Chapter One: Piper
I don't care what Annabeth and Octavian and the rest of them are all saying. I did NOT ruin that party. I did NOT.
Reyna did.
Well, it was MOSTLY Reyna, anyway. I'll admit I played a part in it as well. But if she hadn't invited me to do that stupid thing up there, it wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Although, now I think back on it, it really wasn't Reyna's fault.
It happened like this:
Percy and Jason and Annabeth and Reyna had gotten the idea to hold a Greek/Roman party, to encourage collaboration, and everyone was playing team-building stuff that I'm pretty sure they just got from a book (playing catch, blindfolded partner, etc.). Then, after a while, everyone started getting bored and restless.
So Leo (the REAL party wrecker) comes up with his brilliant idea: Karaoke.
You'd think that the Romans would laugh him off that podium, right? You'd think they'd think that's ridiculous, right?
Wrong. A vote went up, and so someone dragged out a machine, and we went in a line.
Annabeth did this cover of 'Love Song', and she sounded decent. Percy ended up doing 'Surfing USA' and ended up enthusiastically doing surfing motions (everyone was either joining in or averting their eyes).
Leo ended up doing some eighties one-hit wonder 'Jessie's Girl', for undetermined reasons. Annabeth looked like she got it though. I'll ask her.
Okay, maybe I ended up aggravating Reyna a bit when my song choice was 'The Tide Is High'. Maybe I looked at Jason and her a bit too many times for my song choice to be perfectly innocent. Maybe I clenched my first a bit too hard to show I was 'holding on/I'm gonna be your number one'. Maybe I beat my fist against my heart when I was singing 'I'm gonna make it happen somehow/And you know I can take the pressure/A moment's pain for a lifetime's pressure'.
But really, that was no reason to start that whole business!
(Okay, I'm getting off track. Leo, you handle the story.)
This is a three-shot. First Piper, then Leo, then Jason. Takes place after the ship lands and they reunite. What I dearly hope will happen in MOA.