"One more word about how Perseus and Hercules were Zeus' most successful demigod children and I swear I will kill someone," Said Thalia to Rachel and me.
"Relax, Thalia, They are most definitely not his most successful demigod children now that you were born…" I said with a sigh, mostly just to relax her.
"You bet…" Murmured Thalia to herself, Rachel and I gave up on her in that second.
"The annoying beaus are on their way towards us," Warned Rachel, I nodded at her, signaling I saw them as well.
"Well, well, well, Grace, Chase and Dare, you all had gotten a very high score in the last test in the Greek Myth class, I thought we came to an understanding…" The leader of the annoying beaus was cut off just then, by the least expected person.
"Annabeth, Rachel, Thalia! Get your stuff and come with me, quickly!"
"Clarisse?" I asked, surprised.
"What in the name of Hades are you doing here?" Asked Thalia; if you ask me it was not a very smart move on her side since girls stood in their place, interested in our conversation once she said Hades…
"Our dear, loving parents had decided to call us all back to the camp few days earlier than planned, something about extra… well, you know… training," she whispered the last word, "before we leave the country or something like that…" Girls around us began to whisper among themselves about Thalia's slip-up.
"Why do I need to come?" Asked Rachel, she's right, she's not a demigod but Apollo's seer of Delphi.
"Because they said so!" Said Clarisse, the winning card, no one is willing enough to try and disobey the Olympian gods.
"What about my father?" Asked Rachel, worried that her father may find out she disappeared, which is highly unlikely.
"Already taken care of, your father, that is." Said Clarisse;
"Are we the last to be informed?" I asked, wondering if Percy knows about all that…
"No, Jackson is still unaware, and this is just in New-York, Chiron sent others for the rest…"
"How long do we have?" Asked Thalia;
"We have now! We really have to go…" Seeing Clarisse looking so frightened worried us and we hurried for our lockers and we emptied them till the last piece of paper, not expecting to come back. We hurried down the halls and made our way to the front doors of our school when our headmistress caught up with us. Since it was a boarding school, no girl was allowed to leave school without her parents or headmistress approval, and we had neither, or so I thought.
"Ms. Chase, Ms. Dare, Ms. Grace, do you have a letter from your parents that allows you to leave school? And you, I don't think I've seen you around here…" Said our headmistress, and Thalia was ready to call the mist for our aid, but Clarisse stopped her.
"I'm not a student in this school, I'm Annabeth and Thalia's close family member and I was sent here by their parents to collect them and bring them home safe and sound," Thalia snorted, after all if anyone could be safe and sound on his way to Camp Half-Blood there would be quit few more of us demigods…
"You need a letter and a signature from the parents." Said the headmistress, Clarisse handed out a piece of paper for her to take, and before she could say anything about the signatures Clarisse said,
"The signatures are of Annabeth' mother, Thalia's father and Rachel's guardian." The headmistress could do nothing but nod and let us leave school.
Clarisse led us to the camp's white SUV and we jumped in. As usual Argus was the driver, he smiled at us for greeting. He drove us to Goode High-School and we got out of the car, walking towards Percy's school. We entered the school with no problem and went to the principal office to ask for permission to let Percy out of school in the middle of the school day. We managed to do just that with Clarisse's help, who came ready with a letter from Ms. Jackson, Percy's mother.
We found Percy's classroom with no problem, as the principal gave us instructions, we also found out we was having his Greek Myth class right now. I knocked on the classroom's door and the teacher that was inside called me in. I stepped inside, and the boys in the classroom started drooling, I have grown into my looks, I have to admit. Percy looked at me, completely surprised at my appearance and I smiled softly at him, letting him know it was alright, that everything was just fine; there was no need to worry.
"Sir," I told his teacher, "I need to take Percy Jackson out of your class; I have the principal approval…" The teacher's eyes were searching me up and down, Di Immortals! He's checking me out! Gross!
"Why do you need to do so?" The teacher asked, do mortals have any line to where they push their noses into?
"It's a private matter." I said harshly, there were few cat calls in the class, they thought I was taking him out of class to make out somewhere or something of that nature, I wasn't, at least not now, we really had to go, our parents really hate to be kept waiting, I bet Zeus will blame any mistake in this trip on Percy, just to annoy Poseidon.
"Well, Mr. Jackson isn't going anywhere if I don't get an answer, and a clear one at that." I sighed, I hoped it wouldn't get to it, it was annoying for us demigods as it is, why don't you dig in a little bit more?
"Our parents were very clear, sir, we must tell no one why we are going home, we suspect they are trying, pretty lamely, if you will, to throw a surprise party to one of the family members and they are afraid it might reach his ears…" The teacher looked disappointed, I had a feeling he didn't like Percy and was trying to torture him for as long as he could.
"You are free to go Jackson," Said the teacher, I smiled lightly at him, and led Percy out of the classroom. Percy immediately asked what was wrong and we told him our parents called us all to the camp earlier and said nothing about why, Percy didn't question our answer, you learn how to never ask the gods actions, it is just a waste of time…