These drabbles were written for: Percy Jackson Fanfiction Challenges - kitty132383: The 100 Prompts/100 Drabbles Challenge
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17. Water
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Thalia Grace wasn't your usual Hunter of Artemis.
She didn't hate boys.
She had friends who were boys...
Some of her fellow Huntresses couldn't even believe it.
"We should play a game," Rasy suggested as they were sitting next to the campfire and everyone nodded.
"A person says a word and the next one has to say the first thing she has on her mind," Lily said.
"The newbie starts," Phoebe said and Thalia smiled, she wasn't the newest anymore.
"Hunt," Angela said with a grin on her face.
"Forest," Cammie said as she was on Angela's left.
"Plants," Emily said and everyone rolled their eyes. It was a typical reaction from a daughter of Demeter.
"Water," Lily said and Phoebe questioningly looked at her.
"Plants need water just as light, good soil and...," Phoebe cut her off.
"Okay, wiseacre we understand," she said and gestured to Melia. "Water," Phoebe repeated.
"Sea," Lia said suddenly.
"Percy," Thalia reacted automatically and everyone was looking at her weirdly.
"Who is Percy?" Cam asked enthusiastically.
"I'm guessing it isn't a nickname for Persis or Prudence," Lia looked at Thalia challengingly.
"Nope," Thalia agreed and she even nodded. "It's a nickname for Perseus," she said and a lot of Hunters even gasped.
"So, the first thing that came into your mind is the name of a boy?" Melia asked mockingly but Thalia didn't care.
"Yeah," she said simply.
"I think Lady Artemis would find this piece of information really interesting," the daughter of Eris said and Thalia smirked.
"Oh, she knows Percy," she simply shrugged.
"She knows that you have a close relationship with a boy?" Lia asked and the others were looking at them as if they were playing tennis. Some of them even made bets who will win the battle of words; they hoped that they don't start fighting literally.
"Yes," Thalia simply nodded.
"She knows that you have broken your vow?" the dark brown-haired daughter of Eris asked and the Lieutenant raised her eyebrows. No one was even breathing as they waited for Thalia's answer.
"Who said anything about breaking my vow?" she asked curiously and she was even slightly amused.
"You said that you have a close relationship with a boy," Melia stated and Thalia nodded.
"Yes, I have," the Lieutenant of Artemis agreed.
"We all swore off boys," Lia said dramatically.
"Yes and I have never broke my pledge. It doesn't say that you can't have friends who are male," Thalia explained and those who held their breath back where now free to breathe.
"So, Percy is just your friend?" Cam asked curiously and Thalia nodded.
"Yeah, he is the child or the Prophecy and he is the only demigod son of Poseidon now, that's why I have said him. You know, Poseidon, god of the seas," the Lieutenant suggested but everyone still dumbfounded.
"I think we should continue," Lily said suddenly and everyone agreed while the daughter of Zeus just rolled her eyes.
Why couldn't she have friends who were boys?
It wasn't their fault actually.
Thalia never really understood the other Hunters, while the others didn't understand her...