The Swap, or Why the PJO characters NEED to stay their own genders and the hilarity that may ensue if they don't, or Penny Jackson and the Master of Magic.

Phew, that was long!

Let's just call it The Swap, huh?

Terence and Lucy raced through the dark wasteland. Shadows jumped out of every corner, every alley, as if saying, 'We're coming.' And being who they were, Terence and Lucy knew the shadows were coming for them.

Then Lucy heard something.

Cough.

"Terennnncee…" she said uneasily. Terence stopped, staring at her with narrowed electric blue eyes. "What?"

"I think there's something over there."

"Luce, this is called an abandoned car plant for a reason. Let's go."

"Not until I find out what it is." Lucy set her jaw.

Terence sighed. Then he heard the cough too.

It was small, and from that Terence knew the person was small.

Cough.

After a cough followed a moan, and then a small sob. Terence felt nauseated..and saddened.

"Let's move." He whispered. They crept towards the cough.

There was a old, worn down shack at the end of the alley. It was mossing over, and looked like whatever had been in there died long ago. Yet they heard a cough, from the heart of the shack.

"One, two," counted Lucy under her breath.

"THREE!" yelled Terence, ripping off the door to the shack.

There cowered a little blond boy that was obviously in need of a medic. Deep gashes ran along his leg and his eyes were wide with delirium.

"Stay back!" he yelled , brandishing a bit of a broken glass. "I know you're all monsters!"

"Listen up kid, we're not-" Terence began, but Lucy interrupted. "We're not monsters. I'm Lucy Castellan and this is Terence Grace. What's your name?"

The blond boy shivered. "A-Alex Chase."

Lucy grinned. "Here." She handed him one of her extra knives. "It's not great, but it works a heck of a lot better than broken glass." Alex accepted the knife with shaking hands.

"Now let's get those cuts of yours healed up."

And so Alex joined the group of ragtag misfits, and proceeded to become an excellent fighter and monster-killer. In a few months, after several battles and scars, they find a satyr claiming to need to take them to a place safe for people 'like them' as he said.

The only reason they believed him was because Lucy was claimed by Hermes right that second.

Time moves on and we find Terence, son of Zeus, Lucy, daughter of Hermes, and Alex, son of Athena, fighting for their lives on Half-Blood Hill. Terence, in the last moments of his life, is turned into a pine tree and the monsters flew back, shocked by the border lines, reinforced by his spirit. Alex and Lucy collapse, from their labors and from the shock of the fate of their friend.

But here we are, with the start of a new time-the Era of Demigods. But there can be only one to reign…..

A/N In case you hadn't figured it out:

Terence:Thalia

Alex:Annabeth

Lucy:Luke

Penny:Percy

Lucy: *pops up out of nowhere *HI ONANGELWINGS DOES NOT OWN PJO! *vanishes *

Me: Ummmm

NOTE: IF THE CHARACTER IS NOT HUMAN-i.e. Grover-THEY WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE SWAP. I AM LEAVING SOME PEOPLE THE SAME SO IF WILL STAYS WILL DON'T SAY I DIDN'T TELL YOU.

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