A/N: Hey there my loyal readers! I'm back! Sorry for the delay but this last week was hectic. I live in Ireland and this past week was St. Patrick's Day, nothing else should be said. As you can imagine, I was very occupied. I'm back on a mostly normal schedule now; school four days a week, working on projects for Uni on Sundays and spending time with my girlfriend on Fridays and Saturdays. With how busy I am, I'll probably only be able to up date two to three times a week, give or take. Anyways onto my first chapter that was fully written by me! I hope it's up to par. Leave comments on what you think.


Reviews:

Guest: I went back and edited on march 12th after I saw your review and fixed it. Thanks for letting me know. This goes to everybody, if you find a mistake in grammar or spelling, please let me know. I don't have a beta to check my work and if you're a writer than you probably understand how hard it can be to edit your own work.

Guest (Don't know if it's the same one): Both are cool powers for sure. I'll always be a fan of Percy's Powers the most. Reading Percy Jackson made me love the ocean and pool. I'd stay in the water for hours on end when I was younger.

EtheriousNat5uDragneel: Woops. Guess I should put in a spoiler warning. I just assumed that the people that read these types of fanfictions have already the books or spoiled themselves like I did for Trials of Apollo. Glad you like the story though.

TheNorthernOwl: Lol. I feel ya, hard to choose just one. They're all great. I feel the same about book 2, my least favorite. For my favorite, I'm stuck between book 3 and 5 probably, even though I love books 1 and 4 almost just as much.


Rated M for language and mature humor.

2005 Group repeats (normal): Annabeth or Annie, Grover, Clarisse

2010 Group repeats (underlined): Annabeth, Clarisse, Grover. Now Nico, Percy, Thalia, Piper, Leo, Jason, Frank, Hazel, and Reyna are included.

2012 Group/Enforcers (italicized): Annabeth, Percy, etc.

Thoughts are still italicized: Are Frank and I an item in the future? I guess he is kind of cute, with his babyface and all. Hazel blushed at her thoughts and fanned her faced in embarrassment.

Disclaimer: All characters belong to Rick Riordan. Cover Art is not mine. This fanfiction will contain spoilers for all PJO and HOO books and what little information I know from the Trials of Apollo.


"Well here goes nothing," Poseidon said. "Chapter 6: I BECOME SUPREME LORD OF THE BATHROOM"

The future Greek demigods all sent varying looks of pity toward Clarisse.

"What're you all looking at?" Clarisse growled.

"I'm sorry but also not sorry about what happens next," Percy told her with barely concealed laughter.

"Hah? What do ya mean punk? Trying to pick a fight?"

"It's nothing," Percy said, smiling mischievously at the daughter of Ares. "Just some personal retribution."

Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse…I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back end the way I trusted his front.

Chiron raised his brow slightly at Percy. "Do not compare me to those brainless, domesticated horses thank you very much. You're on stable duty for a week as soon as you get back to your time. Annabeth dear, please make sure he follows through with his punishment."

"No problem," Annabeth reassured her mentor and smirked at Percy.

Percy gaped at the two in disbelief. "How is this any fair!?" He exclaimed indignantly. "These were thoughts from when I was twelve!? From five whole years ago, so why am I being punished!?"

"Well, I can't punish the Percy from my time as he isn't even at camp yet, so you'll have to take the fall. You reap what you have sewn, my boy." Chiron explained righteously.

Percy just stared at his teacher and couldn't help seeing him in a new light. "So petty," he whined.

"That'll be two weeks now."

"FU-!"

We passed the volleyball pit…I felt like they were expecting me to do a flip or something.

"Can you do a flip?" Connor asked.

Percy pondered for a moment. "Hmm…I've never really tried. Like, I've flipped during fights but that may have just been due to the adrenaline rush."

"Dude, I can't even do a full cartwheel during a fight, much less a flip," Leo complained.

"I can do a tiple flip," Jason boasted with a smug smile.

"Bro, you can fly so of course you can manage that…" Leo deadpanned.

I looked back at the farmhouse…impression I was being watched.

"She moved back then too?" Grover asked with a shudder. Percy nodded. "Dang bro, that's so freaky."

"I thought you guys only kept spoils of war up there?" Piper whispered to Annabeth.

Annabeth nodded. "That's how it is now, but back then there was a 'squatter' residing up there."

"A squatter? Who?"

Annabeth turned her head and Piper looked in the direction she was pointing. She blinked a couple of times and then turned to her friend with a blank stare. "Rachel lives in a cave and now you're saying she used to live in the attic?"

Annabeth laughed and said, "Not exactly. The one who lived in the attic was Rachel's predecessor."

Piper shook her head in amazement. "Even the mortals who live in our camp are completely nuts."

"What's up there?" … "Not a single living thing."

"Damn! If I wasn't the god of truth, even I would've fallen for Chiron's half-truth!" Apollo exclaimed then his face darkened a bit. "And if I ever found out who harmed my Oracle…they'll pay the price," he murmured murderously.

I got the feeling he was being truthful…so they grew strawberries instead.

