Dear Rick Riordan and JK Rowling. I am terribly sorry for what is about to happen in this chapter. I swear it was the only way.

Chapter 11: The Con

Alex explained the plan and the three tweaked and debated before coming to a final conclusion. They put their hands in a stack, but then Lily complained, "This is so cliché. Why don't we come up with a motto or something, that's cooler"

The other two glanced at each other and shrugged. "What should it be?" Alex asked

"I solemnly swear I'm up to no good"

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Alex and McKenna walked into the Empire State Building and strolled right up to the woman sitting behind the front desk. McKenna was familiar with the lady and felt horrible for doing this to her but she put on a smile anyways and started her performance.

The woman's name was Shelly. McKenna calmly reported that two famous authors, Rick Riordan and JK Rowling, were coming today to work on a crossover planned. Shelly's eyes widened at the news but then nodded. McKenna let herself inwardly smile, the plan was going perfectly. As soon as Alex and she would leave, Shelly would spread the news that Rick Riordan and Jill Rowling were making a crossover and meeting in the Empire States Building. The news would spread like wildfire across the internet and then, the fangirls will swarm. The eleven year old girl collected herself told her the time the authors would arrive.

"Why don't I write that down for you?" McKenna asked. Without waiting for a reply, she reached over the desk for a pen and unnecessarily but gently moved Shelly's hand out of the way and brushed it against the fingerpad that was placed on the lock of the drawer that contained the security card needed to get to the 600th floor. The drawer silently clicked open and while McKenna was writing down the time they were coming (12:00pm) in an obnoxiously flashy way, Alex took the card out and passed it to Lily, who was underneath the Invisibility Cloak, who then duplicated the card using a complicated copying spell. Alex slipped the copy back into the drawer and closed it noiselessly.

McKenna was observing Shelly the whole time and Shelly didn't bat an eye. All three let out sighs of relief as they left the building.

They grinned in the nine o clock sun.

"Well that was fun" remarked McKenna

"Mischief managed!" exclaimed Lily.

Alex considered the comment but then warned, "We have a long way to go"

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Lily checked the address on her slip of paper McKenna handed her and walked into the hotel. She was given a simple task but nevertheless, she was nervous about doing this. She felt sneaky and underhanded, really. Not at all Gryffindor. She brushed the feeling aside. She was doing things the unconventional way, because frankly, the noble honorable way can't work. At least, not on this quest.

The thing that bothered the auburn haired girl the most was that she was alone. She constantly looked over her shoulder for monsters. McKenna and Alex were also alone, going on their separate missions. Lily went over fighting techniques in her head as she walked over the white marble flooring to the elevator. She pressed the gold rimmed button and it opened. There was someone already inside. It was JK Rowling. And she was mad.

She was talking furiously on her phone. "How dare they spread the rumor of a crossover? There is no way on Earth I am working with Rick Riordan, that American author!"

The famous writer completely ignored Lily as she walked in. The elevator doors closed and Lily prayed Alex had knocked out the security cameras. Then, she slammed the hilt of her sword into JK Rowling's head. Lily delicately pulled some hairs out from the woman's head before stuffing them into an already prepared vial of …what else? Polyjuice Potion.

Half a mile away, McKenna was doing the same thing to poor Uncle Rick in his hotel room. The daughter of Percy and Annabeth Jackson thanked Poseidon that Rick Riordan's family wasn't in his room as she dropped down from the air vent and pressed a napkin soaked in the Draught of Living Death into his face.

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It was taking forever. And when he found exactly what or who actually, he had to go into the most embarrassing situation possible to complete his task. The son of Katie and Travis Stoll was sweating in the midmorning Sun. After all, he had been running all across New York trying to find the freaking youth goddess for what felt like hours. In the middle of his search, he had an epiphany. What if the youth goddess was at a place with a bunch of little kids…like say this playground and BOOM. He finds Hebe, the goddess of youth. She looked around six years old with dark brown pigtails and a pink jumper and a pink tutu to match and of course she had to be running around in the throng of kids, where she was virtually unreachable.

He cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled, "HEBE!" Needless to say, many of the parents looked at him awkwardly. Hebe, being ever so mature, stuck her tongue out at Alex and shouted in a shrill voice, "I bet you can't catch me! Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!"

The boy observed the crowds of four to six year olds. Desperate times call for desperate measures. He thought. Then he climbed up the tiny little ladder and went in to the playground.

A troupe of seven year olds nearly trampled Alex. He almost knocked a toddler headfirst down the slide. Alex could finally feel himself inch closer and closer to the goddamn youth goddess. Were goddesses always so annoying? It certainly seemed so. Suddenly, Hebe pointed at Alex and screamed at the top of her six year old lungs, "YOU'RE IT!"

If you thought it was chaotic before, it was nothing compared to this. Alex prided himself in being one of the fastest runners in camp, but when you have to crawl through tubes that barely fit your eleven year old self, tiny walkways designed for people half your width, and on top of all that, kids running in every direction in attempt to escape.

