As me and Apollo step out of the throne room Apollo looks over his shoulder at me and motions for me to follow. After a couple of minutes of walking we are standing by his sun chariot. ”Hop in. I'll drop you off at the airport and make sure you get in all right.” I walk to the passenger side and hop in over the door and put my seatbelt on. I pause and think about everything that has happened. 'Am I really doing this?'

I turned to look at Apollo. "Hey before we go can we make a stop at camp?" He looks at me with a mixture of shock and confusion before giving me his reply" Why would you want to go back there. Did you forget something important?"

"I forgot to tell Nico and Will I was leaving camp and I'm pretty sure if I went to Washington without letting them know Nico would probably kill me and Will would worry his ass off." Apollo chuckles softly before shrugging his shoulders "Why the Hades not."

He takes off into the sky and turns on the radio. He starts singing along to every song that plays and I sigh. 'This is going to be a long ride.'

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The Chariot slowly lowers to the ground and we land at the bottom of Half-Blood Hill. I unbuckle my seatbelt and go to open the car door but feel Apollo gently grab my shoulder. it causes me to flinch a little before I turn in look at him. "Here you'll need the stuff inside this bag not just while you're up there but while you're staying in Washington. You can thank me later." He hands me a small sack that appears to have a couple items inside it.

I give him a small smile before taking the bag and getting out of the car. I close the door, turn around and head up the hill. A feeling of dread starts to creep up my back and I consider turning around but I take a deep breath and tell myself 'I'm already here, and head inside past the barrier. 

After stepping inside I realize that many people aren't out which isn't surprising, it's still dark. I headed towards the Hades cabin and knock gently on the door. After a couple seconds of waiting I do it again but a little harder this time and the door opens to reveal Will. He looks slightly agitated but after realizing it was me his face becomes one of relief and he pulls me into the cabin. He leads me over to one of the beds where Nico is sitting. "Look who is at the door." Will says with a voice of annoyance. Nico looks up and when he sees me shoots up to his feet. He quickly looks towards me before reaching his hand behind my head and giving me a hard wack.

"What the hell dude? Where were you? We went to your cabin after dinner was over and you weren't there and some of your stuff is missing." I motion for the bed and tell him to sit down. He doesn't say anything and I walk over to a desk and pull out the chair dragging it to the bed and sitting down. "Alright so here's what happened." After explaining everything that happened to me wanting to leave camp to my mom telling me I couldn't stay with her to where we are now I can start to feel my emotions shifting inside me as I realized what's all happened today in the spend of what couldn't have been more than 5 hours.

"God's Percy ,why didn't you come to us and tell us how you were feeling we would have helped you out man. What if the gods had agreed? What do you think would have happened? " I lowered my eyes and a wave of guilt washed over me. "You want to know what would have happened?" I raised my head and tilted it in confusion. "I would have had to beat the asses of the gods that thought that was a good idea. Then I would have had to march my ass down to the Underworld and bring you out of Elysium. I would have brought you right back to this cabin and made you tell me everything and let out all those pent up feelings just like I want you to do now." I couldn't find the right words to say so I sat in silence. My eyes started to fog but I held in my tears. "Percy Nico's right you spend so much time making sure everyone knows they can rely on you and being the leader that it makes me wonder when was the last time you relied on someone else. We don't want you holding in all your feelings just for them to bottle up and you do drastic things and make drastic decisions like the ones you made today. Scream, shout, kick, flail your arms, and cry." "Why?" Nico wrapped his arm around my shoulder and pulled me towards him and will. "Because someone once told me 'it's okay to cry.'"

And when he said that it was like a damn broke in my eyes. I felt all the emotions I've been keeping in pour out of as tears fall down my face like a waterfall. I sobbed and subbed as they pulled me into a hug. Will doing most of the comforting but Nico wrapped his arm around me and held me in a hug.

