Hey readers, sorry about missing the friday update. I left my laptop at school and spent the whole weekend freaking out wonder if some one had stolen it. Evidently, they did not. Thank you DisneyFreak00090your review lightened my day. Now then, where was I?
Disclaimer: I don't own PJO. Surprised? I didn't think so.
Shellys POV
Clovery found me playing Time Crisis and briefed me that Tim had suspected something was wrong and was waiting for us outside. It seemed stupid to leave all this fun because he felt something was wrong. "So whats the big deal? He felt something was wrong, so we're leaving?" I kept poking him in the shoulder.
"Shelly..." Clovery sighed "They didn't even know what Call of Duty was..."
"I don't know what a call of duty is either, is it some kind of job?" I questioned.
Clovery's face turned hard like stone "LOOK! I DIDN'T GO RUMMAGING THROUGH GIRLS GAMES FOR HALF AN HOUR TO ARGUE WITH YOU SO LETS GO!" He yelled.
Everyone was looking, some hippy guys, some rockers, and some roman demigods. "Clovery, there is some romans right there" I whispered.
"Okay, we'll try to get out before we do anything to draw attention" He whispered back.
Before I could point out how idiotic that last comment was a bunch of romans pointed and began the chase. I grabbed Clovery by the wrist and we bolted for the door, tipping over bags and games as we went. Clovery had our bags. We were about five steps from the door with the romans about 10 steps behind us. The roman in the middle threw his short sword at us. Me and Clovery burst through the door hand in hand. The presence of the blade behind me seemed to be gone.
"Come on, lets go!" I urged.
"No, I might just have a breather" Clovery said too seriously.
"What about the romans?" I was stressing "They'll be out like soon"
"Really?" He mused "Just like that short sword?"
He raised a good point, it made no sense.
"TIM!" I yelled. No reply.
"It's no use, he's probably been gone for days now" Clovery said.
"What?" I gasped "And why are we still here"
"It's been thirty four minutes since Tim went outside. That sword was one second behind us, we've been outside for three minutes. When that sword shows itself I'll know the difference in timing between the world and that hotel. And with that I'll be able to work out how long Tims been gone for...You with me?"
I realised I had a moronic facial expression, I was staring in awe at him. "Yeah, you know Clovery, your actually pretty amazing" I said.
"Unicorn princess ate three rainbows, look out!" He mumbled. He was asleep.
"Scratch that, you idiot" I laughed, and put him in a rose bush. He didn't wake up, which didn't surprise me at all.
Time went by.
Clang! A golden short sword skidded across the pavement. And Clovery shot upright.
"Tims been out side for eleven days!" He was as surprised as me.
"Alright, we need to go. Whether or not the romans are coming or not. Tims out there, alone. We can't waste a minute, we're going to find him" I looked at Clovery "We're going to go now."
It wasn't charmspeaking, it was stronger. It was the truth.
We settled down at a crummy hotel, from now on all hotels had to be boring. Fun is not to be trusted, how depressing.
I was feeling hopeless, because of me Tim was a prisoner. That was optimistic thinking. We had no way to find Tim. We had nothing. Soon we would be ambushed by monsters day after day. We had already fought some dracaena on the way here. I was over monster vs demigod combat. I wanted to go back to camp where there was barely any monsters. Then I got a really dumb idea.
I walked to Clovery and shook him "Wake up! I know how to find Tim...But I warn you your not going to like it"
He awoke in an instant "Go on"
"Monsters don't hang around camp, right?" I hinted. He didn't pick up.
"No, that would be suicide" He spoke like I was the idiot.
"The romans have a camp, right?" I hinted.
"Of course, I wouldn't be safe otherwise" He spoke like I was still the idiot.
"Cellphone attract monsters, right?" I hinted.
"Yes, thats why we don't have them. They're not safe to use, unless your somewhere safe like a demigod camp" He said he was getting... "How does this help Tim?" or not.
"We get a phone, call, and call, and call at different parts of the city" I explained "We do this until the monsters don't show, then we know we're close"
"Like hotter and colder" He said.
"Exactly" I finished.
"There is no way we could fight all day, we're not some crazed rock loving pyschopath" He said, obviously hinting at Tim. That we needed Tim to rescue Tim.
"No, but that is why I know where the first call is going" I told him.
I went to the cellphone store and bought a cheap one, and I knew how much trouble I'd get into. There is some crazed rock loving pyschopath in all of us I thought. I smiled and dialed Camp Half Blood.
Sorry about the fact that this was actionless. Sometimes you gotta set up the fights. I'll make it worth the wait. I hope. Oh well, + l-l /\/ l{$ for reading. Ciao!
