Okay, I have the result, and as there was only one comment, it sort of won by default. I don't really have much to say, so here is chapter nine, hope you like it, remember to comment.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rick Riordan's fabulous writings

Frank POV

The next morning, before we even walked in, I could feel the propaganda going on for Missy. A couple of kids looked at Reyna and Annabeth and smirked, like 'you don't have a chance', but the girls just kept their confident walk. I saw Hazel shake her head a bit, a slightly sad look on her face. I reached out and gently took her hand. "Hey, what's wrong? Is something bothering you?" I asked. She looked up and gave me a small smile.

"I'm fine, it's just that, well, the 20's didn't have all this student body president stuff. I'm worried that it will get out of hand, and someone might get hurt." She explained. I squeezed her hand and was about to say something comforting when a snobby voice pierced the air like a rusty dagger.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the soon to be defeats. Sure you don't want to back out now, Annabeth sweetie? Your little boyfriend wont be there to protect you when I cream you at this Friday's debate." Missy said, her eyes obviously relishing the moment. But Annabeth got a glint in her eyes that made me just a bit nervous for everyone within a five foot radius. I subconsciously took a small step back.

"Actually, Missy dear," Annabeth said, sarcasm on every word. "I'm quite looking forward to our little talk. You know at my summer camp, I've never lost one. I'm even better than," She paused for dramatic effect. "Michael Belson." I'd never heard of him, and I'd been over to Camp Half-Blood quite a bit during the summer. I checked Piper and Jason's faces and they looked just as confused as I felt. "And don't worry, I won't let everyone laugh as I destroy you." She turned to Leo and said as if to a puppy, "No laughing, okay?" Leo saluted her, a look of mock seriousness on his face.

"And if it makes you feel any better, I'll only laugh for a week at your defeat." Percy chimed in. "And then of course the rest of the time I'll be laughing at your shoes, your makeup, and, well, you probably get the picture." A soft chorus of ooooo's went out and I realized that we had a small audience. Missy seemed to notice that too for the first time and shot our crowd a murderous look. Then she turned on her heels and stalked away.

As we walked towards our locker, I asked Percy, "Who is Michael Belson?" Percy chuckled a bit and looked around to make sure no one except our friends were in hearing range.

"No one." He replied. "Annabeth made him up for effect. But it worked didn't it?" I nodded and went to my own locker to grabbed my things. Then we all headed to History. Annabeth decided we should box Percy in again, just in case Missy was feeling suicidal. (Is that too harsh?) As she came in, she seemed to purposely drop a note in front of Annabeth's desk, who eyed it wearily before picking it up and reading it. And that was the first time I ever saw Annabeth's eyes well up with emotional hurt and not physical pain.

After the teacher came in, Annabeth raised her hand and asked "Can I go to the office real quick? I have a massive headache." I heard her voice straining to keep the hurt out as she talked. The teacher consented both to letting her go and for Percy accompanying her. We all exchanged worried looks, and a quick glance at Missy told me that this was the intended effect. I could feel that we were all distracted, and I now had a new appreciation for the ADHD demigods I met. Finally, about fifteen minutes into class, Percy and Annabeth came back, Annabeth's face slightly red, and a murderous glint in Percy's eye.

We all gave them concerned glances, but they shook their heads, not wanting to deal with it at the moment. And so, the rest of the class seemed to drone on and on, though I guess the part about the Byzantine Empire was cool. (Now, who remembers that?) When class finally let out, all the girls, excluding Clarisse, though she did pat her shoulder, went to give Annabeth a huge hug. I'm not sure if this was the best move as tears started down her face again, and Annabeth was instantly whisked away to the bathroom at the end of the hall, that, if it was anything like the neighboring boy's bathroom, was hardly in use. That left us guys just standing there awkwardly.

"Ummm, okay." Leo started. "Didn't know that this was part of Operation: E.M." E.M. stood for Expose Missy, something we all thought was fairly appropriate. "I hope they're not late for English. Annabeth would absolutely hate that, especially since she missed some of History." We decided to go on to our next class and hope the girls weren't insulted that we left them behind.


