CHAPTER THIRTEEN

A Surprise

We walked all around camp, to reach the big house. We had a lot of time to talk.

I said, "Who pushed you into the lake?"

Sky said, "I think it was Becky Russell, from the Ares cabin."

I said, "Why did she push you in?"

Sky said "Remember the girls that were shouting insults at you?"

I replied "Yeah"

Sky said "She was one of them."

I said "Oh."

Sky said, "She is one of the bullies at camp. And she has a thing against Poseidon's kids."

I said, "Ok, and why did she need to push you in?"

Sky said "I don't know."

I said, "Don't worry the next time she comes around I'll…"

Becky Russell interrupted our talk, "You'll do what?" She left out a small evil laugh "I don't think kids like you can win in a sword fight against me."

I said, "Oh, yeah? I bet I can beat you anytime, anywhere."

Becky responded, "Don't waste my time. You aren't even worth fighting; you are just a small little brat that can't beat a girl."

Becky pushed us aside and kept walking.

Sky said, "Let's just get to the big house and call Percy. Ok?"

I said, "Yeah, come on."

We started running toward the big house. I could see the big house, I saw three people outside talking.

It was Percy and Annabeth, talking to Chiron, and Carlos was there too.

Chiron looked at us and said, "Oh there he is now."

We got closer to them.

Chiron said, "I called Percy yesterday, during the camp sing along. To make sure he knew about you."

I said, "That's great I wanted to...''

Chiron interrupts me, "Carlos just told us, that you wanted him to train you."

I said a little annoyed, "Yeah".

Percy was laughing about it. I know he's an adult but he acts like a little kid. Like me. Maybe we were thinking the same thing and he read my mind. That would be cool, talking to each other in our minds. I concentrated a bit, and see if I could read his mind.

I was hearing something, Percy was just thinking "Having a little brother can be cool, we could do some small pranks, we could surf, visit dad, I could introduce Tyson, teach him a couple of tricks, and maybe show him Olympus, Zeus does let me and Annabeth visit anytime we want."

Then I said out loud, "That is so cool, can we start by calling Tyson?"

Everyone watched me, silenced by what I just said.

I said, "Oops. Sorry, I was just hearing Percy's thoughts. He was thinking about introducing me to Tyson, and about visiting dad. And probably visit Olympus."

They all stood there watching me.

Percy said, "You can read my thoughts?"

I said, "Yeah, why? You can't hear mine?"

Percy said, "No, I can't read minds. But if had that power, I would totally use it on Annabeth a long time ago, to ask her if she liked me, you know tell her secretly."

Annabeth said, "What?"

Percy said shouldering Annabeth, "But I won't, now that she likes me unconditionally."

Annabeth punches his stomach when he was about to grab her shoulder.

She said, "Yeah; Danny, what else is he thinking? Is he thinking about my birthday present? That he needs to give me in just 3 days or did he forget?" Looking at Percy.

I was hearing Percy talking, in his own mind. He knew I was hearing.

Percy said in his mind, "Tell her that I already have it, and that it's a nice present that she will love."

I said outside my head "Yeah, he has it, and he was thinking of how nice it was."

Annabeth said anxiously, "Oh, really? What did he get me?"

I said "He didn't think about it."

I said trying to change the subject, "So, will you train me?"

Percy said, "Well, you are getting new powers, which even I don't have, you might be stronger than me."

I said, "And this morning, Sky and I went to the lake and tried to practice…"

I stopped, I didn't want to say the part that she almost drowned, and that we had a moment together.

I kept saying, "I could breathe underwater and I could walkover it too."

Percy said amazed, "That's great, you already know how to use your powers, and you can walk over water? I might need to get lessons from you; I still don't know how to do that."

I laughed. I said, "Well, when do we start training?"