Dionysus scoffed and glared at his father. Zeus noticed this and didn't shy away from his son's glare. "I told you I'd shorten your punishment if you actually start doing what I asked you to do, so don't you dare look at me like that."

"I shouldn't even be punished right now," Mr. D snapped.

"Don't get snippy with me. My word is final. I've already made enough concessions out of consideration for your well-being, I will make no more."

Mr. D rolled his eyes but shut up nonetheless.

I watched the satyr playing his pipe… "But he did that!"

"I still think you successfully brought me to camp, G-man," Percy said.

Grover gave a wry smile and sighed. "Sure…I got you there but how much of that was my doing. You arrived to camp at death's door and I am only alive because you risked yourself to drag me to safety."

"I don't care what any of those senile old goats had to say. You're the greatest protector ever."

"I might agree with you," Chiron said… "He'll get a second chance, won't he?"

Little Grover looked sadly into his lap. Annabeth always told him that Thalia's sacrifice wasn't his fault, but he knew Luke blamed him. He could see the barely concealed rage in his eyes and emotions every time Luke looked at him. Now he learned that he will found another child of the big three and almost fail again.

I'm the most pathetic satyr every, Grover thought self depreciatingly.

Chiron winced…a middle school student for the past six years."

Leo blanched and looked at Grover in horror. "How? Just how? I couldn't last more than a couple months in 6th grade before I'd be expelled or forced to move away! You had to do this for six years!?"

Grover shrugged and let out a resigned laugh. "Oh, it sucked alright and would never want to repeat that again…" He paused and looked at his best friend. "The only good thing that happened in those six years was meeting Perce."

Percy grinned widely and nodded rapidly in agreement. "So true. The only good memory I have from back then is meeting you. Now, that I look back on it, I wouldn't change anything. Who else would I rather have watching my back other than the Red Baron himself?"

Grover smirked and puffed out his chest proudly. "I am pretty great, aren't I?"

"You too have such a lovely friendship," Aphrodite cooed with a flushed face. "I wonder…"

"Mom…What did I say about shipping my friends? Besides, Percy and Annabeth are inseparable," Piper groaned

"I never said I would separate them. A love triangle is just as good. Imagine…three best friends in a three wa-"

"STOP!" Piper screamed, blushing profusely. "Keep your fantasies to yourself!"

"Fiiiineeee."

"That's horrible." … Was it really so bad?"

"Terrible," Grover sighed dejectedly.

"It wasn't your fault, goat boy. So, stop beating yourself up over it," Thalia said.

"You keep telling me that but it's hard not to blame myself," Grover said, tears threatening to fall any minute.

"You'll understand how great you are soon. I promise."

Grover looked unconvinced and looked back at his older self who gave a small smile to him. Seeing this more confident version of his older self be so respected by those around him made him feel a little better. "I won't fail them anymore," he swore to himself.

Chiron looked away quickly. "Let's move along, shall we?"

Percy threw his hands up in exasperation. "I swear to all that is holy, that the next person who doesn't give me a straight answer will be drenched with toilet water. The least you can do is say that it's not your place to talk about it or something like that, but nooooo…you all just ignore me and pretend I didn't ask anything." Percy huffed, trying to catch his breath, and noticed that the room was looking at him in part shock and part amusement.

"Do you feel better after ranting, Seaweed Brain?" Annabeth teased him with a smirk.

Percy blushed a little and turned his head away. "It did, thank you very much. Father, you can continue now that I have said my piece."

But I wasn't quite ready to let the subject drop… "Does that mean the Underworld is real, too?"

Hades narrowed his eyes at his nephew and said, "You better not be thinking of coming to my realm, boy. I don't want to get on your father's bad side by killing you for trespassing."

Percy smirked. "Don't worry uncle, I never died in the underworld."

Hades nodded and crossed his arms in contentment. "Good."

Hades saw Annabeth, Grover, and Nico snickering and frowned. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, Father…" Nico said, struggling to contain his laughter. "Percy says the truth…he never died in your realm…still very much alive."

Hades cocked his head in confusion and then sat up bolt right in his chair. "Impossible! There's no way you'd succeed."

"You are right, uncle," Percy said placatingly, holding back a smile of his own.

"My dad's going to blow his top when he learns about what you did to his army," Nico whispered.

"Oh, I'm sure he'll blow his top much sooner. By the end of this book to be exact," Percy joked.

"What happened? You never told me what you did on your first quest?"

"You'll see…"

Chiron's expression darkened… "Come, Percy. Let's see the woods."

"Bruh," Leo deadpanned. "How have you not snapped at the horse?"

"Years of being patient from dealing with Gabe," Percy grumbled darkly.

Chiron rubbed his neck sheepishly. "I'm sorry, Percy, I am not the best at conversing when stressed, and what ever is going on seems to have left me very stressed…and don't call me the horse, Valdez. You're on dish duty for a week when you arrive back in your time. Piper dear, make sure he follows through."

"Of course, Chiron." Piper agreed, smiling brightly.

"O come on! This McShizzle will remember this!"

As we got closer, I realized how huge the forest was… "Not lethal. Usually. Oh, yes, and there's the mess hall."

