Annabeth at Goode

Chapter 8

~Percy~

We walked to the dining hall, Cassie in between Annabeth and I.

I still can't believe I found her. I found my long lost sister! We have to go see mom soon. She's going to be so excited to see Cassie back. I know I am.

When we got to the dining hall, I helped Cassie up the marble steps into the hall. I guess its not really a 'hall'. It has a floor, and a roof, but no walls. There are only four marble columns holding up the floor in each corner of the room, there are also railings in the space in between each pillar, connecting them together to form a type of gazebo, except there's no door, just an empty space. The campers made way for us, as there was a girl on crutches, and I led her to the table. There's usually only one person, me, at the Poseidon table, but there's alwaoys extra plates and stuff sitting there for when Tyson visits.

I went up and got both of us a plate of food, scraping some of both into the fire as an offering.

When I returned she dug in, scarfing down her burger and fries like it was mom's blue cookies or something. Oh, that reminds me. We have to make her try those.

She was interrupted out of her montage of eating by a booming voice.

"Attention, Campers." Chiron spoke. "It has come to my attention that we have a new camper among us. Cassidae, please stand."

Her head shot up, taking in the speaker in the front before speaking.

~Cassie~

When Percy came back with my plate of food, I'm pretty sure I was drooling. I swear it was glowing, a great, white, halo of happiness that was coming into my wake.

I scarfed it down the minute it touched the table. It tasted just like Jim's- my adoptive dad- burgers.

I was interrupted from my montage of eating by a booming voice.

"Attention, Campers." I looked up to see what I think was a centaur, before returning to my food. "It has come to my attention that we have a new camper among us. Cassidae, please stand."

My head shot up, taking in that everyone's eyes were on me. I stood up, my foot hovering above the ground, using the table for support.

"Um, hi?" I looked at the Centaur. He moved his hands in a continuous motion. "I'm Cassidae Jackson, but you can call me Cassie, um, my father is Poseidon, I'm Percy's sister-"

"You mean half-sister." I was interrupted by a small, lanky kid sitting next to Annabeth.

"No, I mean sister."

"Really?" He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Tyler!" Annabeth hissed.

"Sorry! It's just that we haven't had any Poseidon campers since Tyson and it seems unusual!"

"Tyson?" I looked at Percy.

He looked up from his burger, ketchup and mustard covering his face. "Tyson's our half-brother, he's a cyclops." He returned to scarfing down his burger.

"Fancy. So, why is it so surprising that I'm Percy's sister?"

"Because ever since the Big Three took the oath, no ones seen any children of the Big Three. And then Percy comes along and goes through some giant adventure, and then Tyson comes like a year later and then they go on some adventure and all this stuff goes down. And now here you are." He huffed.

"Okay?"

"Tyler! Leave the poor girl alone! She's got a broken ankle for gods sake!" Annabeth shouted.

"Annabeth it's fine."

When everyone was done eating dinner, we were sent off to the campfire. I guess this place kinda is a real summer camp huh?

"So, I talked to Chiron earlier, and he said it was okay for us to go into Manhattan tomorrow to see mom! Isn't that great?"

"Really?! Yay this will be so- Oh my god! My mom!"

I clutched his forearm worry pounding in my chest and tears coming to my eyes.

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Hey guys!

Okay, so I know I haven't updated in a while. And it kills me to say this, but I haven't had very much motivation to write any more. But I will keep writing, as I get into more of what the book was supposed to be about, it'll get 10 times more interesting!

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~Shannon