Flowers
Chiron assigned Percy to be the tour guide. The group of seven walked out of the blue house towards the cabins.
“So all of these cabins are assigned to specific gods or goddesses. They’re all obvious on who they belong to. Depending on their parent, the demigods live in that cabin. The exception is the Hermes cabin, holds newcomers who haven’t been claimed yet.”
He showed them his cabin that was empty except for the beds, nightstands and dressers, and a fountain. They pass through the rest of the camp, kids stopping to greet Percy or gawk at the Avengers and the Hero of Olympus. The Avengers were all surprised by the rock wall which was spewing lava at the campers climbing it. Clint challenged Percy to see which one could get to the top first, which the teen took. Clint almost got scorched twice and crushed by a boulder once. Of course, Percy won but Clint got a close second. The other adults clapped for them once they reached the bottom. Percy continued the tour from there.
They made a break at the mess hall to have lunch. Everyone was amazed by the cups and plates able to fill themselves. Tony kept on studying the dishes and muttering about how he could try to make a replica of them before ordering his food. When Percy got up with some other campers to make an offering to the gods, they looked at him skeptically before doing the same. Once they were done, they went to continue the tour of the camp. Percy stopped on top of a hill overlooking a field of flowers with a block of marble. It would be a wonderful environment, with the sun getting lower and the blue waters of Long Island Sound, unless you knew why it was there.
“This is beautiful, Percy.” Steve spoke up from the back of the group.
“Yeah…”
He walked down, the others noticing that he lost his cheer from earlier. Slowly, they followed him. There was a small trail separating the flowers. There were different shades of colors, mirrored by the path. The Avengers noticed that there were small signs in front of different groups. The first flowers, which were a light green, with a small sign that read, Children of Demeter. Across the path, there were identical flowers but the sign read, Children of Ceres. When they looked back at Percy, he was sitting on the ground in front of five flowers and the marble block. Tony stepped forward and saw that the marble had words etched into it.
THE FALLEN
BATTLE OF GAEA
Under it, there were names etched into it along with titles of son or daughter of a god.
“Percy?”
He looked up at his uncle, his eyes wet. He rubbed his eyes with his wrist in attempt to get rid of the tears. Percy looked back at the flowers.
“The purple one is Frank, the gold one next to him is Hazel. The multicolored and electric blue ones represent Piper and Jason. The grey flower was Annabeth. There probably would be a orange or red one if Leo was found dead. But now there’s a chance he’s alive.”
Percy looked back at Tony and gave him a small smile, tears now coming down his face. Tony pulled him in for a hug, understanding that his nephew lost too much at his age. They sat like that for a minute before separating. They both stood up and looked at the names written on the marble. The others joined them and they had a moment of peace.