Chapter 15:A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers

Dear Journal,





The next afternoon, June 14, seven days before the summer solstice, our train finally rolled into Denver. We hadn't eaten since the night before in the dining car. We hadn't even taken a shower since we left Camp Half-Blood. Annabeth wanted to call Chiron about what was happening, I said "We can't use phones, right." She said "I'm not talking about phones." Annnabeth was looking for something for half an hour, and we wandered through downtown. The air was dry and hot, it kind of felt weird after the humidity of St. Louis. Anyways, everywhere we looked at, the Rocky Mountains seemed to be watching me, like a tidal wave about to crash into the city. Finally, we found an empty car wash place, we walked toward the farthest stall from the street so that no patrol cars could find us. I asked them what we were doing at the car wash stall, Annabeth said " I-M-ing" I thought she was talking about Instant Messaging, but she corrected me and she said it was Iris messaging. The rainbow Goddess carries messages for the Gods. Then Grover took out a spray gun and gave to Annabeth. Annabeth fed in quarters and sprayed it in the air. The water broke out into colours. Annabeth threw a Drachma into the mist and the coin disappeared in a golden shimmer. For a moment , nothing happened. Then I was looking through the mist at strawberry fields, and the Long Island sound in the distance. Then I saw Luke standing there, holding a bronze sword. I called out his name he turned around and screamed "Percy!" We asked him where Chiron was and Luke said that he was down at the cabins. Luke said that there were issues going on with the other campers. Just then a big Lincoln continental pulled into the car wash with its stereo turned to maximum volume. As the car went into the next stall the bass from the sub woofers vibrated so much, it shook the pavement.



Then Annabeth wanted to stop the car's loud music, so she grabbed Grover and went to the guy's car. Which left me by myself and Luke. So, I asked Luke what was happening at the cabins. Luke said "Chiron had to break up a fight." Then Luke told me everything that is happening at the camp. Well, things weren't going too good since we left the camp. There have been fights going on just because of the Zeus-Poseidon incident. Then I told him pretty much everything about our quest, including my dreams, it felt really good to see him again I felt like I was back at home. I didn't realize how long I talked to him until the beeper went off on the spray machine. Luke told me "I wish I could be there," then he wished me good luck and the mist started to evaporate. Annabeth and Grover came around the corner, laughing but then they stopped when they looked at my face, Annabeth asked me what happened, but I tried to change the subject, by saying "Come on let's look for dinner." A few minutes later, we were sitting at a booth in a gleaming chrome diner. Around us were families eating burgers, and drinking malts and sodas. Finally the waitress asked us what we wanted but when she asked if we had money, we totally forgot that we didn't have money. Annabeth looked like she was going to pass out from hunger. I was going to tell her a fake story so that we could have free food, but then a rumble shook the building, a motorcycle had pulled up to the curb. Everyone in the diner had stopped talking and looked at the motorcycle that had pulled over to the curb. The guy on the bike looked like he could scare pro wrestlers really easily. As he walked into the diner, a hot, dry wind blew through the place. Then everyone in the diner went back to their conversations, just like nothing happened. The waitress said to us again "Do you kids have any money to pay for the food." Then the biker went into our booth and said "It's on me." I had this weird feeling, I wanted to punch the guy, what does he think he is. Then he introduced himself to us, he was actually the God of war, or Clarisse's dad, Ares. Ares talked to me about me breaking Clarisse's spear, I just sat there saying nothing. Then we talked for so long, until he talked about my mother. I wondered did he really know something about my mother.Then we went on this love ride that shows a camera at Olympus, everything was so clear, I was so amazed, until we crashed into a pipe. I thought we needed to talk to Ares again, about our problem.