I OWE NOTHING... ALL RIGHTS GO TO RICK RIORDAN

Percy's POV

It took me a lot of time, but I finally got enough seaweed for what ever the Stoll's wanted it for. I pick up the buckets and ran of to the Hermes cabin and knocked the door.

"Who is it?" some one asked

"A monster" I answered sarcastically "it's me Percy, who did you expect"

"Well hi Percy" Travis said "did you bring what we asked you to get?"

"Yes" I said and gave them the buckets

"We will tell you what you need to do with them later alright" Travis said

"And Percy"

"What?" I asked

"Go get a shower, you smell like seaweed with fish poop" Conner said

I smelled my shirt, it was true I did stink badly "thanks for telling me"

"No problem" they both said and closed the door.

I ran of to the showers and took a shower. When I came out I saw Thalia in front of the Aphrodite cabin. 'What is she doing there?' I asked / though

I walked towards Thalia but the closer I got to her I kept hearing things like "don't pull my hair" or "no make up" or "Thalia I am going to kill you" and "I am not going to wear a dress"

"What's going on?" I asked Thalia when I came right next to her

"I made Annabeth get a make over from the Aphrodite kids" she answered

"Why are you torturing her?"

"I'm not, I just want her to look more beautiful"

"You know Annabeth is as beautiful as she can get" I said. I really hoped Aphrodite wasn't reading my mind right now because I was thinking that Annabeth could replace her easily as the goddess of beauty

"Don't go all lovey mushy on me" Thalia said "so did you come up with something?"

"Sort of" I said "the Stoll's are working on it"

"It better be something good" she said

"Thalia" I said "can this wait a little?"

"No Percy" Thalia said "if you don't want to get shocked don't insist"

"But Thalia"

"Don't insist" she warned

"Thalia I have a small problem" I said "well it's a actually a big problem"

"What's it called?"

"Athena" I said

"Percy, I really don't think she will mind"

"Thalia, Athena hates my pure existence and the though of my relation with Annabeth"

"Percy don't worry, Athena is like your cousin isn't she?"

"Well yeah, but that just makes her hate me more" I said

"Look Percy, Poseidon is Athena's uncle, your her cousin I really don't think she will care" Thalia said "now stop trying to make excuses"

"Thalia I-"

"Stop whining Percy and go take a shower you stink" she said

"but I just took one" I said

"Well go take another one you stink like bad seaweed with fish poop" she said

"Fine" I said and left.

This is why I hate to take seaweed from the ocean floor, you can end up smelling like bad seaweed and fish poop for who knows how long. I took a two hour shower and asked people if I still smelled like bad seaweed and fish poop, they looked at me weirdly and said no. The rest of the day I spent in my cabin thinking of ways I could use to get out of the situation. I didn't really pay attention to the time, and the next thing I know the conch horn blew for dinner. All of a sudden my stomach started to grumble like crazy. I remembered that I hadn't eaten breakfast nor lunch.

I went outside to the dinning pavilion, got my food, gave and offering to Athena praying that she wouldn't kill me. I looked over the Athena cabin table but Annabeth wasn't there. I looked at the Aphrodite cabin but the only person there was drew along with her male siblings. I was so nervous I didn't even noticed how much I had eaten until I felt most of the campers eyes on me. I looked at them and they turned their gaze to the able. I, too, looked at the table and blushed. I had like about ten plates stacked on top of one another plus the one I recently had in front of me. The sad thing was I was still very much hungry.

Malcolm came up to me and asked "have you seen Annabeth?"

"Last time I checked Thalia trapped her in the Aphrodite cabin" I answered

"Odd" he said "oh and by the way do you want a bucket?"

"Why would I need a bucket" I said as I stuffed my mouth with food

"Just in case you decide that you need to throw up and can't make it a to a bathroom" he said

"No I don't need a bucket, what I need is ten pounds of my mom's homemade cookie" I said, he then started to pat my head, my back, my sides and my stomach "what are you doing?"