"Usually? So, it has been lethal before?" Hazel asked in concern.

"Ah, yes. I believe the last one was five years ago, so in the year 2000," Chiron told her. "It was a fight between an Ares camper and Apollo camper. The Apollo camper was on the unfortunate end of the stick one would say."

"He deserved it!" Clarisse said with a smug smile. "Darrius taught him well."

Frank scowled at his half-sister. "Really? What could he have possibly done to deserve death?"

"He cursed us to speak in limericks for a week!"

Everybody in the room blanched. Frank recovered from his stupor and asked, "And that deserves death?"

"Yes!"

Clarisse took off her shoe and chucked it at her younger self. "Will you shut up!? You're making us sound stupid!"

Clarisse turned red in embarrassed fueled rage but shut up at her older self's chiding.

Chris picked up the shoe and sniffed it. "Hmm, surprisingly normal."

Clarisse blushed and snagged the shoe from his hands. "What the fuck…why would you sniff it? And of course it smells normal!"

Chris shrugged, not embarrassed one bit. "You never know, I've seen some crazy things."

Percy's eyes sparkled and he gave Chris a thumbs up. "I completely understand, you can never be too safe."

Chris nodded sagely and grinned triumphantly at Clarisse.

"Boys…" Annabeth and Clarisse said, shaking their heads in fond exasperation.

Chiron pointed to an outdoor pavilion…I decided to drop the subject.

"Oh yes, that explains everything," Leo said sarcastically.

"Right!? I had given up by this point," Percy griped. "I swear everyone was treating me like an idiot for not knowing things."

Annabeth winced and looked apologetically at her boyfriend. Percy just gripped her hand and planted a kiss on her cheek to let her know that she was forgiven.

Finally, he showed me the cabins…bizarre collection of building I'd ever seen.

"Bizarre?" Apollo questioned, feeling affronted. "I'll have you know that I put in a lot of time and effort into my cabin. It's a masterpiece if I could say so myself."

"I didn't mean anything bad, Lord Apollo. I meant…well, you'll see, it should explain it here." Percy explained to the god.

Except for the fact that...they looked absolutely nothing alike.

"I see what you mean. I guess that would be pretty bizarre to newcomers," Apollo admitted.

Number nine had smokestacks, like a tiny factory.

"Ohhhh yaaaaaa! The party cabin!" Leo said with a fist pump.

Hephaestus gave his son a barely noticeable smile and grinned proudly at his children's cabin.

Number four had tomato vines on the walls and a roof made out of real grass.

Demeter nodded approvingly at her cabins design.

Seven seemed to be made of solid gold, which gleamed so much in the sunlight it was almost impossible to look at.

Apollo gave a bright smile, just as blinding as his cabin.

The all faced a commons area about… (which were more my speed).

"You play basketball?" Michael Yew asked curiously.

"Yeah, but it's not fun playing with you guys. You always win."

Michael smugly smiled. "Naturally. Perks of being children of the god of archery."

In the center of the field…poking the coals with a stick.

Hestia's eyes widened and she looked at her nephew in shock. "You noticed me?"

Percy nodded and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "I should've said hello, but I thought you were just a camper and I had a lot on my plate at the time."

"No need for apologies, it has been many a year since someone has taken notice of me at camp. This just goes to show how much you cherish your family. I'm proud of you, nephew. You're a good person."

Percy blushed. "I'm not that great of a person," he denied humbly.

"You've got that right…I'm no better than a monster," Percy grumbled darkly.

"Are you alright?" Annabeth asked in concern.

"I'm good," he lied. "Just thinking."

The pair of cabins at… "Zeus and Hera" I guessed.

Zeus and Hera looked around the room smugly, proud that their cabins were the most majestic of them all.

Thalia shuddered. "Even after everything I've been through, that cabin still gives me the creeps."

"I concur," Jason whispered to his sister, rubbing at the goosebumps on his arms.

"Correct," Chiron said… But why would some be empty?

"I am the goddess of marriage, so of course my cabin is empty. And if it was up to me, then all the cabins would be empty," Hera said pompously.

"Well, then it's a good thing it's not up to you, mother," Hephaestus snapped grouchily.

Hera looked affronted and glared at her least favorite son. "Don't snap at me. Demigods are a reminder of our mistakes and infidelity. They are easily corrupt and tainted with sin from birth. A disgrace to us gods."

All the demigods, even the Romans who she was the patroness god of, glared at the Queen in disgust.

"Us demigods have protected your interests for thousands of years, your holiness." Thalia sassed. "So maybe you should thank us for once and pull that stick out of your ass. Without us, your precious perfect family would've been annihilated in the first giant war."

"You dare talk to me, the Queen, like that!? You ask for death!"

"You will not harm my daughter, Hera!" Zeus roared.

Hera paled at his anger and then remembered that he should be the one who should be sorry. "Maybe if you didn't break your oath and go around having more children! And you almost killed her earlier, so you can't talk!"

Zeus sighed, all of his anger dissipating. "I did and I regret my actions."

