Piper noticed that it was awfully quiet during the announcements. Usually, Dionysus would say something in a way that Chiron did not like, and Chiron would comment what was really going to happen. Right now, she just heard Chiron talking. She looked up and noticed that Dionysus was not sitting at the head table either.

Usually, Piper truly wouldn't care less whether their camp leader was actually in the camp or not. Yet, her demigod senses told her that there was something else going on than just Zeus calling everyone to the mountain for a meeting.

After dinner, she stood up and walked over to Chiron. 'Chiron, Where's Mr. D?' Chiron turned to her. 'I did not know you campers cared about what he was doing.' Piper shrugged. Chiron chuckled. 'Do you smell drama, Piper?' She shrugged and nodded at the same time. Chiron sighed. 'Well, the situation truly is dramatic. A few days ago, Eris casually mentioned that she wanted to know who the god of musical was - Dionysus or Apollo.' Chiron sighed again. (Piper doubted whether Eris truly 'casually' asked it).

'They both heard that and they have been bickering and arguing about it for the last few days,' Chiron continued. 'Wait, that is the wrong way to say it - they have been actively fighting about it.' Piper could not help it; she started laughing.

'What the heck?' Chiron looked like he did not find it very funny at all.

'It is a serious problem, Piper. Basically everyone on Olympus has tried to stop them, to no avail. Even interferences from the muses or Ariadne have had no effect.' Piper slowly nodded, more to keep from laughing than to show Chiron that she was understanding the issue.

'I guess it is pretty bad, then.'

'You could say that.'

'Do you know what exactly is going on that makes everyone believes they should stop?' Chiron shook his head.

'No, but I assume they are neglecting their duties.'

'Assume? Dionysus's not here.'

Chiron bit his lip. 'That's true. Now excuse me, Piper, I need to make sure the children do not burn each other with burning marshmallows.' He trotted away, but stopped after a few steps. 'Piper, I would appreciate it if you could not tell this to the entire camp, good?' Piper nodded.

'Understood.'

Piper yawned. She suddenly felt tired; maybe she would just go to sleep early tonight. She started slowly walking to the campfire. Halfway through, Percy caught up to her. 'Hey Piper.'

'Hello.' Together, they walked further. Percy yawned as well.

'It is pretty weird, but I am really tired, while I wasn't only three minutes ago,' Percy mentioned. Piper looked at him.

'That's weird. I feel the same way.' Percy stopped smiling.

'I'll bet you thousand dollars that that means something is going to happen.'

Piper pursed her lips. 'Do you know what the main issue on Olympus is right now?' Percy nodded.

'Yes. I heard a few crabs on the beach talk about it. You mean the stuff with Apollo and Mr. D, right?' Piper nodded back. She giggled again.

'Somehow, I find it funny and scary at the same time.' Percy chuckled.

'Yeah.' He yawned again. 'But I am so... tired...' He closed his eyes. Pipers' eyelids started to grow really heavy too. She slowly closed them, while she saw Percy fall on the grass.

Neither of them had any idea how long they were asleep for. Yet, when she woke up, Piper felt like she was laying on a cloud. That was because she was actually laying on a cloud; an Olympian one, to be more precise. A woman sat in a chair next to her bed, knitting. She jumped out of the bed. 'Where am I!? Who are you!?' The woman calmly put her needles and yarn down. 'You're on Olympus, in the grand palace of the nine muses. I am a servant with the mission to look after you,' she answered. Piper blinked.

'Why am I here?'

'The ladies will explain that. Now, over there is a bathroom with some clothes.'

Fifteen minutes later, Piper and Percy were both sitting in a luxury dining hall, with a plate full of food in front of them. Percy took a bite of pancake. Piper opened her mouth to say something, but she closed it again when nine beautiful women walked into the dining room. Piper stood up and bowed. After a few seconds, Percy did the same thing, although he did not look like he meant it.

The tallest of the muses stepped forward. 'Good morning, demigods. Have you slept well?' She asked. 'My name is Calliope.' She pointed at her eight sisters. 'And these are the other muses.' Percy nodded. 'We figured.' Calliope raised one eyebrow.

