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Annabeth POV
"This time, let's not talk to anyone we don't know, agreed?"
"Yeah, let's not." Neely said.
"But I like talking to people. Talking is my life!" Scarlet exclaimed.
"Well…" I thought for a moment. "You can talk to us."
"GREAT!!!"
Neely leaned over and whispered to me, "You should have never given her permission to talk. Now she'll never stop!"
"I'm sure she doesn't talk THAT much!" My point was proved wrong. Scarlet talked the whole time that we were looking for a restaurant. I think she just talks to hear herself speak.
"And then there's Poseidon, Priapos, Proteus, Psyche, Pyr-"
I couldn't take it anymore. "OKAY! I GET IT! THERE ARE A LOT OF GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES! YOU CAN STOP SAYING THEM ALL NOW!!!"
"Jeez Annabeth. You don't have to whip out your man voice. All you had to do was say please."
"I TRIED BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN!"
"Oh look," Neely said changing the subject. "A restaurant! Let's eat!"
"FINE!" Scarlet and I both yelled at the same time.
The sign was written in red, cursive, loopy lettering, so none of us could read it. It looked something like this: ATNYU MES HMOE COKDEO MLASE.
We were so hungry that we never noticed that there were no people inside. Or the hissing noise in the back. We really need to learn to be more observant.
As we walked through the door, a woman was standing behind a counter. She wore a long black gown that covered everything but her hands, and a veil that hid everything but her eyes.
The woman walked over to us and said, "Come in, come in. Please have a seat. It's not every day we have young heroes in here, is it?"
"Oh, thanks!" Scarlet said.
"But we don't have any money." Neely pointed out.
"Not to worry, this meal is on me. Now Annabeth, please bring your little friends over here."
Wait, how did she know my name?
"Thank you, ma'am." Neely thanked.
"Oh, you children are so cute, do you think I could take a picture of you? For the cover of my new menus?"
"Umm…" Scarlet looked over at me.
"I see no harm. Where do you want us?" Neely boldly asked.
"Right there is fine. Let me just take off this veil."
"Don't you need a camera?" Scarlet questioned.
"Almost ready." She turned around and pulled of the rest of her veil. The hissing noise got louder.
"Do you have your camera, yet?" Scarlet asked again.
"Now just smile. People never smile, and it ruins everything."
Hold on, she was wearing a full body suit, she knew my name, and her hair is hissing. Why does this sound familiar? Aunty Em… Aunty Em… Aunty M! It's Medusa.
"Everyone, turn your heads!" I shouted. "What's going on?" I heard Neely ask.
"It's Medusa. Whatever you do, don't look at her!"
"Now children, you need to look this way, or else the picture won't turn out." Medusa told us soothingly.
I put on my cap of invisibility and ran over to Medusa. I took out my knife and raised it above my head. I was about to stab when Medusa turned around. I was too late to avert my eyes. I knew I was going to be a stone statue, but Neely came through for me. She shot one of her magical arrows at Medusa. She started to turn inside out, and then she melted.
After a few minutes, I looked down. My Yankee's cap had fallen off and I was standing in a big pile of Medusa mud. Last time we killed her, her head was left, this time there was nothing but a liquid mess.
"Eww… Annabeth, that's disgusting!"
"Yeah." I was trying not to puke. "Can you guys get some paper towels or something. And HURRY!"
Scarlet and Neely quickly returned with some wet wipes.
"I don't think those are tough enough to do the job." I told them.
"I think they are. It says on the box, Poseidon's Wet, Wet Wipes: Wet enough to put out the sun!"
"Ok. Then please clean the Medusa off my body!"
"Yes ma'am!" Scarlet saluted me.
After I got all cleaned off, we decided to search the place and see what we could find. As I was looking in the cash register, I heard a scream come from the front door. I ran as fast as I could to the commotion.
I saw Scarlet standing in front of the bulletin board with a look of pure awe. I asked her, "What's the matter?!?"
She snapped out of her trance. "LOOK AT IT! NICKLEBACK IS GOING TO BE PLAYING IN ATHENS TONIGHT!!!"
"Who's Nickleback?"
"Only the greatest living band of all time!"
"Umm… what kind of music do they play?" I asked.
"They're alternative heavy rock. They ROCK!"
"Oh, I prefer the classics. Like Journey, or Bon Jovi. Now they know how to play!"
"I've never heard of Bon Jovi. What are they, like a hippie band or something?"
"You take that back. BON JOVI SHAPED THE MODERN ROCK WE HAVE TODAY. WITHOUT THEM, WE MIGHT STILL BE LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN!"
Neely runs in. "Whoa, what's all the yelling about?"
"NICKLEBACK IS PLAYING IN ATHENS TONIGHT!!!"
"NO WAY!!!"
"You guys both want to go see them, don't you?" I asked.
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity." Neely pointed out.
"PLUS, IT WOULD ROCK!!!" Scarlet added/yelled.
"Ok Scarlet, PLEASE stop yelling. And if you guys really want to go see Nickleback, then we can go after we rescue Percy."
"YES!!!"
"Now, do any of you know how to cook?" I inquired.
"Oooooo!" Scarlet was raising her hand up and down. "I know a spell for fixing oatmeal!"
"Well, I guess if we have to eat that mush, then we have to…" Neely muttered.
"Here goes…
'Bring in, bring in, the ingredients I need,
No cookbook must I read,
I hope I never end up in jail,
so fix us some oatmeal so we can eat well'
The ingredients assembled themselves into oatmeal. There was even brown sugar and fresh apples.
"That was the spell?" I asked.
"Well… actually I forgot the spell, so I improvised…"
"Hey, it worked! Let's chow!!!" Neely commanded.
The oatmeal was delicious. After we finished eating, I gathered the money that was in the cash register, about $300, and we headed out the door.
"Now, we should ask around to see if any one has seen Percy."
"Hey, let's go to that fortune teller place." Neely pointed to the place across the street. It was built to resemble the Temple of Delphi. "I've always wanted to get my fortune read!"
"You know they really don't read your fortune, right?" I told her.
"Hey, they said magic wasn't real either, but look at Scarlet. Besides, maybe they've heard something about Percy." Neely said.
"Well, I guess it couldn't hurt." I told them.
"YIPEE! LET'S GO!!!" Scarlet yelled yet again.
"Turn down the volume just a bit, would ya?" I tried to ask nicely.
"CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Scarlet hollered as she walked into the front door of "The Oracle's Fortune"
Here goes nothing.
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