And I'm back! So so so sorry it took so long. Thank you to anyone who commented! I'm giving you a through-the-screen-high-five because you're so awesome. And the results of the reader's choice special are in! Let me get the disclaimer out of the way...

Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Heroes of Olympus because Rick Riorden does so stop bugging me!

And now, the winner iiiiisssssss...

Thalia POV

Most of us were crowded around Percy and Annabeth, watching them spar when all of a sudden, that girl, Missy, stuck her foot out, tripping Annabeth and making her sword clatter to the ground, the crowd gasping. Percy was not such a Kelp Head to not notice what was going on and immeadiately turned on Missy.

"I warned you," He said, his voice barely more than a whisper, but so deadly even my instincts were screaming to run. "I told you not to mess with her." Missy was actually trembling. But then one of her goonettes stepped forward and whispered something into her ear, making her relax. That arrogant glint was back in her eyes. I really wanted to strangle her.

"You're not going to challenge me to a duel, are you?" She asked almost lazily. "Because if you are, me being a lady and all," A lady? She's barely human! "I can, in my place, send forth a champion." Yeah, that girl probably told Missy what to say word for word. Percy's eyes took on a steely glint and I knew we were in for a real treat.

"Bring it on." He said. Already I could see the Stolls starting to place bets. I was half tempted to place one as well. Missy smiled, obviously not knowing what her 'champion' was in for.

"Alright then. Ryan Cresten," The look on Percy's was so maliciously evil that Ares might have been proud. "Will you defend my honor?" She asked, fluttering her eyes lashes. Ryan at first looked surprised, then a smug smile washed over his face.

"Alright, water boy, let's see how you do against a real man and not just your soft girlfriend." He said with a wink towards Annabeth. Right, cause calling her soft is a great way to win a girl's heart. Long story short, Ryan went to the nurse, Percy had hardly broken a sweat, and Missy looked about ready to have a cow. And the rest of the day was boring.

The only mildly interesting thing was that Missy tried to swap Annabeth's seat next to Percy. Oh, and in my elective, Meteorology with Jason, there was this awesome photo of some mortal being struck by lightning! I wondered what my dad had against this guy. But yeah, other tan that, the rest of my day was BORING. I didn't care about photosynthesis in Science. Who needs Pythagorean Theorem in Math? Day ended, we went home, I made Leo pay for the wakeup call. (You, innocent reader, don't need to hear details.) The rest of the week, surprisingly, flew by, and before we knew it, it was the weekend. And that meant Missy's party.

Annabeth POV

I for one didn't really want to get all fancy just to go to a part to watch some spoiled brat attempt (and fail) to hit on my boyfriend. But Piper was all like,

"Come on, it's just this one time!" And after several attempts to fight back, Piper finally charmspeaked me into putting on a dress. And at least that was all it took for me. For Thalia and Clarisse, it took Piper's charmspeak, Percy holding them inches from the pool, the Stolls threatening to steal all their drachmas, and three hours to get them into dresses. Completely exhausting.

And way too much effort in my mind. Why not just show up in sweats and see the horrified look on Missy's face? So anyway, we were finally ready to go. We loaded up into the cars (same groups as last time only different drivers) which would be red, gray, green, and purple for the drive. (I'll let you guess who was at the wheel) Soon we arrived at Missy's 'mansion'. It was pretty big, but not as cool as ours. We could hear music as we approached the door. I felt Percy's arm settle protectively around me. Nothing, not Missy or Ryan Crestan, was going to get between us. Percy knocked and the door was thrown open.

"Percy!" Missy's squealing voice exclaimed, "How absolutely fabulous to see you! Please come in." We entered, and the music volume increased tenfold. Apollo would've been covering his ears here. Everywhere there were girls in too-short dresses and too-big heels and boys in, well, actually the boys were dressed okay. And to their credit, looked a bit uncomfortable. But Ryan was smiling at me in a way that was enough to make me want to run. And possibly hurl. Percy and I didn't dance like, alone, except for one song. A song that rung a bell on the back of my mind from a certain Olympian party after being saved by a certain son of Poseidon.

But we did plenty of dancing with everyone else. And then there was the part where Leo accidently set himself on fire and Hazel had to manipulate the Mist to make everyone forget what had happened. Missy tried to sidle up to Percy numerous times, and Ryan to me just as many, but we managed to evade them. I was actually staring to have a good time when everything went wrong. Sixteen demigods out in the open, five being children of the Big Three. I should have foreseen something like this.

A group of cheerleaders came in but not the ones that had been at the Friday school pep rally. Even Missy looked confused. At least a dozen of them. And the one at the head, although I didn't recognize her, it was clear Percy did.

"Wretched half-bloods." She said. I reached for my weapon as I knew all my friends were doing. "You," She said pointing at me, "You killed my mentor! You shall now face the wrath of Tammi!" She exclaimed. Oh yeah, Percy had said there had been two empousi in the band room at Goode with Rachel. The cheerleaders began to change form. Now was as good a time as any. I raced forward and stabbed the nearest one in the gut. The mortals started shrieking, and Hazel was creating a Mist curtain for them.

We outnumbered the empousi, but only barely. And it was clear they were trying to use their charm on the boys. Piper was mostly absorbed with countering the charmspeak. So for a while, it was mostly up to us girls to fend off our attackers.

Reyna POV

It was a bit hard to fight off about a dozen empousi at once, but it was nothing compared to the battle at Camp Jupiter. I didn't need to lend any strength, and as soon as the boys snapped out of it, we dominated. I had no idea what the mortals were seeing, but what we saw wasn't too pretty. There was plenty of gore and carnage. Finally the last monster went down and we assessed the damage.

No one was too terribly injured, everyone had a couple of scrapes, but that really wasn't wasting ambrosia or nectar on. We tried to clean up as best we could, which wasn't too hard as the empousi had already turned to dust. Our spoils of war were pom-poms which we decided weren't worth keeping. Finally, Hazel undid her Mist and the mortals all seemed to just be waking up.

They were looking at us pretty oddly and Annabeth had the wonderful idea to leave. We hurriedly thanked a dazed Missy, and went out the door. And as Leo was leaving her turned around and yelled "Thank you Goode High Scholars!" And then Calypso dragged him away. I was really liking her, she kept Leo under control so that he wouldn't blow up any more Roman Forums. I could appreciate that.

We went back home and had our own little party. Well, it was really more of a movie night. We decided to give the Disney movie Hercules a go. Before we started, we took basically anything sweet out of the kitchen and loaded it all onto the coffee table, which seemed to sag under the weight of so much sugar. Then of course we spent another fifteen minutes arguing about who sat where and who got what blanket. Piper's charmspeak is truly a miracle.

The movie was hilariously inaccurate. Annabeth was bugged by how nice Hera was, Percy was bugged that they hardly showed his dad. Nico and Hazel were weirded out that their dad's hair was blue and flaming, and the Stolls and Chris thought their dad's appearance was completely wrong. It was cute though. We all thought that Phil the Satyr and Coach Hedge would be best friends. Annabeth and Percy sighed when Hercules turned down immortality for Megara. It was better than any party that Missy could've had.

It was finally time for bed. We were all pretty exhausted, but I was warm and happy inside. I drifted to sleep, feeling completely prepared for anything the Fates could throw at me.

It's real late cause I realized I hadn't updated in forever (cue For the First Time in Forever going through my head) but I finished! Yay! Please pretty please comment, thanks for reading, and this is me signing off for the night.