A/N: so, um, yeah. A fanfic!
Major Pairing: Percabeth. Don't worry, there are still other pairings (except Thalico, Leyna, Lazel, Jeyna and Perachel)
The Romans and Hunters of Artemis had visited Camp, just in time for a special event.
Percy POV
I rub the back of my head as I stare at the piece of paper in front of me. I look up to see some of the other counselors and their second-in-commands are having the same problem.
I read the question again and reread the choices. AGAIN.
I look around and saw that everybody's attention were on the piece of paper in front of them.
Katie was tapping her pencil on the ping pong table, making soft thumps on the surface. Will was drumming his fingers on the table, producing faint dun dun dudun dun dun dududun. Jake Mason bounced a ping pong ball up and down. Piper was leaning on her left hand as her right hand grips her pencil. Nico was simply glaring at the paper, his pencil untouched. Hazel was twirling a strand of her hair with her finger. Leo was pulling out pipe cleaners, paper clips and rubber bands from his tool belt and made a little bird, who flew around the room and crash-landed on Clovis' hair, who was snoring peacefully on his paper.
I twirl the pencil on my fingers, accidentally hitting Thalia on the head. Bonk!
"Ow! Percy!" she says, "I almost poked my eye out with the eraser! I would have gone blind!". Her exclamation transferred the attention of the other counselors from the paper in front of them towards her, the counselor of the Zeus' cabin.
Jason smiles at her. Phoebe, the assigned cabin counselor for Artemis' cabin (since Thalia decided to represent Zeus') rolled her eyes at the lieutenant's outburst.
Travis grins "Was that supposed to be a good thing?"
She glares at the Stoll, "You wanna repeat that?"
Travis shooks his head. Conner and the others silently chuckle.
"Okay, back to the paper!" Chiron exclaims, chuckling a bit. He took a sip from his coffee.
Reyna sat straight and began shading an answer. Good for her. She has an answer.
She saw me looking and raised an eyebrow. I grin and mouth, "Nothing else to do but stare at other people" at her. Reyna rolls her eyes and sat straight on the chair.
I look up at Annabeth, who had already finished answering the paper. I gave her the "Please-tell-me-what-your-answer-is" look, adding a pout for good measure. She grin and mouths "No". I glare at her lightly and I look down again. I pray to the gods that my answer would be right.
Technically, there is no right answer, so why worry?
I raise my pencil and shade the second circle: Would be nice.
"After counting your answers-"
Lou Ellen raises her hand, "Are the choices that weren't properly erased still counted as answers?"
"Yes, child, they unfortunately are" Chiron says. "After I saw most of your papers, I thought the era of erasers has finally ended. Thank the gods the other papers reassured me that the eraser still lives. You, of all people, should see the value of erasers..." Chiron shot a look at the Stolls, who grins
Chiron skims the papers again "So, your long awaited answer..."
"We only have been waiting for 5 minutes!" Clarisse says.
"Can he please continue without interruptions?" Annabeth says.
"Blah-blah-blah-blah" Clarisse says, dropping out her tongue at the last blah.
Chiron clears his throat, "Yes, thank you Clarisse and your creative reply. So, your mortal families will be staying here for a few days-"
Numerous and different responses echoed in the room:
"What?"
"No way!"
"Oh gods!"
"NO!"
"Yes!"
"What did I do to deserve this?!"
"Thank the gods! I can finally stay with my family who loves me!"
I'm pretty sure the last one was sarcasm.
Thalia stood up and gave everybody a small shock, silencing them
"THALIA!" everybody says
"Yes, I know. You're welcome. Can we let Chiron talk now? Hmm? Okay? Good? Proceed" Thalia sits down and smiles at Chiron.
"So, as I was saying. Your mortal families would be staying here for a few days, no complaints. This was your choice" he smirks
"The choice of the majority" Hazel says.
"Yes, but it's still the choice. You will have 4 days to fix up your cabins since you families would be staying there" Chiron says.
Cue groans.
"Wait, what about our cabin?" Travis asks
"Yeah! Ours are crowded! You can't expect our family to fit in there!" Connor says
"You two could sleep in forest" Katie suggest
"Yeah, and we'll bring you along" Travis smiles
"I think I'm good. Monsters are attracted to idiots"
"I heard they are also attracted to beautiful creatures" Travis grins and forms a check mark with his thumb and index finger, and positions the check mark under his chin
"If that is so, I'll make sure to pack up weapons. You two would make excellent shields since-"
"I think you two should pucker up and kiss already!" Connor says, rubbing his temples, "My brain can't handle it any more!"
"Why?" Leo asks, a small smirk on his face.
