Chapter 12 – My Late Birthday Present

Two day's had passed and it was time to take Annabeth and Thalia to Percy's for dinner. The car surprised me slightly, at first it was a convertible corvette when I threw it at the ground, still electric blue like Thalia's eyes. They looked at me and laughed "2 seats Arc, I'm not sitting on Thalia's lap you know." Annabeth said while holding back more laughter. I was still really confused, "I wasn't even thinking about this car though, I was thinking of my mustang like usual." The cars image flickered into an old 2 seated Shelby cobra. "Okay, you stupid car stop acting up." I growled at it, a bit of anger in my voice. It shifted to a Lamborghini for a second then to the mustang. "Stupid thing." They were still laughing at the fact that I was telling off my car. What I didn't tell them was that I actually was thinking about those cars, I wanted to take Thalia on a nice drive through America during the summer, my car must have heard my request and changed into it. I drove us up to his apartment where Sally greeted us all. She knew them as they were the ones that she dropped off at Denver last winter. She greeted me with a hug and a kiss on my forehead, I couldn't care less. We sat down at the table and ate our Christmas dinner together. When it came to presents, "Percy, I'm sorry but you got to wait till the summer for yours. Same with you Annabeth, guarantee you will like them. Thalia", I made a necklace appear with the mist, but made it seem I pulled it from my bag. "This is for you." It was a silver skull necklace that matched her Hunters outfit, I made sure of that, with diamonds as the eyes. Her eyes glinted. "Don't go crying on me, you." I told her in her head while smiling. "And for Mum and Paul." I made two new expensive laptops appear from the mist, but again made it look as if I was getting them out my bag, and gave them to Paul and my Mum. "Where on earth did you get the money for these?" Paul wondered in his head. I didn't mean to but I responded out loud which startled him, "Being a race driver has its perks. I'm pretty set for life." I had already told them that I didn't want anything for Christmas or birthdays. She just got up and hugged me with a kiss on my cheek and Paul shook my hand. "And, just to help out with bills and stuff." I pulled out a $100,000. "I'm not taking no for an answer, something in my gut tells me I'm not going to be needing money soon." I said blankly looking at the table. "Arc, you're not dying are you?" Thalia asked. I laughed, "Not yet no, I got a lot of years left in me, ha-ha." She hugged me and said in her head, "Good, you better not leave me." "Never." I responded back. Mum looked at Percy and her eyes flicked over Thalia and me hugging. He shook his head and mouthed, "She's a Hunter." Sally's eyes turned sad. I guess she wanted me to be happy for once too.

At the end of the day, I was about to take Thalia and Annabeth back to camp, and Percy asked if he could come too. Mum said, "Yes, be back tomorrow morning though." He nodded and came to join us. The car was being stupid again, it changed from the Mustang to the Corvette and back again. "That is really going to annoy me." I said walking to the car, they just laughed at me again. I took them back to camp where we went to our cabins and went to sleep. Then something happened. While Percy was asleep Poseidon came to me, "Arc, I forgot to tell you this on your birthday, you need to go back to camp. Now." I rubbed my eyes to get rid of some sleep. "Why?" He didn't answer. He flashed out. I looked at my clock, 455 am. I got up, got dressed and walked to my car. I mist traveled to England where it was about 855 at home. I drove to the power station. As soon as I drove in a smile crept onto my face. Demigods were in the car park and out back of the power station, training, using the forges, having breakfast. I drove up to the entrance of the Power station itself and parked inside by my cabin. Poseidon flashed himself next to me, he put his arm around me. "I made sure that nothing like what happened last time will happen again. There is now a magical barrier like at Percy's camp. They know that I am in charge when you are not around, however they do not know you." My eyes were starting to water tears of joy. "How, When?" "Most here are minor god's offspring, but like Terry and Rachael there are some main god's offspring here too. Come we need to introduce you to them. And as of when, they were all claimed, during summer, possibly to help with the titan war. They were guided here from their parent and I showed them around the camp while you were absent." I didn't plan on it, but I hugged my father, he looked quite surprised I had done that himself. He just chuckled and patted me on the back. "Come, let's introduce you to your campers."

