HELLO AGAIN!
It's me! Yay!
Ok, a few things:
One: I'M IN THIS CHAPTER! :)
Two: Remember to RRFF this story!
Three: We'll be updating (hopefully) once a week after this, but I'll tell you with the next chappie.
Four: I REALIZED I WASN'T DOING DISCLAIMERS! OOPS! I'll get Karl to do it...
Me: Hey Karl come do the disclaimer!
Karl: I don't WANT to do the disclaimer...
Me: KARL! PLEASE! *puppy dog eyes*
Karl: must...resist..muST...RESIST... Okay fine! Alexandra doesn't own PJO, she just owns the OCs!
Me: YAY THANK YOU KARL!
Now ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!
Alexandra was tired. Not only was she having to help continue Olympus's remodeling project in the absence of Annabeth (her and Percy were having another week out together) but now her Mom was pestering her about the blessing she had received from Apollo.
"It's not that I have anything against Apollo," Athena started. "It's just that you didn't accept the blessing from Hephaestus or Hecate. Those would have been blessings with a challenge. Apollo is so lax. His morales are a little challenged, and all he does is make music and design the next Olympics plans! Don't you want more to your life than the the choice of Winter or Summer?!"
She had been offered a blessing from one of the gods for helping redesign Olympus. She'd chosen Apollo, and her mother didn't approve of that. Yeah... This was something that Mom wouldn't understand. Yeah magic and forging is cool, but the violin was what she was really into. That's why she chose Apollo. But music wasn't something that children of Athena sported or boasted about.
Annabeth had come back the night before and asked for a copy of Olympus's center pavilion schematics and statistics for the height of the beams. Of course Alexandra had them, but she had to give them to Leo to use for the pavilions metal work. She tried to make copies of them, but the copier broke down the day before and no one stepped up to try and fix it or replace it. So here she was, wasting away in the Athena cabin, drawing out another schematic plan for Annabeth.
Her big sis was cool... But a little overwhelming. Maybe it was that mind frame of 'I've helped save the world two separate times alongside my hot boyfriend'. Smartness doesn't override the blonde mentality.
The sound of footsteps ran to the Athena cabin as a head of ginger hair jumped in the door frame and slammed it shut for good measure. Alexandra looked up to see her friend OJ perched on her bed and cautiously looking out the window.
"I'm sorry to interrupt whatever is going on right now OJ, but I need some quiet right now. Could you leave?" Her friends head snapped towards her and her eyes got wide.
"I promise I'll be super quiet, just please don't throw me to the wild like a piece of meat. There are dangerous Percy monsters out there trying to find me! He already got Weasley and the Stoll brothers..." Alexandra was completely taken aback by her outburst and slowly nodded to OJ.
"O-Okay. You can stay. Just keep it down." Alexandra turned her head back to her work.
Thirty minutes went by before the door opened again, and this time it was her half sister Chloe.
"What's up big sis," Chloe asked as she ruffled Alexandra's hair. She looked towards OJ and got a concerned look on her face. "What's wrong with OJ?"
This caused Alexandra to look up and see the ginger girl trying in vain to hide under Alexandra's sheets. A snort escaped her mouth as she tried to once more focus on her project.
"She did something to Percy and he's trying to find her. I'm pretty sure there's a bounty over her head." This made a small groan emerge from under the pile of sheets. A pair of brown eyes came into view.
"I wouldn't put it past him. There are plenty Ares assassins out there willing to take on a job like x-ing some Hermes prankster. Even Karl (another of their friends in Ares) would do it!" The door opened three pairs of eyes quickly flitted to it.
Annabeth and Percy walked in, laughing about something Percy had said moments before. Percy immediately looked at the pile of sheets.
"OJ!" He screamed as he launches himself at the sheets. But he was too late. She had already quickly untangled herself from the sheets and catapulted herself out the window. Percy followed suit (just with less fluidity).
The three daughters of Athena ran to the window and saw OJ being pulled up to a high branch of a tree by a Tree Nymph named Charlotte. Percy was running in circles around the trees base, screaming and scrambling to try to climb up the slick trunk. There was no possible way he could get up the tree without Charlotte's help.
All of the girls looked at each other and then back at the spectacle unfolding before them. Annabeth put her head in her hands. Chloe very slowly pulled her phone up and started to record the deranged and tree dancing Percy.
'This on film would be mint over the black market.' She thought.
Don't judge dear reader.
Because although Athena's daughters had gifts like architecture, music, and brainiac math skills, Chloe was raised to be a natural business woman.
She was creator, funder, advertiser, merchandiser, and Chief CEO of Camp Half-Bloods black market. Her job was so well managed that Chiron still didn't know that the market existed. And someone as smart as Chloe could not let gold like this fly in by. But you can't say she doesn't have a heart; she did feel a little bad when she pressed record...