I have always loved Athena and Percy together, not just romantically, I just love to have them interact. Athena is so stern in the PJO books and Percy is mischievous and fun loving. I feel like the two blend together well. So this will be a series of one shots where Percy annoys Athena in some way. Athena had always been disapproving of Poseidon's spawn. Percy thought she just needed a laugh.

Chapter 1: The Limerick dancing battle of the wits

Summary: Percy had always been annoyed by Athena's smug assurance in her superior intellect. When a comment by his sore loser girlfriend Annabeth leads to a battle of the wits challenge and the gods get involved, Percy decides to wipe the smugness of Athena's face.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO, just having fun. I haven't read the books in a while, but I will for the future chapters.

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Athena's children always prided themselves for their intelligence, sometimes annoyingly so. Annabeth, bitter from yet another loss at capture the flag to the Poseidon and Ares cabin, desperately wanted something to soothe her bruised ego. She loved Percy, truly she did, but Percy thought it was cool to piss of powerful and dangerous God for sport, he was the brightest, neither was Clarisse, so losing to them 2 weeks in a row was bad for her ego and status.

She did the only thing she did when she was down, she complained to Percy, and Percy being the good boyfriend he was, listen to her and offered obligatory words of comfort where necessary despite the fact that she was complaining about him and Clarisse beating her to him. Trying to save some face, Annabeth claimed that she they only won because she let them, that if given a chance, she could outsmart anyone at camp.

Used to Annabeth's hubris, Percy just let it go, it didn't mean anything, Annabeth was just bitter she lost. Unfortunately, Connor and Travis overhead Annabeth and were rightly offended. An argument broke out, one thing led to another, and Annabeth and her siblings challenged the entire camp to a battle of wits.

Despite Chiron making the battle of the wits official and setting the date, Percy still didn't take it seriously, he had been dating Annabeth for 6 months and has been best friends with her for years. He knew how she was, especially after a loss, and most importantly, the rest of camp knew how she was. So the best bet was that the whole thing would probably blow over in less than a day, when something interesting came around. Demigods were not known for the attention span after all.

Then the gods got involved. It is not a secret that their godly parents were overly involved in their children's lives. So in matter of hours, the battle of wits was this big thing that was going to be aired live on Hephaestus TV, with live commentary from Hermes and Apollo with Hera and Artemis being the judges as they were the only gods with no demigod children.

Like the childish parents that they were, the gods took the challenge too personally, soon the gods were pitting their kids against each other or in this case against the Athena kids. Athena was quietly smug, she never doubted for a second that her kids would win the challenge.

It is this attitude that irked Percy. He didn't mind so much that the other gods were making fools of themselves, getting way too involved into something that they have no business being in, that was nothing. Gods were too nosy and loved interfering with their kids' lives. What irked Percy was Athena's smug assurance. Annabeth can be proud and superior but she is also kind and loyal to a fault. Percy wanted to make sure Athena regretted her smugness, it might put him in the doghouse with Annabeth for a bit but some things were worth it.

Percy Jackson sat by the campfire, a mischievous glint in his sea-green eyes. He had always found Athena's smugness annoying and her seriousness amusing, and today he had a prank in mind that would surely drive her to the brink. Armed with a plan and a sly smile, he made his way to the Athena cabin.

He snuck into the Athena cabin unnoticed. Carefully, he replaced their sugar with a special concoction he had acquired from Dionysus's personal stash – a fine, glittering powder known as "dancing dust." This magical substance was rumoured o cause uncontrollable dancing. He also swapped out the tea bags with herbal ones that Apollo had given him as thanks for his help with the golden singer, Apollo had promised Percy that the tea bags were guaranteed fun prank. The unsuspecting Athena campers took their tea and left for the challenge. Percy though made sure Annabeth didn't drink any of it, he could be forgiven for making her sibling look like idiots for a while but she'd probably murder him if he made her look stupid.

The challenge started ok, but then Michael, started dancing, and when his brother tried to tell him to cut it out, he spoke in limerick and all hell broke loose. Laughter erupted as Athena's children found themselves involuntarily breaking into dance. They waltzed, twirled and grooved around the stage while they spoke in limericks. It was hilarious seeing the cabin that prided themselves on seriousness now on a whirlwind of rhythm and rhyme.

It wasn't hard to find who was responsible for this, the fact that his girlfriend was exempt from the prank and the fact that he was rolling on the ground holding his stomach and crying with laughter was a big giveaway.

Athena was fuming, she wanted to obliterate Percy but the other gods found the prank so funny that Athena was banned from acting against Percy for the prank.

For an entire week, the Athena cabin remained caught in the grip of the teabags, while the effect of the dancing powder only lasted a few hours. Limericks flowed from their lips in the most unexpected situations, turning debates into poetic duels and strategy sessions into rhythmic riddles. It was a sight to behold.

When the effects of the teabags wore off, Percy made it up to the Athena kids by sneaking them into a party in Atlantis. Being Athena's kids, they were too fascinated about the existence of a city underwater and an entire civilization of beings that can breathe underwater, to hold a grudge. Annabeth also forgive him after giving him the cold shoulder for four days.

Athena was not so forgiving, but everyone seemed to be in good spirits after the prank, including her kids, so she let it go.