The Child Of Time

chapter 7

A/N: who else likes DragonForce

3rd Person-

"I'm thinking that I want..."

"What's Capture the flag?" Percy asked.

Annabeth stared at him for a moment then sprinted away, her blonde hair flying behind.

Having no where to go, Percy went back to the Hermes cabin.

"Hey," Luke greeted. "I got you toiletries and a sleeping bag."

"Sticky fingers, huh?" Percy grinned.

"You have no idea." Luke's expression darkened and he looked almost, evil.

Thunder rumbled loudly in the distance.

"How are you enjoying your first day?" Luke asked.

"Its just peachy." Percy grumbled.

"That's the spirit!" Luke encouraged. "You'll get used to it. C'mon its to time eat."

"Hermes cabin, line up!" He yelled.

Percy got in line next to a pair of twins. "Hey," they said in sync.

"Hey." Percy said.

"I'm Connor this is my sneaky twin, Travis." Connor said.

"Percy."

After a long moment they asked, "Well?"

"What?" Percy questioned.

"Aren't you going do that creepy, I-know-everything-about-you, thing?" Travis said.

Percy chuckled, "I don't do that to everyone."

"Aww." They whined.

Walking to the mess hall, Travis asked, "Did you really soak Clarisse?"

"How do you guys know about that?" asked Percy.

"News travels fast if you're a son of Hermes." Connor said. (Get it? Hermes delivers news, is fast, god of travels-never mind.)

It was loud and rowdy in the mess hall.

Well, at least until Percy walked quieted down and stared at Percy.

"There's the assassin." One kid whispered.

"Heard he dunked Clarisse-" Another said.

"He's so good-looking."An Aphrodite child gushed.

"Are you kidding me?" Her sister said, "He's freakin' gorgeous."

"Assassin."

"Assassin,"

Connor whistled, "No wonder why you wear that hood."

Percy shrugged; ignoring the whispers. Percy took a plate of fries, cheese sticks, and a hamburger.

"See that furnace over there?" Travis asked, pointing to a fireplace. "Before you eat, you have to sacrifice some of your food to the gods."

"They like the smell of burnt food?" Percy raised an eyebrow.

"I don't know about that, but if you say a prayer, they might answer." Travis offered.

"Might," Percy scoffed. "And I just might not kill them."

Percy scraped his fries into the fire. He closed his eyes and imagined what he thought his mother would look like-he had a younger picture of her but that was it.

Percy wanted to send Poseidon a signal-as if to say, to claim him before Kronos could.

After a long dinner Luke finally said, "C'mon, it's time for Capture the flag."