Song Of The Chapter ~ Uptown Funk, by Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars AND Ready Or Not, by

Chapter Nine ~ Help! Someone Fangirled Too Hard And They Can't Get Back Up!!

Warning: there are a lot of song lyrics in this. All lyrics are in italics if you wish to skip them

Sophia Downside POV

"Angelina wait!" I cried as the Aphrodite Ranger ran in front of me, a jacket quickly pulled over her pyjamas.

She disappeared around the corner and I had to sprint to catch up. That girl was fast! "ANGELINA STOP!!" I screamed as loud as I could, and I turned around the corner to see her looking at me with an annoyed look on her face.

"What?" She demanded.

"You left me behind!" I replied, pulling on the jacket that I had grabbed on my way out.

A door that I hadn't noticed before opened and a girl walked out, her brown hair which looked like it was once nice and curly was like a rats nest, pieces sticking up like straw. Her eyes were dark chocolatey brown and she had Doctor Who pyjamas. She held a silver hunting knife and was rubbing the sleep out of her eyes like she had just woken up.

"Angelina!" She moaned when she saw who it was. "You know I need my beauty sleep so that I can be on my sugar rush when I wake up!"

"Sorry, Penelope." Angelina winced. "Blame Sophia."

I put my hands on my hips. "Ha! Blame it on the girl who is totally confused at why there's a girl standing in the doorway holding a knife and why she's in an underground headquarters of sorts."

Penelope looked at me with respect. "I like you." She commented. "Calm at first glance, but fiery and crazy at a better angle." She stuck out her hand. "Penelope, daughter of Hades, legacy of Apollo."

I smiled. "Nice to meet you. I'm Sophia. According to Angelina I'm mortal but now she's saying that I've been blessed by Hera."

She shook my hand. "Never met a girl blessed by Hera." Then she folded her arms and smirked. "But if you're going to be my friend, I'll give you a warning: I'm totally crazy. If I randomly start singing lyrics to songs that I've made up or start demanding people for sugar, then just ignore it. It's totally normal."

"Yeah, yeah, we get it." Angelina rolled her eyes. "Come on Sophia, lets go."

"Bye!" Penelope called before Angelina and I dashed off down the corridor.

"Where exactly are we going?" I asked her.

"To Julie Starfly, head of the Camp Jupiter HeadQuarters." She replied.

"What the hell is Camp Jupiter?"

Angelina slowed down a bit. I walked beside her as she sighed. "It's the camp for Roman demigods. The Greek camp is Camp Half-Blood. I believe Hera explained it to you?"

I nodded my head numbly. "Yeah."

"Good." We arrived at a door labelled: JULIE STARFLY

Angelina marched up to it and knocked five times. The door swung open and Julie appeared in the doorway. "You called?" She asked.

"Yeah..." Angelina's eyes flittered to mine. "Sophia had a dream-"

"A few nights ago and I just told her." I cut her off.

Julie nodded her head. "Very well. Come in." She moved away from the door and I entered. Angelina said something about sleep and ran back to the dorm.

Julie's room was like an office. There was a shelf of books pressed against a wall, a desk next to that and a bed on the other side. The walls were painted a soft purple while the carpet was a vibrant green.

Julie walked up to the bookshelf and pulled a book out. Instantly, a chair rose out of the floor next to the bed. "Sit." She directed to me and I placed myself in it. Then she sat at her desk, swinging the chair around to face me. "Now, explain to me your dream."

I told her everything. About the goddess who said that she had blessed me and that I had a place here, to the fact that I had been seeing monsters.

She nodded her head. "When she - Hera, I assume - blessed you, your sight cleared. Now you can see through the Mist - the magical layer that protects the mythical world from mortal eyes."

I nodded. "So... is there anything else?"

She smiled. "No. Go back to your dorm. Angelina will show you to Breakfast in the morning."

"Okay." I replied, and stood up. When I exited the room, I wasn't in the same corridor. Instead I was in the Jump. Taking a step forwards, I launched over the edge squeezing my eyes shut. When I opened my eyes, I was lying in my bunk. Sighing, I snuggled under the covers and went to sleep.

•••

I woke up to music blasting.

I'm the kinda girl who doesn't say a word,
Who sits at the curb and waits for the world
But I'm about to break out, about to break out
I'm like a crook tonight

I caught you staring at me and I was thinking clearly
Now I'm like a bee and I'm huntin' for the honey
And I'm kinda shy but you're super fly yeah
I could be your kryptonite

Like ohh ohh ohh
Light my heart up baby like a match stick
Ohh ohh ohh
And hit the gas quick

Ready or not
Here I come
Where you at?
The night is young
In the crowd the music's loud but I will find you
Ready or not
Here I come
I like your face
Do you like my song?
Just sing it la la la la la la and I'll find you
Ready or not (Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh)
Ready or not (Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh)

"Would you please turn that off!" Angelina shrieked.

"Huh?" Amy asked, pulling out earbuds. Then she realised that they weren't plugged into her iPod. She blushed. "Oops. Sorry."

"I LOVE THAT SONG!" I screamed, jumping up and standing on my bunk, hitting my head on the top one. "Ow!" I cried. Then I jumped down and grabbed Amy's iPod, turning the music up to max. Suddenly I spotted the dock station. To Angelina's protests, I plugged it in and turned it up. Then I pressed play.

