For once, the chariot ride was uneventful. Will tried to get a better look at a bird and nearly fell out but Nico caught him so it's good. Also, Annabeth let me fall as we were flying so that was also good. Not so good, Nixon smacked my in the face to wake me up. Such a caring son, am I right?
"Dad, get up!" he whined, pushing me onto the chariots floor. I whined and slapped his arms away like a toddler.
"Seaweed brain, get up," Annabeth warned in her I-am-about-to-make your-life-living-Hades voice. I groggily sat back up to avoid punishment. Annabeth hit a lot harder than Nixon did.
"Alrighty kids, imma drop you off so I can get back to work. I have important business to attend to back on Olympus," Apollo said, winking at me over his shoulder. Important business. Sure.
The McLean house isn't even really a house. It's a mansion. They a full size library and museum type-exhibition room and a swimming pool. Although Piper and Jason have their own place now, I don't blame them for wanted to spend a lot of time at her dad's. Plus, it was the only space big enough for everybody to be able to work without going crazy. Last time we all met up to get something done (we were just getting the Camps together for some training exercises) we made the mistake of meeting up at our moderately sized house. We were being too distracting for Annabeth to get any work done, Piper couldn't focus with Leo around, Frank was trying to get everybody to calm down which somehow made it even worse and I tried to sneak away while everybody was busy and steal a cookie from Hazel's bag. It was a mess. Well, it looks like we learned our lesson because we got a bigger house. Full of expensive things. Why did Piper think this was a good idea?
"They're here!" I recognized Frank's voice and when I looked over the side of the chariot I could see him standing on the lawn waving his arms
"Why are you waving your arms like that? We already landed?" Nixon yelled back, hopping over the side and into the grass. Apollo was humming something by Beach Boys as we got off, not minding at all that he'd totally scorched most of the lawn. As soon as we had all gotten out he threw me a mock salute and was off, screaming into the wind like a maniac. Frank greeted us at the door, squishing me into a bear hug. Not literally, don't worry. He gave everybody a hug and gave Nico a respectful handshake (I think Frank is still scared of him.) before leading us inside to see the others.
"I don't know how long Piper's dad will be gone but we've got the place until then. Piper says if you break anything not only will you buy it, you will fight the fates themselves until they send you back in time so you can fix it,"
Annabeth gave me a pointed look so I'd remember. Hey, I don't try to break things! I just happen to be around when something happens!
"Bro." Jason appeared in the entryway with open arms.
"Bro!" I repeated, giving him a hug. I knew Annabeth was rolling her eyes and somewhere in the house, Piper probably was too.
"You're here!" Piper pushed between Jason and I to greet the others. Really feeling the love, Pipes. Jason clapped me on the back.
"So man, how's life? I haven't heard from you since you called about the Avengers," he said. Oh yeah, that! I punched him in the arm. "Ow! What was that for?!" he yelped, rubbing his arm.
I glared at him. "Leo? Really? Out of anybody you could have sent to be my lawyer, you choose Leo!"
"I take offense to that!" Leo shouted.
Jason smiled sheepishly. "Pipes and I were busy and everybody else was too far away. Hey, at least I did something," he excused. I rolled my eyes but let it slide. Hazel came over to me and hugged me around the waist.
"What took you so long?" She asked. Really. Is she serious right now?
"We live in New York, how'd you expect us to get here any quicker?" I pointed out. She rolled her eyes.
"I don't know," she said. "Maybe you could have had Hermes zap you over like Piper suggested, because she totally didn't ask him to or anything,"
Oh. I guess I should have paid better attention to Piper's Iris message… People should know better than to try and tell me important information in the mornings.
"Ok!" Piper got everybody's attention. "Let's get to work. We want to make a plan as quickly as we can," she began shelling out orders. I didn't pay much attention because I knew Annabeth would tell me what to do when Piper was done.
(I feel like crap, sorry for bad chapter. Thank you all and comment what you'd like to see next 3 I'll try to include it if I live that long XD)