Chapter 5
Nick's P.O.V.
I looked around as me and some of my army flew on Pegasus's to New York. Some like me were on chariots. As we flew on I looked down at a picture I had in my hand. It was of a man who looked about 17. I thought back to a few summers ago when I was fourteen. I had decided to head home for the summer. The kid in the picture was Zach. He was seventeen at the time of the picture and sort of my mentor. When I had decided to go back for the summer I was having a hard time and Zach worked at the local diner and after a week of me sitting alone in a booth alone he decided to come and talk to me.
I was shocked and said "Why would a seventeen year old who has a job talk to a fourteen year old like me?"
He replied with "It's a vibe I get from you." I laughed at that and introduced myself. He told me his name and soon we started to hang out. He was sort of the big brother I never had, well except at camp. Well so over the course of the next few weeks Zach and I grew closer until I started to develop feelings for him and one day when I tried to act on those feelings he got up and ran away. A few weeks after that when I walked into the diner he walked over and talked to me. He helped me with my feelings but a few days before I had to leave for camp a man appeared and killed Zach. I later found out that the man was Mercury. Since then I have sworn revenge on kids of Mercury until I found out that Zach was actually a spirit of hope up on Olympus. I smiled as I thought back to that summer, but then my attention as brought back to reality as one of my officers told me that we would be landing soon. I nodded and drove my chariot faster. In about half an hour later we landed in New Jersey near the bridge that would take us into New York.
As the chariots and the pegasi landed I told my troops to set up camp in the woods. I walked over to the water and looked across to New York with binoculars. I looked at the peaceful city. I called over the head of the Trivia cabin. "Can we find a way to get every mortal out of New York for a few days?"
The boy looked at me and said. "We can pray to our mom and try out best." I nodded and watched as he ran over to his siblings then as they all went over to the temporary shine we had set up for our parents.
I looked at my head officers and said. "We need to get the army ready for tomorrow. If the Trivia kids can do as I want then we can get into the city tomorrow. Have a watch set up. Every two hours and make sure there are at least three kids on watch." The nodded and went off to relay the orders.