(A/N I don't own Percy Jackson. I know the summary is bad but I have about a thousand different ideas going through my head at how this could end. Hope you enjoy.)
Annabeth's POV
As soon I walked across camp border Chiron was there, "Grover needs your help. Nothing major, but a few demons have him trapped in a cave. You and Percy need to go get him out."
"Okay," it sounded simple enough kill a few demons, save my friend, been there, done that, "Where's Percy."
"I don't know, but when you find him I would like him to explain why he bought 80 horses and 320 bottles of blue hair dye."
Laughing I say, "Okay we will meet you at the big house."
I go to find Percy. First I check the beach, but when he isn't there I go look in the cabin. He's not in there either then I check the sword arena, rock wall, and even the archery target, but don't find him. I'm wondering around looking for him when it starts to smell like barn.
Remembering what Chiron said about the horses I took off running towards the smell. I came up to a huge brown building out in the middle of the woods. It had sliding barn doors and fencing surrounded it.
I walked through the little gate and saw a stairwell off to the side of the building. At the top of the stairs there was a platform with a door into the top of the barn.
I knocked on the door and entered.
I came in and was standing on a thin catwalk up in a loft. Lining the other three sides in the loft were stalls with horses in them. There were all different colors black, speckled, white, paint, grey, well you get the point. The one thing they had in common was they all had blue manes.
Shaking my head with a laugh I looked down below at the main floor. It was a huge open area with hay covering the floor and different obstacles everywhere.
There was a little stream flowing in the far left corner and Percy was there with a white horse speckled with black dots. He was just about to mount him when I yelled, "Hey Percy!"
He looked up and waved. Jumping up on the horse he started up a ramp on the far wall. It must be so the horses could get from floor to floor.
Looking around I also noticed a ladder leading up into a third floor. It was admittedly really well built and I wondered who did it.
Percy went over to put up the horse. I walked over to him looking at all the names carved into plaques above the stalls. Lucky, Shadow, Blaze, Faith, Willow, the one Percy was now brushing down's name was Casper.
Stroking Casper's nose I asked, "Who built this place"
Looking up at me he said, "I did." Shocked I looked around, "You built this?" He laughed, "You know you don't have to act so surprised."
I was though how was it possible that seaweed brain could build a place like this and an even better question why?
Curious I asked all the questions that were flying around my head," How did you build all this? Why?" What made you think about it? How did you get the materials? Why do the horses have blue hair?"
He laughed at all my questions as he answered them one by one, "I just found a spot and started building. I got really bored. I was passing a junk yard. Said junk yard could possibly be missing a couple piles of scrap. The horses have blue hair so I know if their mine. Plus how cool is that. It won't wash out."
I raised an eyebrow, "It took you 320 bottles of dye to permanently dye the horse's hair?"
"No, not exactly. At first I just bought about 160 but then we had some issues," he cringed.
"What issues?" I asked curiously. He walked out of the stall shutting the gate behind him and walked towards a shelf with bottles of what, I'm guessing was blue hair dye, from a shelf.
Walking over and grabbing a rope that was hanging off the wall he said, "Well, I found all this permanent hair dye for a dollar a bottle. It wasn't until after that I realized why it was cheap."
He squirted some of the dye on the rope. At first nothing happened, but as the rope absorbed the dye it disintegrated. "It melts stuff so you bought more?" Maybe he wasn't smart after all.
He rolls his eyes at me, "No silly, I just thought that there has to be something that makes it not dissolve stuff right? I snuck into the Hephaestus cabin and took some of their forge chemicals. Mixing them in with the dye made it not dissolve hair."
I was impressed by that, even I wouldn't have thought about that, "What are you going to do with all these horses?"
He chewed on his lip, "I hadn't really thought about that."
Laughing I grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the door, "Come on, seaweed brain we have a quest."
(A/N, So, what do you think? It might be a while before I update. Or I might just leave it like this I don't know.)
