A/N Hi my lovely readers, new chapters. and this is the third and last edition of Grover losing pants edition. I swear, even I am tired of writing about poor satyr losing his dignity.

Chapter: 13 Grover loses his pants Part 3 (And hopefully the last part!)

Thalia's pov

Hera began reading

An hour later we were ready to took a break from his poker game long enough to watch me lug my mom's bags to the car. He kept griping and groaning about losing her cooking—and more importantly, his '78 Camaro—for the whole weekend.

Several growls were heard from all around the throne room.

"Not a scratch on this car, brain girl," he warned me as I loaded the last bag. "Not one little scratch."

"Like she had been driving!" Lord Triton growled. Wow! yay to those sunglasses -3d glasses thingy

Like I'd be the one driving.

Lord Triton smiled.

I was twelve. But that didn't matter to Gabe. If a seagull so much as pooped on his paint job, he'd find a way to blame me.

"Well, technically that would be Poseidon's fault. " Lady Amphitrite supplied.

Watching him lumber back toward the apartment building, I got so mad I did something I can't explain. As Gabe reached the doorway, I made the hand gesture I'd seen Grover make on the bus, a sort of warding-off-evil gesture, a clawed hand over my heart, then a shoving movement toward Gabe.

" That wouldn't work !" Lord Dionysus announced in a bored tone.

The screen door slammed shut so hard it whacked him in the butt and sent him flying up the staircase as if he'd been shot from a cannon.

Silence, Or as Percy says calm before the storm. And then.. everyone started talking at the same time. "How did she-""Who is-""What the" rang all around the hall. "Silence! " I shouted at top of my lungs." "I think either he is a monster or she is really powerful for that trick to work on a mere mortal." Lady Athena asked thoughtfully." The answer is both. He is a bad guy, and she is also extremely powerful." Grover replied. "And for further information read more."

Maybe it was just the wind, or some freak accident with the hinges, but I didn't stay long enough to find out.

"Does she always downplay her powers?""Yep!"

I got in the Camaro and told my mom to step on it. The rental cabin was on the south shore, way out at the tip of Long Island. It was a little pastel box with faded curtains,

Lady Aphrodite wrinkled her nose.

half sunken into the dunes.

Lord Posiedon and his family smiled.

There was always sand in the sheets and spiders in the cabinets,

Andrew shivered.

and most of the time the sea was too cold to swim in.

"I doubt that would be a problem for her." Theseus smiled. "Nope, She loves that place," Nico replied

I loved the place.

"Told ya," Nico smirked.

We'd been going there since I was a baby. My mom had been going even longer. She never exactly said, but I knew why the beach was special to her.

"It sooo boring. Wake me up when there will be fighting." " Me too." Lord Ares and Clarisse said and fell asleep." I still can't believe they are your father and sister, Frank."" Neither can I, Hazel, neither can i."

It was the place where she'd met my dad.

Lady Aphrodite squealed in delight. Luckily everyone was prepared and covered their ears just in time. Well everyone other than Lord Ares and Clarisse was sleeping. They just mumbled something in their sleep.

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.

"That is why she was chosen!" Lord Triton exclaimed suddenly making people jump. " What?" Lady Amphitrite asked. "Sally was chosen to be Mother of the first daughter of the sea because she has a clear affection for her by I mean the entire realm of the sea, not just Dad." Sally blushed and smiled dreamily. " Yes, it is true. I love the sea and not just Lord Posiedon. It is because all my good memories with my parents were on the shores."

"Also all your bad memories were with Los Angeles and hight. As my parents boarded a flight for Los Angeles which crashed." " That too." " Wait, I just realized Sally's Parents were a victim of a fight that went bad between Hades and Zeus. Really brothers!" Lady Hestia shook her head in mild disappointment. They had the decency to blush.

We got there at sunset, opened all the cabin's windows, and went through our usual cleaning routine. We walked on the beach, fed blue corn chips to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy, and all the other free samples my mom had brought from work.

"Hey! blue is my colour," Zeus whined indignantly. " Most people rolled their eyes at his antics.

I guess I should explain the blue food.

