AHHH! I SURVIVED MY COUSINS! No, just kidding, I love them, but there's only so much of racing cars down a stair railing that a girl can take ;).
Thanks for all the reviews guys! I love you all :D! Okay, so one guest asked how Tratie started, and I'm going to try to answer that the best I can…
I don't think anyone knows EXACTLY how tratie started, but I have a feeling it started after TLO was published. If you remember back to the beginning, at one point, Travis and Katie were fighting because Travis pulled that Easter-bunnies-on-the-roof prank that us Tratie shippers seem to love to write about so much;). My guess it, people read that and thought, "Aw, they argue like a married couple! They would be really cute together." and eventually started shipping it. Fandom is just amazing like that :D
Hope that answered your question, Guest! Okay, guys, it's time to hear about everyone's favorite couple-PERCABETH!
"Well," Percy said, looking expectantly at the other guys. "Shall we?"
"Why not?" asked Jason, and the rest murmured their agreement or nodded.
"Okay," Percy said, and turned back to the kids, "I'll tell the story of how I met Annabeth first, okay?"
The kids nodded silently, their eyes fixated on Percy. Percy shivered. It was so creepy seeing nine normally rowdy kids so…calm.
"Well," Percy started, "It all started one day when I was twelve. When I was twelve, I was the most manly dude in the universe. I had these ripped arms, and a six pack. My legs were toned, too. In fact, when I was twelve, I was benching a hundred pounds!"
"No, you weren't," Travis interrupted, "You were, like, the scrawniest kid at camp. Even Connor was stronger than you, and he was nine and, like, freakin' eighty pounds."
Percy shot Travis a death glare. Why did he have to ruin my totally epic story? "Okay fine," Percy grumbled, "Maybe I didn't have a six pack. And I wasn't ripped. But I was still pretty epic."
"Epicer than Superman?" Charlie asked, eyes wide.
"Charlie, Superman is practically my middle name!" Percy bragged.
"Sprinkles," Nate breathed in amazement.
"Anyway, back to the story," Percy continued, "So I was Percy Jackson, aka epicness, and it's a long story, but there was this minotaur chasing after me, my best friend Grover, and my mom. At the time, I didn't know I was a demigod."
"What's a minotaur?" Lucy asked.
"You don't want to know," Jason replied grimly, and Lucy's eyes widened.
Percy looked around to see if there were any more questions before continuing. "Grover, Mom, and I were in my hideous step dad's car, racing through the wind and rain, trying to get away from that minotaur. Finally, we pulled up at a camp-Camp Half Blood, all though I didn't know at the time."
"The rain drenched me, causing my totally awesome hair flatten against my face. A bolt of lightning had struck our car, making a hole in its roof. My mom and I were okay, but Grover wasn't. He'd passed out in the car."
There was a sharp intake of breath when Percy said 'passed out' . Percy smiled. This was the exact effect he was going for.
" 'GO PERCY!' my mother screamed, 'CROSS THAT PROPERTY LINE AND YOU'RE SAFE!' She pointed in the distance, where a tall pine marked the property line."
" 'NO! NOT WITHOUT YOU, DEAR MOTHER!' I yelled back at her. The minotaur was slowly advancing. My hair whipped in my face because of the strong wind."
" 'JUST GO, PERCY, MY DARLING SON!'" she called."
"Percy!" Percy heard a Frank like voice say from somewhere in the corner of his mind. He ignored it.
" 'BUT I CAN'T LEAVE YOU BEHIND! I CANNOT BEAR TO LET MY DEAR MOTHER FALL TO THE HANDS OF THIS RUFFIAN!' I bellowed into the wind."
"Percy!". Again with that voice. This time, it sounded more like Frank. Percy ignored the voice again. He was on a roll here!
"'NO PERCY! YOUR LIFE IS MORE VALUBLE TO ME THAN MY OWN! I SHALL-'"
"PERCY!"
This time, Percy listened to the voice, and opened one eye. He hadn't even realized he'd had his eyes closed. Looking down, he realized he was standing on the piano bench, his arms thrust out dramatically in front of him. Blushing, Percy stepped off the bench.
