I woke up very queasy on a white blanket, which wasn't good considering if I threw up, they would never get the stains out. My eyes where covered with what probably looked like heavy black eye shadow, but was really soot.
I could tell because it was hard to see without some falling into my eye. I sat up, and my stomach threatened to bite itself.
"Hey sleepyhead." A familiar voice said. I turned around to see Thalia sitting on an identical white blanket. She looked like she had taken a shower, exactly what I wanted to do.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Well, from what I've overheard, your bleach blond hair in a forest of black saved our lives in the fire." My mind flashed back to me crawling in the hole with Thalia.
"My hair saved our butts?"
"Well, when you put it like that…" Then she burst out laughing, and I joined in.
"Oh, Chiron said that after you got cleaned up, to meet him in the big house. "Ok, will do…"
I said, then got up and started toward the showers. I walked in to the steamy room and imagined all my pores opining just to be closed again to protect themselves from the hard layer of black I was going to have to scrub off.
I walked over to the shower on the end and set a towel on the railing. I progressively eased my hand into the turning-warm water and put the plug in. As I let the tub fill up, I started peeling my sticky clothes off. It took about 5 more minutes for the tub to fill up, so I put in some bubble bath.
(Most people think that just because we are hunters doesn't mean bubble bath, well, it's one of the few luxuries we get) I watched as the liquid made a purple-ish color in the tub, and then started popping into little rainbow bubbles. (another luxury: Having Indigo, daughter of Iris, as the bubble-bath maker)
I gently slipped into the water and pulled the lever for water down to stop the flow. And it felt SO good. Like the best thing in the world. Even better than- CRASH! I lurched upright in the tub, then slipped on the remains of the left over liquid bubble bath that had collected at the bottom.
I fell under with a loud thud. (Interesting fact: the baths here are DEEP, so when I went under it was like a mini-lake) I came up with my now-drenched hair and looked around, and I saw the culprit.
"PERCCCCYYY JACCSSOONN GET OUT OF THE SHOWERS!" I screamed and leaped for my towel.
"It's not what you think, I swear!" He said, and just then Tyson came running in, along with all of the other Huntresses.
Then I heard a loud crack and saw a black line spread across the ceiling. Then another, and the ceiling started dropping pieces.
"EVERYONE IN THE BATHTUBS!" Thalia screamed.
"WAIT, NO, NO BATHTUBS!" I tried, but it was to late, about 5 people came splashing into mine, including Percy.
Now, before you think he's some kind of perverted, lame, sleazy guy, he's really not. It was just very… coincidental. Then a last crack sound came, and the ceiling came pouring down, along with a giant fist.
Anyone who wasn't on the side of the room where the bathtubs were would have been smashed into nothing. Great, now I'm covered in soot and ceiling dust! A huge face approached the crater in the ceiling, a large, furry face. Rage filled eyes pouring over the group, searching for one of us.
One of the creatures horns punctured a toilet, while the other smashed a bright pink cosmetics bag that was left on the toiletry counter, no doubt one of Aphrodite's daughters possession. Finally, the smelly beast locked eyes with, of course, Percy Jackson. It all made science. The minotaur was going out for revenge on the one who killed it.