"Good, you should," Hera grinned triumphantly. Thalia and Jason frowned. Leave it to their shitty father to admit he regretted having them.

Seeing Hera's triumphant smile and his children's frowns, Zeus realized what he meant had been mistaken. "I mean I regret attacking them. I admit that I was wrong for breaking my oath, but I do not regret being their father. As their father, I should never harm them. The only thing I regret is not being a better father."

Hera's bright expression darkened and looked ready to argue but a look from Hestia stopped her. Hestia gave her older brother a nod, indicating that she was proud of him. Both Jasons and Thalias were shocked hearing their fathers' words. They looked at their father in shocked awe, causing him to turn his head away in embarrassment.

"Please continue, brother." Zeus told Poseidon.

Poseidon smirked and gave his brother a knowing look. Maybe this reading would do some good after all.

I stopped in front of… "Oh, I wouldn't do that!"

"Don't stop him. The cabin is calling to him," Poseidon said.

"Don't be so dramatic, barnacle beard." Athena snarked.

Before he could pull me back…arguing with each other while rock music blared.

Ares smugly smiled at the mention of his cabin. I bet my kids could pummel him, he thought to himself.

The loudest was a girl maybe thirteen or fourteen.

Percy grimaced. "This is gonna be one of the many times my thoughts aren't very flattering, and just reminding you we didn't have the best initial relationship," he reminded Clarisse.

Clarisse just grinned evilly. "I won't take offense, but that doesn't mean I won't use this as an excuse to pound you into the mat, Prissy."

Percy grinned wryly. "Well, I guess that could be consolation for what's about to happen."

Clarisse grit her teeth at the reminder and reached over to grab him in a headlock.

She wore a size XXXL…and brown instead of red.

"I remind you of that bitch? I could snap her in half," Clarisse growled.

"I know. She doesn't hold a candle to you. You just reminded me of her because you looked like a bully," Percy explained.

Clarisse glared at him.

"Tell me I'm wrong."

"Hmph, still gonna pulverize you."

I kept walking, trying to stay clear of Chiron's hooves…But you won't see any here."

"Can they please come over one more time?" Connor begged Chiron.

"Please?" Travis added on.

"NO."

"Pretty please?"

"NO."

"Damn."

"Language," Katie admonished the brothers.

"You said your name was Chiron… "But, shouldn't you be dead?"

Everybody looked between the two Percys blankly. Both of them blushed and avoided everyone's gazes.

"Straight off with the smart question, huh seaweed brain." Annabeth deadpanned.

"It was a legit question…" Percy whined defensively.

*Stare*

*Stare*

"…At the time…" Percy murmured. Seeing his girlfriend still staring at him blankly he mustered up the most pathetic baby seal eyes he could.

Annabeth crumbled instantly under the look and did her best not to look him straight in the eyes. "Alright, alright. You're right. It was a very legit question. Now stop looking at me like that, I can't think straight."

"Thanks, Wise Girl! I knew you loved me!" Percy exclaimed unabashedly and smooched her on the lips.

"Bleh, fucking dog food," Nico retched.

Percy whirled around and gave his cousin the evil eye. "How about I tell everyone about that time I saw you kissing Wi-"

"I repent. You making out with your girlfriend is a welcome sight and I have nothing to complain about, so please continue. Do not tell anybody what you saw."

Percy smirked. "That's what I thought."

Chiron paused, as if the question intrigued him…But I'm still here, so I can only assume I'm still needed."

"You'll always be needed, Chiron." Annabeth said to her father figure.

"I'm right, even in our time you are the pillar for our camp. Many would be lost without you," Annabeth told him.

Chiron smiled at his favorite demigod and thanked his lucky stars that she had found the happiness she deserved in the future. Even though something told him she had been through much pain before finding that happiness.

I thought about being a…Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

Leo snorted. "Dude, I knew after all this time that we were quite similar, but I'm starting to appreciate you more and more. You and I think so alike."
Percy smiled at his friend and gave him a high-five.

"Doesn't it ever get boring?" … "Why depressing?"

Chiron sighed sadly and was about to explain, but Percy waved him off. "No need to explain, I completely understand now…" Percy said sadly while looking at his deceased friends.

Chiron noticed his gaze and instantly felt like he aged another ten years. If the sad looks that had been directed at some of the campers from his time were anything to go off of, then he had to guess they were no longer among the land of the living in the future. Depressing indeed.

Chiron seemed to turn hard of hearing again. "Oh, look," he said. "Annabeth is waiting for us."

"He's absolutely incredible!" Hermes exclaimed. "His skills at changing the subject and the finesse that he does it with could teach even me a few things. How do you do it?"

"Practice, lord Hermes." Chiron said with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, replacing the previous depression.

The blond girl I'd met… about how much I drooled.

Annabeth giggled and smiled fondly at her boyfriend. "I was partly thinking of that, but I was mostly wondering who your parent was and if you were the demigod I had been waiting for."

"No surprise there. So, what did you think?" Percy asked.

"I honestly thought it was a little cute, not that I would have ever admitted it."

Percy blinked in bewilderment. "What did you find cute?"

"Your drooling."

