Chapter 2
An Average Day
I mean I guess you could say that today was an average day for someone like me. Well as average as you can get for a demigod. But before I tell you what happened I might as well give you some information on myself. My name is Percy Jackson and I live in the state of New York in a place called Camp Half-blood. The people who live here are half human, half god and all live together because Camp Half-Blood is the only safe place for demigods, or so we thought.
I awoke to the singing of birds and the soft sound of waves crashing down on the shores of Camp Half-Blood. Opening my eyes I looked around my familiar cabin having a feeling of nostalgia from seeing all my souvenirs and rewards from my Quests for the Olympian gods. My life has been filled with adventure and dangers as I risked my life time and time again for my friends and families. Seeing as I completed the Great Prophecy last summer I have enjoyed the peace and quiet I have gotten from not having to risk my life every few months to save the world, however deep down I secretly missed the feeling of adrenaline and excitement of fighting against monsters and other enemies to the death, but as all things do after a while it gets boring and I was itching for another quest and seeing as though the next Great Prophecy was already given by my long friend Rachel, the Oracle of Delphi.
Stretching my legs I jumped out of bed changing my clothes and ran my hand through my hair while looking in the mirror to achieve some quality of being presentable. If you're wondering what I look like while reading this I have some what long scraggly black hair except for a single Grey streak signifying the time I literally held the sky on my shoulders, sea green eyes, and a lean but muscular body from all the training I do with Riptide, my lethal ball point pen that turns into a sword made of Celestial Bronze metal that was just about the only metal you could kill monsters with, other than Stygian Iron that is. Reaching a satisfying appearance for Breakfast I walked out of my cabin and then jogged down to the Pavilion where we have our meals for the day. While I headed over to breakfast I saw some familiar faces on the way down, waving and saying hi I moved on but then stopped as my gaze rested on a pink cabin with flowers all around. The cabin of Aphrodite. Seeing this I remembered probably the bravest daughter of Aphrodite to ever live. She lost her life saving us from almost imminent death by the hands of the Titan Lord Kronos. She brought us much needed reinforcements which changed the course of the battle helping us to win. She died a hero and nothing could ever change that.
Moving on from the depressing thoughts of Silena Beauregard, I finally reached the pavilion where some campers were already sitting down and eating. Walking over to the empty Poseidon I sat down by my self since I was the only child of one of the Big Three, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon. Soon after sitting down a nymph brought over a plate of food and I ordered my daily dose of blue orange juice in the cup in front of me. Getting up I walked over to the Brazier where I sacrifice some of my food to the gods, as I reached the brazier I threw in some food while I gave my offer to Poseidon the god of the sea cause he was my dad but as I was walking away I had the urge to give an offer to another god which I almost never did. Making a split second decision I walked over to the fire threw in another offering of food. An offering to Apollo the Sun god. As I walked away I felt a sense of acceptance as if I finally proved to some one I was worth it.
Finishing breakfast I got up from my table, turned around and ran straight into the body of a girl. Stepping back I noticed her blond wavy hair with a single Grey streak like mine, startling Grey eyes and her welcoming face as I came upon my girlfriend Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. Laughing at her startled expression I kissed her on the cheek and said "How come the only way I can sneak up on you is by accident?". Smirking Annabeth replied "Because you are as stealthy as Grover when there Enchiladas in a hundred mile radius of him.". Embracing her in a hug we walked and Talked about our day so far. Telling her about my urge to give an offering to Apollo, she stopped. Watching her gulp she asked almost to herself "you too? This is not good, I mean what are the odds that we both felt like randomly giving an offering to the sun god on the same day?". Great Annabeth never freaked out unless something really bad was about to happen " Yip-pee, just what I need in the morning. Looks like Apollo is getting a little lonely up there in Olympus, Huh?" I replied sarcastically. Looking at me she looked like she was about to answer but then shrugged it off and said "yeah, your right it's probably no big deal.". However I could she was thinking long and hard about what it could possibly mean all through out the day. Even when she was teaching Ancient Greek history she looked distracted and also even when Chiron announced the capture the flag game tomorrow night she didn't get that cute, but calculating look she would get when she tries to think up a plan for our team to win as we currently held the flag because we won the last five games in a row.
