Michael POV
I craned my neck to look up at everyone, who seemed to be giant.
"I think the spell went wrong!" I shouted. "You all are giant!" They shared a look.
"Mikayla," Percy's deep voice rumbled through my bones, causing my breasts to bounce subtly. "We aren't giant. You're two inches tall."
"Are you sure?" I shouted. Percy leaned down, poised to pluck me from the ground. Seeing this, I tried to crawl away as I couldn't feel my legs, but I couldn't get far enough away fast enough. I felt Percy grab me by the back of my shirt. "Let me go, you big lump! You're giving me a boob wedgie!" When he had picked me up by the back of my shirt, the lifting motion caught my breasts and was pinching underneath and all around. I twisted and punched, but it did nothing to affect Percy as he hoisted me into the air. He held me at eye level, and I glared at him.
"I must say, Estelle will love you even more now." He commented with a smirk on his huge face. "You're smaller than her now." At the sound of her name, Estelle crawled over, babbling nonsense.
"Fight me, you dork!" I shouted. He laughed and I lashed out with my powers. He stumbled back from the attack, dropping me to clutch his face. I fell down towards the ground and would've gone splat had Lou not spoken a quick spell. I felt something pop out my back and flap myself up, only to hit Silena's stomach and tumble back down.
I hit the ground with a thud, but luckily not as bad as it would've been had Lou not done whatever she did. I groaned as I sat up and felt something twitch on my back. I shot to my feet and turned around, catching the ends of dark red feathers. But since I couldn't feel my legs, I fell on my ass. I kept trying to see until Percy finally stopped me.
"Here," he said and slipped out the phone I had bought him for Christmas after we had come back from the quests. He clicked on somethings and then bent down, propping the phone against his hand and the ground. I looked at the screen, which showed me with two red wings sprouting from my back.
"Lou!" I shouted. "What did you do to me?" She chuckled nervously, obviously worried about what I might do now that I could disappear without them knowing or seeing me since I was so small.
"I gave you wings," she said. "It was the first thing that came to mind, and it was either that or scraping you off the ground."
"Change me back," I growled.
"I need another spell book." She said quickly. "Devon had it last, and he's in summer school right now. I'll have to go get it from him."
"Go get it then."
"Hold on there sis." Percy intervened. He turned to Lou. "Lou Ellen, take Nico and Will with you and go get the spell book. We'll need Mikayla at her full height for what comes next." He glanced at Silena, and then me. I could tell since he had to look down to see me.
Lou nodded, looking resigned. "Alright. I'll be back soon." She rushed off to find the two boys.
I turned towards an empty space between Percy and Silena without comment. I pushed against the ground with my arms with everything I had, flapping my new wings hard.
I hit the ground just as hard.
"Mikayla, let us carry you," Silena said from behind me. I picked myself up off the ground, spitting out the giant dirt.
"No," I said. "I wanna learn to fly." I pushed myself up again, flapping my wings. I stayed in the air for about three seconds before plummeting. I kept doing this as I made my way over to the Hermes cabin. I probably looked like a fish. By the time I was there, I could fly for ten seconds.
I stared up at the giant door in front of me. I could just have Percy or Silena knock on it since they followed me over here, or I could attempt to fly up and knock on it. I went with the logical choice. I flapped up and hovered for about three seconds, pounding on the door, before falling the ground again. No one came to the door. Percy sighed before knocking on the door, harder than I did. A couple of seconds later, Maddie came to the door.
"Hey, guys!" She exclaimed, seeing Percy, Estelle, and Silena. "What brings you here?" They both looked down at me, where I was panting at the effort it had taken me to get over here. Maddie raised a brow before looking down. She saw me and stumbled back a step. "Mikayla, you're so small! And you have wings!" I felt the stomps of someone rushing Maddie before Bianca's head peeked over the Hermes girl's shoulder, her eyes wide.
"Michael!" She said in astonishment. "You're so small now!" Maddie's head shot up and turned to give Bianca a perplexed look. She shook her head without looking. My girlfriend pushed past Maddie and reached her hand down to me. I crawled onto her hand and she lifted me up. "What happened?"
"Lou happened," I said tiredly. I explained to her what had happened with Lou, telling Maddie that I was Michael in the process, which she accepted pretty well.
Bianca frowned when I finished. "So you're tiny until Lou Ellen gets back?" She asked. I nodded. She pondered this information, tilting her head side to side. "Alright, let's go to the lava wall."