After what felt like hours I finally calmed down. "You feeling any better?" Will asked as he rubbed my back. I laugh softly and nodded my head. I pull back from them and Nico gets up. He walks somewhere but I wasn't paying attention. "Hey Percy what's this?" I turn and see Nico holding the bag Apollo gave me. "I don't know but Apollo had given me. I haven't really looked inside but Will's dad said I would need it. I guess I should see what it is."

His walks over to the bed and pats the space to the left of him. Will sits next to Nico with a big enough space to fit another person. He turns to look at me with an expecting look and glances at the space between himself and Nico. I walk over and sit down sliding backwards against the wall and they follow. I reach my hand inside and the first thing I pull up appears to be a letter.

Trust me when I say you're going to need the stuff in this bag. You're moving to a new place and you're not going to quite have the essentials so why not give you a head start. oh my God so don't ask how I got this I feel like that should be an explanation enough but hey you never know. 

Sincerely Your favorite god Apollo 

I chuckle and hand the letter to Will for him to see who does the same and hands it to Nico who wears an unexpressed look at the actions of his boyfriend's dad. I reach my hand back inside and feel something thick and leathery which I pull out to reveal a beautiful looking brown leather wallet with a flower design.

I opened the wallet and I'm met with the site of my ID on the left side which I didn't know I had. it had all my correct information and even a decent looking picture of me. I opened the other card slots on the right and pulled out another ID which made me come up as 23. I hopefully wasn't going to use that at any point but you might come in handy. The next card slot had a green metal credit card which had a lion on it and said 'it's better to be a lion for a day than be a sheep all your life.'

"Cool." Will said next to me as he took the card all the way out of the to which a tiny piece of paper fell out that only said 'it's like the casino card-unlimited money '. Nico leans against my shoulder and reads the paper out loud. "Great so basically you're rich now." I shrugged my shoulders and take the card out of Will's hand. I put it back and checked the other three card slots (another on the left and two more on the right.) to find them empty.

I move the fake ID behind the real one and open the pocket that usually holds the money. Inside was seven 1s six 5s three 10s and four 20s. Nico reaches his hand in and pulls out two of the ones to which they both reappear with the ones he pulled out still in his hand. He reaches inside again and pulls out two of the twenties towards two twenties also reappear. "Again you're now rich." A coastal wallet and put it back in my pocket. 'I don't see why I need all this money. I get it for groceries and school supplies but still that's a lot.' Nico gives me a confused look. "What about clothes and you're going to need a lot more of those?" "What are you talking about, I can just wear my old ones?" Will ,who was sitting next to me, laughs loudly at that . He what's his hand on my shoulder and gives me a look that practically said 'are you kidding me?'. I frowned my eyebrows at him and didn't make any motions. "Dude I don't know if you've looked in the mirror recently but you cannot fit into your old clothes, I'm surprised you're still fitting in the ones you're wearing now. Go look because you obviously don't know what I'm talking about." He points to a mirror that was sitting next to the door that led to Niko's bathroom. I walk over and for the first time since I got turned into a god, I see myself and my jaw dropped.

I ,without realizing it, had changed a lot. I had gone slightly taller maybe by 3 to 4 inches and my hair grow a couple inches longer. I got more muscle on my arms and chest area. My summer body turned into a swimmer but I also lift weights, type of body and it felt oddly unfamiliar. I look at my face and am taken aback at the slight differences. My jaw head sharpened out in my cheekbones had risen just a little. But the thing that had changed the most were my eyes. They had gone from sea green to a galaxy of dark colors.

I give myself a quick up and down for something catches my eye. There's something pinky out of the color of my shirt and the bottom of my shirt. I turn around and look at Nico and Will and motion towards my shirt I'm going to take this off. They both shrug and continue looking at me. I turn towards the mirror and take my shirt off. I look at myself and noticed toned abs that I didn't quite have before and different tattoos each reminding me of one of the gods. I hear a gaps from behind me and I turn my back towards the mirror. I look behind me  and see there's a tattoo bigger than the rest taking up the back of my left shoulder. "I think that one's chaos" I hear Will say. It would make sense since I didn't know who else it would be.

