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Family Bonding

Chapter 2

NICO

Someone kill me, please. I swear by the end of this trip we're all going to kill each other. Except our dads who are immortal, but you know what I mean.

The hike started out fine until Poseidon "accidentally" tripped Zeus. Then they started to argue and the sky started to darken. I was afraid that lightning would hit a tree and start a forest fire or something. My dad tried to calm them down, but that was a failure, so Percy and Thalia had to get involved. It kind of worked. They stopped fighting, but there were lingering clouds waiting to be summoned for a fight.

The rest of the hike was, I guess you can say, quiet. There was still some tension, but not enough to be noticed easily. It was cut a little short by…

"The river!" Poseidon and Percy gleefully exclaimed.

They dropped their packs and jumped in clothes and all. They surfaced, grinning, not even wet of course. They looked at each other and grinned even wider. We set our packs off to the side and watched them, which happened to be a mistake when water wrapped around my leg and dragged me in. Water immediately rushed into my nose, causing a burning sensation. I came up to the surface coughing and sputtering. I looked around and noticed the others had suffered the same fate.

Zeus and Thalia were trying to choke the laughing pair, Percy and Poseidon, while my dad got out of the water and sat on the shore. I followed him.

"Are you okay, dad?" I asked, noticing his shivering.

"Hm? Oh! Fine, I'm fine," he said casually, but I didn't believe him.

"Are you cold-"

"No," he quickly interrupted, turning his attention back to the river.

I grinned. "You are, aren't you?"

"So?" he retorted childishly, clearly not happy.

"It's okay. I am, too."

He seemed to relax a little. We watched as Percy and Poseidon defended themselves against an enraged Zeus and Thalia. Poseidon shoved Zeus's head underwater while Percy wrapped Thalia in a bubble. Then, all the hair on my body stood on end and the river became covered with blue sparks. Percy literally jumped out with his hair sizzling and Poseidon had to be dragged because he passed out. Zeus threw him on the sand with Thalia following.

"You guys are idiots," my dad sighed while shaking his head.

Zeus

I think I over did it with the lightning. Percy looked as if he was on the verge of passing out like his father. Hades and I suggested we should leave then in a ditch but got scolded and by our own children no less. We set Poseidon in the grass and stood around him.

"How do we wake him up?" Percy asked. "The water isn't affecting him."

I glanced up at Hades. I could see the wheels turning in his head. Then I thought of something. If lighting knocked him out, then maybe lightning could wake him up.

HADES

Did Zeus have to be such an imbecile? Wait, scratch that. It's Zeus, of course he's an imbecile. I mean, I'm fine with him for getting revenge for the whole tripping thing, but this was just ridiculous.

"Well, I'm stumped," the demigods grumbled.

I looked up at Zeus and found myself rather worried. The look in his eyes was one that usually made you back away slowly and search for a straight jacket.

"Zeus," I started slowly, "what are you thinking?"

He completely ignored me, the idiotic jerk, and knelt beside Poseidon. Blue sparks flickered around him. For a horrible and wonderful moment I thought he was going to fry our brother, but then he just ended up shocking him.

Poseidon's eyes fluttered open and he sat up so fast he head butted me. We groaned in pain and I stumbled back, clutching my head. I could hear stifled laughter in the background.

"Watch it, Fish Breath," I growled.

"Blame Zeus." said brother glared at him.

"Well," Thalia interrupted, "since the river was an epic failure, what should we do now?"

The demigods looked at us expectantly. Zeus looked at Poseidon and then they both turned their eyes on me. Why did I have to be the oldest here? The demigods weren't helping either. Well, Thalia and Percy weren't, being practical replicas of their fathers, they were utterly useless. Nico, on the other hand, just shrugged with an apologetic look. I sighed.

"Well?" my brothers asked as if expecting a death to occur, which they probably were.

"I'm thinking," I snapped.

Not too long after, maybe a minute or so, in unison, in sing-song voices, "We're waiting…"

"Will. You. Shut. Up?"

"Nope," they said popping the 'p'.

"I am going to kill you!"

"I'd like to see you try!" from Poseidon

"Bring it on!" from Zeus.

I was about to lunge when Nico interrupted by saying, "Oh! Look at the time! It's already 5:24. We should probably be heading back to make dinner."

I inwardly sighed in relief. Sometimes I think, how did I end up with a kid like him? And then other times I wonder, how in Tartarus did I end up with a kid like him?

PERCY

That was probably the most interesting and weirdest hike I've ever been on in my life. Of course, I should've known trouble was stalking us when the Big Three and their kids go camping with each other. That's like shooting up a flair to chaos and mayhem with a sign saying, 'I am here! Please, make my life miserable because it wasn't very miserable before.' Note the heavy sarcasm.

The walk back was quiet, thank the gods, but an awkward silence hung in the air. Thalia and Nico were on either side of me and our dads were in front of us in the same order.

Finally I said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Well, that was interesting."

My cousins looked at me, but our dads showed no sign of hearing me.

"No, really?" Thalia's tone of sarcasm was as thick as fog. "Besides, you were the one that started it.

"Watch it, Pikachu."

Nico and I couldn't help but laugh at her flabbergasted expression. "P-Pikachu? Well at least I'm not a Seaweed Brain, Squirtle."

Now it was my turn to look shocked and her turn to laugh. My cousins' laughter echoed throughout the valley.

"You just got owned, Perce," Nico laughed.

"Shut it, Duskull," I snapped at him.

"Hey!"

I heard quiet, throaty chuckling up ahead. Apparently so did Nico and Thalia.

"Dad?" all three of us asked.

The chuckling stopped. They slowly turned their heads, just barely enough to look over their shoulders.

"Are you laughing?"

"No." And with that they looked forward as if nothing ever happened.

We glanced at each other with identical sly smiles on our faces.

"Hey, Thals," I called.

"Yeah?"

"If you're Pikachu…"

"Yeah?" I could hear the amusement creeping into her voice.

"Would that make your dad-"

"Raichu?" she finished, grinning. "Yeah."

"Then that would make your dad," Nico started.

"Blastoise," I finished. "And your dad would be-"

"Dusclops," we said together laughing.

We were laughing so hard that we didn't even notice our dads had stopped walking. Until we ran into them. Our laughing immediately stopped. They finally turned to look at us head on. But they didn't look mad. In fact, they didn't even look annoyed. They each had an eyebrow raised and the corners of their lips were quirked upward.

"Seriously?" all three asked at once.

"What?" we asked innocently.

They just chuckled, rolling their eyes and shaking their heads, and turned back around.

A/N: Sorry if there was too much OOCness, I try my best to balance them out. If you like the Pokemon stuff, great! If you don't, I'm sorry. Sometimes when I write my mind just wanders into unspeakable places. Anyway, please review. And remember if you have any ideas, please feel free to message me, thanks! Also, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!