The NeverEnding Labyrinth Chapter 1: Help From Lyric Guy, a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic

Chapter 1: Help from lyric guy

I chewed the tip of my pen. My song was perfect, but I was missing some words. "Yo, lyric guy! Get in here!"

Oh yeah, you don't know who we are do you? Well, I'm Annabeth, and am the lead singer of a band called the never-ending Labyrinth. My best friend Percy is the lead guitarist. Grover is my other friend. He's the drummer. He also helps with my lyrics when I get stuck. Thus the term lyric guy. The three of us have been friends since we were twelve. Sorta. Our other guitarist/base player is our friend Luke. He's a few years older than us. I'm sure you're probably curious about our band name. Percy, Luke and I are demigods, as in half human half god. My mother is Athena and my father is mortal. Percy's dad is Poseidon and his mom is mortal. Luke's dad is Hermes. His mom died years ago. I'll get into that more later. Grover is a satyr, meaning he's half goat. Being demigods we can't trust anybody. Therefore, we have stage names.

Percy is Fang Ride, Grover is Stid Spike, Luke is Recav Dwyer, and I'm Josie Salix.

Any who, back to the song. I'm finally almost done. I've been working on it for almost a week. It's never taken me this long. Hope it was worth it...

Grover finally walked in and grinned. "Need some help there, Josie?" Just so you know, he's using my stage name because our bus driver, Adam, doesn't know those are fake.

"Yes, actually. I'm almost finished with this song, but I'm missing some words in a few verses. Wanna help?"

He grinned. "You know it. Give me the lyrics." I did as he asked and he looked them over, smiling. "Can you sing it for me?"

I exhaled then smiled. "Sure. I have it memorized."

Then I began.

Miss independent
Miss self __________
Miss keep your distance mmmmm
Miss unafraid
Miss out my way
Miss don't let a man interfere, no

Miss on her own
Miss almost grown
Miss never let a man help her off her throne

So, by keeping her heart protected
She'd never ever feel rejected
Little miss ___________
Said oo, she fell in love

What is this feeling taking over?
Thinking no one could open the door
Surprise it's time to feel what's real
What happened to Miss independent
No longer need to be defensive
Goodbye old you when love is true!

Miss guarded heart
Miss play it smart
Miss if you want to use that line you better not start, no

But she miscalculated
She didn't want to end up _____
And this Miss decided not to miss out on true love

So, by changing her _______________
She went in a new direction
And found inside she felt a __________
She fell in love

When Miss independent walked away
No time for love that came her way
She looked in the mirror and thought today
What happened to Miss no longer _______

It took some time for her to see
How beautiful love could truly be
No more talk of why can't that be me
I'm so glad I finally see…

Miss independent

I hadn't realized I had closed my eyes until I opened them. I looked out the window and saw that we were on the shoulder.

"Why'd we pull over?!" I asked Adam. He blushed.

"S-sorry Ms. Salix, y-your voice was distracting. Please don't fire me." He was practically begging. I had no idea my voice was that good.

"Why would I fire you, Adam? You're the best driver we've had." He grinned and started the bus back up on the freeway.

"Thanks, Josie." I rolled my eyes. We had gone from him calling me Ms. Salix to Josie? Wow, what a suck-up.

At that moment Percy and Luke walked over. "Need some help?" Percy asked. I nodded. "Will you sing it again?" I nodded again and did as asked.

When I was finished, Percy and Luke's jaws had dropped. "What?" I asked self-consciously.

"N-nothing." I rolled my eyes. Suuuure.

"Okay," Grover butted in, "How bout in the first blank you put sufficient?"

"Yeah," Luke said mockingly, "'Cause it's so true." I slapped the back of his head and he rolled his eyes. "Sorry. How bout in the next one you put apprehensive?"

Percy grinned. "Yeah. Then, in the next one, put jaded. Then misconceptions?"

"Woah," I mocked him. "Percy using big words? It's the apocalypse!"

He rolled his eyes. Grover laughed and our childishness and said, "In the next one you should add connection." They were all perfect. "Then for the last one put afraid. There, all done! Now sing it!" I giggled.

"Fine." I wrote in the words and sang.

Miss independent
Miss self sufficient
Miss keep your distance mmmmm
Miss unafraid
Miss out my way
Miss don't let a man interfere, no

Miss on her own
Miss almost grown
Miss never let a man help her off her throne

So, by keeping her heart protected
She'd never ever feel rejected
Little miss apprehensive
Said oo, she fell in love

Misguided heart
Miss play it smart
Miss if you want to use that line you better not start, no
But she miscalculated
She didn't want to end up jaded
And this Miss decided not to miss out on true love

So, by changing her misconceptions
She went in a new direction
And found inside she felt a connection
She fell in love

When Miss independent walked away
No time for love that came her way
She looked in the mirror and thought today
What happened to Miss no longer afraid

It took some time for her to see
How beautiful love could truly be
No more talk of why can't that be me
I'm so glad I finally see…

Miss independent

I opened my eyes again. "Perfect." Then I turned to Adam. "How long till we're there?"

"An hour."

"Good." I went to go tell the guys when I heard them talking.

"So Luke, who do you think that song was for?"

"Gee, Grover, I don't know. It could be someone on this very bus."

I heard Percy sigh. "Guys, I'm sure it was something that just came to her, like most of her songs." That's my Seaweed Brain. Always sticking up for me. And he was right. It really wasn't for anyone in particular.

"Come on Percy," Grover said, "All three of us know how much you wish that that song was for you."

"I wish," He replied. My breath caught in my throat. "But I know her feelings for me aren't like that. If she returned my feelings, she probably gave up on me a while ago." He had no idea how wrong he was. I decided to save Percy and butt in now.

"Guys, we'll be there in an hour. Go get ready to meet up with everyone."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Yes mother," He said as he walked past me. He's got nerve.

I couldn't wait to see everyone again. When Luke came back to our side, Thalia quit the hunters. We'd be meeting her, Selina, Beckendorf, Clarisse, Chris, Nico, and Bianca (Who Nico finally managed to resurrect) at the Marriot. It was gonna be great.

I got dressed in my neon green skinny jeans and Maximum Ride T-shirt. It was my favorite book ever. That's were Percy got his stage name (Duh). I was already packed and ready so I decided to take a nap.

I got on my cot and Percy's words kept running through my head.

"I wish"

That makes two of us, I thought as sleep overtook me.

(A/N so, how was it? Crappy? I know. Sorry for the pessimistic attitude, I just feel like I should've done better…Anyway, review!)