Percy POV

Thankfully, the girls weren't late to class, and we even got a couple minutes to talk. "So, what was in that note?" Calypso asked. Apparently, the bathroom session had been for comforting, not explaining. Annabeth looked at me, like 'do you want to explain?'. I shook my head and gestured for her to go on.

"She, well, she called me um, a female dog." She said, giving Leo and Frank looks to explain to their girlfriends what that meant. The others gasped and some patted Ananbeth on the back. "And that I wasn't worthy of being with Percy." Everyone gasped again.

"Come on, if anything, Kelp Face here isn't worthy of being your boyfriend." Thalia teased, poking my side. I chuckled a bit, but the overprotective boyfriend in me was strengthening. There was no way that Annabeth and I were anything less than worthy of each other. She took a knife for me for the god's sake! My girlfriend, who had been giggling at Thalia's effort, glanced over at me and immediately took on a look of alarm.

"No." Annabeth told me. I looked at her incredulously. I haven't said anything yet! "Whatever you're thinking, Percy, no. Not worth it." I reached over and squeezed her hand, letting her know I'd keep it together. Before anybody could say anything else, Paul came in, ready to start class. We were in the middle of the Odyssey when Calypso abruptly stood up and asked to leave. Paul nodded, a sad glint in his eye. I noticed the same glint in Annabeth's eye, and I immediately felt like I'd missed a memo.

"Any volunteers to read the next couple of pages?" Paul asked. None of us raised our hands, but unfortunately, Missy did. She must've felt our tension and decided to see if she could piss us off. And so she started talking about Calypso, and how she evilly seduced Odysseus into staying with her, keeping him away from his beloved wife and son.

I saw Leo's fingers start to smolder with the beginnings of a fire, and my fists balled too. Missy continued in her snobby voice, emphasizing Calypso's horribleness. She made her sound like, well, herself. Unintentionally, I presumed. Even more reason to get Missy back my way, and now I had Repair Boy to help.

"Okay, that will be enough for now. Thank you." Paul said with very little thanks.. "Now, we will be having a debate about Calypso's intentions and if she is truly the villain in this scene." Just then Calypso returned and Leo slipped her a note explaining the situation. She raised her hand.

"May I lead the team defending Calypso?" She asked. I noticed her voice sounded really tight, like she was trying not to cry, but her tone was defensive. No one was disgracing her with her having a say in it. Paul nodded and handed her a piece of paper.

"Pass the paper around and anyone who wants to help defend Calypso sign up." He instructed her. "And thank you, Cally, for volunteering." Cally was Calypso's school name since, especially now, it was be a bit hard to be named after a Greek goddess. Or being a Greek goddess. Or former. We still hadn't figured out how her immortality worked now that she was off of Ogygia. Of course, all of us demigod signed up to defend her. Not very many others signed up with us, but since we made up pretty much half the class, it didn't really matter.

"I'll lead the team against Calypso." Missy offered. Paul nodded and handed her a paper as well. "Oh look, Annie, we'll be debating again, how ironic!" Annabeth tensed, she absolutely hated it when people called her Annie. I also saw her brow creased a bit in worry, she now had two debates to prepare for. Paul let us have the rest of the class period researching. We surprised the mortal kids in our team with knowledge of Calypso's curse.

We also used Daedalus' laptop (it had been retrieved from Tartarus for Annabeth as a gift for saving Olympus) to do more research. By the end of the period we had an outline of main debate topics. At the end of class, Paul informed us that the debate would be held on Wednesday, and we would be given all of tomorrow's class period to work on strategy as well

Annabeth and Reyna did not need to worry about this project. We had it in the bag.


Jason POV

The rest of the day went by fairly quickly. The explosions and cookies probably helped.

