This story centers around the seven (Jason, Piper, Leo, Percy, Annabeth, Hazel and Frank) and Nico. There is no particular plot in this story. Henry, Lukas, Julian and any other people that may be named in this story are most likely not going to play large roles in this story, other than filling in the necessary positions. Enjoy reading and please review!
Chapter 1: The Experiment
"The great thing about the war being over, is that we can finally just stop with the serious problems and relax."
Leo just had to jinx it.
The war was over, two weeks had passed for all the excitement to cool down, and naturally the ADHD demigods had all continued on their incredibly dangerous daily routines.
Nobody particularly minded. This was normal for them to do. The Hermes cabin had gone back to pickpocketing and pranking and the Demeter cabin had gone back to chasing after them for pranking, the Apollo cabin were working out again and the Aphrodite cabin were swooning over them again, the Ares cabin and Athena cabin fought and challenged and showed off all day.
Yes, those things didn't bother most people. It was the more fearless and experimental demigods that got them worried. The Hecate cabin, for example, were now experimenting with potions and such. The Hephaestus cabin were working day and night on random projects because, like Leo, they needed to keep building or else they got too jittery.
So most people stayed away from those cabins. Except for the seven, because they hung around Leo a lot. And Nico, because he was wherever Jason was. But nothing really happened, nothing too serious.
Thursday afternoon. Leo came trudging into the Poseidon cabin (which was their usual meeting place since it was the most homey and casual) with an enraged and exasperated look on his face. "I swear, if I find those Hecate girls dancing around the forge one more time, all of them are going to be grounded for a month."
"You're going to ground the Hecate girls?" Piper asked confusedly at the same time Hazel asked "The Hecate girls were dancing around the forge?"
He sighed. "No, Hazel, they were hanging about in there and couldn't keep their hands off anything. I know my siblings let them in so if it happens again I'm definitely grounding them."
"You have the power to do that?" Jason questioned.
"Um, yeah." said Leo. "I'm the cabin counselor. I can. Can't any of you?"
"I can." Piper piped up. "I do it to Drew all the time."
"Me too." said Annabeth. "I've been doing it for years."
"I'm not a cabin counselor." said Frank. Clarisse still was. "But none of the Ares kids ever listen to anyone anyway."
"Obviously me and Jason don't really have any use for that power." said Percy. "What about you, Nico?"
"I don't ground Hazel." he said solemnly. "Except for the time she came back completely drunk."
"I learned to never take alcohol that day." she said with equal solemness.
"Well I've never done it to any of my siblings." said Leo. "But I will if this goes on."
Apparently it did, as they found themselves all joining him towards the forge the very next day.
"It was easier when they were all just making weapons all the time." he mused. "Really. These wacky experiments of theirs are getting out of hand. Now I know I don't think much about the risks either, but at least I sometimes consider the consequences before building anything."
Piper snorted. "Really? I must not have noticed."
"Well, we don't have as many bloodthirsty monsters chasing after us and the biggest bumps in the road are annoying habits." Nico pointed out. "It's annoying, sure, but how long can even a mortal go without things getting annoying?"
"Yeah. Really, the actual great thing about the war being over, is that we can finally just stop with the serious problems and relax." Leo decided.
He opened the door to the forge. There didn't seem to be any Hecate kids in there.
"Leo!" Jake greeted as he saw them come in. "Check it out, automatic sword-sharpener." he stuck a sword into the pocket on the side of a flat round object of the ground and sparks began to fly. The others jumped back from the sparks while he and Leo had a very rapid discussion.
"Great job, let's see if we can take it further." he praised before moving on.
There were tons of things that looked either highly dangerous or amazingly interesting, and quite a few things they couldn't even pronounce. Leo once swapped to Spanish in the middle of trying to explain a machine to them and they got completely lost.
The forge had private workspaces around, mainly for people who didn't want to be disturbed during their work. Leo took care to knock before checking on whoever was inside, usually children of Hephaestus though there was a son and daughter of Nike crafting swords in one.
Leo knocked on another workspace door. There was a frantic scurrying on the other side that made Leo raise his eyebrow.
"Uh, you can come in now!" one called after a full minute of scrambling around.
Leo sighed and went in, already figuring out what to expect.
Henry, Lukas and Julian stood idly by the worktable, looking tense. Leo always wondered what it was they were working on that always made them so afraid of being caught. Those three were always exploding things all the time. Thank goodness they usually used the private workspaces.
"What are you doing in here?" Leo asked. The others watched quietly from behind him. They knew better than to interfere with anything in the forge.
"N-nothing!" Lukas stammered.
Leo glanced at the things on their table. Unlike most Hephaestus children, these three liked to go deeper in the mechanics like him and preferred working with chemicals and such. "Is that water from the River Styx… mixed with molten Imperial Gold?!"
Julian looked uncomfortable. "Uh, yeah…"
"Boys, get away from there." he instructed immediately. The others' eyes grew wide. Uh oh, something dangerous was about to happen.
"And girls, get out from under the table!" he suddenly yelled. To their amazement, no less than seven girls dressed in the typical glitter-chalked outfits of the daughters of Hecate came dashing out from underneath.
The test tube with the Stygian water and molten gold exploded, making everyone cower and a few people go flying. Frank quickly grabbed Hazel before she fell and Nico managed to grasp Julian before he hit the wall.
Unfortunately, as one of the Hecate girls was slammed backwards, a small glass cylinder slipped from her hand and soared through the sky.
Time slowed down.
There was no time to wonder whether the contents of the cylinder was potentially dangerous. The eight battle-hardened demigods rushed forward to grab it before it smashed against the ground.
Percy felt his and Leo's fingers brush over the cylinder just as it hit the ground.
The world turned white.
That was the first chapter! Like it? Hate it? Review please! Next chapter they'll find out that their powers have been swapped!
