Don't you just hate that moment when you're lying in bed, hoping to sleep, and all of a sudden an idea just jumps out at you! I had one of those tonight, so I guess you can be happy about that, it means new story time! Just to clarify, this is not a READING THE SERIES thing, this is actually an idea I kind of got from another idea which was a reading the series idea, sorta. But it fully manifested itself tonight.
Sorry if this is short, but it's only the prologue.
I don't own, Percy Jackson and Co. belong to Rick Riordan.
Piper's Point of View:
Several of us had been invited to Olympus for a special ceremony for defeating Gaia, we were allowed to invite one person of our choice who we thought influenced our drive to save the world, and that didn't include another quest member, luckily it was one because I doubted Percy would be allowed every person in the world on Olympus, no matter how many times he'd saved it. Finally Percy had decided to invite Tyson, his cyclops half-brother, while Annabeth invited her half-brother Malcolm, Leo invited one of his half sisters, Nyssa, I had taken a liking the gentle and smart harpy so I invited Ella, which pleased Tyson immensely. Frank had invited Reyna, probably because if she hadn't allowed him into the legion he wouldn't have been there to help, it made Jason's choice much easier as he invited Thalia, Hazel had done the same as many and invited her half-brother, so the group was completed by Nico. Now all we were left to do was wait to be called to the throne room. I actually wasn't sure why we were allowed guests, but none of us dared to question it.
"I wonder what's taking so long." Thalia mumbled as she paced the room we had been given, we had all been instructed the best clothes we had, that didn't do much as the moment we entered the room our clothes turned to dresses and suits, no doubt the work of my mother. Now Thalia wore an electric blue dress with a white jacket which she quickly discarded, her silver circlet placed on her head lopsided, the second change she had made to her outfit.
"It's only been five minutes Thalia." Frank replied from where he was in a conversation with Hazel about forms. Hazel wore a tasteful gold dress, we all wore decent clothes and I supposed my mother catered to tastes as nobody was really uncomfortable with what they were wearing, just frustrated.
"It's the anticipation. Do not do anything stupid." Reyna warned, looking specifically at Jason, Percy and Leo before she fixed Jason's collar for him, Annabeth and Hazel had done the same for Percy and Frank but Leo discarded the tux jacket immediately.
"She's right Seaweed Brain. Do not anger Zeus." Annabeth instructed, then she paused. "Any more than you have." Annabeth tacked on casually, making everyone laugh. I sat back in my chair, one of the fourteen around the room, careful not to mess my dress or my hair. All of a sudden we were surprised by a podium rising up in the exact center of the room, it was a white marble, I guess we were lucky nobody was standing there.
"What is it?" Nyssa asked in awe.
"It's a podium." Malcolm stated the obvious, making Nyssa roll her eyes.
"I can see that Brain Boy." Nyssa retorted, she made her way over, her bronze dress rippling with her as she walked to the podium. Call it ADHD but we all followed her and surrounded the podium, it fit all of us around comfortably so we could see the silver pieces on the table. There were fourteen pieces in all.
"It makes something." I realised out loud, a few pieces looked that they matched up.
"A puzzle!" Annabeth gasped.
"Well, you and Malcolm are free to complete it." Leo suggested.
"What if it's something bad?" Frank asked.
"Bad." Tyson repeated while Ella fluttered on his shoulder.
"Bad, bad, no bad, good, 'Good day to you sir.'" Ella chirped.
"If Ella thinks it might be good then it's worth trying." I spoke up, at once we all took a huge step back and watched in silence as Malcolm and Annabeth worked on fitting all the pieces together. Annabeth was right, of course, it was a puzzle, when it was fit together the pieces formed a simple silver amulet.
"What's it supposed to do?" Thalia asked, as soon as she said that I wished she hadn't, the amulet glowed pure white, tendrils flying out and hitting each of us squarely in the chest, I was lifted off my feet, a couple of inches off the ground and I gritted my teeth at the shock, I couldn't see anything but the light and I guessed the others couldn't either. Before I could call out I found myself falling through air.
And there's a cliff-hanger thrown in for my amusement. I hope you guys liked this, but it's brief and to the point, I can't tell you what the ceremony is, because it will be told in a few chapters. The next chapter should be interesting. Where will our heroes end up? To everyone who knows: Do not answer!
This will be updated before I go to my dad's on Friday, so, see you then.
Peace, love, awesomeness.