Son of Tartarus

To Olympus

Next morning, I already had my bags packed up with ambrosia, just like Chiron said, and some clothes, and other vital stuff like a torch, some matches etc.
Harry was taking some other stuff we would need too. We went to breakfast and I asked Harry what weapon he was taking. He showed me his dagger and told me it was called "Titan Slayer". I showed him Shade. Then, after breakfast, Shaggy, Jay and Tina came along and Chiron wished us a good luck.
"What now?" Jay asked
-"I dunno, I guess we should go to the river goddess" I said helplessly
-"Yeah, but, who is that?" Jay asked again
-"I'm guessing it's Styx, since we are going to her river" Shaggy said
-"And where is Styx" Tina asked
-"In the underworld" Harry said
-"And how do we get there, by car?" Jay asked
-"I don't know, I'm not my father" Harry said
-"What does Hermes has to do with this?" I asked
-"He was the one of the only people to go in and out alive" Harry informed
-"Of course you dummy, he's immortal!" Tina said
-"Well then, maybe we should ask him" Shaggy suggested
-"Oh great! Instead of the Underworld, Olympus! And how do we get there?" Jay asked
-"Everybody knows Olympus is in New York" Shaggy informed
-"Sorry to inform you, but Olympus is in Greece. Miles from here!" Tina said
-"No. I mean yes, Formerly, but not anymore. The gods moved out. The new Olympus is at the 600th floor of the Empire State in New York. They must always be in the capital of the world" Shaggy said
-"Yeah, I don't think there are that many floors on the Empire State" Tina said
-"The last few are magical" Shaggy said vaguely
-"Ok then, to Olympus!" I said
-"How?" Jay asked
-"Leave that to me" Harry said

...

  After a while, Harry came back from his cabin with some sneakers on his hands. Then I noticed the wings. On each pair of shoes, two tiny wings were at the sides. He gave each one of us a pair of shoes.
"This are flying shoes, given to us by Hermes. My father. He only gives it to his children, of course. But I managed to convince some guys to lend me some. Now let's go before they notice" Harry said quickly
  We were finishing to put on our shoes when we heard the first camper come.
"Give back my shoes!" He was yelling
-"Maia!" Harry yelled, right before he started flying
  At first I thought that the camper's name was Maia.
"C'mon guys, that is the trigger word! Faster!" Harry informed
-"Maia!" We all said. Before I realised, I was on the air. The camper was now just about two feet away, and three other campers followed, but we were all flying.
"Give us our shoes back! Or even better give me all of our shoes back!" One of them yelled
-"Harry, you stupid! Give my shoes!" Another one yelled
-"Good one Harry, now hand us my shoes!" The last one yelled
-"Let's go!" Harry said
  And then, we were off and flying into Long Island's landscape.

...

  We were all starting to see the city of New York about an hour after we left. Maybe more, maybe less.
"There it is" Tina said
-"Yep" I replied
  Everything seemed safe and peaceful for a moment. For a moment.
  After we landed, in New York, we were taking off our shoes and out of nowhere, an arrow almost hit Harry, although, with his super fast senses, he saw it coming, and dodged. We all turned to see a bunch of centaurs. Six of them. We thought they would be friendly, but then they charged, and so did we.
  My shadow, turned into Shade in my hand, Harry was running here and there cutting through with Titan Slayer, Tina already had Kypello on her hand before I could see her and she was fighting like a beast. She barely had any training, and already was slicing the enemies that dared come to her, Jay drew Sitari and started fighting a centaur, Shaggy took out some pipes (thanks a lot, music is always useful) and I was getting ready to attack the centaur that was charging towards me. The fight went on, none of us were killing them although we did cause some serious damage. Same could be said about them. This was until Jay through his spear right through the centaur he was fighting, taking the first kill. The spear came through the back of the centaur, and some yellow-ish liquid was in the floor. The monster disintegrated, and the spear was spotless. The centaurs weren't really doing a good job, their bows and arrows were quite bad at short range, but they could at least stay alive.
Harry had second kill by putting his dagger into the centaur, and then running around him until his man half and his horse half were apart. He also disintegrated. I then charged into a centaur and he died as soon as Shade was deep in his skin. Tina might have had third kill, but she definitely got the best one. Two centaurs were surrounding her, very closely, she she straightened her hand, made a few circles and both of the centaurs were hit by the blade, dying at the same time. Trying to copy her, Harry started running around the last centaur so fast, that the centaur started to look dizzy, Harry slashing every time. This killed him, but not before the centaur grabbed one of his arrows and buried one into his arm.
The fight had ended, but not easily. I was going to yell at Shaggy for being so useless, when I realised, a centaur was forming in the ground, then two, then four and finally all of them were back alive, and angry. Harry was not only hurt enough, but he was also the nearest the centaurs. He used the last of his strength to run (at that speed of his) away from combat. I already had Shade ready, when some wonderful music came from behind me. It was some sweet slow tender melody. So slow. I fell tired suddenly. I was going to pass out, when I realised that was Shaggy playing. I covered my ears. Suddenly the emotion was gone. But I couldn't fight with my hands on my ears. I never felt so useless as right then. The centaurs fell down. They were in some deep sleep. The music stopped.
"What in Hades was that?" I asked
-"Pan's pipes. For satyrs, it's magical music"
-"That, is awesome! Why didn't you do that before?" I asked
-"I did. But not that song. I sang the song of Tartarus. It's a song that is supposed to weaken all the living, and to make the chances of going in there higher" he explained
-"No, you weren't playing any song. I didn't hear any at least" I said
-"Interesting, you must be immune, you know, son of Tartarus and all" he supposed
-"Oh" I replied
Then I noticed we were the only ones awake. Jay, Tina and Harry were all in some deep sleep. We carried their sleepy bodies a few blocks away, which would have been hard if it wasn't because of Shaggy's song about zero weight. Then we took the centaur's bodies into the other direction and went back with our friends. By the time they woke up, it was midday. Harry had been fed some ambrosia, and his arrow had been taken away by me.
"Thanks man" Harry said
-"Don't mention it" I replied
-"So, how about we get some food?" Tina asked
-"Great" Jay said
Tina threw her dagger into the air and it turned into a bracelet again. I dropped it and when it hit the ground it turned into my shadow. Jay grabbed his spear from almost both ends and it started turning smaller and lighter every second until it turned into the string. Only that this time it had a wheat symbol, representing Demeter probably.
"Cool, check this new thing in my necklace" Jay commented
-"It looks good" Tina said
Then she went to the nearest trash container, and took an empty can of beans, which turned into a full can of beans.
-"Let's start with this" she said
Then she kept on looking and found an empty bottle of soda, or should I say, a new bottle of soda? And then some fruit, and cereals. Not much, but enough.
-"Awesome, I love cereals. I guess it's from my mom" Jay said
-"Well that, is an economic power" Shaggy said
-"I know, next time we should go to the back of a restaurant or a supermarket if it has a container too" Tina said proudly.
We ate our food. It was delicious, like I don't love beans or cereals or any of it, but it really was delicious. Probably because it came from a daughter of Dionysus. Then we put our winged shoes and went directly into the Empire State Building, also known as... Olympus.