The Lost Trident: Percy Jackson

I got chased by a man with a stick

We walked into a hotel in Edinburgh that had vacancies and got a single room for the night because it was the cheapest option and we didn't have a whole lot of money to splash around. We didn't really pay attention to how many stars the hotel was because we had all stayed in places that were worse than a 1 star hotel. We walked into our room and put our stuff down.

"one of you can have the bed I'll sleep on the floor or something" I said.

"Nico, you can have the bed you need it more than I do I'll sleep on the floor as well." Travis told him. it was around 6:00 pm Edinburgh time so that meant it was about 1 pm in New York. We all went into the bathroom and Travis turned the shower on and managed to angle it so that when the light hit it right it would make a rainbow.

"Oh iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering" I said throwing a gold drachma into the rainbow and thinking of Chiron at camp.

"Chiron!" I called through the message, he was sitting on the porch of the big house and looked like he was waiting for someone to come up for a meeting.

"Percy, Nico, Travis! I was expecting to have heard from you sooner. I'll get Will to come over in a minute to speak to you Nico. Now where are you and have you had any troubles so far?" Chiron asked us, when he said the last part it was almost like he was hiding something from us, what it could have been I had no clue at all.

"well we shadow travelled and ended up out the front of some old broken-down shop or bar not far from Trafalgar square" when Travis said this Chiron looked slightly alarmed as if he knew what it was and as though we should not have gone anywhere near it.

"we then went and got some food since Nico looked like he was about to pass out, and then we caught a train up to Edinburgh which is where we are now. we are going to stay here for the night and go to Dufftown tomorrow." I finished off. Chiron looked calmer now than he did at the mention of the old shop and I was a bit confused by that.

"what have you thought of the UK so far?" Chiron asked

"well it's kind of depressing. It's like it's in a war with itself and it doesn't know it. Its making me feel depressed." At this Chiron started playing with his beard and before he could answer Will had made his way to the big house and Chiron told us that he hoped to hear from us soon. I was beginning to be very suspicious of Chiron, he had never acted this way before, it was like he was being controlled like another power. Or he could have just been straight up keeping secrets from us. Either way there wasn't much we could do about it now. Travis and I decided to give Nico some privacy whilst talking to will so we told him we were just going to go out for a bit and have a look around. We told him to call us if he had any problems or anything. When Leo came back from Ogygia the second time he upgraded my mobile phone so that they wouldn't attract monsters. Honestly, I don't really know why no one had thought of doing that earlier. But I was really thankful he had managed to do it. He'd upgrade a couple other peoples as well, mainly just the people that had them which wasn't a lot especially considering the time we live in, it's not normal not to have a phone. I made sure I had riptide in my pocket before Travis and I left. It was already around 7:00pm so we were mainly just looking for a place where we could get dinner and go back to the hotel. Not long after we found a restaurant and we were heading back to our hotel when I felt someone watching me, I snuck a quick look over my shoulder and sure enough we were being followed. I pulled Travis down an empty alley behind a dumpster and waited for the person following us to come down the alley. They walked into the alley a bit before pulling out a stick and mumbling something, I don't really know what they said but apparently it had done something since they were walking straight towards us. I didn't really know what to do since they didn't look or move or act like any sort of monster, if anything they were acting like they were chasing the monster.

"I know your down here" they shouted in a British accent "show yourself!" they shouted again. I stood up with my hands in the air and began walking out away from the dumpster

"it's just me, I'm alone and I was just getting dinner for me and my friends who are in a hotel room waiting for me" I said slowly as I stepped in the open space of the alley and turned towards him. Travis didn't move which is what I wanted because I didn't know if the British dude had seen him with me or not.

"I know you're not alone someone else is behind that dumpster." The man said. I nodded at Travis and he slowly stood up still holding onto our food and walked into the alley and stood next to me. The man began slowly out of the shadows and I got my first good look at him. he was an older man with extremely red hair, his arm was outstretched and he appeared to be holding what looked like a fancy stick.

"pull up your sleeve" he said to me.

"why?" I asked him, I thought that was a relatively odd request.

"just do it" he ordered, I obliged and pulled up my sleeve to reveal my tattoo. This was probably the weirdest interaction id ever had with someone before but I could tell that this man was clearly not a monster of any sort. He walked closer to me and looked at my outstretched arm. He sighed with relieve before lowering his wand. He did however look slightly confused by my tattoo, like he had seen or heard of it in stories and 'myths'.

"you must really like ancient Rome to have gotten that tattoo" he said before turning away and walking back towards the alley entrance.

"I'm sorry but do you mind me asking why you felt the need to follow us?" I asked him, he turned back to face us.

"someone sent a message about a boy with dark hair that fitted the description of a boy that is friends with my son, they have been away for quite some time and in these times of uncertainty I'm not so sure they are safe, the person that sent the message mentioned that you had a mark on your arm, a dark mark, but they were wrong." He replied

"do you mind me asking who they boy is?" Travis asked him. I almost completely forgot Travis was there since he was being so quite which was unusual for him. the man looked at us in disbelief before saying,

"Harry Potter. Surely you know who Harry Potter is." Travis and I shock our heads and the man's face made an expression of alarm before he pointed his stick at each of us in turn and shouted "OBLIVIATE" he then turned on the spot and disappeared. Travis and I stood rooted on the spot before looking at each other and silently deciding we needed to get back to the hotel.

We made it back to the hotel and Nico let us in and as we at our dinner we recounted our story to Nico except Travis and I were missing parts of the story, it was like someone had gone into our memory's and taken parts away which is not something that I wanted to experience again. In the end, the only thing we could remember was what the guy looked like and the name of some random kid that apparently looked like me whose name was Harry Potter. Nico didn't really seem to believe either of us. We finished our dinner and decided to go to bed. We would finish our journey tomorrow.