"So what do we know?" Will asked the group and they had to think first was obviously someone took the Lightning Bolt from Zues how that happened the trio had no idea.
"Well first we look at the gods, spirits and other immoral deity's of the Greek Parthenon then the Demigods." Percy suggested and Clarisse and Will looked at him and nodded.
"Besides Lord Hades? Who has a grudge against Lord Zues?" Will offered and Percy nodded his head at the son of Apollo and his half brother not that they knew that.
"Lady Hera!" Clarisse yells out and it was true Lord Zues had always cheated on her but what did she have against Lord Hades? Nothing to the group there since Lord Hades did not break the pact unlike Lord's Zues and Poseidon.
"Demigods?" Percy asked and they both looked at him but until very recently he knew of his father, also him being a demigod. But that would mean someone else would have a problem with the son of Poseidon and champion of Apollo.
"There are quite a few that do have problems with the gods." Will said but could not name anyone, well except for Luke. They thought he was just bitter from failing his quest a few years ago.
"Like Luke whenever you mention his father to him or any god really you can see the burning anger in his eyes. Everyone can see it but none dare comment on it since he is the best swordsman in camp. Actually there is one person who can't see it and that is Chase she can't see it, I personally think she has a crush on him." Clarisse said and both Will and Percy agreed they both saw it and the son of Apollo and Poseidon commented on it, when the daughter of Athena was showing him to the Hermes Cabin.
"Well she is denying it, but she got all red with embarrassment when I commented on it to her." Percy said and both Clarisse and Will laughed as they pictured the daughter of Athena face red as a tomato as she was lovingly gazing at the Hermes cabin councillor.
All three faces were red as a tomato from laughing that hard that all three forgot to breathe. Percy knew deep down he should feel ashamed for what he just said his mother raised him better. "Oh gods that was good!" Will said as he was trying to breath.
"Who knew? A daughter of wisdom to a son of the traveller?" Clarrise said to the group and the nodded their heads at that statement who knew that a daughter of Athena would fall for a bad boy like a son of Hermes?
"Yeah true but you have to admit there is something alluring about Luke though." Percy said with a straight face because there was something that was alluring he should know he has met the Goddess of Love multiple times throughout his life.
"Gah not you too!" Clarrise said to Percy and he smiled at her he was no way like Chase but he could not deny the fact that Luke Castellan was in fact a good looking man.
"I'm not like Annabeth Chase." Percy said to her and he meant it, his admiration of Luke's good looks. But nothing was like chase who marveled at everything Luke Castellan did.
"Alright guys let's figure out where to go from here." Will suggested the trio all gathered around but none thought to grab a map. "It would have been better if we had a map wouldn't it?" Will asked nobody in particular both Clarisse and Percy agreed with him. It would have been better with a map why did none of them think of one?
"Let just do what demigods in the past have done without a map." Percy suggested to his quest mates he was hoping to get to his mother soon, he blamed himself for her capture or death.
"Yeah, how bad can it be?" Will said as the trio walked in a direction they hoped was north or a way to town. The trio made it to some diner they went in to get refreshments and some snack food.
Once inside they made their way to a booth and a waitress they ordered their food but before the waitress left. "Do you three have money to pay for that?" The waitress rudely asks even though they didn't they would have asked to do some things around the diner to pay for the food.
"Just get the food they'll be able to pay for it." Comes out a gruff voice the trio whips their heads around to see some biker guy who Clarrise recognises as her father Ares.
"Dad?" Clarisse asks out not believing she is seeing her father and Percy looks at the god of war and he could see flames in his eyes and a certain urge to punch the said god in his face.
"Hey kiddo, need a word with fish breaths kid." The god said and not a moment later his two companions split which confused Percy at all. "So you picked my daughter for your quest not bad, not bad with Medusa either you took your sweet time with her but let's chalk that up with inexperience with monsters. I gotta tell you kid never have I seen Feather Brain so upset before truly entertaining. So here's the deal I need you to get something for me and I'll give you a lift to your destination what do you say?" Ares asked the hero who was confused was he allowed to do this while they were on a quest for something? Then again they had no money and no way to get to LA and therefore to his uncle's realm.
"Yeah sure what do I need to get? And where am I getting it from?" Percy asked the god, it sounded like a good deal to Percy and that could not be a bad thing to the son of Poseidon and Apollo now could it?
