Okay, I was hoping to make this chapter longer, but this is all I came up with for now. I'm on a roll! This is like the third story I've updated today! And I finished one of them yesterday! Whoo! :D
Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or SWAC
Percy's POV
"Grover?" I called as I walked through the prop house along with Annabeth. He had gone off with Zora a while back and should have returned by then, but oh well. I guess it was our job to find them.
"Zora?" Annabeth called.
"In here!" she yelled from inside a room with a closed door. I looked at Annabeth, who just shrugged, and opened it up. Inside, Grover was panting as he ran on a treadmill, which appeared to be powering a blender.
"Keep going!" she called to Grover as she threw some strawberries into the blender along with what was already in there. We waited while it blended and then she turned it off. She dipped a spoon in and tried it.
"Not bad," she muttered.
"Um, Grover?" I asked.
"Yeah?" he panted.
"Can you get off?"
"I don't know," he replied. "Zora, I'm really tired. Can I please stop now?"
Zora sighed. "Fine." Grover breathed a sigh of relief as he turned the treadmill off and got down. Zora didn't seem to notice as she poured the smoothie into a cup.
"I thought you were going to experiment on him," I said.
"You mean you thought I was actually going to do something to him?" Zora asked. "Nope, I just needed someone to power the treadmill so I could make a smoothie."
"Oh," I replied, deciding not to point out the fact that there was an outlet plug on the wall that she could have easily plugged the blender into.
"However," she said, looking at Grover in a way that made him take a step back. "I do have some experiments that I'll need a 'volunteer' to help me on later. I'll let you know when that happens." She patted him on the back and took a sip of her smoothie.
"Please don't," Grover muttered as he followed us out of the room. Sonny walked past us, not looking me in the eye as she walked to the room Zora had been in. I decided to leave it alone; she had had a rough day. Finding out that she had siblings she didn't know about must have been really hard for her. We walked into the cafeteria where, sure enough, Grady and the Nicos were still hanging out. Now they were seated at a table and we walked up to them.
"So then we'll jump in the golf cart and drive away before anyone finds out," Grady was saying. "And then we can- oh hey, guys! Nico was telling us some of what you guys like to do back at that camp you go to and some old man he saw with a golf cart on the way here. We're going to go 'borrow' it so we can-"
"We need to talk to Nico," I cut in. I really wasn't interested in hearing about how they would go take stuff from some poor old man just so they could go have some fun.
"Which one?" the So Random Nico asked.
"I think he's referring to me," our Nico said as he stood up.
The So Random Nico shrugged. "You never know." I led everyone over to an empty table in the corner and we all sat down.
"Okay, Nico, since you don't know," I began. "They're half-bloods."
"You mean the cast of So Random?" he asked. "As in, Grady and Nico?"
"Um, yeah," I told him, deciding not to ask who else I would have been talking about.
"Whoo!" he jumped up from his chair. "This is awesome! I've got to go tell them!"
"Not so fast," Annabeth stopped him by grabbing his arm and pulling him back down into his seat. "We aren't telling them until after the show Friday."
"Why not?" he asked.
"Because Annabeth wants to be on the show," I told him.
"Hey!" she protested. "You don't have to make it sound like I'm the bad guy! I know you guys want to be on the show, too."
"Yeah," I told her. "But your mom told you to tell them, so you should."
"Wait, Athena was here?" Grover asked.
"She's Sonny's mom," I informed him.
"You mean," Nico said. "Sonny is Annabeth's sister?"
"Yep," I replied.
"Wow," Nico said.
"I'm pretty sure Chad and Tawni are both children of Aphrodite," Grover said.
"No shock there," Annabeth muttered. When I thought about it, it made sense. Both of them cared a lot about themselves and how they looked.
"So, we aren't telling them anything?" Nico asked.
"Not 'til Friday," Annabeth confirmed.
"Fine," Nico sighed. "But I'm not going to wait any longer."
"Don't worry," I told Nico. "Annabeth and I have already discussed this; there's no way we're waiting longer than that."
"You make it sound like you guys are married," Grover said.
I looked at him. Sweat was dripping down his forehead and stained his shirt. "Shouldn't you go take a shower or something?"
Grover snorted and stood up. "It's nice to feel loved," he muttered before walking away, then coming right back a few seconds later. "Um, I have no idea where our rooms are."
I stood up. "We should go ask someone. Come on, guys."
"We're coming, Mr. Bossy Pants," Nico muttered.
I turned around and looked at him. "What was that?" He shrugged before following Grover.
"Am I bossy?" I asked Annabeth.
"Of course not," she said sarcastically and then walked off, following the other two.
"I'm not bossy," I said aloud to reassure myself before following them.
Sonny's POV
"Okay, guys, I've gathered you all here to discuss something very important," I announced to my fellow So Random members and Chad. "Earlier, I overheard Percy and Annabeth- put your hand down, Tawni- talking about us. My mom wanted them to tell me something that pertains to all of us, but I heard them say they were keeping it a secret until after the show Friday night."
"What do you think they're hiding?" Grady asked.
"I'm not sure," I replied. "All I know is that I heard something about us smelling bad and attracting monsters."
Nico sniffed under his arm. "We don't smell that bad, do we?"
"I think we smell just fine," Grady reassured him.
"Guys, this is serious," I said, trying to get them back on track. "Those guys are weird."
"Well, sure, Grover has a limp," Zora said. "But it's not his fault; he's crippled. He's actually a pretty nice guy."
"That's not what I meant," I told her. "All I know is that they're keeping something important from us, and I don't know about you guys, but I want to know what it is."
"Are you sure you heard right?" Chad asked. "That doesn't sound like something Annabeth would do."
"I believe that Annabeth would do it," Tawni said, "But not Percy."
"And why would Annabeth do it if Percy wouldn't?" Chad argued.
"Guys!" I yelled, cutting Tawni off before she could yell something back. "Focus! They all are keeping secrets, as in both Percy and Annabeth, too."
"But why?" Chad asked.
"I don't know!" I exclaimed, frustrated at how little I knew. "All I know is that we need to work together to make sure they tell us before Friday night's show; there's no way I'm letting them go on air with us without knowing what they're hiding."
So far, this story has all been from Percy's POV, so I wanted to give a bit from Sonny's. Should I keep doing that, or should it pretty much all be from Percy's POV? Let me know! And give me suggestions on what they can do for the next few days before the show goes on air 'cause I'm not sure! Thanks!
