Hello there dear reader(s)! This is just a random story of drabbles with the Olympians and some very…strange movies. I'm writing this because I'm having major mind blanks for my other story Cheaters Don't Lie (to those who've read it and want more, you'll have to wait until my inspiration gets back from China.). So, I just thought I would create this for you all and flames are expected and accepted. Enough with this. Here's the first chapter! Oh, and by the way, this takes place on Olympus of course but in a weird palace thingy where they all hang out. Don't ask.

Disclaimer: I only own the story.

Chapter one

It was a dreary, overcast day on Olympus and everyone was under the weather. Well, mostly everyone. Apollo certainly looked sick and tired and Hermes was muttering about how no one ever makes life easy on him and how he hates delivering messages with soggy winged sandals. Hera was no where to be found and Ares was lazily sharpening his swords, the loud scraps gave everyone the chills and made the hairs on the nape of there necks stand up (even if some would never admit it). Athena was playing chess with Artemis, but even she looked bored. Zeus was probably fuming somewhere, since he was the reason for this lonely, pathetic day.

The only one who seemed to not be effected by the thunder that rumbled threateningly and the downpour that was sure to follow was none other than Aphrodite. She hummed to herself while putting on makeup and staring at her reflection.

"This is so boring," Artemis grumbled, and for once Athena didn't protest.

Apollo stared out the large window that vacated the wall. It showed the dark swirling gray clouds and the wind that whipped the tress ferociously. "Zeus must be pretty pissed," he mused.

"I hate when he gets like that. It just makes it harder on the rest of us to do our jobs!" Hermes muttered, glaring at the rage outside.

Even Ares was grim faced. "I can't even start a mild rift between China and the U.S because of this weather. Zeus told me to never start a war when he was in a nasty mood like this."

"Aw, poor baby," Hermes mocked. "At least you don't have to fly around the world getting soaked to the bone and delivering wet messages!"

"I thought you'd be able to handle that itty bitty job, Hermes. Or are you not even strong enough to send some pathetic little letters?" Ares sneered. But for some reason, their argument was only half-hearted today. They felt weary and utterly empty with nothing to do.

"Check," Artemis mumbled.

Athena rolled her eyes. "You supposed to check the King, Artemis, not the bloody Rook."

"Well excuse me for not knowing the rules! It would've been easier to play had you told me how!" Artemis stated dryly.

Athena sighed heavily and took Artemis' Queen with her Knight. "That was a stupid move on your part. Checkmate."

Artemis raised an eyebrow. "And that means…?"

Athena rubbed her eyes tiredly. "It means you lost."

"Oh."

And nothing more was said for ten minutes. All that was heard was Ares' swords clanging together, and the occasional mumbles of "shit!" or "check". Outside, Zeus roared and the whole palace shook in fear. Lightning slashed the sky in blinding white light and the Heavens cried onto the Earth.

Suddenly Aphrodite slapped her compact shut and stood up. "This is sooo annoying. You people are acting like it's the end of the world because of a little rain!"

Apollo blinked at her. "That's not a little rain, Aphrodite. That's a torrential downpour."

Aphrodite rolled her eyes dramatically. "My point is, is that there are hundreds of things to do inside beside sit around all glum and gloomy. Who are you, Hades?"

The ground shook threateningly.

"Oh you know it's true, Hades!" she shouted at the ground. Turning back to the five gods and goddesses in front of her, she glared. "You don't have to bore yourselves to death just because you have no imagination what-so-ever."

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Athena asked, still calculating the board in front of her. She moved her Knight and took Artemis' Bishop.

Aphrodite smiled brightly and her whole face shone with eagerness. "We could do each other's nails and hair!"

Everyone stopped and stared at her with a mixture of disgust, fear, and above all WTF? written on their faces. Aphrodite still glowed with pleasure.

They all started arguing at once.

"No freaking way-"

"Are you serious?"

"Are you insane-?"

"Are you high-?"

"Why would I want to have my-"

"I'd rather be eaten by Cerberus-"

"This is ridiculous-!"

"Frightening!"

"You need to be in an Asylum-"

"What have you been smoking-?"

"ENOUGH!" Aphrodite yelled, covering her ears. "I get it! We won't do that, okay?" They all visibly sagged in relief.

"Good, cause I wouldn't get a makeover if my life depended on it," Apollo responded.

Artemis shook her head in disgust. "I would never have all that gunk on my face as if I were a clown!" At Aphrodite's glare she added, "No offense or anything."

"Okay then," Aphrodite paced around with a thoughtful look on her face. Suddenly she brightened. "I know!"

"Oh shit."

"Shut up, Hermes. I have an idea: what if we all watch a movie?"

They all pondered the suggestion and decided that there was nothing better to do.

"Sure," Artemis replied. "It can't be much worse then this." she waved at the Chessboard where Athena had just taken her Queen.

Athena face palmed. "Whatever, I'm in. This isn't any fun anyway because you don't know how to strategize."

Artemis waved her hand dismissively. "I'm not one for having a whole plan laid out for me. I just wing it."

Athena shook her head in exasperation.

"There's just one problem," Apollo said, turning from the window. "We don't have a T.V in this whole palace."

Aphrodite scoffed, offended. "You mean, none of you have a T.V. I on the other hand do because I like to watch my Beauty Pageant shows."

"For once, your obsession with beauty comes in handy," Ares muttered under his breath.

"What was that honey?"

"Nothing, babe."

"Uh-huh."

Hermes stood from the plush armchair he had been sitting it and looked longingly at it. He stretched his lanky form and sighed, "I'm sorry, but I have to be off. I've postponed the deliveries as long as I could and I was already supposed to be in Berlin."

