Right, you know the mutants from those terrible crossover stories that I did? The ones with PJO and my own characters- well, anyway, I'm debating between keeping the mutant characters mutant or making them appear human with full mutant abilities. What do you guys think?
This is just a one-shot or something for my characters meeting the PJO characters.
"Sage, stop trying to kill your brother. It won't work; he's a lot taller than you." Annabeth did a quick head count, ignoring Sage's silent protest- there was no way she could kill Tobias. Give her a few years and she might. "Alright, where's Callum?"
"Here!"
"We know you!" Percy beamed.
"Yes, you bloody well should." The man- clearly British- dropped Callum in Percy's arms. "That one is almost as bad as Connor and he's fourteen." He was tall and lean with tousled raven hair that looked like he had just rolled out of bed. His eyes were a warm, murky brown and held a mischievous gleam not unlike a look Percy often got.
"What are you doing here?" Percy quizzed.
"Charming." He muttered. "I'm on holiday."
The man turned to the Jackson children, smiling friendlily. "Seven." He concluded. "That's pathetic."
"Excuse me?" Annabeth protested, glaring at him. He just laughed.
"We've got ten."
"Ten?" Tobias intervened. "My gods, I thought seven was bad." His siblings all twisted round to glare at him- or in Alvie's case, look immensely confused. "I'm part of that seven, shut up. Who are you anyway?"
"Alfie." The man held his hand out and Tobias shook it.
"Tobias. This is Max- he's annoying; that's Alvie-"
"That's going to be confusing."
"He's psychic." Alfie looked impressed. "That's Sage, she's mean-" Sage kicked Tobias in the shin. "Theo, Callum and Lilly." Tobias finished through gritted teeth, putting his weight on his uninjured leg.
"I'll try and remember."
"You've got ten, it shouldn't be that difficult."
"I get two names right on the best of days."
"Me and me!" A new voice declared. A boy about Tobias's age appeared out of thin air- literally - grinning like a Cheshire cat. He had vibrant red hair as messy as Alfie's and brown-blue eyes that were brimming with excitement. "Hey, you're like me!" He grabbed Tobias's hand, shaking it enthusiastically. They were exactly the same height and build and could have been twins had it not been for the different hair and eye colours. "I'm Charlie and-"
"More confusing names…" Percy muttered.
"What?" Alfie and Charlie asked together.
"My nephew's called Charlie too."
"Told you Charlie was a good name." Charlie nudged Alfie, grinning slyly. Alfie just ignored him.
"This is my eldest. Major pain in the ass."
"Ditto." Percy glanced behind Alfie. "The other nine aren't going to appear out of nowhere, are they?"
"No."
"His hair looks like Jo's…" Annabeth mused, scrutinizing Charlie's scarlet hair. Then she looked at Alfie, her eyes widening. "You didn't."
"Hey, it's mutant nature, I can't help it."
"Ten kids with your worst enemy, what can't you help?"
"Hold on," Max held his hands up. "My head feels like it's going to explode; you guys don't make any sense."
"We'll go home and explain there."
"Oh! Let me, let me!" Charlie held his hands out to them, but Alfie elbowed him sharply.
"No. Last time you tried that, we ended up in Mexico."
"Leon made me laugh!" Charlie argued. His father maintained a stubborn look of refusal and Charlie huffed. "Fine. Killjoy." He muttered, folding his arms and refusing to conform.
Sage was used to house full of boys, but now there were even more boys. Out of ten of Alfie's children, five of them were boys- all tall and strongly built- and the other five were petite girls that you shouldn't cross. There was Charlie, the twins Leon and Lucy, Megan, Mitchell, Chloe, the triplets Amelia, Carly and Eden and the youngest, Connor. All the boys, except Connor, had the bright red hair and blue eyes- save Charlie's eyes. Connor was a miniature version of his father, sharing the thick dark hair and brown eyes with his sisters. Chloe was different- she too had the red hair and blue eyes- her and Mitchell could quite easily pass as twins themselves. Both were obsessed with cats and wittered on about gods knew what.
Then there was Jo. Her fluffy scarlet hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her blue eyes were sharp and kept an eye on all ten of her children and her husband. Her daughters had clearly inherited their small, athletic frames and intolerance of idiots from her.
"OK, that's all of them."
"You missed Charlie, Dad." Mitchell smiled.
"They know Charlie already. Is he OK?" Alfie asked, nodding at Alvie, who was sat on the stairs and watching everything carefully.
"He's OK, just shy."
"He looks like he's plotting to kill someone."
"Alvie wouldn't hurt a fly, don't worry about it." Percy smiled.
"I don't get it. If you're mutants, why do you look so human?"
"Tobias! You can't just ask people why they look human!" Sage exasperated, rolling her eyes irritably.
"Yes, I can! I'm not physically unable to do so!" Annabeth cleared her throat pointedly and the pair fell silent. Alfie snickered, but a hit on the arm from Jo and he was quiet too.