'Hm. I assume you have heard about the current conflict?'

'You mean Apollo and Dionysus acting slightly crazier than usual?' Percy answered. One of the muses giggled. Calliope turned around, still with one eyebrow raised. The muse that laughed went quiet. 'That is one way to put it. Now...'

'Wait, wait, let me guess, now you want us to clean up the mess!' Percy said. Piper swallowed. more muses started laughing now. 'Uh, what he means to ask is if we are expected to help,' she swiftly said. A small smile grew on Calliopes face. Within seconds, she got the serious expression on her face again.

'You're right, Piper Mclean...'

'You too, Percy!' One of the muses whispered. Percy bit on his lip, trying not to laugh. Calliope scoffed.

'Girls! We have a serious case on our hands, no matter how stupid it might seem on a base level. Both our brothers have been neglecting their duties. We need to do something about it.' Piper sighed.

'Lady Calliope...'

'Just Calliope is fine.'

'Calliope, we understand that something needs to be done. Yet, we do not understand what we can do about it when neither any of you or Princess Ariadne have been able to do anything about it.' Calliope smiled at her. It was not a sarcastic smile, like most gods seemed to safe for demigods - it was a smile that showcased compassion.

'We need someone to get to them directly. We've had difficulties with getting into the space they have used for their... argument.'

'As she said, they refuse to let us in, so we have no idea what they are doing,' a muse remarked. Calliope nodded. 'Exactly. Yet, we think they won't pick up on your aura's, which will give the two of you the chance to sneak into their... whatever it may be.' Piper and Percy nodded.

'Naturally, but can we at least get directions?' Piper remarked. Calliope raised her eyebrow again.

'Of course. We have prepared lunch for you two as well.' Percy did not answer (But Piper noticed that he looked like he had to process the information that gods were actually trying to help them).

The muses let them finish their breakfast before they magically transported Piper and Percy to... some theatre, somewhere in a country with a strange language. Piper shivered. 'It is cold here.' Percy looked around.

'Sometimes I wonder why mythological beings always pick such weird places to be in,' he remarked. Piper put her arms around her body. 'Hm-hm. Let's get inside, I am freezing!'

They stepped into the small building. Luckily, it was warmer in there. It seemed like it was completely abandoned, except for vague sounds coming from the theatre hall. Piper let go of her body. 'Do we wait here until something happens, or are we going straight to the point?' she asked. Percy stared at her. 'Straight to the point is what I usually do.' Piper nodded.

'Yeah,' She agreed. They walked past the counter, which had a thick layer of dust on it. Piper let her eyes go around the room. The entire theatre was old. A few old signs hung on the wall, some broken in half or without any letters. Curtains covered the windows. A few moldy chairs stood by the walls. And there was dust absolutely everywhere.

The doors to the main theatre hall were closed and also covered in dust, but they were not locked. While Piper pushed one door open, Percy coughed. 'Why would they choose such an... old and dirty place? They're gods, they could have used any place they wanted!' Piper shrugged.

'I do not think we understand the gods that well. Of course, they also do not understand us, but still.' She slipped through the door.

The next room was not covered in dust or moldy. Because it was not a room. Piper and Percy stepped straight into a valley. Percy bit his lip. 'We need to make sure they do not accidently blast us to pieces when they see us.' Piper pulled katropris out of its holder.

'Hm-hm. There is a part of me that finds this amazing. This is some really strong magic.' Percy shrugged. 'I mean yeah, we are talking about two Olympian gods.' They walked further into the valley. Out of nowhere, some cheesy music started to play. Piper started to feel giddy and happy; she felt like dancing and singing. 'Oh no,' she whispered, 'there is actually magic affecting us.' Percy sighed dramatically.

'I feel the vibes, right? We need help, pronto!' Piper laughed.

'Well, at least we made it over here - we got further than everyone else!' What are you saying? she thought. I do not want to talk in musical speech! That is worse than that rhyme curse of the Apollo cabin! She groaned. Now I start to think in musical speech too. Beside her, Piper heard Percy humming a tune from Hamilton. 'We are being affected by something and I don't like it,' she muttered to him.

