Conner and Travis picked me up before sunrise the next morning, claiming they wanted to surprise everyone. When we arrived at the cabin, instead of suprising a sleeping bunch of kids we were attacked by a band of sugar crazed hyenas. Apparently someone had gotten pixie stix and coke into the cabin and had handed it out to the kids.

"Laura, Laura, Laura," Kyle screamed as I walked into the room. His face was stained hulk green and his teeth were bright red. He was practically vibrating when I picked him up. The little guy threw his arms around my neck.

"Guess what?" the little guy screamed in my ear.

"What?"

"Sarah gave me candy, but she told me not to tell you so you have to keep it a secret," he continued to yell. Across the room Sarah started to back away slowly. Conner and I both shot her murderous looks. I called her over with a finger. She slowly made her way toward us.

"What the hell were you thinking?" I hissed. "Do you remember the last time he had candy?" A couple of the others shivered at the memory. I will not go into detail for the sake of time, but let us just say that it involved glue, a hairbrush, some greek fire and the forest. Needless to say, it is not often that candy is allowed into the cabin. From time to time, all of us sneak some in, but we always make sure to keep it away from the little guys, since they do not know how to handle the sugar intake.

"Sorry," Sarah looked at the floor.

"Good," Travis snapped. Turning to me he muttered. "I'm getting to old for this." I laughed.

"You and me both." He smiled and patted my shoulder before going to make sure Suzie had not gotten her hands on anything. One sugar crazed kid we could handle, but two was nearly impossible. Especially, if those two kids had ADHD.

I decided to take Kyle for a run to try to burn off some of his sugar high. We both sprinted through the common area and headed over toward the forest. I had my sword just in case but I doubted I would need it.

One of the things I love most about being a a child of Hermes is that we are naturally athletic. We are all practically born running. We also have an amazing sense of direction because father is the god of travel. Unlike other cabins like Demeter and Apollo we do not generally flaunt our talents. This is mostly due to the fact they help us in our "almost legal" activities.

Real quick I should probably tell all you my "gifts," just to get them out there, since they play an important part in my future. Like most of my siblings I am incredibly fast, though because of how long I was in camp I am one of the faster ones. I have a natural direction sense, and I can never get lost. Both are beyond helpful during things like Capture the Flag. I am highly persuasive and good at trickery. The only people immune to these talents are my siblings and Hermes himself, for obvious reasons. I am also good with money, but that is one of my more rarely used talents. Since we don't have or use much money.

Now for the more supernatural stuff. I have a knack for alchemy. Once Conner and I even managed to make greek fire, though Chiron put us on laundry duty for that. All of my siblings and I share two talents though, no exceptions. We can pick locks just by touching them, and we can sense traps. These are the two things that are dead give aways when it comes to figuring out if you are a child of Hermes.

Now, you are probably wondering what all this has to do with going for a run with Kyle. Well, for one, I felt like it was a good time to share. Secondly, so you would not be surprised when I told you Kyle unlocked the tool shed with a touch and pulled out his dagger, once I told him where we were running. Even if we did get attacked, I would not let him use that dagger, I would rather he ran away, while I dealt sith the situation.

As a rule in our cabin, we keep most of the weapons as far away as possible. Past experience taught us that our siblings can not be trusted with sharp objects around sleeping people. It leads to bad haircuts and prank wars. The only people allowed to keep their stuff on them is Travis, Conner, and I. As the most senior campers it is our job to make sure everyone is safe at all times.

The two of us raced off, in the opposite direction of Zeus's fist. After the battle there, most campers tend to avoid that area of forest, believing it to be cursed. After about twenty minutes the sun had begun to rise. The early morning light had a calming effect on Kyle who started to slow down.

We were about to turn back when a roar like an engine sounded through the woods. Kyle and I immediately dropped into defensive crouches. My training took over and I pushed him into a bush.

"Stay here," I hissed. He nodded and pushed himself deeper into the concealing leaves. I gripped my sword tighter as I crept toward the source of the noise. It sounded like the bronze dragon did after it went haywire. Praying that Kyle has listened to me, I entered the small clearing the sound had originated from.

Peeking out from around the tree I had ducked behind, I saw a bright red sports car. The type that any teenage boy would kill for. As I watched someone stepped out of the car and stretched. I cursed.

"I should have known it would be you," I sighed stepping out from between the trees. "You scared the living crap out of Kyle and I."

Apollo snorted. "Good to see your feeling better."

"Oh, yeah, by the way, why didn't you just help me? Why did you hunt down my brothers? I mean you are the god of medicine." Apollo gave me an exasperated look.

"I can't interfere with fate, even though I am the god of prophecy and medicine," he replied as though he had said it a million times. Which he probably had.

"So what are you doing here?" I asked. His childish smile reappeared.

"Well, since I did almost kill you-"

"I don't blame you for that." I interrupted. He laughed.

"Still, I owe you one. So, today you are going to drive the sun chariot." I raised my eyebrow at him.

"I don't think that's a very good idea," I said.

"I'll be right there, besides it's an automatic, so you don't have to worry about gears."

"Wait, what?" I asked suddenly confused. "Chariots don't have gears, they have horses." Apollo patted the hood of the car.

"That style is so outdated," he smirked. "I decided to modernize, you know, for the ladies." I decided to ignore the last part, suddenly nervous.

"I don't know how to drive," I muttered. Apollo looked shocked.

"What seventeen year old hasn't at least taken driver's ed?"

"The type that lives, year round, in a camp for half greek god children. Learning to drive has never really been a priority." I snapped, suddenly irritated.

For a minute he looked disappointed. then his eyes lit up again. Not like, the normal boy 'I have a stupid idea' look! i mean his eyes actually looked like they caught fire. i took a hasty step back, causing him to laugh again and the fire to be replaced by his usual cool blue eyes.

"Sorry," he shrugged. "I didn't mean to do that."

"It's cool," I said, still a little surprised.

"Before that happened, I had an idea to solve our little problem. Since driving is so easy, I'll just teach you as we go, that way by the time we have to set and get back to camp, you'll be an expert."

"Do you think that will work?" I asked still not convinced, Apollo gave me a reassuring look.

"Don't worry about it, I'll be there the whole time and if something goes wrong I'll fix it." I nodded.

"Alright, let's do this."

A/N I don't know why, since this chater is one that I have had planned simce the beginning but for some reason it was really hard to get right. Hopefully you all liked it.

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