First, in PE, Coach let us have a free day and a game of dodge ball started. Ryan, who no longer hit on any of the girls on the demigod side but still resented Percy for being generally cooler (although that's not how he'd put it) led a full scale attack. Leo panicked as three balls came flying towards him and accidentally made two of them explode, then caught the last one. Hazel managed to make it look as though Leo had merely dodged the two balls, but why they were missing no one would ever know. Later in the locker room Percy said, "Dodge ball is so much more fun without the cannibals!"

Later in Science, the teacher used cookies as a metaphor for photosynthesis. You put certain ingredients in, add thermal energy, and a certain something came out along with byproducts, like the aroma. (This is based on a real experience in my life!) It was overall delicious, but Percy was a tad disappointed there wasn't any blue involved. The most boring subject was Math, but even that seemed to pass pretty quickly. And then, finally, we went home.

After assuring Annabeth and Reyna that we could handle the Calypso debate, they went off to their rooms work on their own strategies for Friday's presidential debate. Annabeth left us her laptop and we all sat in the second floor living room to work on the project. Piper got out the outline we had come up with in class and pulled up one of the websites we'd jotted down at the bottom of the page.

"Okay, so Annabeth found a couple different versions of that section of the Odyssey, I'm printing them out now." Percy shot her a worried look. "Don't worry, in Latin and Greek." She promised. With a few clicks the sheets spilled out from the laptop, with apparently had it's own printer. I saw Leo eying it, and I bet he was wondering if he could make a replica. We were scanning some of them when Calypso threw down her sheet with a moan of exasperation and flopped back onto a pillow.

"Stupid Odysseus," She complained. "Why did he write these things about me? I gave him rest and helped him regain his strength! Is it my fault the gods cursed me to fall in love with every stupid guy that falls onto my island?" Leo gave her a curious look. "Okay, maybe excepting you." She said with a small smile. "But still, it's so unfair!" Leo wrapped an arm around her.

"So, if we don't win, can I blast Missy?" Leo asked. Calypso laughed a bit and shrugged. "Yes!" He exclaimed, jumping up onto the coffee table and alighting himself. I saw the table smolder a bit a gave Percy a look. He snapped his fingers and from out of no where, what seemed like a gallon of water was dumped onto Leo, dousing his flames. It receded just as fast, and Percy took on a look like, 'la la la, wasn't me, the son of the god of water who just drenched you'. Leo pushed his damp hair out of his eyes and death-stared Percy. "Oh, it is on, Aquman."

"Wait!" Nico yelled. He grabbed them both, shadow traveled, then returned empty handed before heading over to the window. We all followed him and saw Percy and Leo facing off, fire verses water in the backyard. "I didn't think we needed to burn down the living room." Nico told us. We looked on until the two got a little too close to the garden, and Katie grew vines to restrain them as Calypso went down to placate Leo and Piper went to go get Annabeth for Percy.

"Seriously, I'm gone for two minutes and you almost destroy the flowers." Annabeth complained as she calmed Percy down. We all laughed as they came back inside, then headed to the kitchen for a snack. We had one of those touch screen soda machines that along with all the regular stuff also produced nectar (in very small portions, of course) and in Percy's case, blue drinks. Literally, every beverage came with a blue option. So we each grabbed a glass, loaded up on caffeine, then grabbed a couple big family sized bags of chips and headed back upstairs. Reyna joined us as well and we filled her in on the whole Percy-Leo thing.

"And we made you praetor." Reyna said, shaking her head at Percy. We spent a little longer on the Calypso debate then finished our other homework. After that we had an early dinner before deciding on a mini movie night. Piper cuddled up next to me and fell asleep by the time it was over. I ended up carrying her to her room.

"Good night, Pipes." I said as I left. She mumbled something unintelligible as I closed the door and headed to my own room, ready for a good night's sleep.


Yay! Another chapter done! I hoped everyone liked. I feel it's soo annoying that Annabeth always comes up red. don't know where that came from. But anyway, please comment and I will be back with more soon!