A web of fates | Percy Jackson and the Olympians

V| Percy needs help

The next morning, Chiron moved Percy to cabin three.

Daphne felt bad for him, he had nobody to share a room with and now at meal times he had to sit alone.

"At least nobody can keep you up at night." Daphne said, sitting in his cabin a few days after he moved in.

Cabin Three just looked miserable.

Percy shrugged. "I'm surprise you're hanging out with me, all the other campers are steering away."

Daphne rolled her eyes. "They get like this, but a child of the Big Three isn't something we see everyday. Typically, a child of the Big Three hold a lot more power than other demigods."

"So I've been told." Percy nodded, sitting down on his own bed. "So.. why aren't you with your friends?"

"Theo's working on some project with Beckendorf, Oliver is training, Valentina is with one of her brothers spying on his crush and Ellis is in the strawberry fields with his brothers." Daphne explained to him.

Percy blinked at her once, twice. "I don't know half of them."

"Oliver is the one you met in the bathroom. Theo, you've probably heard from Annabeth, he's her half-brother. The only son of Athena with black hair, green eyes." She spoke coherently. "Valentina is a daughter of Aphrodite, very girly as you'd expect." Percy gave a slight nod. "And Ellis is the one I shouted to on your first day at camp."

"He's one of Dionysus' kids, right?" Percy asked.

Daphne hummed a response. Then she heard a clopping sound at the door, a hoof knocking on the threshold.

"Come in?" Percy asked.

Grover trotted inside, looking worried. "Mr. D wants to see you Percy."

Daphnes interest peaked.

"Why?" Percy asked.

"He wants to kill...I mean, I'd better let him tell you."

Daphnes eyebrows furrowed. "Great delivery Grover. Want me to come with you Percy?"

Percy gave a slight nod as he stood up to follow Grover.

*•*

Over Long Island Sound, the sky looked like ink soup coming to a boil. A hazy curtain of rain was coming in their direction.

Percy asked Daphne and Grover if they needed an umbrella.

"No," Grover said. "It never rains here unless we want it to."

Percy pointed at the storm. "What the heck is that, then?"

Daphne glanced uneasily at the sky. "It'll pass around us. Bad weather always does."

At the volleyball pit, the kids from Apollo's cabin were playing a morning game against the satyrs. Dionysus's twins and Ellis were walking around in the strawberry fields, making the plants grow.

Daphne met Ellis' eyesight and gave him a quick wave, to which he waved back.

Everybody was going about their normal business, but they looked tense. They kept their eyes on the storm.

Percy, Grover and Daphne walked up to the front porch of the Big House. Dionysus sat at the pinochle table in his tiger-striped Hawaiian shirt with his Diet Coke, just as he always did.

Chiron sat across the table in his fake wheelchair. They were playing against invisible opponents— two sets of cards hovering in the air.