AN: This takes place the winter after the war with Gaea :)
Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or HoO. If I did, nobody would read it...
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3rd Person
It was a peaceful day up in Olympus.
"WHAT THE HADES IS WRONG WITH YOU!?"
Or it was, at least...
"Aphrodite, it wasn't my fault! Why is it such a big deal?" Ares rolled his eyes.
"Excuse me? You broke my favorite picture of Percabeth!" she screamed.
He snorted in response. "What kind of name is that? Percabeth. Sounds like a mash up between Percy and Annabeth."
She facepalmed. "Gods, you are such an idiot!" She waved her hand over the broken picture and it fixed itself and flew into her hand. "We. Are. OVER!" She stormed over to her throne and sat down dramatically.
"What? But you fixed it! Ah, forget you!" He stormed over to his own throne and sat.
Over on the other side of the throne room, there was another argument going on.
"How could you!?" Demeter yelled, furious.
"Oh, chillax, Dee. It's just plant killer, no biggie." Hermes replied, looking bored.
Her eye twitched. "Just. Plant. Killer." she repeated slowly, seething.
"Yes! See, now you got it!" he praised.
She screamed in annoyance and stormed off like Aphrodite.
Hermes shrugged and went back to checking his texts.
And another.
"For the LAST time, I'M OLDER!"
"No no no, sis, I do believe I am older. If I wasn't, would I have made a haiku about it? Ahem.
Artemis is sad.
Because Apollo is cool.
And also older."
She covered her ears. "Stop, my ears are gonna start bleeding."
"Ah, but you don't have blood." He said, trying (and failing) to sound wise.
"Fine. My ears are going to start ichoring. Happy?" she said dryly.
He pouted. Then his face lit up. "You didn't deny that I'm older."
She srceamed through clenched teeth and exited in the same style as the others.
Apollo started making another haiku about being older.
And another.
"Why on Olympus would people choose a saltwater spring over an olive tree? Obviously they picked me!"
"You probably manipulated them with your goddess-of-wisdom-ness!"
"That is not grammatically correct and no I didn't! They just like me better!"
"Ha! So they were playing favorites!"
She groaned.
Dionysus, Hephaestus, and Hera were sitting on their thrones, amused and entertained by all of the childish behavior going on.
Finally Zeus decided to enter the throne room. He was expecting peace and quiet, the gods waiting patiently on their thrones for him to come and start the meeting.
Well, damn was he wrong.
"Enough!" He yelled, surveying the damage.
Ares was wearing a hot pink striped shirt with lime green plaid shorts. Hermes was dangling upside down from the ceiling wrapped in vines. A jackalope with the head of Apollo was about to be shot with one of Artemis's arrows. Poseidon had started an earthquake in Olympus and was about to cause a tsunami.
"Father, it was him!" Athena accused, pointing at Poseidon.
"Hasn't anyone ever told you that pointing is rude?" He glared at her.
"Shut up, Kelp Head."
"Owl Face."
"Seaweed-"
"Stop that!" Zeus seethed.
Dionysus looked up from his World of Fine Wine magazine. "Hey, they're better than those brats at that camp... what's it called? Camp Quarter-Blood?"
"What are you talking about? The campers at Camp Half-Blood are all sweethearts!" Aphrodite protested.
Arguments broke out after that one comment until Hestia said, "Um... hello?"
They all looked over at her. If there was one thing they had in common, it was that none of them hated her, which was probably why she had played the mediator between their fights more than once.
She continued. "Well, maybe you should go look for yourself. And spend some time there too. You could all use some time away from your godly duties to spend some time with your children. I mean, other than the fact that they're your children, you don't even know them... Yet you seem to be acting like them on many cases."
They looked at her for a few seconds, debating what she had just said.
Zeus spoke up. "That is a good idea. We will all go, and yes, it is mandatory!"
They all groaned.
"Fine, but if we must, we should go as new campers. Our children will behave differently if we are campers than if we are Olympians." Athena commented.
Zeus nodded. "Ok then daughter, what do you suggest?"
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Edited on 8/20