"Who lives in Berlin?" Ares exclaimed in shock.

Hermes grabbed his messenger bag and ran his hands through his curly locks. "German folk. Wish me luck." was his answer as he opened the door and stepped into the monstrous storm. The wind almost knocked him off his feet but he managed to stay on his feet.

"Thanks a lot, dad," he grumbled and flew off.

Safely back inside, the remaining gods and goddesses crowded into Aphrodite's candy pink bedroom.

"Lovely place," Apollo's eyes flickered reprovingly, taking in the pink wall, the pink bedspread, the pink curtains. Pink, pink, pink, pink.

Aphrodite grinned coldly, looking quite viscous. "Glad you like it so much Apollo because you're going to be spending the next two-three hours in here."

"We can't just bring it to the living room?" whined Ares.

"Don't be such a baby," Athena scolded, even though she too was glancing repeatedly at the door.

"You can either watch a movie in here or you can go back to doing nothing. Your choice," Aphrodite said firmly.

Grumbling at the unfairness of it all, the four of them plopped down onto the floor.

"Excellent!" Aphrodite squealed happily, flouncing over to a stack of movies on her desk. Artemis had a feeling they were all romance ones.

"Nothing too romantic and mushy, okay?" Artemis said seriously.

"You people have no faith in me…now, let's see where did I put it?" she shifted through the hundreds of movies and romance novels she had and finally exclaimed, "Here it is!" She held up a very weird case. In big yellow letters it read High School Musical.

"I don't have a good feeling about this…" Athena whispered to Artemis while Aphrodite placed the disk inside the plasma T.V.

"Well, it has the word musical in it, so it might be good," Apollo sounded as if he was trying to convince himself instead of his siblings.

Aphrodite plopped down on the bed and hit play. "You are going to just love this!" she squealed as the opening credits came on.

0-0-0-0

One hour later

"Isn't this just so romantic?" Aphrodite whispered. She quoted the lines of the guy, Troy Bolton or whatever his name was. She was the only one that thought so.

Apollo was quietly smacking his head on the wall with a pained look on his face while Ares was covering his ears with his hands and rocking back and forth mumbling incoherent mumble-jumble. Athena was silently thinking of ways to kill herself, sometimes suggesting them out loud to Artemis who's eyes were darting from the window to the door ad back, as if calculating which one would be the best means of successful escape.

As the girl with the black hair, Gabriella or something began to sing, Apollo started muttering out loud.

"Shoot. Me. Now." He pleaded.

Athena shook her head sadly. "Trust me, if I had a gun I would've killed myself already."

"SHHHHH!" Aphrodite shushed them aggressively.

Ares started saying, "Save me. Save me." over and over again and Artemis fiddled with her necklace, wondering if she could somehow manage to strangle herself with it.

The movie continued on to the hard thumps of Apollo's head and the turning wheels in all of their minds, praying to Zeus or whoever was listening to end the torture or to just maybe kill them all instead.

0-0-0-0

An hour and a half later

"Wildcats, sing a-long. Yeah you really got it goin on
Wildcats in the house, everybody say it now.
Wildcats everywhere, Wave your hands up in the air.
That's the way we do it, Let's get to it,
Time to show the world."

Aphrodite sang along to the depressing words, smiling and laughing.

Athena cursed every Hollywood mortal for even thinking of inventing such a stupid, moronic, pointless movie to the fiery pits of Tartarus. Apollo's head lay on her shoulder, fast asleep and drooling very slightly. Artemis was pulling her own hair out and looking all crazy and insane and her lips moved with words that only she could understand along with the occasional English word.

"frouhsjkjsd wujnd why? Pdjsuwtne Wildcats!" she wailed, tears streaming down her pale cheeks in fear that an actual Wild cat would come out and eat her.

Ares wasn't much better.

"NO! No more songs! I c-can't…I can't t-take it…" he started shivering and his bloodshot eyes darted everywhere in paranoid grief. He was still rocking back and forth.

Wildcats everywhere, Wave your hands up in the air.
That's the way we do it, Let's get to it. C'mon, everyone!

Aphrodite screamed out the last lines and threw her hands up in the air, waving them around. "Yeah! That was awesome!" She sprung up from her bed, not even noticing how Apollo had jumped awake and scooted very far away from her. She grabbed the disk out of the DVD player and set it gently back in its case, as if it were her precious baby. She turned around and it was then she noticed everyone else.

Artemis pulling out her hair and yelling like a mad woman, Apollo cowering in fear under her desk, Ares praying for his mommy, and Athena trying to strangle herself.

"Wow, what happened to you guys?" Aphrodite asked, confused.

"No…don't hurt me!" Ares cried.

"No more singing! Make it stop, MAKE IT STOP!" Apollo shouted, squeezing his eyes shut.

"Mhokitybdgvs KITTY!" Artemis screamed, actually thinking she saw a leopard.

"Have…to…kill…myself…" Athena murmured out loud, clutching her hair, her eyes unfocused.

"Um…I don't know what's wrong with you guys but I hope you liked it cause guess what?" she waited until everyone looked blankly at her. She beamed and squealed, "We're going to watch the second one tomorrow!" and with that Aphrodite bounced out of the room, leaving some very scarred people in her wake.

So, did you like it? I have NO idea where this came from, so don't bother asking. Also, no offense to people who actually like High Scool Musical. I think it's pointless and so incredibly stupid because NO ONE just bursts randomly into song and starts dancing. Well, I mean I do that but not like that. It's always just me singing, no one else, there's no background music, and no choreographed dancing. I mean really?

Anyways, I'm babbling now, so I'll stop. I need more ideas of other movies and games or stuff so plese help me! Thanks! Love ya!

~starr