A/N Hey guys! I'm sort of running out of ideas, so if you have any please PM me or comment. Anyways, i forgot a disclaimer, so BTW i'm not Rick Riordan, if i was, i would be working on the Blood of Olympus, not writing a Fanfic. BTW this is after tLO and before tLH. I do not own Coke, or any associated drinks. i also don't own Doritos, or Pringles. I own some Pringles, but not the brand. Also thanks to all of the people who followed, favorited, or reviewed. sorry, only one topic in this chapter, and slow update, but my step-brother won't be quiet and let me write, plus i had to come up with how to play Mythomagic. Hopefully it's long enough. Happy reading.

2-Mythomagic

Nico was exited. It was finally thursday, his favorite day. All week he looked forward to this day. Every day, he wished it was Thursday. Because every Thursday, he would sneak off from camp Half-Blood at exactly 3:29, and shadow travel to a local game shop in New York City. He landed from traveling at about 3:30, and walked into Board to Death. Every Thursday they hosted a game competition. They had a Magic game in one corner, A Yu-Gi-Oh game in another, and finally, what he was here for. a Mythomagic game.

He walked over to it. "Hey Nico!" One of his friends, Max, yelled.

"Hey Max, he responded."

"I see you're exactly on time, again. How do you even do that?"

"Max, We've already been over this, I can't tell you. I just have certain talents."

"Yeah, I know. I just wonder. Sometimes it seems like you just appear out of the shadows. It's like you can come from anywhere. Well, I guess it matches your look. You look like you could be from the world of the dead or something."

"You've got absolutely no idea how right you are" Nico muttered

"What'd you say, Nico?" his other friend David asked. A/N I feel like the grammar in that is wrong, but Pages isn't correcting me, so whatever

"Nothing," Nico said quickly, "Lets just play."

So Nico sat down at the three seating triangular plastic table in the back.

"So, i treated for food last time, so that means it is," He paused, "Nico's turn?" He questioned. "And, Nico went first last time, so i believe it is Max's turn?" he continued.

" Yeah, that sounds right," Nico confirmed. "I'll go get the food. You guys want the usuals?"

"Yeah!" they chorused

Nico stood up and went to the counter. He now had a lot of money, though he didn't look it. He took a bunch of golden drachmas to a jeweler and was able to sell them for their weight in gold, probably because they were gold. He cleared his throat to get the attention of the guy working the counter, Jeff.

"Oh, hey Nico," he said, turning around.

"Hey Jeff," he responded

"Usual?"

"Usual."

Jeff nodded while grabbing one bottle of Doctor Pepper, one of Coke, and one of Mountain Dew from the mini-fridge. He also got a can of Cheddar Cheese Pringles, and two bags of Doritos from a cabinet. "That'll be $6.29,"

"Ok," Nico said while handing him a 10. "See ya Jeff," He said as he walked away

"Nico, your change," Jeff started

But Nico cut him off." Keep it," he said, and walked back to the table.

He handed out the other's food and took a long drink of his doctor pepper.

"Ok, lets get started," Max said "We set it up already. I hope you don't mind playing ZPH" A/N ZPH stands for Zeus Poseidon Hades, a game mode i made up where each person represent one of the big three and commands their armies " We assumed you'd want to be Hades like usual."

"You were right," he said

"I'm Zeus and Max is Poseidon" David said.

"Ok, lets play. Max, you go." Said Nico

So Max went first. He used his starting five production points to make 5 cyclopses, who he made 3 of make 2 production points a turn. He put their in his PP (production point) box. he made the others mine for materials. he rolled the die, and one got 4 wood a turn, and the other got 6 bronze a turn. He but the blue die next to the cyclopses and cardboard icons representing what material they were getting, all of witch he put in his resource box. Then it was David's turn. He used his to make some automatons, then split it 3 for resources, 2 for PP. He had two getting bronze, 8 a turn combined, and one on wood for 6 a turn. Finally it was Nico's turn. He put skeletal smiths all on resources, 13 bronze a turn, 9 wood a turn. the reason this was a good idea was because each god had a special power. Zeus had some extra strong warriors, Poseidon had a huge advantage of home field battles, because he could control the sea, and Hades had the ability to kill and then respawn his skeletons as a different class of skeleton. Nico could wait until he had satisfactory resource piles, then kill his skeletons and make them warriors. Of course he couldn't make all of them warriors, then he'd have only five. He'd have to put some on PP so he could get more.

He was great at this game. in the past 4 months that the three of them had been playing together every Thursday, he'd only lost 3 times. Sometimes he'd spend hours strategizing for this game. Not that he had much else to do. so far he had no one to play with, and arguing with Thalia only took up so much time in his life. He sighed. He loved this game. With so much free time, and pretty much only this as a routine in his life, it was amazing that this was the only time he had to relax.