I felt like updating today so I did. Thanks for all the reviews, it really makes me happy. :) So just to remind you guys, the characters might be OOC and it is an AU world so don't complain. And there's one line that I copied from Tangled because I found it funny.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own PJO or Tangled.
Chapter 2: The Meeting
Percy's POV
I jumped from roof to roof as I headed to retrieve the crown from those monsters. Recently, since I was bored out of my mind in Camp Half-Blood, I received a quest from the love goddess. It went something like this:
The camp was suddenly silent and everyone stopped whatever they were doing and just stared. I turned to look at whatever they were staring at. I saw a very beautiful lady and it's very hard to describe her since her appearance changes more and more to become even more beautiful than she was before.
"Oh gods, why is she here?" I heard Piper grumble behind me. The lady stopped before me and smiled. Her eyes were forever changing to a brown, to a green, then to a blue, then back again and her hair becomes different too.
"Perseus Jackson." She smiled again. I gulped, you know I was never good with girls especially the goddess herself.
"Yes, Lady Aphrodite." I bowed and so did the other campers.
"I have come here to give you a quest. All I need you to do is to find the lost crown."
"Uhh sure." I accepted the quest. And now here I am trying to find it. I don't even know how I agreed to this stupid quest. I looked at this place, it looked abandoned and there were no signs of activity anywhere and that usually means that this place is monster-prone. I entered the tallest building which looked like it was going to fall any minute. I saw the crown right in the middle with a lot of monsters guiding it from the front. But the good thing was, I entered from the back door. One of the monsters sneezed.
"Got the hay fever huh?" I asked.
"Yeah."
I ran for dear life and I was sure that they were hot behind my trail. I whistled for Black Jack to come but he's taking too long. I'll become demigod meat in no time. I ran towards the forest where I prayed to the gods I'll lose them but of course, they didn't lose me. I climbed a tree and there was a vine and I swung aiming for the first monster, uncapping Riptide and slashing it and it disintegrated. I rode on its horse, the anemoi thuellai, and tried to make it move but the storm spirit was stubborn and tried to grab my satchel. That went on until the satchel went flying and hung on a random tree branch on the edge of a cliff. We looked at each other and raced for it and I grabbed the satchel but unfortunately, the branch couldn't hold up the storm spirit and my weight so we fell. I ran towards the leaves that were hiding a secret cave. I crept through it and saw a tower.
Annabeth's POV
Okay, so maybe I hit him in the head a little bit harder than necessary but I didn't mean to knock him unconscious, okay? I put the frying pan down on some old boxes beside me and turned his body around. He was lying on his face. I made sure he was still alive.
Oh thank the gods, he's alive! I thought I killed him.
I grabbed a chair from the nearby table and lifted the mysterious man and settled him on the chair.
Are people usually this heavy? Geez...
I then searched the cupboards for anything to tie him to the chair. I found what I was looking for; the rope that I use to help Mother climb the tower. I went back to the guy with my frying pan and rope just to make sure he's still asleep then I tied him to the chair and secured him. You know, I'm sure I'd be a very good cop tying people to chairs and knocking them unconscious just with a pan. Anyways, I paced back and forth trying to think of a way to interrogate him and then if he refuses to answer then I'll hit him with the frying pan again.
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Annabeth, you're getting a little too violent for your own good! I shook my head while scolding my thoughts. I continued to pace back and forth then I suddenly noticed a bag that was right beside him when he was lying on the floor. Curiosity got the best of me and I opened it and I gasped. Inside was a very beautiful crown. The crown itself was pure silver and had crystal flowers imbedded in the middle as a beautiful design. The amethyst stones were incrusted at the sides of the flowers. Overall the crown was simple but beautiful.
The pieces formed in my head and I was suddenly sure that the unknown man was a thief. Let's review the facts shall we. First of all, he sneaked up and onto my tower and ruined all my plans of escaping for now. Second of all, he was holding a suspicious looking bag with a very suspicious looking crown and third of all, the guy looked pretty suspicious too.
