Thalia nodded, "got it. Let's go," Thalia moved to get up but Percy pushed her back down on her desk with his telekinetic powers.
"Yeah, not so fast," Percy then pushed Thalia's plate forward, "you need to eat Thalia."
"Didn't you get food for the party?" Thalia asked.
"I did, but that's not the point," Percy took up a fork and cut the meat on her plate. He picked up a small piece of meat, "here, say 'ah'."
"Percy," Thalia blushed looking away as Percy tried to feed her, "I'm not a baby!"
"Well you're my baby," Percy said pushing the fork full of meat forward, "now open up."
"Percy-"
"-No buts, just open up," Percy replied. Thalia sighed and gave up, she opened up and Percy put the meat in. The demigod smiled as Thalia chewed her food, "see, was that so bad?"
"I hate you," Thalia spat out.
Lie Detected!
Percy smiled, "no you don't." After that Thalia quickly finished off the rest of the food on her own, she may have liked the way Percy doubted on her, but there was a limit to how much he could embarrass her in public.
Percy and Thalia then split up and started to jump around different tables telling whoever they thought would want to show up for the party.
The plan was this, right after 11, everyone who knew about the party would sneak out of their cabin and they would meet up at the Fist of Zeus, where Percy would take them where they needed to go.
Soon the news spread out like wild fire. The campers made sure not to tell anyone they thought couldn't keep the secret. Nico, Decker and all the other younger demigods were left clueless about the news, while everyone actively avoided Chiron like the plague that night. Why? There was this rumor going around that the centaur could read the minds of demigods, who started this rumor no one knows, but people avoided him just in case it proved to be true.
At 11 Percy and Thalia waited on the Fist of Zeus, and slowly all the demigods started showing up. The first person there was Michael, with Clarisse in tow. Then came the older half of the Hermes cabin along with the whole of Ares cabin.
Bianca wasn't there, Percy really wished the girl tried to have more fun. Surprisingly Annabeth and the entire Athena cabin was here. It seemed they had collectively decided to spend a night out enjoying life, plus this gave them all the perfect opportunity to forget about work for some time.
They waited for 20 minutes, just incase a few campers found it hard it sneak out. Percy finally got up and addressed the crowd, "all right people, who's ready to party?!"
"YA!"
"Keep it down!" Michael hissed, "you don't' want to alert the Harpies!"
"Right, sorry," Percy chuckled, "kind of got excited."
"Why?" Lee asked looking around, "no offence man, but this doesn't really feel like a party."
Percy green, "who said the party was here?" the campers looked confused while only Thalia smiled knowing what he meant.
"So...you are going to take us to the party?" Clarisse asked.
"Yeah," Percy opened his inventory, "I'll take you all in my inventory."
"Ah, where exactly is this place you're going to take us?" Annabeth asked.
"It's a surprise," Percy grinned, "now, who's first?!"
"What the hell," Michael shrugged, "hopefully you won't screw this up. I mean, it is a party organized by you."
"Dude, you are so going to eat those words," Percy responded as he put Michael in his inventory. Slowly one by one everyone got stored away. Surprisingly Mera also showed up, it seemed she had charmed a son of Ares into telling her what was happening. Thalia didn't like that, but she refused to let the mermaid ruin her night.
After everyone was loaded up Percy took off for Gardiner's island and reached there in record time, thanks to his time dilation ID.
He stood at the edge of the Haven city borders and opened up his inventory carefully taking out every demigod inside his inventory.
Soon all the demigods were out and confused wondering where they were.
"Percy, dude, where the hell are we?" Peter, the son of Ares, asked.
"This is Gardiner's island," Percy said motioning to the island, "it's kind of....well, it's mine."
"Wait, what do you mean yours?" Selina asked.
"I mean, I own it," Percy motioned all around them, "kind of got it from this creepy albino that owed me a favour or two."
"So this is it," Annabeth said looking around in amazement, "it's bigger than I imagined."
"Wait, you know about this place Annabeth?" Matthew, Annabeth's half-brother, asked.
"Yeah, this is where Percy wished to build the Haven for the demigods," Annabeth explained, "and if I'm correct....we should be standing right at the edge of the city limits."
Percy nodded, "yup. I already told the head counselors this, but after my trip to New Rome, I kind of realised how unfair it was for all of us to die at the age of 20. It sucked and it was unfair, so I decided to do something about it. It took some time, but I finally got started in building a place for all us."
