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I wanted desperately to talk to Annabeth to get her opinion on my dream, but she was spending her winter break in Olympus, helping her mother redesign the buildings and monuments that were destroyed during the war against Kronos. I suppose that the next best person to talk to would be Grover. I found him chatting happily with his girlfriend Juniper and a few other nymphs.
He spotted me and motioned for me to join him. I walked over.
"Hey Grover," I said. I looked over at the nymphs, "Umm, do you think I could talk to you alone?" I asked him.
Grover looked over at his nymph friends, "Uh yea, hang on," he turned to Juniper, "Hey Juniper I need to talk to Percy for a minute. In private." He added noticing that none of the nymphs had gotten up to leave.
A few of the nymphs grumbled at me, but they all left anyway.
Grover turned to me, "So what's up Percy?" he asked.
"Umm," this was going to be harder than I thought, "Umm, well I had a really weird dream last night, and I was wondering if Chiron mentioned anything about umm, uh, an important guest visiting Camp Half-Blood for the winter."
Grover looked at me funny, "What do you mean by 'important guest'" he asked.
"Uhh, well, umm, 'important guest' as in maybe a goddess." I said, struggling for the right words to say.
Grover looked at me some more. I could tell he was trying to read my emotions through the empathy-link he had set up a few years back. "Umm, which goddess do you mean exactly?" Grover asked.
"Umm, the goddess that all satyrs have a huge crush on." I answered him quickly.
Grover's jaw dropped, "Lady Artemis is staying at Camp?" he asked dreamily.
I sighed. It was going to be difficult to talk to him when he was in his own little Grover-World, "She might be." I said slowly, not wanting to get his hopes up based on some weird dream I had.
Grover frowned, "What exactly happened in your dream Percy?" he asked.
I told him, and when I was finished Grover was still frowning, "That's odd." He said slowly, "Artemis and Aphrodite have always been, umm, a little different from one another, but they both seemed to have umm, a little mutual respect for each other. I could never picture Artemis attacking Aphrodite, that's just…So unlike her." He finished (Sounding a little too dreamily at the end).
"Yea that's kind of what I was thinking too. Zeus thought that sounded a little far-fetched too, but went with the evidence that pointed against her." I said.
"So now Artemis is coming here?" Grover finished.
"Maybe," I added.
Grover sighed as he watched as a few small snowflakes fell from the sky, melting before they hit the earth.
"Did you talk to Chiron about your dream?" Grover asked, breaking the silence.
"No." I admitted, "But it was probably just another weird dream. Maybe I ate some bad pizza." I suggested.
Grover cracked a mischievous grin before pointing out, "The food here is never bad." He said.
I smiled too, knowing that that was probably the worst excuse a camper could come up with, but I decided to keep joking around, "I don't know," I said grinning, "The pizza certainly didn't taste normal, and I think Mr. D may have spiked the soda last night."
Grover laughed, "Oh yea, like Chiron wouldn't have noticed a bunch of drunk half-bloods wandering around camp."
I laughed at the thought of camp if that were to ever happened, "You know," I added, "If we were to get drunk though, it would definitely keep the monsters away."
Grover shook his head laughing, "Wow Percy." He said grinning.
Dinner was the same as usual. Naturally the food was delicious, but I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Grover up at the staff table sniffing the cola, obviously checking it to make sure it was alcohol-free.
After dinner, we had the camp sing-along, and shortly after a few songs (led by the Apollo cabin) about some heroes from Sparta, I went to bed. I was so tired and happy, that I was expecting a calm, dreamless sleep. Once again, I was wrong.
In my dream, a small, silver doe was walking besides a startling, white stallion. I know that it probably seems like a strange dream, but what's really weird is that I remember the same horse from a dream that I had back when I first learned that I was a half-blood. The animals were walking contently until the doe stopped in her tracks. A colossal peacock stood in the two animals' way. It was glaring at them murderously. It stalked up to the stallion and the doe, barely blinking, until the stallion reared up on the peacock and nearly knocking the beautiful creature to the ground. The peacock let out a terrifying screech, and a large hell-hound looking creature ran out from the woods behind the peacock and launched itself at the beautiful horse. It clawed down the stallion's side before changing targets, and aiming for the doe. As the animals continued to fight with each other, I vaguely remember hearing the screech of a large golden eagle that was watching the speculation from an overhanging tree branch. Watching with its sad, confused eyes.
That's when I woke up. I realized that I was drenched in sweat and shaking.
"Mmm, Percy, go to bed." I heard Tyson say groggily.
I didn't say anything, but instead, slipped on my sneakers and orange Camp Half-Blood sweatshirt, and crept out of our cabin and made my way towards the Big House.
I needed to tell Chiron about my dreams. They were kind of freaking me out, and I couldn't help but think that they were all related.
When I reached the Big House, I was about to knock, when I realized that the window was open, and I could distinctly hear three voices arguing.
I peeked through the window and saw Mr. D, Chiron, and an Iris-Message of Zeus talking to each-other.
