Hello! Hello! Okay… I have to admit that every story I write is originally based on a song… well, the stories that aren't a One Shot.

Witness Protection/ The Cost- Show me what I'm Looking For By: Carolina Liar

Homecoming: Homecoming By: Kanye West

Secrets: Bring Me to Life by: Evanescence ft.- Linkin Park

So… now you know that, I have to tell you this song-

How Far We've Come by: Matchbox Twenty

Now… if you're wondering why, just wait to see within the story… so… yeah.

HERE IS STRANDED! R&R!
~GoGreen52

Stranded

Chapter 1- My Life

-Percy Jackson POV-

I walked out of the Lab, all excited. Why was I excited? Well, my partner Beckendorf and I just got back a message saying that our grant for getting a submarine was just accepted and the company is sending one over… but since it'll be coming next week, I won't be able to be here.

Why won't I be here? The reason is that my old mentor, Chiron Brunner, is having all of his students (that are all famous by the way) fly out and meet him at his old Irish castle for a reunion. The thing is we've never really met each other before, so I have a feeling it'll defiantly be an awkward trip.

"Percy get over here!" my partner in crime, Beckendorf, or… Dr. Charles Beckendorf yelled. Let's just say when he asks you to do something, you'd do it. Even if I am the one in higher rank here.

"What do you want from me?" I asked, but even so walked over to him. Beckendorf was looking into a microscope, and I could tell he was checking out the plankton level.

"Shut up and take a look." I rose my eyebrows at him, and he shrugged. "It's important."

I sighed, taking a look. There was a very large amount of plankton in the vile. I knew that this was taken from the Scottish Highlands… more importantly, it was taken from the Loch Ness. That means that there could very well be a large species under the water.

If you're wondering why the heck I'm looking at something like that, the answer is simple. Discovery Magazine wants us to do a little discovering on the Loch Ness Monster. We're getting payed 500,000 grand, each, to do this… simple project.

"That is a lot of plankton…" I said, in shock from what I've just seen. Usually you'd never see plankton like this. That shows that life forms, as big as Nessie, could in fact be living down there.

But… I'm a non-believer myself. I've never really seen her, so I don't believe. I have no proof but pictures. It's easier to believe in God than this.

"I know that captain obvious. But seriously, this is huge… we now know that something as big as witnesses say it to be could be out there."

"Beckendorf… who knows, I mean, we need that submarine to go ahead and take a look for ourselves."

"Agreed. I think you should go get some sleep. You'll need it for tomorrow."

"Yeah… don't remind me," I joked, and patted him on the back. "See ya when I get back."

I took off my lab coat, hung it up in my office, grabbed my wallet and keys then bounded out of the place. I really just want to get some sleep.

-Annabeth Chase POV-

I was stressed out. My blueprints for the newest bridge in New York was slacking. I was seriously taking too long doing this. I had a good friend in the business with me, Malcolm, and he was keeping me going. But usually it doesn't take me anything at all.

"Annabeth! Are you finished yet?" My other good friend, Piper, walked in. She was holding a file folder. Oh great. she decided to come up with something smart.

"No I am not Piper," I sighed, looking at her with dead eyes, "And I have to leave tomorrow." Piper came behind me and peered over my shoulder.

"Well, I might just be the answer to all your problems." Piper's eyes were like a child's on Christmas morning. "All you really have to do is throw in a support there. Sure, it looks uneven, but I'm as sure as me being a woman that it'll work."

I logged on to my computer, and checked out what would happen if we put that support there. I had to calculate the dimensions for the support.

Once I figured out the length, width and depth of the beam we would have to use, I put it on my saved design. It turns out that the plan would work… who would have thought that Piper, my Piper would have thought something this big! Gosh… I really need to pay her more.

"You're awesome Piper," I admitted giving her a fist pump. She smiled and backed up a step. I wasn't that surprised when she took a bow, beaming at me.

"Yes I am, and don't wear that out."

"Don't push it."

"Fine. That's all Athena really needed from you today. So I think you should go home and get some rest before tomorrow." Piper told me, looking at me like she was my mother.

"Look, just let me make a few changes to my new house design, okay?" I asked, accidentally letting a yawn escape my lips. Crap.

"Ever since Luke died… you've been overworking yourself. Give yourself some rest. Some time to just… cool off and relax. You need it."

I smiled at her and thanked her. "Oh, and before I forget, I'll call you when I reach Ireland, okay? Keep tabs on the new design with me. And if you need any help-"

"I won't hesitate to call you. Got it."

