YAY! Ok this is my second PJO and I think I have made so improvements. I've been working on the characters, trying hard to make them not Mary-sues, so yeah. Hope you like my story. R&R! Enjoy!
Chapter 1: The Drachmas
We were just two average 12 and 13 year old girls (We're a year apart!) without a real care in the world…until this happened. We were sitting in my room escaping the summer's dreadful heat and chatting about whatever came to our heads. I remember that day very clearly. It was a hot summer day on a Friday afternoon.
I was wearing a white t-shirt splattered with different shades of red and yellow paint and a pair of denim shorts. My long, wavy, dirty-blonde colored hair, down. My midnight blue eyes were wide with a full night's rest. I have this scar down my right cheek…I don't really like to talk about how exactly I got it.
Dria on the other hand, was wearing a black, ripped spaghetti strap top and black & white striped shorts. Her copper, curly, medium length hair was flowing down her back. Her brown eyes were closed in frustration and absolute boredom.
We were just sitting there talking like we always do in the summer.
"Hey Dria, wouldn't it be cool if we could send Iris messages to people like in the Percy Jackson books?" I wondered out loud one day as I sat in my bed in my upstairs bedroom.
"Yeah that would be SO cool." Dria replied rolling her eyes. Dria was the sarcastic type of sister who told it how it was. That was why she is my best friend and sister though. I guess I just liked different people.
"Seriously." I said flipping a golden American dollar coin up in the air and quickly swiped it out of the air.
"Sure and we should go to a blacksmith and see if we could get a golden drachma made for us too." Dria said sarcastically as she blew her hair out of her deep brown, almost black eyes.
"Now that is a great idea." I said as I shot out of my bed and raced down the stairs, my brownish, yellowish, colored hair flowing behind me with every step.
"Wait Lila….what are you doing?" she yelled as she chased behind me.
"Going to a blacksmith like you said." I told her, looking at her with a childish glint in my eyes.
"I was KIDDING!" she shouted in a singsong way.
I ran to our garage, got on my metallic orange bike and Dria got on her identical metallic purple one.
"Lila, stop being weird." she said as we peddled down the drive way. "Do you even know were a blacksmith shop is at?"
"Yup. There's one just up the street." I said matter-of-factly.
"Well that's a little too convenient." I heard Dria mumble under her breath.
"Shut up." I spat at her with venom.
"Someone forgot to take her anti-bitch pills today." She said. I could practically hear her roll her eyes.
I glared daggers at her as I rode down the street into the blacksmith's parking lot.
"Fine. Stay here with the bikes then while I get the drachmas." I commanded her.
"I didn't want to come in the first place!" Dria yelled at me as I ran to the blacksmith shop.
I got up to the blacksmith but he was so engrossed in his work he paid me no attention.
"Excuse me…..sir?" I looked at him and poked his shoulder.
"WHAT?" he screamed at me. His face was covered in soot and he just looked pissed off.
"Um could you make me some replicas of ancient Greek drachmas? I need some for a school project….you know if you don't mind." I said in the sweetest voice I could produce.
"Um sure. Sorry I yelled at you I was just a little frustrated. I love making Greek things." The man said. Then he stuck out a greasy hand. "Hephaestus."
I reached out and shook his hand in awe. "T-the Hephaestus?" I said shakily.
"N-no. My mother loves Greek names and happens to be from Greece." He said.
"O…k. My name's Lila." I said as I broke the handshake, wiping the grease on my pants. "How long will it take for the coins to be made?"
"Wait I have some in the back." He said as he walked in the back.
Then my phone in my pocket vibrated. I flipped it open and read the message that said:
From: Dria
12:36 p.m.
Hey! Hurry up. It's hot out here, you know, being summer and all.
I rolled my eyes and put my phone back in my pocket. Then Hephaestus came out the back with a whole bucket filled with drachmas.
"Here. Take as many as you like." He said as he turned around and continued working on a sword.
"Uh do you want me to pay for them?" I asked as I stuffed a handful of drachmas in my pocket.
"No. It's fine. I have enough money already because of my hand crafted swords." He said in a cocky manner.
"Ok. Bye and thanks for the drachmas!" I said as I left.
I walked out to the bikes and Dria looked mad. "Uh it's HOT out here!" she complained as I mounted my bike.
"I think I just met a real Greek god." I said dumb founded.
"I really don't care. I just want to go back to our place." Dria whined as the sweat ran down her face.
I peddled as fast as I could to get back to the house. I pounced off my bike and ran to the backyard.
"Lila! What ARE you doing?" She said as she approached me. I had a water hose in my hand and twisted it to the 'Mist' setting. "Lila…you can't be serious. Iris messaging is made up. It won't work!"
"Gods Dria! Must you be a constant downer?" I asked her. I closed my eyes and slipped a drachma out of my pocket. "O Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering."
As I went to flick it I heard Dria clear her throat. I opened one eye and looked at her.
"What?" I insisted.
"Who are you planning to 'talk' to?" she said putting air quotes around talk. I gave her a look that meant 'You're my sister! You know who my favorite Percy Jackson character is!'
"Not him. Can't we talk to one of the hotter characters?" She pleaded.
I looked at her with one eyebrow up. "I thought you didn't think this would work."
"If it does must we talk to him?"
"Yes." I closed my eyes again. "O Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering." I flicked the coin into the mist. I heard Dria gasp behind me but ignored her.
"Nico di Angelo." I turned to my sister real quick. "Where is his location?" I asked her.
"I don't know. He moves around a lot." She said unsurely.
"Oh well. It might still work." I said half-heartedly as I stared at the soft grass below me.
I heard Dria gasp behind me again. I looked up at her and her eyes where as wide as our dinner plates and they are HUGE!
"Hellooooo. Who are you and what do you want?" Nico asked us.
"OH MY GODS! DRIA, IT WORKED! Hi I'm Lila." I said.
"H-hi! I'm Nico…but I guess you already knew that since you Iris messaged me." Dria and I stared at him, dumfounded. "Are you two demi-gods? Only demi-gods can contact other demi-gods."
"W-well, I flipped the drachma in. I might a demi-god...i guess." I said.
"Well there's only one way to find out. Give me your location and I'll get Chiron to send a satyr to you." He said in the car commercial salesman kind of way.
Dria and I both giggled in excitement.
