Percy

October 4, 2014

"Hey, Percy! You want to go out to eat?!" I turned around to see Annabeth running towards me.

"Yeah sure. Where do you wanna go?" I replied as I gave her a hug.

"I don't know. You wanna ask Nico and Thalia? We could have more family bonding time." Since Thalia was visiting with the Hunters and Nico was taking a break, we decided to spend as much time together as possible.

"Ok. Let's see if they're free." Hand in hand, we walked over to the Artemis cabin.

We reached it and Annabeth knocked on the door.

When no one replied, I yelled out,"THALIA COME OUT OR I'M GONNA TELL EVERYONE YOUR SECRET." I then turned to the camp and started yelling out,"HEY EVERYONE, THALIA GRACE IS SCARED OF H-oomf" The last part due to being tackled by Thalia.

"Hey, Thals. Why are you so mad?" I asked innocently. While most people would've shrunk down due to her glare, but I was Thalia-proof.

"You know why Kelp Head. I swear that if you ever tell anyone about that, I will-" Thalia was cut off by Nico who was standing next to Annabeth.

"You guys stop bickering. We all know that neither of you would win. Especially against me." Me and Thalia stood up and growled at Nico simultaneously.

"Say that again di Angelo," growled Thalia as we closed our distance. I could see Annabeth move away, not wanting to get shocked, cold, and wet.

"I said, that you wouldn't win against me." Nico replied confidently until he saw me and Thalia exchange a look. Then he got nervous and started backing away.

I nodded to Thalia who brought down some lighting to shock Nico. I then tackled him while he was still distracted from the lighting. Thalia shot four arrows around Nico that pinned him down. Thalia had these arrows specially made to produce light for an hour just for situations like this. I let him go after tying him with some ropes made of water to make sure he couldn't escape.

"So Nico, who's more powerful now?" I asked triumphantly. Just as he was about to reply, our fight was interrupted again.

"You guys. I'm hungry. Let's go eat," Annabeth told us.

"But Annabeth. We're not done," I whined as Nico and Thalia nodded in agreement.

"Okay then. I guess I'll just have to go eat the tacos all by myself." She said slowly walking away.

At the word taco, I released Nico, Thalia took off the arrows and we ran towards Annabeth. As soon as we reached her, I grabbed her hand as Nico grabbed Thalia's and my shoulder and shadow traveled us.

We arrived in an alley near our second favorite place to eat, second only to the table in my mom's apartment.

We walked out casually yet quickly with us dragging Annabeth. It was across the street. After a several feet, we would be at the best eatery. Tacos in my Tum Tum. (I made the name up. Horrible, I know.)

When we entered, Maddie, the owner, greeted us.

"Hey guys. The usual?"

"Yup."

"Your table is over there. I'll be there in a few with your order."

We made our way over to our usual table. We had discovered this taco place right after the Giant war. It was our little secret place to escape camp and demigods who were looking for us since it was a place where they would never look. We have been going here ever since.

Soon, Maddie came over with our usual and gave us our plates. We ate in silence since we were all to busy stuffing our mouths with the delicious food, except for Annabeth who was eating more neatly. About halfway through our meal, we finally took a breath. After that, we ate slower with the exception of Annabeth who was already eating slowly. She always was the neater one of our group.

After a while, I decided that I was getting bored of the silence.

"These dam tacos are so dam good." Thalia and I burst out laughing almost choking on the food. Nico and Annabeth just looked at us in confusion.

"Yeah, and I need some dam French fries from the dam snack bar." That just made us laugh even more than before. No matter what it was, we would always laugh. After a while, we calmed down and I asked Annabeth a question.

"Why did you bring us to buy tacos today?"

"It's National Taco Day of course!"

A/N: I know, it's not my best work. But I wanted a way to celebrate National Taco Day. I was thinking if I should make this into a collection of one-shots about National blah blah blah day. Like National Cookie Day and National Candy Day are coming up so I would add a one-shot about that and so on.

And to those wondering about Betrayed Once Again, it should be updated tomorrow. I just have to revise it.

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