Zeus looked similar to the time I had seen him in Mount Olympus, after we had defeated Kronos; as usual, he was stressed out. Chiron had a look of concern on his face, and Dionysus looked bored, sitting in a big, cushy-looking chair, drinking a Coca-Cola.
I heard Dionysus speak, "But Dad, she can't stay here. She and her hunters drive me insane. And she'll never get it through her immortal head that I'm the counselor of this camp, which technically means I'm in charge of all of the brats that stay at this camp, her included." Mr. D pouted.
Zeus sighed, he had obviously had this conversation before, "Dionysus, first of all, Artemis is coming alone. She won't have any hunters with her. Secondly, I assure you that I informed her of your position at the camp-"
"That you so graciously bestowed upon me," Dionysus added sarcastically.
Zeus glared at his youngest son, "Anyways, I assure you that she knows that you and Chiron are in charge of the camp." Zeus said warily.
"So how'd she react when you told her she'd have to spend the next few months here?" Mr. D asked eagerly.
"Mr. D, I really don't think it really matters." Chiron said, but Dionysus continued on,
"You know Dad; I think three months is way to short. I mean, I'm here for fifty years for chasing an off-limits wood nymph, and she attacks another immortal and only gets sentenced here for a few months? I think that's bull-"
"What are you doing?" Came a quiet voice from behind me. I about jumped out of my skin. I unsheathed Riptide, and whipped it in the direction I had heard the voice come from. Luckily thousands of years of hunting kept the owner of the voice from being sliced in half by Riptide.
Artemis arched an eyebrow at me, and had an amused gleam in her silvery eyes, "You know," she said, "by reacting like that you look extremely guilty of something."
I re-sheathed Riptide quickly, "I'm so, so sorry." I stuttered.
She seemed to ignore me, "Eavesdropping on someone in the Big House?" she asked curiously.
"Uhh, no, umm, I was going to talk to Chiron." I managed to say.
"Uh, huh." The goddess said, obviously not believing me. She looked ready to say more, but just then, the Big House door swung open. Chiron stood in the doorway.
He smiled when he saw Artemis, "Ah, Artemis you made it I see." Artemis didn't seem to be paying any attention to Chiron, she was to busy looking over his shoulder at the Iris-Message from her father. Zeus nodded his head in acknowledgement to her, and then swiped his hand through the message, disconnecting it.
Artemis's attention snapped back towards Chiron, "Oh, hello Chiron." She said politely, but still looking slightly distracted.
"Come on in then." Chiron said. He looked at me, "Percy what are you doing here?" he asked.
"Uh, I, umm, I had to talk to you about something." I muttered, "But it can wait until tomorrow." I said turning to go.
"Percy wait, come on in. I heard that the harpies have been a bit more moody lately, and aren't tolerating campers out of bed after curfew, and it would be a shame to find nothing but your bones by morning."
"Oh yea, cause that would be tragic." Dionysus said sarcastically.
Chiron ignored him, "You should come in." he glanced at Artemis who had taken a seat as far away from Dionysus as possible, "We won't take long." He said.
I nodded my head, and followed him inside.
"Now, Artemis," Chiron said, getting down to business, "Since your going to be here for a little while, we might as well make use of your archery skills."
Artemis arched an eyebrow at him challengingly.
Chiron sighed, "I meant," he continued, "Maybe you could help teach the archery class. Since Annabeth is in Olympus, I don't have anyone teaching Ancient Greek, so I'll have to fill that position full-time for now, and won't have time to teach both classes at once."
Artemis thought for a minute, "Sure." She answered, "Is that all?" she asked, getting up and heading towards the door.
"Artemis, by teaching the class, you'll have to be fair to all of the students." Chiron warned.
Artemis shrugged, "That's fine." She said.
Chiron sighed, "That includes the boys too." He said, sounding half-amused.
Artemis froze.
"That won't be a problem will it?" Chiron asked.
Artemis thought for a moment and sighed, "Chiron," she said, "If they won't give me problems, then I won't give them any."
Chiron smiled, "Fair enough. You know where to find your cabin then I assume." He said.
Artemis nodded and walked out the door.
Chiron turned his attention back towards me, "So what was it you wanted to talk to me about Percy?" he asked.
"Uh, I think Tyson will need a bigger bed, umm, he keeps falling out his bed onto the floor." I half-lied (it was a half-lie because that really wasn't what I was going to tell Chiron about, but it was true that Tyson kept falling out of bed). I decided that telling Chiron about my dream where a bunch of animals were attacking each other would sound pretty lame. Besides, it could've been just that; a dream.
Chiron furrowed his brow, "We'll see what we can do for your brother Percy, but are you sure that's all you wanted to talk to me about?" he questioned.
I shifted my feet, "Yea, I'm sure." I mumbled.
"All right." Chiron said, obviously not believing me, "You can go back to your cabin. Just be wary of the harpies." He warned.
I nodded and headed back to my cabin miserably. One good thing about tomorrow though; I don't have archery tomorrow. So no chance for me looking like a fool.
Once again, I was dead wrong.
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