ANGEL
CAMP HALF-BLOOD
"Are you sure this will really work?" Clarisse asked skeptically.
"It has to, why else would Hermes send the letter?" Travis answered.
"I don't know, but how would they get out of Tartarus in the first place?"
"She has a point, it should be impossible," I added.
"Kronos got out," Nick argued.
"He's a titan," I retorted.
"We're talking about Percy, who's done things Hercules couldn't have, Thalia, who was so loyal she became a tree, and Nico who practically controls the underworld. Those three together could do anything," Chris said.
"Yeah, why don't we just send the IM and see?" Jake asked.
"Okay, Oh Iris goddess of rainbows please accept our offering and show us Percy Jackson in...Hell." Travis tossed a drachma into the rainbow the Hephaestus kids had managed to create.
Sure enough it worked. I saw the mist clear and there stood a boy with messy black hair, sea green eyes, and who couldn't be more than sixteen. When he saw us his gaze hardened into a glare.
"What do you guys want?" he hissed.
"Uh Percy…you look….good," Travis said nervously. Percy sighed.
"Spit it out, before I end this message."
"We're not sure, we just got a message to IM you."
"Really? You happened to get a massage telling you to contact me, and decided to do that?" Percy didn't seem as mad, now he seemed to be curious.
"Well you probably don't know it, but there's a secret rebellion going on. We're kind of it, there's some gods on our side and one of them sent us the message," Travis explained in a rush. Percy looked thoughtful.
"So he wasn't lying," he said to himself. I wanted to say something to him, to ask him if he would help us, but then a voice rang out.
"Hey Percy are you talking to someone?" Percy turned around.
"Yeah, bring the others over too. This is important." A moment four other teenagers appeared.
"Thalia, Nico how are you?" Travis asked.
"Well all things considered not bad," Thalia responded. So she's Thalia, and the pale boy with black hair must be Nico, I thought. I wonder though who the other two people are.
"What do they want Percy?" Nico asked. Travis cleared his throat.
"We're the rebellion."
"The rebellion? You should really come up with a different name. If the wrong person heard that it would really ring some alarm bells," the other girl said thoughtfully.
"That's what I said," Connor exclaimed.
"Who are the other two people?" I finally asked.
"The girl is Raven, and the boy is Raff," Percy answered. "Now what do you want?"
"Okay we want your help. Zeus is…unreasonable."
"You want to overthrow the gods."
"Not all of them, some are still good, but most of them not so much. So will you help?"
"That depends, what do you guys think?" Percy asked the others in his group.
"I say yes," Raven replied first.
"I'll second that," Thalia agree.
"I'm in," Raff said shortly. Nico just nodded.
"Then yes we'll help you," Percy declared.
"Okay now we need to get you out of Tartarus."
"We're not in Tartarus, we're in Hell," Nico interrupted. I took a look at their surroundings, it looked nice. I could see blue sky, some trees, and green grass.
"Wow, Hades gave the underworld a renovation!" Another demigod exclaimed. Raff grinned, and then Raven spoke.
"Al'ight who wants to break the news to them?"
"I might as well," Thalia said. "We're out of the underworld. We are in Hell yes, but a different Hell. We're actually in Michigan." Travis laughed.
"Hell, Michigan I should have guessed. Well we need to get you to Camp then."
"Camp? Are you crazy? We would be so found out there!" Raff yelled.
"It's okay, the Hephaestus cabin has excavated a bunch of tunnels under their cabins. We can hide you down here, all you guys have to do is get to New York." Percy nodded.
"Okay, that might take a few days. But we'll Iris Message you when we get there. I'll see you guys soon." With that Percy swept his hand threw the message and it was over.
A silence came over us, then everyone started talking at once.
"It really worked!"
"They'll help us."
"I wonder what Tartarus was like.'
"Who cares? I want to know how they got out."
"So you really think we'll be able to over throw the gods?"
