Chapter Four

Okay, this was a lot to take in, I was a half blood who was extremely powerful and could possibly destroy the whole world. Also, to top that off, all the gods on Olympus wanted me and Aiden dead. And I had Spring Formal in 24 hours, and my mom was probably flipping out. I had a date and everything too! I had the great dress and perfect shoes, and now it was ruined.
I took off the diamond encrusted sea shell bracelet my mom given me for my birthday a few weeks before and it turned into a bow, the diamonds turned into a quiver full of arrows I took one out to look at it. It was white and smooth but sharp as a dagger, in a pocket inside the quiver was a dagger made out of the same stuff, abalone. I ran my fingers along the flat side. Smooth as ice.
“Aiden,” I said.
“Yep,” she said packing up a bog distractedly.
“Why did my bracelet turn into a bow, a quiver full of arrows, and a dagger?” I asked.
“Uh, I really don’t know, lets go ask a Hephaestus kid.” As it turns out, my bracelet, since it had the diamonds it could carry twice the amount and the arrows weren’t made out of abalone, they were made out of sea silver moonshine. It just looked the same. So a abalone dagger, a quiver full of sea silver moonshine arrows, and a diamond encrusted bow. My life became a little better.
“So am I still going to miss spring formal?” I asked.
“Is that really all you think about?!” Aiden yelled.
“Uh, yes.” I answered, “I have the most amazing dress and I wont be able to wear it now.” We headed toward the Poseidon cabin.
“This is the cabin.” We walked into the cabin and I was able to smell the salty sea breeze, the walls were made of abalone. The bunks had silk sheets on them, and looked like only two people had slept there for the last twenty years. Though there was iHome next to one of the bunks.
“Why is there an iHome over there?” I asked.
“I’m holding it ransom; one of the guys in Apollo has my anklet Poseidon gave me.” She looked like this was totally normal.
“An anklet, Got it. So you steal his iHome? Isn’t that a little drastic?” I was looking around the cabin it was amazing, like an on the land underwater palace.
“Uh, no. it’s a combination of abalone and celestial bronze and has a piece of broken coral from the most pure and clean coral reef in the world, I think the iHome is the perfect thing to take it return for my anklet.”
“Wow. Well, where do I put my stuff? Oh wait. That’s right, it’s all at home!” I said as calm as possible.
“Anna, chill. It’s already on your bunk.” I looked over to one of the beds, I ran over. There was a suitcase, a backpack, and…
“My dress. How did you get it?” I was in shock.
“We had a few people go over to your house and explain to your mom what was going on. She took it very calmly, she must’ve known… anyway, lets get going, we’ve got a quest.”
“Wait, what? I just got here, we’re leaving again?” I asked.
“Uh-huh, Chiron said I had to wait for two powerful demi gods, well, there was already one here. Nina, so I had to wait for one more. You. Why do you think you have a backpack, we only use those for quests. Nothing else.”
“Okay, so what’s in it?” I asked.
“Since you don’t know a lot about myths and I’m getting tired of explaining them, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, ambrosia, nectar, change of clothes, and if you want, that dress. There’s also your iPhone, we deleted all you contacts and disabled calling and texting, because it’s like sending up a flare from a flare gun saying ‘Here I am! Please come rearrange me and my friends!’”
“Oh jeez. But what about Paige? She HAS to come.” I started to explain why, it was this long and tragic back story but she wouldn’t listen.
“Uh, no. she can’t only three people are allowed, three is a kind of sacred number.” Aiden explained to me, the dimwitted blonde.
“Got it, okay well, let’s go!”

We headed toward the Hades cabin. Nina wasn’t there or anywhere in camp. So they decided to go to Chiron. “Chiron, have you seen Nina?”
“She left camp, she’s been called to Olympus. I’m afraid Artemis is in need of her services.”
“Okay, I know I’ve been here like a week and I don’t know much, but I know even Nina can’t help Artemis with whatever she needs.” Said Aiden worried.
“You’d be surprised to see what she can do. She has… a way with people, especially certain people.” Chiron said.
“Okay, but where am I going to find another quest person on such short notice? I mean, everyone has been kind of afraid since… last time.” Aiden whispered the last part.
“How about we take that cute guy from Apollo or maybe Alex?” I suggested.
“We’ll take Alex, if we take Jason, we’ll get attacked by monsters half the time.” Aiden said quickly.
“How about both?” Chiron suggested.
“Chiron,” I said, “Even I know about the three is a sacred number thing and I’ve been here, what? An hour maybe two.”
“True,” he sighed, “But I’m afraid this quest needs four, as you heard the oracle say before Aiden.” His big brown eyes stared daggers into her.
“Four must travel to the end of the west, To find the three who are suited best. To fix all wrong, Also to find where they belong. Along the way, Two will try to die in a bay. Living long and well one will stand, All will die fighting on the sand.” Aiden recited.
“That’s a tad bit creepy,” I said.
“Well,” Chiron sighed, “Prophecies have double meanings. So maybe it’s not all bad. But that doesn’t mean its all good either.”
“All right, lets get the boys and get going.”

We left camp at lunch. Everyone was fine to see us leave, mostly glad to see Jason leave, such a trouble maker. Not as bad as Tim, or so I’ve heard. My backpack had all the necessities in it for a quest, I had my bracelet on my right wrist and was ready to go. Aiden clipped that silver hair clip in her hair, grabbed her bag and walked next to me. She looked so confident in her blue hoodie and jeans.
“Lets go!” Jason said.
“I agree with Jason for once. Let’s go.” Aiden said. We walked down the hill, I had been at camp for two hours, and I left again.