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The next morning, I had the rudest awakening. Travis and Conner each took one of my arms and yanked really hard, pulling me into a sitting position.
"Hey!" I screamed. It seemed that I woke everyone else up after that.
"You have to get ready," Conner said.
"I packed last night," I grumbled, yanking my hands away, and running one through my hair. People shifted around me, going back to sleep.
"Chiron told us to wake you up fifteen minutes ago. You sat up, told us "Im up, im up." We left to go get somthing to eat, and when we came back, you were sleeping." Travis explained.
"Well you didnt have to pull my arms out of their sockets!" I said, looking at my watch. "Its seven-thirty in the morning!"
"Yup." Conner said.
"I will kill you." I said standing up and grabbing a pile of clothes I had layed out the night before. "Im gonna go take a shower."
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A half an hour later, I was standing in the middle of the Hermes cabin, dressed in light ripped jeans, a brown t-shirt, and a black leather jacket since it had gotten super cold over night. I had my camp backpack slung over one shoulder, with a quiver of arrows on the other, with my silver bow in my other hand thank you Lee Fletcher!.
The cabin said their goodbye's all at once, and I left, shutting the door softly behind me. The back of my high ponytail tickled the back of my neck as I jogged up Half-Blood hill, where Jason, Gabriella, Chiron, Percy, and Argus stood.
"Finally." Jason joked. I punched him in the arm playfully.
"Argus will drive you three into the city. You're on your own from there." Chiron said.
We all nodded. As Chiron babbled on about being safe, I thought about if I should tell Chiron about the dream I had last night. It had Luke in it. And the sarcougagus. And they were clearly talking about me, Jason, and Gabriella.
It was then that I noticed everyone was looking at me.
"What?" I said.
"We asked you a question." Gabriella said.
"Oh." Was the best reply I could think of.
"You three need to get going. Good luck to all of you." Chiron said, and we all started down the hill. We packed our luggage in the back of the van, and I took passenger seat.
An hour later, we were in New York City. Argus dropped us off at a Cafe considering we had skipped breakfast.
We all walked into the Cafe. As for our weapons, we hid them in our bags. Jason and Gabriella found a booth by a window and took our bags, while I ordered.
"Three chocolate doughnuts, and three hot chocolates." I said, cold from the icy wind outside.
The cashier got the food, and I paid and brought it back to our seats.
I took a sip of the hot chocolate. It instantly burned my tounge, so I figured I'd let it cool down for a bit.
"So, any idea's on where to go?" I asked.
Jason shoved the whole doughnut in his mouth while Gabriella fished a peice of paper out of her pocket. I instantly recognized the words. "You wrote down my prophecy?!" I asked.
"Yeah. Okay, so the first line is, "A barren land the jeweled three must find." Any suggestions?"
"Woft alobt lexis?" Jason asked.
Gabriella and I stared at him. I shook my head and said, "Sorry, I dont speak "Brainless"."
Jason glared daggers at me till he finished his doughnut. "I said, "What about Texas?" You'd think you'd be a little nicer to me since you have to travel with me till Zeus knows when."
Thunder boomed and it started to rain.
"Sorry, sorry." Jason murmured.
"I dont think that just saying his name would have caused that. It mut have been a warning for somone. And I say Arizona. Its more barren." Gabriella said and I nodded.
"I agree. Two against one. We go to Arizona." I said, and I noticed a man all alone in the booth next to us. He was just sipping coffee, staring at the table. But he kinda freaked me out. When he looked up from the table, I saw the weirdest thing. The man had one blue eye and one brown. Like the one in my dream.
He got up, and exited the Cafe, and a group of people followed him. Weird.
"So, how do we get there?" Jason asked, bringing me back to reality.
"I say we travel as far as we can by bus, then walk to the nearest biggest city after that, get a one-way train tickit to Arizona, and plan from there on the train." I suggested.
"Ok. Jason, is that all right with you?" Gabriella asked.
Jason shrugged. "Its sounds great to me. I say we go for it."
"Good. We'll leave at ten." I said, and we all sipped our hot chocolate quietly.
