"I really think this is a bad idea." Percy promoted as he jogged up to me.

"Good, 'cause that makes us even for all your bad ideas!" I smirk at him at start walking faster toward the two people.

"Come on, I'll buy you some pizza if there are more different gods."

The girls have almost contained the fighting force, and their attacks are slowing down. Just as I came towards them, the one with green eyes slew the last shadow, and it disappears with a tiny 'yiip!'.

I decided with the direct, though rather embarrassing, approach.

"HI! I'm Annabeth! I was wondering if you ever heard of the Greek gods. maybe the Egyptian ones? Norse? Roman? Hmm?"

The girls looked a bit Asian closer up. One had brown eyes with the other having green. Besides that, they seemed practically identical.

"人々は私達を見ている!" Said the one with brown eyes.

Okay, that was definitely an Asian language, though I didn't know which. Chinese? Armenian? Japanese? Slavic?

"Uhhh... you can speak English, right?" Okay, not the best approach, or the most subtle.

"Yes." One of the girls nodded her head. "Do."

"So." Percy entered the conversation, "What your name? My name's Perseus Jackson, but people call me Percy."

"My name Hashimoto Akaria . Do not call people surname?"

"Do you mean to ask if we call people by their last names? Of course not! Why would we? they're called LAST names for a reason!"

"Percy!" I said sharply, "different place, different customs! Respect." I almost yelled the word. Why was Percy so thick-headed?

"Course," Percy little smirk sends my bad mood away. I smile back. My attempts to stay mad at Percy never work for long.

The other girl seemed to agree with my little lecture.

"Hai." She said, "Name Hashimoto Yuna. Call me Yuna."

"Oh. Now I get it." I turn to face Percy. "Their surname is just placed in front of their given name."

Percy nods, with a long, exaggerated "OOHHHHH!"

"What was question you asked? Greek what?"

"Well, the way I remember it." Percy stood up straight coughed into his hand, and began to talk in a mimicking voice, "HI! I'm Annabeth!" Eyelash flutter. "I was wondering if you ever heard of the Greek gods." More eyelash fluttering. "maybe the Egyptian ones? Norse? Roman? Hmm?"

I almost slam him down and karate him.

"No Greek, or Egyptian, or Roman. No Norse. We have animal spirits, yes? We are Mayan."

"Oh gods," I say as Percy rapidly begins counting his fingers again. "Percy, get your sword out. You'll need it when monsters come."

"Annabeth," he said as I whipped out my emergency cellphone. "What are you doing?"

"Tell the Mayan people that they should come with us." I ordered, "I'm calling Sadie to tell her to pick us up in Freak. Also, we did make a bet, correct? I'm ordering us some pizza."

That's all, folks! Japanese culture is very interesting to me. For all those poor people who don't live in Japan, 'Hai' is Yes. You have to say it sharply, though, Which I can't exactly demonstrate on the computer (You don't do 'Hai', You do 'Hai'!). Anyway, I hope you research up on your Japanese Culture.

RQOI (Random Question Of Interest)

Or in this case:

RRQOI (REALLY Random Question Of Interest): What do Japanese Computer Keyboards look like? Do they have all the Japanese symbols on them? How big would the keyboards be?

Told you it was random.