Hehe, I wrote this like five days ago and I guess I forgot to post it...sorry! Here, read it now!

"I don't like this. Not at all. I know of your history of…discrepancies, Peter, but this is unheard of. Bringing a mortal to camp? And I'm sure this one can't even see through the Mist."

Percy sighed and looked at the mousy man. "Look, I had to bring him. He swore he wouldn't say anything about what happens."

The man took a sip of his Diet Coke and rolled his eyes. "Mortals are unpredictable and distrustful."

"It's not my fault you don't like mortals, Dionysus." Percy said, and it seemed like everything got more intense. I, however, couldn't stand it anymore.

"You guys know I'm standing right here?" I asked.

"Shh!" Annabeth shushed me, which was the first thing she'd said to me all night.

"Please, can we move on to the matter at hand?" Asked the man named Chiron, who wasn't really a man at all. You know those supposedly mythical creatures, centaurs? A man from the waist up, and a horse from the waist down. Chiron was a centaur. The majority of his body was that of a white stallion. So much for mythical. I guess flying horses are supposed to be mythical too, and that Dionysus character just made a new can of soda, and by made I really mean made, as in he waved his hand and one appeared. So maybe a centaur really isn't the strangest part of my night.

"What isthe matter at hand?" Percy asked, turning to face Chiron.

"In West Virginia, there's a gathering of monsters and half-bloods. It came to our attention, so we sent some satyrs to see what was going on. Apparently, they're meeting and preparing to charge the camp. Undoubtedly this is some sort of anti-gods rally, though our spies were unable to discern the reason these demigods disliked their parents so. Regardless, they're going to attack within weeks. While it's nothing compared to the battle of Manhattan, we wanted some veterans on hand to help out. Will you two be on call?"

I was still trying to make sense of most of his sentences, so I was distracted while Annabeth began, for lack of a better word, prattling.

"Within weeks? I'll need to know which week. I can't just leave school dilly-dally. In fact, I have a project due on Monday which I haven't finished…but if you can tell me when they're a few days away from camp, I can get away for a few days, I'm sure."

Chiron looked to Percy, who said, "I'm here all the time."

The centaur nodded. "I'm glad that's settled. You two may return to school for now."

Annabeth sighed. Then the three of us left, saying goodbye to Chiron but ignoring Dionysus.

Annabeth was out of there fast, walking towards the huge pine tree with her arms crossed. Percy jogged to catch up with her. I watched him put his arm around her and say something I could hear. She replied, and let her arms drop to her sides. I could see Percy smiling.

Then three pegasuses landed in front of them. Pegasi, I suppose. Anyway, Percy and Annabeth stopped, and Percy patted the black one on the back. I caught up with them.

"I'd better get going," Annabeth said, hoisting herself onto the light brown flying horse. "I guess I'll see you in a little." Then she turned to me. "Um, bye, Chad."

She leaned down to kiss Percy's forehead, and then the pegasus took to the air and began to disappear in the night.

"Come on," Percy said, getting onto the black horse. I turned to the white and brown spotted one that was looking at me, and mounted it. I held onto to its neck pretty dang tight as we ascended. But once we were up, I opened my eyes and looked down at the city that began to unfold once we crossed the river. I smiled.

"This is awesome." I yelled to Percy. He turned his head to look at me and nodded. I looked back down at the lights reflecting off the water.

We seemed to get back to the dorms much faster than we'd left them. We said goodbye to the horses(which Percy could apparently talk to) and made our way back up the fire escape. We got back to 219 and I fell down onto my bed, suddenly very tired.

Did that all seriously just happen?

I slept until eleven the next day, and when I got up Percy was gone. At first I didn't give it thought, but then I slowly remembered the events of the previous night.

Percy was gone. Where was he? What if he'd gone back to the camp? What if the monsters had gotten him? I didn't really know anything about this world Percy had shown me last night, but the fact that he was missing did not seem like a good sign.

Then the door opened, and I leaped up, bracing myself for…I don't know what.

Percy's dark-haired head poked around the door, and then the rest of his body entered the room. He smiled at me.

"I bought you a cappuccino," he said, holding up one of two coffee cups he was holding. "You owe me a buck fifty."

I didn't know which I should comment on first-that he'd scared the crap out of me, or that he'd found a place that sold cappuccinos for that cheap.

"Thanks," I said cautiously, instead of either.

"No problem. I have to go over some lectures, so I'm gonna be in here for a while."

I nodded, sipping my coffee. Good for one-fifty.

Percy headed to the table he used as an all-purpose desk and pushed some stuff aside. I watched him for a moment, then went and sat on my bed, opening my laptop.

Something irked at my memory. I thought about last night. Not much of it made sense, but of course I'd sworn to secrecy. Not that I was planning on telling anyone-especially while I didn't understand it.

I opened Google, remembering what had been bothering me. The name Dionysus sounded familiar. And really, how many people named 'Dionysus' could there be?

So I typed it in and pressed enter. I actually spelled it wrong the first time(not surprising, right?), but after I clicked on the correction, it came up with over a million hits. The first, of course, was Wikipedia. I chose that link.

The article explained that Dionysus was a Greek god. It described him as the god of wine and ecstasy, and as "the god that comes". Avoiding all jokes possible, I scrolled down the page, but I'd really learned all I needed to know. Basically, I'd been conversing with a divine being the previous night.

Technically, he'd never spoken to me, so I guess that's not true.

But still. Sounds insane, right? It is. I should've been seeing a therapist for even having such thoughts legitimately.

Except that I'd ridden a flying horse. And that's kind of hard to ignore.

I looked up at Percy, innocently squinting at a textbook. I cleared my throat, deciding something needed to be said. He apparently didn't hear me.

"Percy," I said.

He didn't look up. "Yeah?" he asked.

"Can I ask you a question?"

He put down his pencil and turned around to face me. "Yeah?"

I looked at my computer screen, and then back at my roommate.

"Mr. D. Dionysus. For real?"

Percy stared at me. "What do you mean?" he asked, but he wasn't a very good actor.

"Percy, I know I'm not supposed to ask about last night. But if I was standing next to a freaking god can I at least know about it?"

Percy suddenly became very interested in his sneakers. "Look," he said, still staring at the floor. "You saw that they were mad. Can we keep this on a need-to-know basis?"

I stared once again at the photograph of a Greek statue on my laptop screen. "Need-to-know." I said. "I guess…I can deal with that."

Percy looked up at me and smiled slightly. I grinned back, and turned back to my computer.

So, what do you think? Chad's being awfully calm about this, huh? Maybe there's something wrong with him. What else could it be?
Next chapter: Development between Chad and yours truly! I love writing stories with me in them!
And more Percy-related, awesome Greek stuff.

Oh! In English, we're starting the Odyssey. It's so cool because I get to read about Greek mythology for SCHOOL! The part that made me super mad though, was that my teacher kept using the Roman names. I was like, "What are you talking about?! It's POSEIDON, not NEPTUNE!!!!!"

And he insists that Calypso is a goddess, but Joslyn and I agree that she's just an immortal daughter of a Titan. Right?

Anyway, you guys all rock my socks off! Except that I'm not wearing socks, I'm wearing pajamas. Anyway...

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