Percy Jackson: The Wolf Curse

Chapter 21: A Wolfy Ride Through History

[Karla's POV:]

Finding our mate was going to be a lot more difficult than we had initially thought. If it was as simple as following his trail, he would already be here.

We could split up, cover more ground, but then the risk of going wild would increase. I want a full pack by the end of this not a smaller one.

So we made a simple plan. Check everywhere. Starting with popular locations like Camp Jupiter and New York. Waiting for someone to find spare drachma to IM them was wasting enough time as is. As for New York, no one has a sense of smell like we do, if the demigods think they've fully searched it they can think again.

If not those places.. then I don't know. Could very well be on the other side of the continent. But first. Camp Jupiter, there's a wolf goddess there that owns me a bone.

Leaving the hunt behind wasn't as a big a deal as you'd think. We mainly stay as a choice given benefits so long as we do. Should we leave with the intention not to return, our minds and strengths would become identical to that of normal wolves. No more empowering silver glow, no more sentient thinking and no more super strength.. Did I mention the silver glow? I love the silver glow.

Camp Jupiter was the best bet, Plus we could alert Lady Lupa and in turn she could tell the camp to begin their own search for our mate. Lupa was like a mother to us wolves, something closer than a goddess we worship. She was strict, yes, but she couldn't turn down a pup in need if she tried me included. She'd help us I'm sure, it made her the best place to start. She was the closest I ever had to a mother.

"Do you think she'll know where he is?" asked Anya. I remember when she joined us, so against being in a pack thanks to the torment Lycaon had put her through, even challenged me for the alpha position, lost very fast though. That was not long after I had formed the pack with the triplets. They were normal wolves before joining the pack unlike me and anya who had been born to this mythical world and so they had the strongest ties to their instincts out of us all.

That said even Anya would lose her sentience without an alpha and she's from a line of strong werewolves. Had we not found her when we did, she would've been no different than the triplets before meeting us. We needed Damian.

Camp Jupiter was no skip in the park away. We'd have to run for at least half a month at full speed, Damian could probably do it in a week with that speed of his. But who said we had to run the entire way? Humans invented something for that. Metal boxes on wheels. All we had to do was find one of the bigger ones with an open back to jump on and let the thing do the work for us. Lucky for us, New York had a lot of those things. The hard part was finding one heading the right way. Anya was perfect for this having lived with werewolves for a while she understood human language well and could read, she called them 'trucks', we were looking for one that was heading to California. Whilst trying to stay out of sight in the various alley ways. I always hated the cities, massive concrete habitats that gave no room for vegetation to grow,

Dam.. Ummmm what now?. No animals to hunt, only mortal humans and ignorant demigods stayed here. We came across a scaffolding company that was packing up their gear.

"OI Jer', Watch where you put that it's a long journey to relocate all this shit" Anya translated for me, they were relocating. Had to find out where to, Anya began looking around for anything that could suggest.

"I found paper!" called out lotus, the twins may have been older than Anya, but they were far less mentally mature having gained their intelligence unlike us. The paper in question was located under a cup of some hot black liquid. Anya investigated it, knocking the weird stuff on the stone floor.

"Great job lotus! This is their schedule" oh seems it was helpful then.

"It says here they are bound for Fresno" dam (I can hear Damian laughing from here) we need California.. Is that California? Wolves don't usually have a need for map navigation with the natural compass in our heads leading us where we desire.