This chapter mainly focuses on the Greeks so don't bother telling me about the lack of Romans, which by the way, totally weren't planned, in fact it was just going to be children of the Big Three, but I kept wanting more people so you receive a story with a bunch of vaguely useless extras.
PAIRINGS: All cannon (no Thailco) Travis/Katie, Connor/Lou Ellen, Percabeth, mayne more later.
And my quote from my friends, theme: Ice packs:
*About the weird strips of like five ones that you're supposed to wrap around your water bottle*
"When I was little I used to eat these…"
"WHAT?"
"Yeah, I thought it was salad dressing and poured it on everything, it was good on potato chips…"
"You ate the blue stuff inside the ice packs."
"Actually I had one that was pink once, that's how I know that if you twist them hard enough they explode."
"Why are you laughing? I was just eating the baby popsicles."
-My friend Jane, Me, Danielle, and Madison.
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The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus and Hades were all on their last shred of patience. Their Winter Solstice meeting had received so many requests to go over and argue whether or not to give a go to. Later after the main incident the currently bored Goddesses and Gods would unanimously agree to never let any God or Goddesses say the words 'I'm bored' ever again.
"I'm bored."
CRASH!
Eleven immortals glared at Apollo accusingly, Hermes stared at the real source of the clamor, a group of teens, who were presumably demigods considering their present location. The teens were spread out on the floor of the room taking up a good half of the massive room appeared unconscious. When the others realized why Hermes wasn't helping them gang up on Apollo and looked at the ground, they joined him in gaping in shock.
Zeus glowered at the unexpected intruders and spoke, "Who are you? How did you get here? And what is your purpose on Olympus?" The rather pompous voice only succeeded in making one of the boys stir.
Green eyes blinked open, "What did I do this time?" His question did nothing to reassure the deities hopes that Olympus was secure and only served to confuse them more. This mere boy knows what our sacred meeting place looks like, to the point that he recognized the ceiling? Let's smite him!
Their thought process was interrupted by the boy nudging the blonde girl next to him, "Hey Annabeth, please wake up." And noticing that she wasn't reacting other then telling a `Percy` to let her continue sleeping, the boy grimaced and said in a singsongy voice, "Annabeth, guess what? There's a big, hairy spider on your leg." That seemed to have broken through her reverie as `Annabeth` sat up screaming.
Clutching her heart she hit the boy on the back of his head, "You are such a Seaweed Brain. What possessed you to think that it would end well for you if you decided to wake me up that way? And why are we on Olympus?"
"To be honest I woke up to everyone unconscious and I figured that it would be my safest bet to get you up first." The boy grinned at her.
The blonde smiled and opened up her mouth but was cut off by Aphrodite going "Awwwwww, you two are so cute!"
That momentarily made the couple pause and after a whispered conversation the girl spoke up, "Do the words `Battle of Manhattan` mean anything to you?" Seeing the confused faces she asked again, "Does the `Battle of the Labyrinth` ring any bells?"
"The Frisco incident? The Golden Fleece?" The boy's tone had taken up a slightly panicked note, but only perplexed expressions answered him, sighing he persisted. "You know what? You thirteen should just let us wake up the others. We'll continue this afterwards." Receiving Athena's nod the pair surveyed the room's occupants more closely, "I'll take Nico, Jason, Hazel and Pinecone Face, and you get everyone else."
"Let's do this."
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After Zeus called a break ("I can't concentrate on the meeting with demigods watching, it's insulting."
"Don't be stupid, you wanted a break just as much as the rest of us."
"…Shut up Ares.")
Some of the Gods and Goddesses decided to stick around for the fun (Hermes, Ares and Apollo), to see if they could get any extra information out of them (Poseidon, Hera, Zeus, and Hades), make sure that they didn't cause any more trouble (Athena), look out for the couples (Aphrodite), and shove cereal down their throats (Demeter). Artemis went to go find the Hunters after receiving permission to have them attend the remainder of the session and Dionysius left to find some wine.
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After watching the `Percy` guy get punched in the nose by a younger boy dressed in all black Apollo decided it would be a much safer to look for any of his own children than point and laugh (seriously, why did a twelve-year-old have such killer instincts?). After escaping the creepy boy holding a decapitated stuffed parrot, he bumped into a redheaded girl, literally, "Oh, I'm so sorry."
She looked at him and snorted, "Sure." You know she kind of felt like his children, only he sensed that she was a mortal, in fact she felt like his Oracles did…
"What are you?"
She snorted again, "Manners much?" and then green mist came out of her mouth, "I am the Oracle of Delphi, priestess of Phoebus Apollo." She snapped out of her trance, "What did I just say?"
He gawked at her. "Seriously, what did I say?" More gawking, she sighed, "I'm just going to leave now…feel free to stay here and not follow me." Even more gawking, "Bye now!"
Apollo was still looking at the area she had previously occupied when what she had said fully registered in his mind, "Hey! Wait for me! I want answers!" Funnily enough people were laughing in his general direction, and Apollo's last though before chasing after the girls was, `I've got to find out what was so funny.`
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While Apollo was pursuing his future Oracle, Poseidon was trying to figure out why exactly he was so familiar. He figured his best bet was to be frank, "You seem really familiar, have I met you before?"
The girl with the silver circlet thingy that the green-eyed boy woke up (he needed to find out their names soon this was going to get confusing fast) snickered, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry but we can't tell you, Annabeth will kill us, and Kelp For Brain's girlfriend has a lot of potential to be scary."
Suddenly a pair of nearly identical brothers with a brown-haired girl and a blonde girl following them popped up, "Hello, hide us." They held the boy who had gotten punched on the face in front of them like a shield, "Hey, Katie, Lou Ellen, please don't give us away."
The girls giggled, and the blond replied "Please, that was just as entertaining as when Lord Apollo bumped into Rachel." That sent the four into laughter again.
The recently awakened boy in all black asked them a question, "What did you do?" The boys looked at each other and said in unison,
"You don't want to know."
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Zoë watched the proceedings with mild disinterest when a black-haired girl and blonde boy with matching blue eyes approached her, the girl was wearing the exact same circlet as she was, and Zoë was faced with the sudden proof that she wasn't going to around to protect Lady Artemis forever. The boy stopped a respectful distance away and Zoë nodded at him, someone actually knew how to approach a Hunter of Artemis, the girl walked closer, "I've always wanted one last chance to talk to you Zoë; I just never expected it to happen."
"Do you keep My Lady safe?"
She smiled, "Yes, I keep Our Lady protected as she will allow."
Zoë approved of her successor (apart from for the whole hanging out with boys thing, but there's probably a good reason for that).
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About an hour later Zeus sat back down on his throne, "I call this meeting back to order." Percy glanced around at what was happening, `more like he's calling this chaos to order,` Annabeth had disoriented Athena by revealing the Daedalus was dead in their time to get the date out of her, and (of course) according to their calendar he was only seven.
He was seven and at private school in the Bronx, Hazel was currently in the Fields of Adphodel, Annabeth was seven and at Camp, Jason was six and on the other side of the country with a bunch of people that probably wouldn't give him up very easily, Nico and Bianca were in the Lotus Casino, and Thalia was a tree. His life was soooo messed up.
And considering the sheer amount of demigods involved (seriously, he goes missing for nine months and Camp has a new army) this wasn't going to end well for anyone involved.