Percy's eyes widened and then smirked slyly. "I wasn't asking what you thought of me drooling, I was asking who you thought my parent was. But it's good to know you found me cute even back then."

Annabeth's ears turned pink and she turned away shyly. "Oh…I knew that. I was hoping your godly parent was Zeus, but I really had no clue. And you really were cute back then, no reason for me to keep denying it."

Percy smiled widely and wrapped her in his embrace. "I always thought you were quite beautiful. I guess that's one of the only things I find acceptable about reading my thoughts."

"What about this is acceptable?" Annabeth asked grouchily.

"We get to relive our relationship. I know that we had our rough patches, but I wouldn't change anything. I love you so much, Annabeth Chase." Percy told her and gave her an Eskimo kiss.

Annabeth sighed contentedly and melted into his embrace. "Love you too, Percy Jackson."

I tried to see what she was reading… "Make yourself at home."

Luke scowled and mumbled darkly, "Stupid gods, putting all their mistakes into one cabin and forgetting about them. They are not fit to rule."

Thalia noticed Luke's dark looks and shook her head sadly. She nudged Annabeth and jutted her chin in Luke's direction. "He's already heavily influenced by Kronos."

"Yeah, I thought after seeing us alive and well in the future that he'd rethink things, but he's already to far gone." Annabeth paused and Thalia could see the distress in the deep recesses of her friend's eyes. "I don't know if I can forgive him. I declared him a hero and previously thought I'd forgiven him, but now that we have to relive all the bad he did…all the innocent lives he cost…I'm not sure anymore. I hate him Thalia, I don't want to, but I do."

Thalia wiped away the tears that had been building up on the corner of her eyes and bit her lower lip to stop it from trembling. "I feel the same, Annie. He broke our trust. He repented in the end…but that doesn't make his betrayal hurt any less. Even if we can't forgive him now, the best we can do is give him a chance. These books will hopefully show him the errors of his ways. I'll only forgive him when he acknowledges his mistakes."

Annabeth nodded and stopped glaring at Luke, instead looking at her boyfriend's side profile for comfort. Percy felt her stare and gave her a cheeky grin that always made her heart flutter. Gods I want to kiss him…maybe I'll check to make sure he doesn't have that scar on his butt cheek next time we're alone… Annabeth's face turned a bright red and she shook away her evil thoughts. What are you thinking!? Gods…why did my older self have to tell me about that, now I really want to take a peek.

Out of all the cabins…had set up an evacuation center.

Hermes glared at the other Olympians. "Claim your children for OUR' sake! My children shouldn't have to live uncomfortably because of all of your neglect."

The other gods looked away from Hermes in guilt, whether they cared about his complaints or not were unknown.

"I do my best to claim my kids, I just have a lot of them so I lose track sometimes," Apollo spoke up meekly.

"Do better," Hermes growled. "All of you should do better, claiming your children isn't breaking the ancient laws so there are no excuses."

This time all the gods looked down in shame and seriously started considering what he said.

Luke looked at his father and some hesitation could be seen on his face. At least my father claimed me early on, he thought to himself.

"Don't forget about how he left you with your insane mother and how he never once showed up to help when you were on the run," a gratingly evil voice whispered darkly in his head. "Remember that Hades sent his minions to kill the girl you loved and that Zeus sat by and watched, only to turn her into a tree when she was about to die. The gods are not good, I will be a better ruler and you will be my side to witness the glory of a new era."

Luke shivered at the voice but his eyes hardened and his mind set in stone. "I understand, I will complete the task you have given me."

Chiron didn't go in…but none of them said anything.

"I feel you, bro! The most natural thing one can do when walking into a classroom is trip on nothing. Classic," Leo laughed and gave Percy a thumbs up.

Annabeth announced, "Percy Jackson, meet cabin eleven." …Everybody groaned.

"Was it that common to be undetermined back then?" Piper asked. She had heard that things had changed before their arrival, but she didn't know how different it had been.

"Sadly," Lou Ellen told her. "I remained unclaimed for the first three years that I was at camp. My reason's different since I was a child of a minor god and she had no cabin at camp, but at least 30% of the camp was unclaimed during that time, whether they were children of minor gods or the Olympians."

"That's-"

"Crazy," Lou Ellen interrupted. "Yeah, but sadly gods seem have a fetish for baby making and then forgetting about them after they're born."

"Not how I would've said it, but she's right," Annabeth agreed wryly.

A guy who was a little older than the rest came forward…like an old knife slash.

Luke scowled and traced the scar running across his face. It's only fair that the gods feel the same pain he felt.

"This is Luke," Annabeth said… "He's your counselor now."

Annabeth paled and saw Luke looking at her oddly. She blushed and buried her head into her hands. Why does Percy have to be so perceptive!? She thought to herself in embarrassment. "Now the whole camp will know about my crush."

"We already know," Travis said.

"It's super obvious," Connor agreed.

"What?" Annabeth asked in bewilderment.

"Everybody at camp knows about your little crush," the Stoll brothers told her.

"Did I say that out loud!?" Annabeth squeaked with a tomato red face and watery eyes.

"Loud and clear."