"Wait....so this is where you wish to build the city for demigods?" Michael asked looking around, "dude, you have a lot of work to do."
"I know, but it will be worth it," Percy smiled.
"Hey, what's that?" Nina asked pointing at a building in the middle of the clearing. The demigods squinted and could just make out the vague silhouette of the structure in question.
Percy smiled, "that my friends, is where we are going to party, come on," Percy lead them on a walk towards the center of the clearing all the while telling them what was going to go where.
Over all the demigods were very impressed. Percy admitted Annabeth helped out a lot, but he didn't have to do that. Not because he needn't show his humility or something like that, it was because no one in their right minds would ever believe Percy could have thought of all this up without some help.
Soon they reached the building in question and the demigods gasped in wonder.
Thalia leaned in close, "Percy, how long did you take you to build that?"
Percy shrugged, "a hour, I think."
"Dude seriously?" Michael's jaw looked like it was broken, "I take back my previous statement, if you can build that in an hour you can build a city in a week."
Percy nodded, "yeah, but it's a lot more complicated than that," he walked up the set of stairs leading inside the Hearth. He turned and looked back at the hesitant demigods, "well? What are you waiting for? Come on!"
The demigods talked amongst themselves before finally just giving in, it was Percy, there was a 50% chance they might enjoy what was inside and a 50% of them being dosed with sea water.
The demigods slowly went up the steps of the Hearth for the first time, there was a warm glow that came from the inside, it felt welcoming. The pillars were inviting, which was a strange feeling to get from a hunk of stone. The walls looked like they were carved from a single slab, with waves etched into walls. Obviously Percy was a little partial when it came to the city designs.
The inside was even more amazing as a wave of warmth hit them all, bringing them out of the cold and into a large room that decorated with a giant banner in the center with the words, 'PARTY!' written in blue.
The steps leading down to the center of the room were all covered with pillows and blankets. In the center was a big heart whose flames grew bigger and warmer as more and more demigods got inside.
Percy stopped in front of the hearth, next to him were several table filled with drinks, food and plates.
"Alright, here are the rules," Percy began, "no littering, seriously, you dirty this place I will throw you into a lake. Also if anyone wants to there are several Porta potties outside, one for the guys, one for the girls and one exclusively for the Ares kids."
"Hey! That's segregation!" Peter roared out.
"Thems the rules Pete," Percy shrugged, "alright, now, Katie," Percy called out, "you have it?"
The daughter of Demeter had a huge smile plastered on her face, "got it!" She jumped down towards Percy with a huge duffel bag around her had. She took it off and opened it up searching inside for a bit before pulling out several bottles of orange cider.
"Sweet," Percy picked one up and Observed it;
Happy Fruit juice,
Cider taken out of the Happy fruit, diluted, it makes the drinker feel happy for 2 hours.
"What is that?" Annabeth asked.
"My secret recipe," Katie replied grinning like an idiot, "I call it the Happy Happy juice!"
Percy narrowed his eyes, "did you drink some of this before you came here?"
Katie giggled, "hehe, maybe."
"Okay, what exactly is this happy happy juice?" Michael asked as slowly all the demigod gathered around filling up the bottom level surrounding the hearth.
"It basically makes people happy for 2 hours time," Katie explained, "it's like super good. Percy gave me a Happy fruit and I used my powers to create more of it and boom, happy happy juice."
"So it's a drug?" Annabeth asked.
"No," Percy quickly replied, "it doesn't have any sideeffects. So no, it's not a drug."
"But it is addicting!" Katie replied in a melodious voice, "like I had four bottles before I came here!"
"Katie you may want to hold back," Percy said nervously, "like seriously, you're starting to scare me."
"Ah ha! So it is a drug!" Annabeth exclaimed.
"No!" Percy hissed back, "I didn't help create a drug!"
"Does it make people addicted?"
"YES!" Katie shouted as she hugged Clarisse tightly as the daughter of Ares tried her best to push the girl off of her.
"Does it make you feel high?"
"Well..." Percy looked at Katie as she tried to kiss Clarisse on the cheeks much to Michael's awe, "...yes."
"Then it's a drug," Annabeth huffed.
"Percy....did you just help create a drug?" Thalia asked in awe.