Tobias looked imploringly at the mutants crowding his living room. They didn't look very mutant-y.
"It all depends on heritage." Jo explained. "Alfie's mum was born in human form, but with full mutant abilities." Alfie made a face- that had clearly not been a pleasant experience for his mother. "Our friend Michael helped sort that out, but because she was born human she stayed human."
"Can't you turn mutant then?" Sage questioned.
"Only if we've got a death wish." Leon replied, smirking. His twin, Lucy, glared at him warningly and his smirk vanished.
"It's a very complicated procedure and it's painful. There's a… zero point one-four-two-four percent chance of survival."
"You remembered that?"
"Yes, Alfie. I can do other stuff than clean the house and make bacon sandwiches." Alfie looked ready to say something, but Charlie was looking much too interested in his parents' play fighting. He let Jo carry on explaining. "Anyway, Alfie was born a mutant because he had two mutant parents, both in human form, obviously. I was made a mutant and that does not mean I should have scales and gills, Tobias." Tobias stared at her.
"She reads minds." Amelia clarified. "We never get away with lying."
"You shouldn't lie in the first place." Jo retorted. Amelia suddenly looked sheepish. "I blame you." She grumbled, glaring sidelong at Alfie.
"It's not my fault."
"Of course it isn't." Jo sighed. "There are some full mutants. Animal-like ones."
"Any animal?" Max inquired.
"Pretty much. Most common are wolves, birds, butterflies and…" Alfie trailed off, staring at the ceiling and trying to remember. "Rabbits." He eventually finished. "There are loads of different kinds, but those are the easiest ones."
"Easiest?" Annabeth frowned.
"Well, yeah. Some idiot scientist figured out that if you change a baby's DNA while it's in the early stages of pregnancy, it could be born as an animal mutant." Alfie looked unsettled all of a sudden. "It's horrible, how they do it. The mums don't usually… survive…"
"Shouldn't that be illegal then?"
"That's what we've said, but it's 'helping the animal mutants from becoming an endangered species'."
"I never liked Yatchman." Chloe scowled. "Damn him being our great-granddad."
"He what?"
"That's another story." The doorbell rang and kept ringing.
"That's Lou." Percy sighed. "She's going to kill you, you know." He smirked at Alfie over his shoulder as he went to stop his sister from being so annoying.
"I'm a mutant, she can't catch me."
"This is Lou we're talking about. She'll get you and make it look like an accident."
"Why are there more people than usual?"
"Remember Alfie and Jo?"
"Vaguely. Why?" Percy stood aside and swept his hand horizontally through the air to indicate all ten mutant children cluttering his home. "Fuck."
"Mama! Bad word!"
"Sorry, Charlie. I thought Alfie and Jo hated each other though?"
"Oh, some soul-mate mumbo-jumbo. Alfie likes her really."
"Do not! And don't glare at me either; you're not convincing me otherwise!"
"Oooh, this is the other Charlie!"
"Charlie, don't scare him."
"I love your hair, it's so curly." Mutant Charlie was kneeling in front of Legacy Charlie, who looked absolutely baffled.
"He Charlie too?"
"There is more than one Charlie." Charlie frowned at his father. "But not more than one Charlie Valdez." Leo hastily corrected. His son looked happier at that and turned to face the older Charlie.
"Your hair red. Mama loves red."
"Do you like red?" Legacy Charlie nodded eagerly and the mutant variation scooped him up, swinging him above his head. "Brilliant! We're Team Charlie, high five!"
"Oh, Seltik, kill me now." Alfie sighed, shoulders slouching in defeat.
"What's Seltik?" Leo asked slowly, ushering his two daughters inside. Louisa had caught sight of Alfie and promptly looked murderous. Leo held onto her for extra measure.
"Not what, who." Jo corrected impatiently.
"You know, you don't have to bite their heads off 'cos you're pissed off with me."
"Shut up!"
"No." Alfie smiled sweetly. "I won't." Then his smile turned cocky. "Unless you can make me."
"You're such an arse!" She turned swiftly on her heel and stomped to the kitchen, slamming the door.
"While you're in there, make me a sandwich!" Annabeth hurried after Jo, punching Alfie's arm as she passed.
"And you tell me off for annoying her." It was the first time Connor had spoken. Unlike his siblings, he seemed rather moody. He was the same age as Alvie, give or take a few months, equally withdrawn from conversation. He looked as though he were in half a mind to sit with Alvie on the stairs to get away from all the hullabaloo.
"I don't tell you off."
"You do too! Stop it, Connor, annoying her is my job." He said in a perfect imitation of his father. Alfie watched him carefully.
"I'd say go to your room, but it's a bit far away."
"No duh."
"Ugh, do you always have to be so sulky?" Carly despaired. "New people! Go and make friends!" Connor shot her a withering look. Carly returned it just as fiercely. "Talk to Alvie. He hasn't said a word since we got here and he looks lonely." Connor looked away from her, pointedly slouching in his seat. "Now." Carly growled threateningly.