Annabeth looked over at Luke, who was avoiding looking at her, and then all the life seemed to fizz out of her like a hot air balloon. "Kill me now," she begged no one in particular.

Annabeth sighed and looked at her boyfriend, who was currently pouting her. Annabeth giggled at his goofy look. "Jealous?" She asked with a smirk.

Percy glared at her half-heartedly. "…Maybe a little."

Annabeth's eyes crinkled in happiness, happy that her boyfriend would jealous over her. "You're so silly, seaweed brain. It was only a small crush when I was young and stupid. You took my heart by storm within a year anyways."

"Hmmm…still unhappy," Percy pouted like a little kid.

Annabeth laughed and whispered into his ear seductively, "How about I make it up to you tonight…sound good?"

Percy snapped to attention and nodded his head rapidly with a goofy grin on his face.

Annabeth smiled fondly at her endearing boyfriend and kissed him on the lips. "That's just your down payment."

"For now?" I asked…chance to pick my pockets.

"Dang," Chris said. "You're lucky you remembered; you wouldn't have had the chance to say goodbye to that horn of yours otherwise."

"I wouldn't recommend stealing from Percy," Will warned the Hermes kids.

"Why?" Chris asked.

"Last time the Stolls stole from him, the whole Hermes cabin was assaulted with Pegasus dung for a week."

Percy grinned proudly. Everyone at camp knew not to mess with him after that incident.

The Hermes kids paled and swore to never steal from Percy unless their plan was foolproof. "Warning noted."

"How long will I be here?" I asked…The campers all laughed.

Hestia frowned at the demigods. "That's just rude."

"We weren't exactly laughing at Percy," Travis said.

"It's just that question has been asked so many times and its usually never a good response. Most kids wouldn't hear from their parents for months or years, if at all." Connor finished.

"We're not that bad, are we?" Apollo asked.

"You are," all the demigods chorused.

Apollo frowned and looked at the other gods to see them doing the same. I think we really do have some learning to do…it seems we truly don't understand our children very well.

"Come on," Annabeth told me… "I can't believe I thought you were the one."

"Damn Annie, that's harsh," Thalia said.

"Yeah, are you harsh to all the new kids?" Leo asked, albeit in a joking manner.

Annabeth had the shame to look a little embarrassed. "In my defense, I was really stressed when I met you, Leo; and when I met Percy…well, no excuses there…I was just a snot nosed brat."

Nico snorted. "Weren't we all at one point. I know I was quite the brat."

"Still are," Thalia snarked.

"Laugh it up. You're just an eternal goth barbie doll with a bad temper, I'm happy with my lot in life compared to yours."

Thalia's eye twitched and little crackles of electricity popped off her finger tips. "Watch yourself death breath, wouldn't want to find an arrow up your podex now, would you?"

"I'm not afraid of you, pinecone face. You're so bristly that I'm surprised you aren't still covered in pine needles," Nico retorted.

Thalia's face darkened with anger and lighting was coursing across her entire being.

"Damn your sister is hot when she's angry. She can step on me any day," Leo said to Jason.

Jason guffawed and stared at his best friend in befuddlement. "Dude…she's my sister."

Leo nodded sagely. "I know, I just said that. And damn, she's smokin!"

"Wanna say that again, scrawny?" Thalia's voice said from beside them, eyes narrowed at the Latino.

Leo whistled appreciatively. "Dayum! That look is utter gold! It takes dangerously hot to a whole other level!" He paused and flexed his muscles. "And I'm not scrawny, see?"

Thalia stared blankly at his muscles then scoffed and turned away. Leo gaped at her response and flexed a few more times trying to gain her attention to no avail. "At least Calypso appreciates these bad boys," he consoled himself.

"Speaking of Calypso," Jason said. "Wouldn't she be made to find you flirting with my sister?"

Leo grinned and nodded proudly. "Hell yeah she would be! She'd beat me up, step on me, and call me names until she forgives me. But damn do I love it when she acts all Dom with me!"

"You're crazy," Reyna deadpanned.

"And I wear that title with pride! Normal is overrated anyways," Leo said unabashedly.

"What's your problem?" I was getting angry now… What do you think we train for?"

"Annie, what did I teach you? It's not about glory, it's about survival," Thalia chided.

"I know, I know. I was just desperate to get out of camp and prove to myself that I had what it takes to survive in this monster infested world," Annabeth admitted, ashamed with her past thoughts. And then she once again turned to Percy, looking for the forgiveness that she already knew that he would give her for her past rudeness. Percy just smiled at her and kissed her on the lips, but that was all it took for her to get over her melancholy.

"And what about you? You shouldn't have forgotten what I taught you, right?" Thalia asked younger Annabeth.

Annabeth stubbornly stared at the older girl but eventually caved in under her look of disappointment. "I haven't forgotten," Annabeth said quietly. "I just want to prove to everyone that I'm strong."

"You are strong, Annie, but that's no reason to be so rude to the poor guy after he lost his mother."

Annabeth looked down, ashamed. "I haven't done that yet…"

"That's no excuse. You would've said that if we weren't reading these books."

