"Chapter 2: Mr. Sore Almost Gets Me Killed," read Ares. He was out of the time-out area and he'd volunteered to read that morning. And a beautiful morning it was. The birds were chirping, the sky was a bright color of baby-blue, not a single cloud to ruin the sky's effortless beauty, and the sun was shining the brightest that day. Absolutely lovely.
"That's a funny title," Lacy giggled. Ares rolled his eyes. Lacy's loveable personality irritated him.
"Go ahead and read, Lord Ares," Piper encouraged him. Ares nodded his head and cleared his throat.
Argus dropped us off at a skating rink in New Jersey. Annabeth had never been to New Jersey before so she kept her gray eyes glued to the window.
"New Jersey," Athena mused. "Interesting state."
"Apollo hates New Jersey," Artemis said.
"Only because they have bad tans," Apollo said, smiling blindly.
I mean, seriously, Annabeth stared at every McDonalds, every kid in the back of his parent's car. It took really long for us to arrive. I was cramped next to Annabeth in Argus's really small car. The ADHD part of me wandered off, thinking about all of the things Annabeth and I could do without Argus driving.
"No sex until you're married," Hera scolded them. "Unfortunately, I was forced into marriage, isn't that right, Zeus?"
"Hey, I can't help it if you're hot," Zeus said. Him, Percy, and Annabeth blushed.
Yep, call me a perv but seriously, if you're a guy and you've ever seen Annabeth, you'd understand.
So, three hundred blinks of Argus's eyes later we finally arrived.
"Those are a lot of blinks, too," Thalia noted.
Argus winked at me while I got out of his car. "Get some, kid," he whispered in my ear. Whoa! I'm way too young for that, I thought.
"Indeed he is," Athena snapped.
"Man, Percy, if you got some…I WOULD BE SOOOO PROUD!" Poseidon yelled. Athena slapped him.
"GO TO THE TIME-OUT AREA, MISTER!" Athena shouted at him.
"YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO…I'M OF HIGHER GODLY RANK THAN YOU!" The two gods began to physically fight. It took Katie, Thalia, Annabeth, Piper, and Percy all to get them off of each other. The rest just sat there and laughed.
"NOW YOU WILL BOTH GO TO THE TIME-OUT AREA!" Thalia shouted in her commanding voice. The gods whimpered, nodded, and headed toward the time-out area.
"How do you do that?" Katie asked her. Thalia shrugged.
"I'm immortal, too….and Artemis has my back," Thalia answered. Artemis smiled and gave Thalia thumbs up.
"Hmm, I wonder if I join the Hunters of Artemis I'll have that type of pow—" Katie never got to finish his sentence because Travis grabbed her and kissed her.
"I LOVE YOU, KATIE GARDNER! YOU WILL NEVER JOIN THE HUNTERS OF ARTEMIS!" Travis yelled. Katie's eyes got misty with happy tears.
"I WAITED SIX YEARS FOR YOU TO SAY THOSE WORDS! I LOVE YOU, TOO, TRAVIS!" Katie exclaimed, they kissed again. Aphrodite started to cry.
"OH, I LOVE HAPPY ENDINGS!" she said. "I KNEW TRATIE WAS MEANT TO BE, I JUST KNEW IT! HUG ME, MY DAUGHTERS, HUG ME! I LOVE YOU!" Aphrodite pulled Piper and Lacy into a hug. Lacy squealed with happiness while Piper grumbled and tried to pull away.
"Okayyyy," Thalia said. "That was really awkward."
Annabeth was a really bad skater so we spent most of the first fifteen minutes sitting on the bench, slurping ICEEs to our heart's content.
"I love ICEES," Connor said, dreamily.
We got into a conversation about Poseidon and Athena and that's when Annabeth said she really needed to use the bathroom. So, I just stayed on the bench for a while. Nothing was unusual until a short, chubby little man walked in. He was wearing pink and his face looked so familiar, as if I'd seen him before in pictures. Like Dionysus, he looked like a baby angel, like a cherub.
"Do not let Dionysus here you say that," Hermes warned.
"Hello, Percy," he said, walking up to me, "My name is Mr. Sore(AN: If you spell Mr. Sore's name backwards, you'll figure out who this guy is), are you looking for love, young lad?"
"Mr. Sore," Athena started. "EROS!"
"Oh, that means I'm first to prank him," Aphrodite said happily.
"No thanks," I answered, "I've already got a girl."
"Aww, he wouldn't choose anyone over Annabeth," Miranda said.
"Oh come on, her? Look at all these beautiful young ladies here. Certainly, they are more desirable than plain ol' wise girl, don't you agree?"
"No, you little creep! Now leave me alone!" Who did this guy think he was? He just came up to me and started insulting Annabeth. Athena should've striked him dead on the spot.
"That wouldn't be rational to do, Perseus," Athena told him.
Then, things got more unusual. Our guy Sore reached in the back pocket of his red, heart-printed shorts and took out about three arrows. I thought he was aiming for me but he spun around and shot three strangers (all female) in the a$$.
"Definitely my son," Aphrodite noted.
Then he took out three more arrows and shot three more strangers in the ass, and one of them was a GUY.
"Ew," Katie said.
Mr. Sore.
Mr. Eros
"Oh, he finally figures it out," Thalia said.
"Shut up, Lightning Head," Percy snapped.
