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"Are these… animals?"

Grover came up behind him. "Oh, no shit, Percy."

Percy looked around at him. "Sorry… it's just not everyday I walk into a truck and find a load of animals."

Grover snorted. Percy looked at him. "Speaking of which, shouldn't you already be in here?"

"Only if you join me, you comeback 'beast'!" Grover raised his hand for a high five.

Percy laughed before slapping it and moving further into the truck. He rubbed his hands together. "So… what now?"

The door of the truck slammed shut behind them.

Grover looked around, while Annabeth picked up the backpacks. She grimaced as she looked inside.

"Guys, I have bad news."

Percy looked over. "What…? Are they empty?"

"Worse." Annabeth reached into the bag, pulling out a bag… of Double Stuff Oreos.

Grover went pale. "But… but, that's Double Stuff!"

Percy looked between them. "Why? What's wrong? Are they bad for demigods or something?"

Annabeth started at him. "Are they bad? You know what these can do?! Do you know the fat content?!"

Grover nodded vigorously. "Yeah, yeah. Annabeth's curves would just… go!"

Percy tried to intervene. "She's twelve. She-"

Annabeth shook her head. "No Percy! Grover's slim build would become… chubby!"

"Years of hero training GONE, in a matter of bites!"

Percy held up his hands. "Wait! We can just-"

Annabeth moved closer to Percy, brandishing the Oreos. "What about you?!" She shrieked.

Percy straightened up, noticing he was level with Annabeth now. "What about me?"

Grover went even paler. "Percy… who'd…"

Percy looked at him. "What?"

Annabeth yanked his face around. Percy stared at her, his eyes burning into her. She let go of his face and backed off.

"Gods…" She muttered.

Grover picked up her thread. "You've had so little hero training Percy! You have some weight! You'd never survive."

Percy raised his hands to the air in exasperation. "We're getting chased by monsters, on a hunt for some stupid cable connecter, and all you care about are some fucking biscuits!"

Percy reached over for the biscuits, yanking them out of Annabeth's hands.

"No!" She screamed. She dove for Percy, grabbing his arm. Percy used all his strength to throw her off as Grover moved in. With a flourish, Percy pulled Riptide out, brandishing it at them.

"Get back."

Grover sighed before pulling out his club. "I didn't want this to happen."

Percy glared at him. "What? Get gutted by your best friend."

Grover shook his head.

Annabeth pulled Grover back. "No Grover! You have, like, 23% chance of defeating Percy."

"Oh, thanks."

Annabeth turned back to Percy, drawing her knife. "But, both of us, close quarters, would give us at least 86%."

Percy backed closer, looking at the lion in the cage. "Gonna help me?"

It growled. "No then." Percy decided. He turned back to his 'friends'.

"Look, the Oreos are controlling you! Let them go!"

"We're trying!" Grover wailed.

Annabeth's grey eyes burned. "We won't let you kill yourself Seaweed Brain."

"Seaweed Brain, huh?" Percy asked. "I'm not the one who's going to kill my friends for some biscuits."

Percy knew he couldn't eat one and hold them off. He locked eyes with Annabeth.

"Lower your knife."

She let it drop, before realising herself and trying to raise it but it was too late. Percy reached into the pack, pulling out an Oreo and stuffing it in his mouth.

Annabeth cried as she fell to her knees, Grover looking like one of the dead.

Percy swallowed, wiping chocolate from his mouth. Nothing happened, besides Percy feeling a little fuller.

Annabeth blinked in shock. "Wow, they must have been…" she looked at the packet in Percy's hand. "Yeah… normal Oreos."

Grover laughed, "Thank Zeus!"

"Wait, what's the difference?" Percy asked, as he put Riptide away.

Grover smiled at him. "Oh, 'Double Stuff'", Annabeth shuddered, "will blow you up until your heart gives out. 'Normal' ones just taste good!"

Annabeth took one from Percy. Percy leaned in as she ate it. "What about your 'curves'?"

Annabeth looked at him, almost pityingly. "Oh Percy… I'm twelve. I'm not built like that yet."

Percy blinked. "I know, I tried-"

"You need to stop hitting on me." Annabeth told him, before eating her biscuit and walking to get a spot in the corner.

Grover sidled up. "Burned."

Percy whipped around. "I wasn't burned."

Grover shrugged. "I don't know Percy. You were playing with fire."

"Fire?"

"Get it? Because Annabeth's hot." He laughed, clapping Percy's shoulder before walking off.

"Wait!" Percy held out his hand. "Aren't you gay?" He sighed as Grover kept moving on.

