Wow, lots of reviews and favorites overnight! I'm so happy!
I won't keep you waiting, so here's the old trivia:
1.) How old is Percy in The Lightning Thief? ANSWER: TWELVE YEARS OLD
2.) How many camp-issued quests have Percy gone on? ANSWER: ONE IN THE FIRST BOOK, ONE IN THE THIRD BOOK, ONE IN THE FOURTH BOOK, AND ONE IN THE FIFTH BOOK. BONUS: ONE MORE IN THE SON OF NEPTUNE. IF YOU DISAGREE ON ANYTHING, REVIEW OR MESSAGE ME
3.) Who was the traitor in The Last Olympian? Hint: She died in the end. ANSWER: SILENA BEAUREGARD
New trivia:
1.) Where and how did Luke get the scar on his face?
2.) Name two Cyclopes mentioned in the whole Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (Not Heroes of Olympus).
3.) Who was the school bully in The Sea of Monsters?
SHOUT-OUTS:
MushyTheMushy: Two things. One, all correct. Two, I love your name!
Luna3's Zach: Thank you! I'll be happy to put Lexi in the Demigod Dance, but two questions. Can I change your age to fifteen so she's old enough? And, do you mind if you're the daughter of a different god? I don't care if it's Zeus or Hades, but not Poseidon.
I am hikaru321 son of hermes: Number two is still correct either way, and it's fine if you forgot how to spell Silena's name.
Thank you, I am hikaru321 son of hermes, BookLuver102, FantasyLover9199, and sweetchill, for adding my story to their Favorite Stories List.
Thanks, I am hikaru321 son of hermes, BookLuver102, and sweetchill for adding me to their Favorite Authors List.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the original Percy Jackson series in this story except for everything else I made up!
ON WITH THE STORY!
Chapter 12
Recap: Two different girls grabbed each of my hands and half pulled, half dragged me to their cabin, where I got intoxicated by the perfume. I only had time to think, 'What have I gotten myself into?' when Alisa opened the door and I got sucked inside.
Alisa looked my appearance up and down, making me feel self-conscious again. I took that moment to look around the Aphrodite cabin.
The inside looked just like cabin three, but everything was mainly pink, and the bunk beds were in a different formation. I also noticed a closet next to the bathroom, which I found weird because I don't recall any of the other cabins having a closet there. I could tell which bed was Alisa's. It was the one with sky blue sheets, a hot pink blanket and pillow, and lots of posters of pop singers bordered the headrest and wall. She loved the colors blue and pink, and pop music.
". . . so it's best if you wear a darker color," Alisa finished saying.
I looked up, snapping out of my daydreaming. "Sorry, what?" I apologized, a light blush forming on my cheeks. The other girls giggled, and the two who had dragged me here grabbed my arms again, leading me toward the closet.
Only Alisa followed; the others stayed in the cabin.
She reassuringly told me, "Our mom granted us a gigantic closet filled with tons of different clothing, including shoes, makeup, accessories, etc. She gave it to us as a present in case something like the Demigod Dance came up."
I nodded and allowed Alisa's half-sisters to pull me inside the ordinary looking closet.
The inside looked nothing like the outside.
It was a huge walk-in closet with racks of clothes in neat rows lining the walls. Every kind of dress you can imagine was there, and different pairs of flats or heels were put up against the walls underneath the dresses. In the back, there was a long table, and on it were cosmetics and hair products and of course, makeup. I even noticed a few cans of hair dye stacked in the corner.
Alisa's half-sisters left, but she remained where she was.
I followed her as she walked deeper inside toward a row of dresses that were black or dark blue and began rifling through them as I awkwardly stood behind her. Alisa suddenly grabbed a dress from the rack and shoved it in my arms.
She ordered, "Go put this on," and pointed to a small changing room that I hadn't seen before.
My feet obediently made their way inside and I yanked the curtain closed, still wondering how I got in this mess.
I removed the hanger and held up the dress Alisa had given me.
It was a sky blue strapless dress and fell somewhere around my knees with a low V-neck. It was a little too revealing for my taste, but I took off my clothes and put it on.
When I stepped out of the changing room, Alisa looked me up and down as if she were a judge in a beauty pageant and I was the contestant.
Not that I'd want to be in a beauty pageant, but you know what I mean.
She finally evaluated, "The neckline is a bit much for you, and the color just isn't right."