"Lightning Head?" Thalia raised her eyebrow.
"Yeah, it's my new nickname for you."
"I like it," Leo noted. Thalia punched him.
Aphrodite's son!
Godsdammit! Aphrodite sent her son, Eros down to Earth to mess up me and Annabeth's date. I was filled with age. I would've smacked him but then I realized that Eros was a god, I was just a kid. If I even thought about touching him my hand to burn off. Those six people Eros shot turned and the first person they saw was me. They all looked about 17, like me. I should've ran for it right then and there but either I was really brave or really stupid because I just sat there while they all came towards me. Some girls tore at my clothes and one of them grabbed my crotch. The guy was really coming on to me, LITERALLY. One girl threw off my shirt and dug her fingers through my abdomen. I was waiting for somebody to come and get these lovesick freaks off of me. But everyone else was too busy skating.
"Poor you," Connor said sarcastically.
"Yeah, a bunch of possibly hot girls threw themselves at you," Travis said. His tone was sarcastic as well.
"Don't forget the guy," Jason added, taking Percy's side.
"Oh yeah."
And then, things got worse. Annabeth came out of the girls' bathroom, her blonde hair bouncing all with her.
"Uh-oh," everyone said at the same time.
She was laughing but when her eyes fixed on me, her smile faded. Her face got redder than the turtle-neck shirt she was wearing.
"Ugh, I hate turtle necks," Aphrodite grumbled.
And I thought I heard her growling. "PERSEUS JACKSON!" she shouted at me.
"NO!" Connor shouted. "DON'T KILL HIM! HE'S JUST A STUPID BOY!"
"You're an immature idiot," Percy snapped at him. Connor shrugged.
For a peace-loving daughter of Athena she looked murderous.
"Up with violence, down with peace!" Clarisse cheered.
"THAT'S MY GIRL!" Ares yelled proudly.
Annabeth threw my attackers off of me and as she beat me up.
"I'm so proud of you," Clarisse said to Annabeth. She began to tear up.
"That wasn't very nice, dear. It wasn't his fault," Hestia said.
"We're forgetting that this is all fiction here. It never happened," Annabeth said.
"Oh…well, it's still the thought that counts," Clarisse replied.
I saw Eros smiling innocently. Then he walked through the doors of the skating rink, nonchalantly, as if he hadn't just almost gotten me killed. That was the first goddess who messed with me but unfortunately she wasn't the last.
"Good chapter," Artemis said.
Suddenly, in a burst of light, a girl appeared. She was a demigod, no doubt, and she looked about 16. The girl was gorgeous with perfect makeup and long blonde curls that framed her heart-shaped face. Her figure was that of a sexy supermodel's. She had an athletic, lithe, and curvy frame and long muscular legs like a distance runner's. The girl's face was breathtakingly beautiful. So beautiful it could almost give Aphrodite a run for her money. She wore pink eye shadow and her lips were redder and more beautiful than the reddest rose. Her hair was flowing free and it was elbow-length. She seemed to glow like the sun. Apollo's daughter. She must have been Apollo's daughter.
"WOW, she is HOT!" Connor exclaimed.
"Who is she?" Jason and Leo asked at the same time. They both seemed to be mesmerized by her incredibly beauty. Piper got a little jealous…actually a LOT jealous.
"Doesn't matter who she is," Piper snapped.
"Yeah, she's not important," Annabeth said. But she didn't sound jealous. Percy was the only boy who didn't seem to care that the girl was amazingly hot.
"She's HOT," Connor repeated.
"She's so HOT," Leo said. The girl smiled.
"Hello," she greeted. Her voice was soft and honey-sweet.
"You're hot," Connor said to him.
"Thank you, Connor Stoll," she replied. "My name is Sunshine Rainbow Sparkle Sapphire Gorgeous Beautiful Wonderful Sunbeam. I'm a Mary-Sue and a demigod daughter of Apollo."
"Oh, hey," Apollo greeted her, though he didn't look too happy.
"Apollo, explain this," Athena ordered.
"She's a freaking Mary-Sue. And I really don't want her. She's so perfect it's annoying," Apollo explained.
"She cannot come to camp here," Piper protested. She really hated perfect popular girls. Chiron galloped up.
"I'm sorry, Piper, but she's a demigod. Camp Half-Blood is the only safe place for her. I will take her to Apollo's cabin," Chiron said. All of the girls grumbled as Sunshine Rainbow Sparkle Sapphire Gorgeous Beautiful Wonderful Sunbeam was escorted to the Apollo cabin.
"Now, head back to the cabins," Chiron ordered.
The girls stayed back and hid while the guys went to their cabins. They met up at the back of the sword arena.
"We have got to get rid of that girl," Katie said.
"She's going to steal my Jason away from me," Piper cried. Annabeth patted her on the back.
"Relax, Piper. Sparkle Rainbow Sunshine Sunbeam-whatever is going to be gone by tomorrow," Clarisse said evilly.
"How?" Miranda asked. "She's a Mary-Sue. She's probably more powerful than any of us."
"There's one power she doesn't have. One power that is her fatal flaw. Yes, Mary-Sues have fatal flaws," Annabeth said.
"What is it?" Thalia asked.
"Imperfection."
NOOO! A MARY-SUE! Don't worry, she'll be gone by the next chapter. And then they'll continue reading fan fic.