They were in the garden. In Persephone's garden at Hades' palace in England. Hades Thompson, Zeus Thompson, Poseidon Thompson and their wives and kids/heirs.
Zeus, President of America.
Poseidon, President's secretary.
And Hades, King of England.
Their wives were, of course, Hera, Amphitrite and Persephone.
Their sons/only children, Ares, Triton and Thanatos, since that was the closest to Hades could come up with for something Greek and related to his name, since his great grandfather Chaos had started the tradition.
Suddenly, in between two topiaries, a purple-portal thingy appeared.
Thanatos, being the ever venture-ful child he was, approached it first.
"Hey! Look! It says 'now exiting dimension two and entering original dimension a.k.a one' on the plaque! Let's go exploring!"
Hades heard this and turned with a wild gleam in his eyes, "No Thanatos, do-!"
But it was too late, his son was gone.
Triton went in next, determined upon finding his best-friend, and after him went Ares, finding a garden too boring for his taste.
The parents watched in horror as it happened. Then, the portal started growing smaller.
"Quick! We have to rescue them!" shouted Poseidon.
And the adults all burst through the portal.
They saw their kids and grabbed their arms, ready to burst back, when they realized that the portal was closed.
They looked around, scared, as if expecting a monster or soldier to start shooting at them in this weird, parallel dimension. But all they got were cars driving along the street, nothing out of the ordinary, except they weren't in England, they were in,
"Manhattan," Poseidon breathed, taking a good look around.
They were standing in some woods near the streets when a bright light flashed.
Instinctively they all covered their eyes, as if some strong force out there compelled them to. That force was called the sun, literally.
When they opened their eyes they saw a boy.
He was 172 cms tall, with sandy blonde hair and perfect blue eyes. He wore a tank top and khaki shorts with sandals. He had beautiful muscles and a smile so bright it was blinding. Literally. He had the tiniest bit of stubble on his chin. He appeared to be nineteen or so.
They all gaped. He was beautiful/hot!
The three sons felt a bit woozy, especially considering that they couldn't exactly be described as straight.
The same could be said for the ladies.
The men all felt little guy-crushes on him. little, though, because they weren't exactly too happy about their wives' reactions.
"Hey there!" he smiled, causing them all to cover their eyes "I'm Apollo, god of truth, knowledge, prophecies etc. and I'm here because you young mortals have crossed the barrier from dimension two to dimension one, a.k.a the original. So, little spin offs, until the next portal opens which could take weeks, we're going to have to send you to Camp Half-Blood. Good thing you came now and not next week or you'd've been frozen in time, a heh, heh. Now, I've sent all children of the big three to get you, and till then I'll wait with you, so till Thalia, Jason, Nico, Hazel and Percy get here which should be in an hour since I sent them yesterday, let me catch you up."
They were all left gaping. Those five were coming to pick them up!?
An hour of explanations later left them gaping. So much war, so much bloodshed, so much Greek and roman mythology!
Then, from around the corner came five people.
Leading was Percy, behind him were Nico and Thalia, and behind them were Jason and Hazel. They didn't assemble themselves in that order, it'd actually just been a coincidence, but anywho….
"Lord Apollo," greeted Percy, "And these are our parents' mortal counterparts, I presume."
"Why yes Perce," smiled Apollo at Percy, "Thanks for being such a doll and taking them to camp. You are such an angel. Oh, and you too 2-6!"
the four behind Percy pouted.
Apollo turned towards Thalia and Jason.
"Baby sibs!" he yelled, running forward to hug them.
Thalia did the only smart, noble and brave thing there was, and pushed Jason into the hug before barrel rolling to a bush for cover.
Apollo squeezed the life out of Jason.
He sent Thalia a message from his eyes to hers, 'traitor!'
Apollo let go of him, eventually, "Oh it's just so nice to be around my family, I think I feel a haiku coming up!"
The mortals listened, wanting to hear a haiku from the god of poetry.
"NO!" exclaimed the demigods.
Apollo pouted, "you're worse than Arty!"
