All Percy wanted was cereal. Going to the down the street to the store couldn't be that dangerous, right?
Wrong. He'd lost Annabeth somewhere around the canned goods isle when he'd promised to grab the cereal and meet her in the front of the store.
That seemed like such a long time ago.
"So…. What do you say?" A high-pitched voice drags him back to the dreaded reality.
"Umm... That's would sound great, really, but you see, I have to…" He says, before trying to make a break for it.
Before he can get very far, however, one (spray) tanned arm latches onto him and pulls him back with surprising strength.
He's starting to seriously doubt that she's mortal.
The woman in front of him tosses her dyed black hair behind her and smiles up at him with lips that looked like they were about to burst from all the Botox injected into them.
"Where are you going? You haven't even told me your name, silly."
"Uh, yeah, that." He fumbles, looking around for another escape plan.
After so many years of being around Annabeth, Percy figured that he would've had to have learned something from the daughter of Athena.
No luck. His brain was being uncooperative and the lady in front of him was leaning dangerously close to him.
She doesn't seem to be deterred by the look on his face or the fact that he hadn't given her his name yet, and she asks "How old are you, handsome?"
"Way younger than you." He blurts out.
Her grin grows. "I like my men young."
She says it the same way she would say "I like my meat raw."
He shudders a bit and backs up away from her into the shelf
A cereal box falls off the shelf and hits him in the face.
It's times like this when he wonders what he did to the fates to make them hate him so much. He saves the world twice and this is what he gets?
He has to do something, fast, before he gets kidnapped by the lady who is looking at him like she wants to devour him.
Yep. Definitely a monster.
He really doesn't want to make a scene, so he figures yelling for Annabeth to come and save him is out of the question.
A crazy idea comes to him. It probably won't work, but he's getting really desperate right know.
"Oh my God!" He yells, "Is that Johnny Depp?!"
The lady whirls around, and for the first time in his whole life, luck is on his side because there is actually a guy with long-ish brown hair and a mustache walking in front of them.
Her eyes light up in the creepiest way possible and she turns back to him. "Sorry darling, but you're no Johnny Depp."
He can't bring himself to be offended by the fact that he was just thrown away like yesterday's trash, only relief at the fact that the lady wasn't in his personal space.
He shares a sympathetic glance with the Johnny Depp Doppelganger before he is dragged behind the baking section to be devoured .
Now, all Percy really wants to do is find Annabeth and get out of the store.
He finds her waiting impatiently near the start of the line with a whole cart of groceries.
She turns to him, half relieved but more irritated.
"I sent you to get one thing, Percy, ONE THING." She says.
"No, Annabeth, you don't understand-" He starts.
"Just go get the cereal, please?"
He whimpers. "But-".
"Now."
That Gods damned cereal.