He chased Hebe all around the abnormally large playground, it seemed like a palace, he trapped her at the end of a slide and held a vise grip on her arms.

Hebe grinned cheekily at him, "That was fun! Let do it ag-"

"No" Hebe pouted "You're no fun! Come on! Just one more game?" she pleaded with her big blue eyes. Alex glared at her. Then he cleared his throat and said in his best messenger voice, "I have come to deliver a message from Heracles!"

Hebe instantly changed form into a super excited woman in her early twenties. "Really? That's great! I haven't heard from him in sooo long! You know, the past thousand years he has been really distant with me. But now, my faith is restored! This is going to be great! You know, I usually have to beg and beg him to spend some time with me. Romantic stuff, you know! Like, that's what married people do! But he's all like 'I have duty to do' and I'm all like 'You used to be fun! What happened?' and then he'd be like 'You are so immature' and then he would stop talking to me. Sooo, I guess our love is like that song, ya know? Well if you don't know it goes like-"

"OK! That's enough! Why don't you go over to Hercules in the Straits of Gibraltar and come back in a couple of weeks. I have some a message to deliver to Janus and well, you know how hard his is to find." Alex said

Thankfully Hebe nodded understandingly and then disappeared with a pop. Alex let out a relieved sigh and turned to go to get into position for the next phase.

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Lily, Alex, and McKenna met each other in the bathrooms in front of the Empire State Building.

"Missions accomplished?" Alex questioned.

"Missions accomplished" coursed Lily and McKenna.

Alex smiled. "Me too. Got the Polyjuice Potion prepared McKenna?"

She nodded. "Yep. And Lily? Don't worry you got this."

Lily was trembling in her brand new outfit she got from the Camp Store. Yesterday's intense training seemed so long ago. But she put on a smile. After all, the world was counting on them.

"Don't worry guys, we got this" the witch stated firmly.

"Bottoms up!" McKenna and Alex drank and ran into the bathrooms. Lily squared her shoulders and confidently strided into the Empire State Building.

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Lily shoved her way past mounds of screaming fangirls (Waiting for Riordan and Rowling to arrive) and rushed to the door. A security guard immediately blocked her path and she flashed him the security card to the 600th floor. His eyes widened and he bowed his head in respect and stepped past to let her through.

Lily gave him something that she hoped resembled a godly smile as she walked in. I am Hebe, the goddess of youth. I am Hebe the goddess of youth Mortals are scum compared to me. She repeated the mantra many times in her head as she waltzed confidently to the man at the front desk. She flashed him her card and again, he bowed his head in respect and let her through to the elevators.

I could get used to this she thought as she pressed the 600th floor button. Suddenly an awful sound came through the speakers. Lily gagged and covered her ears, the sound was so disturbing. It seemed to be some poetry rap. Really bad poetry rap. Then, the elevator opened to reveal the most amazing place she had ever seen.

It was huge. Actually, huge didn't even begin to describe it. She couldn't believe the size and the magnitude of the place. The architecture that seemed to be a mix between modern and ancient Greece, it was amazing. The entire city of New York could probably fit in here! She was tempted to stop at the seriously cool looking salad bar for a snack but then stopped herself, she had a deadline to make. Then, she marched into the throne room.

All of the Olympian gods and goddess were present. That was good. And they seemed to be in a bad mood. That was also good. Actually, it was even better than good. Why on earth would you want Twelve of the most powerful beings on the planet to be in a bad mood? Her rational side asked. Her other side, the get-shit-done soldier side, simply said to complete phase one! In an overly enthusiastic tone.

Zeus, lord of the sky and master of Mount Olympus, frowned at Lily. She momentarily froze, thinking he could see through this whole plot.

"Wait…who are you?" he asked in a puzzled tone.

Lily snapped out of her fright and said in her best exasperated teenager tone, "Father! We have been over this at least one hundred times. I am your daughter, Hebe" She said these last five words slowly, as if she was talking to a five year old.

Hera narrowed her eyes. Lily could tell that she was the one that would need convincing. The young witch started to ham it up. "Mother? You remember me, right?"

Lily inwardly smirked. She had put a verbal trap around the goddess of marriage. If she said no, she would look stupid in front of the other Olympians. If she said yes, Lily would get what she wanted.

Hera looked bewildered for a moment. "Well of course! How could I forget my precious daughter, goddess of" She hesitated for a heartbeat but then continued, "youth" Lily beamed at her.

Hera continued to cover her 'blunder' up. "Well, you see dear, at first, I didn't recognize you because you had a different form. In fact, I have never seen you use that form. Have you never used it before?" there was a hint, just a hint of cold triumph in her dark eyes.

The Gryffindor had anticipated this before. "The youth of the world are ever changing, never settling on one thing! I embody youth! And the youth embodies trends, which are regretfully non lasting. I rather enjoyed the age of big hair and bellbottom jeans"

At this comment, Zeus gave a hearty laugh. "Like father like daughter, eh?"

