Chapter 12
Percy's POV
"WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!"
"WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!"
"WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!"
That was the last thing Percy was expecting to hear as they trudged into a filthy place, Lucy was leading them. Around a huge metal cage was a huge screaming crowd shouting the lines along to the music. Oh, gods, here we go again...
"WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!"
"WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!"
"WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU!"
If he wasn't death by the end of this it would be one of the biggest achievements of his life.
"What the Hades are we doing here Lucy?" Percy asked as loud as he could.
Lucy grinned back at him, as if this was her kind of entertainment, which was the last thing he expected.
"Can we leave now?" Sophia asked.
"Hell to the no!" Leo shouted. "This is more awesome than Hepheastus' bed time stories!"
Lucy laughed and started roughly shoving people out of her way to get to the cage. She seemed more full of life than Percy had ever seen her. It was so loud he could barely hear Annabeth in his head.
How are these guys not death? She asked.
I have no idea.
They neared the cage and Percy could hear crosses between growls and battle cries.
"Did someone step on a cat's tail?" Leo asked.
"I wish." Sophia said, but it might as well have been as quiet as a whisper. They were next to the cage now and when Percy stared in, he thought he was going to vomit. In the cage a poor guy with muscles bigger than Jupiter - the planet not the grumpy god - was getting pummelled by a girl half his size, and she was taking her time enjoying it... Yikes.
The girl had a tan brighter than Poseidon, clashed with blond frizzy hair. She wore an armoured crop top and armoured skirt that Percy wondered how the Hades was attractive. Her skin gleamed so much Percy didn't know whether it was by her fake tan or sweat. She punched the poor guy square up his chin, sending him backwards while she let our a scream towards to crowd. The men in the crowd cheered and a few wolf-whistled, which Percy didn't get. Sure she wasn't hideous, but she was so brightly tanned, with muscles so bid they looked fake and she looked like she'd had huge plastic surgery. Percy did not see how that was attractive.
"ARE YOU READY FOR MORE?!" She screamed in a voice that was so rough it was like nails on a chalkboard making Percy wanted to hide under a box.
The crowd howled with approval while Percy squeezed his ears against the noise.
"Lucy can we please get the Hades out of here and find Eliza?" Annabeth asked.
Ditto.
Lucy didn't answer she just watched as the cage opened up like a cube net and the girl jumped into the air in a somersault and crowd surfed her way out. As she reached the end she head-putted a ton of people, knocking them flat unconscious with dazed looks, and screamed one more time before she was gone.
The crowd leaked out surprisingly fast, a bunch of guys three heads bigger than Percy with muscles just as big, grumbling about lost money. Had that girl really beaten all those guys? Ouch. There was another enemy Percy did not want. Lucy walked confidently towards the piggish man rifilling through a big pile of bills at the control panel at the corner or the cage. When he saw Lucy he lifted a greasy eyebrow.
