Hey guys I just wanted to make this chapter about the new campers finding out about some of the quests as well as the Titan and Giant Wars. I may use the next couple of chapters too depending on how long this chapter ends up being. Thanks to I don't want a name 51 for the reviews and offering to be my Beta Reader which I gladly accept and thanks to AlienSpaceAce for following my story and to nebiois for adding my story for adding my story to their favourites list
Chapter 8
Over the nest week I settled into a fairly normal routine. I had Greek Mythology and Language lessons in the morning from Annabeth and Chiron respectively. On Monday afternoon I had sword fighting, and learning how to use my powers with Percy, on Tuesday I had archery and wrestling with the Apollo and Ares cabins respectively, on Wednesday I had Pegasus riding with Hazel and Reyna and canoeing with Percy, on Thursday I had running with Dryads and swimming with Percy and on Friday I finally got to meet Grover who took me on the climbing wall which did indeed have lava flowing down it and I had strawberry picking with the Demeter cabin as well. I also met Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a clear sighted mortal who became the new host for the Oracle of Delphi after the Titan War. I also found out Piper is Cherokee on her dad's side, and that her dad is the actor Tristan Mclean, but she doesn't like to brag about it, and that she's a vegetarian
We also learnt more about the quests and wars that had happened before we came. For example when Percy was 13 Thalia's tree had been poisoned by Luke but Chiron was blamed being a son of Kronos. The only that could heal the tree as the Golden Fleece which as located in the Sea of Monsters aka the Bermuda Triangle which Grover said he thought was the nature God Pan which led him to being captured by Polyphemus the Cyclops who somehow thought Grover as a female Cyclops an account of Polyphemus being blind and stupid. Grover was able to create something called and Empathy Link with Percy to try and warn him.
Although Clarisse had been chosen to go on the quest Percy, Annabeth and Tyson were convinced by Hermes to sneak aboard Luke's conveniently passing cruise ship the Princess Andromeda but they were forced to escape off the coast of Florida where Annabeth led Percy and Tyson to a safe house she, Thalia and Luke used while they were on the run before they met Grover. At this point Clarisse chipped in with how she saved them from a Hydra and was sailing in to the Sea of Monsters aboard and old US Civil War Ironclad called the CSS Birmingham which as manned by a crew of zombie Confederates. As they sailed between Scylla and Charybdis then engine threatened to blow but Tyson managed to keep in from doing so until they passed the gap.
Percy and Annabeth then took over to say how they washed up Circe's island after the Birmingham blew up. Annabeth was taken to get a make over by Reyna and her older sister Hylla who is apparently now Queen of the Amazons while Percy as turned into a guinea pig by Circe Percy which even he laughed at when Annabeth kissed him on the cheek and said "You were a cute guinea pig." and Percy replied "Don't get me wrong you were even more beautiful than you normally are but at the same time you didn't look like you." a couple of other things I learned during that week were that Annabeth never wears makeup and that she's regarded as Camp Half-Bloods best knife fighter. Anyway Annabeth used some multivitamins from Hermes to turn Percy back to normal but unfortunately she also turned Blackbeard and his crew back to normal but luckily they caused enough of a distraction for Percy and Annabeth to get away in Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.
As they neared the Island of the Sirens Annabeth wanted to hear their song because she heard if you hear them and survive you become wiser. Percy reluctantly tied her to the mast and plugged wax in his ears. When Annabeth broke free Percy swam after her and when he touched her Percy saw what Annabeth saw which as her parents, Luke and Percy in a completely rebuilt New York. When Percy mentioned he didn't see himself Annabeth said "Maybe that's because you were actually their with me." When they arrived on Polyphemus' island they found him also holding Clarisse captive as a bride and I bit back a joke because of how close I was to Clarisse herself. After rescuing Clarisse and Grover they escaped and grabbed the fleece but Annabeth was badly hurt while trying to distract Polyphemus but that's when Tyson arrived via a Hippocampus that found him amid the wreckage of the Birmingham.