"What! Why?"
"I'm going to climb with you on my shoulder." She said as if or we obvious.
"And we're leaving," Percy said. Silena and his footsteps hurried away.
"Fine, but you've got to catch me!" I took a deep breath before rolling off her hands. "Artemis help me!" I yelled as I spread my wings. She must've heard me because the wind caught my new wings and lifted me up. I soared away from the Hermes cabin, Bianca racing after me, leaving Estelle with Maddie, which both girls were fine with.
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By the time Lou Ellen had come back, I had beat Bianca to the top of the lava wall several times. One time, I held on to her as she climbed. Where I was, you can use your imagination to figure that out.
When Lou was finished with her spell, I was back in the bigger version of my female body.
"I'm still stuck like this," I pouted. Lou gave me a pitiful glance.
"I'll talk to my mom about this," she said. "Maybe she'll have the right spell."
"Hopefully she will," I muttered before turning to Bianca. "Let's go out to dinner tomorrow night." She perked up.
"Really?" She asked. "You want to go out?"
"Yeah. We should take Killian and someone of his choice. See who he wants to take."
"Alright. As long as you don't get us arrested again." I flexed my marble hand and chuckled.
"That guy had it coming," I told her. "It was either that or making him disappear without a trace."
She rolled her eyes and said, "We wouldn't want that, now would we?"
"Nope," I agreed cheerfully. I linked my arm with her. "Now, come on. Let's go find Killian and tell him. I want enough time to pick a good outfit for tonight that'll really scandalize the poor boy." Bianca laughed, the sound music to my ears. She got down on her knees and allowed me to crawl onto her back. I wrapped my arms around her chest and she hooked her arms around my legs before standing up.
"Just don't scandalize him so much that you get fined for indecency." She said. I gave her a quizzical look as she started off towards the campfire, where I knew we'd find the son of Hyperion. "What? I've been reading up on the laws in New York. I'm also working on getting...what's the word? Assimilated. I'm getting assimilated into America. And working on a drivers license."
"That's great!" I exclaimed. "If you do that, we could go more places, and go across the country. I've been wanting to take you to California since forever." Her face darkened.
"Vegas?"
"No, not Las Vegas. Nosotros nunca vamos Vegas. Las playas." That helped her perk up again.
"Beaches?" Thank Hermes I had been teaching her Spanish so she could understand me. I have to be careful around everyone except for some of the campers who have Spanish or Mexican ancestry and/or could speak the language. I'd hate to have had to stop talking Spanish altogether.
"Of course! The beaches in California are the greatest, though I might be a little biased." She laughed again. We walked up to Killian, who was sitting by the campfire with Hestia.
"Lady Hestia," Bianca greeted the goddess with a smile, one that was returned. "Killian, we have a proposal for you."
"Please tell me it's not the kind with a ring." he said sarcastically. I blinked.
"Of course not," Bianca said, not picking up on the sarcasm. "This one comes with an apple." Or she did catch it and I stand corrected. It was Killian's turn to blink. Hestia chuckled.
"We want to take you and someone of your choosing to go out to dinner tomorrow night," I told him. "It might be fancy, or we might hit up McDonald's or someplace else. We'll decide on the road with you and whoever you're bringing. Dress nicely in case we do go out for fancy. Or at least wear a nice shirt and jeans. I'm wearing something good, and so is B, here."
"My boo wants to scandalize you," Bianca whispered to him.
"Did you just call me your 'boo'?" I asked as Killian's face flushed bright red. She shrugged.
"You're my girlfriend. I can call you what I want." She declared.
I didn't even bother to argue. I just said, "Yes, ma'am," and left it at that. I turned back to Killian, whose face was still beet red. "As I said, pick whoever you want. If they do come, let me or Bianca know." Bianca started to walk away. "Goodbye Lady Hestia!" I called over my shoulder.
"Goodbye, Mikayla," she called back.
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The next day after lava wall—I was able to use my legs again, thank Hestia—I dragged Bianca to the Hermes cabin and together we went through our clothes until we found suitable attire.
