'Say, do you know where Chiron is?' Someone asked. Percy turned around, expecting to see a satyr with a new demigod, or one of his demigod friends. Instead, there was a woman standing there. He looked at her. 'Eh, in the Big House, or the archery field if you've already looked there.' The woman shook her head.
'I'll look in the house first. Funny that they called it the Big House. That's pretty straightforward.' Percy nodded.
'Yeah. I'm pretty sure one of the earlier demigods just pointed at it and said that, the name stuck and it is easy.' Percy looked around. He had been waiting for Jason to come get him, so they could try to beat Nico and Will at Mario Kart (Team Sunny Death: 22, Team ThunderSeaStorm: 1. Percy and Jason had been ridiculously happy that one time).
The woman smiled at him. 'Alright. See you around in camp, Percy.' She walked away. Percy stared at her for one second, and then started to look out for Jason again. People knowing his name wasn't really a weird thing, because he saved the world twice and all that. Yet, he had the feeling he had seen that woman somewhere before. He shrugged it of, though - he had seen a lot of minor gods once and never again.
After five minutes, he decided to go over to the Hades cabin to beat Will and Nico on his own, but just then he felt two arms around his body, who pulled him straight into the air. Percy held back a scream, and sighed. 'Hey Jay Jay. Come, we have to beat team Sunny Death.' Jason pinched his cheeks. 'Hey! What was that good for, sparky?' He asked. Jason flew back to the Big House. 'Percy, you have arguments with Dionysus basically every other day because of the stupidest reasons, seemingly just because you want to challenge him, yet you don't notice it when his wife is standing right in front of you asking for directions?'
'Oh.' Percy couldn't think of a better answer. Jason nodded. Percy tried to shrug while being flown around, which wasn't easy. 'She looks like Sheila, I guess.' Jason laughed. He landed in front of the Big House, where a small crowd of Demigods had gathered. There weren't a lot of devine visitors in camp, and there certainly weren't a lot of visitors who were also the wife of the camp director. Percy heard some people whisper. 'What's she here for?'
'Is she really Mr. D's wife?'
'I didn't even know he was married.'
'What's her name?'
Percy sighed. 'Jay Jay, you fight Nico and Will. I need to know what's going on.' Jason stared at him.
'Percy, what are you planning?' Percy looked at him.
'I'm going to just step inside and pretend like I have something more important to do.' Without saying another word, he stepped onto the veranda and actually did it.
Jason didn't try to stop him, knowing that would be useless. He felt a tap on his shoulder, and looked around to see Annabeth standing there. 'What's going on?' Jason quickly explained the situation to her. Annabeth raised one of her eyebrows 'Well, that sounds like a Percy-worthy plan.' Jason laughed.
'Yeah, you can see it like that as well.'
As soon as Percy had stepped inside of the Big House, he had classified this plan as 'pretty damn stupid.' Yet, there was no way back. He looked around, and saw that Chiron and Ariadne were the only two in the room. He sighed in relief. 'Oh, eh... I had a question.' Chiron sighed deeply.
'I am sure you did, Percy. Yet, can that wait just a few minutes?'
Percy's common sense told him to take that excuse and run outside again. Yet, of course his ADHD brain won that battle again. 'No, yes, well... we all want to know what's going on.' Oh, shoot, I messed up, he thought immediately thought after that. 'Well, bye!' He said, while quickly jumping out of the Big House again. Inside, Chiron took another deep breath. 'Ariadne, I'll have to alarm Dionysus. If you could explain the story to the bunch of teenagers that is standing outside, that would be nice.' Ariadne nodded.
'Sure, Chiron.'
Percy basically fell into Annabeth's and Jason's' arms. 'I messed up.' Jason and Annabeth didn't react.
'It's okay, Percy,' Annabeth begun. Yet, at that moment Ariadne stepped out of the Big House, and Annabeth stopped talking - just like everybody else, actually. The goddess coughed. 'So, I am here because of a... small problem, on Olympus.' Some kids started whispering to each other. Percy couldn't blame them; honestly, he didn't know as well if it was a genuine problem or just more of Zeus being a dummy.
