Author's Notes: Chapter 8 is out early this week and this chapter is all foreplay up until the lemon chapter, which is next. Chapter 9 will probably be out later this week.
Dinner was just as boring as I thought it would be. They gave us some barbeque and some soda, which is always a good dinner.
"Alright everyone," Chiron stood up to speak, "let's pray for another wonderful day and night. To the gods!"
"To the gods!" Everybody yelled in unison. Everybody got up and scrapped some of their food into the fire as an offering to the gods.
I sat alone at the Poseidon table near Cathleen and Landon's table. Landon looked over at me every now and then and smiled brightly, making me blush and smile back. Dinner went by fast and I was thankful for that.
We were told that there was no performances at the amphitheater and to just go to bed. That meant that I couldn't see any of my friends until tomorrow, so I decided to just go to my cabin and get ready for the next day.
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The smell of the ocean wafted though the cabin and calmed me when I wanted to get to sleep last night. Seeing the swordfish that used to scare me made me feel at home.
I didn't dream last night, which was weird considering demigods always have dreams. I just woke up feeling at peace with myself.
I decided that it was time to get dressed and walked outside. The sun was just raising and it looked beautiful. The grey sky with the red-yellow sun just at the horizon seemed to blend in an odd yet perfect way. I looked down the hill and saw Cathleen sitting in the dining pavilion, waiting for somebody to show up.
I ran up to her, "Hey Cathleen."
Cathleen looked over to me and smiled, "Hey Ryan, how was your date with Landon last night?" Cathleen got up and gave me a hug. "Did you have 'fun' with my half-brother?" She laughed loudly, hoping that she was right.
"Did you hear that Chiron put the Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades cabins together for activities today? No, I didn't have that kind of 'fun' with Landon but we did have a great date." I smiled happily, knowing we were going to have another date later today after the activities. "Did you hear that Chiron put the Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades cabins together for activities today?"
"That's awesome Ryan. I guess you're happy to have 'activities' with Landon today then aren't you?" She looked over at her cabin and saw Landon coming out, "Speak of the devil, here he comes."
Landon looked at the pavilion and saw us. He ran over and gave me a hug and kiss. "Hello Ryan." He smiled and turned to his half-sister, realizing he had offended her. "And hello Cathleen."
She smiled, "Thanks bro."
He turned back to me, "I can't wait until today's activities. We get to go Pegasi riding and try chariot racing." He smiled excitingly at the thought of riding a Pegasus. He looked around, "So, where's Jeremy and that Nico kid?"
We looked over at the Hades cabin and saw the boys coming out of their cabin. "Hey Jeremy, Nico, we're over here!"
Jeremy saw us and ran over to meet us, "Hey guys." He smiled and gave me and Cathleen a hug. "So what are we doing today?"
"We're going to learn how to ride a Pegasus and to drive a chariot." We looked at Nico.
"Yeah, but how did you know that? Chiron just put the list up this morning."
Nico looked at us and smiled, "I didn't sleep last night. I saw the list before anybody else did because I helped Chiron pick the activities."
"That's cool Nico, but why did Chiron choose you to help him pick the activities?" Jeremy asked his brother.
"While Percy and Annabeth are away from camp, I help Chiron pick the activities the campers do." Nico was warming up to us now and I was glad. I didn't need the only member in our group that I didn't know to be a downer.
"That's cool Nico. But who's Percy and Annabeth?" I wanted to know who they were because I had heard about them from the first minute I arrived at camp.
"Percy and Annabeth are the two best demigods in the whole camp and maybe even the world. They are also my two best friends and Percy is your half-brother."
My eyes widened, "What? One of the strongest half-bloods in the world is my half-brother. That's awesome." I trailed into thought, "Wait, did he bathe in the River Styx."
Nico looked away, "How did you know that he bathed in the river?"
"Lucky guess." I laughed and looked at Landon and Jeremy. "The River Styx is one of the rivers in the underworld that Achilles bathed in and made him almost invulnerable except for one spot wherever the person chooses."
"It can be very helpful unless somebody figures out where your one mortal spot is. That spot can kill you if it is punctured or hit because it becomes the only part of the body that keeps you tied to the living world."