"Trying to find out where you keep your extra stomachs" he said

"I don't have any extra stomachs dude" I said "I eat a lot when I'm nervous"

"Why are you nervous?" he asked

I groaned "Athena is going to kill me" I then bang my head on the table

"Why would she do that?" he asked "I know mom doesn't approve with your relation ship with Annabeth but she's lived with it for four or five years now"

"Well it's something that will push her over the edge" I said

"Your not planning on breaking up with Annabeth, are you?" he asked, all of a sudden his eyes turned a scary shade of gray, like Annabeth when I get on her nerves

"No, no, no" I said "why would I do that?"

"K then why would mom want to kill you?" he asked then his eyes widen "you didn't get Annabeth pregnant did you"

"NO, no, no I wouldn't do that" I said "at least not yet"

"Dude" Malcolm warned

"I'm kidding" I laughed

"The other only reason mom would want to kill you-" his eyes widen in realization "your not planning to-"

I nodded my head "I am"

"Well let me guess, you haven't told mom yet?" he asked

"Yep"

"Why?"

"Thalia keeps telling me that she wont do anything because I'm her cousin and stuff like that" I said "Athena doesn't care if I'm her cousin or not"

"If you want I can tell her for you" Malcolm offered

"No thanks that would just prove Athena right" I said

"Right of what?"

"That I'm a big coward" I bang my head on the table again

"Well look on the bright side" he said "if mom does kill you, you would be going to Elysium"

"Thanks dude you are really helping me right now" I sarcastically said "I'll be back in a sec." I left him in front of the Poseidon table to get more food. I took four plates with food and balanced them on top of my arms.

"Do you need help with that" Malcolm asked as I tried to put the food plates on the table

"Sure"

"So Percy what are you going to do when mom finds out?" he asked

"Crawl into a hole and hope she never finds me" I said

Malcolm laughed "that won't work"

"I was being sarcastic" I said

"Dude come on think about Annabeth" he said

"Who do else do you think I would think about?"

"Finish your food" he ordered "then follow me."

I did as he told me and followed him to my cabin "what are we doing here?"

"Nothing" he said as he looked around my cabin "hey where do you keep your drachmas?"

"In my drawer, why?" I asked

"Bingo!" He lifted a drachma up in the air dramatically

"You want a drachma for bingo?"

"No dude" he said "no wonder Annabeth calls you seaweed brain or kelp head"

"What can I say I live up to it" I said

"Wheres that fountain of yours by the way?" he asked

"Right over there" I said as I pointed to the corner of my cabin

"Thanks" he said then started to chant "O Iris goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering and show me Athena goddess of wisdom and goddess of war in Olympus"

"DUDE what are you doing" I raised my voice as and image of Athena appeared in front of us

"Calling mom what does it looked like" he answered

"Do you want me to get me killed?" I asked

"What's going on?" she asked

"Go on Percy, tell her" Malcolm encouraged me

"Tell me what?" Athena asked

"Nothing really" I said backing up slowly "Malcolm here just wants to talk to you"

"Percy don't you want to prove my mom wrong?" Malcolm asked as I retreaded towards the door

"Nope, not at all, I'm a big coward she's right there is no way to prove Athena wrong" I said as my hand went to the door knob

"You are learning" Athena said

"Yes, yes I am now if you'll excuse me I need to get a few twenty plates full of food bye" I said but Malcolm just pushed me towards the Iris massage

"Read his mind would you" Malcolm asked Athena

She stared at me eye to eye and I instantly though of something else besides Annabeth. All of a sudden after a few moments of silence she started to laugh.

"See I told you mom wouldn't mind" Malcolm said "but I though she would want to kill you at first"

"Yeah, ok, well I really got to got so bye" I said

"Hold on" Malcolm said "what exactly did Percy have in his mind?"

"A funny image of me beating Poseidon to a pulp" she said

"Percy" Malcolm said "I'll let mom read my mind if you don't think-"

"Percy here you are" Thalia said as she opened the door to my cabin then noticed Athena "Hello lady Athena" she bowed her head

"Hey Thalia" I said

"Come on let's go, the campfire is ready" she smiled evilly

"Lady Athena we will contact you later, adios" Thalia said and pulled me towards the campfire

"You might want to see what was actually suppose to be in his mind when you read it so I'll contact you later" I heard Malcolm say and he cut the connection of.