We walked through the power station, and Poseidon called for all the campers to meet around the circle table in the dining area. 5 minutes later everyone was gathered around awaiting for my father to make his way with me to the table. I looked to my left and saw the statues that I had made for those who died in the Cyclopes war. I looked at the bigger statue along with the smaller one in between, that one was me, I smiled and said," There is a new lot for you and Terry to watch over." We reached the table with everyone standing around murmuring about a new recruit. "Shall we show him the ropes sir?" someone asked in the back. Poseidon smiled, "no Jamie, that won't be necessary. This is the one who runs Camp Half Blood." Everyone gasped and looked over to the statue of Terry, Rachael and I. "Hello, I'm Arcmelos, son of Poseidon." I gave out a little speech, I always said when meeting new recruits, skipping over the tour part seen as they had already been through it. After my speech I told them they could carry on with what they are doing, "I will be coming around to survey on how you are all doing." I looked at Poseidon who was still with me, "uh, problem. My home is at other Camp Half-blood now, I can't stay here and forget about my life back there. I can't leave, Percy Annabeth and –" "Thalia." Poseidon finished. "Well during the summer, you can look after yourself and your friends at that camp, while I look after this one. And in the winter you can look after this one, or come and go as you please." I nodded my head gratefully, "thanks dad." He flashed out back to his palace.

I walked around to where all the campers were training and talking. Having a good time, I didn't really care about the ones who hung around, I never did. The ones that generally did were the ones that never needed or wanted to train because they were kids of Aphrodite. I gave out some pointers on where to hit the dummies for better effect on the blows. Watched a couple Apollo kids shooting targets and teaching others in the process. I was having such a good time I wasn't paying attention to Annabeth and Percy in my head, asking where I was. Then Thalia spoke, "Arc, Where are you. You said you wouldn't leave me." I mist traveled them to here. They looked quite confused when they blinked for a second at camp half blood, to staring at a wall. I walked up behind them, "Hey guys!" I said with a massive grin on my face. Thalia slapped my face, then flung her arms around me, "Yeah, did deserve that. But you will have to hit Poseidon too, you know." I said while smiling. "Arc, where have you brought us?" Percy wondered. "My home. Come on I'll show you around my camp."

We walked around the camps grounds while Annabeth was just staring and babbling on about the structure of the Battersea Power station, "Hey you, stop trying to improve my buildings in camp. Ha-ha." I took them to all the cabins, a few kids coming over to me asking for help with their training. "So who runs this place again?" Annabeth asked. "That would be me." I said to them. They all stopped and gawked at me. "Come on guys, I told you this. Terry and Rachael took care of it before I came and after I left. Everything in a 3 mile radius belongs to me and the camp. So there is a protective barrier like back at your camp around mine now making everyone safe." I took them all to the mess hall where we were gathering for lunch. Jamie spoke up when he saw us coming over, "Arc, are these new recruits?" I looked at them, "Not new no, neither are they recruits. This is Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, Percy Jackson son of Poseidon my brother." Someone joked in the back, "Is he leader too?" everyone chuckled, I smiled "No they all have their own camp Half-Blood in America. And this, is Thalia Grace, Daughter of Zeus and Lieutenant for the Hunters of Artemis." Everyone knelt. "Uh why are they kneeling?" Thalia and Annabeth asked. "At this camp there are no sons and daughters of Athena, Hunters of Artemis and no kids from Zeus. They come from America. Guys rise." I explained while laughing. We sat around eating lunch, Breakfast for them, having a good time. After lunch I announced, "Poseidon will be looking after this camp for a while, I will take winter, he will take summer. But in this case I have to these guys home and get some training done. I will pop up every now and again and see how things are but in the meantime, train hard I expect to see good progress later." We said our goodbyes and I mist traveled Annabeth and I back to camp, Thalia to the Hunters and Percy home.

well that's book 2 finished for Arcs story. Book 3 will come out when i start writing it, probably tonight. hope you enjoyed it reviews, favourites and follows are much appreciated.