"Wow, why would somebody swim in that river anyways then?" Landon was obviously confused.
"If they didn't have any other choice in the matter." Nico spoke softly but sternly. "Percy had to bathe in the river in order to defeat Kronus and to prevent him from destroying Olympus."
"What did you say Nico? Kronus tried to raise from Tartarus." Cathleen's eyes were about to fly out of her head. "But that's impossible. The gods cut him up into little chunks, so he couldn't have pulled himself together and Tartarus is impossible to escape from."
Nico looked away, "Not if a demigod helps him. One of the most respectable demigods at camp turned evil and became the host body for Kronus' soul, and he was just about to become his true self when this demigod killed himself in order to save the whole world."
"Wow, that kid sounded really cool in the end. What was his name?"
"His name was Luke Castellan. He was a son of Hermes." Nico looked back at us, "He was Percy's first friend at camp and the person who saved Annabeth from a life of running on the streets. He was like a big brother to her."
"Imagine how hard it would be to watch your best friend and your brother figure turn evil and die in front of you. My sister died almost three years ago and I still can't forget how I felt."
Jeremy went over to his half-brother and hugged him, "It's ok bro, you know have more friends to hang with. I know how you feel." Jeremy looked at me and Cathleen,
"I became an orphan when I was 10 and I didn't meet anybody until I meet these two here. They became my family and if they died, I wouldn't know what to do." Jeremy separated himself from his brother and went over to stand with us.
"Alright guys, lets go to the horse's stable and get ready to ride some Pegasi." Landon grabbed my hand and pulled me. I looked back and saw the rest of them walking behind us slowly.
"Hey, shouldn't we wait for the rest of the group?"
Landon turned around, smiled, and pulled me into the stable. "I just wanted some alone time with you to quickly cheer you up." He came over to me and kissed me on the lips. It took me by surprise, but I didn't mind it.
After a few seconds, he started to move his hands over my stomach and chest. It felt amazing to be touched like that and I started to moan into the kiss, "Hmmm." After another few minutes, we separated and the rest of the group came into the stable.
"Did we miss anything?" Cathleen smiled and laughed.
I blushed, "Only if you're a pervert." The best thing about Cathleen was that she never took me too seriously. "Ok, I'm ready to ride some Pegasi."
Look boys, some new campers. A black Pegasus whinnied to the rest of the Pegasi in the stable.
I looked over to the winged horse, "Look camper, some new boys."
The pegasi stopped their whinnying and looked at me, "Is that you boss? What, did you grow a few inches?"
"I'm not your boss and I don't know who you are?"
"Well if your not the boss, then how can you understand us?" Another pegasus asked.
"I'm a son of Poseidon, I can understand any animal of the horse family."
"Oh, I see. Hey guys, we have another boss here." The black pegasus neighed to his other friends.
"Ok, I'm your boss, so that means you have to listen to me."
"Yeah, we have to obey you." The black horse whinnied, "By the way, my name is Blackjack."
"Ok then blackjack, you need to help me and my friends with our riding lesson, so could you tell your friends to be nice?" I was hoping to hear a "Sure" or "No problem."
"I guess we could be nice to a boss and friends of a boss." He turned to his brethren, "Hey guys, we're going to help out the boss and his friends here, so be on your best behavior." The pegasi whinnied in unison, "Ok boss, we're ready to help."
"Thank you Blackjack." I turned to the group, "Ok guys, we're all set to ride the pegasi. Pick your horse and get a saddle, except for the black one, he's my horse." They nodded and each picked a horse to ride.
"Ryan, are you sure we're going to be ok on them?" Landon looked back at me with a worried expression.
"We'll be fine Landon, just stay calm when riding them and try not to squirm around to much in the seat." I smiled reassuringly at him and he smiled back. I hoped he felt better, maybe when we started flying and he was in the sky, his father's domain, he would feel better.
"Thanks Ryan."
"No problem." I turned to Cathleen, "How are you holding up?"
Cathleen looked nervous, "I didn't like flying in a secure airplane, how do you think I'm feeling." She frowned at me and I decided to just let her be.
"You'll be ok." I turned to Jeremy who was just having fun waiting on his horse, "Hey Jeremy, how are you holding up."
"I'm fine, can't wait to start thought."
