Prologue: The Heroes and the gift of TEH INTERNETS.
It was a late afternoon when Chiron had called all the head councilors to the head cabin for a meeting.
"Heroes, it's high time we gave you a reward for all of your hard work. It's not easy dealing with entire cabins full of younger siblings now is it?" The older centaur commented. He moved over towards two large boxes, and used the tip of one of his arrows to cut them open.
"Hang on, Dell HP?" Annabeth remarked as she decoded the labels in her mind. "Chiron, are those⦠laptops?"
"Why yes they are Annabeth! You were always very observant." Chiron took out several smaller, rectangular boxes and placed them on the table in front of the demigods. "Each box should have your names on them. Inside is a computer that has been custom made to work with the energy interference here at Half-Blood. You should find that your laptop has a custom hard top design, and either a program or a video game that I thought you might enjoy."
"Oh man this is AWESOME." Leo opened his up to find a pattern with bronze cogs and gears, along with a copy of Ratchet and Clank.
"Yeah Chiron, you've really out done yourself!" Clarisse said with a big smile as she admired the flame design, and the copy of Dead Space.
The rest of the councilors opened their boxes and were having a great time comparing designs with one another. Piper was enjoying the fact that Chiron had chosen a sunset, and not something overtly girly like hearts; Will Solace took great pride in the fact that he got Robin Hood on his; and Percy was really stoked with his oceanic landscape and copy of Halo. After a full examination, he went to ask Annabeth what hers looked like.
"I really like the fact that he chose the owl," Annabeth remarked when he asked. "That was really accurate and cool, but Percy?"
"Yes Annabeth?"
"I've been out of the loop with video games for a while, with not living at home very often, and not having a lot of access to them. What's 'The Sims'?" She asked as she looked over the video game case. The game seemed to be about people, or more like making your own. Annabeth didn't see how this really suit her at all.
"Oh man you got the Sims? Lucky! Come over to my cabin, and I'll show you what it's all about. I think you're really going to enjoy it!"
