A/N Hello good people. We are gathered here today to read Chapter 2 of The Beginning of Tratie. If any of you have any objections, leave now. LOL. To answer a question that was asked and to others who may ask, yes, both lunarchroniclesandcockatiels and I are writing this together. With that said here is chapter 2. Thank you to those who reviewed. You are all awesome. I hope you enjoy Chapter 2!
We do not own PJO or HoO, Rick Riordan does.
Chapter 2
Katie's POV
I woke up to rain coming down on me. Wait... rain? Inside our cabin? I quickly sat up and looked around. The water was from the things that were supposed to go off when there was a fire.
"Everyone up!" I yelled. My cabinmates were up and out of the cabin in record time.
When we got out, we looked around, but there was no fire to be found. I started to shiver, wishing I had grabbed my jacket. But if there was no fire, why had the water dispensers gone on?
"Hermes Cabin." muttered Miranda, wrapping her arms around herself in an effort to keep warm. "It must of been the Hermes Cabin. Who else would get up at three in the morning?"
"So... can we go back in?" asked Rose.
Her twin brother Paris sighed.
"Since there isn't a fire," I said. "We can go back in."
"But the water is still going off!" exclaimed Miranda.
"I know. Come on, let's see if we can spend the night in the Persephone cabin."
We walked over to the Persephone Cabin and I knocked on the door. The head counselor, Penelope, open the door. She was rubbing her eyes and yawning.
"What... what's going on? Did something happen? It's like 3 in the morning."
"Hey Penny, our cabin was flooded by the Hermes cabin. Can we crash in your cabin till we get it fixed?" I asked.
"Sure. Sure. Come in. There are lots of bunks. There aren't many kids of Persephone, yet."
"Yeah. Don't worry, Penny. They will come. Okay! Demeter Cabin! Find a bunk and go back to sleep. Some can double up, some can sleep on the floor. Whatever you are comfortable with," I yelled.
Everyone found a bunk. The littler kids fit about 4 in a bunk while the older kids fit 2.
"Okay. Lights out, again," I yelled.
I got a bunk to myself and laid there awhile. Thinking about how much I dislike(hate is a strong word) the Hermes cabin better yet The Stoll Brothers. But even more, the head counselor, Travis Stoll.
I woke up (again) at seven, a bit more of a reasonable time. Miranda and I went back to our cabin to assess the damage.
The floor was covered with a foot of water. Every single thing was soaked. There was not one dry spot. But at least the water had (finally) stopped.
"This will take hours." Miranda complained. "Come on, let's go tell Chiron. He'll know what to do.
"But they'll get in trouble!" I exclaimed.
"That's the point. Don't tell me you still have a crush on that boy, Katherine. "
"What boy? What are you talking about? Is this water getting to you?"
"You know what I'm talking about. Just answer the question."
"I refuse to answer that question on the terms that I can not give the answer. Now let's go see Chiron."
I ran out of the cabin before she could question me more.
I made it to the Big House first, and knocked on the door. Miranda was a few yards behind me.
"Hello?" Chiron asked, answering the door.
"Chiron!" I cried. "The Hermes Cabin flooded our cabin! At three o'clock in the morning!"
He frowned and stroked his beard. "These pranks have been going on for two long. I suppose I'll have to have a talk with them."
"Well, bye!" I said, running back to my cabinmates. Miranda was waiting for me there.
"What did you say?" she asked me.
"Just that the Hermes Cabin flooded our cabin."
"What did Chiron say?"
"He said he'll have to have a talk with them."
"Oh."
"Yeah. So I guess we will have to clean up the cabin ourselves. How are we going to do that?" I ask.
"Ooooo! We could get Percy to manipulate the water to the lake!" Miranda answered.
" Oh yeah. Is he here?"
"I think him and Annabeth came yesterday, to stay for the summer."
"Okay. Let's go get Percy, then."
We walked towards Cabin 3 and Miranda knocked on the door.
What happened next was something we did not expect.
Annabeth opened the door and wave bye to us as she ran towards the Athena cabin. Then Percy came to the door, with a smile like a Chesire cat.
"Sorry about that. Annabeth was helping me study for my online class. I had a test this morning so we studied all night. I got a 90% on the test!" He pumped a fist in the air.
"Um... that's great Percy. We have a question for you," I said.
"Okay. Come in."
We walked into cabin 3 and Percy shut the door.
"So, whatcha need?"
"Well, The Hermes cabin flooded our cabin and we were wondering if you would move the water to the lake?" Miranda explained.
"Oh, yeah, sure. That's fine."
"Okay. Let's go."
It took Percy about five minutes to move the water back to the lake. Meanwhile, the Hermes Cabin looked on in disgust. At about five o'clock, a little girl from the Hermes Cabin came up to me.
"Chiron wants to talk to you." she said.
"What?" I asked. "Just me, or my whole cabin? And why does he want to talk to us?"
"Your whole cabin." she said, running away back to her friends.
"This better not be a prank!" I yelled. "You already flooded our cabin!"
She didn't answer. Typical Hermes.
Miranda came up to me with a questioning look on her face.
"We have to go talk to Chiron." I told her. "The whole cabin."
Miranda sighed and gathered everyone up, and we began our little trip to the big house.
"Hello." said Chiron, opening the door. "Please go sit down."
There wasn't much of a choice of where to sit, as the Hermes Cabin was already there.
"All right, so who was involved in putting poison ivy all over the Hermes Cabin?" he asked.
Our whole cabin raised their hands. Rose looked close to tears, which meant we were in really big trouble, because Rose never cried.
Chiron turned to us, looking everyone in the eye.
"Pray, tell me why you would do that?" he asked.
"They killed all our plants." said Mackenzie.
Chiron looked at the Hermes Cabin. "Why did you kill their plants?'
The Stolls suddenly became interested in their shoes. The little girl who had come up to me earlier started to cry.
"I see." said Chiron. "And you flooded their cabin because of the poison ivy, right?"
They nodded.
"This prank war has gone on long enough. You aren't twelve anymore. You should know better. Now a month of kitchen patrol for all of you."
Everyone from the Hermes cabin groaned. All of the Demeter cabin nodded, accepting the punishment. Chiron dismissed us. We all parted ways to do our activities.
'It's going to be a long day," I thought as I headed towards the archery area.
A/N There's chapter 2! Thanks for reading. And please, review. It is greatly appreciated. Until next time.
~Booknerd and lunarchroniclesandcockatiels