I picked a sparkly silver dress that fell down to my calves and had straps that wrapped up and around my shoulders and crisscrossed on my back, leaving a good portion of my upper back and shoulder blades exposed, along with a fair amount of the top of my breasts. Bianca had opted for a strapless dress that was black—of course—and went all the way down to her ankles. We touched up our makeup with each other's help, and I have to admit, I have gotten pretty good at applying makeup. I went with mascara and silvery eyeliner that matched my dress. Plus, Bianca told me it looked great. She used dark mascara and black eyeliner, which made her look hot and little bit goth as she also applied dark lipstick. I used regular lipstick, making my lips a normal pinkish red color.
By the time we were done, Killian and his number two had come by to get ready. Seeing us, Killian dressed in a short-sleeve orange and red button-up shirt over a dark red long-sleeved shirt and jeans, as I had told him. His number two was Brooklyn, who had dressed in a golden dress that reached to her calves but covered up her back with a triangle over the top of her breasts, the only skin shown beside her shoulders. A single triangular strap around her neck held it in place and she used dark gold eyeliner and blush to help bring our her eyes. For shoes, both Brooklyn and Bianca went with high heels—which annoyed me to no end, seeing how they were already taller than me—while I went with flats and Killian went with sneakers that were a gift from Summer. And true to my word, my outfit caused Killian to look slightly horrified.
As the conch horn was blown, signaling dinner, we headed towards the road on the other side of Half-Blood hill where my car was parked. My beautiful, awesome Dodge Challenger. To which I tossed Bianca the keys. She caught them instinctually. She stared at them, and then me, and then back at the keys.
"You said you were learning to drive," I said. "I want you to show me how well you can drive."
"But what if I crash?" She asked nervously. I laughed.
"You won't. I'll make sure." I promised her. I kissed her cheek before ordering Killian to open the passenger side door. He did without complaint and closed it behind me. While everyone piled into the car, I rummaged through the glove compartment before pulling out my purse. Yes, I have a purse. Travis thought it would be funny to get one for me, but I had Lou enchant it to match any outfit I wore so that I could actually use it. It was an ugly yellow color when he got it for me, but now it changed to silver as I held it against my dress.
Bianca started the car and pulled out onto the street the right way. I was, in fact, testing her ability to drive but at the same time, I was excited to give her a try. "Where are we going?" She asked.
"What do you two think?" I asked our other two companions in the back.
"I'll eat anything," Killian said almost immediately. Brooklyn, however, took more time to think about it.
"Does The Old Spaghetti Factory work?" She suggested.
"That'll do just fine," I confirmed. I pulled my phone out of my purse and typed in the Old Spaghetti Factory into mapquest. It gave the closest one and we followed the directions to our destination. Once there, I had Bianca pull up in front of the restaurant and told Brooklyn and Killian to get out. While they were doing that, I turned to Bianca. "Could you run to the store for me? My period is coming up again soon, I can feel it. Could you go buy me some...some..."
"Tampons?" Bianca finished.
"Yes, those," I agreed. I smiled and leaned in to give her a kiss. She welcomed it and let me give her a peck on the lips. "The store isn't far. Just down the road." I opened my door and unbuckled. "We will go get a table and wait for you to come back. Love you." I froze at my own words I stepped out.
Luckily, Bianca didn't sense my aftershock at saying those words. She just said, "Love you, too." Before shifting the car into gear. I silently sighed in relief and closed the door. My beautiful girlfriend drove off and I turned to my friends.
"Shall we?" Brooklyn asked with a teeth-filled smile. It made me really happy that she was getting over Wyatt's death. Luca told me that the two were really, really close before we came along, and I couldn't help but feel guilty for inadvertently causing the son of Momus's death.
I put on a smile and said, "We shall." The three of us walked up to the doors. Brooklyn and I waited for Killian to open the door for us and he did, like a gentleman. I can't wait to see who he ends up dating. They are going to be very pleased with his manners. Brooklyn and I walked up to the check-in, Killian a step behind us, and waited until a camarera—or waitress, as the others call it—walked up to us. We ordered a table for four and I gave her my name and she told us that it shouldn't take long. We sat down on some comfy benches and I pulled out my phone to check the time. 6:50. Dinner back at camp would almost be done by now.
While we were waiting, I was checking out some of the camareros. And I got caught.
"Mikayla," Killian started. "Are you... checking out the guys?"
"Maybe," I answered. "That guy over there reminds me of Chris Evans. Not as hot as Hemsworth, but pretty close."
"'Not as hot'?" Brooklyn asked. "Mikayla, are you into both guys and girls?"
