Piper POV
The contestants, myself included, were all bunched up and waiting until we were allowed to enter the auditorium.
"I can't believe we've made it this far."Calypso says, astonished as she rocked back and forth on her feet.
"Yeah, I mean, no offence to us but I thought we would be gone by now." Thalia says.
To be honest, I didn't think so either.
"We can go so much further." Annabeth says, gathering us in a group huddle. "We just have to try."
"All in! Everybody competing enter the arena and sit in the first few isles in the middle."
"Live shows are coming up." Hermes announces, "This week, you get a mentor. There are ten of you so one mentor will have four living in their mansion. You heard me right, living in their mansion. Your bands have been selected out of a hat by one of the judges, and you will be supervised and mentored by them."
Well, this is a change.
"Please welcome out the judges, VENUS, APOLLO AND JUNO!"
The three said people walked out of the wings, Apollo strutting his slightly non existent stuff, Venus waving like the queen and smiling at us (I hope we're with her. Mum would love it) and Juno looking like a grouchy teenage girl on her period that has been denied chocolate.
"Good morning everyone, and welcome. I'm Juno, but you should probably know that by now. The teams sadly coming with me are (Insert band names that I am too lazy to come up with here)." Juno says, her voice monotoned. I think a radio on repeat would be more interesting.
The unlucky (and very unhappy) teams trudge over to the door.
"Hi guys, Amazing Apollo here. The lucky ducky teams coming with me are-" Please don't be me, please don't be me! "4:12, Ogygia, and Potato Princesses (A/N This is a long story...)"
Apollo leads his slightly bubbling group to the side.
And that means...
"I guess you are Individualz, Outcasts and Roman Recruit (A/N That sounds like a little kid jump-jam group)" Venus beams as she descends the stairs to where we are seated, mouths agape. Her dress swooshes to her ankles, with greens and blues weaving into each other, as she walked like a goddess.
"Okay! Activity two! All sit in a circle and say something about yourself that is personal but you feel okay sharing it." Venus says.
I was right when I said that Mum would love her. As soon as we went back to the hotel (with Venus) she and her started conversing like old friends. Mum (to her dismay) had to stay at the hotel.
If there's one thing we learned about Venus, its that she is very preppy. We had activity one about an hour ago, where we all had to play hide and go seek. These 'activities' were supposed to be bonding exercises.
We all gathered in a circle, mixed up so we weren't sitting next to a band mate.
"My real name is Sky, not Paisley. I changed it when I moved here so I was leaving all my crap behind."
"I hate the colour purple." Frank announces, despite of his very PURPLE shirt with his school and band crest on it.
Octavian gasps as if he's announced that she's a cereal killer. "Treason! She's committed treason!"
"Here, I'll go for Octopus." Paisley says, smiling wickedly. ''He's been admitted into an insane asylum. He broke out recently and the police are on his case."
"Be nice!" I scold her, even though we were all thinking it. I think Octavians group was too. He just wasn't likable, from top to toe.
"I have nothing to admit." Octavian says cockily, shrugging as if it didn't matter that the rest of us are spilling our secrets.
"My grandmother was killed for accusation that she was a witch." Hazel says.
"My mother tried to start a war." Reyna says as if she was talking about the weather. Her eyes were on Jason, which made me kind of mad. Not kind of, really.
"I have an annoying twin that goes by the name of Jason." Thalia cracks a mean grin, looking at Jason intensely, "And I don't appreciate people that isn't my best friend AKA his GIRLFRIEND looking at him suggestively."
I look down and blush, embarrassed she said that. A hand engulfed mine, and squeezed it gently.
"I'm in love with an idiot." Annabeth shrugs, carrying on.
"My parents divorced before I was born." Leo says.
"I used to live on an Island in the middle of no where, and then a plane came across and we waved it over." Calypso says, "New York was a big step up from the jungle."
"I turned down going to an international swim meet because Paisley was coming home from NZ."
"My Mum is insane." Luke says sullenly before Thalia hugged him gently.
And so the 'Circle' went. It was a very deformed circle.
"Okay, we have to have room buddies. I have rooms, but its better for bonding." Venus shrugs as we all lug our bags to our rooms. "Percy, you mother told me that-"
"I have to go with Paisley." He says, as if it didn't bother him. Paisley looked annoyed that she had rules about her health, even now.
"Good, you two will be in there." Venus points to a light blue coloured door. "The rest of you buddy up."
Calypso looks at me and nods, the way you do to your bestie when the teacher says to go in partners. I nod back at her and grin.
We're too late to stop now.
"And 5, 6, 7, 8!"
"Made a wrong turn, Once or twice,Dug my way out, Blood and Fire, Bad decisions, That's alright, Welcome to my, Silly life." Calypso sings, as the rest of us play our instruments or wait to play while pretending we're into it and not 100% bored.
As my part comes, I gently strum my fingers down the guitar, and join in for back up.
"Pretty pretty please, don't you ever ever feel, like you're less than, less than perfect," We all sing in harmony. "Pretty pretty please, if you ever ever feel, like you're nothing, you are perfect, to me."
"The whole worlds scared, so I swallow the fear, the only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer, " Thalia says, coming down from her place higher up stage, and down the platform steps to beside Calypso.
"STOP!" Venus shouts, signalling for us to halt, "Thalia, I think you should come down with some hand movements, like maybe when you say 'ice cold beer' you could maybe put up your hand like so, and act as if you're saying it and not singing it. But you do sing it, Got it?"
Thalia nods, and heads back up to her place and tries again.
"Better, " Venus gently says as we continue.
"Pretty pretty please, if you ever ever feel, like you're nothing, you are perfect, to me." We finish as the boys (who were waiting in the back row and playing what looked like go fish) give us a very scripted and sarcastic standing ovation.
"Woo! Go girls!" Leo says as he walks slowly down the isle, "Don't be too disappointed when we beat you, though."
"If, you mean." Thalia corrects, "And I would like to see you pathetically try."
"When you've been fighting for it all your life, You've been struggling to make things right, That's how a superhero learns to fly." Jason, or whoever was singing finished off.
"Hmm, " I hear Venus say, as I ask Annabeth if she has any threes (She doesn't) "Maybe you could try and incorporate some dance moves or 're standing there like sticks. Its boring, no offence. I'm just saying what needs to be said. Your vocals and notes are on point, however your expression is not. I want to see real emotion. This song has the power to move people, and thats what I want you to do. When we practice tomorrow, I want to see life, not whatever that was."
And that ladies and gentlemen, was how the boys were burned by a feminist as payback for their earlier cocky, and joking, behavior.
A/N
That was crap, but I was rushing it.
I've been going through a lot of drama lately, and I'm busy (despite it being almost holidays) so I'm sorry if I don't regularly update. I'm trying to make this more interesting and my head is exploding.
I do not own:
Fu***ng Perfect, Pink
Superheroes, The Script
PJO HOO, Rick Riordan.
How was your week? Mine was good until earlier...
~KaleidoscopeColours
AOTQFYTAFLU (Answer of the question for you to answer for last update) Title, though now its lips are moving.
QOTCFYTA: I hate the colours _ and _. They hurt my eyes.
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