Percy Jackson (PJO)

Percy had no real idea what he was supposed to be doing right now. Annabeth had just been sent tumbling off of a cliff by a manticore and now she was gone. Artemis told him she was alive and he clung to that knowledge, but it didn't stop him worrying. She was out there somewhere, captured by monsters, and there was nothing he could do about it right now. The Hunters of Artemis weren't helping, the whole lot of them just setting up camp and giving him glares for the simple crime of being a male.

So it was that he had ended up sat down with Nico, one of the two demigods they had come here to rescue, and trying to take his mind off of things by talking to the boy. "So you're a son of Poseidon?" He asked enthusiastically. "That's so cool. Poseidon has so crazy beefy stats. Here I'll show you." He rummaged around in his backpack and began pulling out a whole horde of figurines and cards. Apparently the guy really like this Mythomagic game.

Since they had started talking it had been half of what he had talked about, taking a break between questions about the life of a Greek demigod to chat his ear off about how they were in his game, about their stat points and how they were in the meta. It was mind-numbingly boring to listen to, but at the very least his mind slowly melting out of his head kept it from fretting over whatever was happening to Annabeth right now.

"Oh hey. I have Perseus in here as well!" The boy cried as he pulled out one of the cards showing off the son of Zeus who was his namesake. "C-can you sign my card? I mean I know you're not that that Perseus, but you're so cool, and you almost beat down Mr Thorn. He was a Manticore, they have like 3000 attack and defence power, you must be so strong." Was this what having fangirls was like to famous people?

"Sure." Percy said, reaching out to ruffle the kids hair a little, and pulling Riptide out of his pocket. He'd never tried to use it as a pen before. He took off the cap, and it immediately turned into its sword form. But then he tried pressing the cap to the hilt end instead of the sword tip like normal, and then he was holding the pen again, now uncapped and ready for use.

"Oh god that is so cool." Nico squealed as he watched the sword transform. "Can I get a sword like that? When do we get the swords? Can I hold yours?"

"I don't think your sister would ever let me live it down if I just handed you a deadly weapon." He said as he accepted the card from the boy and scribbled his signature across the back of the card. He then offered it back to him.

"You're giving me your Mythomagic card? Can I really have it?"

"Umm, sure. It's yours."

"Really!! Oh this is so cool!" He squealed, taking the card back and staring at it like a snake looking at a baby bird. "I can't believe you're letting me have your card. This is insane."

There was something strange going on here. He'd just signed Nico's card, and now he was acting like it was his own instead of Nico's. That was very weird.

"Perseus Jackson." A voice called out from behind him. Turning he saw it was Zoe Nightshade, Artemis' lieutenant. "Lady Artemis requests your presence. It would be best not to keep her waiting."

"Alright." He said standing up. "See you around kid." He said to Nico. Finding out what was going there would have to wait. For now he would ignore it, and try to not get transformed into a beaver or something by a manhating goddess.

He slipped Riptide back into his pocket, but he didn't realise that he never replaced the cap, and so the pen remained in its active pen form instead of as a sword or capped pen.