Chapter 1: To Rome and back again

The ride was okay until Frank and I saw Piper and Reyna with their weapons out. They both looked ready to fight to the death.

Oh yeah, my name is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. I am currently on a flying ship sailing to Rome with 8 other demigods-Frank, Hazel, Jason, Leo, Annabeth, Octavian, and yeah, Piper and Reyna.

At first, Frank and I thought the two girl's fight was the old Greek vs. Roman conflict like the one back at Camp Jupiter.

Yeah, it didn't go so well at first but that was because of Octavian.

When the Greek UFO landed, Octavian shouted at the other Romans to attack the ship despite the fact I gave an order to the other Romans to not attack the ship unless the Greeks showed hostilities. Fortunately, most of the Romans didn't listen to him. Unfortunately, the ones that did obey him shot arrows at the ship.

The arrows bounced off but when the ship landed, one Greek named Leo tossed a monkey wrench at Octavian and the situation got messier. Luckily, that one Greek, Piper, resolved it by talking. Anyways, after that, my Greek girlfriend, Annabeth, debated with Reyna on the issue about who was to go to Rome.

"Only the Seven should," said Annabeth.

"No, we need power in numbers," replied Reyna, "Send one cohort along with the Seven to Rome."

"No!" cried out Annabeth, "We can't because blah blah blah blah."

"You are an idiot," said Reyna sternly, "Because blah blah blah blah."

And it just went on like that. Anyway, they both finally agreed that two more people should accompany the Seven, so Reyna and that jerk, Octavian, came along.

Speaking of Octavian, he came near us when Piper and Reyna came in front of us, arguing. He smiled jerkily with his jerkish teeth and lips.

"What's the matter, praetor and Piper," purred Octavian, "Can't get along."

"Shut up Octavian," said Reyna angrily, "I already have enough to handle with."

"Jason plus Piper!" screamed Piper.

"NO!" yelled back Reyna, "Jason plus Reyna!"

Frank and I were shocked by the fight in front of us. Octavian, on the other hand, was enjoying it and turned to me with a smirk.

"Entertaining, isn't it?" he said with a jerk smile.

"Shut up Octavian," said Frank. Octavian slithered away jerkily, still smiling.

Frank turned to me and groaned, "When is this ride over?"

I did nothing but muttered in agreement.

Meanwhile...

"Hermes, stop that, it isn't funny," said Dionysus. Hermes stopped for a moment and continued his act like Dionysus' interruption didn't happen.

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana," said Hermes to the other gods. The Olympians groaned at his bad joke.

"Gee Hermes," said Athena in a bored voice, "That was so punny."

"Your jokes are worse than Apollo's haikus," said Artemis.

"I agree," agreed Apollo, "Hey! Wait a minute!"

"We waited for more than one minute," yelled out Poseidon in frustration. He glared at Zeus.

Zeus stood up and said thunderously, "We need to stay here because Gaea is still out there, along with her giant children!"

"But we are bored out of our minds, brother!" countered his brother, Hades, "And frankly, I hate the rest of you."

The other Olympians murmured in agreement to Hades' first statement. They all turned to Zeus.

"Brother! If you do not let us out of Olympus," threatened Poseidon, "We will mutiny against you." The rest of the Olympians roared in agreement.

Zeus glared at them and took out his lightning bolt. He was about to throw it when a time portal appeared out of nowhere with four kids falling out of it. The portal closed but not before five books and a note fell out as well. Athena snatched the note and read out loud.

Dear Olympians,

To cover a future plot hole, I am sending the Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Nico di Angelo, and Thalia Grace from the past to read these five wonderful books that came with the demigods. Have fun.

Love, Chronos.

The Olympians first stared at the four demigods then at the stack of books. Athena picked the first book and read out the title of the book in disgust.

"Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," she muttered with sarcasm, "That sure sounds like fun."

"Well, let's read them," said Apollo, "I have nothing I can do with my life right now." Nico, Annabeth, and Thalia all gave Percy a dark look.

"You can read the first chapter," said Annabeth to Percy, "You got us into this mess."

Percy began reading to his angry friends and to the bored gods.