The Lightning Thief (Argo/hbh's Version)

Quest to retrieve campers

Silke's POV:

The day after the capture the flag game started without much trouble. I had breakfast, went to the Aphrodite cabin and did my usual head-counselor stuff. Being the eldest Aphrodite camper, and one of the eldest campers in general, gives me a lot of responsibilities. My siblings go to me for questions, I have to make sure my siblings don't do weird stuff etc. Good thing I again led the pegasi-riding lessons of this morning so I wouldn't have a lot of trouble I'd had to deal with.

Of course I forgot how dangerous Pegasi-riding is when you're not experienced. Bea, a child of Dionysus fell off of their pegasus while riding at full speed. I quickly led my pegasus to them. "Are you alright?" I asked. I couldn't see any injuries apart from a scratch on their leg. "Yeah I'm fine." "You're lucky we weren't in the air." I said while helping them up, but I could feel their weight shifting on mine. "You sure you're alright?" I looked at them again and realized what was going on. "No way you're low again." When Bea was low they often could deal with it themselves but this was like a bad low, and I really didn't know how to deal with those. "Infirmary. Now." I said. I turned towards my co-counselor Silena Beauregard, who was arriving already. She also was a lot of years younger but the second eldest as well. Not really co counselor but she helper me often. "Can you take over? I have to bring Bea to the infirmary real quick." "Yea sure." She said and she sped off again towards the other campers who were still following the pegasi riding lesson. Mine and Bea's pegasi followed Silena.

I half dragged half walked with Bea towards the infirmary where we were greeted by Minus and Lee who were having a shift. "Is Bea low again?" "Yes and I have no idea how to handle it." I said truthfully. Apollo kids and their dam truth powers. "Don't worry we'll deal with it." Minus said while he walked to the back of the infirmary to get something. "If Bea's low you just gotta give them some sugars til their first levels are normal again." Minus explained. He showed what he took from the back room: some skittles. 

"Also, symptoms are usually something like they could be a little shaky, have some trouble talking so they might just rant out some gibberish or slurred talking. They could feel very dizzy or drunk like, which is actually quite hard to keep apart from when they're really drunk." Minus joked, which resulted in a punch from Bea but it barely did anything. "With luck Bea will be fine again in like half an hour with a little less luck it might go on for a few hours. They just have to stay here for as long as they'll be low." Minus continued to explain. "You know a lot about it." I said. "I'm an Apollo kid, of course I know a lot about it." Minus said with a jokingly big pride. I laughed. "Good to know." I said. "Anyways, if you want to you could leave now, I can take it on from here." "Okay." I said. "I'll leave then."

I walked out of the infirmary towards my cabin but I stumbled upon Theo and Fenris who seemed to be looking for me. "Oh hi guys, is something wrong?" I asked. "Quest." Theo said while panting for air. "So this Percy Jackson went to the attic for a quest but a few minutes after that the green smoke appeared again. Fenris saw it through the window." "Has Chiron been informed yet?" "Yes. He was sitting on the porch with Percy, Anathea and Mr. D at the time." "Okay." "Also, we got an Iris message from Ichneutae." "Isn't he out of camp? He was getting some demigods, right?" I thought out loud. "Exactly." Fenris said. "They're in trouble. Normally these kind of quests don't need a prophecy but the oracle, as Theo said, is doing weird stuff and Chiron suspects that it has to do something with this quest so we're getting a prophecy anyway." "Alright there's no time to waste then." I said, and we walked towards the Big House.

We saw Chiron, Mr. D, Anathea, Percy and Grover sitting on the porch. When Chiron noticed us he nodded towards the big house, inviting us to come in. I think I heard him mumble something like: "Silke, good choice." He then turned back to the Percy, Mr. D, Grover and Anathea again. We walked inside towards the stairs, then to the green trapdoor and pulled the rope. Fenris was smart enough to stand exactly at the spot where the wooden ladder would land. The ladder almost landed on him, and he only barely managed to jump out of the way. "Watch out." Theo said. "Yeah I've noticed by now." Fenris said. "Alright. Anyways." I said. "Shall we?" I gestured towards the wooden ladder. We climbed up.