Percy Jackson: Searching to be a Hero (A Percy Jackson Fanfic)

Chapter 10: my weapon that plays music

***atlanta's pov***

This sucks. I don't have any powers like Percy or any of the seven. Or even Nico. I've been reading about all of them and Percy has amazing powers. But hey, it's my birthday, maybe poseidon will like, appear in all his fracking awesome godliness and be like:

"Happy birthday my daughter," And then he'll like, hit me on the head with his trident or something and I'll magically get powers . . . Right?

Wrong.

I closed the Enchanted Book of Heroes when I finish The Mark of Athena, I'm seriously shipping people I know now . . . Wait, there's more in the mark of Athena.

I continued reading and . . .

"WHAT THE HADES!!" I screamed throwing the book across the room, watching it fly as it bounced off the wall and onto the floor, and then me checking if it was okay. . .

HOW COULD MY PERCABETH FALL INTO TARTARUS OH MY GODS JASON YOU CONTINUE TO BE USELESS IN EVERY SINGLE BAD SITUATION!!

JASON GRACE, SON OF JUPITER, NEVER THERE WHEN YOU NEED HIM, ALWAYS THERE WHEN YOU DON'T.

Okay, I told my self, their out now, their alive, it okay.

I heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" I tell closing the book to stand up.

The wooden entryway creaked open and I saw a gloomy guy I only knew as Nico Di Angelo.

"Hey." He said flatly.

"Uh, hi." I responded astonished with how cold and emotionless he was acting. Before I could ask why he was so different than before he smiled in the direction of my dresser, were I had a beautiful black rose inside a small glass vase filled with crystal clear water.

I found the rose when I was walking back to my cabin after me and Leo . . . Talked.

"Where did you get that?" He said pointing at the beautifully dark flower.

"Found it," I said. "When I was walking back to my cabin after our . . ."

Date, I thought. But I couldn't say that.

Nico just smiled, a small, kind, happy smile, but it slowly faded when he looked back at me.

"What did you come for?" I asked.

"Well, I--" He hesitated. "Here," he said handing me a small blue box.

I examined it, I wondered what it was as I looked back at Nico.

"Open it." He said kindly.

I did. And inside was the most beautiful necklace I had ever seen.the chain was golden and medium length, the charm was a small fish encrusted with turquoise jewels. Next to the fish was an even smaller charm, just a small accent.

A tiny dagger. It was made of celestial bronze and the small hilt had a scrap of leather. I had never seen such a detailed piece of jewelry in my life.

"Happy birthday," He said. He was about to walk away before a moments hesitation, hr turned around and kissed my cheek.

Before he could even get to the door it flung open revealing none other than wild eyed Leo Valdez. "Leo in the house!" He said sticking his tongue out like a member of that old band, Kiss.

As Leo walked in and Nico walked to the door their eyes met and there seemed to be a spark of rivalry between the two. Not a friendly kind of rivalry at all, actually.

Nico seemed to speed up slightly as he strutted to the door and closed it behind him.

"Happy birthday, my fair maiden," said Leo, bowing down to me, I couldn't help but chuckle at this act. "And to you I present a gift."

"Oh really?" I said with a smirk as I clipped on the necklace.

"Yes, but I don't exactly have it yet," He blushed slightly. "But I have a plan."

"Tell me about the plan you speak of."

"Okay, so an IPod, with a touchscreen like a normal iPod, but when you turn it on, the screen has like a number of options to choose from--weapons-- and when you click on one of the options, it turns into that weapon, and you can preset it so that when you turn it on it can like, turn into the weapon you preset it to."

"Great idea, but can it play music?" I asked.

"Any songs you want."

"My weapon that plays music." I said.

"Your weapons that plays music."Leo repeated as he grabbed my waist to pull me in for a kiss.

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AUTHORS NOTE:

Sorry for the short chapter! I just needed to show more action in the love triangle, but (spoiler alert) Their quest is coming soon! It's gonna be in New Jersey and that's all I will say.

Leo: Ew jersey.

Atlanta: ITS NOT THAT BAD! It's actually really cool!

Nico: you've been there?

Atlanta: born there.

Nico: cool

Leo: I wanna go to Atlantic City.

Percy: CAN I COMEEEE

Annabeth: who said your part of the quest?

Percy: who said I'm not?

Annabeth: touché

Okay that's it guys, please:

Leo: COMMENT!

Atlanta: VOTE!

Percy: AND FOLLOW!

Nico: or add to your library or reading list.