Fourteen Years Old.
"Go on!" Travis Stoll urged as he pushed Nicholas forward.
"They're all waiting for your Nick!" Will Solace said with a grin on his face, suppressing herself from laughing.
"Why do I have to do this again?" Nicholas snarled as he got pushed towards the camp borders.
"Because you had the shortest straw!" Connor Stoll chimed in as she walked alongside Leo. Behind them was Annabeth and Percy.
Of COURSE I did.
Nicholas grumbled to himself as he got reminded by the Son of Hermes. He didn't want to do this, no. He did not want to go to the border and be the tour guide of new demigods.
"You all suck."
"Love you too!" They all called out in unison before they left him at the border with a bunch of demigods varying from different ages standing right in front of him. He looked to his right and found Mr. D, drinking his Diet Coke.
Maybe I won't have to do this alone. Nicholas thought. But that thought quickly vanished as Mr. D's eyes lit up as he leaned in towards the Son of Hades and whispered in his ear.
"Good thing you're here, Dick. Be careful with the brats. Oh and by the way, get me some ale on your way back, yeah?" The God of Wine said before quickly scampering off.
Never mind.
The campers all looked at Nicholas, some clearly nervous, others bored while a few tried to suppress laughter. But that all quickly changed as a glare from Nicholas immediately got them to shut up.
"Alright." His eyes were filled with boredom and annoyance as usual. "I don't care who you are, or where you come from. All you need to know is that in this camp, you will be trained to be the best at stuff so we can fight the forces of evil, bla bla bla..."
"That's it?" One girl piped up. She had a red pony and freckles. "Thats all this camp does?"
"Shut up."
"What?! You can't-"
"Shut. Up." Nicholas snapped before one of the younger demigods, a boy who looked like he was seven, approached Nicholas as he looked up at him with big eyes.
"Excuse me, sir. My name is Peter Johnson, do you know where the bathroom is?"
Nicholas looked slightly taken aback by the boy's statement. "Sorry?"
"Um..can you show me where the bathroom is, sir?" The boy said as he looked up at Nicholas with his big eyes. Nicholas could see that he had two front teeth sticking out.
"I meant...what was your name again?" Nicholas repeated.
"Um, P-Peter Johnson, sir." The boy said.
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"Please tell me you're joking." Percy groaned as he buried his face into his hands. Peter on the other hand, just looked up at everyone grinning happily as he stuck out his front two teeth, having no idea what's happening. Travis howled with laughter as he slapped the seaweed brain's back while Annabeth hid her laughter by covering her mouth.
Nicholas smirked before Thalia and Grover approach the group, noticing the exchange of laughter from everyone. She raises an eyebrow.
"What's going on?"
Nicholas leaned in and whispered in their ears, making the both of them smirk as they looked at the Peter, then at Percy.
"Peter Johnson?" Thalia asked.