He didn't look like he'd be rich nor he'd be a prince.
That's it. I'm going to hide this crown and when he comes to, I'll throw him off the tower! Okay seriously Annabeth, think of something less violent.
I looked around the room to find someplace to hide the crown. I think it took me like an hour to finally find a hiding spot. Blame my paranoia okay? Anyways, I hid it in the pot. I paced back and forth for the umpteenth time, waiting for him to wake up.
I heard a soft groan behind me and I spun around.
Percy's POV
I woke up and suddenly, I felt a sharp pain that went through my head. I groaned. What the heck happened to me anyways? The last thing that I can remember was that I climbed up this seemingly abandoned tower in the middle of nowhere to hide from the monsters and then... Oh right. Someone knocked me out. I cursed at my carelessness. I felt my hands were behind my back and tried to stretch them. I realized that I couldn't move them at all. I looked down and cursed again. I was tied to a chair and Riptide was in my pocket but was too hard to reach. I looked around the place then I saw a figure approaching me. I glared at the person. I struggled out of the rope.
"Who goes there? Free me and fight me like a man you coward." I shouted trying to sound very confident while struggling even more.
"Struggling won't work." A voice came out of nowhere.
The person stepped out and into the light. Wait... A girl? She glared at me while holding a frying pan. I studied the girl. She had blonde hair that was curly which kinda reminded me of a princess and she had stormy grey eyes. Wait grey eyes? This day keeps getting weirder and weirder. There was only one other person who I knew that had the same eye colour as the girl.
Could it be...?
I shook my head and pushed those thoughts aside. I glared at her.
"Who are you and what are you doing here huh? You thief!" She said loudly trying to intimidate me.
For someone who knocked me unconscious, she's really pretty.
"Uhh..." I said stupidly.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" She repeated while glaring at me.
I cleared my throat. Be smooth with the ladies, Percy. Don't mess this up.
Trying to make my voice sound deeper than it really is I said,
"I know not who you are, nor how I came to find you... But may I just say..." I paused, making sure to make it all more dramatic, "Hi. How ya doin'? The name's Jackson, Percy Jackson. How's your day goin', huh?" I gave her my crooked grin. Girls need the Percy lovin' too right?
She was studying me like a blueprint before replying.
"Alright Percy Jackson," she said my name as if it's foreign or something, "You still didn't answer my question. Who. Are. You. And. What. Are. You. Doing. Here?"
"What am I doing here? You're the one who knocked me unconscious!" I retorted while still staring at her. She gave me the death glare. Sad thing is, she didn't fall for the Percy charm. Not my fault I'm not good with the ladies.
"Yeah I had to! You just climbed up the tower and into my window; you could have been a psycho killer for all I know!" The blonde yelled. I just rolled my eyes and looked to the side. Oh my gods the bag!
"Where is it?" I asked trying to make myself calm.
"Huh?"
"You know the bag, the one that had the crown inside it!" I said very slowly as if I were talking to a baby. She glared at me but then smirked. Oh gods, I don't think that's a good sign at all.
"I threw it out of the tower." was all she said.
I threw it out of the tower.
I threw it out of the tower.
I threw it out of the tower.
The words seemed to be repeating in my head like a broken recording.
"Hey, thief? Are you still there? Or did you forget how to breathe?"
"YOU WHAT?!" I yelled obviously panicked. Oh gods Aphrodite is going to kill me ten times over, probably even more. Why does this always happen to me? Curse my luck. Curse my luck. Curse my luck. Curse my luck. Oh gods oh gods oh gods. Maybe Poseidon will take pity on me when I die and by any chances he'll reincarnate me into a useless floating piece of kelp that will soon be eaten by whatever eats kelp in order to keep the ecosystem goi-. Okay, my thoughts are getting stranger and stranger by the minute.
"Geez calm down, person, so what if I did throw it out of the tower? You're a thief, you deserve-" I zoned out on what she was saying and looked around the room. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something shining. Oh gods can it be?