"Just making sure you were okay there, bro," Leo said, patting his arm, "You were getting a little too into your story."
Percy continued his story, taking great care to make sure he didn't stand on the piano bench again. "Well, basically, I refused to leave my mother's side. Oh yeah, and Grover was still passed out in the car. As the minotaur lumbered forward, I decided to make a run for camp. But before I reached the camp, my mother got captured by the minotaur! With a flash of light, she disappeared."
"But Grandma's still alive!" Madison exclaimed.
"Yeah," Percy said, "She is."
"How?"
"That's a whole 'nother story," Percy replied, "Anyway, my heart was hollow and I felt like falling to the ground and weeping, but I knew I had to be manly and save poor Grover (and myself) from the minotaur. I'm not sure how I did it, bus after a lot of epic fighting, I managed to tear one of its horns off its ugly head and stab the minotaur with it. The minotaur disintegrated into yellow dust, and wouldn't come back until a very, very long time later, thanks to my awesomness. I was ready to drop, but I bravely hauled Grover over the property line of Camp. Then I passed out."
"I don't get it. When does Mommy come in?" Silena asked, disappointment showing on her features.
"Shhh, I'm getting to that part! When I woke up, I was in a very hospitalish like bed, and a girl with blonde curls and grey eyes was spoon feeding me something." Percy got a faraway look in his eyes. "She looked like a princess…"
Percy snapped out of his daze, and returned to his story. "I remember the first thing she told me was 'You drool in your sleep' which I most certainly do now, because I'm way too manly to do that. Then she started asking me a bunch of questions about Summer Solstice. Well, that's how I met Annabeth! The end," Percy finished without much bravado.
"That's it?" Amanda asked incredulously, "There's got to be more."
"Well, I did drench her in toilet water later," Percy offered.
"How about your first kiss or something?" asked Madison.
"Oh, that was when I was on a quest, and the volcano Mt. St. Helens was about to explode. I think she only kissed me because she thought I was about to die. But our first for real kiss? That was on the night of my sixteenth birthday, August eighteenth. Annabeth had just given me a a blue cake that she and Tyson had baked. Actually, it looked more like a blue brick, but never mind that. I don't exactly remember what happened but, the next thing I knew, she had put her arms around my neck, and we were kissing. It was the best thing ever," Percy said, with misty eyes.
"But then a bunch of campers had to dunk us in the lake!" Percy said, narrowing his eyes at Travis.
Travis raised his hand. "Me and Connor thought of that," he said proudly. Percy continued to glare at him, until Esperanza got bored and shot apple juice at the two of them, breaking the tension.
"Well," Percy continued. "That didn't stop me and Annabeth! When we were underwater, I made a huge bubble, so that we both could breathe, and we continued our kissing from there. Her lips felt like rose petals. I wished it could've lasted forever, but the other campers were starting to get seriously suspicious about what was going on down there. We eventually came up. I'd have to say, those were probably the best ten minutes of my life," Percy finished.
For a second, nobody spoke, not even Travis or Leo. They all seemed to be in a sort of daze from Percy's story. Finally, Esperanza shot a fountain of apple juice from her water gun, as if to signify her approval of the story. Madison and Amanda clapped. "If I ever get a boyfriend, I want him to kiss me underwater just like that," Lucille whispered to her twin, Amanda. Nate threw a fistful of sprinkles in the air, as if to celebrate the story.
"And that, boys and girls, is the complete, full, and totally true-" at this, the guys snorted, "-story of how I met your mother!"
Percy has to be the worst storyteller ever! If I hear the word 'epic' or 'manly' one more time, I swear, I'm going to poke someone's eye out ;) His isn't probably the worst though. Just wait until Travis and Leo tell their stories. Oh cupcakes, that is going to be interesting!
Remember in the Prologue when I asked you guys who you wanted to go after Percabeth? Well, the top three were Leyna, Tratie, and Jasper. Which one of the three do you guys want for chapter two? Tell me in a review!
Have an awesomesauce day, and remember to REVIEW! :D