Lily gave her best attempt at a fake laugh and glanced at Artemis, who Alex said Hebe was very close to. Godly or not, she could tell Artemis was laughing at her behind her brother's ukulele.

Now that she had convinced the Olympians she was Hebe, she started to increase the bad mood. She bustled about the throne room and 'accidentally' bumped into Ares.

"Watch it" he snarled.

Lily double checked her Occulemncy wall, just to make sure the god couldn't read her thoughts before thinking Gods, he is so stupid as she placed a paintball that would combust when she hit the remote into his bushy beard. How he didn't notice was beyond Lily.

She then worked her way over to Athena, who was lounging, bored in her throne, which was all titanium and decorated with owls. She put some plastic spiders into a box (obviously charmed to be invisible) and placed it at the foot of her throne. Athena was the most watchful out of all the Olympians except maybe Artemis, so Lily was very careful as she 'accidentally' dropped a pack of gum on to the floor and scooped it up, leaving the invisible box on the floor. Athena seemed suspicious for a moment but then all signs of it disappeared.

The room was silent until Hermes suddenly remarked, "I'm bored" Lily jumped at the sound and raced out the door. Lily thanked Merlin that everything went smoothly and pressed the button, releasing the paintball and the spiders. She shut the door softly. Then she heard the explosions.

"OH POSEIDON I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" shrieked Athena who was standing on her chair looking for the spiders who seemed to be gone for the moment…until they came back which caused Athena to scream even louder. Lily and most of the other Olympians covered their ears.

Zeus stood up, ten feet tall, and thundered "Brother, this is the second time today you have disturbed the peace and quiet of the throne room. As master of the house I comman- "

"I DIDN'T DO IT! Brother Zeus, you blame me for everything. Just because Athena says it, doesn't mean its right. You know how irrational she gets around spiders" Poseidon tried to reason.

On the other side of the room, a neon pink splattered Ares had his spear tip at Hermes nose. "I KNOW YOU DID IT!" Hermes put his hands up. "NO I DIDN'T! IT WASN'T ME!"

Hera was running around the room, trying to calm everyone down. Ares's aggression created a domino effect. Sitting next to him was Dionysus. The god of wine was already in a bad mood to begin with. Now, he sat bickering with Demeter. "GRAPES WILL NEVER BE IN YOU POSSESION! ALL GRAPES ARE MINE!" he bellowed.

Demeter, usually the calmest of the twelve got so worked out over this she caused a vine of grapes to grow out of the ground.

"OH NO YOU DIDN'T" gasped Dionysus.

Demeter glared at him. "Oh yes I did"

At this Ares and Athena whipped their heads toward Athena "YOU DID IT?!" they exclaimed together. Demeters eyes widened. "No, no, no, no! I didn't do it!"

Hera was still running around to try to sort things out in vain attempt, but then Hermes stopped her. In his eyes, this was just getting good. Hera then yelled at Hermes and told him he could not tell her what to do. Hermes retaliated and then they were arguing along with everyone else. Apollo on the right side of the room was making a haiku out of the situation. Artemis then shut him up. Apollo stood up and shouted, "Sister, you think you are the best at everything and I am sick of it! Stop it! I am the god of poetry, NOT YOU!" Artemis replied with "OF COURSE I AM BETTER, MOTHER LETO LIKED ME BETTER SINCE BIRTH!"

All of the action was being recorded by Hephaestus who was sending the stream to Olympus TV.

Athena continued to scream, Demeter continued to grow grape vines, Dionysus continued to outgrow Demeter and accidentally trip everyone, Ares continued to bellow at everyone, Poseidon and Zeus continued to argue who Rhea liked better, Artemis and Apollo continued to recite poetry at the top of their lungs (Artemis was way better), Hera continued to berate Hermes for his amount of children, Aphrodite continued to wrestle with Hephaestus for the camera because it was making her look bad, and Lily decided she it was time.

"SILENCIO!"

Everything stopped so abruptly and Lily was amazed it actually worked. The throne room was completely silent. Lily (Hebe) plowed on. "You are acting like children. This behavior must stop. I have cultivated a large amount of power over the years. I will use it for your own good"

All of the Olympians stood there shocked. But they thankfully couldn't speak. Lily prepared herself for the crucial spell and thrust her hands at the twelve gods.

There was a flash of blinding light and when the black spots danced their way out of her eyes, she could see that the Olympians were reduced to none other than teenagers.

Lily spoke with the most regalness she could muster. "If you recall, I have done this to you before. As like last time, you should find yourselves godly again when you have learned your lesson"

With this, she made a sweeping motion with her hand and they all disappeared without a sound.

Thank you Hecate she thought as she stood alone in the throne room. It was eerily quiet, with only the crackling hearth and her own breathing making sound. She saw the Olympians had left their power symbols. Everything had gone as planned, it was actually nice. Now all she needed was the others to arrive.

"Any minute now…" she mused to herself

The throne room doors burst open and McKenna and Alex appeared. "Here!"

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