Third Person POV

"That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" Annabeth exclaimed.

"Oh, so sorry that my life interferes with yours, princess." Percy muttered under his breath as he walked past.

"I heard that, Jackson!"

"Good!"

"You need to chill out, it's not that bad."

Annabeth whirled on Piper. "You can say that, your partner isn't a complete jerk! And on top of it, your partner is your boyfriend and you two sound angelic when you sing!"

"Annabeth, it's just for a few weeks. And it's for one music assignment."

"Ugh, why couldn't I get paired with Nico?" Annabeth complained. "He's a world class pianist! And violin sounds much better with a piano than a stupid guitar."

"Well Nico, Frank and Hazel are doing a jazz trio."

"What?" Hazel had overheard the last part of the conversation.

"I wanted to pair up with Nico for the music assignment."

"Well he doesn't have a partner yet, I don't think, why don't you ask him."

Piper frowned. "I thought he was working with you?"

Hazel shook her head. "Frank and I are a duo this time around. I haven't decided if I'm going to play my trumpet or my trombone yet though. Frank already decided on upright bass. It sounds better than an electric for the song we want to do."

Annabeth began to scan the hall. "Where is he then? I really don't want to be Jackson's partner, guitars and violins just sound strange together."

"They actually mix pretty well." Piper commented.

"No!" Annabeth exclaimed. "I hate the combination and if I can find a partner other than Percy then I'm sure the instructor will let us switch!"

Hazel shrugged. "I don't know, Mrs. Zuniga can be pretty strict."

"Nico!" Annabeth waved her hand over the crowd in the hall, having finally spotted her target.

"What do you need?" He asked, not impolitely.

"Will you be my music partner?"

"Uh, sorry, I can't. You're going to have to find a new partner anyway though."

"Why?" Annabeth's brow furrowed in confusion.

"Percy, Thals and I are working together."

"Ugh! Now who can I ask?"

"Will doesn't have a partner yet." Nico offered.

"I thought he was working with Jason and Piper?"

"I'm right here, Annie. And no, he's not working with us, ask him. Violins and oboes go pretty well together." Piper commented.

"Fine, I'll go find him." Annabeth pushed off through the crowd.

"So what are you guys doing?" Piper asked Nico.

"House of Gold."

"Twenty One Pilots? Won't that sound strange with a guitar instead of a ukulele?"

Nico smirked. "That's going to be our secret."

"Well, Jason and I are going to do the Prayer. He'll help me with the Latin translation and all that." Piper said.

"We're doing a cover of Fancy by Iggy Azalea." Hazel put in.

"As a jazz duo? Sounds eccentric."

The daughter of Pluto just smiled.

"Well, better go find Annabeth, we've got Calculus next." Piper muttered.

"Ew, Calculus."

Piper grinned at Nico. "No kidding."

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The class chose their seats in the auditorium.

"The first group to go will be Annabeth Chase and Will Solace." Mrs. Zuniga announced from the stage.

Annabeth and Will hopped to their feet and began to get their instruments out.

"Good luck, Annabeth!" Piper called.

Annabeth nodded and checked her violin to make sure it was in tune. Will did the same and they quickly played their piece. They had picked the shortest Bach piece they could find that worked as a duet and it played very well.

"Wonderful job, Annabeth, Will, thank you for that! Next up is our trio, Percy Jackson, Thalia, and Nico di Angelo!" Even Mrs. Zuniga knew not to use Thalia's last name. Everyone knew that she hated it and only people who wanted to get punched would use that.

The three scrambled onstage and began to set up. Nico pulled one of the electric keyboards over to the baby grand sitting off to the side and moved it so he could play both at the same time, the keyboard right in front of the baby grand's keys. Thalia sat down at the drum-set and tried a quick riff on two of the drums, ending with a quick tap to the cymbal.

"Ready, Perce?" She asked.

"You got it." He looped his guitar strap over his shoulder.

Thalia nodded and Percy quickly slipped a capo onto his guitar.

When her cousins were ready, Thalia clicked her drumsticks together three times.

Percy started off, playing his guitar in a way that imitated a ukulele. He began to sing.

"She asked me, 'Son, when I grow old,

will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone,

will you take care of me?'"

Suddenly he whirled, slipping the strap of his guitar over his head. When he turned around again, he had a bright blue ukulele in his hands.

"She asked me, 'Son, when I grow old,

will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone,

will you take care of me?'

I will make you queen of everything you see,"

Nico joined in, only on the baby grand for the moment.

"I'll put you on the map, I'll cure you of disease.

Let's say we up and left this town,

and turned our future upside down.

We'll pretend that you and me,

lived ever after happily!"

Thalia began to lightly tap the bass drum, then added the others one by one.

As they went into the refrain again, the other two instrumentalists began to sing as well. Nico and Thalia's voices weren't nearly as good as Percy's, but they were decent.

"She asked me, 'Son, when I grow old,

will you build me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone,

will you take care of me?'

I will make you queen of everything you see,

I'll put you on the map,

I'll cure you of disease."

Nico's hand jumped from the baby grand to the keyboard and a sound that actually rather resembled a violin joined in.

"Oh and since we know that dreams are dead,

and life turns plans up on their head,

I will plan to be a bum,

so I just might become someone!

She asked me, 'Son, when I grow old,

will you buy me a house of gold?

And when your father turns to stone,

will you take care of me?"

Thalia and Nico dropped out and Percy strummed his ukulele once for each line he sang.

"I will make you,

queen of everything you see,

I'll put you on the map,

I'll cure you of disease."