Hey guys! I'm soooooo sorry that I haven't been updating my other stories. But hopefully this makes up for it! (which it probably won't, but close enough) This was one of the stories that you all voted for, and even though it didn't get to ten votes, I'm still doing it! Hope you enjoy! Btw, this is kinda multi-POV, but you guys will understand.
Chapter 1
IT WAS NEW YEAR'S EVE.
Normally, Camp Half-Blood didn't celebrate mortal holidays, but this year was an exception.
The seven demigods had defeated Gaea and her giant army, and surprisingly all came back alive; a little traumatized, but alive. Percy Jackson was glad to be back at his old home. After getting his memory taken away, almost getting killed several times, and falling into Tartarus with the only person he loved, a New Year's Eve party sounded pretty good.
The party was held in the sword-fighting arena. Colored lights flashed everywhere, and, thanks to Hecate's kids, the bleachers were taken out. Where they went, Percy didn't know; but that wasn't a big thing to worry about in his mind. A long table off to the right had plate after plate of yummy food and drinks. A net on the ceiling held balloons that were cued to drop at midnight. A huge dance floor was in the middle with the DJ at one end. As Percy walked in, he found the DJ's taste in music to be pretty good- that was, until he found out whom the DJ was.
"Chiron?" Percy yelled. Sure enough, the old centaur was scanning his records for the next song. "You're the DJ?"
"I didn't want to," Chiron replied, "but the campers talked me into it. It is quite some fun, actually."
Percy laughed. He patted Chiron on the back and set off to find his friends. It was never very hard to pick them out, though. All you had to do was look for kicking and screaming.
Percy parted his way through the crowd to find a weird but familiar sight. To his right, Clarisse La Rue was being held back by Annabeth Chase, Frank Zhang, and Jason Grace. All the Romans stayed at Camp Half-Blood because, well, things weren't quite "settled" with Camp Jupiter. To Percy's left, Leo Valdez was being confined by Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, and Nico di Angelo. On the other side of the battle, Connor Stoll was looking over his twin brother Travis's shoulder, who was videotaping the whole scene. Katie Gardner was at the boys' side, rolling her eyes.
Percy didn't know what happened between Leo and Clarisse, and from what they were yelling at each other, he didn't want to know. Every now and then he caught, "spear up your butt", "go to Hades", and "I'll tell my dad!" But really, Percy just wanted this to stop. This kind of thing happened almost every day now. He stepped right up to Clarisse. She yelled, "Get out of my way, Jackson! I don't need you to make a peace treaty!"
"Yeah, Percy!" Travis yelled. "Don't stop this now! We are going to go viral!"
Percy rolled his eyes at the twins. "I'll get out of you way once you tell me what's going on," Percy told Clarisse.
Annabeth brushed the hair out of her face and answered, "Leo was showing us his impressions of the gods, and Clarisse came when he got to Ares. Then this happened."
Percy had to admit that Leo's impressions were pretty funny- even the one of Poseidon. But he hated to see his friends fight, especially when it was over stupid things like this. He turned to Clarisse and said, "Will you stop trying to kill Leo if he apologizes?"
She took that into consideration. "I guess," she mumbled, "but I won't be happy about it."
Percy walked over to Leo. "Leo, will you please apologize to Clarisse for making fun of her father?" he asked.
"No way!" Leo shouted. "Ares totally deserves it!" That little comment got Clarisse all fired up again. The girls were having a tough time holding Leo because he was getting fired up in his own way- he kept setting his sleeves on fire. It didn't bother him of course, since he was immune to it, but the girls and Nico kept letting go and yelping at their singed hands.
"Stop that, Leo!" yelled Hazel. Leo realized what he was doing and the flames went out.
Percy got closer to Leo and whispered in his ear, "See that punch bowl, Leo?" Percy pointed to the table across the dance floor. "Apologize or that is going on your head."
That definitely changed Leo's mood. He looked at Clarisse and said, "I'm sorry that I made fun of you and your father." Clarisse seemed to calm down and the three let go. She walked over to Leo and stuck out a hand. Leo's holders also released him. He walked up to Clarisse, quickly spit in his hand, and put it in hers before she could react. She screeched and pulled her hand away. She had no hesitation though to wipe her hand on Frank's shirt.
Frank stumbled back in response. "This is utterly disgusting, and this is a new shirt!" he protested.
"Oh shut it, Baby Face," Clarisse smirked. "You're starting to sound like an Aphrodite kid."
"Um, excuse me?" Piper jumped in. "Daughter of Aphrodite, here!"
Clarisse started glaring daggers at Piper when Frank came up from behind. Hazel was trying to stop him, but he was obviously too big for her. Percy knew that he needed to do something, and luckily Annabeth had the same idea. She stepped in between Piper and Clarisse, while Percy stopped Frank from body-slamming the daughter of Ares.
"Guys, you need to stop this! You won't always have us here to solve your problems!" Percy yelled over the music. "Why can't we just play a friendly game or something?"
Connor perked up. "TRUTH OR DARE!" he screamed, right in his brother's ear.
"Awesomeness!" Leo said.
"Fine," said Clarisse, "but I better not be getting a makeover again."
"Oh, what fun," Nico said sarcastically.
"Ok, but I am so not making out with Connor again!" Katie said, eyeing Connor. He winked back, allowing Katie to roll her eyes some more.
Piper leaned over to Annabeth and whispered, "Be sure to dare me to kiss Jason."
"Only if you do the same with me and Percy," Annabeth whispered back.
"Deal."
Frank walked over to the two girls with flushed cheeks. "Um, you know what you two were saying a couple seconds ago? I was wondering, maybe, if-"
"We could do that for you and Hazel?" Piper finished for him. "Of course we could; anything for you, big guy." Frank blushed even more and ran over to Hazel with an insane grin slapped on his face.
As all of his friends filed out of the arena, Percy only had one thought: This is going to be one heck of a night.
Well, hope you all liked it, and there's more where that came from! I think that I'm going to stop my "Carter and Sadie crash the Argo II" story, and mainly focus on "Keep Your Enemies Closer" because I have a lot of ideas for that one- I'm just not sure how to put them together. I'm still going to try to continue my other two stories- "one-shots" and "what are brother's for?"- because I really like where they're going. I might make another Kane/Olympus crossover in the future, but I'm not sure when. I'll probably be updating more often for a while 'cause it's Christmas break (TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS AND I'M SO FREAKING PUMPED!) but after that the updates will be slower than Percy when it comes to girls. :)
Thanks and please review! I need ideas for truths and dares, so feel free to share your ideas! (Just make them appropriate for the rating, please.)
-DaughterOfGaea2399