Percy gulped, "ah...I plead the fifth?"
"Dude, I didn't realise you could be so cool!" Michael shouted out as he jumped on Percy giving his friend a big hug, "I'll never question your awesomeness again!"
"Neah, you're just saying that because you're hoping to get a threesome with me and Clarisse," Katie stuck her tongue out at Michael who blushed on que.
"N-no I'm not!" Michael roared back.
"Really?" Katie sighed, "that's too bad. I would totally be down for that."
Michael paused for a second, he looked like Thalia had just hit him with a lighting bolt. He slowly turned to Percy, his movement looked forced, like a his bones had somehow rusted. He looked at the son of Poseidon, "Percy....give me that juice."
Percy stepped back, "ah, maybe we should get cups or something."
Michael narrowed his eyes, "juice. Now."
"Dude, your kinda scaring me," Percy took another step back.
Michael started to drool, Percy didn't need to read his mind to know what he was thinking of. He looked like a zombie as he eyed the bottle in Percy's hands, "juice....juice....juice."
Smack!
Clarisse hit Michael across the face snapping him out of his zombie like trance, "stop acting like an idiot."
Michael rubbed his cheeks, "sorry, super tempting. The image of you and-"
"-Okay we don't need to know that," Selina shouted stopping Michael in his tracks, "but now I totally need some of that juice!"
"Why?" Charles asked.
"Because I want to see you smile Charlie," Selena grinned as she grabbed a plastic cup form the table of liquor. She presented it to Percy, "fill it up."
Percy nodded, "sure, everyone grab a cup," Percy then began to pour the happy happy juice for everyone there. He didn't give them all a full cup, this stuff was like Nectar, a little was enough for the effects to take over.
Soon everyone had a shot glass amount of the drink in hand. Percy lifted his up in the air, "to camp half-blood!"
"TO CAMP HALF-BLOOD!" the demigods cheered as they drowned their drinks in a single swing, and instantly the effect of the juice activated.
A smile came on everyone's face, even Percy's. This stuff somehow worked over Gamer's body and mind affecting him in a way not even alcohol could. But considering it came from a fruit he's got as a loot item that was to be expected.
Ping!
You have consumed Katie's 'Happy Happy juice'! You will be happy for the next 2 hours!
"Let's party!" Castor, the son of Dionysus shouted as he cracked open a bottle of beer chugging it down without a second thought.
Everyone was moving, the Apollo kids got up on the marble platform around the hearth and started to sing and play, it was a good thing Percy asked them to bring their instruments.
Soon everyone was all over the place. The Athena kids drank more than anyone else, this was a rare thing for them, Percy had never seen such a drastic change in behaviour. Hades, Annabeth even got on stage and started to dance like no one was watching, and soon her siblings joined her as well.
The Ares kids started to wipe out all the food on the table, luckily Percy had a lot more stored up in his inventory, they wouldn't be running out any time soon.
Soon everyone was smiling and having a good time. It seemed that Katie's extreme reaction to the Happy Happy juice was a child of Demetre thing as only her and her siblings acted like they were high.
The first thing they did was open the vodka, something simple to ease the beginners into. Percy poured the drinks while Castor and the other more experienced drinkers made sure they first timers dranks properly.
Soon everyone there had a cup in hand dancing like there was no tomorrow.
Percy stood to the side with a smile on his face. He took a sip from his cup of rum as he watched everyone having a good time. They deserved it, they had worked hard, they needed a break.
Percy looked at the barrier Hestia put up and he could already feel it growing stronger;
Hestia's Protection,
Anyone you, Percy Jackson, call an enemy will be unable to enter this building.
Strength— strong enough to repel a minor nature spirit.
"You know I really am surprised," Thalia walked up to Percy with a cup in hand and a smile on her face, "I didn't really think you had it in you."
Percy chuckled as Thalia wrapped her arms around his neck pushing him down on the ground on top of a pillow. She straddled him with her legs as Percy wrapped his arms around her.
"You and Michael both," Percy smiled as he kissed her deeply tasting the Happy Happy juice on her lips, "you having a good time?"
"Yeah, but you still look like you have a huge stick up your ass," Thalia hummed as she kissed his neck slowly tracing her lips down his neck sending small bolt of electricity down his skin.
Percy shuddered at the feeling, "goddamn it woman, you know me too well."