I found the tattoos a little shocking but they are permanent so it's not like I can do anything to get rid of them. I put my shirt back on and noticed that it was quite tight compared to how it fit before which makes sense and I did grow. "Hey Perce there's still more stuff in here." Will called out to me. I sit back down between the two of them and grab the bag from Will's hand slightly later than it was before which makes sense that I did take something out of it. I reached my hand back in and grabbed something that feels like car keys. I take the car keys out and notice that it doesn't have a certain label on it and there are many funny keychains on it. 

I found the last one the funniest sense it's rare that Apollo ever cusses and being called an a-hole wasn't really something that I was expecting. There's a small paper hanging off of the keychain (unsurprising) that says 'think of any vehicle you want and click the button and it'll be right in front of you ready for you to drive'. I shove them in my pocket so I can use them later on when I need a ride to get around. "Is that all that's in there?" Nico asks " No there's two more things." I pull out of a beautiful phone case with the design of a black and gold galaxy.

"Why a phone case I mean you don't even have a phone?" Will says as he takes that out of my hand and examining it. "Yes I do chaos gave it to me before he left" I show them a dark blue iPhone 11. 

I pull off the last thing which turns out to be a silver charm bracelet with black charms. Each of the charms is a different weapon and there are five and counting. A trident, a bow and arrow crossing each other, a sword, a scythe, and a spear. I found it really nice and there wasn't even a note which was weird. I touch the spear charm and right before my eyes and went from a small charm to a long golden and blue spear.

I drop it and surprise and it falls to the ground so large clink before turning back into a charm on the bracelet. At least I know I have something to defend myself with. "Hey Perce it's almost time for everyone to wake up." Nico said leaning against my right shoulder. I look at a clock on a wall and noticed that it was almost time for everyone to wake up. " Then I guess it's time for me to take my leave." I say with a frown not really wanting to go yet. 

I feel a nudge on my shoulder from my left and turn to Will who has a sad smile on his face " You must be an idiot if you think we are going to come visit you. You're going all the way to Washington dude of course we are so right back front off your face cuz we're probably going to be seeing each other in a short while." I I stand up and make sure I have everything. I pat my back pockets where my keys and wallet are. I look at my wrist where I had attached the bracelet and in the bag is the phone with the phone case on it. I walk towards the door and open it. I turned towards Nico and Will giving them a sad smile before pulling the two of them into the tightest hug I could give them apparently it was a little too tight cuz they both squeal and pat my back. You tell each others are goodbyes and we'll see you again soon for I start walking towards the border of camp.

I make it to the border and turn around giving the camp one less good look. This place was a home to me for so many years. It has so many happy memories but now.... those memories are being overshadowed by betrayal and pain. This will be the last time I visit here for a very long time.

I make it down the hill and hop in the sun chariot. Without a word Apollo put it in drive and we were on our way to the airport.

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Apollo stops the charry it in the drop off zone of the airport. "I guess is where we say goodbye until next time." He says with a smile and a hand on my shoulder. "And I'm going to promise you right now I am going to be coming and visiting you." Yay for me. With his grip on my shoulder he pulls me into a hug. I tense up for a second before relaxing my shoulders wrapping my arms around him. "Goodbye." We whisper into each other's ear at the same time. It causes us both to laugh and pull back I grabbed my things and get out of the car. "You have everything you need?" "Yep."

"Ticket?"
I show him my plane ticket.
"Keys?"
I show him the car keys that had the two keys dad gave me hooked on.
"Phone?"
Show him my phone.
"Wallet?"
Take my wallet out of my back pocket to show him then put it back.
"Anything else?"
"How about a smile?"

I give him small smile. He smiles back and waves before turning forward and driving off.

I turn on the heels and walk into the airport. Next stop, Forks, Washington.