Burrito Fight

Addy and Thacia walked a good 20 feet head of the group.  They weren’t quite sure where they were going, but everyone else was walking way too slow.  Addy kept looking over her shoulder to make sure the group was still following.  Everyone had been down since the fight with Talos.  Percy especially; he blamed himself for Bianca’s death.  Though, most of them did, because, as Addy had learned, that just happens to be what people do when someone dies.  Thacia brought it up again a little bit later.  “I don’t understand why they are all still sad.”  she said

  “I know!  You’ think they’d get over it.”  Addy replied.

  “We already told them she wasn’t dead!”  Thacia shouted, so the group believed them could hear.  

  “Precisely!  Because people don’t die… Well, they do, but not like that… at least not the people we know, and like.  It just doesn’t happen!”

  “Exactly!”  Thacia agreed.  

They reached a river.  Addy thought it was the Hudson, but she wasn’t sure, she had a horrible sense of direction.  They walked along the edge, avoiding the cliff.  A ways down there was a few canoes and a boathouse.  Addy stood back with Thacia as Percy wrote a note and left some money.  Then the rest of them climbed into the little boats.  Zoe looked back and asked if they were coming, as naiads started pushing the boat.  “No!”  Thacia shouted, and Addy followed her to another boat.

  “We’ll catch our own!”  Addy shouted as they got some oars, climbed in a boat and started catching up.  

  The boats being pushed by naiads stated to get ahead.  Addy got annoyed, but she was by no means going to have naiads push her boat.  She did not like them, they didn’t like her and it was the same for Thacia.  Suddenly a wind blew and Addy noticed they were starting to catch up.  She looked questioningly at Thacia.  “Remember, Eurus owed us a favor.”  Thacia said excitedly.

  Addy thought really hard, trying to place a face with the name.  “Eurus.  Eurus… Euuuuruuus.”  she repeated in different voices, then it hit her.  “Eurus!  God of the east wind!  Why was that so hard to remember?”

  “I don’t know!!”  Thacia shouted in her face, seemingly for no reason.  

  Not to long after they caught up, Addy saw that they were rapidly approaching the Hoover Dam.  They all got out of the canoes and made their way to the entrance of the dam.  Barely 20 minutes had passed, and Addy realized they were really lost, and had no visual on the other demigods.  “Addy, I think we’re lost.”  Thacia echoed Addy’s thoughts.  

  “Of course we aren’t!!”  Addy replied, “I know exactly where we are!”  

  5 minutes later they entered the food court and saw Percy running to Thalia, Zoe, and Grover.  He shoute something about skeletons.  On cure the things entered from all exits.  “They look like a very dead dinosaur thing.”  Addy said to Thacia.

  “I know!  But very clean dinosaurs.”  Thacia said.  They laughed.

  “Burrito fight!”  Grover shouted.

  Addy and Thacia climbed in at the same time, “Burrito fight!”

  Addy stated searching for any food she could find as a full on food war broke out.  Addy was having a blast.  She threw food everywhere.  “This is great!”  Thacia shouted.

  “I know!  And we can’t get in trouble for starting it!”  Addy shouted back.

  Amidst the enjoyment, Addy almost missed their group sneaking out.  Addy grabbed Thacia’s arm and then ran.  “Hey!  Let go!”  Thacia shouted, getting her arm loose.  “They’re leaving without us!”  Addy yelled in her face.

  Addy took the lead again as they ran outside.  They made it just in time to see two giant bronze angel statues carry their friends away from a ring of skeleton warriors.  Addy looked at Thacia, “These were the angel thingies Athena made for Zeus right?”  she asked.

 Thacia nodded, “Yup!”

  “Greeeeeeat.”  Addy said, very annoyed.  “Well, we’ll get to San Francisco however we want.”

  “Yeah!  And it will be more fun!”  Thacia said.

  With that, Addy turned on her heel and left to think of a plan to get to San Francisco.