He made his way over to a spot, sitting down and trying to think about how long it would take to get to get to Vegas from here.

Annabeth moved up. "I was joking, Seaweed Brain."

Percy kept looking at the wall. "I know."

Annabeth nodded. "Your face was good though."

"Yeah, you'd be an expert on facial expressions, right?"

Annabeth looked at him steadily. "Yeah, yeah I would. But it really depends on my area of study."

Percy looked around at her. "What do you mean?"

Annabeth smiled at him. "I don't want to become a face reader or something."

Percy shrugged. "How can you become anything as a demigod?"

Annabeth bit her lip and tilted her head. "Well… I want to become an architect."

Percy looked at her. "You?"

Annabeth looked back. "Yeah? What's wrong? Maths, angles, creativity! You get it all!"

Percy moved away a bit. "Yeah, sound smashing."

Annabeth shrugged. "I don't delude myself, Percy. I know not everyone would want to do it, but I do, so… that's enough."

Percy swallowed. "Well, from the way this is going, it looks like I'm going to be the main course of some monsters dinner when I grow up."

Annabeth laughed as Percy looked at her. "No, seriously! I could be a scapegoat too! I'm good at that too! I mean, I'm going to be the cause of a war between the Gods. Who else can claim that?"

Annabeth leant back and laughed. "Looks like you have it figured out!" She told him, between gasps.

Percy smiled, before pulling Riptide out again. Annabeth calmed down and looked at it.

"That's a good sword."

Percy made a face. "I'm not sure. It's only saved my life a few times."

Annabeth smiled as Percy pointed with his sword. "What's up with the animals?"

Grover spoke up. "We're in some kind of… animal truck. The animals are going to Vegas for show, I bet."

Percy sat up. "Shouldn't you care?"

"Why?"

"You're a Satyr. Don't you care for animals?"

Grover snorted. "So they can pick on us?" His face turned sad. "Yeah, yeah, we do like animals. I'm kinda pissed, but I'm saving my energy for later."

"For the guys driving the truck?"

Grover nodded. "We'll beat them up."

"Like he could."

Percy jerked around. "Who said that?"

"Oh, no-one, m'lord."

"Did you hear that?" Percy asked his friends.

They shook their heads.

"I'm the Zebra m'lord. Get it right."

Percy looked at the Zebra, who looked back. "Guys, I think the Zebra's talking to me."

Annabeth looked between them. "Your father created horses from sea foam. I could… maybe you have a connection."

"But it's-"

"He."

"Fine, he, is a Zebra."

Annabeth nodded. "Close breed, Close enough it would seem for you to converse. That's pretty cool."

Percy wasn't sure. He didn't want to be known as 'Percy the Horse Guy'.

"This is so weird."

Annabeth nodded. "Yeah… what's he saying?"

"He's saying you need to free me!"

"How?" Percy responded in his mind.

"I don't know. Oh, BTW tell Pan he's wearing Converses. Those are sooo out of season."

Percy nodded, before looking over at Grover. "The Zebra told me your Converses are out of style."

Grover groaned. "OMG, even a Zebra knows!"

Percy nodded sympathetically before turning back to the Zebra. "I'll free you later."

"Promise?"

"Sure."

"Pinkey swear?"

"Errr, you don't have pinkeys?"

"What? So that makes it void?"

"Kinda?"

"Screw you. I mean, whatever you say m'lord."

Percy nodded.

Annabeth looked at him. "So…"

"Well, he wants us to save him. Might as well do it for the rest of them."

Annabeth nodded. "But they can wait until morning."

Percy sighed before turning in for the night.

He had a dream. A weird one.

He was standing in a cave, with Luke, who was playing Zumba on a Wii.

"Keep those hips in shape!" The Wii told him.

Luke was sweaty. "I'm trying!"

"Whoa, slow down! We can't keep up!" The machine cried.

Luke spun his hips faster, and the trainer tried to do the same. He hips flew off, and he fell down in a heap.

Luke turned to the pit. "Thank Kronos! The game was great."

Then a voice, like a knife across a stone, replied. "What the Hades Luke? You broke the Wii? That was supposed to be a punishment!"

"It was fun m'lord!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course it was."

Luke moved into a handstand, before doing air press ups.

"Stop it Luke! Listen to me!"

Like flipped up. "Yeah Kronos?"

"Godsdammit, stop working out."

"But I need to stay as thin as a sausage."

"Fuck your sausage Luke."

"You're only saying that because you can't eat one." Luke wagged his finger.

"Shut up! Is the bolt close?"