"That's good." I finally turned to Nico, "How are you doing Nico?"
"This isn't my first time riding a pegasus so I'm ok, but thanks for asking." He smiled and turned to listen to his half-brother talking.
"Ok then." I turned forward, "Ok Blackjack, time to head out.
"Ok boss." He whinnied loudly, "Ok boys, time to move out." Blackjack started to run outside of the stable.
The rest of the pegasi neighed and followed Blackjack outside and into the air.
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If you ever get the chance to ride a pegasus, take the opportunity as soon as you can. It felt amazing to just glide through the air on the back of a horse. I don't know if just riding a horse made me feel better or if I just love flying, but I wanted to just fly all day.
"Yeah-hoo! This feels amazing." I looked back at the rest of the group. Nico was fine, riding perfectly smoothly through the air.
Cathleen was gripping the mane of the pegasus for dear life. I felt bad for the pegasus, but it didn't seem to mind that much.
Landon was doing better than Cathleen, but not by much. He was loosening his grip little by little but had originally been holding on tighter than Cathleen had.
Jeremy was doing just as fine as Nico was doing. He was smoothly sailing through the sky and wasn't holding on to the mane for his life.
"Hey boss, I'm getting tired. Could we maybe stop for the day."
I could feel him panting and I didn't want to have my pegasus faint from working to hard. "Ok, just let your friends know." I turned my head backwards, "Hey guys, we're going to stop for the day."
"Yeah guys, it's time to take a break."
"Ok Ryan." Nico started to have his pegasus descend.
"Thank the gods." Cathleen had been waiting for me to say that and had her pegasus descend.
"Alright Ryan." Jeremy and Landon responded, a little eager to end their trip, but they both had also seemed to be a little disappointed.
The whole pack of pegasi landed on the ground and we got off of them. "Ok boss, see you later and next time, bring us apples." The group whinnied in response.
"Ok then Blackjack. See you later." They walked back into their stables and I turned back to my group, "So, do you want to take a break before we go to chariot driving?"
"Sure, how about we go and see Chiron quickly." Nico suggested.
"Why don't you guys go visit Chiron, I want to spend some alone time with Ryan." Landon locked his arm to mine, making an arm chain. He looked at Cathleen for help.
Cathleen rolled her eyes, "Yeah, come on guys. Let's give them about an hour together to do whatever Landon wants to do." She pushed Jeremy away before he could complain and Nico just followed them.
I looked at Landon, "So, what did you have in mind."
"Oh, just this." He leaned in and started to kiss me like back in the stable. The same feeling of indescribability came over me and I seemed to melt at his touch.
He kissed me for what seemed like hours and I couldn't deny him even if I wanted him to. He pulled back, "I think we're ready to take this relationship to the next level, wouldn't you agree?" He smiled that smile I adored so much.
Again, I couldn't deny him even if I wanted to, which I didn't. "I think so. So what did you have in mind?" I smiled, already knowing what he meant.
"Well, I was thinking we could do this." He leaned in kissed me again, but this time, he slid his hand down towards my jean button.
We separated, "I knew that was what you wanted to do Landon." I looked him in his sky blue eyes and they seemed to sparkle with happiness that he would be getting what he wanted. "But I have one question," His look shifted from joy to fear, "where do you want to do this. I don't think we can just do that in the stable and if we go to my cabin people would get suspicion."
His face went back to a joyous one, "Don't worry about that, I already thought of that minor detail." He smiled again.
"Wait, you've been thinking about this for some time now, haven't you?"
"Maybe." He raised his eyebrow and lead me outside of the stable.
"So where are we going anyways?" I wanted to know where he planned to seduce me, although he could have done it in a truck stop bathroom.
"You'll see Ry, just be patient. When you see where I plan to do this, you'll be speechless."
Ok, I'll admit, that made me very curious and that didn't make me want to be patient. "Fine." We continued to walk until we passed the strawberry patch and I realized where we were going. "No, we're not going there are we?" If I was right, this would be amazing.
Landon smiled back at me, "Yes, we're going there Ryan. I had a feeling that this place would be the one place you would enjoy yourself the most, and I also wanted to try doing that there myself." We continued our way down past the cabins, awaiting to have some fun.