Annabeth sighed in resignation and her eyes hardened. "I'm sorry," she apologized, staring Percy right in the eyes. "I have only met you for a short while and can tell you're a good person. I can't take back what hasn't happened nor what has already happened, but from now on I will treat you with less prejudice for things out of your control…" Annabeth blushed and looked away from the couple happily snuggling in each other's embrace. "And for our future relationship I suppose…Doesn't mean I approve! But you're just not bad! HMPH!"

Percy looked at little Annabeth with an amused smile. "Wow, little Wise Girl. I didn't know you had it in you. I'm impressed. All is forgiven."

Annabeth glared at him but her deep blush betrayed her embarrassment. "Don't call me wise girl…"

"Alright, wise girl."

"Ugh! You're impossible!"

Percy laughed and Annabeth bopped him on the head. "Stop teasing little me, you're going to make her and in extension, me, embarrassed."

Percy kissed his girlfriend on the forehead and raised his hands up in mock surrender.

I shook my head… They can be killed. But they don't die."

"That clears it up," Leo said sarcastically. "They can be killed, but they don't die…how logical of you little miss wisdom."

All three Annabeths glared at him and Poseidon chuckled when he read the next line.

"Oh, thanks. That clears it up."

"We really are the dynamic duo!" Leo exclaimed, his eyes sparkling after finding his soon to be comedy duo. "I think I'm in love."

Percy blanched. "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm perfectly happy in my current relationship." He looked at his girlfriend who was glowering at Leo. "And my girlfriend is quite territorial."

Leo shrugged. "It was worth a try. Don't worry Captain knowledge, he's all yours, you won't find any competition in this bad boy; besides, I prefer women."

"They don't have souls, like you and me…We call them the Kindly Ones, if we have to speak of them at all."

"I've always stuck with Mrs. Dodds. It's easier to remember," Percy said.

"She's more likely to hear you call her Mrs. Dodds than she would if you called her a fury," Nico said. "She absolutely abhors that name and would've ripped me to shreds if I wasn't my father's son for calling her that once."

"Look, is there anything we can say… "Diagnosed with dyslexia. Probably ADHD, too."

"Geez, you know so much about me. Are you perhaps…a stalker!?" Percy teased in mock horror.

Annabeth rolled her eyes and pinched his side, making him yelp in pain. "Only that one time, seaweed brain."

"Oh my, Beth," Piper teased with a sly smile on her face. "Didn't realize you were so desperately in love with Percy that you'd fall as low as stalking him."

Annabeth blushed and glared at her friend. "It was only once and I wasn't even stalking him. I had something to tell him and I couldn't find the right timing so I just followed him around."

"Peeped on me when I was in my room," Percy whispered.

Piper's eyes widened comically and bit her bottom lip. "Wow, didn't know you had this side to you, girl."

Annabeth blushed an even darker shade of red. "Dammit Percy! You know I wasn't trying to peak!"

Percy doubled over in laughter and hardly managed to apologize.

"So, when did this happen?" Piper asked, her curiosity as a daughter of the love goddess getting the better of her.

"It should come up in one of the books if they are all about me," Percy told her.

"Great, time for everyone to laugh at me for 'stalking' my crush," Annabeth groaned.

I tried to swallow my embarrassment…A half-blood.

Piper scowled. "Still hate that term. Why can't we just stick demigod? Half-blood is so degrading."

Jason smiled wryly, used to his girlfriend ranting about this subject. He just did what he usually would to placate his angry girlfriend; kissed her on the cheek and started stroking her braided hair.

I was reeling with so many questions…all wearing camo jackets.

"Ugly?" Clarisse growled, glaring at Percy.

Percy just smiled. "I told you my thoughts would be unflattering, and tell me I was wrong. You look mean, you look big, and the way you scowled all smug like sure as hades wasn't pretty."

Clarisse scowled that same scowl but shrugged her shoulders. "You're not wrong."

"I think she's quite pretty," Chris said in her defense.

"Pretty!?" Clarisse shrieked, slapping him on the face. "I'm not pretty!"

Chris looked at her in a daze and held the cheek that she slapped. "So pretty," he muttered dreamily.

Clarisse momentarily blushed and then punched him hard across the face in her fluster, knocking him out cold. "σκατά," she cursed. "Didn't mean to actually hit him."

"Girls are scary," Frank whispered to Hazel.

Hazel giggled. "What about me then? I'm a girl too."

Frank quickly shook his head in denial. "I don't find you scary at all! I honestly find it very comforting to be around you…" He tapered off towards the end, his baby cheeks flushing red.

Hazel's darker skin gained a hue of red and she cupped her cheeks in embarrassment.

Aphrodite cooed at the two and squirmed in her seat. "How lovely! I've never seen innocence such as those two! They'll make a fabulous couple!"

"Clarisse," Annabeth sighed… "It explains the bad smell."

Ares raised an eyebrow at the insult. "Are you trying to say I stink, punk?"

"Yes," both Percys deadpanned.

All the demigods blanched and the gods looked at the son of Poseidon in amusement. Not many could say they have disrespected a god to their face, and much less lived to tell the tale.

