Modern Myths

Book 2 - The Sea of Monsters: Chapter 13: Summer Solstice

6/21/07, Thursday

Camp Half-Blood, Long Island, New York, 8:00am

Percy POV

I wake up with Calypso & we move to wake up Alice.

Alice: "I still can't believe you caught the Teumessian Fox & still called it a rabbit by mistake."

Me: "It's easy if you are not actually trying to hit it. It can sense when people are trying."

We made our way to eat breakfast, then enjoy the rest of the day until we go to Olympus at 4:30, since the Romans & Amazons would've just finished lunch by then & rode Mar's chariot to Olympus.

Thalia's been hard at work in the infirmary & stables trying to earn her forgiveness.

Mt. Olympus, Empire State Building, Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, New York, 5:00pm

As we arrived on Apollo's chariot, I noticed that Mar's was arriving around the same time.

Both giant trains, how else would you fit over 1,000 people on it, landed right next to each other.

As we departed, Thalia ran up to Jason as fast as she could. They hugged.

Thalia: "Congrats on your promotion!" She says.

Jason: "Thanks."

As everyone went on the tour together, we saw all sorts of sites.

We saw several stores ran by Monopods & Machlyes.

Once the tour was complete, we were free to do as we pleased until the 2-hour party at 7.

I immediately went to visit a friend of mine that Aphrodite introduced me to, since it was her day off.

You see it is a common misconception that Aphrodite was castes before Athena's slander, but that was not the case. She was against those that used sex to abuse & manipulate others.

Her first temple was a brothel. Her courtesans are immortal, like Artemis's hunters.

As I walked past said brothel with prostitutes posing in different fetish clothes, like gimp suits & opaque lingerie, someone snuck up behind me.: "Guess who?" A female voice asked.

Me: "Very funny, Medea."

I turned around & saw the Anigrides-Ionides hybrid that had the misfortune of sharing names with a witch born several centuries after her.

She had long black hair, blue eyes & bronze tanned skin in a solid white t-shirt & booty shorts.

Me: "Why did you want to see me?"

Medea: "I have fallen for you & would like to join your harem. I told my mistress about it & said I was aware that it would mean leaving her services, but I already have a job at Camp Half-blood in Sea security. I begin tomorrow if you accept me."

Me: "I'll have to talk it over with the others."

Medea: "My lady is doing that now. I'm worried that you'll reject me. Out of my lady's original 200 courtesans, I'm the only 1 left to not have walked away & gotten married."

As we continued to talk on our way to rendezvous with the rest of the harem, I learned that Aphrodite was also trying to get Philotes, the Horae & the charities, minus Aglaea, involved.

Aglaea was Hephaestus number 1 mistress, despite being Aphrodite's servant, so the fact that they got married as soon as the divorce went through surprised no one.