I don't own Percy Jackson, or the characters. Except Cade.
Cade becomes a Red Sox fan.
It's the ten chapter anniversary of my first fan fic! Enjoy!
It almost seemed to get colder as we got to Chicago. Not dramatically, but windier, and less sunshine. I didn't worry too much. It took like a day and a half. And we all smelled like hobos. We clambered out of the train, trying to get used to not moving ground. It didn't take long to realize we were down town. It was nearly as big as Manhattan, and had big crowds of fancy business men every where. We had 4 hours to kill.
"Can we please go shopping!" begged Annabeth.
"No, we should go down to the park…" said Grover.
"I think we should check out the Chrysler building…" Started Cade, but we all looked at him like he was nuts. He was in my eyes.
"We might as well go shopping. I could do with a couple souvenirs…" I said. Everyone nodded, and we just filed along.
The first shop we saw was almost like a little mini Fred Meyers. But instead of milk, eggs, and cheese… There were Bears banners, Bears mugs, and stuffed bears wearing bear jerseys.
"I think we walked into a Bears store…" I stated lamely.
"No duh…" Started Annabeth, but a huge man with grease stains on his shirt had his face painted dark blue and Tan-orange. He had a big 'C' plastered on his shirt for Chicago.
"Welcome to Bears n' shares!" He said giddily. "Biggest Bears appliance warehouse in the world!"
"Possibly the ONLY bear's appliance retail warehouse in the world…" Grover whispered. We all chuckled. The man just glared at us, and went to the front desk.
"So how long will it take for us to destroy this place?" Asked Cade as he gagged looking at a Bears statue.
"I don't know. I'm betting two bucks that it won't take long." I said. The man looked at us like we were crazy, and began packing his favorite things for some reason.
"I think this isn't a good place to shop…" said Annabeth as she put down an XXXXXXXXL Bears jersey.
"I agree. I mean if we're gonna' blow something up; it should be a fancy store at least…" I said. The man packed faster.
We walked out of the store casually, and then Annabeth grabbed my arm and said, "Oh! OH! Over there!"
I looked where she was pointing, and noticed a 'Cali in Chicago' Store. I rubbed my shoulder in pain and looked where she pointed. A new looking empty store. In my life, if a place is empty, it's one of the ten signs that it's a trap. But I didn't pay attention to the list, and we all walked towards it. Big Mistake.
We walked in, greeted by some preppy teenager.
"Let me show you today's for sale rack!"
We followed her, but Cade Grover and I Held back when Annabeth wasn't looking. We ran towards the men department.
"O.K. I'm going to look at the hats said Cade, and walked over to a hat display. I didn't care; I was preoccupied looking at a blue backpack.
"Check out this green Rasta hat!" Grover said, knocking me out of my trance. I looked at him. I had to admit, it was a nice hat.
Cade came around the corner, wearing a Boston Red Sox hat.
"Dude! What's with the Red sucks hat!" I laughed. Cade glared at me and said,
"The best hat in the world! Go Red Sox!"
I was born in New York, and I liked the Mets. But I still liked the Yankees a little. Automatically making me a Red sox hater.
Cade just calmed down and said, "Well there's no price tag, so I have to ask preppy over there." He rolled his eyes and walked off.
Grover and I kept looking at a bunch of stuff we weren't going to but, and Cade returned, an eyebrow rose.
"She said it wasn't theirs, and she gave it to me for free." His hat was propped on his head and he joined us.
Annabeth came up to us with 3 dresses, and asked "Which one looks better."
"The blue one." Said Cade absent mindedly while he looked at other hats prices.
Annabeth was holding a red sparkly dress, a plaid purple one, and a fancy white one.
"I think they'll all look good on you…" I said, but I regretted it Annabeth turned as red as a tomato, and mumbled…
"Well… Erm… uh… Thanks…" and she walked off.
"What did I say?" I asked Grover.
"You get em' dude!" He laughed, and started rolling on the floor cracking up. "What di… HUH??" I gaped.
Cade laughed and said, "You said they would all look good on HER… I think she got the wrong picture."
I tried to ignore that mess up, and finally, the preppy girl found us again.
"Today's sale is two for one!" She yelled giddily.
"That's lovely." I said, still annoyed about my little accident.
The lady sneered and walked away. I just looked at my watch.
"We've only got two hours until we got to go… We better find Annabeth." We found her by the Hat rack, and headed out. We were at the door, when the preppy jumped in front of us.
"Where are you going? You haven't bought anything!"
I was about to shove her, but I realized that this must be a trap.
