I smiled at Chiron and walked out of the big house. I sighed.

“WOOHOO. OH BOY. YES. YES, YES, YES, YESSATY, YES, YES! I’M GOING ON A QUEST. WOOHOO. HAHAHA. YES, YES, YES!”

I made Evangelos into a gun and shot bronze bullets into the air. I laughed my head off and started break dancing spinning on my head and doing back-flips. I rushed through the 草莓 fields doing cartwheels and leaping.

“I HAVE A QUEEEST. I HAVE A QUEEEST. I, HAVE A QUEST. ME SERIOUSLY I HAVE A QUEST. ME, ME CAN 你 BELIEVE IT”.

I finally got off of my quest high and stopped near the Hephaestus Cabin. I ran in and saw Charles Beckendorf working on a sword with heavy duty goggles n and what looked like ear-plugs. Later in my life people would ask me how I put up with the smell of the forges and I would say,”What Smell”, because it was smoky and putrid but I couldn’t smell a thing. My permanent Anosmia was a curse but would one 日 save my life.

I tapped Beckendorf but he didn’t seem to notice. I tried talking to him but he didn’t notice that either. I walked over to 墙 and grabbed a 火, 消防 extinguisher. I sprayed Charles with foam and he turned towards me, “Foam. Really”. “I could have used the nail gun but I thought this way the sword isn’t hot if 你 tried to defend yourself”, I 说 simply.
“Alright mate now what is it”, he laughed.
“I got a quest and 你 are coming with me”.
“How long does this quest last, like a week?”
“Indefinitely”.
“Can’t. Got school and the forges it’s all just too important to leave right now”.
“That’s okay I’ll find someone else”, I sighed.

***

So I ended up walking around suddenly depressed that it had never occurred to me to make any other 老友记 than Beckendorf. I mean I am friendly to people I just don’t really hang out with them. I sat on a stump 由 my Mums Caravan and she walked out and said. “So were going on a quest”.
I looked up, “We”.
“Well I am coming aren’t I. 你 me and Beckendorf”.
“Beckendorf can’t come and I refuse to take my mother on this quest. I don’t want to be rude but I’ll be a laughing stock”.
“Darren. It sounds like such fun”.
“Mum. No”.
“Darren I am your mother and for your whole life we have not had a family holiday so 你 could be kept safe”.
“This is a quest not a vacation”.
“Fighting monsters and finding Gods is also something 你 have deprived me of for a long time. I am a witch of Hecate not a stay-at-home Mum, 你 hear me”.
“The 答案 still no”.
“You are grounded”.
“You can’t do that”.
“I can and I will”.
“I am asking Mum what she thinks”.
“I am your Mum”.
“So is Hecate”.
“You don’t know where she is”.
“I’ll have to just pop-out and go get her then and 你 know what I might just need a quest. I will go get ready for it. Bye”, I ran away further into Camp-Half Blood.

A bronze spear spun out at my knees and I fell forwards. “I hear you’ve got a quest eh”, someone kicked me over onto my back and I looked up at Clarisse chewing gum above me. She spat it out and it stuck to my cheek. “I’m in”, she said. She leant 前锋, 期待 and patted my cheek, “Later Magic Boy”, she laughed and walked away.

Great so I just got permission to go find the family who abandoned me even though they know I might die the only people willing to come with me are my own Mum and some girl I hardly know but who from what I have heard would do anything for a real quest. Isn’t life depressing. Oh and the only plans I have to see a friend is 茶 with a dead person. That’s one way to look at it. This is how I see it;

Great! So I just finally got permission to go and find a super-cool family of amazing Gods. There’s quite a chance that I could be killed 由 evil forces out of my control. Oh and I have just met an actual Mummy. Such Fun!