Luke was surprised by my answer. But he regained his cool and asked. "Wanna hate the gods together? By that I mean, want to be friends?"
He's pretty straight forward about this, I barely know him, but I found myself nodding, "She would still be here if they helped."
Luke and I shook hands, after maybe twenty minutes, I suddenly had a new interests in Luke, and he told me that his father (Hermes) abandoned him and his mother when he was really young. Something happened to his mother, his father didn't tell him what happened to her. After that Luke didn't say anything else. So I decided not to pry, I sat there, wondering how far will our friendship go.
Luke sighed, "I'm sorry for telling you something so depressing, but I guess if I want you to trust me, I have to tell you something no one else knows. Oh, and only tell me something about yourself when you're ready."
I smiled, "Thanks…" when I'm ready? Who knows how long that'll take?
I looked at the time, it was already time to eat. "Well, should we go?" I asked, as soon as I did, a horn went off. Luke got up, "Sure…And Katrina?"
I got up, "Yeah?" I said.
"Thanks for finally hearing me out." He said
I shrugged, "If I didn't do this, then nothing would ever get resolved between us."
We both went to eat, and then after that it was time to sleep, now we can get to the part where I hated being in camp. Actually it happens in one year, news that didn't make sense to me, the date today is June 21st, 2003. Before we skip this year, how about we talk about a quest I was offered to join. It involves someone I first met. Luke. His father asked him to retrieve a golden apple of immortality for him, at first Luke was surprised, but then…He said, "Sending me to do something, another hero has already done. I'll get him his stupid apple."
He chose me and Annabeth, honestly, I didn't think Annabeth was ready. Even though she is one year older than me, but she lacks experience. She doesn't know what it's like to fight something head on, and what if we get captured? What will she do, freeze up? But Luke wanted her to come along, so I let it slide, this golden apple was located in one place only. A place no demi-god was supposed to go. The mountain of Despair.
"Alright, you kids have five days, good luck." Chiron said as he sent us off.
"Thanks." Luke said, "We'll be back in no time, I'm going with the after all." Annabeth said like she was going to save us. I kind of felt annoyed, I mean no one at camp is better than me, I'm the best demi-god in the last three hundred years! Or so I'm told.
We left the camp and made our way to San Francisco, so it'll most likely take us two days to get there. And we don't really have to be back in five days, Chiron just wants to challenge us, meaning if we take longer than five days, then he'll be disappointed. I think.
We drove there. Well…Luke drove us, since he was the oldest. The first day we made good progress, and I was the only one who enjoyed the quietness that was in the car as we made our way there. But Annabeth broke that silence by asking, how much longer, typical thing for a child to say when on a long car ride.
Luke said two days, and she groaned but decided it was best to keep quiet. The next two days. We made it, it was surprising not to be confronted by monsters…I mean we're three…Well I'm the strongest half-blood here, I'm not sure about them. Not that I think about it, we're probably too weak to interest them. It made me a little mad, but I just sighed and let it go. Since this was easier then running into them.
In order to get to the mountain of despair, we had to wait until sunset. Which wasn't too far away, because we got in San Francisco, and then we went across the Golden Gate Bridge, after about two minutes after we crossed it got strangely foggy. So I guess we're here now? I started to get excited, "Luke you said another hero has already done this, how did he do it?" I haven't looked into it. Plus I've been slacking on learning all the past heroes names and what they've achieved in their life time.
Luke pulled over, "He tricked one of Atlas's daughters into helping him, and then he betrayed her."
Wow. Can you at least try to not sound so resentful? "Oh." I said.
Once we all got out, there was this single mountain, "The Mountain of Despair. Or in other words, Atlas's prison." I said.
Annabeth crooked her head, "How did you know that?"
I smirked, "I pay attention to what Chiron says. Plus I read the books at camp."
Luke laughed, but shut up quickly, "Oops…We're going to have to be quiet from here on out, got it?"
We nodded in agreement, the tree that has the Golden Apples of immortality is guarded by a dragon…Or was it a Drakon? I can't remember. That is something I'll have to remember, because I have no idea what it can do. But all I know is that it guards the tree.
We all started tippy toeing our way into the fog, time to get ourselves a golden apple…And maybe more? I might be able to pull it off, if these guys don't mess around that is.
Okay this is all for today, Tomorrow I might or might now get a chapter done.
Thanks for reading! I hope you all have an awesome day!
Rilurz~
