Hey yall. sorry about the late update, but i was kind of hopeing that my beta could read this for me. sorry if u find any mistakes, i'll get him to help me when he gets back from where-ever he is. so just read and reveiw. and umm... yeah thats all. -meiscool2
disclaimer mr. rick r. owns pjo, not me. if you have a problem with that take it up with my complaints department, those big guys cracking their knuckes in the cornner. :)
"But I LIKE flowers and sunshine," Apollo moaned into the ground.
"Oh get a life," Thalia said turning her back on Apollo and started walking towards Nico and me.
"I have life, but you can be part of it you know," Apollo said softly in the direction that was Thalia. Thalia froze. Her eyes staring straight ahead, she seemed to have stopped breathing.
"Apollo how my times have I told you, STOP FLIRTING WITH MY HUNTERS!!" Artemis screamed.
Just then the ground started to rumble and the same disgusting voice that I had heard before said, "Nico, I have warned you, you shall be free to do as you wish. But my son, take heed."
And with that the ground shook one more time and the presence that was my uncle was gone, and then something hit me.
"Wait I shouted!" At the ground, it rumbled slightly,
"You forgot your invite!" I shouted at it.
"What the thunderbolt?!" Thalia said staring at me.
"What invite? Why wasn't I invited?" Apollo said, scrambling to his feet.
"Oh, just give it to me," the voice said and suddenly a hole appeared in the ground I dropped the invite in and the hole closed up
"Well… I was going to tell you," I explained dragging out the words.
"You see that was why I was hitching a ride from Mr. Sunshine over here. We were going to go to Olympus to deliver invites to all the gods about this party that we are having this Friday," I paused, starring straight at Thalia and the Hunters. They didn't even blink.
"You see, I thought it would be a great way to umm... To umm…" I trailed off, the gaze of Artemis staring intently at me made me feel, well, insignificant. An awkward silence filled the air; I took a deep breath and continued, "To help undetermined campers get claimed. 'cuz you see the Hermes cabin is getting a bit crowded, and the fact that these undetermined campers have to suffer through the fact that they feel unwanted. And yeah." I concluded, shrugging my shoulders.
"Go on," Artemis urged, "I know that there is more."
"Yeah also I was sort of planning some friendly competition, and yeah, just sort of like a little get together for all us extended family, umm... yeah that's about it," I said looking down towards the ground.
Suddenly a low drawling voice said "I know why you are really planning this," said some guy who was leaning up against Thalia's old tree. He had messy curly blonde hair, and deep blue eyes, really deep blue, almost black, but not quite. A sudden flash back to 3 days ago reminded me that I was talking to Drew, one of the undecided campers in Annabeth's group. He continued to speak, "What you really want to do is to see your dad, to show how far you've come, but mostly to prove yourself to Annabeth, I think she's hot for you."
"What-the-but-no-and-oh just go back to your group," I said, my face turning bright red.
"Whatever, but you know that it's the truth," And with a malicious smile he turned on his heel and walked down the hill and out of sight.
"Umm… yeah, I forgot you all," I indicated the hunters and Artemis, "Are invited too, you guys can hang out here for the rest of the week or just come on over on Friday," I said, turning to face Apollo I said, "Okay let's go."
"Right ho!" he said, gesturing towards his car,
"Let's go!" and with that we all piled in. Rebecca took hold of the wheel, as Apollo said,
"Remember, love, speed equals heat, so just take it easy until we get up high (a/n: when he said "love it was meant to sound like the way people say it with a British accent)." Next thing I knew the Jeep was jerked forward, and we were up in the air, flying over Long Island, up towards Manhattan. I have to admit that Rebecca could drive, and she was only, like, 13 years old. But anyway in a matter of minutes, we were entering Olympus, and Apollo instructed her on how to parallel park. Once she did that we all hopped out of the car and looked up at the giant golden gates that were in front of us.
"Well no turning back now," Stewart said, and with that he started to walk up towards the gate.
"Hey Apollo! Thanks for the lift," I said to the sun god, he just looked at me.
"Hey no problem dude, anytime just call," he replied and then he waved, winked, and hopped into the car and in a flash of white light he was gone.
