Forbidden Quests

Chapter 22

Annabeth

We spent the rest of the day tending to the wounded. A lot of the demigods were wounded, but most of them weren't that serious.

When we were finished with our job, it was late enough that we just decided to stay in the clearing for the night, and continue our journey tomorrow morning.

I looked at Leo, who was making our fire. It was extremely easy for him, considering he is a fire user. If we wanted, he could be our bon fire for us.

Someone tapped me on the shoulder, and I turned to see Piper, Thalia, Hazel, and Lacy.

"Hey guys." I said.

Piper grinned, "Hey Annabeth. You wanna come set up your bed? Thalia made your tent, and we are all next to each other."

I smiled and followed them. Sure enough, all the girls' tents were in a row, the order went from Lacy, to Hazel, to Thalia, to me, to Piper.

"Thanks, Thals," I said towards the hunter.

She shrugged, and was about to answer, when we heard Jason's voice, "Ah, come on! Really, Nico?"

"I said sorry, like, five times! Get over it, dude!" came the returning voice of Nico.

All the girls turned to see Jason, Nico, and Percy about twenty feet away from us, setting up their tents.

Well, trying to set up their tents. Jason was holding one of the tent poles in his hand, snapped in half, and Nico was holding the other half. Apparently they were helping each other, and it broke. Percy, on the other hand, had his tent pitched perfectly, and was spending his time laughing at the two boys arguing and breaking things.

I walked over to stand by Percy, asking the guffawing son of Poseidon, "How long have they been attempting to put up their tents?"

Grinning, he turned to me, "About half an hour."

I shook my head, "And you weren't planning on helping them?"

"Why would I do that? That would be so boring. It's much more entertaining watching them try to set up their tents."

"Why are they having such a hard time with it?"

"Cause they are new tents that we recently got, and we have never used them yet."

I frowned, "Don't they have an instruction sheet?"

He smiled evilly, and held up three sheets of crumpled paper, "I wanted to see how they would do by themselves."

Rolling my eyes, I turned my gaze back to the scene. Currently, the two boys were arguing about who really broke the tent pole. I gathered that it was Jason's tent, and that it was one of the main poles that had to be used. So without it, the tent was basically useless.

Thalia soon had enough, and walked over to them, splitting up the quarreling couple.

"Seriously, guys. It's really not that hard to set up a tent." She proclaimed.

Jason and Nico both turned to look at her, and the son of Hades said sarcastically, "Well, then lets see you try and make a tent, your highness."

She smirked, then went to her pack, and got out a tent. She had a couple tents in her bag. Yeah, you're probably wondering how she could fit more than one in her bag, cause it's not that big a pack.

But her tents are really small. Like, really really small. They are each about as big as my thumb.

All the hunters had tents like that. Artemis had a lot of them, but she only gave them to her hunters.