"Lack of capacity due to small storage space" Nico says. Everybody laughs, except for Connor (who didn't understand), Katie and Travis (who were blushing).
"Translation please" Connor says
"You have a tiny brain" Drew says
"Anyways-" Malcolm says, before anybody can comment, "I'm pretty sure some of the families can stay at the Big House if the cabin is too occupied"
"That's a great idea" I say.
"So, that is covered. How will they get here? I mean, some don't even have a hint where Camp Half-Blood is" Miranda, Katie's second-in-command, says
"What about buses?" Reyna suggests, "We can use buses, right?"
"Yeah, buses..." Connor grins mischievously at his brother, who also had the same grin on his face
"We'll rent the buses, not steal" Thalia glares at the Stolls, who just shrugged, but their grins are still on their faces
Chiron coughs, "It's settled then. Your mortal family members would be escorted, the buses as modes of transportation. I think we'll need at least three, we'll be taking turns. The harpies would be-"
"Not the harpies!" says Austin, Apollo cabin's newly appointed second-in-command. He survived the Second Titan War and the Giant War, I think. His face is so familiar. Yep, he was in the war.
Jake says, "Do you think it's wise to let demonic chickens drive a bus full of loud mortals towards camp?"
"Yeah! They tried to eat us when we weren't making that much noise at the van when they escorted us towards the Second Titan war!" Malcolm says
"Calm down, man. I don't think the flying grandmas would like the taste of mortal skin, anyway" Leo grins
Piper sighs, "Leo, I hate to burst your bubble-"
"No, she doesn't" Jason smiles
"Yeah, I love bursting your bubble. But I don't want to remind you that we, demigods, also have mortal skin"
"So?" Leo grins. Piper rolls her eyes.
"If the harpies aren't driving, and I'm not directly saying they're not good drivers, which they are not, who'd be driving?" Hazel asks.
An idea comes up in my mind (surprise) but Malcolm beat me to it.
"What about us?" he suggested.
"Us? Driving? With weak-hearted mortals in it?" Piper exclaims
"Has your brain gone overdrive? You'll give them an early grave! Only a few of us know the basics of driving" Katie exclaims.
"I'm just saying!" Malcolm raises his hands in defeat.
"Malcolm's idea is actually not bad" I say
"It isn't?" Nico says
"Yeah, those demigods who know how to drive, at least, can be the one to fetch the mortals" I say
"That's...brilliant" Piper says, " I agree"
"Oh great, now you agree with my idea. How wonderful!" Malcolm mutters. Annabeth gives him a slight punch on the arm. The older half-brother rubs his arm.
"What about those who don't have families?" a counselor of Tyche, Azar, says. Those who doesn't have any living mortal relative looked down.
"They can be 'adopted', so to speak" Pollux says
"Yeah, but only if the family members are at least 3, Percy's family for example" Annabeth smiles at me. I stuck my tongue out at her.
"I'll go with Percy's family!" Nico and Thalia says in unison, "No, I get to be with them! Argh, shut up! Could you- ARGH!" they say in perfect unison.
"Hey, you guys could be twins" Will chuckles.
Leo stands up, "If you guys won't mind, I still have to feed Festus, so, goodbye" he says, and exits the Big House.
"So, we'll send the mortal families a letter. It'll be recommended for them to join. I'll include a ticket if they need it. Now, run along. Lunch is near" Chiron says and leaves us all.
I stand up and head towards Annabeth. She looks up and smiles, "Well, well. Eager to leave, I see?" she says
I pull her up, "I know you want to leave" I smile. She smiles back and kisses me. I kiss back and pull her closer to me.
Nico gags in the corner, "Get a room!"
I pull away from the kiss and glare at Nico, "Get a girlfriend" I say
He snorts, "Yeah, haven't heard that one before..." He walks out from the Big House, shadow-travelling.
Thalia turns towards us, "Last one to my tree gets to wear the old pink duster found in the attic tonight!" she says and sprints over to the pine tree.
Annabeth leaves my side and runs after her. Nico reappeared on my side, "What are you waiting for man? Run!"
"Why are you supporting me? It's not like you'll be the one wearing it to tonight's movie marathon" I ask him
"Well, yeah, there is that reason. But I don't want to be scarred for life!" he exclaims and pushes me forward. I smile and run towards the tree
A/N: yeah. Oh, and, if you have already read a story with the same idea, I'm sorry. I have never read it YET!.
So, if you have already made a story like this one, at least be supportive. Please :3
Oh, and the Tyche's counselor's name (Azar) means luck/chance in Spanish (I think. I found it in Google Translate). Kinda fits, since Tyche is the goddess of Fortune.
Reviews are helpful. It motivates me to continue with the story.