Stupid Cupid

~Stupid Cupid - Chapter 20

        "Percy! Sky! Wake up!" I shoot up from my - luckily - dreamless sleep when there's a series of screaming and pounding from outside.

"Percy." I grumble and he throws a pillow blindly. "Now you don't have a pillow, Barnacle Brain." I wipe the sleep from my eyes and walk to open the door.

Leo, Jason, and Piper are standing outside smiling widely. In each of their hands is a wrapped gift. It had been a week since I woke from my coma. Today, June twenty-fourth, is my birthday and I'm finally fifteen. I usher the trio into the cabin to find Percy gone from his bed.

"Where's Perc-" Leo starts.

"I have no idea. Sit down. I'm gonna get dressed." I walk off and grab a camp shirt, shorts, and tennis shoes. Two minutes later, I walk out to find all of my friends, my brother, Frank, Hazel, and Reyna around my bed. Nico isn't there and I'm surprised at how much my heart hurts at that fact.

"Before you get all watery eyed, Nico is planning his own surprise for you. He asked me to program the directions to there into Aqua. She'll be leading you there after our little gift session." Leo quickly assures me and then leads me to sit down.

Annabeth hands me a gift wrapped in blue. I take it gently in my hands and slowly unwrap it. In a small box is a silver coin. I pick it up and twist it between my fingers. As it spins, it transforms into a quill.

"It will never run out of ink. You can write whatever you'd like without even touching the paper. Percy told me about your love to write and Athena took a liking to you. Pulled a few strings and added a statue to the Olympus plans but nothing big." Annabeth shrugs like it was nothing but I leaned in and hugged her.

"Thank you," I whisper in her ear.

The rest of them hand me their wrapped gifts. Piper got me a ring that could make me look like any one I wanted - within reason. Jason got me a lightning pendent that came with a charm bracelet - everyone would give me a pendent that would remind me of them. Reyna gave me a silver ring - something that Nico and her agreed to give me - that matched Nico's and her own except it had an eight pointed star.

"Nico told me about Night. It's to remember her. I had found it in the metals shed back in New Rome." I gave Reyna a small smile.

Hazel and Frank each gave me a pendent for the bracelet. Frank's has two arrows crossing over a sword. Hazel's is a torch with a diamond as the flames. It represents her Mist magic from Hecate. I thanked them and then Leo tapped my shoulder.

"A flame pendent and a new pair of headphones that are made from Celestial bronze. They'll turn into daggers if you put your thumb on this square right here." Leo leans over and shows me a square that is right above the plug.

"Are you sure you aren't magic, too?" I ask and he just shrugs as if to say, Hey, what you don't know won't hurt ya.

"Now for Aqua to-"

"Watch it, Flame-O. I still have a gift for my baby sister." Percy playfully glares at the son of Hephaestus.

Percy then proceeds to hand me two boxes. One holds a pendent of a heart made from water. The other holds a sand dollar. I take it out and it turns into a fountain. Inside are drachmas.

"It's like mine but I thought you might want one of your own so you wouldn't have to ask me all the time. You should contact your mom." Percy smiles and then ushers the rest out. Piper yells something about meeting them in the Zeus cabin tonight and then I'm alone.

I take a deep breath and take a drachma from the fountain. I toss the coin in my hand and then get ready to flip it into the water.

"Diana Rey Coast, San Diego, California." The coin disappears and then my mom appears in the mist.