Career Day
Olympus
Zeus had come to a decision. It couldn't wait, so he had called a meeting.
"Family!" he boomed, "I have thought long and hard on this, and I have decided. Tomorrow we will go down to Camp Half-blood and spend some long needed time with our children." This was greeted by absolute silence. "Or," he added, "You can spend the day recovering from a bizarre, lightning related accident." The gods were a bit more enthusiastic now.
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Camp Half-blood
Poseidon stared at the chaos of "family bonding". Ares had disappeared under a pig pile from his cabin, Athena and her children were attempting to weave the world's largest tapestry, and his brother Zeus was lecturing his only daughter on the importance of cloud formations.
Happy times.
Poseidon looked around for his own son, Perseus. He headed for cabin three. Ah, there was Percy now. Along with that satyr, Gary or something. Percy was actually dragging what's-his-face by the neck of his T-shirt, saying,"Come on buddy! Time to say hi to my Daddio!" and wearing a slightly insane grin. Ah, yes. My son.
The satyr was whimpering pitifully. "I don't wanna! I get nervous around immortals!"
"Well, start biting your nails G-man. There's Poseidon."
Percy deposited the satyr by Poseidon's feet."Dad, Grover. Grover, Dad."
Grover yelped and jumped to his hooves. He bowed low. "H-hello L-lord Poseidon. I'd love to stick around, but I have to…uh… tie my shoe! Over there!" With that he sprinted away, leaving Poseidon alone with Percy.
Percy glanced toward the lake, then back to Poseidon "So why is it called career day again? No offence, but does being god of the ocean even count as a career?"
Not having an answer, Poseidon asked the first question that came to mind."Where can you get some ambrosia around here?" No! He tried to recover."I mean, uh, let's go to the lake! I like the lake. Who's up for the lake?" Styx. This would be complicated.
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Four demolished canoes and a hippocampus ride later, father and son sat at the bottom of the lake, bored beyond belief.
"My turn," Poseidon said dully. "I spy something wet."
"Everything." Percy suddenly jumped up. "I spy a good time!" he announced. With no apparent warning, he shouted, "RAINBOW!!!"
Poseidon raised an eyebrow. "Rainbow?"
Percy shrugged. "Tyson."
"Ah."
Promptly, Rainbow the hippocampus appeared with a friend. Percy grinned somewhat evilly."Race to the Pacific?"
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"I still don't see how it can be illegal to come out of the ocean and be dry," Poseidon said blankly, sitting on the bench of the jail cell.
"Don't forget riding unauthorized horses with fish tails," Percy added, completely at ease.
"How are you so calm?" his father demanded.
Percy shrugged. "Meh. No demon math teachers. No man-eating Canadians. No manticores. This beats every school I've been to in years. Food's better too, I'm sorry to say." He added, nudging the plate of mush they had been given. He looked up. "What are you doing anyway? Just do something godly, or water related."
"Well, I could show myself in immortal form, but that wouldn't do anything but disintegrate you, and then your mother would bury me alive, which would be bad, considering my feud with Hades."
"Okay, let's move on to the 'water related' category."
"Right! I know!" Poseidon jumped up, inspired. "I'll start a hurricane and submerge the jail underwater! Brilliant!"
"Wait!-no!-Dad that's not what I meant!-no!-Dad-wait-stop!-DAD NO!"
Too late. A hurricane had already started where they had washed up on Miami Beach, and had started toward the jail. Momentarily, the entire jail was under water, and a whirlpool was going in Poseidon's and Percy's cell. Percy was caught in the current, swirling around and banging his head on walls."Ow-ow-ow-ow…"
Poseidon looked around. "Well, this wasn't one of my better ideas," he said flatly.
"You- ow! - think?! Ow! Ow!"
"Oh, right." Poseidon yanked his son out of the current and sat him on the bench.
Percy looked around at the chaos and sighed. "You know what the really pitiful part is?"
"What?"
"This still beats every school I've been to in years."
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