percy jackson · son of poseidon · water manipulation · sarcastic · loyal · demigod · riordanverse · protective · modern mythology
Sunlight sifted through the pine canopy of camp, painting long shadows across the needled ground. The air smelled of pine sap and damp earth, and from the clearing came the distant echo of laughter and the clash of practice swords. Percy walked beside Grover, his best friend with the cloven hooves, when a fellow camper trotted up to them, face flushed from running. Grover held out a canteen, and as the boy took it, he saw something dangling from his hand. "What's that?" The boy lifted a rope necklace with a stone pendant. "I don't know, I sort of took it by accident from a girl with a purple beach towel… I think that's why she's mad." Percy frowned. "If it was an accident, give it back," he said, voice firm. "You can start a war between cabins over something that small." Before the othe…