𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 & 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕖𝕒𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕟

8. Percy

I woke to the sound of birds in the tree outside my window. It was a nice wake up call, instead of someone screaming in my ear to get up because of a 'rebel attack' that definitely was happening. Note the sarcasm.

I sat up in my bed and reached for my glass of water. I took a sip and looked at my bedside clock, It read 𝟾:𝟹𝟶.

As always, my maids had hung up clothes for me. I always wanted to thank them, but they always ran away before I could say a word.

I changed into the outfit and walked into my bathroom. I brushed my teeth and washed my face; I was ready to go.

Today, I was going to see Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Her room was only 3 doors from Annabeth's.

I walked down the stairs and made my way to her room. I knocked quietly on her door, she opened it. Her red hair was in a mess and her eyes were a blazing green.

"Hello, your highness." She stated, She was still wearing her pyjamas. A green dragon onesie. It even had spikes on the back.

"Hi," I acknowledged. She looked down at her clothing and shrugged her shoulders. Shutting the door behind her, she walked over to where I was standing "Come on, your highness. Do you want to go somewhere before breakfast?"

I followed her down the hallway and made a move to stand next to her.

"How about the games room?" I asked, she nodded as I led her down a few more passageways. It was a door that looked older than anything in the castle, like they picked it from a museum and bolted it in.

I opened the door and inside was anything but old. No one really came down here, so i expected it to be dusty. But the whole entire place gleamed. There was a shelf in the corner stacked to the brim with board games and decks of cards. A few small tables dotted around the room and a large pool table stood proudly in the middle.

Rachel headed straight over to the shelf's and pulled out Uno. "Oh I'm a boss at this game," I said as she threw the packet on the nearest table. I ambled over and sat opposite to her on the table.

We played for a while, snarky comments thrown around here and there (all jokes of course) until she suddenly rose up from her seat and shouted "UNO" before dropping a skip and a plus four.

I threw my cards on the table. She was standing and doing a victory dance and sticking her tongue out at me. "I win, you lose! I am victorious! I am president of Uno town. I guess your not a boss after all huh?" She sung out as she ran around the room. Rachel has put up the hood of her bright green onesie and I could see the goggly eyes and sown on snout.

I was laughing as she sat back down, breathless. "Another round?" I asked her, she panted and squeezed out "you... ready... to get..... beat again huh?" I laughed at her unsteady breathing, she had run around for about 6 minutes without stopping.

"Oh, I think you should be ready instead,"

We played about 6 games and she won 5 and then I won the last one. They were all pretty quick games so we finished them all in like half an hour.

Rachel and I walked back up stairs and were met with the stream of girls walking into breakfast. I smiled at Rachel as she walked away to the back of the line.

I sat in my seat at the head of the table and watched them all walk in. It was day 5 (correct me if I'm wrong lol) and I was going to eliminate 2 more girls today. As I reached for my fork a tune played around in my head. It was soft and sweet, I absentmindedly started to hum it.

I felt Annabeth tense up next to me, I turned to face her. Oh dam. I was humming her song. That probably looks really creepy, like I had stalked her or something. I instantly stopped and my plate suddenly seemed very interesting.

We were both sort of silent throughout the rest of breakfast, sometimes I would look over at Rachel and she would mouth "Uno master" and point at herself.

After breakfast, I was going to meet with my mother this time. She would be helping me pick 2 more girls to go, I didn't have much of an idea yet but I would get there.

The selected girls all left the room, leaving me in the presence of just my mother and step father.

"Which girl do you like best so far? You know I was going to have a selection until someone or other made it illegal for women to have one, I should change that rule. Don't worry Paul, I mean for maybe Percy's daughter. And-"

"Mom, calm down," I chuckled. I ascended the steps to the raised platform and took a seat beside my mom. She had, like my father, attached a picture of each girl to there name.

We arranged them into 3 tiers.
Top tier was the ones that I hoped would stay and become Elites,
Middle tier was girls I had no problem with, but maybe just sort of didn't really click with them,
The bottom tier was people I would probably end up eliminating anyway.

This method was much easier than my father way, although, maybe it was just because I was spending time with my mom again.

I told her how I was getting close with a few of the girls, she told me how she had planted a new allotment in the garden. I told her about how I was missing Tyson, she told me about how she was glad that I had made friends with the guards and how they could help me one day.

Tyson's my half-brother by the way, he's 10 years old and loves Nerf guns and the colour yellow. He's my favourite person, excluding my mother, and he deserves the world. I was seeing him in a few days, the summer ball was coming up and he was on his way from my dad's wife, Amphitrite,'s house.

The girls were organised completely now and I had no girls in the bottom of the pile. But there was one girl that stood out from the other to piles. Bianca DiAngelo. I swear I had heard that name before. She had dark hair down to her shoulders and was wearing a silver crown in the photo. I don't know, maybe I would figure it out.

I picked Lillian Alison and Jamie Villa. It was sad, they were so nice. I didn't like making them go without properly meeting them. It had only been 5 days and I had already let go 7 people.

I hoped I could let these ones go without to much remorse.

Word count: 1187
Hii! My One Shots books got deleted for no reason? If you know what it might be, please tell me. While I'm working to get back the drafts that I was going to finish and post, hope you enjoy this chap. byeee
20/7/20