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Chapter 11

Apparently Apollo's appearance was a big deal at the camp because, as soon as he banished, the kids started talking among themselves excitedly, like it was the fourth of July. I mean, come on, a God had just been captured and they were all talking about it like it was the best fun they've had in weeks.

Lupa got up from her sitting position and told us we had the rest of the day off but not before passing of a message I didn't understand, until later.

"You are all hereby dismissed, as per camp rules, Reyna is allowed to pick two campers to follow her on this quest," Lupa looked at Reyna with a worried face, something told me she didn't want to send her campers to this quest but knew it had to be done. "You must leave at first light, rescue Mars before the winter solstice, which gives you four days since tomorrow. May the gods be with you."

Talk about melodramatic, I thought, the way she said it seemed so final I couldn't help but worry about Reyna, but she just shrugged like saying, time to man up. She looked toward Bobby and Dakota who seemed to nod at the same time, some type of message passing between them.

"I will follow Reyna on her quest." Dakota and Bobby said almost in unison. The campers all laughed at them while their cheeks went red but they didn't back down. Lupa nodded like she didn't expect less.

A few moments passed and then I remembered my dream, all the bricks seemed to fall into place and it finally dawned on me.

"It's a trap!" I said while walking toward Lupa. The rest of the campers sneered in disbelief. "Surely you must have noticed?"

Lupa just regarded me coldly like if trying to decide whether to kill me, eat me or both. At the last moment she seemed to restrain herself and told me to go ahead.

"How can you be so certain?" Dakota asked me. She had an annoyed look on her face like she couldn't believe I've had the nerve to talk.

That's when I noticed I didn't know. I didn't know why but I just did. It was so obvious that it was a trap but I just couldn't put a name to it.

"It's just a feeling." I said, feeling a little dumb.

"Just a feeling?" A voice asked in mock amusement. I couldn't see the kid that had just stood from the stands since he was covered in darkness but I knew that voice could only belong to one person.

"Still feeling sour at being beaten, Gwendolyn?" Ok, don't ask me why I was being so mean it's just that his presence clouded my judgment, Ok?

"At least I have been claimed," For some reason, that comment hurt me. I wasn't going to admit it but ever since I had learned I had a godly parent I had wondered who he was. "Unlike you, you little showoff!"

I was about to say a witty comeback like, yeah? Well I smell better, when Lupa rose from her seat and ordered everyone to their cabins.

That night I found that I couldn't sleep. I kept tossing through the covers but sleep wouldn't come to me. I guess Morpheus just wasn't on the mood.

I couldn't believe they had chosen to go ahead with the quest. Even when it was so glaring obvious that it was a trap. I opened the cabin door and walked outside. I needed some time to think what to do.

As far as I could tell from Hera's visions the world was about to plunge into war and I was going to have a part to play in all of this, and, for some reason, it was very important that I went on this quest.

I spent all night waiting for a sign, something to tell me what to do, when the first streaks of light burst out in the horizon. I saw Dakota and Bobby walking toward the camp borders and I took this as a sign.

Sprinting toward them I caught up to them before they crossed the camp's borders.

"Percy?" Bobby asked. "What's up? Came to wish us goodbye?"

"That's three questions in a row, Bobby." Dakota told him.

"Would you please stop fixing my grammar?" he replied annoyed.

"I will, only when you learn to speak it properly."

I was about to start laughing at them but noticed that this was about two seconds from starting into a fight and I didn't have time for this.

"Hey guys. Guys!" I shouted so they would stop fighting. "You can't go on this quest."

"Percy, you know how many people have told me that?" Bobby asked.

"No but…"

"Don't worry about us," Dakota told me. "This isn't our first quest."

I couldn't believe they were acting like this. I felt like I was seeing them for the last time.

"But it might be your last." I told them.

"Percy," Dakota asked me suspiciously like the first time we meet. "Is there something you haven't told us?"

I was just about to tell them about my vision but my tongue betrayed me. I couldn't find the right words to say what I wanted to say. Before I could say anything I was interrupted by Reyna approaching us from the gates.

"Why is it taking you guys so long?" she asked. "I've been waiting for hours," and then she noticed me and her eyes went wide. "What is he doing here?"

"Reyna, listen to me, this quest is a trap."

"I don't care if it's a trap, I must save my father and I don't care what you think about it."

And with that she strode of being closely followed by Bobby and Dakota. They didn't even look back.

"Well, good riddance." I mumbled to myself.

"You could follow them," a voice spoke behind me. I turned and found myself face to face with Hazel. "That way you could save them."

"Were you eavesdropping?"

"Maybe… Does it matter?" she moved towards me. "If you really know something we don't then please help them, at the very least save Bobby."

"Even if I agreed, I don't have a ride" At this her eyes lit up like she was expecting this.

"Oh well, I wouldn't be so sure about that," she said a little self-consciously "There is a way, but you're not going to like it"

She told me. I didn't like it.

Fun fact about riding a monstrous tank covered with flowers into a crowded city, it tends to get you noticed. Hazel told me the mortals couldn't see it since it was shrouded in mist but I decided against using it.

We were standing in the camp's hangar which was filled with every mode of transportation imaginable to man. There was everything from a bicycle, to a fully equipped combat tank from WWII.

"I'm not really sure about this, Hazel."

"It's perfectly safe," she said "Well most of the time… just don't go around pushing any buttons." She added self-consciously.

"Actually, I don't think this is a very good idea." I couldn't believe the camp even had a tank. It was so bizarre.

"Well if you don't like it, you could take the stealth plane," Hazel pointed toward a section of the hangar that was empty.

"You're kidding right?" I couldn't see anything in the space she was pointing at. "There's nothing there!"

"O yes there is. The Vulcan cabin made it," Hazel pushed a button on a few keys she kept at her side. "Deactivate camouflage."

That's when I saw it for the first time. In the empty space now stood a, black as night, jet with turbo charged thrusters. Even thought it looked so cool and sweet I wanted to ride it all day long, a small voice was warning me on the back of my head, don't fly, you will get shoot down.

"Fine…" Hazel looked at me startled.

"You will take the plane?" she asked me, a grin extending on her face.

"Nope, I was thinking more on the lines of taking the Maserati Spider over there." I said while pointing toward a car that looked so cool it should have had a warning label on it.

I was just about to ask Hazel for the car keys when she managed to ask the one question I had hoped she wouldn't.

"Well… Do you have a license?" My heart skipped a beep. She had me on that one. Even thought I had the age to drive I didn't remember how to actually, you know, drive. And I obviously wasn't caring my license.

"No, but…"

"No buts, Percy," Hazel pointed outside toward a collection of buildings. "If you don't know how to drive, then we can't have a crazy kid behind the wheel, now can we?"

"I guess, but you didn't seem to mind when you offered me the tank."

"That was different."

"How?"

"It just was. The cars would actually run away from you!" she said like that made all the difference in the world.

"Well then, how am I supposed to catch up to Bobby and Reyna?"

"I didn't want to do this but we will have to improvise."

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