Chapter 5

Annabeth hugged Percy again. He was back. He was ticking off gods like normal, and he remembered. But Hi? Seriously?

"Hi? That's all you can say? After 8 months, you idiot?"

Percy grinned.

"Well , I was going to do a little act about me thinking Clarisse was you , but..."

She punched him again.

Just as Poseidon was opening his mouth to say something, Leo yelled.

"HEY! PIPERS HURT!"

Rachel and Leo were bending over Piper, trying to stop the bleeding in her leg. Already a small pool of blood was on the ground.

"Bring her over hear Leo, I'll get my stuff," Will Solace said calmly.

Leo scooped Piper up like she weighed nothing, (Hey, it pays to work in the forges all day) and lay her on the only not on fire or wet mattress

She hissed when he bumped her leg.

"Sorry Beauty Queen" He said.

"DON'T call me that!" She snapped.

Will came back, and with the demigods and a few of the gods, including Aphrodite, Apollo, and Poseidon crowding around, started to treat her leg.

He gave her a canteen of nectar to drink, and Leo helped her hold it.

Jason was standing with Reyna, holding her hand.

Will poured nectar on the wound, and Piper whimpered at the sting of it. Then he started humming, spreading some odd colored paste over the wound. It started to close, and Piper winced as the muscle and skin knitted together.

Will wrapped the wound in a bandage, and stood up.

'All done!" he said, sunnily. He had to be sunny, he was Apollo's kid.

Who, speaking of the devil, grinned and said, "Good job kid!"

Aphrodite leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek.

She whispered in his ear, "You and your crush are going to be happy together in the future!"

Will blushed, thinking of Nyssa back at camp.

"Thank you, Will," Piper said, still pale. "You should think about being a doctor when you're old enough to leave camp."

Will grinned. "I'm either going to be that, or go to the Olympics in Archery!"

Piper smiled at him weakly. Blood made her queasy.

"Alright, WHO is HE!" Athena said, pointing to Percy.

Percy bowed to her saying, "Lady Athena, you've known me for years."

Athena snorted. "I've never seen you before in my life!" Then she stopped, and looked at Poseidon. "Never mind, I have. You look like your father, the arrogant brat"

Percy rolled his eyes. She sounded like Annabeth.

"I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, and sorry about ruining the mattresses and the Throne room, I can add that to my list."

Travis said, "What list?"

Percy laughed.

"My list of places I've blown up or/and gotten kicked out of."

Annabeth snorted.

"You have a list?"

"Um yeah, Mom made me do it, she said I needed to be reminded about the stuff I did."

"Let's hear it!" Conner said excitedly.

"First, um, why are we on Olympus, and why are the Romans here? And why won't my iPhone get Internet connection?"

Annabeth whispered in his ear.

"APOLLO DID WHAT!"

More whispering.

"Oh."

Annabeth poked him and whispered again.

"I'm not supposed to tell them they tried to make me a god?"

Annabeth face palmed.

"Percy! The point of whispering is to keep it quiet!"

He smiled sheepishly.

"Sorry?"

The Romans and the gods were staring at him in shock.

"We haven't offered that to anyone in thousands of years!" Athena whispered in shock.

"Zeus said they'd have to be greater than Hercules!" Apollo said.

"Well Zeus said Percy's BETTER than Hercules that jerk, so THERE!" Thalia said.

"Thalia!" Annabeth moaned. "It's bad enough Seaweed Brain let something slip now you!"

"Whatever, I still want to hear the list! " Leo said, completely breaking the spell.

"If you were offered immortality, why are you HERE?" Jason asked.

"I said no," Percy said shrugging. "It wasn't worth it."

"YOU SAID NO!" Leo asked. Percy grinned at him.

"Yep, and I finally got together with Annabeth!"

"The LIST!"

"Jeez," Percy muttered.

"OK, I've been kicked out of every school I've ever gone too, ANNABETH! Don't give me that look!" he said laughing at Annabeth's horrified look.

"Hey, I'll tell you guys when we finish cleaning up, we really do need to sleep!" he said, trying to avoid the subject in front of the gods.

He pointed at the water on the floor, and it drew up in to a ball, all of the water in the mattresses, rising up, and the water from the corner, rising to join it.

"Where should this go?" Percy asked, concentrating.

"Um…" Apollo said. "I'll put it in the gardens!" Percy said cheerfully.

The water flowed out the hole in the wall, and spread out in the gardens below like a thin blanket.

Percy turned back to his friends and said, "We need a broom…"

Zeus rolled his eyes, and snapped his fingers. Instantly, the hole, dust, feathers, mud, and random pipes dissipated.

"COOL!" Leo said. "Can you help me clean my cabin?"

