Percy

After Percy offended the worst god to make your enemy, they walked to
the truck that was their ride west.

Percy tried to read the writing on the sign. It was reverse printing,
white on black so he could read it more or less easily with his
dislexia.

Kindness International: Humane Zoo Transport. Warning: Live Wild
Animals.

"You're kidding."

Percy slung the backpack Ares had given them further onto his back.
Percy had refused to take it but Grover had made him.

The waitress that served them in the diner was watching them with the
cook. She snapped a picture of them. Great, Percy thought, now he'd be
in the papers again: Twelve Year Old Outlaw Beats Up Defensless Biker.

Percy's head hurt. Ares had promised news about his mother. All he had
found out was that she wasn't dead. She had been taken before the
Minotaur could kill her.

He felt faint. He wanted to colapse in the truck, untill he saw what
was inside. That was not humane transport. There was a very sad
looking albino lion with an old turnip sitting infront of it. It did
not look impressed with the food options. There was a sad looking
zebra with bits of gum stuck in it's mane. The lions stake was sitting
to one side of the cage and the zebra was trying it's best to get as
far away from it as possible. There was also an antelope with a ballon
tied to it's antler.

Percy used riptide to move the turnip from the lion cage and gave it
to the zebra. Picked up the Green stake by the corner with one hand
while blocking his nose with the other. It was not a plesant smell. He
tossed it in the lion cage and the lion began to lick at it
gratefully. Annabeth used her knife to detach the balloon from the
antelope's antler and began to try to cut the chewing gum from the
zebras mane. It went nuts everytime she neared it with her knife so
she left it.

"We'll help you more in the morning," Percy promised. The truck has
already started moving and Pery and Annabeth were having trouble
standing up. Olive and Grover were crouched in the corner together.
Both were crying. Percy knew Grover was an animal lover. All satyrs
were.

"I didn't know you loved animals," Percy told her.

She didn't reply.

They finally arrived in Las Vegas and when the truck drivers were
distracted, they picked the locks on the animals' cages. Percy had
found out he could talk to the zebra. He guessed it was close enough
to a horse and Posiedon created horses out of sea foam so he could
talk to just about any horse he wanted to.

The zebra had begged Percy to free them and even called him 'Lord'
which Percy found a bit wierd.

Grover placed a satyr's sanctuary on them.

"It's so they can find water, food and shelter before they find
somewhere to live." Grover told them.

"Can't you place a blessing like that on us?" Percy asked. It would be
so much easier if they could have a blessing to protect them on their
quest.

"No." Olive said.

"It only works on wild animals." Grover explained.

"So it would only work on Percy." Annabeth said.

"Hey!" Percy protested. Was she being sarcastic? He couldn't tell.
"I'm joking," she assured him.

The four of them began to wander through Las Vegas, not really sure
where they were going. They must have taken a wrong turn somewhere
because they ended up at a dead end with only a casino in front of them.
They were handed a card which allowed them access to any game in the
Lotus Casino.

Percy assumed the man who gave them the cards thought they were the
children of some millionaire but they didn't object.

"How much is on here?" Percy asked him.

He looked back blankly. "What?"

Percy tried again. "How much money is on the cards?"

"Oh, you're making a joke. Well, enjoy your stay. You're in room 4001."

Percy shrugged. "Let's go."

They had a bed each and a television with any channel. Annabeth
changed to the discovery channel which Percy didn't understand when
there were all of the other channels to choose from.

Percy had a shower which he really needed after spending so long on a
quest. He threw Ares' backpack in the bin. They didn't need it any
more. They could just get a new one from the shop with their Lotus
Cards.

Olive, Grover and Annabeth started an argument about whether the TV
should be on discovery channel, which Annabeth wanted, or the nature
channel which both Grover and Olive wanted.

"I don't know why you're fightingnover the TV. I'm going to check out
the games downstairs." Percy told them. His three friends jumped up
and the TV was forgotten.

There was every game anyone could ever want. Grover quickly found a
game that was the opposite to those games where people shoot deers and
things. Grover was shooting humans yelling: "Die stupid polluting
humans!"

Annabeth began building a vertual city an Olive found a game where she
was hitting buttons with the right answers to quiz questions.

Percy was switching between games playing with different people. Some
people were really wierd. There was a guy with an afro that looked
like he was trying to dress like Elvis Presly. It looked like people
were just trying to dress up like people from different eras.

Percy began to play a game with a guy named Darrin.

"Darrin, what year is it?" Percy asked. The other boy was saying
things like 'Groovy' and had never heard the word 'rocks' the way
Percy said it when he said "This game rocks."

"The year in the game?" Darrin asked him.

"No, the year in real life," Percy had a bad feeling about this.
"1977," Darrin didn't notice Percy's dissbelieving look.

Percy asked some more people and got a variety of answers from 1985 to
1985. They all claimed they had been there only a few days or a few
weeks. How long had Percy and his friends been there?

"Annabeth, we're leaving." Percy told the daughter of Athena who was
still building a city.

"But I just got the new-"

"We're leaving now." Percy grabbed her shoulder but she shrugged him
off.

"Annabeth there are kids here from 1985. We could have been here
for years. Remember our quest..." Percy had forgotton what their quest
was. "Um, the lightning bolt!"

"Ah, yeah, maybe later." Annabeth seemed to be in some kind of trance.

"Spiders! Large, hairy, ugly spiders." Pery yelled at her. Her eyes
cleared.

"Oh, gods, Percy. How long have we been here?" She asked.

"I don't know. Let's find Grover."

"Die, human!" Grover shouted at the machien.

"Grover, we've got to go." Percy told him. Grover turned the plastic
gun on his friend like he was an animated person from the game.

"Grover, the quest let's go." Percy grasped one of the satyrs arms
and Annabeth got the other.

Olive heard her friends shouting at Grover and turned to look at them.

After Percy reminded Grover of the quest Olive realised what was
happening. She ran to them.

Annabeth had her knife with her, which was lucky. Percy's sword was in
their room upstairs but it'd appear in his pocket, because it's magic,
and Olive's hunters bow would appear when she needs it so they didn't
have to go up to their room to get anything.

As they rushed past the man that had giventhem their first Lotus Cards
he stopped them. He could tell they had worked it out.

"Would you like the new Platnum Lotus Card?" he hurridly asked.
"You'll have access to more games and the water slide."

"No thanks." Olive pushed him our of their way and Annabeth grabbed
Grovers hand as he swiped for the Platnum Card.

I was going to put up a few chapters to make up for the few days that I missed but I didn't have all that much time so I've only got one chapter but it's up to double figures! Schools started back so I may only get a chapter every second day but I'll still try for every day! Remember to review any questions or tips or anything like that.

Also, I got a review from greekfreak101 asking whether it'll be Percabeth or Perlive (Percy + Olive) I think I know what it'll end up beiong but what do you think it should be? Percabeth or Perlive?