The first thing I did was leave the Big House and go to my cabin. I began to pack the few clothes I had. These included: two camp shirts, one pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. I stuffed them in the backpack I had on the other quest. I then threw it to a corner and left to go get some other things like an actual sword I can carry around. I miss Riptide...
I went to the armory to get a sword, though none of the felt right. I satisfied myself with a sword as long as my arm, with an extremely sharp tip. The hilt was a rich brown and decorated in beautiful designs. There was a diamond shaped figure on the other end of the hilt, opposite of the blade.
I left the armory at around lunch and went to my cabin and then the pavillion. I sat at my table and talked with Tyson. Then I went to Luke.
  "Hey Luke! You in there?" I yelled at the door of the Hermes cabin. The door opened a bit to reveal Luke. I was going to say something like,"How are you doing buddy? Wanna go get the golden fleece?" until I realized that he'd been crying.
  "Hey," my voice serious now," You okay?" Luke looked away. He said one word:"Thalia".
   That was all I needed to know. "So," I paused, suddenly unsure,"Do you want to come and run away from camp with me to find the golden fleece to help Thalia out or what?" He looked at me before saying,"When do we leave."
   "We leave when I find someone else to come and ask someone else to come." He nodded,"How long will that take?"
   "However long it will take me to find Clarisse and Tyson." I responded. He nodded and we said our goodbyes. I turned around and marched as proudly and confidently as a could to the Aries cabin. I knocked on the door and all of it evaporated when I saw who had answered the door.
   "Hello." I trembled. The person in front of me had big muscles and looked as if he wanted to kill me for being in his sight. "What do you want?" The person yelled at me. I began slightly shaking, but can you blame me? He looked like a giant compared to barely-any-muscle me. I could barely even see their face!
   "I was looking for Clarisse La Rue." I stamered.
   The person looked at me then looked over their shoulder and called out,"Clarisse! Someone's here to see you!" Then a girl with brown hair and eyes and muscles that didn't look exaggerated compared to the person next to him said,"What do you want, prissy."
   I said,"Can you come with me for a second?" Thankfully, she was surprised when I grabbed her wrist and dragged her away from her cabin.
     She then yanked her arm away when we began nearing the woods.
   "What are you doing." She glared at me.
    I looked at her, just to make sure,"You are Clarisse, right?" I don't think that would sit well with this random girl if I'd
  "...Yes?"
   I continued on our way to the woods,"Good."
   We continued walking until I stopped, she took another step forward then stopped herself. Clarisse turned to face towards me and said, "What do you want from me."
  I told her my plan for (World Domination) getting the Golden Fleece back. When I finished telling her, she stares at me and said,"I'm in."
  I stared at her in shock. As you guys probably know, most of us expected Clarisse to give me some argument or complaint.
  "What are you staring at!" She snapped. I shook my hair and simply said,"nothing." I looked towards camp and said,"We should go back. People might start writing about what were doing." Clarisse nodded and joined me out the woods.

   So now I'm back at my cabin. Packing stuff. It's been great. I'm stuffing clothes in my backpack, drachmas, a couple of weapons, and normal, U.S. money.
   I was so busy doing all of this-even though, how can you be busy doing all of this packing-to notice someone walk in. I only heard the sound of someone's shoes and froze.
   "Relax Percy, it's me." Astra said. That didn't make me relax though. There was a silence before she continued.
   "If you think you can just go on a quest without telling me,"I heard her move to sit next to me on the floor. "You are mistaken." I looked at her, though she wasn't looking at me.
   "I'm going with you," She whispered,"whether you like it or not."
   I sighed,"Of course Astra."
   She beamed."Great. Now that we've got that out of the way," She turned to face me,"I wanted to formally apologize for the way I acted towards you." Her smile seemed forced.
  I have my own forced closed smile,"Yeah, I apologize as well."
   Astra seemed relieved at that.
   "Okay. But your still taking me." She smirkedat my feigned reaction.
   "Dang it. I was hoping for a way to not go on a quest with you." She laughed. "Guess you're going to have to stick with me for a while more."
   I hummed,"Did you pack, ashtray?"
   Astra looked at me with a confused look,"Ashtray?"
   "Ashtray." I confirmed.
    "Why?"
    "Because, Ashtray."
    "Okay... so yeah I did pack."
     "Good," I said,"Ashtray." I smirked at her reaction.
    "Oh my gods!" She groaned out,"Is 'Ashtray' a new nickname for me?!"
     "Anything to keep you from coming with me." I replied.
     Astra sighed.

Word found:953
So, if you guys didn't know, I credited the first few chapter a bit. I'm thinking of changing the canon (even though I already did). So there you guys go.