After getting away from Polyphemus Percy, Grover, Clarisse and Tyson used the power of the Fleece to heal Annabeth and she pretty much fully recovered by the time they got back to Florida where Luke and some of his troops where they were ambushed by Chiron and some of his Centaur kin. After arriving back at camp Clarisse placed the Fleece on the lowest branch of the tree and Tantalus, who had been brought in as camp Activities Director was sent back to the underworld. The Fleece ended up being more powerful than anyone was expecting because it not only restored the camp barrier but also brought Thalia back to life.
The year after Thalia, Percy and Annabeth got a call from Grover about a couple of half bloods at a military boarding school in Maine who turned out to be Nico and his older sister Bianca. They were attacked by the Manticore which was posing as a teacher and Annabeth tried to jump it but the hunters of Artemis arrived and forced the Manticore into a retreat taking Annabeth with it. Bianca was inducted into the Hunters before Artemis left to hunt the some mysterious beast while Apollo gave the others a lift to camp. Annabeth then took over to say she was taken to the Titan base of Mount Othrys AKA Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco where she found Luke holding up the sky instead of Atlas and was tricked into holding the sky which she managed for a hours until Artemis arrived.
Percy took over again to say how Blackjack woke him up at like four in the morning to alert him to sea creature in distress. Percy went down to the beach and found a cow like sea creature trapped in a fishing net so he freed it and named it Bessie. During a game of Capture the Flag the Oracle of Delphi left the Big House attic and gave a prophecy saying three Hunters and two campers would rescue Annabeth and Artemis but two people would die during the quest. The people chosen to go on the quest were Grover, Thalia, Bianca, a Hunter called Phoebe and Artemis' Lieutenant Zoe. Percy being reckless, loyal and rebellious guy he is decided to tail the quest on Blackjack after promising Nico to look after Bianca after Phoebe as poisoned after a prank gone wrong courtesy of the Stoll brothers. He followed them all the way to Washington D.C. where the questers went into the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Percy was about to follow them when he saw Dr. Thorn, the teacher who turned out to be the Manticore enter the Museum of Natural History so followed him and found Luke with the Titan Atlas along with a dozen human mercenaries and two snake ladies called Scythian Dracaenae. Atlas used dragon teeth to summon a group of unstoppable skeleton warriors to track down and kill Thalia, Grover, Bianca and Thalia. Using Annabeth's invisibility hat Percy stole the Hunter's sash from Atlas and went straight to the Air and Space Museum to warn the others who weren't happy about showing up at first but then they were attacked by the Nemean Lion which they killed by chocking it with astronaut food. After killing the Lion they all got a couple of trains to a railway yard and hopped aboard a freight train heading west. During the train ride Percy was visited by Apollo who told Percy to find Nereus in San Francisco and Percy had a dream about how Zoe had once helped Heracles to steal the Apples of her sisters the Hesperides and gave him Riptide, which is the sword Percy uses.
The train came to a stop in a small skiing town in New Mexico where they were attacked by Atlas' skeleton warriors then the Erymanthian Boar showed up which turned out to be a blessing from Pan, God of the Wild. So they rode the Boar to the Junkyard of the Gods where they got an unexpected visit from Ares and Aphrodite who tried to mess with his feelings about Annabeth. As they made their way through the Junkyard Bianca picked up a Mythomagic figure of Hades for Nico which woke up a prototype of the bronze Giant Talos which could only be killed by destroying it from the inside which Bianca sacrificed herself to do. Nico pulled the little figure out of the pocket of his aviator jacket and looked at it with tears in his eyes.
Both Annabeth and Hazel put a comforting arm around Nico and Hazel said "We're both really sorry we never got to know Bianca." Nico wiped away his tears and hugged them both tightly. Everyone took a moment of silence before Thalia took over the story to say they borrowed a couple of canoes that took them to the Hoover Dam which Annabeth admitted she was jealous about until Percy took her to see it over Spring Break. Athena looked annoyed at this and all the guys dating someone rolled their eyes and groaned.