That night me and Annabeth dueled in the training arena. Even with my curse of Achilles, which grants me invulnerability except for one certain spot on my body, and the fact I had a sword and she had a knife our fights were usually close and brutal, even if I would won 9 out of 10 times, and she would put up one Hades of a fight. However tonight she looked rusty and distracted as I beat her for the third time in a Row. Stopping for a water break I approached her. "Annabeth, whats up? You've looked distracted and delirious the whole day. Are you worried about what happened this morning at breakfast?" She sighed and ran her hair threw her golden blond hair before replying "I mean come on Seaweed Brain, there is no way that us both having the feeling to give an offering to Apollo is not connected, because you know as well as I do that nothing happens in the world of Gods and Goddesses for no reason.". Hugging her to calm down I looked down at her and said "Seriously Annabeth? You have become paranoid I mean there are some things that are just coincidences and not some great sign of destiny. Come on stop worrying whats the worse that could happen?'. Before she could even answer there was a flash of light to to my left. Looking over I wished I didn't ask what was the worst thing that could happen because I jinxed myself into having probably one of the top 5 worst things that could happen in that moment of time happen. Me and Annabeth hastily knelled as we gazed upon Apollo, God of the sun.
Apollo looked at us impatiently and motioned us to rise. Looking at me he said "Ahh, Percy finally I reach you.". Now its my turn to be all nervous because I learned that if a God personally comes and finds you nothing good can come form it. Looking up confused I answered "Me? Why have you been looking for me?". "Because Percy I need your help. There is a quest I need you to undertake and it is of the up most importance." Realizing Apollo didn't crack one joke or recite some joke Haiku about how awesome he was I knew things had to be pretty bad because in most sticky situations Apollo usually sits back and listens to his Ipod letting others figure out the issues of the gods for him. "wait what quest? I talked to Rachel yesterday and she didn't say anything about her feeling like a quest is about to be issued and usually she can tell with these sort of things." asked Annabeth. Apollo nodded Grimly before saying "she couldn't tell that there would be a quest soon because this quest isn't exactly for a Greek demigod." Not a Greek demigod? That doesn't make sense, I mean what other kind is there? I thought. Letting Annabeth take the lead she got a suspicious look in her eye and asked "what exactly do you mean not a Greek demigod? What other kind is there?" Even though she asked I had a feeling that she had an idea of what he could mean. Apollo apparently guessing the same thing I did looked at her expectantly and said "I think, Annabeth, you know what I'm talking about." I turned to her seeing her put on a thoughtful expression and asked "wait what the hell are we talking about?" Annabeth, still staring at Apollo, said "he is talking about what I have suspected before. He is talking about the Roman demigods.
After Apollo and Annabeth both took about three tries each I think I finally understood what they were saying after about an hour. "wait time out, so when the Romans began to worship the Greek gods under different names and personalities the gods changed into having two persona. One Greek and one Roman, so that means my dad is Poseidon but he could also be Neptune at some point?" I asked remembering what my dad was called in Roman times in middle school Latin class. Apollo nodded in content as I finally understood what they were talking about and said "yes and I need your help in getting one of these Roman Demigods back. More specifically not just any Demigod, this demigod is mine. I need your help in rescuing Hazel, my only daughter in either of my personalities." "Alright, that sounds easy enough so why do you need us?" " The Romans just won't be able to save my daughter if I let them go on this quest by themselves, don't ask me how I know that because my answer will be I'm just awesome like that." Smirking I said "haha, glad I know you still can joke around, but I still don't understand why it's such a big deal that I'm about to search for your daughter and why we haven't known about the Roman demigods before." Shaking her head Annabeth looked at me mumbling something like "...i should have looked for a boy at the library." "Shut up Wise Girl, so?" "Lets just say the two camps didn't get along that well so the gods decided that it would be better for every one if you guys were kept apart because you have a natural instinct to hate each other." Clapping his hands he added "alright now that you know what is going on we, as in me and Percy, need to be on our way if we are to get you set up in the other camp fast enough. Say good bye to Annabeth." As me and Annabeth Embraced she whispered into me ear "if you don't come back, I'll come find you in the underworld and beat you till you would rather be in the Fields of Punishment. So watch out Seaweed brain!" she added warningly. Laughing I kissed her on the cheek and said "you can count on it Wise Girl." "Alright Percy hop in." called Apollo from the drivers seat of his red Maserati Spyder. Jumping over the door I slid in the passenger seat and before I knew it we were already in Pennsylvania before Apollo finally broke the silence by asking "care for a Haiku to boost your spirit?" I just groaned and looked which to Apollo must have meant yes because as I looked down at the passing land I heard from behind me, "Sooner or Later..."