It took a few seconds until she realised that she did not say that like she was on stage. Percy blinked a few times. 'Hey, you said that normally...'

'What in Tartarus are you two doing here!?' They heard behind them. Percy groaned.

'You also good morning, Apollo. Nice musical magic that turns you into a zombie you got here.' Piper turned around. Apollo looked like he wanted to say something back to Percy. She quickly cut him off. 'Lord Apollo! I am so, so sorry we trespassed! Yet, we just... needed to know about your amazing musical skills!' she said, with just a little bit of charmspeak.

She thought Apollo would start rambling anyway, but instead he got happy. Really happy. 'So you do think that I should be the god of Musical, and not Dionysus?' he yelled. He sounded so hopeful Piper started to feel a little bad. 'Well, no, but...' Apollo's happy expression immediately disappeared.

'Oh. So you think he's better, huh?' Piper shook her head.

'No, no! We are just disoriented!' She blinked. Percy quickly stepped in.

'Apollo, where's Dionysus?' he asked. Apollo looked like he could cry and get mad at the same time. 'Why is that important?' his eyes got big. 'Are you two here to stop us?'

'Uh...' Piper realised there was no right answer. Apollo would notice lying, but saying the muses send them would probably end in either being thrown out of the theatre or having to participate in a musical - if Apollo was mild today, otherwise he would probably blast them to ashes.

Luckily, Dionysus appeared at that very moment (Almost like this was a bad film musical or something. Have any of you noticed that people just appear in those stories whenever writers have written themself into a corner? Of course, I would not know how that is, *Cough*). 'What's going on?' he asked. Apollo waved at Percy and Piper.

'These two are planning something.' Dionysus tilted his head.

'Demigods planning something? I do not know if I should be surprised or not,' he answered. Percy sighed deeply. He had not even heard about the deeper reasons for the conflict, and he was already done. 'We have been send by Olympus. We need to break up your stupid conflict about who must be the lord of musical,' he blurted out, before he could really think about whether that was a good idea or not.

Apollo and Dionysus both looked confused. 'Why?' Apollo asked. Dionysus rolled his eyes.

'We are here in this magical dimension especially so that there will be no chaos in the regular one.' Piper sighed. Maybe she should just get a notepad to write this all down, because mythology was still confusing her sometimes. 'Yes, but things are still happening in the other dimension. Without the two of you.'

'Has anything extreme happened in our absence?'

'Not yet, but I think they have send us here to make sure nothing bad will happen. I assume because without you two the Olympian counsel is unstable,' Percy answered before Piper could say something.

Apollo shrugged. 'We first need to figure this out.' Piper sighed.

'Alright, alright. Calliope won't be that angry anyways. Just, where is the exit?' The look Piper then saw on the gods' faces was not something that could be in any way be interpreted as a good thing. 'There is no exit. That is why gods cannot get in - because they'd try to meddle with us too much if they're stuck here. Which you two are until we have settled this,' Dionysus answered.

At least, the gods were nice enough to give the demigods something to eat when it was time for dinner. 'So, what do we do now? We have tried threatening, begging, asking nicely, logic, reasoning, the opposite of logic, annoying them to death. What else can we try so we can get out of here?' Percy asked, with his mouth full of chinese take-off. Piper shrugged, and this time she meant it. She honestly started to think that they would just have to wait until Dionysus and Apollo had settled their argument. 'I dunno. Have we tried putting on our own musical to outshine them and assert dominance?' she said.

She had not said that so that Percy could take it seriously, but he did it anyway. 'You know what, Piper, that might be our only option soon.' A group of rabbits waddled past them. 'And soon might just be right now.'

While still eating chinese take-off, they slowly padded over to where they assumed the gods were. 'Now that I think about it, they are really far gone to be eating chinese take-off,' Percy mentioned, with his mouth full of food. Piper nodded. 'Uh-huh.'

After fifteen minutes of wandering around, they found Apollo back. He was letting some flowers sing. 'Hey kids! Want to sing along?' He said. Piper sighed.

