It was hot in Camp Half-Blood. Not casually, 'oh, It's slightly hotter than usual,' but not-being-able-to-do-anything-all-day-every-day hot. This usually wasn't possible. Dionysus and Chiron almost always kept the weather-shield up, and it didn't let in a lot of heat, the same way it didn't let through a lot of snow, rain and cold. Yet, both of them were called to Olympus of a week, because Zeus detected a dangerous force somewhere in Belgium. So, it became unreasonable hot. Piper was fanning herself with an old English fan. It looked like it came straight from the eighteenth century, and it was as big as her whole face. She didn't try to walk a lot. She was scared she would melt while she stood up. The problem was that she got thirsty, and not drinking anything would be suicide with this temperature. She slowly got up. Her body was still in one piece, luckily. She turned to the right, trying to walk in the shadows as much as possible. She thanked the gods that the Dionysus and Demeter cabin were both on her side of the cabins. She waddled over to the Dionysus cabin. On the veranda, under the grapevines, both the Dionysus and Demeter children were sitting. It was pretty obvious that they were sitting, because if you did anything else you would melt immediately. Piper fell down in front of them. They looked at her with tired expressions. 'Is orange juice okay?' Pollux mumbled. His voice cracked half way through the sentence. Piper gave him one nod. He gave her a singled glass and almost fell down. The Demeter children looked at the display and slowly blinked. Piper drank the glass up in one shug. She was still very thirsty, but it was a little, teeny, tiny bit less. 'Thanks. I can't get up. Can I stay here?' The Other demigods slowly nodded. Piper sighed and stayed in her position, with her fan on her face and lying dramatically on the floor.
Leo was sitting in the Hephaestus cabin, alone in a corner. The other children were hanging around in their own corners, sitting as frozen as they possibly could. Their airco's were blowing at full power, but it wasn't enough. Suddenly, an Iris-message popped up. Hazel's face appeared. She was dripping wet, but behind her the sun was shining. She smiled. 'Hello Leo! Did you also she the rainstorm? We are all dripping wet! Luckily, it's not so hot.' Leo looked at her. A single tear made its way down his cheek. Hazel gave him a confused look. 'So hot, Hazel,' he murmured, 'You don't understand what we would give for rain.' Hazel giggled nervously, and broke the connection. 'Guys, I think they need some time. Jupiter isn't done with the extreme weather after all,' she announced to camp Jupiter.
Annabeth was on the floor of her cabin. Her siblings and she had given up trying to find a way to get cooler. Her head laid on a book. She had tried to read, but it was even to hot for that. Suddenly, the door opened. Annabeth and her siblings groaned. 'close the door!' Malcolm said with a weak voice. The door closed. Annabeth turned her head. Nico and Will were hanging against the door. 'This isn't the Apollo cabin,' Will said severely. 'I don't need treatment for shadow traveling!' Nico cried. 'Yes you do. Why would you have travelled outside the cabin otherwise? Also, why is it so hot?' Will remarked. The entire Athena cabin moaned. 'The gods are having an argument, and Zeus is toying with the weather,' Annabeth mumbled, 'It has been unbearable for two days. Also, the Hephaestus cabin just Iris-messaged us. In Camp Jupiter they have had a crazy rainstorm.' Will looked at his boyfriend, and grabbed his bag. 'We got some water. I always take a lot of water to the Underworld. Hades clearly needs it. You guys want some water?' He asked. The Athena children got in front of them as quickly as they could. 'Yes, please!' The all yelled.
Percy was sitting at the bottom of the lake, trying to think. It was still kind of cool at the bottom of the lake, but even there it was a bit hot. Percy sighed. He wondered how long Camp Half-blood would survive the heat wave. People hadn't died yet, but it Percy felt like they were waiting until that would happen. He closed his eyes, and suddenly heard something. It was like something tapping on the water. He felt a few cool drops in the water. He almost didn't dare to believe. He swam up to the shore. It was raining. It was actually raining. He heard someone scream above him. Jason was flying around above camp. 'Hello Percy! It rains!' He flew down and picked Percy up, bridal-style. They flew above camp. They saw the Demeter and Dionysus kids, screaming with joy in the strawberry fields. They were so happy that the suffered plants almost immediately regrew. The Athena and Hephaestus kids were jumping up and down, dancing in the rain, together with the Apollo children and even Nico. The other cabins quickly joined, as everyone was celebrating that the heat was gone. Eventually, Chiron and Dionysus came back. Seeing everyone being this happy after the heat wave, they decided to let it rain for a little longer (at least, that was mostly Chiron's motivation. Dionysus was also just worried about the strawberries).