And you can guess what happened next.
Alisa threw me tons of different dresses in every shape, size, and color, but always thought something was wrong with it. The dress was too long or too short, the color completely wrong, the straps were too thick, etc., etc., etc.
Just when I thought I was going to call it a day, Alisa gave it one more shot and threw me one last dress.
I sighed, dragging it into the changing room, and held it up so I could see.
This dress fell a little above my knees and was strapless. The top was completely black, but a beautiful flowery print covered my complete left and swirled down to the bottom. Soft and black ruffles fell down and swished around my knees.
I immediately liked it, and pulled the almost-hidden zipper behind my back up.
Alisa squealed so loudly that I think everyone within a fifty feet ratio heard her.
"You look gorgeus, Luna!" she clapped, jumping up and down. I blushed and looked down at my dress. I have to admit, I actually think it looked amazing on me and I loved it.
I finally looked up and asked, "So I'll take this one . . . ?" Alisa nodded so fast that I thought her head would fall off.
"An hour before the dance, meet me here so I can help you with your makeup, hair, and shoes," she instructed. I nodded, but added, "Don't worry about the shoes. I can take care of it."
Alisa looked confused, but shrugged.
I walked back into the changing room and took off the dress, putting my regular clothes back on. I asked Alisa, "I honestly don't really want to let Zach see my dress before the actual dance, so can you give me a bag or something to put it in?"
She nodded and rummaged underneath her bunk bed. Alisa pulled out a small Abercrombie bag and handed it to me.
After I folded my new dress and stuffed it inside the bag Alisa gave me. "Thank you so much, Alisa," I genuinely smiled. Alisa grinned back widely and replied, "Don't mention it, Luna. Anything for a friend."
I couldn't help smiling wider when Alisa said out loud that I was her friend. I was seriously not used to having a real friend.
Then again, I wasn't used to being a demigod.
Alisa led me out, but my eyes lingered on the cans of hair dye sitting on the table at the far end. My silver/white streaks were just fake hair extensions that I occasionally used, and my blue and red hair dye was fading, sadly.
She noticed me looking at it, and giggled. "You can take some hair dye if you want."
"Are you serious?" I asked in disbelief. Alisa nodded and I raced over to the table, scanning all the colors.
The red dye on my bangs had completely faded, so I chose some light purple for my bangs, and red and blue for my already dyed hair.
I dropped all three cans in my bag and thanked Alisa again about a hundred times. She got so fed up with me, she playfully shoved me out the Aphrodite cabin and said, "Remember to come by before the dance."
Alisa closed the door in my face before I could say thank you one more time.
I sprinted to cabin three and dropped my bag off under my bed. Percy was staring up at the ceiling when I came in.
"What's that?" he asked curiously. "A dress," I replied simply.
Percy's eyes widened and he sat up. He stared at me and carefully said, "I don't mean to be rude or anything, but why would you have a dress? It's not exactly something I'd see you we wear." When I passed by him to go to my bunk, he sniffed the air and coughed once. "Is that perfume?"
I lifted my arm up to my nose and gagged when I realized the fumes coming off of Aphrodite's cabin had rubbed off on me.
"The Aphrodite cabin decided to help me for the Demigod Dance and they ambushed me," I explained, rubbing my arm as if the perfume would come off that way. Percy nodded and went back to staring at the ceiling.
I walked over and lay down next to him. After about a minute, I sarcastically said, "Well this is fun."
Percy laughed. "I don't normally do this, but I need to think."
"Don't hurt yourself."
He fake gasped and nudged me. "You are so mean, Luna."
I chuckled and reassured him "I'm just kidding. Seriously, what's up?"
He hesitated, then turned his head at me. "I've been having more dreams, and they always include you but in the form of . . . of a mermaid," Percy finally said. I tried not to show my surprise, and asked, "Why?"
Percy shrugged, obviously having no clue.
"But it can't be real, right, Luna?" he joked, trying to ease the tension.
For the thousandth time, I considered telling Percy that everything was true. That Poseidon had gifted - or more like, cursed, in my opinion - me so that I could turn into a mermaid at night.
Without knowing it, I had begun fingering my necklace, and he stared at it.
"Where'd you get that?" Percy questioned.
I couldn't exactly tell him that I got it from a Nereid when I was out for a swim at night and it was a lot more powerful than he thought.