"How would I know? I'm surprised Hades doesn't know I've been chilling in the Underworld for the last week. And no-one at Camp Half Blood cares that I'm gone."

"I care," Kronos stated gently.

"Yeah, I know. You're a rockin' buddy."

"I know. So, the bolt?"

Luke started stretching his arms. "I told you, I don't know. I suppose Percy's close. What's the plan again?"

"Jackson will bring himself and the bolt here and I'll suck him into the pit."

"What will you do with the bolt?"

"Use it. It gets boring down here. Meanwhile, you can raise me."

"We tried. Ropes don't work!"

"I know! I'm in Tartarus! You can't just 'send a rope down'."

"It was worth a shot."

"No! I looked like a right idiot, this little 10 foot rope hanging above us. I was mocked for weeks!"

"Sorry. I thought it would work."

"You can be an idiot Luke."

Luke sighed before hula hooping his hips. "I know."

Percy jerked awake.

He looked around, seeing Annabeth and Grover, already awake, talking.

"What's wrong?" Percy asked, wiping sleep from his eyes.

Grover looked over. "You were muttering 'Noah lover' in your sleep. We were worried."

Percy pointed. "Yes! I had a dream."

Annabeth moved closer. "What was it about?"

"It had Luke in. He was talking to… Kronos, in a pit! Some place called Tartarus. Yeah, that's it! They were talking about the bolt and me getting it! Kronos wants it."

Annabeth frowned. "Are you sure it was Luke?"

Percy nodded. "Yeah. I'm really sure."

Grover shrugged. "Thanks for ruining the story Percy."

Percy looked at him. "What?"

Annabeth grimaced. "Yeah. Now we know Luke's a traitor, where and why they want the bolt, who the main bad guy is. All of it. The story's ruined."

Percy shook his head. "No! No, we need to stop this! Forget the story, what are we going to do?"

Rickriordan, God of Stories, held his golden pen over his golden book.

"I'll tell you what you're going to do Percy. You're going to…" he started writing under the manuscript of the conservation. "Forget all you saw."

Percy shook his head. "No! No, we need to stop this! What are we going to do?"

Rick rubbed it out. "No, you're going to… yes." He looked down at the edited story.

Percy shook his head. "I can't remember. He sounded… like someone I knew, but he called the weird voice, 'The Crooked One'. He completely failed to mention his name at all. Also, something about an exchange."

Annabeth nodded. "We'll figure it out later."

Grover sighed. "We have more important stuff to worry about. When the truck stops, where the hell is the Underworld?"

Rick nodded, happy with his work, before closing the book and reaching for the Harry Potter manuscripts.

Percy staggered, clutching his head.

"What's wrong?" Annabeth asked.

Percy shook his head. "Nothing, I just felt like I forgot something." He straightened. "You know, it doesn't matter."

Annabeth nodded. "I think we're almost there."

Percy nodded. "We should probably save the animals."

Grover came up with a knife. "Let's get them."

"Whoa Grover! Save, not eat."

Grover sighed. "It's really the same thing, y'know, depending on how you look at it."

Annabeth shook her head. "Okay, let's not eat them. Just get them out."

Percy nodded, drawing Riptide. He made to cut off the lion's lock, before he really looked at him.

"Guys, the lion looks hungry. Maybe it'll… does celestial bronze work on animals?"

Annabeth seemed to spot the problem. "Grover, go talk to him. Get him to be nice."

Grover nodded before making his way up and starting to communicate with the animal.

They got them free in the end. The Zebra (who still believed Grover's shoes were a fashion reject), an antelope (who didn't say much) and the lion, who still looked like he wanted them for breakfast.

Percy stopped thinking when he felt the truck stop and guys come round.

"Hide!" He hissed, before throwing himself against the side.

The door opened, a guy saying: "It's not like a load of kids got in when the door was opened and freed all the animals so they can escape or eat us!"

Then the guy, unshaven, looked inside.

"Move!" Percy cried, jumping out of the truck.

Annabeth and Grover hared after him as the guys cried about Percy being the 'Jackson kid on the TV'.

Once they had gotten away they remembered where they were.

"So," Grover clapped his hands. "Underworld time!" He turned to Annabeth.

Annabeth looked back. "Yeah… right, Percy, what does that slip say?"

"Pardon?" Percy asked.

Annabeth rolled her eyes. "The one from Medusa's place?"

"Oh." Percy pulled it out of his pocket, before reading from it. "DOA Recording Studios."

Annabeth smiled. "There we go."

Grover pushed in. "Not to be Johnny Raincloud but where is that?"

Annabeth's smile turned forced.

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