"Fine." Connor reluctantly and impatiently got to his feet. He sat on the stairs, two down from Alvie, leaning against the wall with his feet against the columns in the banister. He folded his arms and fumed at nothing in particular.
"Is he OK?" Sage asked.
"He's just homesick. And unsociable. Connor, they said Alvie wouldn't hurt a fly! Talk to him!"
"Hi, how are you, that's nice." Alvie blinked at him, uncertainty washing over his features. Alfie sighed in defeat, waving it off.
"He'll calm down later." He peered around Percy, smiling as Louisa tried to get away from Leo to hurt him. "I said I was sorry."
"What did you do?"
"Crashed her first and only car. Brand new too."
"You're such an arse!" Mutant Charlie declared in a bizarre imitation of his mother. He still held Legacy Charlie, who was besotted with the multi-coloured bubbles issuing from Mutant Charlie's hand. He tried to grab a few, but they danced playfully out of his reach, making him laugh every time they did so.
"It was an accident!" Alfie insisted. "The sun was in my eyes and-"
"And it seemed like a great idea, so you had to do it." Eden finished, rolling her eyes. "Yes, Dad, we know."
"It was pretty cool."
"You owe Lou a car."
"Um, no. She's a worse driver than me." Louisa's hand went to her sleeve, but the bronze blur hurtling towards Alfie seconds later was halted almost lazily, Alfie having caught it by the handle. "How many times do I have to tell you? It's no good throwing stuff at me, I'm a mutant, I'll catch it." Louisa cursed him profoundly in Ancient Greek, turning her back on him and folding her arms.
Do not play Monopoly with mutants.
They cheated.
"We don't like losing." Leon told Max with a mischievous smile. "We're very competitive-"
"And we can be sore losers sometimes-" Lucy continued.
"And if we get upset, things like World War Two happen."
"I thought that was between the gods?" Max frowned. Leon shrugged.
"Whatever floats your boat. Oooh, I'm winning."
"No you're not, I am!" Lucy argued.
"Children, children." Their older brother smiled. "Clearly, I'm winning."
"You're not even playing!" The mutant twins countered.
"Exactly."
"You don't make any sense." Alvie told him bluntly.
"I know. It's fabulous!"
"Gay." Tobias coughed.
"Hey! I am not gay! And even if I was, there's nothing wrong with that!" Tobias smiled at him. "I bet you're gay." Tobias's smile faded. Max choked on his drink. Leon and Lucy giggled at his misfortune. "But before things get serious, darling, I expect some sort of date." And there was the Louis Spence mimic they had been waiting for.
"Charlie, stop harassing them!" Amelia ordered, walking in and trying not to laugh.
"I'm not! I'm flirting!"
"That counts as harassment with you and I don't think Roxy would be very happy."
"Roxy?"
"My girlfriend." Tobias looked at him sceptically. "Hey, I was bound to get one! Good looks, amazing charms…"
"You sound just like Tobias." Max croaked.
"You got a girlfriend?"
"Sophia."
"Oooh, Sophiaaaa."
"Stop it."
"Sophia, darling-"
"Tobias has met his ma-atch, Tobias has met his ma-atch…" Max teased in a sing-song voice.
"I'll remember this next time you want help."
"You'll still help me." Max answered calmly, rolling the dice. "You always do."
"Aw, you're an awesome big brother, just like me!" Charlie linked his arm with Tobias's. "Let's go and visit this Sophia of yours." Tobias was dragged from the room, getting a final second to glare at Max like this was all his fault.
Mutant Charlie grinned at Tobias as he dragged him down the stairs by his arm. "We're so cute together, don't you think?"
"Not gonna happen. Can I have my arm back?" Charlie imitated a sulk, but let him go; vaulting the banister and tackling his youngest brother in a fierce hug from behind.
"Hi, Connor!" He laughed, lifting Connor easily off the ground.
"Put me down!" Charlie did so, but he remained unfazed by Connor's annoyance, continuing to smile.
"Charlie, stop picking on people."
"I'm not! I'm making friends."
"And flirting with Tobias!" Leon called from upstairs.
"He should feel privileged." Mutant Charlie grinned.
"You flirt with everyone, Charlie." Jo sighed, not looking up from her book. "I don't know how Roxy puts up with it." Charlie shrugged good-naturedly and caught Tobias by the arm again. "Where are you going?"
"To see Sophia. Tobias's girlfriend." Jo just nodded, not rising to argue against her eldest son's childish behaviour. Charlie made a face at her while she wasn't looking and then hurried from the door, Tobias trapped in a vice-like grip with his parents laughing at him.
Mutants were weird.
I don't know how often I'll be able to update this, but I did have a random idea for a HTTYD 2 one-shot. Not sure if I remember it all, but Hiccup went mad!
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