Subject: Well... technically they do "leave their life"
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Posted on: 2016-04-18 06:54:00 UTC
Since they left their respective Camps.
Subject: Well... technically they do "leave their life"
Author:
Posted on: 2016-04-18 06:54:00 UTC
Since they left their respective Camps.
So hey, it's been almost a year since we played this. Anyone up for a game?
The rules are simple:
1/ I post a set of plothole-ridden summaries for fanfics.
2/ You write short stories making those summaries make sense (known as 'filling the plotholes').
Told you it was simple!
(No, you don't need Permission. No, you don't need a beta. Yes, multiple people can do the same summary, so no, you don't need to 'claim'. Yes, you should write something quick and off the cuff to entertain us all.)
To avoid the usual 'how very dare you only pick summaries from your fandoms?!', I've just used the fandoms from the last six missions we had posted. So thanks to silenthunder, SkarmorySilver (twice), eatpraylove, Hardric, and Iximaz for providing fandoms to work with.
(Hope I didn't go far from the original goal)
Hazel, Thalia, Piper, and Annabeth formed a band one day because they hoped to leave their life and tour the world. After a turn of events, their life ends up being pretty great. What'll happen when their record company wants them to go on tour? Will they go, or will they stay? (Percabeth, Jiper, Frazel, and Thaleo)
Annabeth was not pleased with the news she heard. The first message she received in the morning was for her and the girls to visit Aoide Records. Over the last couple of weeks they were performing on both private and public events, and the entire band was hoping for at least few days of break (Annabeth especially, since that was her only chance to see Percy). Instead, when she, Thalia, Piper, and Hazel all arrived at their recording company, the first revelation she heard made her almost spit out the water she was drinking.
“You want us to go where!?”
The company’s CEO, a young blonde man wearing an expensive-looking leather jacket, yellow t-shirt, and aviator shades, beamed her a dazzling smile.
“Barcelona,” he repeated. “I’ve heard it’s quite lovely this time of the year; I’m sure you’ll be adored there! And it’s going to be a wonderful promotion tour.”
He clasped his hands and looked around from one girl to another. All of them had rather vague expressions. Finally, Annabeth spoke again.
“Listen, Apollo…”
“Ekhm...” The CEO cleared his throat and looked at the daughter of Athena from behind his shades. He gently nudged his head towards the people in the hallway; managers, sound crew, and other performers. “We’re not alone, Miss Chase.”
“I mean… Mr. Lite, we agreed for this ‘tour’,” Annabeth made air quotes with her fingers, “as long as it was only around the country. Don’t you think that going overseas might be a little… difficult in our current state?”
“I’m sure it’s gonna be fine.” Mr. Lite smiled again. “I'll send you all the details soon. Now run along, get a good rest, enjoy the rest of the week off! We have Europe to conquer!”
***
"So, are we going or not?" Piper was the first one to speak, after the girls left the studio. They all agreed that after hearing this they all needed coffee (and chocolate, in Hazel's case). "I mean, we agreed for this feint only for the sake of the quest, but now we're going to cross the ocean again."
"The Senate is not going to be happy about this." Hazel added. "So close to the Ancient Lands? Last time was a must, but now?"
"Now it's a must, too," Annabeth replied. "Two months after Gaea's defeat and we still hadn't hunted down all of her minions. All the monsters roaming free, all the Ancient heroes that pledged their allegiance to her... And now we learn that they are leaving the country."
"Your Senate will have to deal with it," Thalia said. "The sooner we end this whole pretending the better. Seriously, why did you have to pair me up with Valdez of all people?!"
"It was my mom's idea." Piper raised her hand slightly. "She said that we all need to have 'secret lovers' for the media to talk about, and since you're the only one without a boyfriend..." She looked at the daughter of Zeus apologetically. "I'll treat you for lunch after we're done with all of this. For a week."
"I guess that means we're going?" Hazel asked, and looked at Annabeth.
Daughter of Athena nodded. "No choice. Let's meet up with the boys and see how their part of the quest goes."
#PleaseDon'tHurtMe
The idea of the characters pretending to be in a rock band as a cover for an investigation is. . . not exactly typical of the PJO universe, but much more plausible than the summary. (It doesn't quite fulfill the prompt since they're not trying to "leave their life." Unless said trip takes them to the Underworld.)(I mean the ancient entrance to the Underworld; they're clearly not going to San Francisco. I wonder if it still works?) And Apollo as a music company executive makes a lot of sense.
Since they left their respective Camps.
"I think the problem you're all having is that the Underworld's... kind of a downer place."
