Sunshine, look at us now

Debut

At the prompting of Gleeson Hedge, Demigod and Percy's girlfriend Annabeth Chase all made their way over to California with the help of Percy's mother, Sally Jackson.

Sally Jackson (writer): I was hesitant at first, letting my boy move to the west coast to per-sue such an unsure career. But I've always trusted Percy's decisions. [laughs] and I've trusted Annabeths even more.
They were such a good bunch of kids, and they had really thought this out. They all had marketable skills outside of just their music, Percy was a lifeguard for years, Leo was great with machines, Piper was taking marketing classes. I belived that whatever happened they could handle.
So I gave them my old bus, and my blessing, I baked them some blue cookies and I sent them off.

Leo: I fixed that bad boy up and named it "The Argo." Sick right? Like that crazy Greek ship. [grins] Man it was cool.
Cool bus from a cool mom.

Piper: We didn't have many belongings, so packing was pretty much a five minute process.

Jason: We drove and drove and drove. We played stupid road trivia. Annabeth dominated.

Percy: Annabeth drove most of the way, her and Hazel. [laughs] They were the ones we trusted the most behind the wheel.

Jason: For the record I offered to drive- and I'm a very good driver- but Percy went on and on about his drive with Thalia and how he just couldn't survive anouther Grace sibling crash.
Besides Hazel could parallel park.

Leo: I remember one time our tire popped in the middle of the night, on some shit street in some Ohio farmland, and I was out there fixing it and Piper and Percy hid in the fields to scare me and I ended up setting myself on fire, then the field. [chuckles] Hazel dumped a pitcher of lemonade on me.

Percy: we got arrested somewhere in Newaygo.

Annabeth: We visited the Hoover dam, the St. Lois arch. [smiles] Percy got attacked by a poodle.

Hazel: Somehow we ended up at the Grand Canyon and the Mississippi River.

Piper: Leo made me tofu tacos so many times on that trip. And then I got carsick and threw them up. Couldn't even look at them without getting nasuoues.

Leo: I introduced Pipes to To-furkey in Ohio.

Hazel: When we got to LA... it was like a shift between worlds.

Piper: We stayed at a place of my dads.
[hesitates] I didn't like being back there. I hated feeling like I was just back where I started... but we needed a place to stay. And this was our only viable option. So I called ahead to his assistant to turn on the heat and water and grabbed the spare key from beneath the potted tulips.

Percy: we pushed some furniture out of the way and setup our practice room.
And then we played.

Annabeth: I went to work, I got back in contact with Hedge, made calls to producers and clubs on the Strip.

Jason: We adopted Percy as the frontman, with Piper on harmonies.

Leo: [counting off on his fingers] Annabeth was getting her masters in 71. She had degrees in like three different subjects at nineteen, and dealing with all our our band bullshit. Oh and she was a black belt in martial arts.

Hazel: when we weren't playing in clubs, getting crappy tips and stale beers, we were practicing. Writing.
[pauses] or at least trying to.

Annabeth: Hazel was having a hard time writing her song. They had all agreed that any album or record they made should be collaborative- they each write a song, then all come together and edit.