking, "What are the big three kids all doing, showing up at camp at the same time?" They find us bad luck when we are all together because of how our parents are rivals, of sorts.

Some of the campers said hi to me on our way to the big house, but none even acknowledged Thalia and Nico. It was like they were going out of their way to make them feel unwelcome and I didn't like it, so I didn't reply to anyone that acknowledged me either.

I walked up to Chiron.

"Percy! And Nico and Thalia! This is a surprise. Don't you have school, my boy? And Thalia shouldn't you be with Artemis? Nico, don't you normally train in the Underworld?"

"We were kicked out." They said. Chiron's smile faltered.

"Well, you are welcome to stay here if you-"

"That won't be necessary!" Dionysus interrupted. "They are just here to pick up some of the other brats. Then they can be on their merry way, out of my sight."

"Okay, well take whoever you need." Chiron said kindly.

I know this sounds bad, that Chiron would just let us have our pick of campers, but if there are any campers that he trusts wholeheartedly, it would be us three and Annabeth. Man, I miss Annabeth. If there was one good thing coming out of this whole "school project" it would be the fact that I would get to see Annabeth each day now.

"Thanks, Chiron" I said gratefully, "Do you think that we can make an announcement at Breakfast?"

"Of course."

We still had about an hour before breakfast, so to kill time we went to the training arena. We decided on a free for all.

Thalia started with a bow and arrow shot at both of us at the same time. Nico was busy summoning skeletons to attack me, so he got the breath knocked out of him when an arrow hit his armored chest. I was able to deflect it off my sword and turned around quickly when I felt an old skeleton of a half-blood attacking me with a sword. There were about 4. I quickly took them down and then turned back around just in time to be shocked with enough voltage to kill a man. It is times like these that I love having curse.

Me and Nico got off of the ground at the same time and went after Thalia together. He attacked her with his sword, making her need to pull her sword. While they were distracted I brought a wave up from the near-by lake and doused them from head to toe. Now if Thalia tried anymore electrocutions, I wouldn't be the only one being vaporized. Nico would too.

This fight continued for about half an hour. We used powers and weapon skill, not enough to kill but enough to give us each a hard time. By the end both Nico and Thalia were knocked out and I was exhausted. Nico ended up getting electrocuted because of the wet ground when Thalia shot lighting at me about 10 minutes ago. After that we both disarmed each other at the same time, resulting in some ground wrestling, when I had her pinned I reached for Riptide, which had returned to my pocket, and knocked her out. I rolled off her and laid sprawled out on my back trying to catch my breath.

Then I noticed the crowd around us.

It turns out that there were a lot of new campers in the year since the war. They were now gathered around us watching wide eyed as we threw our powers at one another. Some of the counselors that came to see what the crowd was there for rolled their eyes. This wasn't the first time us three have sparred.

"Hi" I said slightly out of breath. I gave them all a halfhearted wave. Clarisse rolled her eyes and said

"Prissy, you know you need to clean this up, right?" I looked around at the mess we created. Everything was soaked, there were charred spots everywhere, the earth was raised in some places from Nico trying to distract us, bones and decaying flesh from skeletons were everywhere, and the ground was uneven from my minor earthquakes.

"After breakfast… probably." I panted to Clarisse with a little smirk.

Hey everyone! I know that I haven't really been doing that many fight scenes and I am sorry if you thought that I would, but I won't be. I might do a few more, but as you can see, I am not very good at them. Other than that I hope you liked the chapter. I was especially excited about Thalia's necklace. Please review if you have any suggestions for future chapters!

Until next time...

~Rabbit in the Moon