forum Percy Jackson!

Started January 14, 2019 by @Hawkeye

tune

Trent whined as he was splashed, squeezing his eyes shut tighter and hiding his face. “Leave me be.”

“Not good at that.” Lydia said, smiling.

Trent opened his eyes with a dramatic sigh. He slowly stood up, shaking off the water. “I don’t have much time before the campfire.” He noted, staring at the position of the sun.

Lydia climbed out of the water, pulling her shoes back on, and saying, “I need to go change.”

“I do as well. For the third time today.” Trent smiled, a bit more calm as he stretched in the sunlight.

Lydia smiled. “I’ll see you later.”

“Stay out of trouble, dwarf.” Trent waved before trekking back to his cabin.

“you too!” Lydia called after him, going towards her own cabin.

The sun slowly began to sink below the horizon as the rest of the day passed by. Trent had set and alarm and slept after getting changed, waking up in time to gel back his hair and go to dinner, which had been uneventful. He now sat on a stool by the fire after Will handed him his guitar. At the moment his was carefully tuning it, waiting nervously to start.

Lydia sat with the very few other kids from her cabin, watching Trent.

After a few testing strums, he nodded to Will. The Apollo cabin began to quiet everyone down as Trent stared into the small orange flames flickering in front of him. They were supposed to reflect the energy of the crowd, which was not super encouraging at the moment. Once the place had quieted, he began to play the first chords of country roads, hoping it would catch along fairly quickly.

Sam was the first to sing along. He smiled, and that quickly got his sister singing too. Eventually, all of Nemesis cabin was begrudgingly singing.

Trent looked up at Lydia, a small smile on his face as he began to play a little more passionately as the song caught on, growing more confident as the flames crackled to life a few feet away.

Several other cabins joined in, and eventually the only cabins not participating were Ares and Athena.

Trent looked over at the silent sections of around the campfire, growing a bit nervous as he continued to play, unsure of how to win them over.

Lydia kicked one of the Athena kids next to her, who yelped, glared st her, then started singing, along with the rest of their cabin.

Trent’s shoulders relaxed a bit in relief as he heard more voices join in. He looked over at Lydia and Sam for encouragement, still gently strumming.

Lydia and Sam both smiled and nodded at him, singing a bit louder. Sam reaches over and pinched an Ares kid, one of the leaders of the cabin, and almost started a fight, until a glare from Lydia caused the Ares cabin to begin singing.

Trent smiled in relief, and even his music sounded more fluid as he relaxed. The song finished a minute or so after, and he took his time with the final chords.