Ares scowled and lowered his glasses to show a raging fire in his sockets. Percy clenched his fists, trying to control his anger, knowing it was Ares' aura tampering with his emotions. Percy on the other hand just wriggled his eyebrows at the god mockingly. "Try me," he mouthed sassily.

Ares growled and replaced his glasses. "I like your spunk, kid. I'd like to spar with you some time to show you the difference between a god and a mortal, maybe then you'd learn respect."

Annabeth snorted.

"Is something funny, Athena spawn?" Ares demanded angrily.

Annabeth just waved him off. "It's nothing, Lord Ares. Just remembered something pretty ironic. Nothing to worry about."

Ares looked dissatisfied, but he knew as long as the enforcers had the power given to them by the fates, then he could do nothing about it.

Clarisse growled… "Stay out of it, wise girl."

"That's where you go the nickname from!?" Thalia asked in shock.

"Huh…I guess it was. I completely forgot. I original used the name to get on her nerves but over time it became more endearing," Percy told her.

"How…Romantic?" Thalia said, but it sounded more like she was questioning it.

"I quite like it now," Annabeth. "It's grown on me, only when Percy says it of course."

"So sweet," Silena gushed.

"So sour," Nico choked.

Annabeth looked pained…I knew immediately was the bathroom.

Poseidon grinned widely. "I don't appreciate you hazing my son like this, but it seems like you brought him to his home court."

Clarisse groaned and put her head between her knees. "Don't remind me. I wouldn't have been so stupid if I'd known."

I was kicking and punching…able to afford classier johns.

The whole room burst into rambunctious laughter.

"Dude!" Leo laughed. "That's pure gold. I'm geeking right now. You'd be that guy that had a comedy skit playing through your head even as your about to die."

Percy laughed as well. "You don't know how right you are. It's become a common occurrence of mine to have the most random thoughts in the worst situations."

"Not just your thoughts, you do it out loud at the worst times too. Almost gotten you killed a few times because of it," Annabeth said in amusement.

"The restrooms could really use an upgrade," Castor told his father.

"Fine. I suppose we'll get you better ones since you mortals have such needs," Dionysus conceded, only because it was his son who brought it up.

Clarisse's friends were all laughing…watching through her fingers.

"I was not!"

"Yeah, you were," Percy teased.

"Was not!"

Another note appeared out of nowhere and fell into Athena's lap.

The books are nonfiction so everything written in here is true.

-The Fates

Annabeth blushed. "Do the fates have something against me?" She grumbled. "Why'd they have to point that out to everyone."

Clarisse bent me over on my knees…I felt a tug in the pit of my stomach.

"Stubborn Percy is only second to angry Percy," Nico said.

"What do you mean?" Jason asked.

"Angry Percy is scary strong, while stubborn Percy isn't as scary or strong but still very dangerous. If Percy doesn't want to do something, then…well we're about to see exactly what I mean."

I heard the plumbing rumble, the pipes shudder…and the water shut off as quickly as it had started.

"Aquaman!" Leo exclaimed excitedly. "That's seriously so cool! You didn't even know about your powers and you still make all the lady's wet!"

"Leo! No more cheesy innuendos from you or I'll make you burn your toolbelt!" Piper demanded with a flushed face.

Leo paled and hugged his toolbelt to his chest protectively. "I offer my most sincere apologies. I will try to contain my urges to make cheesy innuendos and puns from here onwards…so please no touchy my toolbelt."

"Dude, your filter is as bad as mine," Percy joked. "I guess we really are kindred spirits."

The entire bathroom was flooded…I didn't have one drop of water on my clothes. Nothing.

"I still find that so unfair," Leo complained. "I have to focus really hard to make sure I don't burn my clothes while you can just will yourself dry. I can't count how many times someone has stumbled upon me in the nude because of that. An Aphrodite girl even had the gall to scoff at little McShizzle. That one hurt. I've never measured him but I'm certain he's not that small."

"For Hades sake Leo, please cease and desist. I'm getting way too much second-hand embarrassment for one day just for knowing you," Piper groaned.

"Sorry princess, but I'm untamable. Like a raging fire!" Leo exclaimed, flexing his non-existent muscles for all to see and lighting his biceps on fire.

"Your son is…interesting. I can see it being charming to some women," Aphrodite whispered telepathically to her husband.

Hephaestus just shrugged. "No idea who he gets that from. Not me or his mother, that's for sure."

I stood up, my legs shaky…Close your mouth."

Clarisse looked like she wanted to bash Percy's face into a pulp at the moment.

"Don't get so wound up," Percy told her. "You get a bit of a revenge in one of the upcoming chapters…so contain your murder for a little while."

Her friends had to hold her back…on my team for capture the flag."

"That's the chapter," Poseidon said, bookmarking the page and closing the book.

"I'll read next," Demeter said, snatching the book.

She didn't even wait for the others to settle down before she started reading the next chapter.

Chapter 7, My Dinner Goes Up In Smoke


Question: Which of Percy's pet companions do you like more? Black Jack or Ms. O'Leary?