This is a really short chapter so one POV again. And well just checked the story, no bold or italics. I'll fix that.
Baxie's POV
Percy, Annabeth, and Grover were pretty miserable that night since we had to sleep on the dirt. When I was homeless I considered that luxury sleeping. I slept up in a tree since I was the only one who could get up there and the fact that kids must have had parties here because litter was everywhere. Everyone laughed when I saw a spider, fell off the tree branch, and crushed an anthill, but the ants were kind enough not to kill me, they just tried to eat me.
We decide to take turns keeping watch through the night. Percy takes the first watch. Annabeth sleeps soundly, lucky. Grover can't sleep. Neither can I. All of the litter and the pollution makes him sad.
"This is a terrible time to be a satyr." Grover tells Percy that it's his life's dream to find Pan.
"The God of Wild Places disappeared two thousand years ago. A sailor off the coast of Ephesus heard a mysterious voice crying out from the shore, 'Tell them that the great god Pan has died!' When humans heard the news, they believed it. They've been pillaging Pan's kingdom ever since. But for the satyrs, Pan was our lord and master. He protected us and the wild places of the earth. We refuse to believe that he died. No satyr has ever found Pan out has come back alive from his search."
"Yet, you are still searching for Pan even if you know he won't come back?" I ask. I guess Grover didn't know I was still awake because he jumps. "Yes Grover, I'm alive."
Grover tells us that, back at Medusa's house, Annabeth had an interesting idea. Annabeth realized that there is something weird about this quest: all of the monsters seem to be holding back a bit.
He says that, when the Furies found them on the bus, they were asking, "where is it?" and not "where is he?" It seems they are looking for an object, and not a mortal. Percy confesses to us that he's only on this trip so that he can get his mom back from Hades, not because he cares about the master bolt or because he cares about helping his dad. Grover and me already know this about Percy – we can read emotions really well. But I also suspect that, deep inside, Percy wants to make his dad proud, because I did too, even of this wasn't my quest and I had multiple fathers to please. Percy protests. Grover offers to take the first watch. I told him to wake me up for second watch. Percy falls asleep almost instantly. Nothing much happened during our watches.
Annabeth shakes Percy to wake him up.
"No, no. Let the master do it." I said. I jump down from the tree and flip Percy over. I did the same thing on Grover when it was his watch. But both times I had been practicing a trick. I levitated (using the sun of course) him up on a tree branch of the thinnest tree in the forest so Grover wouldn't get mad at me, again. I started to chop the tree down screaming earthquake.
"Oh wait nevermind. TIMBER!" I said.
Percy falls from the tree as it falls.
"Why did you do that?! AGAIN!" He yelled at me.
"Pay back for hiding the toothpaste." I said with a huge grin on my face.
"Wow that was amazing, stupid but well though out." Annabeth said.
It's morning. Grover is cuddling with a pink poodle.
"Grover, dude, what's up with the poodle?" I say.
Since Grover can talk to animals, the pink poodle told him that he ran away from a rich family because he didn't like living with them anymore. But the family has a reward out for him for $200. He would let Grover return him to his owners and collect the reward. He wants to help us out, and we definitely need the money. Gladiola tells us that there's an Amtrak station half a mile away and that the west-bound train leaves at noon.
