A/N Hi guys, it's LolzBolz here! This is my first story so any review or bit of advice would be appreciated.
Chapter 1. Practice makes perfect
Percy POV
"Concentrate. Focus. That's it!"
I feel the water around me bending slightly to Zoë's will. I look at her face, screwed up in concentration. She looks exactly like Annabeth in every single way, except for her sea green eyes. My older son Luke, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. He looks exactly like me, but he has his mothers golden blonde hair.
"Alright," I say. "Focus on me. Pretend I am your brother and I have just been teasing you, or beaten you at an arm wrestle."
I know that will work. Zoë is just as competitive as her mother!
In the waist deep water, a wave hits me just under my ribcage.
"Well done Zo!" I yell. "That was such an improvement on last time!"
That is true. Last time it only went up to my belly button.
"Soon enough, you'll be able to do this!" I summon a huge wave, and make it break over her head. I don't worry about her though. She and her brother can both breathe underwater for up to 20 minutes, as long as it's salt. She comes up spluttering.
"DAD!" she yells.
Suddenly, I catch sight of Annabeth, waving from the footpath just in front of our house. When we moved out of New Rome, I made her buy a house on the sea front. I also made her but one only 10 minutes away from camp half-blood, just in case
"There's mum." I say to Zoë. "I think we'd better go in." All of a sudden, an idea hits me. As I whisper it to Zoë, her face lights up.
"Remember, think dry." I tell her. I summon a massive wave that takes us up, over the sand and onto the footpath, soaking Annabeth in the process. She glowers at me, and yells "DAD!" but Zoë and I just ignore her, and instead say in unison "You called!"
She just scowls and points to Zoë, saying, "You, young missie, need to do your homework."
"But mum!" Zoë and I say, in unison again.
"We've got everyone coming round for dinner tonight, and you don't want to be stuck upstairs in your room doing homework all night, do you?" she asks.
"Will Bianca be coming?" says Zoë
"Of course."
As soon as the words are out of her mouth, Zoë is off. She and Bianca are such good friends.
"Yell out if you need any help." Annabeth calls behind her. Like both of us, Zoë is ADHD, but Annabeth has given her a few tips and tricks, and of course, she is an A+ student.
"So, who exactly is coming round?" I ask Annabeth
"Well, all the seven, and of course their kids, plus Reyna, Nico, Will, and Thalia and her new boyfriend Isaac."
Thalia quit the Hunt quite a while ago, saying that a) she couldn't let her younger brother become older than her and b) she wanted a family. She left with Artemis' blessings, and goes to visit them often.
"Also, now I'm soaking wet," she said, with a pointed glance at me, "I'm going to need to wash my hair and get cleaned up again, so can you take care of dinner? I have already done dessert."
"Of course," I reply. "How does spaghetti and blue meatballs sound?"
She rolls her eyes. Spaghetti is one of the three things I can cook, 2 being hamburgers and 3 being beans on toast.
"It sounds perfect." She says. She gives me a quick peck on the cheek and runs inside to get cleaned up.
"Also, if Zo need help with her homework, Luke is upstairs." Annabeth calls over her shoulder. I breathe a sigh of relief. If Zoë needs help with her homework, I'd be about as helpful as a floppy fish. Luke has got dyslexia, but it is nowhere near as severe as Annabeth's or mine. In looks, Luke and I might be identical, in personality; he is so much more like Annabeth. And Zoë acts so much more like an 11 year old me. Except for the fact that she hasn't blown up any schools yet. Don't tell them I said this, but, I can sense that Zoë's power over water will be stronger than Luke's, but it is obvious that Luke is much more hardworking that Zoë when it comes to school. As I walk inside to cook dinner, I think about how much I'm looking forwards to seeing everyone again, even Thalia and Nico. Lets just hope we don't all get into a fight again. That didn't end well.
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