Percy POV
I slowly started to open the scroll with a bit of trepidation. We had already gone from long island to columbia, where might this clue send us? The scroll had four lines written on it. I read them aloud.
"What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a head but never weeps,
Has a bed but never sleeps.
(P.S.) flip this over
I did as the note said. The other side also said to turn it over. I did so. Now, the original side said something different. "Your destination is Egypt. Why don't you take your time and see the sights?" I looked up. "Well, i guess that's where we go next. We should pack some serious sunscreen for this."
Zoe took the scroll from my hand. "All right. Pachamama?" she called, seemingly addressing the empty air. "We need to go to Egypt." There was a brief flash of light and an envelope appeared at our feet. Grover stooped down to pick it up. He looked inside.
"Sweet" He said, holding up three first class plane tickets to Cairo as well as a few hundred dollars in cash. "where's the nearest stand that sells tin cans?"
Zoe and i both laughed at this. "Um, Grover? i don't think anyone sells tin cans. You would have to go rob a recycling plant or something." At this we continued laughing, having this hilarious image of management at a recycling center wondering why someone stole tin cans. Speaking of which... I turned to my fellow quest mates. "Did either of you wonder why Demeter had a daughter named gardner and Hermes has sons named stoll? I just realized that. I mean, what were the odds?"
Zoe shrugged. "Who knows? The fates seem to have fun engineering coincidences like that. Antway, we should get going. I know what the note said, but i would like to finish this quest sometime in my lifetime."
And with that, we left for the airport.
Once we arrived, we decided to explore a little, seeing as we had several hours before our flight was due to leave. We all agreed to met at the frozen yogurt in two hours to check up on each other. That would still leave us with about two and a half hours. I went to the souvenir shop. Zoe went to the nature themes shop. I have no idea where Grover went. After a while, Zoe and I got bored and headed back to wait for Grover. We waited. And waited. And waited some more. Finally, Zoe fell asleep and leaned against me. I was extremely uncomfortable with that. Not the part where a pretty girl is on top of me. More like the part where she wakes up and smacks me around. I continued waiting. You know, I never would have guessed that sitting in one place with nothing to do while waiting for someone would be boring. Surprising right? Finally I had enough of this. I woke Zoe up. "Zoe. We need to go look for Grover. He's still not back." She slowly came around, blinking several times and yawning. She looked so cute when she did that. Then she seemed to realize what she had done and flushed bright crimson.
"S...sorry. I didn't mean to..."
"No, no... It was fine, if a little unexpected." I got up and offered a hand. "Come on, we need to find him." And find him we did. But it was crazy. Seriously, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself. We found Grover in a very odd place. He had apparently taken our advice to heart and had, indeed, run off to rob a recycling plant. Or, in his words, "I would have left fair compensation!" Sure Grover. Sure. Keep telling yourself that. Anyway, back to the story. He was in an alcove, about twenty yards from the doors, white faced and trembling, with a sack of tin cans slung over his shoulder. We tried to convince him to leave but he refused. "I can't." He kept whispering. "They'll mug me." Mug him? There was nothing there except for a cage full of bunny rabbits. Maybe they were auditioning to play Bugs Bunny in a movie, I don't know.
"What are you afraid of?" Zoe hissed. "The rabbits?"
Grover was nodding so frantically it looked like his head was about to fall off.
I frowned. "What's wrong with them Grover? They are so cute and innocent."
He gave me a scandalized look. "Cute, maybe, but innocent? Never. They use the cuteness to fool you. They are big bullies. Always beating up and stealing celery from defenseless satyrs."
"Wait, what!"
"It doesn't matter." Zoe growled. We will miss our plane if we don't leave now!" With that she dragged Grover into sight and down the hall. Suddenly, All the rabbits turned to face us at the same time, red eyes glowing. I don't think I have ever seen bunnies looking so malevolent and demonic as those ones were. They all started hopping towards us as fast as they could, teeth bared. We dropped Grover and ran for the exit as fast as we could. Apparently killer bunnies do exist after all.
A/N Hiya guys! All right, this is your chance to tell me what story you want next. I know I said only three at a time earlier, but I'm almost done with one of them and I couldn't wait any longer. If I don't get any feedback I will decide myself. The choices are A) Percy is exiled, several gods are afraid that he thinks the gods are the lesser of two evils and make him vanish. 300 years later, the gods are under attack from Kronos, but he won't help. He has his own little camp now, one that sparks a legend around the world. The myth of Shangri-La. The fallout is massive from his decision. Or, the other choice, B) Narnia PJO crossover. When Leo is blown off the Argo by khione, he lands in a land of everlasting winter. This is the untold story of the hero in the shadows, Leo Valdez, savior of Narnia and the forgotten fifth ruler of Narnia. I came up with this one when I noticed there weren't many(if any) crossovers that were any good or where any length unless other books and movies are involved as well.
