Lots and Lots of Rings (No, Really)
percyjacksonheadcanons #1598

The scream cut through the air as easily as butter, piercing the comfortable silence he'd been sharing with Hazel. Frank jumped up, bow in hand, barreling out the door of his room with his girlfriend right behind him.

They reached the deck with no resistance, and Frank blinked. Where were the monsters? True, he'd been on edge and half out of his mind, but there had been no mistaking the daughter of Aphrodite's scream.

Piper was at the railing, her eyes wide as she sputtered incoherent words. She was pointing at Annabeth, who for once in her life actually looked quite confused.

"Piper," Hazel began softly, using a gentle tone. Jason burst out of the engine room with Leo in tow, and they, too, took in the sight. "What's wrong?"

Piper sputtered and kept squeaking, her face turning red as she pointed at Annabeth's hand. In response, he followed her shaking hand to see lots and lots of rings on Annabeth's fingers.

Rings. No. Freaking. Way.

Percy appeared out of nowhere, his face confused. "What's going on?" he asked.

"Percy, you... Annabeth, ring... what?" Leo managed to choke out. The boy in question looked over, and before Frank could process what was happening, Percy was howling with laughter and doubling over. He snorted, slapping his knee, pausing only to gasp out a few words at his girlfriend.

"They think you and me, they think we..." Percy apparently couldn't handle it anymore and started laughing again. Annabeth's face dawned in realization as she, too, began to laugh, full-out laughing that he hadn't heard for a long time.

"What," Frank muttered to himself, still gaping in disbelief. Had Percy really...

"Oh, my gods," Percy yelled, slapping his knee. "What are you guys, oblivious?" Hazel frowned.

"But isn't that you?" He waved a dismissing hand.

"Well, yeah, but you guys... I can't believe you've never noticed." Percy held out his own hands. In the light, Frank then noticed what he hadn't before; bronze rings were on his fingers as well, glinting. Some of them had swirling designs on them, waves and tridents, dolphins and fish, while others had Ancient Greek words on them or were simply plain.

He turned to look at Annabeth's. Hers were decorated differently, with owls and olive branches, books and insignia's, though they had the same words inscribed on them.

"They were gifts from an old friend. Um, Silena Beauregard and Charles Beckendorf made 'em..." Annabeth trailed off, her eyes going misty. Percy crossed the deck to her, lacing their fingers together.

"Silena thought we should have at least something to fight with should we lose our weapons. The rings are made out of Celestial Bronze, and a fist in the face will definitely hurt. Some of them-" Percy pushed one of the designs on one of the rings, allowing spikes to twist out. "-have spikes or something similar so they can do damage. We... I took mine off for a little while, stringing them around my neck when I was at Camp Jupiter because I didn't know... Anyway, I just thought they would come in handy."

"Oh." A silence.

Naturally, Leo broke it, grinning. "That's cool and all, but I'm kinda hungry, so anyone else want lunch?" Piper laughed and slung an arm around her shoulder, getting over the ring fiasco, pulling him towards the dining room/mess hall/place. He shrugged, looking at Hazel, who shrugged in answer.

She took his hand and led him to the room, smiling, but Frank couldn't help but hear the couple at the railing whispering thank you's to the wind.

percyjacksonheadcanons #1598 - Many campers have rings made of Celestial Bronze in case they have to battle with their fists. Silena came up with the idea, and Charles made it happen.

The feels are getting to me. I swear, headcanons will be the death of me. I've been itching to write this one. (If you haven't noticed, I'm a huge Percabeth fan-ish, so...)

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