"Hey Blondy." That seemed to shut her up and glare at me. Ha, 1 Percy to 0 Blondy.
"Don't call me that!" She snapped and glared at me like she was trying to kill me.
"Sure, whatever. Anyways can I guess where the crown is?" I smirked. The blonde blinked and started to look confused.
"Wha? What the heck are you talking about? I told you I threw it out of the tower, you idiot. Do you have a hearing problem or something?" She asked impatiently though I can see a speck of uneasiness in her eyes. My smirk widened.
"It's in that pot, isn't it?" I asked confidently. Her mouth flew open and then closed. Blondy glared at me and reached for her frying pan.
"Haha, I didn't mean to call you Blondy. Truce? Please don't hit me." I pleaded shrinking away from her. Well, as far as I can get with the chair. She glared at me and hit me with the pan.
"Ouch what the heck was that for?" I glared at her. I think I'm going to get brain damage.
"That's what you get for calling me Blondy. Do not call me that ever again." I nodded quickly in agreement so that she can clearly see that I will comply to her request. She seemed satisfied with her big smirk. In a flash, she hit me again.
"I didn't do anything this time! Stop hitting me." I squealed in a not so manly way.
Apparently Blondy didn't listen to my, ahem, not so manly pleads because she knocked me unconscious. Again.
When I came to, she was right in front of me and she was smirking at me too.
"Now I hid it where you can never find it. So what were you doing with that crown huh? I doubt it's actually yours and how did you even find the tower? It's way out in the forest- basically in the middle of nowhere. And finally, why are you here? Are you trying to cut my hair and sell it huh? Well guess what, Percy Jackson; I'll never give you the crown nor my hair!" Blondy interrogated me.
Now it's my turned to get confused.
"Why on Earth would I want your hair? I have enough of my hair, thank you very much."
Blondy looked surprised.
"So you don't want my hair?"
"Gods no! Listen, I was being chased," by all sorts of monsters, "and I saw this tower and climbed up. End of story."
"So you're telling the truth?"
I controlled my urge to strangle this girl.
"Yes." I said while glaring at her for the hundredth time. She paced back and forth mumbling to herself. While she was doing that, I was trying to find a way to escape from this stupid chair.
"Alright, I'm prepared to make a deal." She smirked.
"A deal?"
"Yes a deal, now look over here." She grabbed the remaining rope that wasn't tied and tried to turn my chair to the fireplace. Unfortunately, the laws of physics hates me and I ended up falling on my nose.
"Do you see this?" She pulled on the curtain that was hiding the painting on the wall on top of the fire place. The painting had kids wearing orange t-shirts, a volley ball court, a big blue house, and an entrance that looks familiar.
"Yeah that's Camp Half-Blood." The words just spilled from my mouth. Oh gods I was NOT supposed to say that. Especially to a mortal. I cursed myself again for being clumsy and careless. Her smirk widened and her eyes lighted up like a little kid found their Christmas presents.
"Correct. And I want YOU to take me there." Wait hold on. How does a mortal like Blondy know Camp? That's impossible. My head started to hurt from thinking too much.
"Well I'm offering you a deal and if I were you, I'd take it. Listen here, Percy, I will give you, your precious satchel only if you take me to Camp Half-Blood. You can tear this tower apart, brick by brick, but you'll never, ever find your satchel. Ever." she declared.
"Okay let me summarize what you just said. If I take you to Camp Half-Blood then you'd give me the bag?" I asked not entirely convinced. And besides, my mother has seen Camp Half-Blood but she can't go in. So Blondy can do the exact same thing.
"I promise. And when I promise, I do not break it."
I raised my eyebrow at her and she stared at me with those big grey eyes.
"Okay I didn't want to do this but you leave me no choice. Here comes the 'smolder'." I looked down and prepared to give her one of the most charming looks I could muster. I looked up and gave her the 'smolder'. All she did was narrow her eyes at me.
"What? I had to try..."
"Fine I'll take you to Camp Half-Blood!"
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