Chapter 30.
We're still giggling when we run onto the platform. Grace looks annoyed and Thalia and Liam are sword fighting. Or, Thalia has Liam backed up against the shelter and has a sword in her hand. There are no mortals around. "Go on Liam!" I mock.
"Get lost, Katy. I'm just tired." He replies.
"He was also tired when we first met. And the last time." Thalia shouts and grins.
"I think I should see a doctor about that." He replies.
"Or spend less time looking up certain videos online at night." I say. "I'll give you a hint, he stole my body lotion,"
"What type of videos Katy?" Nico jokes.
"You lot are disgusting." Thalia laughs.
"I don't get it." Grace says seriously.
"Well Grace, when a man and a woman love each other very much." I begin but Nico gives a not so subtle cough and I snort. "Or when Nico and Will are in the Hades cabin,"
"Or when a certain oath is broken." Thalia nods
"Or when the gods feel like starting another war that they won't be fighting in." Nico adds but keeps stopping himself to catch his breath because he's laughing so hard.
"Or when my mum wants to play dress up." Chantelle points.
"Or if someone finds you not completely repulsive." Olivia says. I'm almost crying now.
Because my sense of humour is stupid jokes.
"Oh look, a rainbow." Thalia points. We all look in her direction and the clearest rainbow ever is in the sky. Even though it's not cloudy and it hasn't rained today. "Wait." I say. "How come there's a rainbow if there's no clouds or rain to separate the light?" I ask "that's a pretty bright rainbow."
Thalia's eyes bulge and she starts rummaging through her backpack. She pulls out a little pouch and takes out a golden coin. "You know how when you three went missing and you turned up here? And you, Katy?" Thalia asks. "And how we think Will and Rosie went at the same time? Maybe they're going to end up here too?"
"What if that explosion in the school was them?" I ask. "No, that would create too much attention, I think that could have been a warning." I wonder.
"Well, maybe they're Okay? I think we should a Iris message them, maybe that's her way of trying to tell is this?" Thalia thinks.
"Yes. Yes do it." Nico urges. Thalia nods and tosses the coin upwards while shouting,
"Goddess Iris please accept my offering!" And throws her arms upwards. I yelp as gust of strong wind sweeps me off my feet for a second before I land with a thud. I hear the others around me groan and Thalia screaming: "show me Will Solace." Then, after a second, "please."
I stand up and see Will's face in the sky. His blue eyes match the sky. He has a bow on his back and doesn't look like he's being tortured. I breathe a sigh of relief. But brief silence is brief as Nico scolds him. "WHERE. THE BLOODY TARTARUS. HAVE YOU BLOODY BEEN YOU ABSOLUTE BLOODY IDIOT." He screams. He didn't use the word bloody or idiot but I'm a godsdam lady and I will not repeat what he actually said.
"I swear on the river Styx right, I went to bed the other night, right? and this morning I woke up on some public bus with Rosie from Demeter cabin."
"Hi." A girl who I guess is Rosie interrupts.
"On this bus on the way to, what was it? I think this place called Yarm. Anyways we're there now and we're in this high street and I have no idea where to go but it's where we got off. It looks pretty old."
"Yarm is a twenty minute walk away from here." I say. "Where abouts are you?" I ask.
"Near a grocery shop called Sainsbury's I think. I don't know, we got this chocolate bar in there with a five pound note there was in my pocket." He holds up a kit kat.
"Ok. So, lemme get this straight, right. You woke up in a place you've never been before and your first instinct is to, buy a chocolate bar?" Thalia asks.
Will goes red. "We got hungry."
"Does anyone else know you're safe? Have you contacted camp?" Nico asks.
"We can't. We only have British money and we can't exactly use a phone. So, yeah. We were kind of hoping that something like this would happen."
"Right. We're on our way now. Don't move, don't die, don't get hit by a bus. Just, stay there. We'll be there soon." I say.
The image starts to flash and soon the rainbow is back, brighter than before. We begin to walk to the highstreet.
"Who needs trains when you can wake up on some mystery bus?" I laugh.
"Quite a few people actually, Jason once woke up on a school bus with all his memories stolen." Thalia informs. "Which is reason 143 why we all hate Hera,"
"And I guess your dad being her husband doesn't make it any better?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, my step mother invites all us Demi gods around for thanks giving every year and then we all get thrown into a fire. Yeah, she's a. Well, how can I put this in a way that won't get me vaporised?"
"Hephaestus gave me a flame thrower in my first quest." Chantelle says.
"Persephone once helped Will to plan a surprise birthday party for me."
"Samantha's pretty good." Liam says. "And pretty hot actually,"
"Bro." I stare at him.
"You're not denying it."
"She's horrible. If we don't do our home work properly then she makes us do it again." Grace says.
"You never do your homework." Liam says, "that's why she checks your school books."
"Well I'm sorry that I'm not a big nerd like Katy." She spits,
"I'm the most unorganised person in my class." I laugh. "I only revise if I have a strict teacher."
"Why are you arguing about homework?" Nico asks us.
"Try and find something we won't argue about." I laugh.
"Does pineapple belong on pizza?" He quizzes
"Yes," I say.
"Oh my God, that's disgusting." Grace gasps,
"I don't like pizza." Liam says.
"They're both wrong." I say,
"I'm allowed to have my own opinion." Liam crosses his arms.
"Not if it's the wrong opinion."
"she's right." Thalia defends me.
"Fine. Is Pluto a real planet?" Chantelle asks.
"Yes." Nico and I reply almost instantly.
"It's a dwarf planet." Liam says.
"Your junk is dwarf." I snap.
"Ok, point proven." Nico admits. "Now Liam, apologise."
"For what?"
"For offending Pluto." I say.
"I'm sorry Pluto?" He laughs.
"Viva la Pluto." I repeat.