Wow, I feel so loved! My favorite review for last chapter was 3214sammy again! I loved everything about that review! :D Thanks for all those insights. And to my other reviewer, you're right! I completely forgot about that part in the book, so I apologize for the mistake. I had to come up with some argument though... Anyways thanks to all you awesome reviewers, you made my day! :D Onto the story...
Jason stared at Percy as he explained what had happened at the throne room.
"Well, I guess we'd better hurry." He finally said. They had already made their way to the Hunters camp, now they approached a girl with her back turned.
"Excuse me..." Leo said, tapping her shoulder. The girl whirled around and shrieked.
"A boy! Ahhh!" She bounded away. The three friends gaped at the spot she had been earlier.
"I totally forgot about that..." Percy grumbled. "We're going to be killed if we don't hurry and find Artemis."
"Number one, I'm right here." Artemis walked out of a nearby tent. "Number two, your aura tells me somehow you've become gods, so you can't die."
"Oh yeah." Jason said.
"What did you come here for." Artemis continued in an icy tone. "You know well enough boys are not welcome."
"We need to know where Annabeth is." Percy said.
"You mean Zeus." Leo added.
"Well, Zeus' body with Annabeth's soul." Jason finished. Artemis looked at them weird.
"Actually, Lord Zeus was found by my lieutenant. He was passed out, just lying by the river. I had Thalia take her to our medical center." She gestured towards another tent.
"Okay, he... I mean she should be awake by now." Percy said, looking at the tent worriedly.
Suddenly screaming filled the air. All four gods whipped out their weapons, and Jason led them into the tent from which the sound was coming from.
"I'm an old dude!" Annabeth in Zeus's form was looking at herself/himself in horror.
Thalia was by her side. "Annabeth? What..."
"I'll explain later." Percy knelt down next to his girlfriend.
"Don't kiss her now! She's a dude!" Leo blurted, his eyes going wide.
"I wasn't going to kiss her!" Percy looked at Leo, a slight blush coloring his cheeks.
"That's enough." Artemis said firmly. "We need to find out how to change her back."
"You think?" Annabeth said sarcastically, looking down at herself in disgust. "No wonder Zeus hates himself."
"Don't be rude." Artemis scolded.
"I think she has a right." Thalia finally spoke. She had been hugging her brother.
"Okay, so we should probably go back to Olympus." Percy said.
"How? We don't have any transportation." Thalia looked glum.
"I forgot to tell you. We're gods." Jason admitted.
"What? How? Why? Since when?" Thalia demanded.
"Long story." Leo said, taking Percy and Jason by their sleeves and dragging them out of the tent. "Which we don't have time to tell."
"Wait! I want to go with you!" Thalia followed them. "Please, Lady Artemis? I want to help Annabeth."
Zeus... I mean, er, Annabeth grumped out of the tent. "I don't want to be a smelly old man." Her scrunched together eyebrows drew even closer together as she mumbled and grumbled under her breath. Her friends had to try and stifle their laughter.
"Alright." Artemis agreed finally.
"Thank you." Thalia turned to the closest god to her and grabbed his hand. It was Leo, and his blush was so red Jason was afraid he was going to burst into flames.
"Let's go then." Percy said quickly, also noticing Leo's predicament. He grabbed Annabeth's hand. It was rough and flaky, unlike his girlfriends soft, smooth hand.
All three gods closed their eyes and took themselves to Olympus in the way of the gods.
Annabeth and Thalia immediately threw up. All over the throne room floor.
"Oh, yuck."Annabeth looked at the barf.
"Relax, it's just a little breakfast." Leo snapped his fingers and cleaned up the mess.
"That was the worst trip I have ever gone on." Thalia said, holding her stomach.
"It wasn't that bad." Jason looked at them strange.
"Yay, you're back!" Hazel said from somewhere to Percy's left. He turned, and saw her, Piper, Frank, and Hephaestus playing gold fish. It was a peculiar sight.
"Where's Nico?" Percy asked.
"Stolen by Zeus."
"Figures." He grumbled.
"So did you guys bring... yeah, you did." Frank saw Annabeth and shut up.
"Oh my gods Jason, I haven't gotten a pair at all this game." Piper grumbled.
"Have a pair of Percy Jacksons?" Hephaestus asked Frank.
"Go fish." He answered.
"Percy Jacksons?" Percy walked over and looked at Hephaestus' cards. Sure enough, there was a picture of him in his mini hurricane. Below it said his name in bold letters, then a star. "What's the star for?"
"It means you've completed a lot of quests." Hephaestus drew a card. On it was a blonde girl with wavy hair and beautiful grey eyes. Percy couldn't help but glance at his girlfriend and the state she was in now. He suppressed a smile.
"What's wrong with him?" Thalia pointed at Hades, who was still standing there in shock, frozen like a statue.
"He couldn't believe that Zeus took Nico so easily, so now he's like that." Frank explained.
"Got any Poseidons?" Piper asked Hazel.
"Go fish."
"See?" Piper looked at Jason, shrugging her shoulders helplessly.
"Can we start helping me now?" Annabeth yelled at them all. "You guys are just sitting there doing nothing and I'm in the body of the ugliest god in the world!"
Until then, the group had been able to stop themselves from laughing. The sight of the Lord of the Skies with his hands on his hips and his lips and eyebrows pressed together tightly was all to much. Even Hephaestus had to join in.
"Oh, forget it!" Annabeth stormed out of the room and down until she reached the elevator. "I'll do it myself."
"No, wait!" Percy managed to gasp out. "Don't go!"
But it was too late. The doors slid closed and Annabeth was on her way to certain doom.
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