Annabeth

We spent the rest of the day tending to the wounded. A lot of the demigods were wounded, but most of them weren't that serious.

When we were finished with our job, it was late enough that we just decided to stay in the clearing for the night, and continue our journey tomorrow morning.

I looked at Leo, who was making our fire. It was extremely easy for him, considering he is a fire user. If we wanted, he could be our bon fire for us.

Someone tapped me on the shoulder, and I turned to see Piper, Thalia, Hazel, and Lacy.

"Hey guys." I said.

Piper grinned, "Hey Annabeth. You wanna come set up your bed? Thalia made your tent, and we are all next to each other."

I smiled and followed them. Sure enough, all the girls' tents were in a row, the order went from Lacy, to Hazel, to Thalia, to me, to Piper.

"Thanks, Thals," I said towards the hunter.

She shrugged, and was about to answer, when we heard Jason's voice, "Ah, come on! Really, Nico?"

"I said sorry, like, five times! Get over it, dude!" came the returning voice of Nico.

All the girls turned to see Jason, Nico, and Percy about twenty feet away from us, setting up their tents.

Well, trying to set up their tents. Jason was holding one of the tent poles in his hand, snapped in half, and Nico was holding the other half. Apparently they were helping each other, and it broke. Percy, on the other hand, had his tent pitched perfectly, and was spending his time laughing at the two boys arguing and breaking things.

I walked over to stand by Percy, asking the guffawing son of Poseidon, "How long have they been attempting to put up their tents?"

Grinning, he turned to me, "About half an hour."

I shook my head, "And you weren't planning on helping them?"

"Why would I do that? That would be so boring. It's much more entertaining watching them try to set up their tents."

"Why are they having such a hard time with it?"

"Cause they are new tents that we recently got, and we have never used them yet."

I frowned, "Don't they have an instruction sheet?"

He smiled evilly, and held up three sheets of crumpled paper, "I wanted to see how they would do by themselves."

Rolling my eyes, I turned my gaze back to the scene. Currently, the two boys were arguing about who really broke the tent pole. I gathered that it was Jason's tent, and that it was one of the main poles that had to be used. So without it, the tent was basically useless.

Thalia soon had enough, and walked over to them, splitting up the quarreling couple.

"Seriously, guys. It's really not that hard to set up a tent." She proclaimed.

Jason and Nico both turned to look at her, and the son of Hades said sarcastically, "Well, then lets see you try and make a tent, your highness."

She smirked, then went to her pack, and got out a tent. She had a couple tents in her bag. Yeah, you're probably wondering how she could fit more than one in her bag, cause it's not that big a pack.

But her tents are really small. Like, really really small. They are each about as big as my thumb.

All the hunters had tents like that. Artemis had a lot of them, but she only gave them to her hunters.

Anyways, Thalia always kept a few extra. The tents were very easy to set up. Actually, you don't even have to set them up, you just unwrap the little tie on the tiny bundle, and it kinda springs up by itself. And they are pretty big, big enough for a person to sleep in it and have lots of extra room.

So Thalia grabbed one, put it in her fist, so the boys couldn't see it, and walked back to them.

When she reached them, she threw the wrapped up tent onto the ground, and sure enough, it flew up. Pretty soon, there was a full sized tent sitting right in front of the two boys.

Jason and Nico just stared at the tent, openmouthed.

"There you go. Told you it was easy." Thalia smirked.

She then pulled a strap on the side, and the tent snapped closed. She grabbed it and walked back to her pack, slipping the bundle into it.

"Can't we use one of yours? Do you have extras?" Nico whined.

Thalia stared at him lazily, "Yeah, I have lots of extras. But no, you can't use them, cause I'm saving my extras."

"For what?!" Jason asked.

Thalia turned her fixed look to her brother, "For nothing. I just made that as an excuse."

Nico glared at her, "So can we use one?"

"No."

"Fine, we don't need your help." Nico's response to Thalia's simple statement made the girl laugh.

"Yeah, almost got me there, Nico," Thalia said, causing Percy and I to chuckle along with Thalia.

Nico glared at the snickering Thalia, then turned away with a haughty look, but in his attempt to be "cool," he tripped on one of the tent poles, falling face first onto the ground. Consequently, rounds of laughter from the girls, and Jason and Percy went up.

Nico stood up and brushed himself off, then glared at every one of us.

He then raised a hand, and six skeletal warriors clawed their way through the earth. Standing at attention around Nico, they pulled out blades from the earth, and looked eerily at all of us.

"Is there something funny?" Nico asked innocently, surrounded by skeletons.

"Nope. Nothing funny at all." Jason said as innocently as Nico.

"Good." His hand made a downward motion, and the bones went back into earth.

Nico turned and carefully treaded over the broken tent pieces, and then walked over to his tent pack, and started to try and make his own tent.

That night, Percy was extremely comfortable in his tent, and beside his tent, Nico and Jason spent a fitful night on the ground. In the open.

~-:-~

"Come on guys! We need to get going!" It was the next morning, and I was getting frustrated by how slowly everyone was packing up. We were losing time, and the council was in two days. If we wanted to get there on time, or before, like we are supposed to, then we had to get going. And fast.

"Castor! Stop playing! We need to go! Thalia! Stop doing that to Piper! Hazel! Don't d-" I was cut off when someone abruptly slammed into me, knocking me to the ground. I spun around, and glared at Nico, who had hit me, and was rolling around, laughing his head off.

"That was awesome Jason! Can you make me fly like that again?" He yelled to Jason, who was grinning from across the clearing.

"Guys, stop messing around! We really need to get going and you guys are slowing us down. You could be using your powers to help everyone get packed up, not to have fun." I scolded Nico, then took the hand that Percy offered to me. He had come over when I had started to yell at Nico and Jason.

He hauled me up, then smiled, "It's not that bad, Wise Girl. The council starts in two days, which gives us two days to travel."

"Yeah, well, we are supposed to get there early." I protested, straightening out my tunic.

Percy chuckled, "It'll be fine."

"Well, you could prove that by making every body stop and start getting ready. But since that is impossible with this crew, then I don't believe you." I huffed.

Percy shook his head, then turned and shouted at the top of his lungs, "EVERYBODY! TIME TO GET GOING! START GETTING EVERYTHING READY!"

I watched in amazement as everybody paused, listened to Percy, then started loading everything up. In less than ten minutes, everybody was all packed, and waiting to start journeying again.

I stared at Percy, "How did you-"

"Get to be so incredibly muscular and handsome? I thought you would know by now that it is natural." The sarcastic interruption by Percy made me glare at him, while he flexed and made stupid poses.

"That is not what I was going to say." I muttered.

But that doesn't mean you don't agree. I glared at myself mentally (if that is even possible). Shut up, Annabeth. I told myself.

Have you gathered so far that I am kinda weird? Oh well.