Chiron Throws A Party

      Thalia rushed up to me as soon as Nico and I had walked out of the forest, and she embraced me in a rather surprising hug. I suppose I just hadn't expected a rough-punk looking girl would go around giving hugs.
 
   "I'm sorry for what happened," she said sympathetically.

   "It wasn't your fault," I said, shrugging it off as though it hadn't happened. Thalia nodded, and then smiled sadly at me.
 
   "I've had a great time getting to know you, but I have to meet up with the hunters now that my task is complete."

    "What task?" I asked quizzically.

   "Well, Artemis sent me because she said that I'd have to help find an important half-blood," she said, gesturing to me. "So, my task is now complete, and I must return to where I'm currently needed." She gave Nico and I one last goodbye, and hurried off.

    "She never does stay long," Nico sighed, and then smiled as though happy memories were playing in his mind. "But when she does come I do at least know something exciting is bound to happen."

   "Do you travel a lot?" I asked.

   "Yeah,but I visit camp every now and then," Nico said, staring off into the distance. "Sometimes though I....." Nico trailed off and looked ahead towards the big house.A deafening noise was coming from there, like a small earthquake.

   "An angry mob?" I guessed, remembering how in the movies mobs had sounded.

  "No, a bit to wild for a mob," Nico said, and started jogging towards the noise. having nothing better to do, I followed him.

    When we stepped to the front of the big house, I realized then that I had been wrong about the angry mob.  However, there was a mob of centaurs partying on the lawn.

  "Oh gods," Nico groaned. "It's the party ponies."

 "The party ponies?" I asked, again having no idea of what nico was talking about.

 "Them," he said simply, pointing to the wild centaurs. "They're relatives of Chiron, and as you can tell they love to party, and love root beer."

  "Root beer!" a party pony yelled as though he had heard Nico.

  "Root beer!" the other party ponies began chanting.

   "Alright, alright I'll get more root beer!" yelled a familiar voice over the crowd.

   "Root beer!"  the party ponies said in excitement.

    Chiron uttered something angrily under his breath, and went into the big house. He soon came back outside carrying ten boxes of root beer.
 
    The party ponies immediately engulfed him in an ocean of hyper centaurs, and they ravenously chugged down their root beer.

  As soon as they moved away from Chiron, he clopped over to us, looking exhausted.

   "Wow Chiron, I didn't know you liked hosting parties," I laughed, trying my best to make it seem like a joke.

   "I don't," Chiron groaned. "From now on I'll have to throw at least two parties each year or else I'll have to go to every one of them."

 "So, parties are fun," Nico said, pretending to dance.

   Chrion chuckled as Nico stopped dancing. "Well, certain parties might be fun to you while they aren't to me.  You see, I don't go to many parties or else I'll get hyped up on root beer."

  "So you'll go crazy like them if you just have one can of root beer?" I asked.

  "Something like that," Chiron nodded. "You half-bloods would probably be fine if you had two cans of pop, but us centaurs are a bit different."

   "I'm getting a strange  urge to party," Nico, said, cracking a smile.

  "Me too," I said, and ran over to what remained of the root beer, Nico tagging along.

     He picked up a can after me, and we both pumped out fists in the air, screaming at the top of our lungs,"Root beer!"

  "Root beer!" the party ponies copied, and instantly they went chaotic again.