Chapter 10

Nico:

I impatiently waited at the top of half blood hill for the other three people; Gracey, Chris, and Clarisse, maybe Mr. D even if he cared to come. What the Hades was taking them so long. It's been like 10 minutes since we've been waiting here. I was standing with Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, Chiron, and Tyson. All of them were talking happily, repositioning their backpacks on their shoulder every once in a while. But me? Tapping my foot, eager to leave, that's me!

"Will they ever come!" I whined out loud and Percy turned around,

"They're right there" he replied pointing at the far corner. I squinted my eyes trying to see farther.

"They should run." I warned

"Give them some time, those girls take forever." Chiron said.

"Chris is a boy last time I checked." Annabeth turned around to say.

"And Clarisse is practically a boy anyways." Thalia added.

"Nonsense. They're getting here." Chiron replied changing the subject.

"Tyson, how long are you allowed to stay?" Chiron asked Tyson.

"When I say bye-bye to everybody!" Tyson smiled.

"Alright." After that we stood in silence for a minute waiting until they got here.

"Hi guys, what's up?" Gracey asked like nothing ever happened.

"I don't know, either the sky or we've-been-waiting-for-hours-for-you-people." I told her. She rolled her eyes.

"now what." Clarisse interrupted.

"Now… we leave." Chris stated walking forward.

"Stop right there." Chiron spoke out and Chris froze and turned around.

"Do you kids not have travelling powers?" Chiron said.

"Oh, yeah, mah bad." Chris said in a embarrassed tone.

"The 3 with the travelling powers pick a partner or two." Chiron explained. I took Gracey, Thalia took Percy and Annabeth and Chris took Clarisse.

"How the Hades do you have Shadow travelling powers?" I asked Chris.

"Luke gave it to me from the underworld." He replied.

Percy chuckled. "How was that, by freight train?" The whole group of people laughed at that one, good to have the happy feeling back again, sometimes.

"Wait." Everyone looked at Annabeth. "Anyone have a pillow with them?" What in the world, why would she need a pillow. Everyone gave her a what-the-Hades stare.

"You saw her landing!" She emphasized directing our attention at Thalia. The Goth girl blushed.

" Whatever, none of us has good landing skills, live with it." Chris told her, she rolled her eyes.

"I'll go first; meet you guys at the end of Chimes Street." Chris said. He took out his sword, waved it in a figure eight motion and was gone.

"BYE!" Tyson said at the last moment they were gone.

"I'll go next" I offered. I felt my back pocket for my sword, but it was in my backpack. All our swords were too big to stick into our pockets, so the new and improved one were all small objects with a button you can make the sword pop out, or slide it to normal size, basically, it's a copy of Percy's sword; sorry Poseidon.

I thought for a little, I can't travel without my sword, Tyson's gift!

"This one's for you, Tyson!" I told him and he smiled. I turned the round gem on my ring and turned it clockwise so it was the jade was fully visible. I thought about a sword and took it out. Viola! A sword was in my hands.

"Awesoomee!" I told Tyson. I stabbed it into the grass of the hill and took off. I heard Tyson shouting goodbye as I took off.

A moment later, I was beside the 's ice cream parlour. As I arrived some dude came up to me, oh dang it, I just got here outta nowhere, what will he think…

"Nice Car dude!" I stared at him with no clue what's going on. The mist! Right!

"Thanks man" I gave him a props. Then Thalia arrived through a lightning bolt with Percy and Annabeth.

"Yoooo!" The guy exclaimed. Uh oh. "Wicked ride, Dudette! Totally detailed, awesome lightning strips!" Thalia looked as confused as I was. She stared at me; I lipped to her, the mist. She got a sudden shock.

"Oh yeah, thanks." She told the guy who was waiting for a response.

"Gotta run, bye!"

"uh, bye." Thalia said. He ran off towards the other side of town.

"Kay, where to first?" Annabeth asked.

"How about the store in front of us?" Percy said guiding our eyes to the store in front of us called, Dipper Chippers.

"should we stick altogether or go in groups?" I asked.

"Groups." All of them said in unison.

"Saves time." Clarisse simply said.

"Okay, stay around here. We'll keep in touch with our walkie talkies." Chris recommended. We all nodded in agreement.

"Action." Gracey said calmly. We all left I our own directions. We already had our groups planned out beforehand. It's pretty much the groups we travelled here in. After Gracey said action, we all ran into different stores pulling out photos of Rachel from our backpacks and/or pockets. I kept mine in my back pocket; more space to put it. We went into a store called One of a Kind Jewellers.

The man working inside looked at us suspiciously. Probably because a kid dressed in black and another kid dressed in cutey-cute clothes. He kept staring.

"Hi sir, we would like to ask you if you have seen this girl." Gracey told him flipping the photo of Rachel to him. He raised his eyebrows in surprise; did he know something?

"uh, nope. Never seen her. I'm sorry, this place doesn't permit kids." He said quickly. Probably he was hiding something.

"sorry, don't see a sign. We're permitted here as far as I know." I talked back.

"Have you lost your mom, little kid? You don't have a lot of manners." He tried changing the subject. I could so tell. I pounded my fist on the wooden desk. Why would he have a wooden desk in the middle of a glass diamond store anyways? Weird.

"I'm telling you, punk. Tell me what you know!" I said, mouth clenched.

"I TOLD YOU!" He started, then he settled down and breathed, "Never seen her, sorry." I eyed him and Gracey and I left. I told Gracey to take out her notepad and jot this place down, she followed as told. We peeked into the next store, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia were already there and Clarisse and Chris were in the other. Well, I guess they didn't have to deal with a anger problem diseased man. The next store was ours. The name was Wild Creatures. Great, I wonder what we're going to get here.

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