Wow my last chapter was apparently funny! That is something I'm very proud of so thank you to you who reviewed. This chapter is Nicos birthday! I'm excited to write this and I will try (probably fail) to add some more humor. I also said I would take suggestions, so I added in a part that Skylar, Daughter of Hades made up. I thank you for the idea and remember, if you have an idea you can send it to me and I will try and fit it in to my ideas. Anyways, on to the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and/or the Olympians.
Thalias pov
I woke up at 6am from the blaring alarm beside Nico. I shook him, muttering," Hit the alarm idiot."
"Sorry, sorry," he murmured and slammed it with the hand that wasn't under his pillow. We sat there for a moment, gaining peace back in the dark hotel room.
I then remembered it was Nicos birthday and jumped out of bed. I could feel Nico looking at me like I was on drugs, but I didn't look at him. I went over to my suitcase and picked out a paper hat I bought at a gas station yesterday. He looked surprised when he saw HAPPY BIRTHDAY! on the top of it.
"Happy Birthday Sweetie!" I said, smiling and sitting down right next to him in bed. He sat up and I put the little hat on him and smiled even bigger. "Cute."
"I bet it is," he replied, smiling. "I forget I was turning seventeen today."
"Well I didn't. Me, Percy, and Annabeth all brought you gifts, too," I mentioned.
"Thank you for remembering," he replied, kissing me on the forehead and getting up. He walked in the bathroom, probably going to brush his teeth or something. I took the opportunity to walk in Percy and Annabeths room and get them up and going.
"Hey! We have to get Nicos mini party ready, remember?" I questioned. Both of them sat on the edge of the bed, looking intensively at the TV.
"What's-" but then I stopped. For the first time that morning, I heard sirens outside the hotel and a lot of yelling. I then looked at the TV to see cop cars around this hotel. The caption was 'Freak Beast at Holiday Inn?'.
I ran back in my room and found almost every channel featuring this breaking news. I then walked over to the bathroom door and pounded on it. A very irritated Nico popped out with a toothbrush in his mouth.
"whaaa?" he asked. I pulled him out and stood him in front of the TV. We stood there together, trying to figure out what that thing was.
The 'freak beast' had the head and wings of an eagle, but the body of a lion. Its large beak look threatening, like it could merely poke a person and they would die. It was standing in the lobby, sniffing at the air like he had found his breakfast. I could only guess he was after us.
I walked in to the opposite room and saw Percy had gotten dressed. "Annabeth, what is that thing?" I asked cautiously. Nico had come in, toothbrush free, and stood by me.
"Well, it's almost unbelievable, but I think a Griffin," she answered.
I took out my phone and looked up Griffin in Google. "Griffin: a huge creature that is said to have originated in the land of the Hyperborean's. It is very huge and you should try to not make trouble with it." I read aloud.
"Yep. Lets say we fight this thing before it gets out of control." Annabeth proposed and we agreed.
"Yeah, just because Google frowns upon that…" Nico commented.
Everyone went in there separate rooms and quickly got dressed. We met outside in the hallway, with our backpacks full of weapons, and bolted for the stairs. We ran down three flights and finally made it to the commotion.
We stood in front of a massively large lion thing. It had a tail that looked like a poisonous snake, more than likely it was, and ears with feathers on them. I almost felt bad for the Griffin, I mean feathers on your ears are probably about as annoying as earrings.
As soon as he saw us, he quit looking up and sniffing. His face was like, "finally after all of this screeching, my breakfast has came."
"Strategy?" Percy muttered to no one in particular.
"Well, two of us could distract her and the other two could find away to kill her," Annabeth suggested. We quickly went in to action; me holding my bow at my side and Percy with his sword, we went to the back of it to kill it. Annabeth and Nico stayed at the front, yelling insults and holding there knife and sword like they were going to slash.
"Hey, ugly!" Nico yelled. The Griffin reared toward Nico, thrashing his teeth and coming at him quickly.
Annabeth quickly intervened, yelling, "You ugly fatso! Look at me!"
I turned away to go and find Percy, who was trying to find a nice spot to stab his sword in the giant. To bad for him, the thing kept jumping and moving his foot, nearly making a Percy pancake.
I turned around, just remembering about the mortals. Poor tourist, who knows what they seeing right now. The news tonight will probably involve a zoo breakout, the animal deciding to vacation at Holiday Inn. I made sure no mortal was in the way or harmed, and went under the Griffin, Percy right on my heals. He was finally calm enough for us to kill him, well calm for a monster.
We nodded at each other, and I ran up to the front with my two friends. I shot him in the face a few times, and he seemed very angry. He came up to me, trying to get in my face I think. Luckily, Percy was quick with the slaying, and he soon disintegrated all over me.
"Yummy," I said just thrilled. The screams stopped soon, and silence filled the large lobby. We walked through the huge crowd, the people barely registering the four of us. The lady from the front desk last night stared at us for a while, and I figured she could see through the mist. We soon found our way out of the hotel and in the parking lot.
"Well that was…interesting?" Nico added while we stood by Annabeths SUV.
"Yeah. I mean, not easy but not the hardest I've ever dealed with," Percy replied. We got in the car, making our way to Niagara Falls. Percy got driver, Annabeth shotgun, and me and Nico back seat again.
"Oh yeah Nico, with all the excitement I forgot to tell you happy birthday!" Annabeth exclaimed. "Tonight after it gets to dark to search anymore, we could go out to a nice dinner. Then we could come back to the hotel and you could open our gifts we got you."
"Yeah, happy birthday Nico," Percy said just a little to late.
"Okay we can do that. Thanks guys," Nico told us.
The ride was about five minutes long, and when I saw it I was amazed. It was bigger than I thought possible and the water so blue. No wonder Aphrodite decided to put her hideout here. We found a parking spot and got out of the car. There was a lot of people around staring, but otherwise it was perfect.
"Wow. Well the tour starts in like ten minutes so we better go and find the tourist," Annabeth reminded us. We walked off, trying to think where the heck they would hide a hideout here.