"Well we're her siblings," Thalia pointed at her and Jason.
"And we're her cousins," Percy pointed at himself, Nico and Hazel.
"And he is her favorite mortal boy," Thalia pointed at Percy, "good thing too or it'd've been hard to go looking for him."
"A search which you failed, by the way," pointed out Percy.
Thalia pouted, "Hey! That's hurtful!"
"Not as hurtful as running into your tree five years ago!"
"It was five years ago, Kelp Head, get over it!"
"Not a chance, Pinecone Face, I was carrying a plate of mom's homemade cookies!"
Hazel, Nico and Jason gasped.
"You were!?" asked Nico.
"Yup!"
"Thalia, shame on you!" said Jason.
"Hey! You're supposed to be backing me up on this li'l bro!"
"technically I'm now older than you."
"Urgh, this is Percy when he found out all over again!"
"Guys!" snapped Hazel.
"Huh?" they all asked.
"The mortals. We need to get them back to camp so the gods can freeze earth and we can go to our 'summer holiday', remember?"
The four blushed.
Apollo left.
And the mortals had been watching this all bemused.
"Right, then, let's get going!" said Percy.
"Um, how?" asked Hazel, "They're mortal, I'm not too sure that they can travel all the way to long beach as easily as we can."
"Hmmm," Percy considered it.
"Don't hurt yourself, Kelp Head, wouldn't want to give your brain a cramp," snorted Thalia.
Suddenly, a wave from the pond hit her.
She blinked, before her eyes filled with rage.
"You did not just do that," she growled.
"And if I did?" asked Percy, sporting his signature wild smirk.
"Then I'd have to do this," and suddenly, a ten watt bolt of lightning hit Percy, sending him flying back two meters.
The mortals gaped.
Percy leapt up, unfazed, "Not bad. For a former tree."
The demigods had wild eyes.
"Oh Schist! This just got re-eal!" said Hazel.
"Hey, someone pass the popcorn," said Jason.
"Not. Funny. At all," said Nico, through gritted teeth.
By now Thalia had her spear out and was charging toward Percy.
Percy whipped out his pen.
"What good is a pen going to do?" asked Triton, who, like all the other mortals, was very confused.
Percy then proceeded to uncap his pen, revealing riptide.
"Oh."
He blocked her Jab, parried her thrust, and threw a few in of his own. Thalia soon found herself backing up to the pond.
"Urgh," she grunted, dropping her spear and whipping out her bow and arrows.
The mortals gaped.
"This should be good," sighed all three demigod spectators.
She shot the first one at his abdomen.
Time seemed to slow down for him as he moved his sword to split it in half.
Grunting again, this time she aimed it at his eye.
With a few quick motions he turned it into a pile of splinters.
He then proceeded to making a 'complex' (to the mortals) hand movement.
Thalia gasped as she suddenly felt weightless. She tried to wriggle free but the water hand holding her stood strong.
Percy moved his hand up, causing Thalia to go higher.
"AAAAAH!" she screamed, "Percy! Get me down from here!"
Percy smirked, bowing, "Your wish is my command," and he let go.
She screamed as she plummeted fifty feet below into an icy cold lake. She would've died, had Percy not cushioned her fall three feet above the surface level of the lake.
She stumbled out spluttering. Wiping a wet bang from her eye she glared at Percy.
"You're dead Jackson! DEAD!"
Percy fake pouted, "But I just saved your life."
Her glare intensified and a distant rumbling of thunder resonated through the park.
"Ok, that's IT!" she said, hurling a massive bolt of lightning towards him.
he dodged the first, and the second and the third. She got madder each time, which was not just because she kept missing, but also because with each failed attempt Percy's smirk grew.
"Ummm," said Hades to Nico, "shouldn't we stop them?"
"Nahh, they'll get tired. Eventually."
"How long is eventually."
"Five hours. Give or take a year considering Percy can just recharge by stepping into water."
10 minutes later….
By this point not a tree, bench or statue had been spared. The park was a whirlwind of water and lightning.
