Chapter 9: I am Offered A Quest

The next morning, Chiron moved me to cabin three, which is Poseidon's cabin I didn't have to share with anybody, I had plenty of room. I got to do anything I wanted to do, I sat at my own table got to pick all of the activities, and call lights out whenever I wanted to. I also didn't listen to anybody else I got to listen to myself. It was great being by myself but I felt miserable. Nobody mentioned anything about the hell hound, but I got the feeling they were all talking about it behind my back. The attack scared everybody and it sent two messages: one, that I was the son of the Sea God Poseidon and two, would stop at nothing to kill me. They could even come and invade this camp that had always been safe. I noticed that the campers started to become afraid of me. Cabin eleven was too nervous to have sword class with me after what I'd done to the Ares cabin, so my sword fighting lessons with Luke became one-on-one. The worst thing was that Luke pushed me harder than ever and he wasn't afraid of bruising me up in the process. Annabeth still taught me Greek in the mornings, but she seemed distracted, because every time I tried to say something she would scowl at me. Then after the Greek lessons, she would walk away muttering to herself, almost like she had a lot in her mind. One thing that was really surprising was that even Clarisse kept her distance too. But her evil looks made it clear that she wanted to kill me or something. I know somebody at camp that made me mad, because one night when I came into my cabin I found a mortal news paper dropped inside the doorway. It was talking about the car crash that involved me and my mom. The article took me almost an hour to read, because it made me really angry.

That night I had my worst dream yet. I remembered I was walking down a beach in a big storm. There was a city behind, and it was not New York. It was somewhere else that I didn't know. Then I saw two people in Greek clothing fighting over something, like they were kindergarten students. Then I woke up. When I woke up, a storm was brewing, then I heard someone knocking on the door. "Come in!" I screamed. It was Grover, he told me that Mr.D wanted to see me. I was really nervous, because Grover seemed to be nervous. I think they want to talk to me about the storm because the storm hasn't been this big before. Anyways, When me and Grover went up the porch and went in the big house, Mr.D seemed to be really mad at me almost like he wanted to kill me. He kept saying all these things to me until Chiron stopped him. Then Chiron dropped his cards and said to me " Will you accept your quest?" I said "But I never got the details yet." "Well, That's the hard part." Then I told them if it was Poseidon and Zeus fighting over something really valuable, after I said that, Grover and Chiron looked at each other. Chiron said "Well you are right Percy, They are fighting over something really valuable that was stolen, to be precise a lightning bolt. I laughed a little bit and said "What?" "It is Zeus' master bolt." he said. "And they think you stole it." I was shocked. Then he continued to tell me everything about the problem with the Gods right now. Then Chiron told me to go up in the attic and talk to the oracle. Anyways, I went up to the attic and there was something there that looked like a snake's head. Then it said I am the spirit of Delphi, speaker of the prophecies of Phoebus Apollo, slayer of the mighty Python. Approach, seeker and ask. So I asked it "What is my destiny?" All of a sudden, mist swirled thickly until it became clearer, it was smelly Gabe and his buddies. Gabe turned towards me and said "You shall go west, and face the God who has turned, then You shall find what was stolen and see it safely returned, then you shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend, and you shall fail to save what matters the most." Then the mist just disappeared. I am finally on to my quest and two people with come with me on my quest. Grover and Annabeth.