Chapter IX

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"Grover wake up we need to get out." Luke tried waking him up.

As Grover wouldn't wake up from his long nap, Chloe used her nearby book that was lying on her seat, to hit the top of his head.

"Ouch!" He whined. "What was that for?" Grover asked rubbing the top of his head.
"Get up this is our stop." She said and walked out of the Cabin.

After a Bus ride the finally arrived at the Parthenon. The trio stepped into the Greek looking building, and spotted a huge crowd around a statue that seemed to be Athena.

Luke then scanned the 42-foot statue, and found a green glowing pearl in the middle of Athena's Tiara.

"Hey, isn't that one of those pearls we are looking for?" He asked and pointed up to the Tiara.

"Yeah." Chloe said looking up.

"How are we going to get up there?" Grover asked, looking at both of them.

"Let's just sneak in when it's closed?" Luke replied with a furrowed brow.

Chloe nodded, and tried avoiding eye contact with him. She couldn't just knock off the fact that she was about to kiss Luke yesterday. A behavior she'd never thought to experience.

When it got darker they managed to get through the guards and sneak in.
They got in and found at least five Janitors inside, making sure the statue of Athena was clean.

"Great and how are we supposed to get through them without noticing us." Grover said in a sassy whispering tone.

Chloe looked at the men, and used a crossbow to shoot arrows at them making all of them fall.

"You can't just kill them!" Grover said looking shocked.

"Those are numbing arrows, Don't worry." Luke said.

"Go, we only have a few minutes." Chloe said

As the Janitors were now down,Luke used the shoes that his father used to own to fly up to Athena's tiara.

"Okay I got it." He said, getting down while holding the pearl in his hand.

He was about to hand Chloe the pearl, but saw the Janitors standing in a line next to each other. Grover tried playing the situation cool with the Janitors, and said that they weren't looking for any trouble.

"I could give you guys a dollar?" He said shrugging his shoulders.

"Hades's Daughter, give us the lightning bolt." All of the Janitors said at the same time.

"I don't-" Chloe stopped at her words, when she saw the Janitors combining themselves to one Hydra.

"Guess a dollar won't solve a thing here." Grover said sprinting behind a Pillar.

The pearl Luke was just holding between his fingers, now slipped out of his hand and rolled on to the ground.
Chloe was about to go and catch it but Luke pulled her by her waist dragging her behind of a pillar.

"Careful guys they spit-" Grover yelled at them before ducking down. "Fire!"

The Hydra came closer making all of them run in different directions. It wasn't easy since Hydra's have multiple heads.

Chloe ran to get the pearl.

As she held it in her hands, one of the Hydra's noticed and turned to spit fire at her.

She slid through the floor making a few pieces of glass cut wounds to her body.
Chloe rushed to her target which was her Bag, and pulled out Medusa's head.

Chloe looked up to see the Hydra's turning into stone.

"Good gosh." Grover murmured.

Luke looked at Chloe for a few seconds.

"Let's get of here." Luke stated and took the lead.

They got to a Motel where they spend the rest of the night at.

Grover jumped at the one bed that was inside of the room they've rented.

"Sorry guys, but I need my space." He claimed spreading his goat legs. "There surly is enough space in the other room...for you two." He smirked, wiggling his eyebrows.

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