"Yes, you should. "

See, Gabe had once told my mom there was no such thing. They had this fight, which seemed like a really small thing at the time. But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop. This—along with keeping her maiden name, Jackson, rather than calling herself Mrs. Ugliano—was proof that she wasn't totally suckered by Gabe. She did have a rebellious streak, like me.

"Technically, Percy has more of an obedience streak." Grover joked.

When it got dark, we made a fire. We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.

I licked my lips. dogs. Yummy.

Mom told me stories about when she was a kid, back before her parents died in the plane crash. She told me about the books she wanted to write someday, when she had enough money to quit the candy shop.

Lady Athena smiled faintly.

Eventually, I got up the nerve to ask about what was always on my mind whenever we came to Montauk—my father. Mom's eyes went all misty. I figured she would tell me the same things she always did, but I never got tired of hearing them." He was kind, Percy," she said. "Tall, handsome, and powerful. But gentle, too. You have his black hair, you know, and his green eyes.

"That's true. She also has his nose. And temper." "Won't you like to comment about his mouth, Andrew?" Piper whispered, wiggling her eyes suggestively. I coughed suppressing my smile. Lady Athena looked at them with narrowed eyes and for a sec I thought she heard them.

But then I brushed it off. She can't hear them. She is sitting so far away. And even if she did, no one has been able to separate Percy from Andrew. Not even Tartarus. What is a goddess of wisdom?

With that, I turned my attention back towards the reading.

Mom fished a blue jelly bean out of her candy bag.

"Uggh... Not another water-related pun." Travis groaned.

"I wish he could see you, Percy. He would be so proud."

"I am sure he would be watching, let us say like a hawk. " Lady Amphitrite smiled and looked at lord Posiedon knowingly. And for the nth time, I wished I wasn't a daughter of well who I am.

I wondered how she could say that. What was so great about me? A dyslexic, hyperactive girl with a C- report card, kicked out of school for the sixth time in six years.

"Wow, you weren't kidding she even beats me at being kicked out. And she was still 12. " Piper said" Yeh, Being the daughter of one of the big three then was extremely dangerous. Had it not been Gabe, she wouldn't have survived till then." Grover replied. Sally and the sea family looked concerned at that thought.

" Maybe, You should send her to the Camp earlier than intended. That way she will be protected." Chiron suggested. The Sea family looked happier with the idea than Sally herself.

" Come on, She survived for 6 years, two great prophecies, and hundreds of monsters. She pissed seventy per cent of gods, titans and primordials and still none of them could do her any harm." " I don't know whether you are assuring us or scaring us ?" Bellerophon asked. I just realised I really was making it more difficult. So I decided to shut up.

"How old was I?" I asked. "I mean ... when he left?"She watched the flames. "He was only with me for one summer, Percy. Right here at this beach. This cabin.""But... he knew me as a baby.""No, honey. He knew I was expecting a baby, but he never saw you. He had to leave before you were born."I tried to square that with the fact that I seemed to remember ... something about my father. A warm glow. A smile.

"Let me guess you went to visit her?"Lady Hestia asked. " Most Probably!" Came the reply.

I had always assumed he knew me as a baby. My mom had never said it outright, but still, I'd felt it must be true. Now, to be told that he'd never even seen me ...I felt angry at my father.

Lord Posiedon winced.

Maybe it was stupid, but I resented him for going on that ocean voyage, for not having the guts to marry my mom. He'd left us, and now we were stuck with Smelly Gabe.

"That hurts more than the last part."

"Are you going to send me away again?" I asked her. "To another boarding school?"She pulled a marshmallow from the fire."I don't know, honey." Her voice was heavy.

"I think ... I think we'll have to do something.""Because you don't want me around?"

"I would always want her around." Sally smiled lovingly.

I regretted the words as soon as they were out.

"I think most of us regret half the things she says," Andrew muttered.

My mom's eyes welled with tears. She took me in her arms and said. "Oh, Percy, no. I—I have to, honey. For your own good. I have to send you away."Her words reminded me of what Mr. Brunner had said—that it was best for me to leave Yancy.