Hazel sighed, "this is taking too long."
She summoned a gem from the earth, leaving the mortals gaping. She picked up a drachma from her pocket, and prayed.
"Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbows, please show me Annabeth Chase, Camp-Half-blood."
The mortals gasped in awe as an image of a girl whom Poseidon vaguely recalled as Annabeth Chase, one of Percy's friends, appeared.
She was under the willow tree by the lake tutoring some Apollo children in ancient Greek.
"This is an eta, it is the seventh letter of our alphabet," she proceeded to draw one on the board she had, "It's also a symbol of Hephaestus. Handy to know so you can avoid traps."
She noticed a faint shimmering, through her ADHD, of course, and looked up.
"Oh hi Hazel. I see that you've got the mortals and- wait, PERSEUS JACKSON AND THALIA GRACE STOP FIGHTING RIGHT NOW OR I'LL TEACH YOU A LESSON YOU'LL NEVER FORGET!"
the water and lightning stopped immediately.
"Hey Wise Girl!" Percy waved.
Annabeth's face softened slightly, "Hey Seaweed Brain! So, you guys decided how to transport them yet?"
They all yelled at once,
"SHADOW TRAVEL!" yelled the Underworld kids.
"BOAT!" yelled Percy.
"FLYING!" said Jason, unaware of his sister's secret fear.
"RUNNING!" yelled Thalia.
"I'm going to take that as a 'no' then…." Said Annabeth.
"Why not Shadow travel?" asked Nico, pouting.
"Because:
a. It's creepy
and b. it's going to wear you out. A lot." Replied Percy.
"Why not flying?" asked Jason.
It was Thalia to respond to this, worried that if Percy answered he'd accidentally reveal her secret phobia, "Because there's too many of them. Besides, there're still some winds who were on Gaea's side."
"Why not boat?" asked Percy, pouting.
"Because, er, um, just because," said Jason, unable to come up with a good excuse.
"Because, we've spent way too many months on a boat already," said Hazel, who was highly prone to seasickness.
"Exactly, so boating will come like second nature to us," said Percy, who really wanted to go by boat.
"No. and why not running?" asked Thalia.
Percy replied this time, "Because:
a. we just came here running and are exhausted.
And b. I don't know about you, but asking a mortal to run from here to Long Beach Sound makes me wonder if you were drinking Kool-Aid before we left."
"Wait," said Ares, "you ran all the way from Long Island Sound to here in a day!"
"Well it would've taken less time, but we had to pack supplies and we were only informed last night, so technically it was 13 hours," said Thalia.
Percy sighed, "Looks like we're falling out of shape, guys, last year we did it in ten."
The mortals gaped.
"Excuse me!?" said Thalia, "you two," she pointed at Percy and Nico, "Fell out of shape. You were slowing us down with your hormone-liness."
"Hey, what about those two!?" pouted Percy, pointing towards Hazel and Jason, "they weren't exactly the fastest either!".
"Well yeah," said Thalia, "But they weren't with us last year, so we don't know how fast they go."
"GUYS!" snapped Annabeth.
"What?" they said, remembering she was there.
"Back to topic, how're you guys coming?"
"Why don't we split up?" suggested Hazel.
The mortals nodded, that seemed like the best course of action.
But the demigods, the Greek ones anyways, shook their heads.
"No, Hazel," said Percy, "see, together, we're strong enough to protect them in the event of a monster or ally of Gaea attack. However, alone we're just monster bait. It's best for us to stick together."
The others nodded.
"I say we walk back to camp, we've got the supplies to camp, who's with me?" asked Thalia.
Everyone raised their hands.
"Good," she said.
And they started their trek back to camp, after Thalia wiped her hand through the message, of course.
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whoo! Done! my first chapter of my new story. I'd been a bit worried about the pairings, but thanks to: Nicercylover108, Skilful Human6 (guest), and CrazyFantasyFangirl525 who replied on my other story 'He's What!?' I stuck with Nicercy.
-httyd4eva
peace out yo ;P