I stood silently and watch everyone chatter excitedly, until Nick came over.
"So that was Percy Jackson," he stated.
"Yup."
"Isn't he suppose to be almost nineteen?" I shook my head.
"In Tartarus you don't age."
"Oh."
"Yeah they didn't want to deal with people dieing and leaving Tartarus."
"What happens if you're killed?"
"I don't know."
PERCYHELL
"Well that was interesting," Raven commented as she lay down on the grass.
"Yeah, but how are we going to get out of here?" I asked.
"I dunno, rent a car?"
"Do they even have a car rental here?"
"Probably, we are in Michigan. If they don't we can steal one, or hitchhike."
"Okay I'll go look around with Raven, you guys wait here and think up another plan," I ordered.
Raven and I walked around, but there wasn't any place to get a car.
"I guess we can steal one then," Raven suggested.
"No, we'd get arrested."
"Okay then we could get a map, a phone book, and head to the nearest big city to get transportation."
"Now there's an idea."
A few minutes later Raven was flipping through a phone book.
"Okay so three point four miles away is Pinckney and they do have a car rental. I think we can just walk there, it's not far."
"How do we get there?"
"It's easy we go northeast on Patterson Lake road, then we turn left onto Toma Road."
"Oh, that's it? Hey how do you read those roads?"
"Oh yeah, Daughter of Hermes. Ya know god of travelers."
"And how are we going to get the money?"
"Easy you ask how much to rent a car, wait you have a license right?"
"Yeah, after I turned sixteen I took the test."
"Okay well you tell me how much you need and I'll break into an ATM, or rob a bank or something."
"You do realize that there are cameras on ATMs and in banks right?"
"Yes I do, now let's get going."
"You know Raven we could steal a car from the car rental place." I said when we started walking, she spun to face me.
"That's brilliant! we should so do that!"
"I was joking."
"Yeah but it's a good idea. You or Thalia could distract the person at the front desk, and Nico could shadow travel inside and turn the cameras off. Then Raff could come with me to distract or knock out any security guards, I'll hotwire the car, and drive it around the corner, and we'll make our getaway!" I shook my head grinning.
"You Hermes kids really do love stealing things don't you?"
"Actually we just like breaking the laws, and it so happens stealing is illegal and we're good at it."
"Ah, so camp it really harboring a group of criminals, and delinquents."
"Haven't it always been doing that?"
"Yeah, I guess it has."
"That was close," Raff said from the backseat. Raven had somehow convinced us to go through with her crazy steal a car plan, and now she sat smugly in the passenger seat giving me instructions. Which weren't always helpful like a few minutes ago.
"No Percy, you were suppose to turn on the other road that turn the other direction, not this squiggly road."
"Raven which way are we going?"
"South, just follow the signs that say Detroit for now."
Despite some vague direction the drive was pretty fun, and now we're well out of Michigan. A few hours ago we stopped at a Seven Eleven and Thalia and Raff did a very convincing job of pretending to be charity workers collecting money. Then we took the money and bought some food, so in a way the money did go to help the needy.
Finally we made to New York, and then we had the problem of finding a Drachma, Nico found one in one of his socks that didn't have a match so he had never worn it. I was just about to send the message when Thalia stopped me.
"Wait! If Travis is with other people then someone bad might see you. Have Raff do it, no one knows who he is."
"Good idea, here you go, Raff." A minute later Travis Stoll appeared in front of us, fast asleep.
"YO STOLL! WAKE UP," I hollered. Travis jumped.
"Percy! Thank the gods, you're here, how close are you do camp?'
"We're a mile away," Raven said.
"Okay, guys wake up we got things to do. Jared go wake Jake up, tell him they're here. It's a good thing you're here Percy."
"Yeah, I got that." Travis shook his head.
"It's not like that, the gods are suspicious, and there are rumors flying that you guys are out. Any day now the gods are going to check Tartarus and find out you guys aren't there."