The Seven In High School

Piper In The Sky With A Red-Nosed Pegasus

PERCY

"Okay, that's it. I think this is enough to do." said Annabeth. They all stood back, admiring the List.

The List was in fact a just a piece of white paper, covered with different shades of ink and different types of handwriting. Many stains, ink blots and doodles covered the paper. There were even quite a few burn marks. But from the way Percy and his friends looked at it, it might have been Olympus itself.

Chiron strode into the room, accompanied by the senior counselors. "Are you all finally done?" he asked wearily. Percy checked the wall clock. Oh. They had been writing it for five hours?! It was already dinnertime.

"Yeah, we're done. We'll really get to do everything?" asked Leo.

Chiron laughed. "Yes, as long as they're safe and do not go against the laws."

"'Course, Chiron. Why would you ever doubt that?" asked Leo, in a fake pained manner.

Everyone looked at Leo.

"Let's face it, Leo. A lot of the things you want to do are illegal. Like that time you wanted to ju-" Jason said.

Leo coughed loudly, interrupting Jason. "Sheesh. You mention something and people never forget. Let me remind you all, IT WAS JUST THAT ONCE." Leo said.

"Not just that once." said Piper. "You also wanted to break into-"

"Drop it." Leo said sternly. Or as stern as Leo could be.

"Okay, Annabeth, why don't you read it?" Percy asked. Annabeth shot him a grateful look, picked up the List and started reading.

"1# Visit Percy's mom, Annabeth's dad and Piper's dad.

2# Play capture-the-flag.

3# View our new penthouse.

4# Move in.

5# Play gladiator games.

6# Update Hazel on everything.

7# Have a beach party."

"All right now, you will have to split to visit the parents. Weapons at the ready for any monster attacks." he warned.

"Annabeth, can you go with me to visit my mom?" Percy asked. His mom liked Annabeth a lot, and hopefully, with Annabeth, she wouldn't be too mad at him for leaving.

Annabeth nodded. "Sure."

"Jason and I will go with Piper." Leo said. "Frank, Hazel, who you going with?"

"Um, we'll go with Percy and Annabeth." Frank said.

"Yeah, we've been wanting to see why Percy turned out like this!" Hazel said excitedly.

"I guess we'll shadow-travel with Mrs. O'Leary." Percy said. "How will you guys go?"

Jason grinned. "Chariot. Percy can talk to the pegasi first."

"Sound good, Chiron?" Piper asked.

"Perfect. Now get ready. Chop-chop!" Chiron said.

***

Percy patted Rudolph's red nose encouragingly. He loved being in the stables, because of the pleasant smell of hay and the pegasi to talk to. Rudolph in particular was funny. When his mother pegasus gave birth to him, his nose had been red already, prompting them to name him Rudolph because of Santa's flying reindeer. So 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Pegasus' became his song. Humming it while riding him made the pegasus fly faster.

"Los Angeles, understand? You must listen to Piper." Percy said.

Okay! Make sure she sings my song! Rudolph nickered.

"Yeah, sure." he said.

***

Percy, Annabeth, Frank and Hazel all sat on Mrs O'Leary while waving to Piper, Jason and Leo and listening to Piper's rendition of 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer' fade away.

"Everyone ready? Hang on tight and don't let go." Percy said. He loved shadow-traveling.

They nodded. Percy grinned and leaned forward to whisper in Mrs O'Leary's ear.

"Sally Jackson's home, Manhattan!" he whispered. Mrs O'Leary's ears pricked up, and she bounded forward into the shadow of the Big House.