Hello! Hope everyone is doing great! So, my day stunk the other day. It was extremely stressful. It was so stressful that it physically hurt to breathe. So, I decided I'd check and see if I had any reviews. And they were so great, that it made me forget my day for a moment. I was literally crying, tears were in my eyes, and rolling down my face. It... I just want to say thank you. I cannot really describe how it felt. Like someone had just taken the weight of the world off my shoulders. So thanks Sophia, HB, and ChildofPoseidon. If possible, I'd give you all huge right now. Thank you.
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Percy's POV
Something grabbed my pants leg. Stopping, I turned around and looked down at my pants. A small girl stood there. A smile lit up her face, and I could feel a similar one growing on my own face.
"Hey there Flower Power," I softly spoke.
"You came back!" Daisy cried, throwing her arms around me. I wrapped her up in my arms, and carried her towards the stables with Blackjack. He needs his donut for getting me here to Daisy.
Maybe he deserved two donuts even.
"Why were you gone for so long?"
"Oh, well," I stuttered. How to explain this to her? "You see..."
"I'm not a little kid anymore." I looked at her. Still so small. How could I even think of hurting her by telling her this? "You can tell me Percy."
"... Ok." I can't believe I'm doing this. "Well Daisy, I'll tell you on the way to the stables."
So I did. I told her how Annabeth and I got in a fight and broke up, how I had the secret of the Monster in me. I told her about the Academy and the Organization. I spoke about Artemis taking me. Monsters threatening my mom. She heard about my sister (which she didn't know before today), and how my sister was actually alive. How I got put under the spell, and willingly went with the enemy. She listened to my story about the Aztec village, the red-skinned people. The weird buildings. She heard how I almost joined the enemy permanently. I recalled how Anne was evil, then turned good. I told her how we killed Moctezumal. She learned of my brothers, all six of them. Peter, who died. Wrath, who used to be evil. Jake, while she had met before. Alexander, lover of violence and worshiper of Ares. Perseus, who's still evil. Somos, who was shy and quiet just like her friend Autumn. Embarrassed, I told her about my inner-self conflicts, that made me turn into something I'm not. I'm still smart, and fit, and serious (I guess). Just not overly so. I concluded my story with Zeus zapping everyone to Olympus and giving us wishes.
Daisy was quiet for a while. We had now reached the stables, and she was seated on the gate to Blackjack's stable.
Finally she spoke. "What did you wish for?"
I was about to answer when I heard something outside. It sounded like a twig snapping, then a series of people shushing another. I smiled.
"You'll see. Come on in guys!" I called out.
Sighs were heard. Then, my five brothers walked in, heads hung.
Daisy's eyes grew large. "Woah."
Jake smirked. "Woah indeed Daisy."
"Jake?"
"One and only."
Daisy hopped off the gate and went to examine my brothers. She stopped at a blonde one.
"You, you're Alexander?"
"Yep."
Daisy continued along. She stopped at one with hair in his eyes.
"Somos?"
He nodded, and was rewarded with a hug.
"Hi," Daisy whispered.
After the hug, she spotted Wrath in the mix. He didn't get a hug.
Finally, she stood in front of Peter. He locked eyes with me, wondering what to do. I shrugged, to which I received an eye roll.
Peter decided to go with a grand introduction. "Um... Hi. I'm Peter..."
Daisy just stared at him. Shifting his weight back and forth, Peter again looked at me. I felt as confused as he looked. Frowning, I gave another shrug. Peter didn't roll his eyes this time.
"So, uh, how are you doing...?"
Silence. Daisy just eyed him with her large doe eyes, so innocent and sweet. Jake was smirking behind Daisy's back, mocking Peter. Somos showed sympathy, Alexander showed boredom. Wrath's face was a mask of vague interest.
"Do you want some candy?" Peter desperately asked.
That did the trick.
"You have candy?! What kind?"
"... Chocolate?"
"Yay! I love chocolate! Can I have some? Pretty pretty pretty please?"
"Sure..." Peter fished into his jacket pocket and pulled out a large bar of Hershey's milk chocolate.
"Yay!" Daisy snatched it from his hand and ran off into the corner of Blackjack's stable, where she continued to greedily munch on her treat.
I laughed. "That was hilarious Pete!"
He glared at me. "Not funny! She was making me panic by staring at me so long! What was that all about anyways?"
No one knew. We couldn't say.
"Well," I announced, "you guys didn't come here to meet Daisy. What're you doing here?"
They stared at me, as if I'm an idiot. Which I might be sometimes. Sometimes.
"Dude. You called your Pegasus ("I am a free Pegasus!" Blackjack cried. "I just let Percy be the boss.") to Olympus, then flew off! How were we even supposed to know where you were going?"
"I said I was going to Camp..."
"But which one?"
I was silent.
"See? You scared everyone so much dude! And why'd you come here? Just to see a little girl? That couldn't have waited?"
Daisy looked up at us, as my eyes narrowed at my brothers. "I promised her I'd be back weeks ago. Three weeks. I was gone a heck of a lot more than three bloody weeks. Just because you never met her, Alexander, doesn't mean that she's nothing to me. She's my best friend. And I used to be hers. Before I left for that gods forsaken quest..."
"Percy," Wrath spoke up quietly, "Alex doesn't know what's talking about. We all love Daisy, almost as much as you do. So calm down. We meant no insult."
I nodded. "Okay." Turning to Daisy, I said, "Heh Flower Power? Want to come with the guys and me to get some food? I'm starving, and I don't think Peter has any more chocolate. So either share some of that delicious candy, or I should just get some blue pancakes. And maybe some blue cookies. To go with my blue coke, of course."