"Hello my name is... (Sophia)
Nice to meet you
I think you're famous
Where have I seen you?
You'll be my William, I'll be your Kate
Livin' like a fairytale
We could have a palace right next to Oprah
37 cars and a yacht down in Boca
Take me away wherever you say
Yeah we could be setting sail

"Like ohh ohh ohh
Light my heart up baby like a matchstick
Ohh ohh ohh
And hit the gas quick

"Ready or not
Here I come
Where you at?
The night is young
In the crowd the music's loud but I will find you
Ready or not
Here I come
I like your face
Do you like my song?
Just sing it la la la la la la and I'll find you
Ready or not (Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh)
Ready or not, not (Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh)

"Ready or not here I come, here I come
You're like a breath of fresh air in my lungs
You and me dance from the night to the dawn
Ready or not here I come, boy it's on

"Ready or not here I come, here I come
You're like a breath of fresh air in my lungs
You and me dance from the night to the dawn
Ready or not here I come, boy it's on

"Ready or not
Here I come
Where you at?
The night is young
In the crowd the music's loud but I will find you
Ready or not
Here I come
I like your face
Do you like my song?
Just sing it la la la la la la and I'll find you

"Ready or not (ready or not, you're like a breath of fresh air in my lungs)
Ready or not (here I come, oh)
Ready or not
Ready or not
Ready or not
Ready or not
Ready or not
Boombada Boombada Boombada
Ready or not!" I sang.

Amy clapped. Angelina threw a pillow at me. Then the next song came on.

This hit
That ice cold
Michelle Pfeiffer
That white gold
This one, for them hood girls
Them good girls
Straight masterpieces
Stylin', while in
Livin' it up in the city
Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent
Got kiss myself I'm so pretty

"TURN IT OFF SOPHIA!" Angelina screamed.

"Geez." I switched it off. "Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." I was answered by a pillow hitting me in the face.

•••

Once the three of us had gotten up and changed into the simple tee-shirts and jeans laid out for us, (an Aphrodite Rangers shirt with faded navy jeans) we went out into the corridor and walked down to the Jump which was located a few doors down.

I saw three boys jumping off the edge and doing a few somersaults before hitting the mist and disappearing. Angelina went first, then Amy, then me. When we landed, we arrived in a large room with tables lining the room and a huge platform in the centre. There were tables full of girls and boys of all ages, while at a high table, a pretty woman sat. She had light brown hair and bright blue eyes and kind of just radiated beauty.

The other people at the table were Julie Starfly, a girl with blonde hair and brown eyes who was talking to Julie, a girl with light blue eyes and curly brown hair and a boy with black hair and brown eyes.

We landed near a table with five other girls. I recognised Penelope and Katey, but the other three I didn't.

There was a red headed girl with blue eyes who was twirling her sword and chatting to a girl who had long black hair with dark purple streaks and sea green eyes. The last girl who I didn't know was writing something on a laptop and gossiping with a girl in a nearby table about something called 'Percabeth'. She had dark hair and black onyx eyes.

"Hey Angelina!" The red headed girl called.

Angelina waved and sat down next to her. I awkwardly sat down in between Penelope and the girl with black and purple hair. "Hi." I greeted.

"Hey Soph." Penelope grinned. "This is Ashley," Sea green eyed girl "Nakura," Laptop Girl "Alex," Red Head "and Katey."

"Hey." I grinned.

"Hey Sophia!" Katey grinned.

"Asaneth is sitting at another table. She's also in our training group." Penelope explained.

"OMG guess what Ashley?!" Nakura shrieked.

"What?" Ashley grinned, snapping a piece of chocolate off her bar.

"Percabeth did 'it!'!" I swear everyone in the hall started squealing.

"Um..." I was really confused. "Who is 'Percabeth'?"

Alex turned from where she had been talking to Amy and glared at me. "How dare you!" She yelled, fuming. Then she calmed down and clapped her hands twice. A screen lowered down in front of me and a movie started playing.

It was about a boy and a girl. The boy looked a bit like Ashley, with messy jet black hair and sea green eyes, and the girl looked like your typical dumb blonde. That was until I saw her eyes. They were a beautiful stormy grey, like clouds rolling across a sky.

"You drool in your sleep." She said to the boy, whose name was Percy. Then the video changed to show all of their moments. The girl, Annabeth, slipped off the edge of a hole. She started to fall, but percy grabbed her hand and held onto a ledge, determination on his face. He exchanged some words with a boy with dark black hair and onyx eyes, before letting go of the ledge and him and Annabeth falling into Tartarus.

At the end I was tearing up a bit, but quickly blinked them away. "So... they're like, made for each other?" Alex nodded.

"We're still waiting for Percy to propose." She sighed dreamily, as if picturing their wedding. Then she snapped out of her daze and smirked: "After they get married, they'll be so cute!!" She started squealing. "And then Annabeth will get pregnant, and they'll have Percababies!!" Then she started - um, fangirling too much and fell off her seat.

"Don't worry about her, she's crazy Penelope said, stealing a piece of Ashley's chocolate.

"Hey!" Alex cried, trying to get up, but failing miserably because Katey was holding her legs down.

When she finally managed to kick Katey off, she sat back up. "May I remind you that last year you stole all of my secret stash of chocolate and gave it to your pet unicorn??!"

Penelope shrugged, biting into a pancake. "What? It wasn't even that hard to find, anyway, I think Jiper and Solangelo did 'it' before Percabeth though." Alex started squealing again along with Nakura and they both fell off their chair this time.

"Help! Someone fangirled too hard and they can't get back up!" Ashley yelled.

A/N:

That was a longer chapter...

Oh well.

Aphrodite Rangers Mentioned:

Penelope ~ @InsaneGreek1

Katey ~ @LlamaMaster506

Alex(andra) ~ @zozobear

Ashley ~ @LittleNerd20

Nakura ~ @The_great_seven

Julie Starfly ~ (OC from MDAGMP2)

There are a few others, but I can't be stuffed to go back and get them all.