The Legacies Of Olympus

Act 2 Chapter 3

A Percy Jackson Fanfiction

BY:COOLCAT7325

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DISCLAIMER: We do not own the Percy Jackson series. Rick Riordan does.

Spoilers from Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus.

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Act 2 Chapter 3

Emily had never felt so bored in her whole life. She wanted to go on a quest. Or fight monsters. Or rescue demigods. She did not want to witness Mary acting so down in the dumps, and Tom acting like a love-sick puppy.

She also didn't want to be yelled at by Chiron to 'train harder'. Again! But hey! Life's full of disappointments. She wasn't going on the quest. She was not fighting monsters (Sammy did not count). Nor was she rescuing demigods. What she was doing however, was watch Mary bawl her eyes out. Every. Single. Night. She also did not want to watch Tom wander around dazed. But she had to.

So, when Julie mentioned something about a carnival in the city, she just had to go. She had never left camp, and she was in the mood to rebel. The only problem was to get somebody to rebel with her.

Tom and Mary she ruled out immediately. Julie had always found it hard to lie, and so would not be an ideal choice. That just left Sammy and Luke. She was pretty sure Sammy would never agree. He had always been a stickler for rules. That just left Luke.

So, it was on a fine, cloudless morning that she approached the arena, where Luke was furiously hacking at the dummies. He put down his sword when he saw her.

"Morning, Emily!" he said, giving her a million dollar smile that made butterflies form in her stomach.

"Um... I need a favour", she said, jumping straight to the point.

"Yeah sure! What is it?"

Emily took a deep breath.

"Uhhh... Care to sneak out of camp with me?" she asked, giving him her best puppy eyes.

Luke hesitated.

"Umm...Are you sure?" he asked, finally.

"Positive!" she answered.

"Okay. When do you wanna go?"

"I was thinking... tonight!"

Luke's jaw dropped.

"Emily! You got to put together a proper plan. You can't just do it as a spur-of-the-moment thing!"

"It's okay! We can do it", she said, confidently, "I bribed some of the Hermes kids to lie for us. And we have the whole day to plan. Tonight, meet me by the southern part of the boundary. There are hardly any people patrolling there."

"Done!"

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As Emily swung her backpack over her shoulder, she glanced one more time at the mirror.

In her jacket's pocket, she had two golden drachmas (in case of any emergency). In her backpack, she carried an extra pair of clothes, two hundred dollars in mortal cash, an airtight bag of ambrosia, a flask of nectar, her cell phone (Leo had recently invented phones that demigods could use without attracting monsters) and a flashlight. She had her own sword, which turned into a hair-clip when she was not using it. So she placed that carefully into her hair. Just like Percy's Riptide, it could never be lost, but she was still careful with it.