"So where to first?" Rebecca asked, directing the question at me.
"Well umm… we should probably visit the throne room first and see who's there, then give all those who aren't there a house call," I decided.
"Okay, onward!" said a very excited Harry, and onward we walked. We walked the golden road that snaked through Olympus, passing dozens of minor gods; finally we reached the huge golden doors that lead into the throne room. We stopped and stared for about a fraction of a second and then Rebecca said, "Shouldn't we knock?"
"Umm… yeah, okay I'll do it," I said trying to sound braver then I felt, but in truth I felt like I was about to throw up. I raised my hand and made a fist and was about a millisecond away from knocking when the door swung open and I nearly punched Hera in the stomach, oops!
"Why look who it is! Percy and his little friends," She exclaimed in a mocking voice.
"And what can I do to help you young heroes?" she asked staring me straight in the eye.
"Umm… we were umm…." Harry stuttered,
"Umm… we were… going to… umm..." I said, my voice catching in my throat.
"You're pretty!" Stewart shouted. Rebecca stamped down on his foot.
"HEY!" he shouted indigently.
"What?" she said, blinking rapidly up at him.
"Oh never mind," He said, throwing his hands up in disgust. Hera just giggled.
"What we are trying to say is that we're having a party down at Camp Half-Blood this Friday and you're invited," I said handing her the invite.
"Oh why this just seems perfectly lovely," she said taking the invite and scanning it quickly.
"Thank you all very much. I'm looking forward to it," With that she swept past us and out onto the road.
"So that's the great goddess Hera," Rebecca said almost in awe.
"Yup, but she isn't that great, in fact she can be down right evil, only cares for perfection, nothing else," I said glaring at her walking down the path.
"Then why did we invite her?" she asked.
"Because it is only polite, and besides she has a cabin there so she has to be represented," I explained, slightly exasperated.
"But what about Hades, he doesn't have a cabin at camp but he's still invited, right?" she inquired further.
"Yeah but he is in the Big three, plus he is my uncle and he does have a kid and we have to be polite blah blah blah." I said laying on the sarcasm pretty thick.
"Well what are we waiting for?" Stewart said, "Lets Go." And with that he pushed me from behind and I stumbled into the throne room. I looked up and saw the mid-day sky instead of a roof, reflecting off of the gold trimmed walls. The magnificent marble columns stood glistening, while we stared up at them in awe. I heard Rebecca gasp and Stewart muttered, "Holy shit," underneath his breath. I glanced over my shoulder at Harry; his mouth was wide open as he gapped up at the thrones before us. All of them were empty, except one. Demeter, Sat before us looking very disgruntled as she was conversing quickly in ancient Greek with the man standing before her. Ares. The goddess looked up quickly, when she heard us enter and she spoke,
"Watch your language young man." She spat at him,
"And you all, why are you here, should you all not be at Camp Half-Blood, or did that old drunk give you another quest, hopping that you all might not come back." She said turning back to Ares.
"So you were saying…" she prompted him.
"Umm… oh yeah. Something about umm… sorry I forgot." She looked at him exasperatedly, and rolled her eyes.
"So what do ya'll want?" she asked, starring me straight in the eye. She did not seem to be, well, a happy camper.
"Well, we umm… we…" I stammered
"We wanted to invite you to our party, this Friday, here's the invite." Rebecca said, snatching the piece of paper out of my hands and handing it to the goddess. She opened it and as her eyes traveled down the page, her expression softened. She was opening her mouth to speak when Ares snarled,
"What about me, no card for the god of war?" he said leering at us.
"Yes Mr. Ares, we have an invite for you," said a mockingly sweet voice coming from Harry. And yet again an invite was snatched from my hand and handed to a god. He quickly read it and looked down at us.
"I'll be there," he snarled, and then he started to glow. We avoided our eyes; while he appeared in his truly divine form then he was gone. I looked over at Demeter who seemed unfazed by the whole thing.
"Pity," she said to herself. "Every generation someone tries to pull this off, it never works, oh well, might as well go, always fun to watch it all unfold." She whispered quietly, and then she practically floated out of the room.
is the suspens killing u yet? well anyway, REVEIW, it's not like u already do but yeah, keep up the good work. :)