"Because I'm not normal," I said.

"Of course, you are not normal. You monster world-famous kelp head." I muttered.

"You say that as if it's a bad thing, Percy. But you don't realize how important you are. I thought Yancy Academy would be far enough away. I thought you'd finally be safe.""Safe from what?"

"Let's see, Monsters, gods etc. " Perseus replied.

She met my eyes, and a flood of memories came back to me—all the weird, scary things that had ever happened to me, some of which I'd tried to forget. During third grade, a man in a black trench coat had stalked me on the playground. When the teachers threatened to call the police, he went away growling, but no one believed me when I told them that under his broad-brimmed hat, the man only had one eye, right in the middle of his head.

"Don't panic, it was one of Lord Poseidon's subjects who went there to check up on her." At that, the sea family nodded in relief.

Before that—a really early memory. I was in preschool, and a teacher accidentally put me down for a nap in a cot that a snake had slithered into. My mom screamed when she came to pick me up and found me playing with a limp, scaly rope I'd somehow managed to strangle to death with my meaty toddler hands.

"Hey, like Herakles!" Leo exclaimed. Herakles glared at him.

In every single school, something creepy had happened, something unsafe, and I was forced to move. I knew I should tell my mom about the old ladies at the fruit stand, and Mrs. Dodds at the art museum, about my weird hallucination that I had sliced my math teacher into dust with a sword.

"Yes, you should!" Most people exclaimed.

But I couldn't make myself tell her. I had a strange feeling the news would end our trip to Montauk, and I didn't want that.

"Oh Zeus, is a stupid trip to the beach more important than her life?" Andromeda exclaimed. " No, but here you have to keep two things in mind. One is that she thought the kindly one was a hallucination. And two, the trip was the only time when she was able to spend most of her time with her mother without any walrus man interrupting them. Hence, the trip was very important to them." Andrew replied.

"I've tried to keep you as close to me as I could," my mom said. "They told me that was a mistake. But there's only one other option, Percy—the place your father wanted to send you. And I just... I just can't stand to do it.""My father wanted me to go to a special school?"

"Not a school," she said softly. "A summer camp."

"The best summer camp in the world!" The greek demigods cheered. Romans replied. " One of the best. " Before a war could break out Hera started reading.

My head was spinning. Why would my dad—who hadn't even stayed around long enough to see me born— talk to my mom about a summer camp?

"That does sound stupid when she says it like that!" Lord Triton commented.

And if it was so important, why hadn't she ever mentioned it before?

"That is because sending her there would mean losing her forever. "Sally muttered sadly.

"I'm sorry, Percy," she said, seeing the look in my eyes. "But I can't talk about it. I—I couldn't send you to that place. It might mean saying good-bye to you for good.""For good? But if it's only a summer camp ..." She turned toward the fire, and I knew from her expression that if I asked her any more questions she would start to cry.

"Didn't think the most oblivious person to be a suitable expression reader," Conner muttered.

That night I had a vivid dream.

Most of the future demigods groaned. "She gets the worst demigod dreams."

It was storming on the beach, and two beautiful animals, a white horse and a golden eagle, were trying to kill each other at the edge of the surf.

"That is another indication of them fighting."

The eagle swooped down and slashed the horse's muzzle with its huge talons. The horse reared up and kicked at the eagles wings.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Clarisse and Lord Ares, who had woken up in between all the groaning, shouted.

As they fought, the ground rumbled, and a monstrous voice chuckled somewhere beneath the earth, goading the animals to fight harder.

"Is that me?" Lord Hades raised his eyebrow. "No !"

I ran toward them, knowing I had to stop them from killing each other, but I was running in slow motion.

"Oh no. Let it be me. Let it be me this time." Lord Hades chanted.

I knew I would be too late. I saw the eagle dive down, its beak aimed at the horse's wide eyes, and I screamed, No!

" Ha! I won." Dad shouted.

I woke with a start. Outside, it really was storming, the kind of storm that cracks trees and blows down houses. There was no horse or eagle on the beach, just lightning making false daylight, and twenty-foot waves pounding the dunes like artillery.