"Seriously dude you're making the rest of us look bad." said Travis Stoll who I found out is dating Katie Gardner. Percy laughed, shrugged, said "Can't stop won't stop." and kissed Annabeth on the lips which caused Aphrodite to squeal so loudly I'm surprised no one heard her in New York as we all had to cover our ears.
Anyway they were so tired and hungry by the time they got to Hoover Dam the had a bit of a breakdown and started laughing when Thalia said she wanted to find the dam snack bar which caused Percy, Thalia and Grover to start laughing uncontrollably and even Annabeth smiled explaining how they told her what happened during the quest. Once they calmed down Percy explained how he told the others to go inside after hearing Bessie which acted like it wanted him to go with it, which unintentionally provided a distraction for the skeletons to attack Percy and during his desperate attempt to find the others Percy encountered a tour guide who turned out to be Athena herself and gave Percy some good advice for the quest.
Annabeth looked at her mother with begrudging respect and a small nod and Athena responded with a tight but proud smile. After exiting the lift Percy almost accidentally killed Rachel after he mistook her blowing her nose for a skeleton. Rachel diverted the skeletons while Percy hid in the bathroom before he went back to looking for the others. They ran outside after Percy found them by the café. Percy convinced Thalia to pray to Zeus which brought the to bronze angel statue outside the dam to life which destroyed the skeletons then carried Percy, Thalia, Zoe and Grover all the way to San Francisco.
Once there they found Nereus who told them that Artemis was hunting Bessie who was actually called the Ophiotaurus which had been killed by the Titans centuries ago because of a prophecy saying whoever burned the entrails of Bessie would have the power to overthrow Olympus. After defending Bessie from Dr. Thorn Thalia suggested going to Annabeth's dad for help. After borrowing the Chase family car they were almost killed by a lightning bolt from Kronos. After sneaking up the Mountain to avoid waking up Ladon the quest encountered Zoe's sisters and Zoe decided to wake up Ladon and distract him while Percy and Thalia snuck past only to find Artemis Atlas, a dozen Dracaenae and Luke holding Annabeth at sword point. Luke tried to convince Thalia to join them but she refused and during the ensuing fight Percy took the sky from Artemis so she could help Zoe fight Atlas while Thalia fought Luke and Annabeth tried to untie herself.
Eventually Atlas was force back to holding the sky but Zoe was badly wounded and Annabeth tried to stop Thalia from killing Luke but he fell from the mountain trying to attack Thalia. As Luke's army from the Princess Andromeda attacked they were saved by Annabeth's dad flying a restored WWI Sopwith Camel plane. Annabeth smiled proudly at the memory. Unfortunately Zoe died from her injuries inflicted by Atlas and Ladon and Artemis turned Zoe into a constellation for her bravery. They flew to Olympus via Pegasai and Artemis' chariot. During the Winter Solstice Percy convinced the Gods not to kill him or Bessie and Thalia joined the Hunters as Artemis' new lieutenant. During the party Annabeth told Percy she was gonna try living with her dad, stepmother, and half-brothers again.
"You know I don't think I ever thanked you for saving my baby sister Percy." Apollo said as Artemis rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I thought you were born first Lady Artemis." I said and Apollo looked surprised like he never thought someone would bring it up. "I was indeed Amelia, I'm glad someone finally mentioned it." Artemis glared at Apollo who shrinked away nervously. Then Artemis turned to Percy and said "Nevertheless, I am very grateful Perseus that you saved me and managed to make friends with Zoe. You truly are a man worthy of my respect. And Annabeth you would have been a good hunter."
Everyone was shocked by Artemis' statement especially Percy. "Thank you Lady Artemis." he managed to say nervously as Annabeth bowed and said "Thank you Lady Artemis. I was very tempted to join you back then but seeing how much Percy and my dad cared about changed my mind." Artemis smile and nodded understandingly.
Sorry for taking so long but I've had another hectic week. I had college on Tuesday, an open day for a possible job on Wednesday and a trial shift for another possible job on Thursday but I'll try to get back to a regular pattern next week.