CHAPTER 15
After my sudden outbreak, I ran off to my cabin. I was so mad and upset, I broke my window. I packed my bags, and ran. I don't know where I'm running to, but I need time away from camp. It was too much. Just for the fun of it, I should go to Kronos. Just to freak everyone out. To get them back, for all the pain and mixed emotions I'm having right now.
I took a cab to the city of New York. I had never really left Sally's apartment, only to just go to school, and I had never left camp. I was really bored now, but before the driver did, I felt something above my head. I looked up, and saw a sign. Confused, I slipped out of my body to get a better look. The driver screamed at the same time. 15. That was the sign. Today was my birthday, and I was 15. Wow. I slipped back into my body, and the driver looked relieved. But, I was 15. As old as many of the demigods. Okay, technically, I was 3. But, today was my birthday. So, yay! I was 4! But, nobody would be around to celebrate my birthday… oh well. Maybe I could just treat myself to dinner or something.
The driver dropped me off 4 miles before my destination, because I realized I had no money. But we were already in New York city, so I was fine. He dropped me off near a bunch of restaurants. I chose the one called The Streetwise Oak. I walked in and ordered a table for one. They sat me down, and a lady walked up before he put down the menus.
"May I join you?" The woman asked.
I didn't know what to say, and she was already halfway sitting, so I said, "Sure." The waiter asked if we wanted to split the bill, but the woman said she would pay. Then, the woman ordered us both spaghetti and meatballs. When the waiter left, she turned to me.
"I'm sorry."
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm the wise one…" The woman said.
"Athena?" I said. She nodded.
"I'm sorry about what happened at your camp today. No one had any idea you had been kidnapped and abused. And I'm, especially sorry, because I was the one who suggested we not tell you," Athena said.
"It's alright. But what is it that you didn't want to tell me?" I asked.
"Well… Typhon may have risen again. I, we, don't know. And, 2 people have been brought back from the dead. They don't know each other are alive. But, I am afraid they are near," Athena said.
"I know who," I said.
"Who, then?" Athena asked, listening very carefully.
I bit my lip back. "I… I can't tell. This person will come up and say when they're ready. Sorry," I said.
"It's okay. But, you should return to your camp. Hera, also talked to Zeus, and your parents are fine. Oh, and happy birthday!" Athena said, before flashing out. The waiter came back, confused, but I played with the mist a bit to make him think I was never there, and left. I called a cab to go back to camp half-blood.
We arrived there an hour later. I took a deep breath, and walked up to my mom's pinetree. I looked over at camp, and everyone was crowded around the Camp-Fire. I couldn't see what they were doing, but they were almost done, so I silently walked back to my cabin, got in my bed, and slept some more, thinking about how wrong everyone was about Typhon rising, and that we were in much, much worse trouble, because Kronos was rising again. Bu not only Kronos; Gaia and Uranus were rising, too. And one thing I knew for sure, was that they would stop at nothing to get me on their team.