𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗔𝗗 ⋆━━⋆ percy jackson

𝐢𝐢. playing tag with monsters and campers

NEXT morning the camp was buzzing with excitement, an Aethiopian drakon had been spotted at the borders of camp.

Lee Fletcher was specially happy about it, telling everyone about its size and colours, even scaring the younger campers.

But the drakon wasn't a good sign, monster attacks were getting more frequent, and it was all because of Luke.

At breakfast Grover, Annabeth, Cassie and Percy sat in cabin's three table.

Annabeth and Cassie told Grover exactly where to find the answer to his problems, the maze.

Gazillion of years ago Daedalus built the maze with a (not very fashionable) minotaur who literally ate kids for a living.

The maze remained to the day, Clarisse and Cassie had gone in a mission after Chris Rodriguez appeared mumbling about string.

Cassie totally thought he was high, she was ready to ditch the guy- or ask him for some, but Clarisse refused (ugh).

The string was an actual string, Ariadne's string, that could guide anyone thought the maze, including Grover to Pan.

But the maze was complex, you could enter in Los Angeles and end up in Miami in the span of five minutes.

Grover wasn't too convinced.

"I don't know guys. No sun, no grass..."

Quintus motioned with his head to get to her table, since campers couldn't mix at breakfast (such a stupid rule anyways).

Cassie got the memo, she nudged at Annabeth.

The blonde left to her table, thinking about the maze and probably how cool it was.

Cassie got up, and before leaving, whispered to Percy, a hand gently placed on his shoulder, "try and convince him, will you?"

She left, ignoring people's stares and Percy's own blushing face.

~ 🫀 * 🏹 ~

AFTER dinner Quintus had them suit up in combat armour.

Cassie wasn't going to lie, she was excited for whatever Quintus had planned.

'Right,' Quintus said, standing on the head dining table. 'Gather round." Mrs O'Leary bounded happily around him, foraging for dinner scraps.

'You will be in teams of two," Quintus announced. When everybody started talking and trying to grab their friends, he yelled: "Which have already been chosen!'

'AWWWWW!' everybody complained.

"Your goal is simple: collect the gold laurels without dying. The wreath is wrapped in a silk package, tied to the back of one of the monsters.

There are six monsters. Each has a silk package. Only one holds the laurels. You must find the wreath before the other teams. And of course... You will have to slay the monster to get it, and stay alive."

The crowd started murmuring excitedly. The task sounded pretty straight-forward and they literally trained to kill monsters 24/7.

lI will now announce your partners,' Quintus said. There will be no trad-ing. No switching. No complaining."

Silena and Charlie, the Stolls, Castor and Pollux. Clarisse with Lee Fletcher, Annabeth with a daughter of Nike called Annabelle.

But Cassie saw how Annabeth briefly blushed under Annabelle's intense stare.