I smirked at her, then she closed my office door, leaving me alone… to decided when I would actually get some sleep tonight… ugh, and I need it too.

I stood up, took my portfolio of all my blueprints and locked it in my safe. Don't need anyone taking these while I'm gone.

I walked out of my office, purse and car keys in hand. I was in store for one heck of a get-away.

-Nico Di'Angelo POV-

I looked at the camera one more time, trying to find any trace of a ghost here. There wasn't. one of the very few places I've visited with no real ghosts. Ha. Figures. Even on the thermal- we spotted no irregular signs of someone, or something from a different world being in there.

"You got nothing?" My sister asked, and I nodded. "I don't have anything either. This is a bust."

"No kidding. I could have thought of a thousand different things to do with my time than go ahead and do a bum case like this one. Let's clear out."

She agreed, and we started to pack up our equipment along with all of our other investagators who tag along for the ride. "This was such a dumb case," Connor Stoll announced, and everyone mumbled in agreement.

His brother and sister in law were picking up at their station, and I could see how they were always with each other. Bianca thought it was cute, I thought it was weird. I mean, Travis Stoll and Katie Gardner were always two different people, with two different outtakes on life. Now… they're married. It's just weird.

I sighed, packing up my camera. It had a skull and crossbones sticker on it from my nefew… yeah, Bianca is married with one kid. I mean, hello, I am 26 after all. She was married to a guy named Weston Garcia… he didn't have some freaky thing going on in his life, so I guess you could call him a normal guy. They have a kid named Alexander, or Alex/Ali, depending on who you are.

I on one hand call him Alex. I really don't want to curse him with a girl's name.

But right now… that didn't even matter to me. We usually air our investigations on the Science Fiction channel, well known to be the Sci Fi channel. I hate how these people wanted publicity and decided to have us over, wasting our time. I could see the anger in not only my eyes, but in the Stoll's eyes and Bianca's eyes. We all hated it when one of our customers lied to us.

"Let's hit the road to get home. I have to leave on some trip tomorrow for this old mentor I once had, but anyways, I have to go somewhere and I need sleep," I told them, and I saw them stop.

"So… when would our next case be?" Travis asked, one of his eyebrows raised.

"Depends on when Bianca leads you guys to the next place. I'm thinking on giving you a break week… you know, go see your families… girlfriends… I don't really care as long as you're ready and focused when I come back."

Everyone nodded, smiling at no one in particular. This was going to be an easy trip.

-Thalia Grace POV-

I looked at my face in the mirror. Not really bad, but not exactly model material either. Good. Just how I like to look. Walking out of the bathroom, I sighed. I really have got to stop spending the night at work. It just drains me too much.

I ended up going to my office, and grabbing a coffee at the break room on the way. I want to get clocked in earlier today, so I can go home earlier too. That's how the night-spender-over routine works, anyways. Sleep over here, clock in early, do the easy shift, go home early, sleep in, come in here for second shift, then sleep over again.

Yeah… you could say that I spend the night over here practically every day, so my office usually works as my home. I spend more time here than I spend at home… well, not counting the weekends. I own a nice penthouse, so I guess you could say that I have money.

Or- I just don't use too much money. Here, they provide lunch for you. Then, I usually get lucky and have someone else buy dinner and breakfast for me, or I'll just go to a local café to get a sandwich or something like that.

I sat in my chair, a comfy little spinning chair that I love to use while I'm bored. And I get bored a lot. I heard my cell start to ring, so I looked at the ID to see if I really wanted to answer it or not.

Jason Grace

Little brother… I should answer it. He'll probably come and find me here, looking like a mess if I don't. I still have to change into the new clothes I brought with me. So I wouldn't really have to take a fake walk of shame… yeah.

"Wassup little bro?" I asked into the phone, while a shut all of the blinds in my room, since two of the four walls were indeed glass. Some heftier than other glass things I could tell you… I threw a chair at the window a while back, since I was extremely angry about this one speech.

Yeah, I'd rather not get into it.

"Thalia… where the heck are you? I stopped by your place to get some sugar, since you always have some," Jason told me. I always have to give him my cooking food that you can't eat plain, because then… I never really use it.

"First of all, why do you need sugar?"

"You forgot! Ha! I'm telling mom! She's coming out here for a few days," he explained, and I gasped. I was actually in the process of putting my clean jeans on, and I don't think Jace has to know that.

"I'm leaving for Ireland tomorrow… big deal with an old mentor of mine… sorry Jace, but you're on your own this time."