"Can we see the manager…?" Started Grover, but I put my hand over his mouth. That spelled trouble.
The freak just smiled, locked the door, and said, "Of course."
"You did it now…" I scowled at Grover. Suddenly the back Employees only door swung open, and out walked a Frizzy haired, muscular but strict man with a narrow face.
"Those are the half-bloods!" inquired the prep.
"How did you know we were half…?" I started, but the manager dude just smiled, and a huge gust of wind blasted through the store. We all hit the ground.
"How in the world!" Cade screamed. Annabeth still hadn't talked.
"I am Zephyrus! Son of typhoon! Monster of the West winds!" Stated the manager, as a huge, hurricane sized gust blew all of the racks over. Cade's hat flew off. Cade ran after it, and I didn't have time to stop him I charged at the beast, but was immediately was blown over.
"Did you ever wonder why Chicago is called the windy city?" Said a voice from nowhere behind me. I looked around, no one was there.
"I've always wondered that… I guess I know now…" Sounded the voice. That's when I recognized the voice.
"Cade where are you?" I yelled trying to yell over the wind.
"Right behind you! And you call me duffas…"
"Cade!! I can't see you!!"
"Are you blind?"
"No you're not there!"
"What!?"
The wind grew harder and Zephyrus laughed.
"You're invisible! What did you do?"
"I found my hat, and put it on backwards, so it wouldn't fly off again, and I…"
That's when it struck me. Athena had placed the hat there. Just like Annabeth, Cade was the proud owner of an invisibility hat.
With that, we all charged into the wind.
"You keep trying!" Yelled the monster.
And we did. Nothing worked though. Not even using riptide was effective if I couldn't even get there.
"I HAVE AN IDEA!!" Yelled someone over the wind.
"WHAT?"
"I HAVE AN IDEA!!"
"WHAT
IS IT?"
"DUCK!!"
I did as told and flopped to the ground. Right over head, a plastic model dummy flew over head, and crashed through the door.
On the bright side, we had an escape, on the bad side, that black gown that dummy was wearing was no longer wearable.
We
sprinted out the door, and the monster followed us.
"Where's
Cade?" Panted Annabeth. That was the first thing she's said for a
while.
"Oh… he's invisible."
"O.K. I was just thinking maybe… wait what!?"
"That ugly Red Sox hat… Yeah it's magic."
Annabeth just smiled and kept running.
All around us, people panicked, and threw up their papers and ran away screaming. Great… I have to get the cops called wherever I go… Sirens blared in the back of us.
W were close to the train station, but we weren't supposed to leave for another hour. So we just thought about the next best place to run.
Annabeth came up with the best idea.
"Wind won't penetrate the inner forces of water… We've gotta' find a pool."
All of the mortals were finding shelter from the massive windstorm… so it was pretty easy to get into the nearest pool. It was cold and windy, so I held onto everyone, and willed us to stay dry.
Just as Annabeth had guessed, the wind didn't attack under ground. We were so long under the water, that the preppy girl thought we drowned. She was scolding her manager. That was something you didn't see often… an employee, shouting at the manager. I saw the perfect opportunity. I used the water like a jet, and propelled myself out of the water, riptide beared. I shot through the wind monster like he was nothing, and covered my eyes from the dust. The young employee ran off screaming something about super fish men.
All of us climbed out of the water and headed towards the train station. That was one way to kill an hour.
"Great… two whole days on a filthy train!" I said with fake enthusiasm.
"Well, we'll be in L.A. soon," said Annabeth.
"Yeah…" agreed Cade.
The minute we reached the train station, we were bombarded by a news crew.
"How does it feel being intoxicated with super fish powers?" Asked one lady.
"What? Oh… I don't know…" I replied, playing along.
"Well where are you going now?"
"Florida." I lied, so they wouldn't look for us.
I got a few other mental questions, and by the time we managed to slip away, our train was slowly starting to chug away.
"WAIT!!" We all yelled as we sprinted in to the rail road.
"DON'T GO!!"
The entrance was about twenty feet away. We charged with al of our might, and I JUST grabbed the open door, before it closed for good.
"COME ON!!" I yelled behind me.
"We are!"
And as soon as that was said, one by one we hopped on the train. I collapsed, exhausted and took a look at all of the things we did today.
Embarrass myself
Watch Cade get a magic hat
Tick off the manager
Kill the manager
Get called a fish man
Catch a speeding train
Sounded like an average day so far. And with that I fell asleep.
P.S. I will continue this story if I get 5 good reviews from 5 different people. PLEASE COMMENT! ( I expect this story to go 20 chapters or so)