Piper smacked him upside the head. She was cranky. Jason hadn't even asked if she was OK, and he was holding hands with Reyna.

Zeus rolled his eyes again and clapped his hands, and new mattresses appeared.

The gods started to leave the room, but Poseidon halted, and turned back.

"By the way, what happened?"

"The Minotaur, you'd think after being killed twice he'd give up huh?" Percy said, wrapping his arm around Annabeth's waist.

Poseidon looked like he wanted to say more, but Zeus yelled, "Poseidon!" from the hall, and Percy's father left.

Percy kissed Annabeth again.

"Missed you," He said, smiling.

"I missed you too."

Percy turned to his friends.

"Didn't you guys miss me?" He said cockily.

Thalia snorted. "No, were all disappointed that you came back!"

"Oh…" Percy said, not hearing the sarcasm.

"Dude, you're an idiot!" Travis yelled, and all of the campers hugged him and Katie and oddly enough Clarisse kissed him on the cheek.

"What?" she asked when everyone stared at her.

"You're glad I'm back?" Percy asked.

"Yeah, you're the only one who has a remote chance in beating me!" She replied.

He laughed.

Annabeth introduced him to Leo. "Percy, Leo Valdez, Leo, Percy Jackson."

They shook hands, and Leo said, "And I still want the list!"

Percy smiled "Later!"

'That's Piper McLean, the awesome girl on the mattress, and this, is Jason Grace!" Leo said, pulling Jason away from Reyna.

"Percy, Jason, Jason, Percy!"

Percy held out his hand and said "Hi! I've heard a lot about you!"

Jason took his hand and shook it. "Same here!" He said. When they released hands, he winced when Percy wasn't looking, and rubbed his hand.

"THE FRIKEN LIST ALREADY!" The Stolls yelled.

"OK, OK, chill!" Percy said.

He pulled Annabeth over to a mattress and sat down. The other demigods seated themselves, and Percy started.

"Um, preschool, someone put a snake in my cot at nap time, and I strangled it, I got kicked out because the teacher thought I was bad luck…"

"Preschool. You started with preschool!"

"Yes Travis. Shut up!"

He continued.

"Kindergarten, I can't remember, It had something to do with a dog and a firecracker, I think it was a hellhound, 1st and 2nd grade… I just plain got kicked out, that kid was asking for it, I bet his mom can't get him NEAR a water fountain anymore, 3rd grade a Cyclops stalked me on the playground, I got expelled in 4th, I didn't MEAN to hit the wrong lever at the Marine World shark pool, the teacher didn't tell me which one to push!"

People were giggling at the last one.

"5th, I wasn't aiming for the school bus with the cannon, but OF COURSE! They didn't believe me!"

The Stolls were staring at him with admiration.

"You blew up a school bus using a cannon?"

"Yeah… I also blew up a blimp in the Macy's thanksgiving parade…"

"I REMEMBER THAT!" Annabeth said. "Chiron let us go! It was in the news!"

Percy laughed nervously. "I didn't mean to."

He kept on going.

"6th, I called the teacher an old sot, 7th, Annabeth, you were there, the Canadians and I blew up the gym, and I figured out Tyson's a Cyclops."

"Yeah , and I saved your sorry butt!"

Percy rolled his eyes. "Yes, you did."

He went on.

"8th grade… I blew up the side of the building at my step-dad's school where he works, but he pulled some strings, and I wasn't expelled, and I met Rachel for the second time."

"Yeah, the first time he nearly KILLED me," Rachel said shuddering. "You better be glad I'm mortal, 'cause I so would have died!"

"Sorry again about that…" He muttered.

"It's fine!" She replied.

"I don't know about this year though…" Percy said looking at Annabeth.

"The principal thought you were ditching, since Sally and Paul didn't report you missing, and you are now expelled," She said.

Percy fist pumped.

"Record's still there!" He said grinning.

"So, what all have you blown up?" Jason asked.

"Mt. St Helen's, the River Styx, a police car, a Volvo, a cruise ship, Circe's Island, a glacier, a few ships, buildings, and other assorted items…" he said trying to remember.

"What haven't you done?"

Percy shrugged. "I haven't thought about it"

'What's the biggest thing you've ever done?" someone asked.

"He defeated Kronos, though holding the sky for me is pretty high up there," Annabeth said, and earned another kiss from Percy.

He leaned back on the mattress, Annabeth on his chest, talking. Then when she was almost asleep, he sat bolt upright.

"STOLLS! If ANYTHING from my cabin is missing when I get back..."

He lay back down, throwing his watch, horn, and pen beside the mattress. Annabeth snuggled up to him, and he put his arms around her. Then, finally, he fell asleep.