Heroes of Olympus: Ragnarok Prophecy - Book I: The Blizzard of Discord

VI - The Quest Begins

Alex POV

I woke up early. It's obvious that I had earned a bad custom from my friend Vic: leave things 'till last hour. Nah, I'm lying, I'm just lazy but Vic is worse.

I looked to my handbag, my only luggagge for coming here. I opened it and took all my things inside, that were really a few. The clothes I had arrived, a sweatshirt, and fou...five books?

I grabbed them. One was about football history and stories divided in leagues and world cups. It was in German.

Also it was the trilogy of Memorias de Idhún. It was an English translation though, I wasn't really good at Spanish to read the original.

I noticed another one on the bag and couldn't believe I had brought this. It was one of my school books. The Latin one, to be exact. I saw inside some sheets. They were school notes of... Greek?

In that moment I understood. I may have thought that the Greek notes could be useful as they're of Ancient Greek, not Modern.

I put the three books in the bag. I looked around to see if I had forgotten something more.

"My music player and headphones are at home so nothing else" I thought

For the evening, I was ready. I had lunch with the Hunters as always and later, took my bag and headed towards Aphrodite cabin.

Just in that moment, Piper came out.

"You ready?" she asked when she saw me

"Yeah, you?" I answered

"Also ready" she said "Follow me, the Argo II is in Bunker 9"

"Argo? Isn't that the name of a myth boat?" I asked

"I think so" Piper said "The one of Jason and the Argonauts"

We headed to the woods. Annabeth and Percy were already there. Frank, Hazel and Jason appeared from the woods as they came from Camp Jupiter.

Suddenly, the earthe trembled a bit and a huge Greek war boat with a Celestial Bronze dragon on front.

Suddenly, Leo appeared.

"Hi, guys. We're ready to go!" He shouted. Later, he looked at me, maybe noticing that I didn't understand what was happening "And Alex, I introduce you the Argo II, the boat we used to get to the Ancient Lands during the Gigants' War and this guy here" he pointed the dragon "is my friend Festus the dragon"

Festus the dragon? Meaning the happy dragon? I understand why sometimes a full translation can sound badly.

"Cool, isn't it?" The son of Hephaestus asked me after we had got in

"Yeah, totally cool" I said "Truly amazing. You have built it, haven't you?"

"Yeah" He said "Let me show you"

If it seemed huge, inside was the same. Basically, behind the deck, there were some stables for pegasi, eight rooms and a main room that could be a meeting room or a mess hall. The main room had images of Camp Half-Blood and a huge table with eight chairs.

"Well, this is your room" He said "It was one of the things I had to change for today. Before Coach Hedge, the satyr that went with us to the Ancient Lands, had this room. So, I decided to change it to be more like the other ones" Leo explained

"Okay, thanks" I said

"The other room is the machines' room" He said "Maybe I'm gonna spend there most of the time"

I nodded.

"Okay, on we go!" He ran upstairs.

I entered in the room and left my bag in the bed. The room was plain white.