PERCY
After the day, we all went to my house, met the others and waited there for Nico who was coming with Reyna. When he came, I was pretty much in shorts only because I was changing and sweating after a day in a hoodie. They pounced and I tore off Nico's shirt and soaked him.
"I would run if I were you" Nico growled.
"You are dead Kelp Head." Leo said.
I turned to see that I had wet all my friends, mom and Paul. I ran out the door and was sure that I had a mob following me.
I ran towards the cafe, i.e., familiar and my home turf.
WILL
We were walking towards the Café Omega – the new place whose patron a sweet lady was named Melissa. At that point, we were sitting in a corner booth. The door opened to reveal Percy Jackson in just shorts. He had a six pack that made him look like a Greek hero. Relief spread over his face when he saw Melissa.
"Mellie! Hide me!" He said running to her. She just looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
He hid behind her though he could be seen. Mellie just laughed while shaking her head.
"PERSEUS JACKSON! YOU ARE DEAD! I WILL MAKE SURE OF IT!" A voice bellowed. It sent chills down my back.
At that point, Percy stifled a laugh. Nico walked in with just shorts and was soaking wet. He was giving the worst glare I have ever seen. He was followed by a familiar group of wet people – Reyna, Katie, Leo, Travis, Malcolm and Clarisse and Frank.
"Hey Mellie. Send out that Seaweed Brain who's behind you." Leo said.
"Sure thing. Don't trash my shop boys and Percy; give my hello to your camp director." Mellie said.
He came out of Mellie's shadow and just stood there with a lopsided grin. That grin screamed trouble maker that any girl would fall for.
"You are a Kelp-Head." Piper said dripping wet at the doorway. They all turned to the entrance to see her.. She was standing at the doorway rolling her eyes.
She just shook her head.
"Oh! Perseus Achilles Jackson, you have angered the only person in camp that Leo's father trusts enough to keep our keys and one of two people who know your Achilles Heel and one of the people who know your fatal flaw. Do you see any logic in angering Nico or me for that matter?" Piper said.
"No. But it was a joke. Come on Nico! Live a little" He said. All of them started to laugh at the last comment. Even Nico cracked a smile. We looked at each other. They were as confused as I was.
"Percy Jackson, you are a hotshot up in the Empire State Building but here you are about to be sea flavored meat." Nico said.
Nico was touching what appeared to me a hilt of a sword that looked like it was hung on his back which I noticed only now. Percy just gripped his pen tighter and looked around. He saw us staring at the scene and he frowned at us.
"Guys" He said gesturing to us.
They then nodded at us and ran down the street. We rushed out and saw them laughing and entering a building.
After around five minutes, they came out with a duffel bag. Nico put in a key after Percy begged and they all went inside. Soon I heard rumbling of engines and then the convoy started.
ANNABETH
A sea green bike came out with Percy driving it. Then a midnight black bike with Nico came out. Is he even of legal age to drive? It was followed by a purple bike with Reyna on it. The next was Green bike with Katie followed by a blood red one with different animals with Frank. Clarisse also had a blood red bike without the animals.
Malcolm came with a grey bike. Leo followed with a flame red bike equipped with other things and finally was Piper with a magenta bike. Travis had a silver bike. None of these models were in the market and none of the drivers were wearing helmets. All of them seemed to glow and not run on a normal mechanism.
We all snapped out of it. They passed us and drove towards Long Island. Coach came in and sat next to us.
"Now to business. Do you know of Greek and Roman myths, at least the gods? Well, they are real. They often have children with mortals, making you. Demi-gods."
"We are Demi-gods?" Will asked.
"Yeah. Obviously, you have seen weird things around you. You could not have seen the hounds that ran away from the Gym if you were not a demi-god." Coach started
"Wow." Jason said.
He just grabbed us, put us into a car and drove up to Long Island answering our questions on him being a satyr, where we were going and what were the different types of Cabins. We were halfway down long island when he parked the car in a road shoulder. He made us climb a hill to this old archway. When I entered, my mind was blown away. They had Cabins and a hearth. They had an arena and had even an Amphitheatre. Then I saw 70 kids coming towards me.
They were focused on something above me. It was a glowing outline of an owl and an olive wreath. I saw them bow. I was shocked.