Quickly making up a little white lie, I blurted out, "The Aphrodite cabin gave it to me."
Percy apparently isn't the brightest because I started fingering my necklace more and slightly sweating. "I should go train . . . Oh, Percy, wait," I blurted out . . . again.
He sat up and looked at me curiously.
I reached up and took off my dolphin earrings sent to me by Poseidon, which was also the ones that transformed into a dagger. "I think Poseidon sent me this as a gift," I said as I pressed the eye of both of the dolphins. Immediately, they elongated into two sharp daggers.
Percy's eyes slightly widened and he automatically brought out Anaklusmos, or Riptide in it's pen form. He uncapped it and it grew into Riptide's sword form.
"They have the same basic structure, except mine's a dagger and yours is a sword," I realized. He nodded and confirmed, "So that probably is from Dad." Percy reached up with the pen cap and touched it to the top as I pressed the bottom of the hilt and they both shrank back to harmless pieces of something you'd see everyday.
I waved bye to Percy and opened the door of the cabin.
He waved back and went back to staring at the ceiling.
I put my earrings back on and ran into Chris - sadly - at the arena.
"Luna! Just the girl I wanted to see!" he grinned like an idiot. I resisted the overwhelming urge to just walk out of the arena, but I'm too nice and that would be plain rude, even for someone like Chris.
I weakly smiled back and asked, "What's up?"
Chris suddenly looked shy for some reason, and he fiddled with the hilt of his sword that he was holding. "I was wondering . . . if you want to go to the Demigod Dance with me."
Oh, gods . . . I should've expected this.
"I'm sorry, Chris, but I'm already going with Zach," I replied with a fake apologetic tone.
Chris looked crestfallen, but he tried to brighten up.
"Oh . . . okay, then. Hey, um, you wanna spar?" he offered.
I nodded and took off my earrings, making them turn into twin daggers. Chris's eyes widened and he asked, "Did you get those from your dad?"
"Yup."
"Awesome! The best thing I've ever gotten from Hermes are those flying shoes!"
This time, I genuinely gave him a small smile, and I held my daggers up. "I've only fought with a sword, so go easy on me," I said shyly. Chris just chuckled and got in a fighting stance as I mirrored his actions.
He experimentally jabbed at me, but I parried the attack away with my left dagger. I dodged another attack at my head by ducking and rolling behind him, but just before I could strike, Chris whirled around and defended himself.
"Are . . . you sure you've never . . . trained with daggers before?" he panted, a look of exhaustion on his face as we continued to spar back and forth.
I jumped over Chris's blade as he swung it underneath my feet, trying to trip me, and realized that I wasn't even breaking a sweat. It just felt natural, like I could do anything. "Yeah. Only with a sword," I simply replied.
We must've sparred for at least thirty minutes, and it ended finally when I ducked down, swung my leg around in a complete circle like an ice skater, tripped Chris, and planted my foot on his stomach.
"I win," I grinned, breathing heavily.
Chris went limp from exhaustion and I helped him up. "Gods . . . remind me never to pick a fight with you . . . ever!" he panted like a dog.
I genuinely smiled again, but it was wiped off my face when I happened to glance behind him, way over by the lake and fields.
That blondie that I saw the other night - I think Zach said her name was Victoria - was making out with Zach. Normally, I would've been fine with it since she could've forced him into the kiss, but Zach was kissing back.
It was deja vu; from that night when Victoria forced him into a kiss, from my high school days bullied by Zach and Sabrina, and from all the lies he had told me.
Chris looked behind him, confused as to why my face was one of complete disgust and horror.
"Oh . . . I'm so sorry, Luna," he said, even though he had nothing to do with it. Chris pulled me into a hug after a moment of hesitation, and I didn't bother fighting him.
I gave him a little squeeze in reply, and considered my options.
"You know what, Chris," I said with complete defiance, "I think you just got yourself a date to the Demigod Dance."
Another chapter up!
Okay, so since one of my reviewers sort of gave me the idea, I'll allow whoever wants to to make a demigod that will participate in the Demigod Dance, which will probably be in the next chapter.
Please include the name, age (15 or older), basic appearance, and who their godly parent is. I'll allow something like a child of one of the Big Three - but please don't do Poseidon - or a child of one of the virgin gods like Artemis or Hestia.
Like I said, this is only for reviewers that want to, so I won't force you into anything, and if there's too many characters, I'll pick at least three.
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