Meet The Demigods!

Rosemary Zuboff

Uh, hi. I'm Rosemary Zuboff. My friends call me Rose, at least they would if I had any friends (who can tell me what I just referenced? :D). Well, I do, but not at my school.

I'm sitting in Ms. Emerson's class when I hear a phone go off. It's coming from Piper McLean's laptop, It's a FaceTime.

"Answer it," Ms. Emerson orders.

"Are you sure you want me to do that?" Piper asks, "Girl On Fire" still playing from her laptop as someone named "Valdez" is waiting to be answered. "This is a call from my friends. My very weird  friends. I'm asking for your own good."

Ms. Emerson rolls her eyes.

Piper sighs. "Fine, it's your funeral." She answers the call.

"Hey Repair Boy...Nico? Why do you have Leo's phone?" Piper asks. 

The boy named Nico rolls his eyes. "Because mine's dead, and the Stolls decided to prank us again."

Piper laughs. "What'd they do now?"

Nico glares at Piper. "This isn't funny, McLean. They put some kind of laughing gas, but liquid, in our drinks. Everyone is acting really  drunk."

"Okay, one, are you sure it's not actually alcohol? And two, who do you mean by 'us'?" Piper asks.

"Well I made Will check it out before he went off on his merry drunken way, he said it isn't. And 'us' is Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Calypso, Will, Thalia, Reyna, Jason and I," Nico explains.

"Oh gods. Jason won't last long, and neither will Leo," Piper curses.

"No duh! That's why I need you to get your butt over to camp! I need-" Nico stops his sentence short and I hear a thump. Nico has passed out.

"Great," Piper mutters. "Anyone? Reyna? Thalia? Annabeth?"

"Piper? Are you here?" a voice asks from far away.

"Reyna! Oh thank gods. I'm on Leo's phone next to Nico," Piper informs 'Reyna'.

On the screen, the boy named Leo's phone is picked up. "Piper? You need to handle your boyfriend...and all of your friends, really," Reyna warns.

Boyfriend? Awkward, quiet, and no-friends Piper has a boyfriend?

"Well, I would if I could, but I'm at school," Piper rolls her eyes.

"Well you gotta help somehow, I can't find any of the couples and I'm worr-" Reyna was cut off by a bang. 

"Use protection!" Piper yells at the screen, getting a laugh from Reyna and the entire class, and a glare from Ms. Emerson.

"Where's Jase?" Piper asks, and Reyna responds with a shrug.

"Dunno. I'm currently looking for Thalia, she's probably the only one sober," Reyna explains. Piper nods.

Reyna opened a door and laughs. "Found her!" she exclaims.

"Get me out of here, Reyna!" a girl scolds. Piper laughs. "Who did what?" she asks.

"Your boyfriend and Leo threw me in Bunker 9 into a pile of bricks and a few staplers. Said I needed to say sorry for keeping them away from Jason," the girl laughs. "Idiots. Now get me out!"

Reyna pulls the girl out.

"Alright, Thalia. Let's try and get all of them over to the Ap--I mean, Cabin 7. They can help," Reyna suggests. After a few minutes of small talk (that don't make much sense) and shuffling, Thalia and Reyna shreik again.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO DREW'S HAIRBRUSH?!" Thalia yells. She and Reyna facepalm, and Piper laughs.

"Who's doing what?" Piper laughs, and Thalia and Reyna take one look at Piper, and crack up.

"What?" Piper asks.

"It's your  boyfriend, Pipes," Thalia laughs, and Piper's eyes get wide. 

"Oh my gods..." she mutters. "What's he doing?"

"I dunno. Let's ask him. Jason, what are you doing to Drew's hairbrush?" Reyna laughs.

"WAAAT HHHAIRBRUSCH?" a voice slurrs, and Piper facepalms.

"Guys, is he kissing it? It probably still smells like me from a prank I played on Drew. I haven't seen him for two months, so he's just-" Piper starts.

"-desperate for you?" Thalia chuckles, and Piper chokes.

"Oh my  gods. Just...hit him with that makeup kit? The small one, that's mine. I never use it, but it was a gift from mom," Piper explains, and when Reyna picks a tiny, pink, sparkly makeup case and yanks it across the room, Reyna and Thalia roll their eyes again, and start laughing.

"Piper...nice picture of you and Sparky over here," Thalia laughs. "He seems to like it."

Piper's eyes get wider than before. She slams her head on her desk. "It's not even a bad picture! It's just me and Jason after the war. We're not kissing or anything!"

What war? We're seventeen!

"You're not kissing in the picure, but Jason thinks your kissing right now..." Thalia teases, everyone cracked up, and Piper whacks her head on the table. That's when Zach Thomas, the guy with the biggest crush on Piper, decides to speak up.

"Wow, Piper. Your boyfriend's an idiot."

Piper, Thalia, and Reyna gave him the  scariest glare I've ever seen.

"MY BOYFRIEND ISN'T AN IDIOT! HE'S SMARTER IN HIS ONE HAIR THAN IN YOUR WHOLE BODY!"

"MY BROTHER ISN'T AN IDIOT! HE'S SMARTER THAN REYNA, sometimes, no offense, WHICH IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT IN ITSELF!"

"MY BESTFRIEND ISN'T AN IDIOT! HE'S AN AMAZING GUY, AND SMARTER THAN YOU'LL EVER BE! But of course, I'm sorry, I'm overworking your squirrel brain!"

They all yell these answers at different times, and Piper looked back at her screen. "Get Nico. Get his underworld butt over here. You guys, too."

The girls nod, and end the call.

People start yelling questions.

"WHAT WAR?!"

"WHO WERE THEY?!"

"YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND?!"

But Piper ignores it all.

Suddenly, two girls come out of nowhere, who I recognize as Thalia and Reyna, with a boy I recognize as Nico.

Piper gets up and gives them hugs, and Thalia walks over next to her laptop, pasues, glares at us, and with one single swipe of her hand, knocks the laptop on the floor. She smiles.

"You never knew someone named Piper McLean, Thalia Grace, Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano, Nico di Angelo, or Jason Grace," Thalia states, and disappears with the others.

But that never worked on me. And I tried to forget about it, but I would never forget Piper McLean, and her weird friends, just like she said.