Edited on 11/12/15
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson.
"Great job, guys!" Percy Jackson, lead singer of TB3, complimented his two other band members, Thalia Grace and Nico di Angelo.
Nico snorted. "Like you're one to talk. You sang lead in almost every song!"
Percy smirked. "Then I guess we're going to have to change that."
Nico's eyes widened. "No. No, no, no. I'm perfectly fine with you-"
"Oh, Nico. You already gave me an idea. And once I get an idea, I don't back out."
"Please, Percy! Don't have me-"
Thalia burst into laughter. And then she sighed. "I just love watching you two bicker after a successful concert."
Percy rolled his eyes and chuckled. "Well, we are very good at bickering."
All three of them started laughing. Then footsteps were heard. Mellie, they're sweet personal assistant, soon followed them.
"Hey Mellie!" Thalia greeted happily.
Mellie grinned. "Were Nico and Percy arguing again?"
"You betcha!" Thalia laughed.
Mellie chuckled. "Good to see that they misbehave. At least we know that they're normal teenagers somewhere in those small brains of those."
"Hey!" Percy complained. When they kept laughing, he kept talking. "I seriously doubt that a person with a small brain could remember an hour worth of song lyrics. That's why Nico here doesn't sing."
It was Nico's turn to be offended. "Not true! At least I can read music!"
"We all can!" Percy and Thalia said together.
Mellie just shook her head. "Come on, you guys. You have an autograph and signing in half and hour. And before that you have a brief meeting with your parents."
The three kids stopped laughing immediately. Mellie looked sadly at them. "Okay." Nico said, serious. He gulped. "Then let's go meet our parents."
Zeus Grace, Poseidon Jackson, and Hades di Angelo were not exactly happy people. They were all strict. The most played back was Poseidon, and even he had punishments ready with the small stumble of a word at a concert. So TB3 was not exactly looking forward to this "brief meeting."
"Hello, father." Nico greeted respectfully as he walked into the room, nodding once at the adult sitting to the right of his Uncle Zeus
"Hi." Thalia said, looking Zeus in the eye. She and her dad weren't exactly on the best of terms.
"Hey, dad." Percy said, carelessly. Thalia and Nico had always envied Percy and his father's relationship. Percy didn't really have to be all that polite to his father, so why did they have to be polite to theirs? On normal occasions Poseidon would listen to his son say gibberish and still agree with him if needed. Apparently this was not a normal occasion.
"It's father, Percy. You call me father."
Percy nodded. "Okay, Da- Father." He stumbled.
"Why have you summoned us?" Nico asked, his posture straight.
Hades smiled a little. "We have come to the conclusion that you need schooling."
"But we take online courses-" Thalia reasoned.
"And you have failed lots of them." Her father interrupted. Thalia had to refrain from cowering. Her father was one scary dude.
"Do you want us to try harder, because-" Percy tried.
"Son." Poseidon stopped him. "You will be going to school. All three of you. Zeus, Hades, and I have decided that you need to get a life that doesn't involve screaming fans and autographs and whatnot."
"What do you think people are going to do when they see us enter the school building?" Thalia exploded. She couldn't help herself.
"You will going to a school called Goode High school in New York."
"That's where all the fans are." Nico said quietly. Both Percy and Thalia knew that he had always wanted to impress his father, but that he was also outraged with this agreement on their parents' behalf.
"And? That's the school we've picked out for you." Hades said.
Nico looked down. Hades must have at least felt a little bad for saying that. But if he did, he didn't show it. At all.
"You leave tomorrow." Zeus stated, leaving no room for argument.
Three "Yes, Fathers" were heard.
"Now go do your autographing."
The three teenagers nodded and shuffled out.
Then, like all teenagers do, they exploded once they got out the room.
"I can't believe they're making us do that!" Thalia exclaimed.
"A public high school! In New York! Might as well throw us in China! Only with screaming fans instead of only a lot of people." Percy shook his head.
"There's going to be snobs and sluts and nerds and jocks and gross!"
Nico was silent.
Percy and Thalia turned to look at him, when they saw what his eyes were locked on.
They had reached their autographing destination. There were a few thousand people there, the line being tremendously long.
The fans would start with Percy, then go on to Thalia then Nico. They would get autographs and a picture then move on. And after that was pictures with all of the members of the three person band. It would be a long night.
"What's up, peoples!" Percy asked immediately.
They stopped staring and cheered.
A microphone labeled "Fox News" was pushed in front of Percy, causing a dozen others to do the same.
"What were you three just talking about, Percy?"
"Uh... nothing. Nothing that you would like, anyway. And you'll find out soon enough."
The reporter nodded, satisfied. "You mind if I asked you more questions after this? I wouldn't want to keep you waiting."
Percy scratched his neck. "I don't know. I'm gonna be pretty tired. Maybe another time?"
"Okay." The reporter said, a little unhappy.
TB3, or The Big Three, made their way to their separate tables.
There were only a few people that caught Percy's attention.
There was a brown haired girl with coffee brown eyes and a dazzling smile. She looked to be around twelve, and she was adorably cute. Another girl was blond with princess curls and startling grey eyes. She was about seventeen, the same age as Percy, and was really pretty. Percy took a selfie with her and did the same with a few others.
The last person was a boy with blond hair and electric blue eyes like Thalia's. He said that his name was Jason. Thalia took an interest in him too, and it definitely wasn't for his looks.
But his hand was tired by the end of it. He felt like getting in his limo and sleeping.
At least he got to sit down for the pictures. Thalia and Nico had to stand around his chair, with the young kids sitting on his lap and the older adults and teenagers standing behind him. And after that, Percy's mouth was soar too. Ow.
"This has been such a long night." Percy exclaimed as they rode in the back of their limo. "My mouth is going to hurt forever."
"That can't happen." Nico said sarcastically. "Then you'll never be able to sing at a concert again."
Percy grinned, then winced. "Then you'll be singing and taking my place."
Nico laughed humorless. "Right."
"See! He agrees with me!" Percy said, eyes wide, to Thalia. She laughed.
"You two are so childish!"
"Well we have the right to be." Nico explained. "All teenage pop stars have the right to be childish. Since they obviously weren't childish as children."
Thalia nodded. "Isn't it sad that that's true?"
"Yeah." Percy answered. "Yeah, it is."
The car was silent after that.
We leave tomorrow, all three of them thought as they fell asleep that night. We leave tomorrow. And they still had no idea how crazy that day would be.
Ah, the life of editing.
This is me editing the story, okay? Even though I'm editing it now, I'm probably going to post all of the edited version at the same time. So it'll take a little while until I actually post all of them.
Thanks for reading!
-Awesomninja09