CONNOR
The newbies came. I knew them from coach's message as the bullies from Percy's school. As soon as they entered, they were claimed.
"Hail Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena!" We said. She was startled.
Then another girl entered.
"Hail Drew Tanaka, daughter of Aphrodite."
After the claiming of Calypso, a daughter of Atlas, we had Jason Grace, Thalia's brother and a son of Jupiter. No one mentioned it to him. Then there was Will Solace, a son of Apollo and Hazel Levesque, a daughter of Pluto.
ANNABETH
We spent the weekend getting weapons, having a Capture the flag game and learning the basics of monster fighting and Greek. We were sitting on the beach with Lacy from Cabin 10 when a fact struck me.
"Why haven't we met any counselors and co-counselors?" I asked.
"They have all gone to a beach in Montauk for the weekend. It is the Camp Leader's birthday. It is also the anniversary of the second Titan War. It was hard on all of them. So they take a weekend off to remember anything but the war." She said sighing slightly on the mention of the camp leader.
"Is he hot?" Calypso asked.
"Yes. He is not only hot, he is also brave. He defeated Kronos and helped defeat Gaea. He survived Tartarus. If you haven't heard, it leaves permanent scars." She said.
"Wow." I said. I liked the sound of that guy almost as much as seeing Percy.
Lacy spent the rest of the weekend helping us learn skills required to survive the outside world.
ANNABETH
We stood outside our school with a fresh outlook. We had to drop out of Gym and mellow down our new improved Greek. After putting up the mist on our weapons, we walked into school and went to our lockers and then straight to homeroom without saying a word. We got weird looks but it was better.
We sat in the back rows and got out our new demigod phones. I saw that it resembled Percy's phone very faintly.
As if clockwork, Percy's gang entered laughing. When our groups locked yes, all of us froze. They just moved to their seat in the middle and erupted into conversation.
PERCY
They were demigods! No wonder they could see through the mist! We went to our seats with one burning question: Should we tell them?
"I vote no. They will at least find out in the vacation." Leo said.
"Me too. I just want to see how they handle the wild tomorrow." Nico said smirking.
I admit, the idea of ribbing them along did please me.
"Aye." Frank said snickering.
"I guess it's going to be a fun week." Piper said. We all nodded and stopped the conversation as the teacher came.
In lunch, we were having the laugh of our lives. The bullies had managed to alert everyone of how they had changed and in fact, they had spoken in Greek about how hard it was. They had also stayed out of gym!
"Dude, they are going to reveal the gods in two days!" Piper said laughing and choking on her food.
"I vote one!" I yelled drawing attention.
That just increased our laughter and after it died down, Katie got out her phone and told us, "Guys, would you like to know the Cabins?" she asked.
We all nodded and she continued. "Annabeth – Athena, Jason – Jupiter, Hazel-Pluto, Will- Apollo, Calypso-Atlas and Drew-Aphrodite. By the way, they know our stories but they do not know it's us."
"But I have Drew as a sister!" moaned Piper.
"I have hazel as mine." Nico grumbled.
We grinned and continued to eat.
WILL
Lunch was weird. We saw Percy's gang sitting and laughing. It was obvious that they had done something. In between, Percy yelled, "I vote one!"
"What is going on there?" I asked.
"Probably mulling over their puny mortal lives." Drew said.
"Mortal lives, yes but not puny lives." Annabeth said.
"Hey! If you had to place the losers in cabins, which ones would it be?" I asked.
"Piper would be in Aphrodite" Jason said dreamily.
"Leo would be in Hephaestus" Calypso said smiling. We knew she liked Leo from the start.
"Percy would be Hermes. His smile makes me want to check my pockets every often." Annabeth said.
"Nico would be Hades. The Goth look he sports makes him one." I said shuddering.
"Katie would be in Demeter. She loves plants." Drew said.
"Frank would be in Apollo. He is the cheerful type." Hazel smiled in nostalgia.
We walked into gym and sat a bit away from the losers but we could hear their conversation.
"We should tell them. After all they will find out eventually." Katie said.
"No. Let's wait for the end of school." Frank said.
"I agree with Frank." Percy said
"You can never disagree with him when it comes to strategy. Honestly! Agree with your nephew!" Nico said grinning.