𝓦𝓐𝓘𝓣 𝓕𝓞𝓡 𝓘𝓣--𝓟𝓙𝓞

I'll take three Furies fried and steamed

Annabeth, Percy, Grover, Logan, and I were riding with Argus for a while, looking at the different sights Long Island had to offer. Living in my hometown, you can only dream of traveling to New York on vacation. The fact that I can see this, even just once, feels special to me.

I heard Percy take a deep breath. "So far so good," he said. "Not a monster in sight."

Annabeth turned to him. "You can't say that," she told him. "It's bad luck."

Percy sat up as he stared at Annabeth. "Remind me again why you hate me?"

Annabeth didn't answer him, so he began talking once again.

"I mean, you weren't acting like this until I got claimed," he told her. "Why is it all of a sudden a now thing?"

Annabeth huffed. "It's an Athena and Poseidon thing," she told him. "They're rivals."

"Why?"

"What more reason do you need?" she asked him. "First Athena caught Poseidon with his mistress in her temple, and then they fought over the right to be the patron of the city of Athena. Poseidon gave the people spring water, while Athena gave the people an Olive tree. They liked Athena's gift more, so they chose her."

Logan looked at me. "Really?" he asked. I nodded. "Wow."

"The people must really like Olives," Percy said.

"Forget it," Annabeth groaned.

"But why Olives of all things?" Logan asked. "Why not pizza?"

"Yeah," Percy agreed. "I mean, if she made pizza, that I would understand."

"Oh gods," I groaned.

"I said forget it," Annabeth repeated. She then turned back around and snapped open her book and began to read it. I then decided to take out my own book to pass the time.

It was silent once again. We stopped at a red light and stayed there for three minutes. I finally took it upon myself to look out the window at the passing cars and I swear I felt my eyes playing tricks on me.

I noticed people, obviously, but most of them were blue and looked...transparent. There was one in an outfit from what looked like the 1800s yelling at the cars that were in front of him.

Don't thy notice thee walking here! You barbarians have no sense of manners! He yelled.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm hallucinating right now, but when I tried clearing my head, they were still there. What am I seeing right now?

There was a lot of people, some riding horses, some trying to talk to the people, but they were just being ignored, which angered them. I also saw some of them holding their own head while passing me, it scared me so bad.

But even then, I kept looking, they paid me no mind as they strolled the street but it wasn't vice versa.

I was still until I felt someone poke me for a few minutes. I didn't pay them any mind until they pinched my skin hard.

"Agh!" I yelped as I looked at Logan who pulled his hand away. I quickly smacked him in the chest. "What was that for?"

"I was telling you about how this stop light has been like this for five minutes," he motioned towards the stoplight before looking back at me. "But you zoned off, what is out there?"

I groaned before looking out the window once again. "I see these...people."

"Obviously," Percy spoke.