'Okay, there is a wedding from some god and goddess of another pantheon, and he needs a few demigods to show the other pantheons that Greece is still going strong. He wanted to ask Chiron and my husb... Dionysus, to point them out. Yet, Hera didn't want him to leave the mountain, and a whole lot of drama later they all decided I had to go ask them to do that.' She went silent. The crowd didn't respond for a while, but eventually they all started arguing between each other again.
Percy sighed the deepest sigh ever sighed in the history of sighs. 'Yep, there goes my weekend.' Annabeth patted him on the back. Most of the kids started to walk back to their daily activities, so that Percy, Annabeth and Jason were almost the only people still standing around the Big House. Ariadne sighed, and wanted to get down from the veranda, but then Chiron walked through the door.
Chiron started speaking to the goddess, so that Percy, Jason and Annabeth decided that it had been enough and they were going to go to the Hades cabin. Yet, they hadn't even walked six steps until Nico bursted out of nowhere. 'What's going on? I heard the rumour that Mr. D's wife is inside this camp right now.' Percy stared at him.
'Well, you're right. Now Let's go and play Mario Kart.'
Nico looked like he agreed with that, but at that moment Will arrived on the scene. 'Hey...'
'Yes, Ariadne is here right now, over there on the veranda to be precise,' Percy said before Will could finish that sentence. The sunny boy closed his mouth, but then opened it again: 'what for?' Percy groaned as an answer, so Annabeth swiftly explained what was going on. Will bit his lip. 'Well, Percy, maybe... you know...' he didn't finish that sentence.
Dionysus stepped out of the Big House, looking around. He stopped walking as soon as he saw Ariadne. Chiron had told him that there was a goddess in camp to do something for Zeus; he had neglected to mention that that goddess was also his wife. He looked at her for a few seconds, until Ariadne decided that it had been enough and she just walked over to and hugged him. He put his hand on her shoulder and pressed a kiss on her forehead.
All of the demiamigo's saw it and for once they were all quiet (for six seconds, which is a new record). Until Jason unenevitebly broke the silence: 'that is probably the most tender moment in this entire camp since Will first kissed Nico.' Will and Nico both blushed, Annabeth gave a single nod and Percy clearly wanted to say something snarky, but then the horn announcing dinner sounded and he didn't get the chance.
The demigods started wandering to the dinner pavilion. Percy sighed. 'I wanted to make a snarky comment, but I forgot what I wanted to say.' Jason patted him on the back.
'You know what Percy, that might be a good thing. ' Percy didn't answer to that, as they wandered into the Pavilion.
Annabeth sat down at the Poseidon table. Percy raised his eyebrows. 'Annabeth, Dionysus will send you back to your table anyway, so you might as well...' Annabeth shook her head.
'Percy, I bet you an entire bar of chocolate that he won't even notice.' Percy sighed.
'Maybe.'
Dionysus didn't notice, and Annabeth was not the only one who figured that he might not. A lot of demigods were sitting somewhere where they were not supposed to sit, and Chiron was to busy thinking about who he might send to Olympus to care about it. When Ariadne entered the pavilion, she got a lot of side-glances from campers (because her presence meant that they might got to see their camp director be completely focused on her and not on them, and that was funny and meant that they could get away with a whole lot more than usual). She just hugged Sheila (Pollux turned his head away, but got a friendly smile from her) and walked back to the head table.
Annabeth took a bite out of her burger. 'I told you he wouldn't notice.' Percy stole one of her fries.
'Just you watch, the Stolls are going to exploit this.' Annabeth laughed.
'What do you think they'd do? Buy a bunch of chickens and hope that Chiron and Mr. D are so distracted by 'who do I have to pick' and 'oh gods my wife is here right now' that they don't notice it? I mean, not noticing that people have changed tables is one thing, but not noticing a Stoll prank is kind of a lot.' Percy smiled.
'Oh, they'll do it. We just have to wait.'
