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This is the first story that me and my friend Taylor actually manage to publish. I hope you guys enjoy and bother to leave a comment!

Disclaimer: We don't own any of the characters and things you can recognize. All credits go to the wonderful Uncle Rick, who so nicely crushes our souls with his writing. The rest is ours.


Heroes Need Vacations Too

Chapter one

"You ready?" Tristan McLean held the handle and looked back dramatically at the nine teenagers, even though they couldn't see him through their blindfolds. "Alright, take them off!"

He banged open the double doors of the beach house, and heard the hitched breaths and "Ooooh"s and a squeal from the teens as they took in the view and raced past him inside the mansion.
"This is so awesome. Piper, your dad is awesome!" yelled the one named Leo with a grin nearly splitting his face in half and running to the window, "We have a pool and a hot tub AND a widescreen in the backyard! Man, I would marry you, but, uh, you're a guy."
Tristan chuckled at that and watched the other teens pace around, some disappearing into the kitchen or up the stairs. Piper looked a bit awkward, if not
uncomfortable, at having her father show his wealth off like that. She stood in the middle of the room, looking like she didn't know what to do. He walked over to her and put his arm around her shoulder.
"Did you like it, Pipes?" he asked, making a vague gesture with his hand.
"Yeah", she replied, "thanks, Dad."
"I thought you and your friends deserved it" Tristan offered a bright smile, and his daughter blushed and hugged him.

Meanwhile, Percy paced around the living room with his arms open and an awed face like he owned the place.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked him, with an eyebrow lifted and an amused smile in her mouth.
"Huh… nothing." He lowered his arms.
"Right. No wonder Annabeth calls you Seaweed Brain". She chuckled and went to the kitchen, where Frank was.
Annabeth and Hazel were upstairs, checking the bedrooms.
"I guess I'll just choose my room before any of you gets the one I want." Stelmaria said, going upstairs.
Jason was standing in the middle of the living room, next to Percy, who had an awesome poker face, staring at nothing. He was waiting for Piper, but she was still talking to her father. Leo had ran out to the backyard faster than you could say "gorgon".
"So… 'Sup, man?" Jason said to Percy.
"Oh, hi" Percy stared at him "Do you want to check out the rest of the house, or you will wait for Piper?"
"I think I'm going to wait for her. But you can go, if you want to."
"Yeah, thanks for the permission", he said, sarcastically. "Do you know where's Annabeth?"
"I think she's upstairs with Hazel".
"Thanks." Percy climbed the stairs. "Annabeth?" he called from the middle of the hallway.
"I'm here!" her voice came from the third room at the right side, and it sounded impressed. He followed the sound, and as he entered the room, he stopped, starstruck.
"Wow".
Right in front of him, there was a giant television room. Against one of the walls, there was a giant, confortable looking couch. At the wall in front of it, taking literaly all of its space, there was an enormous TV, almost like a real cinema screen. It was surrounded by shelves, filled with lots and lots and lots of DVDs. Few minutes later, Frank and Stelmaria showed up there too, and they just admired the room for a while.
Piper, Jason and Sam soon joined them, so the passage was blocked by their little mob. "You guys found something interesting here? Wow." Sam said when Percy got out of their way and she had a better view of the room. "I think someone will really like that."
"Who will really like what?" Leo's voice came through the hallway, and the boy reached them a few seconds later.
"We were kinda talking about you" Frank said.
"Why? What's in there?" He started shoving and elbowing the others, trying to enter the room. When he finally made it, his reaction was basically the same as the other's. But, Leo being who he was, he had to say something Leo-ish.
"Piper, I'm definitely going to marry your father."
"No, you're not." She chuckled.
"Ok, then I'll marry you."
"Hey!" Jason demanded.
"Oh, sorry, Jason. I know you love me, but you can't marry me."
"I don't want to marry you."
"Yeah, right. Ok, so we can both marry Piper and share her or-"
"Leo!" Piper sounded offended.
"Alright. I don't mind being the adopted son."
Piper rolled her eyes, but couldn't help smiling.
"When we're gonna use this beautie?" Leo asked with a glint in his eyes.
"We can watch a movie later, at night." Stelmaria suggested.
"It's not a bad idea" Hazel agreed.
"Ok, so movie at night" Annabeth said. Then, silence filled the place for a moment.
"What do we do now?" Frank asked.
"Well, it's about 3pm, so…" Jason checked a clock in the wall.
"… Pool?" Percy risked. Everyone seemded to think for a moment. Then Jason said "Yeah, to the pool it is."
They started to walk out, but Hazel said "Wait. Shouldn't we choose our rooms first?
"Oh, yeah." Frank said, and they ran to get the rooms they wanted.
"OH MY GODS, THIS ONE IS AWESOME!" Leo yelled, standing in front of the door of one of the lasts rooms of the hallway.
"Too bad it's already mine" Stelmaria gave him a sneer.
"Jeez, I can't even get the room I liked." He shrugged, walking toward the next room.
"This one is mine!" Sam shouted, standing in the door of the first room at the left side of the hallway. The next two minutes were filled with screams and doors being opened, closed, and beating. Leo tried to negotiate the room with Stelmaria, but she refused to change her mind about it, so the repair boy ended up in the room next to Sam's. Percy got the one next to the TV room, and Annabeth pick the one at its side. Hazel and Piper got two at the end of the hallway, at the left side, and Frank and Jason stayed in the ones in front of them. When everyone had their rooms, they took their stuff upstairs, changed clothes, and in a few minutes they were all reunited in the living room, where Tristan waited for them to say goodbye.

"I guess that's it" he said. "Can I trust you guys? You won't destroy the house, right?" he smiled.
"Well… We can't promise anything." Leo said, and Piper elbowed him in the ribs.
"We'll be careful, dad" she smiled.
"Alright, then. If you don't need me anymore, I'm going." He started to turn, but a voice made him stop.
"Still, you could visit us sometime. You know, to see if everything's in order." Stelmaria smiled in a sugar-sweet way to Tristan and tossed her long wavy hair to the side, like she was flirting with him, and touched his arm lightly.
"Gods, tell me she's not doing this" Annabeth whispered.
"Why did we bring her with us?" Sam frowned, with her arms crossed.
"Well," Tristan started, looking like he wasn't sure how to react to that, and cleared his throat. "Well, I'll come to bring you guys back home… Call me if you need me before that. Bye."
He tapped Stelmaria awkwardly on the shoulder and went out the door to his car.
"TO THE POOL!" Shouted Percy, and the teens raced outside and threw themselves in the water all at once, giggling like children, splashing each other and just enjoying what they knew was the start of the most relaxed time of their lives.