Percy Jackson and the Factions

Hallucinating About Cheese (3)

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Thalia's POV:

The women on the stage have been calling names all day, all from the same tables at once, and after that table has finished with their tests she moves onto the next. So fare the table with the people in all black have finished and are just messing around and the people in black and wight, Red and yellow and blue have also finished. Now it's our table's turn. The women turn to our table is a snarl like she despises the colour grey or something. I instantly don't like her. "Time for... abnegation," she says with fake enthusiasm. I sigh at how bad she is at lying, it's really sad to watch her try and mask her disgust. "First up we have..." she pauses for a moment to read the names "Annabeth Chase, Nico De Angelo, Thalia Grace, Perseus Jackson, Beatrice Prior, Leo Valdez" she calls. I see Percy stiffen at his full name. I've come to understand that only monsters and sour gods call him his full name. We all exchange looks and we are all on alert. We all walk up as well as a stunning girl with grey-blue eyes and blond hair. I inhale sharply and divert my eyes. We all stand up and follow a person in grey to the test rooms. "Alright, all of you stand in front of one door," he tells us. We do as we are told so I fidget with my bracelet, my shield form my father. I notice doing the same thing with his pen, riptide. We exchange worried looks and walk-in.

Leos POV:

The man tells us to stand in front of a door each. We do so, I stand in front of door two. Annabeth outside door 1, Nico outside door 3, that Beatrice girl outside 4 (A/N sorry I couldn't help myself 😏), Thalia outside door 5, and Percy outside door 6. Thalia is the first to grab the door handle and walk in, we all follow suit. I walk in and my eyes lock with the metal chair and equipment next to it. Its simple technology for me but to a mortal, it would take years to create, I'm mildly impressed. But non the less I walk in and start asking questions about its mechanics. I look at my test administrator for the first time as I walk in. He is in all blue like the presenter lady but in a dark navy shnazzy business suit. "How does it generate power? Do you use wires to do the test? What's with the blue liquid? Is it programmed into the machine to cooperate with your brain? Does the chair do anything? It looks pretty stiff. Did you use Iron or something more cohesive?" I question the man. He looks baffled at my knowledge of technology. Making me smirk in the inside. "I have never met such an intellectual and inquisitive abnegation before," he tells me. I wonder what he means by abnegation, but I just roll with it. "Take a seat please" he instructs, ignoring all my questions, but do as he says. I sit back in the hard metal chair and furrow my brows as he hands me a blue liquid. "What does it do?" I question, "it will allow me to proceed with the test so if you will," he says frustrated with my constraint talking. I raise one brow but take the shot and flip my head back as if it were a real shot. The man looks at me like I'm crazy so I do my best interpretation of a mean girl. I look him up and down with Judgy eyes and raise my hand to a sassy position, "what you looking at" I say and hand the man back the shot glass. I lean back and close my eyes, I silently chuckle to myself 'Persassy would be proud' and then the test starts

Percy's POV:

I walk into the room and see a Daunting women. 'Wait no that's not the name, not Daunting, its something like that... Dauntling, no.... Dauntest, no... DAUNTLESS! That's it!' The dauntless women gestures for me to sit down.

I slowly walk towards the metal chair in the middle of the room. I spot a computer next to it and I stiffen. This wont be good, if the test is on that I'll attract monsters. I sit in the chair stiffly. "Damn you stiffs really are sTIFF" she laughs quietly. I laugh at what she said "yea I guess we DAM are" I chuckle. "What?" She says with a confused look like she doesn't get what's so funny about what I said. "Don't worry, inside joke" I wave off. "Riiiiiight. Well drink this, and then the test can begin." As she hands me a blue shot. "Nope. Nah har. Nope. Not gonna happen, unless you tell me what that is." I had been poisoned too many times to fall for this. She looks surprised at my answer, but told me anyway. "Thi-this is a serum. You drink it and ifthen you go into a simulation that will allow me to determine your faction. I will be able to see what's going on on this computer so I can see which of the five factions you are. Is that enough information?" She questions irritably. I think about what Annabeth would say. She would say it isn't. But I don't think we have time for this so I nod in agreement at the women. "Good now drink this" she pushes the liquid towards me. I take it and as I'm about to take a sip I get the feeling someone just got sassed. I smirk. "Why are you smiling" "I don't know, I just got the feeling of the sass" I explain. She nods in understanding and I drink the blue stuff. Probably the only reason why I agreed to drink it was because it was blue but we're not gonna talk about that.