Cabin 13

29| Spreading the Love

Percy came to meet us like a storm, eyes blazing, Riptide in his hand,  and Piper thought that was an accurate description, Percy was  like a storm, the difference was he used to be a calm rain with awing lightning, but now he was a wild hailstorm and when he got mad a hurricane would roll in. But oddly enough the storm was captivating, you couldn't help but stare.

Percy went straight for Jason, who was itching to pull out his sword but forced himself to stay calm, Percy shoved Riptide's tip to Jason's throat, "What are you doing here?!"

Sally grabbed Percy's arm, "No fighting in the house," she said sternly, Sally picked up a laundry basket, "Okay, weapons in here."

Everyone stared at her for a moment, Sally was a small woman but she had power behind her voice, "Especially you," she turned to Percy, "Sword in here young man, and definitely you too," she said to Jason. 

Sally handed the basket to Piper after they'd all respectively put in their weapons, "I trust you, don't let them fight. I'll be back in an hour, good luck with my stubborn son." 

She then turned to the whole group, "You have an hour to convince him to go if he's still here when I get back, he stays, no argument." As she leaves she says again, "Good luck!"

Percy frowns, "Can't you just leave me alone?" He glares at Jason, "Come to throw another lightning bolt at me, Grace?"

Jason scowled but decided to stay silent, the two boys locked into a death glare. This was going to be a problem. 

"Um, okay, Percy we came to apologize. Uh, why don't you guys go sit down and Hazel and I will put these up," Piper said, gesturing to the laundry basket of weapons she held.

Jason and Percy sat across from each other on the two couches while Leo sat next to Jason. Nico and Will sat at the dining room table, keeping a little more distance from the feuding boys.

Piper and Hazel walked to the kitchen, out of earshot of the boys, "What are we gonna do?!" Piper yell-whispered, "Those two together are like a ticking bomb!"

Hazel frowned, "They seemed like good friends."

"That was before. But we can't take them on the quest like this! We came to apologize, but it's just going to break out into another fight if we don't fix that! " Piper pointed at the petrifying glare radiating between the boys.

"Right, well your charmspeak's not having an effect on Percy and I don't know about you but I'm no therapist."

Piper bit her lip, cursing, "Oh, for Aphrodite's sake!"

An almost sickeningly sweet giggle erupted behind the two girls. A woman with kaleidoscope eyes and continuously changing features, becoming more and more beautiful than humanly possible... but she wasn't, in fact, human so it didn't matter.

"Venus?" Hazel gasped.

"Uh, no, Dearie, I'm quite Greek," The woman said, flashing a bright white, perfect, smile.

"Aphrodite," Piper choked.

"Shh! You'll blow my cover!" The Goddess peeked into the living room, "Okay, we're good."

"What the heck?! You're here? Now?" Piper frowned, "What about the time I was fighting an ogre and I called for you, you didn't respond then!"

"Honey, that you could handle. But, this? This is the thing that only happens every other millennium!" Aphrodite rubbed her hands together, "So, let's have some fun!"

"Fun? You're gonna help us?" Hazel said, nervously.

Aphrodite smirked, then shrugged, "I got bored on Olympus, there was nothing good on the Hephaestus Channel."

"What are you gonna do?" Piper, now nervous too, asked.

"The only thing I can do in this situation," they stared at her blankly, "Spread some love on those boys, duh!"