Chapter Nine, Em is for Medusa
Oh my gods guys Im sooo sorry! I didn't know so many people would want to read it! The last time I checked about 500read the first chapter but 9 read the last one. I was so depressed. IM SOO SORRY! I SWEAR ON THE RIVER STYX *boom. thunder. crackle crackle.* THAT I WILL FINISH THIS BEFORE CHRISTMAS! My longest chapter! JUST FOR YEW! Oh man guys im sooo sorry! Heres the next chapter:
My thoughts kept wandering back to the incident on the bus. Even though there were reasons for the Kindly Ones to call Percy an "it", I don't think they were talking about him when they said, "Where is it?"
"You know, maybe I should tell you... something funny back on the bus..." I started to tell Percy.
Before I could tell Percy what I was thinking about, there was a shrill toot-toot-toot made by Grover.
"Hey, my reed pipes still work!" Grover cried. "If I could just remember a 'find path' song, we could get out of these woods."
Grover blew some notes and I had to stop myself from laughing. Was he playing Hilary Duff? I didn't know how a song by Hilary Duff would help. I was right.
Grover's "find path song" didn't really work. We wandered around the woods for a mile. I was pretty sure that Percy was having the most trouble. He kept walking into trees and cursing. It was ethire the song or the fact that Percy's a seaweed brain. But aside from that, even though I couldn't see much in the dark, I was better at navigating than Percy,
Suddenly, I smelled food. Junk food. I hadn't eaten junk food since... forever. A longing came over me. I walked towards the smell.
We kept on walking until we came upon a building with a neon sign above a gate. I had no idea what it said. It looked like AYNUT MES GERDAN GOME EPMORION
"What the heck does that say?" Percy asked me.
"I don't know." I admitted.
"Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium." Grover said.
Percy crossed the street over to the building, following the delicious smell of food.
"Hey..." Grover warned.
"The lights are on inside. Maybe it's open." I said hopefully.
"Snack bar." Percy said wistfully.
"Snack bar." I agreed. I was in the mood for a cheeseburger.
"Are you two crazy?" Grover cried. "This place is weird!"
We ignored him, our minds too focused on the food.
The front lot had statues of animals, children, and even satyrs.
"Bla-ha-ha!" Grover said. "Looks like my Uncle Ferdinand!"
We stopped at the warehouse door.
"Don't knock!" Grover pleaded. "I smell monsters."
"Your nose is clogged up from the Furies." I scoffed. "All I smell is burgers. Aren't you hungry?"
"Meat! I'm a vegetarian." Grover said.
"You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans." Percy said with a "ha!" face.
Yeah, because everyone knows that cheese and meatle are made out of meat
"Those are vegetables." Grover said.
Since when was a tin can a vegetable?
"Come on. Let's leave. These statues are... looking at me." Grover whimpered.
