The Christmas Games (A Heroes of Olympus Fanfic)

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

PERCY

PERCY HAD NO IDEA how to make cookies.

As soon as Piper had told them what the first challenge was, he knew he and Annabeth should fail, miserably.

"Percy! Do you know your moms recipe?! She makes great cookies, maybe we could use her recipe!" Annabeth exclaimed.

Percy sighed, "I wish I did...... But, I don't help make the cookies, I eat them."

Annabeth put on her, "im in deep thought" face, and Percy started to rack his brain for anything on baking cookies. Unfortunately, there was nothing.

"Well.... We could start with the basics, ah, we need flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, ah chocolate chips..... Butter, Baking soda and baking powder. Can you think of anything else?" Annabeth asked him, looking slightly hopeful.

Percy hung his head, shaking it. "no idea, lets just get started."

He pushed past Jason, grabbing a bowl out of the cabinet.

Bringing it back to their card table, where Annabeth had gotten out the ingredients, he asked, "How much flour do we put in?"

"How should I know? Two cups?" she said while unwrapping the two sticks of buttler.

Percy cluelessly pulled out two glasses and starred dumping flour into them.

Annabeth threw the butter into the bowl, and picked up the box of baking soda, "A table spoon?" she muttered to herself.

Percy started to empty the contents of the glasses into the bowl, coughing when the four went air born.

"Percy!" Annabeth exclaimed, "That's to much!"

Percy looked at her confused, "But you said two cups....."

She sighed, "Measuring cups Percy." she help up a plastic measuring cup, "Measuring cups."

"Oh, I can-" he started to scoop the flour out with his hand.

"No! Stop! Just.....stop" Annabeth squeezed her eyes shut. "Forget it, im sure its fine. Now..... Sugar Perc, we need a cup, a MEASURING cup."

The boy nodded, grabbing the bag of sugar and emptying it into the plastic cup.

Annabeth poured the baking soda into the bowl and started to crack the eggs, stopping when she heard Percy gagging.

Looking over she saw her boyfriend looking like he was about to hurl, the bottle of vanilla in his hands. "Annabeth, a-are you-" Percy let out a cough "are you sure we should use that, that vanilla? I-I think its gon bad" he choked out.

"Percy! Dont drink strait vanilla! No, its not bad, but plain vanilla doesn't taste good!"

"Gods, " he muttered, "Never eating vanilla ice cream again...."

Annabeth sighed, "Can we please focus? Put in a bag of chocolate chips."

Percy nodded, ripping open the bag of semi sweet.

Annabeth finished cracking the eggs, looking into the bowl, she thought to herself, maybe I should put in a fourth....

Percy finished emptying the chocolate into their, "batter" and asked, "What now?"

"Ah, um, baking powder! Two table spoons, go." she snapped at him, throwing the egg shells away.

Percy pulled one of the bigger spoons out of the silver ware drawer, and started to scoop in the baking powder.