'Alright, so now we are starting with personal attacks,' she whispered to Percy, while Apollo sung along to a silly tune. Percy shrugged. 'I believe they have been mad the whole time, but we really have to get them out of this before they get crazier then they already are.' he shuddered before he put an obviously fake smile on his face.

'Apollo! What are you doing today?' he chirped. Piper felt like throwing up. Percy had said only one line, but she already felt squeezy. Apollo clapped in his hands. 'Let's sing and dance!' Percy looked like he would rather do literally anything else, but he went along anyway.

Piper could not look at it any longer. 'I am going to check out what Dionysus is doing.' The look Percy gave her could only be described as pitiful. Piper turned around and walked away, while Percy started singing the main theme from the Sound of Music.

After another ten minutes of wandering around, she found Dionysus. He seemed to be still somewhat in his right mind - he could probably shield himself better from madness. 'What in the name of the heavens are you doing here, Mclean? I thought we told you two not to intervene.'

Piper rolled her eyes, but if Dionysus was going to be a drama queen, she would be a drama queen right back. 'That was hours ago. Right now, you two have gone too far with this competition!' She mused. The god narrowed his eyes.

'You are not the one to decide that, missy!' he answered. 'This is a feud between me and my older brother, bless his soul!' At this point, Piper did not know if he was kidding or not. She decided that assuming he had just gone crazy was easier, and she said:

'Oh, is that what thy thinks? This feud has gone out of hand! This is not between thy and thy brother any longer - I, my kin and everyone who lives on this miserable planet is being affected! My family is in high danger. Stop this horrible dual! Make peace! Let me and my loved ones flourish! I shall not take this abuse any longer. We have to survive on scraps! My sisters have not laughed in days! Come back to the normal world, and take thy brother with thou!'

Piper had no idea what she had just blurted out, but it sounded really dramatic (and it had just the smallest pinch of charm speak woven into it). Dionysus seemed to think so too. He was staring at her with big eyes. After a few seconds, he shook his head and blinked a couple times. 'Piper Mclean, were you really spurting nonsense to try and out-drama me?' Piper nodded.

'I was, and I will not hesitate to do it agai...' She was cut off.

'Stop it already. I understand, I was going crazy. Apollo and I need to come to an agreement.' Piper blinked. 'Well, that was very sudden, but I suppose a simple girl like me should be fine with it.' She shook her head. 'Also, I will need to get the drama out of my system, somehow.'

Together, they decided to go and seek where Percy and Apollo were presumably still dancing around. 'How come that space is not concrete in this place?' She asked.

'It's the dimension. Somehow, the space you are in constantly shifts, but the people you are with stay with you.' He looked at a stage with folded, singing napkins. He got a weird glint in his eyes. Piper assumed that she might need to come up with random overly dramatic speech again.

Luckily, she did not. They found Apollo and Percy in time. Percy and Apollo were sitting under a tree. Piper did not know how he got Apollo to stop swaying around and singing, but it is not like she wanted to know that anyway. When Apollo saw Dionysus, he got up. 'I have just realised that we should stop this,' he said. Dionysus nodded.

'I have heard as much.' Apollo smiled.

'You know, maybe we should just share the art of musical. I the soundtrack and you the story and acting.' Dionysus nodded.

'Perfect.' Apollo pulled his brother into a hug. Dionysus laid his head against his shoulder. They looked at Percy and Piper. 'Everything alright this way?'

Piper didn't even stop Percy when he started mouthing off against them. 'No? We have been running around trying to get you two to settle this argument and then you two jsut fix it with the most front and center solution ever! Of course it is not 'Alright!' Let me tell you...'

After they were done, Percy and Piper did not rest until they were all out of the drama zone (As they decided to call it). Apollo went back to Olympus. The others went back to camp halfblood. As soon as they arrived, Piper and Percy fell onto the grass. 'Ugh.'

'Never again?'

'Never again!'

Chiron came trodding by. 'Piper! Percy! I was so worried!' He picked them both up. 'Dionysus is back, and I heard from the muses that Apollo has arrived on Olympus as well. What did you do?' Percy yawned. 'Chiron, can we take a nap first?' Chiron smiled. He was tired as well - he had done almost nothing but worry for the last day. 'Of course, Percy. Of course.'