"Way to create the suspense, Percy !"Will groaned.

With the next thunderclap, my mom woke. She sat up, eyes wide, and said, "Hurricane."I knew that was crazy. Long Island never sees hurricanes this early in the summer.

But the ocean seemed to have forgotten.

"Why did you forget, uncle Posiedon?"Lord Apollo asked.

Over the roar of the wind, I heard a distant bellow, an angry, tortured sound that made my hair stand on end. Then a much closer noise, like mallets in the sand.

The suspense grew in the room.

A desperate voice—someone yelling, pounding on our cabin door. My mother sprang out of bed in her nightgown and threw open the lock. Grover stood framed in the doorway against a backdrop of pouring rain. But he wasn't...

"He wasn't what?" Lord Pan asked.

he wasn't exactly Grover.

"Grover, did something happen to you?" Lord Hermes asked.

"Searching all night," he gasped. "What were you thinking?"My mother looked at me in terror—not scared of Grover, but of why he'd come.

"Because she knew about me being a satyr. We did contact Sally to let her know we were following Percy. That is why she said' they told me it was a bad idea to keep you close!' At that, the Sea family nodded in understanding.

"Percy," she said, shouting to be heard over the rain. "What happened at school? What didn't you tell me?"I was frozen, looking at Grover. I couldn't understand what I was seeing.

"You are seeing your friend? What is so special about him that you can't even understand?" Chris asked thoughtfully.

"O Zeu kai alloi theoi!" he yelled. "It's right behind me! Didn't you tell her?"I was too shocked to register that he'd just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I'd understood him perfectly.

"Ah, She is coming to her heritage slowly!" Chiron commented.

I was too shocked to wonder how Grover had gotten here by himself in the middle of the night.

"Stalker alert!" Stoll brothers shouted. "Had I not stalked her she would be dead meat by now!" Grover huffed.

Because Grover didn't have his pants on—and where his legs should be ... where his legs should be ...

"Are you checking out a goat? Classic Percy!" Piper laughed along with us. Poor goat boy blushed so hard he looked like a tomato.

My mom looked at me sternly and talked in a tone she'd never used before: "Percy. Tell me now!"

"Go stern Sally!" "Will you stop cheering at each person"? Sally, on the other hand, looked sad, most probably because she never wanted to speak to penny like that.

I stammered something about the old ladies at the fruit stand, and Mrs. Dodds, and my mom stared at me, her face deathly pale in the flashes of lightning.

" You know only two people in the world can understand her stammer," Will said. " Let me guess, her mother and her father?" "No! Her mother and An-her boyfriend." "She has a boyfriend?" Funnily it came from Sally who looked apoplectic at the thought of her dating a guy.

Andrew glared at Will for saying too much. "Who is her boyfriend?" Lady Demeter asked cautiously looking at the Sea family, who looked like someone has majorly pissed them off. oh boy, poor Andrew. He is a goner if these people find out.

To save his butt, I replied, " He is a demigod of one of the Olympians and he saved her so many times than we can count. He is a good guy and he can even jump in the Tartarus to save her." " Oh, that sounds sooo romantic?" Lady Aphrodite squealed "And so stupid" Lady Athena muttered. Andrew scowled but didn't comment.

She grabbed her purse, tossed me my rain jacket, and said, "Get to the car. Both of you. Go!"Grover ran for the Camaro—but he wasn't running, exactly.

"This girl is so confused! If he is running then why he is not running?" "She said exactly that means he wasn't exactly running. Read further to understand the meaning." Athena told Ares.

He was trotting, shaking his shaggy hindquarters, and suddenly his story about a muscular disorder in his legs made sense to me. I understood how he could run so fast and still limp when he walked. Because where his feet should be, there were no feet. There were cloven hooves.

"Ah! So that is where the indecent name of the chapter came from!" Travis said only to get a hit on his head by Grover.

"And the chapter ends! Now, who will be next?" Hera asked. "Give it to me," Amphitrite said.

A/N so another new chapter. How did you like it? Please comment and like. The next chapter will most probably be by next Saturday.