"Maybe," I answered again. "Don't worry, Bianca already knows." Neither of them said anything more.
Before we were called up, Bianca showed up, looking a little too excited from her trip to the store. I raised a brow as she sat next to me, almost bouncing with excitement.
"Alright, I'll bite," I said. "What happened?"
"Mikayla, the police gave me an award!" She said.
I was almost too scared to ask. "...For?"
Bianca flashed a speeding ticket at me. "Fastest driver!"
I rolled my eyes but couldn't help but smile at her excitement.
"I'm gonna tell her," Killian whispered behind me.
Brooklyn hissed, "Don't you dare." Soon after that, the camarera came back and seated us at a booth. She left for a little bit before coming back to ask what we wanted to drink. I ordered lemonade, B ordered water, Brooklyn ordered iced tea, and Kil ordered apple juice. The young child. I don't think he's figured out that I got him a kids menu yet. La camarera came back with our drinks and we ordered our food next. I always knew what I wanted here, but the others had taken a little longer. I got lasagna, Bianca got fettuccine Alfredo, Brooklyn got chicken parmigiana, and Killian got spaghetti Vesuvius—gross. Who likes onions and green peppers on their chicken?
Once the camarera left, we started talking.
"Bianca," Killian started. "How is it that you got pulled over without a license and didn't get arrested?"
"Oh, Beckendorf made me a fake license in case I ever got pulled over before I got my actual one." She explained. "I had him take a look at Mikayla's and forge a new one with my name and picture." She smiled. "I still can't believe the officer gave me an award for being fast."
"I can't believe she doesn't know how much those cost," I whispered to Brooklyn, who giggled in response. I straightened back up and looked towards Killian with an evil grin. He shrunk against my gaze. "So, Killian," I stated. "What made you want to bring Brooklyn here?" He blushed red.
"I-I uh," he stammered. Lucky for him, the woman in question came to his rescue.
"Oh, I wasn't his first choice," she said casually. "I watched him go up to Lilly and ask her first. I think she wanted to come, but the poor girl didn't get a word in." She lifted her glass to her mouth and took a sip. "Theo told Killian that now wasn't a good time since they had just started their relationship. I think Theo wants some quality time with his girlfriend before anyone else takes her out."
"That's not what he said," Killian said quietly. We all turned to him.
"Then what did he say?" Bianca asked.
"He said, and I quote, 'that Lilly would never want to go anywhere with you or those le—'" he stopped himself. I narrowed my eyes.
"What did he say?" I growled slightly. Killian paled a little bit went on.
"'O-Or those lesbian g-girl dogs.'" He finished shakily.
"He didn't say girl dogs, did he?" Bianca asked dangerously. Killian shook his head.
I turned my head towards Brooklyn, whose eyes were wide in shock. "Still don't understand why I don't like him?" Brooklyn didn't say anything else until the camarera came to us with our food.
I tried to forget about the vicious snip Theo had told Killian about Bianca and I. And while the lasagna was absolutely delicious, it was hard to get off my mind. And Brooklyn didn't help with her next statement.
"Killian," she said as she laid down her fork. "I saw Lilly give Theo a very cross look after you walked away. Did he call you anything?" Killian looked like he was about to say something, but then hesitated and shook his head instead.
"Don't lie to us, Kil," I told him softly. "We all just want to know what actually happened. We don't want you to carry this alone." Bianca nodded, her face full of her chicken parmigiana, which I think she loved more than me.
Killian let out a sigh. "He told me I had no business talking to Lilly. That I didn't have a place with her anymore."
"That's cold, even for a son of Khione," I commented out of the side of my mouth. "Look, Killian. He doesn't have a say about who Lilly lets into her life. If she chooses to listen to him and cut you off, I'm sorry but you're going to have to live with that. If she doesn't but Theo keeps pressing it, you tell me or Percy or Silena. Okay?" He nodded mutely, stabbing his chicken with his fork before lifting it to his mouth.
Killian was silent the rest of this night.
When we were done, I had paid and we were leaving and Killian opened both the restaurant door for us and opened the car door for me, but he still kept quiet. I knew that this was bugging him, but I didn't see any way to comfort him about it. As Bianca drove us back to camp, I made a plan to talk to my brother tonight. I don't care if he was asleep or awake, I'd drag his ass out of his room and quietly yell at him about this.
And I did just that when we got to camp.