Perseus Jackson Son of the Sea: The Stolen Bolt

Chapter 7

 "Well, Percy?" Sally asked crossing her arms. "Are you going to tell me why a large Siberian Husky is asleep on the couch and drooling all over my pillows?"

Percy gave a nervous chuckle as he paused his music and put away his earphones. "Well about that. Thats Ronga, my hellhound."

"Explain, last time I checked you didn't have a pet... well besides that eagle... uhm phoenix that is obsessed with you."

"Let's go to the kitchen its quite a long story." They sat together at the table while Ronga lay across the whole couch. Percy and Sally shared the bag of blue treats together and so Percy explained everything, and that meant everything.

"So, all this time?" Sally whispered.

"I have known about who I was. My mentor, Adias allowed me to tell you, he said it was time you knew what your son had been up too."

"Wow i am shocked, but what about the monsters? shouldn't your scent have gotten stronger now that you know who you are?"

"Oh, it did, though Adias had taught me how not only to hide my scent from monsters but to lower my aura to appear weak. It is quite a cool trick as I wouldn't need to worry about monsters hunting me down."

"Well, that's good to know, anyways I have a surprise for you," she said. "We're going to the beach."

Percy's eyes widened. "Montauk?"

"Three nights—same cabin."

"When?"

She smiled. "As soon as I get changed." Percy couldn't believe it. My mom and I hadn't been to Montauk the last two summers, because Gabe said there wasn't enough money. Now they didn't have to worry about that pig. Percy paused and then looked at his mom.

"Mom, do you-."

"Tell her we will pick her up on the way." Sally interrupted.

"How did you know what I was going to ask?" Percy asked shocked.

"I'm your mother, I know what you were thinking, it was quite obvious." Sally laughed at Percy's expression and went to get ready. After a while Percy finally moved and grabbed his phone. and clicked on Nancy's contact. He held the phone to his ear and waiting as it rang.

"Hello?" A young girl's voice answered.

"Hello, this is Percy-" Again he was interrupted as the little girl suddenly yelled.

"Nancy! It's your boyfriend!!!" The sound of someone running down the stairs was heard before a loud crash was   and someone out of breath yelling, they didn't have a boyfriend to the giggling girl.

"Perce!" Nancy greeted flustered. "What's up!"

"My mom and I are going to Montauk if you want to come, we can come pick you up." Percy replied back calmly. "Also, there is a 90% chance I will be going to Camp after."

"You don't mean..." Nancy whispered.

"Yes, that Camp."

"Sure, I'll love to go, let me get packed!" Nancy replied after some silence.

"Don't fall down the stairs again." Percy laughed as he hung up interrupting Nancy's gasp

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Our rental cabin was on the south shore, way out at the tip of Long Island. It was a little pastel box with faded curtains, half sunken into the dunes. There was always sand in the sheets and spiders in the cabinets, and most of the time the sea was too cold to swim in. Percy loved the place

They have been going there since he was a baby. His mom had been going even longer. She never exactly said, but he knew why the beach was special to her. It was the place where she'd met Poseidon. As they 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. They got there at sunset, opened all the cabin's windows, and went through their usual cleaning routine. They walked on the beach, fed blue corn chips to the seagulls, and munched on blue jellybeans, blue saltwater taffy, and all the other free samples my mom had brought from work. Nancy, Ronga, and Corvus were all running around on the beach having fun.