Note:
-Well I hope that you liked the last chapter! I know it wasn't too eventful but things will slowly start to pick up. As always please review and give us some feedback! ~Lunas13
-Disclaimer: We do not own Percy Jackson Characters or Lord of the Rings characters. If we did we would be rich and probably never tasted Ramen in our lives.
Chapter 2 - We get cleaning duty
Percy Jackson's P.O.V - First Person
So you know that growing feeling of "I'm going to be strangled by grape vines"? Well that was how I felt at the moment with one angry Mr. D glaring at me, Travis, Connor, Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, and Nico. As you can imagine he wasn't really that happy about the food fight and even less happy when a bowl of mash potatoes hit him in the face. Travis and Conner were in trouble for starting it, Thalia threw the second eatable thing making her a big part of it too. But that hit Annabeth and so she got involved which got me involved. Grover joined in for the fun of it. I threw mashed potatoes at Nico who deflected it with his sword and it hit Mr. D.
"I don't know why any of you thought that this was a good idea. First Clover and Tanner start this." I saw the two brothers glare slightly at being called the wrong names. "Or why Tina would even think it was a good idea to fight back in stead of ignore it!" I could see that Thalia was dying to say something but she bit her lip to refrain from doing so. "Then you have Annie Bell and Peter Johnson getting involved."
"It's Annabeth and Percy." I grumbled but Mr. D merely waved his hand in a dismissive way towards me.
"Do not interrupt me Perry Johanssen. Now where was I... Oh yes. That action of Annie Bell and Perry becoming involved got the rest of the camp involved in your petty food fight. Then Nick hit a bowl of mashed potatoes at me!" We all shared a look of unease at the temper spike from Mr. D. "Now you need a punishment. You seven will be solely responsible for cleaning up every ounce of spilled food. You will not be allowed to retire to your cabins until everything is picked up. Now get to it." We watched as Mr. D stormed back to the main house.
"Thanks a lot Stolls! Because of you ανόητος (idiots) we're stuck on cleaning duty!" Thalia glared at them and then walked over to one of the shockingly clean tables to get a trash bag.
"You know you didn't have to throw food back at us." Connor said. I just grabbed a bag and started to pick up food alongside Annabeth and Grover. As I was picking up I noticed some of the Ares' kids 'dropping' empty chip bags or other things on the ground to add to our clean up duty. I glared at them but they only snickered in response.
"Yes I did. You were the ones who didn't need to start anything with us anyways! Last year you poisoned Phoebe and this time you threw food at Emma. You're lucky that she didn't shoot you. Honestly... Εσείς οι δύο διάγνωσης makers και είμαστε πληρώνουν για αυτό (You two are trouble makers and we're paying for it)..." I could tell Thalia was getting more irritated with the brothers due to her slipping in and out of Greek.
"Annabeth, why don't you go over to Thalia? Maybe if you work with her on her area she'll calm down enough not to shoot Travis and Connor in their sleep." Grover was the one who suggested the idea. Annabeth glanced at me before she walked over to Thalia. The two were making small talk and Grover's plan seemed to be working.
"I don't really even stay here and yet I get dragged into this because you threw mashed potatoes at me." Nico sighed and sat on a table. He looked even paler than before and his hair had grown slightly longer covering his eyes a little.
"Well stop complaining and help us clean up." I grumbled. Nico got of the table but then walked away in stead of grabbing a bag to help us clean up. I rolled my eyes and thought of going to get him and drag him back here to help us. But it turned out that I didn't need to.
I saw Nico walking back a minute later with Mrs. O'Leary. My Hell Hound then walked over to us and began to eat the food off of the grass. I had to hand it to Nico; this was a good idea. But we still had to clean up all the foods that had chocolate as well as trash. Sure she wasn't a normal dog but that didn't mean that chocolate wouldn't make her sick. Better safe than sorry. We finished clean up quicker than expected thanks to Mrs. O'Leary.
Meanwhile in Middle Earth
King Aragorn's P.O.V - First person
I looked at what remained of the white city, the rebuilding of Minas Tirith would begin tomorrow. However that was overshadowed by an feeling of unease that has been looming over me ever since a vision came to me in my dreams; a vision of darkness and fire surrounding seven children.
Unsure of what to make of it, I begin grow restless and the crown of the king of gondor grows heavy on my head. My hand finds it's home on the hilt of Narsil; where a bodeing feeling arises, a feeling that I will need to fight with it sooner than I had planned to. I turn my eyes to the east, where I see the mountains of shoudow in the distance. Don't let the darkness return to Middle Earth... I let out a sigh as I walked out of the crumbling city of kings; hopeful that Gandalf will recieve my letter soon.
Dearest friend,
I had heard rumor that you had returned to middle earth, If that is the case then I have just cause to fear these coming months. In which I will be praying to Manwe and Varda for your favor, along with middle earths saftey. If it is of any assistance to you I would like to tell you of the unerving dreams that have been plaguing me as of late. In which there are always seven children surrounded by fire and shadows, eminating great powers that while do pale in comparison to your own, are no trifiling matter. The dream endings vary from peaceful bliss to an inferno of death and torment. I do not know what to make of this next part but it stuck out of all the other visions was something I saw in the ashes of destruction, a shadowy figure engulfed by fire, not harmed nor afraid by it, but just there. That is all that I have that could be assistance to you and if its not to much to ask, I would like to speak to you once again, not as a king. But as a friend.
P.S: I've also heard that you have taken on your older form once again.
Back at Camp Half Blood
Annabeth's P.O.V - First Person
We cleaned up pretty quickly thanks to Mrs. O'Leary. Thalia and I agreed to take our turn in the showers after the boys since there was more of them then us. Plus it gave me an oppertunity to talk to Thalia. She has traveled the world more with Lady Artemis and her hunters so maybe she would recognize the writting on the strange rock Percy lent to me.
"Hey Thalia, can you take a look at this for me?" I asked as I handed the rock to her. She ran her fingers over the thinned edges and noted the shape of the rock. It was interesting because it was sort of shaped like a coquina shell. Then she turned it in her fingers and looked at the writing.
"What does it say Annie?" I rolled my eyes at her nickname for me; but decided now was not really the time to argue with her about that.
"I don't know. I was hoping that you might recognize it. You have travelled more than I have all over the place so I was hoping maybe you'd recognize the language it's in."
"Sorry but I've never seen writing like this before." Thalia handed the rock back to me and I sighed and looked at it again. It looked so familiar yet I could not put my finger on it! That didn't mean I would give up by any means. I would solve this mystery no matter what. As I was turning it I began to notice that in some areas the black shine of the rock was beginning to fade and a metallic green began to shine dimly. I was so focused on the rock that I didn't notice the boys come out till Thalia shook my shoulder.
"Hey it's our turn. So put your little rock of wonders away and come on." Thalia hopped off the table she was sitting on and walked to the showers first. I looked at the rock and jogged over to Percy.
"Hey hold onto this for me and look at it closer. There was something I was beginning to see but I want to make sure other people are seeing it too. Just observe the rock." With that I walked over to the showers leaving my slightly confused (and cute) boyfriend staring down at the rock he found earlier. I walked through the doors and pushed it shut just in time to hear Connor speak up.
"Hey let me see that." As he took the rock from Percy's hands a feeling of unease over came me.
Note:
-So I'd like to give credit to Trevor for writing the section of the chapter that was in Aragorn's P.O.V back in middle earth. I thought we did pretty good. Also for those who were wondering the next chapter will likely be the one where the Demi-Gods go to middle earth.