Adam: Chapter 4

But I have to go, for my friend's sake. I may not bee too good in combat, but I'm good at figuring things out. Maybe I could do something that they can't.

Me and Percy walked to the dining pavilion to have our breakfast. Josh is ready to go, his backpack is well packed. He allowed me to look inside his bag, and in it, there's spare clothes, burgers, water bottles, $700 money, about 30 golden drachmas. I opened the front part of his pack, and there's more stuff. He's got gloves and gloves that were larger than the other one. He also carried a flashlight, that can light up to 400 lumens, a very bright flashlight. Shirato Fuuka had also packed for the quest, so did Annabeth and I. Clarisse carried the most items and her bag is the heaviest among us. Clarisse carried the kits used for camping, she also brought an inflatable bed, tools to go camping, and other camping equipments.

We eat breakfast first before going on our quest. After breakfast, our quest had just begun.

"Now, good luck on your quest." Chiron wished us good luck. "Let us wish you guys good luck. Argus will take you to the nearest bus station, and after that, you're on your own."

We all nodded, and the 5 of us got on the bus and we sat in the seats available. Josh sat in the middle of the middle row, I sat on Josh's left side, Annabeth and Clarisse sat on the back, and Fuuka sat on Josh's right side.

As we talked, we talk about our mortal parents. Josh's parents abandoned him when he's 11 years old due to pituitary dwarfism that he'd suffer.

"What's pituitary dwarfism?" I asked Josh.

"Pituitary dwarfism is when the pituitary gland in your brain didn't produce enough growth hormone and resulting in you not growing."

"Oh, I see." Though I didn't fully understand it, I didn't ask anymore questions. I didn't want to look stupid.

We went under the caldicot subway tunnel, and everything is almost dark. I could've swear that Josh looked afraid the whole time we're under the tunnel.

We got out of the tunnel, and we saw the bus stop. Argus dropped us there, and we were on our own.

It's definitely still the city of new york. I could still see the empire state building, the former world's tallest building in the sky above. Annabeth walked up to me and told me that the empire state building had a 600th floor, and she told me that's where mount olympus is.

We kept walking, and saw 2 paths ahead of us. We don't know which path to take, but Fuuka walked to the left path. Josh looked tense.

"Don't go in there!" Josh shouted as he pulled Fuuka back. "There's monsters in this path."

Fuuka glared at Josh, as if wondering how he knew about the monsters that were about to kill us. "Josh, how do you know?"

"I can sense monsters," He said.

"True that," Annabeth added. "It becomes very handy on a quest if we could smell monsters.