"Leo, the problem was not that the band was down. I think the problem may have had something to do with the fact that the Stonehenge we commissioned from your Dad was in danger of being crushed by a child!"
"Okay, okay, he's still not great with metric to imperial conversions, you don't have to make a big thing out of it."
"Making a big thing out of it woulda been a really good idea!"
((With my profoundest apologies to This Is Spinal Tap.))
'Ssssh, it's okay. It's going to be okay. You're among friends,' John T. Elf whispered to the tree, placing a thick, cosy blanket over some branches.
'It - it was awful,' The tree whimpered, a pathetic and unwelcome shudder running through its colossal, age-worn trunk.
'Please, if you could just explain what happened,' John said quietly, worried that his voice would cause the wooden behemoth to tumble to the ground in a great pile of elf-crushing leaves and branches.
'First,' The tree sniffed. 'First she started with the questions.'
'That's awful,' John said, not getting it.
'I don't even know what a Galadriel is! Why would she ask me?!' The tree moaned, releasing a great, rustling sob.
'It's okay, it's okay,' John said, carefully pouring some of his tea on the tree's roots.
'Thank you,' The tree whimpered, soaking the tea into its roots with a faint 'Schhwooooorp'* noise.
'She began - began,' The tree paused. 'My bark...'
'She ran her fingers over your bark?' John asked, face wrinkled with horror.
'The ridges... wisdom and strength, all of it.'
'This will not do,' John hissed, standing. He was getting it.
'I will find her.'
'Be careful,' The tree whispered. 'She has taken much from me. She is no longer lite...'
'What is she?' John asked, gripping his spear in vengeful hands.
'Elleth Heavy.' †
*Trees actually sound like this when they absorb tea. Try it.
†This is the second funniest joke I've made in fifteen years. If you think that's good, wait until you see the first funniest one.
But seriously, cheers.
I hadn't even noticed that - 'for the very word'. Excellent. And the notion of an illiterate (really?) canon character on a quest to save grammar is a thoroughly charming one.
"He began because his goddess commanded it. By the end, he had learnt that the rules of language were even more inflexible than hers."
Or something.
hS
But I do know enough Percy Jackson fans to know that those names in brackets aren't OCs; they're ship names. Percabeth is Percy/Annabeth, and the others are. . . Google says Jason/Piper, Frank/Hazel, and Thalia/Leo. I don't know who hald those characters are, but I assume anyone actually familiar with the canon would.
--Key is tempted to write one of these anyway
But we've definitely had 'ship names interpreted as characters' in Fill the Plothole before. (We've actually had Plz R&R as a character before now...)
hS
I am getting an amazing Bad News/Spinal Tap vibe from that one. Like, that's what I'd do if I knew Thing One about the canon in question.
"I could play Stairway To Heaven on her guitar at age 12. Jimmy Page didn't even write it until he was 22. I think that says a lot."
Dr. Henry.Wu has created a new hybrid. The same problem as the indominus rex happens and they must stop it. Read and find out. Please R&R
"You called?"
Claire Dearing turned away from the window and smiled warmly at Owen Grady. "And you came."
Owen gave her a lopsided smile. "I do that. What's up?"
Claire grimaced and half-turned, gesturing out of the window. "They let Dr. Wu back into the lab."
Owen stared at her. "Tell me it's not another hybrid."
"I would if I could." Claire walked up to the glass and pressed her hand against it. "Only trouble is, it's not showing up on the cameras."
"... did you let him use frog DNA again? I thought there was a general conclusion that no good has ever, ever, ever come of that."
"I didn't let him do anything," Claire snapped. "The new CEO-"
"I hear he's been making unauthorised helicopter flights," Owen cut in. "Sounds... familiar."
"I swear, it's just like having Mr. Masrani back." Claire sighed and looked down at her tablet computer. "And Mostly Cretaceous World is full to capacity... all I need now is for my sister to call and say Zach and Gray are coming down-"
Claire's phone buzzed. Her eyes widened, and her gaze snapped to Owen as she pulled it from her pocket and put it to her ear.
"... hello?" A voice on the other end, and Claire slumped in relief. "Oh, Vivian, yes, hello. I was wondering if you'd had a chance to pull together those files...?"
Owen tapped the glass that looked out into the apparently-empty pen. "Claire?" he said. "What do you want to do about this?"
Claire covered the phone's mouthpiece. "It'll show up soon enough," she hissed. "What, do you think I'm going to open the doors? Honestly, Owen, I do learn from experience." She rolled her eyes and turned back to the phone. "Uh-huh. Uh-huh. That sounds good. - wait, my sister did what?"