"So you're just going to leave me here with mom?" he asked, sounding astonished. My mom… can be a handful sometimes. Scratch that- all the time.

"Yup. Now. I have to go. See ya in a week." I said, and I heard him growl into the phone before I decided to hang up. Well… I can't say that I'm not happy that I'm going to Ireland tomorrow. It saves me so many times and troubles with my ma.

-Grover Underwood POV-

I was taking tests from all the botanists around here, and seeing how plants, some kinds of plants in particular such as exotic plants, are changing the world New Yorkers live in.

Apparently Exotic plants are coming from a different wildlife, hence forth they are changing the eco system here so they could be able to adapt here. It's so many new kinds of plants, that instead of changing themselves, it's almost like they're changing New York.

Studies show, that our fertilizer price has gone up, and that the need for it has gone up also. This is a cost for Manhattan that we really don't need. Central park needs so much fertilizer… why don't the people just let it be?

Oh yeah- people like to hang out there, and mess around with everything out there.

I honestly can't be shocked about how crazy this life is. I mean I'm trying to changed the world, and all I get is angry people who hate change. But by littering, they're destroying the environment one piece of paper at a time. They could be recycling that paper, so it could turn into something else.

The average person owns at least ten non-known recycled products. People have gotten better at changing the world like I have gotten used to, but now… people are just plain annoying. They complain all the time, don't give a crap about the environment… it bugs me.

I watched as the pants in the greenhouse were fertilized, and took notes as to how each kind of plant reacted to it. Some got more brighter and beautiful, while others… shriveled up even more.

I made a note to tell someone who would actually care about this fertilizer as soon as I get back from my trip I'm going on.

I sighed, and walked back to the lab, disposing the greenhouse coat for a lab coat. I took the greenhouse soil and put it under Edna. She would tell me what was going on in the soil, and what was in there exactly, so if I had to change it for the better of the plants, I could.

It had high concentrates of H2o, which was good. I smiled, and put the dirt into a container, than put that in the freezer, so nothing would become unstable like it would under room temperature.

I took off my lab coat, and grabbed my wallet. I still need to pack for the trip tomorrow! I ran out the door, but came back to grab my keys… oops…

-Juniper Busche POV-

I sighed, taking some more notes on that birch tree that was driving me insane. It was not responding to the fertilizer formula I created, while every other tree, including some other birch trees were. I think this one was as stubborn as me.

I glared at it, but then stopped realizing I was glaring at a tree. God, I'm, going insane. My good friend, Rachel, was making sure I went home every night… I probably would stay at the lab processing the fertilizer formula if it wasn't for her.

"Hey Rachel!" I called, and I heard her walk up to me from her station.

"What is it?"

"This tree is being mean to me," I said, pointing and glaring at the tree. Again, it is just a freaking tree Juniper!

"One thing I noticed since I started to work here is that a lot of trees are mean to you Juniper. Whether you like it or not, you may always have problems."

"Yeah, I know that, but why don't you have problems like I do?"

Rachel walked up to me and whispered in my ear, "That's because I'm a tree whisperer."

I wacked her on the side of her head causing her to yell, "OWE!" and rub the back of her head. "What was that for?"

"Well, don't tell me you're now a tree whisperer. Two days ago you said you were a fertilizer whisperer too."

"Well, what can I say? I'm gifted," Rachel said, shrugging. I could just tell she wanted to laugh, but in the end she was able to keep the straight face. Gosh, the woman is gifted.

"Shut up." I mumbled, getting back to my microscope and looking at a shard of the dirt I've used for the birch tree. Oh… that's why. Somehow someone decided to spill salt around the tree, causing a reaction with the Fertilizer, causing it not to blossom on time… oh well, I'll leave that whole problem to Rachel. It's not my problem anymore, since my shift ended and I need to get home to pack.

"Well… I guess I have to go home now and go pack," I said casually, and Rachel rasied her eyebrows.

"Really? Already?"

"Oh yeah, there was someone who tampered with the birch tree, leaving salt around it. So… that's your job now. I want to have the culprit here when I get back so I can either fire them or rat them out."

Rachel nodded, and I threw my lab coat on the hook, grabbed my purse and car keys, and got out of there as soon as I could.

I really would rather be doing something that doesn't involve fertilizer. The stuff is so annoying.

Well… that's the first chapter. It was more of a filler, and the next one will be better, CAUSE THAT'S THE CRASH! BOOOOMMM!

Haha… but seriously, the crash will be in the next chapter. So stay put!

~GoGreen52