The Crack of Dawn

4) Going To Earth

Luke POV

After dinner, or shall I say, buffet eating contest between Sol and Gemini, we made our way back into the steel elevator and down to the barracks.

Nobody bothered to unpack as we would be leaving for Earth tomorrow.

Camp Half Blood, I'd be going back after everything that happened. Would everyone hate me, do Thalia and Annabeth hate me? My heart filled with lead, they probably do. I walked over and slumped on a bottom bunk.

I laid on my back and stared at the bottom of the bunk above me. Castor's snores eventually filled the room. Everyone else was lost in thought, probably excited to see everyone again.

Even if they hate me, I'll still be happy to go back.

With that thought in mind, I turned over, pulled out the military tucked sheets, and closed my blue eyes.

I drifted off to sleep with many emotions weighing my body.

Jason POV

I woke up first at five a.m. I jolted awake and my memories came back in a flood of excitement. We were meeting the generals in the ops room at six. I rolled out of bed and hit the floor, groaning. I had some serious bed head and my t-shirt was rumpled.

I heard a ding and the elevator doors opened, out stepped a fully awake Gemini with a scary expression on her face.

She wore her shiny armor and many weapons and at that moment I thought, uh oh the angry snowball has come to play.

She walked out and stared at me, the only one awake, with one eyebrow raised.

I shook with fear when she put her hand behind her back and unclipped a large air horn. I watched with shocked eyes, frozen, body sprawled across the floor as she raised it above her head and out came a large, BLAAATTTTTTTT.

Everyone else jerked awake and at least two other boys fell off their bunks, Lee fell off the top of his.

"Alright up sleepyheads, otherwise we'll teleport you to Earth in your pajamas!" Gemini yelled with vigor.

That got everyone, especially Silena, moving as they rushed for their duffels or the giant bathroom.

Gemini just walked out with several groggy glares pinned on her back. I honestly thought she'd flip them the middle finger. I was proved right just as she walked in, punched a button, and as the doors began to close she looked everyone in the eye and flipped them the finger.

I groaned and got myself off the floor. Everyone packed their stuff and showered. We all ate breakfast on a table in the corner from some food in a dispenser.

The nervous tension in the room was high and I missed Leo, he'd crack some jokes and everyone would be fine. Instead we were all silent as we moved to the elevator and I punched the button for the ops floor.

We went down a couple floors and the elevator opened into a bustling control room with hallways branching off.

I led the team down the hall to the first conference room and looked through the glass door. Amaryllis, Sol, and Gemini sat on the far end playing a very intense uno game.

Amy scowled at Sol when he changed the color and he smirked back.

I pushed open the door and we all shuffled inside. They turned their eyes up and sat straighter but did not stop playing.

We all sat down and Gemini said, "We are waiting for Chaos so he can teleport us there at six."

I looked at the clock, it was five forty five a.m Earth time. I grimaced internally, nobody on Earth was gonna be awake.

Amy slapped down her last card and pumped her hands up in the air, "I win!"

Sol and Gemini grumbled as she celebrated.

Then Gemini scared the living daylights out of me as she started dealing out another round, "You guys wanna play?"

Amy POV

After my victory we played a very very competitive uno game with Team Terra and Zoe ended up winning, to everyone's surprise.

While Gemini grumbled something under her breath that sounded suspiciously like, "Don't hurt the humans, don't hurt the humans;" Uncle Chaos teleported into the last chair.

Team Terra jumped with looks of concealed fear on most of their faces. Chaos looked them over before rubbing his hands together and grinning, "Okay! Let's scare the crap out of some gods!"

The demigods looked at him with apprehension as we all stood up in our fully weaponized armor. Gemini gave Chaos a hug which shocked the humans in the room and then they linked hands.

"You guys should probably put your hoods up, we don't want to start a mob of crying parents when we first get there because their children are supposed to be dead." I said while looking at them.

They all reluctantly pulled their hoods up and Gemini did as well. She was dressed in all black and looked like death incarnate. Hades would like her.

That left Sol and I unhooded. I was dressed in my uniform with my coronet on and threaded into my high brown ponytail that was long enough to be a certified weapon.

When all of us had threaded hands Chaos looked at the clock, exactly when the minute hand hit the twelve we all disappeared into a large purple portal.