Sup guys! Anyway, sorry for the delay, I was pretty busy the last couple of days, so here is chapter three! And to compensate for my royal delay, I will post chapter four later tonight. Right so, yeah, have fun reading!

Previously:

In Olympus, night has settled, flanked by peace and silence. But this was gone in an instant when a man screamed out in pain and agony until the screaming stopped.

Inside Heracles' temple, Heracles himself lay down on the floor, bloody and beaten. The most gruesome part however, was the fact that his skull and stomach were practically torn open, his entrails and brain missing. By the brazier in his room, a man cloaked man stood, watching as the brain and insides burned away. His frame suddenly became stockier, more muscled. He smirked, "Heracles as the first sacrifice to aid me, the Champion of Chaos? Not bad really, but not the best." The man then vanished, without even a flash or a sound. Just then, Hebe walked into her husband's room and screamed and started weeping at his corpse.

Chapter 3: Happy Birthday Idiot!

"I just can't understand how the Olympians stayed sane after all these years. I mean, every single year they have at least, like, ten of those crazy meetings where all that happens is bickering between different deities and Zeus boasting." Theo ranted causing Rebecca to sigh. They were sitting atop Zeus' Fist, overseeing the whole forest and the camp by the far horizon. Their feet were dangling over the edge and they were sitting very close to each other. But, well, they are best friends, so their like so what?

"Now I can see why they very much needed Dionysus," continued Theo, "He's not only the god of wine; most people forget that he's the god of madness too! Maybe he's the reason that they are staying sane? Maybe, when one of 'em goes insane from all that craziness, Dionysus leads them back to sanity? And then, when Dionysus goes insane, wait; can a god of madness go insane? Oh gods, why does this have to be so confusing?" He placed his head on both of his hands.

He looked up to see Rebecca pretending to write on paper, "Go on professor, I wanna pass the exam." She smirked. He reciprocated the smirk and slugged her playfully on the arm. They broke into giggles which lasted for about a couple of minutes When the amusement died down, Theo put on a thoughtful face, "I think that the prophecy's gonna come to play soon, and it's either gonna be me or my sister."

Rebecca looked at him quizzically, "Why?"

Theo looked at her, "Which one, that the prophecy's gonna come to play soon, or the one about how my sister is now eligible for the prophecy?"

Rebecca stared at him stoically for a while before straightening her back and answering, "Both."

"Alright," Theo said, looking at the camp in the horizon, "Last night, when I and my father came home, Hestia came back with us. She planned to stay the night there, so when we all had dinner, Hestia adopted Natasha, seeing as her mother left her and dad."

Theo looked at Rebecca, "You still with me?" she nodded.

"Okay," Theo continued, "so, then, Artemis and Thanatos came and blessed me and my sister as thanks or my father saving them. It's also how I got these," Theo pulled his shirt off and willed his wings to come out. His back grew two majestic black wings made of silky soft feather, each wing as long as his own arm span. Rebecca gaped at the wings and looked at Theo. Theo nodded and moved one of the wings closer to Rebecca.

She started caressing the wings and laid her head on it. She sighed at its comfortableness. Theo brought his wing closer to him and they just sat there, sort of cuddling. The moment was ruined, however, when someone cleared their throat behind them. Ironically enough, the person who interrupted them then said, "Sorry, am I ruining the moment, cupcakes?"

They turned around to see the all-famous satyr, Coach Hedge. He had his arms crossed, one elbow propped up by his baseball bat. His baseball cap was on sideways like how you would expect someone to put their hat on back in 2005 (A/N: I'm not hating on those who did it back then, I did it too.).

He glanced at Theo and fumed, "Put some clothes on, cupcake!" Theo quickly put on a shirt after retracting his wings. Hedge smirked at the two and proceeded to head down the stack of boulders, "I'm going to head down now, my wife will be looking for me. Make sure there will be no funny business you two," he said over his shoulder.

"The two of us are just ten for goodness sake coach!" exclaimed Rebecca, raising her hands up in the air.

"Whatever," was Hedge's intelligent reply. The two watched as Hedge went down the cliff. When she was sure that he was gone, Rebecca punched Theo playfully and smirked, "That's a very eventful eleventh birthday for you," she said. Theo looked at her questioningly, "what?"

Rebecca resisted the urge to facepalm, "Today," she said slowly, as if explaining to a small child, "is September the fifth, and today you are turning eleven." Theo put on a thoughtful look and smiled as if figuring it out.

And then he frowned, "Wait, so today is my birthday?" he asked and Rebecca had to restrain herself from punching him because of his stupidity.

"Yes, you idiot, today is your birthday," Rebecca said and all Theo said was an unintelligent 'oh'.

"Yes, 'oh', today is your birthday, meaning you have around," Rebecca checked her watch, "around ten minutes before your father starts wondering where you are. He was planning on throwing a 'surprise' party for you in the dining pavilion. But of course, being the idiot your father is, much like you, he just told everyone in the camp, including you, last week in the announcements."

"Wait," Theo said slowly, "so you're saying that you think I'm an idiot?" he stared at Rebecca incredulously.

She snickered and replied, "Yes, and I think that getting to the Dinning Pavilion in ten minutes would be good practice for you to use your wings. So, go! Make haste!"

He did just as she said. Theo removed his shirt and willed his wings into existence. He walked up to the edge of Zeus' Fist and fearlessly jumped off. He faltered a bit but slowly started to glide. When he became confident enough, he flapped his wings hard and slowly gained altitude. He flapped his wings again and again until he was at least a hundred feet off of the ground.

He smirked gleefully and dived, positioning himself in a way wherein he would land by the Dining Pavilion. When he was about thirty feet to the ground he opened his wings. And instead of the epic landing he was expecting, his wings stayed steady for a moment, slowing down his fall. And then his wings folded back, causing him to flip in the air and face plant into the ground, right in front of his mother. He skidded for a couple of metres before stopping, Hestia staring at her son in shock before shrieking and running up to him. When she got to where her son was, she could see that he was still lying face down on the he said was an incoherent "Ouch," before she healed him and started giving him a lecture about stunts and how he should wear a helmet when flying.

"Mother," Theo said. Hestia kept on ranting as if Theo didn't say anything.

"Mother," Theo said again, still no answer.

"Mother," Hestia kept on ranting.

"MOM!" Hestia stopped. She looked at Theo and asked something which he didn't know the answer to, "Honey, put a shirt on. Where is your shirt anyway?" Right after she said that, as if things can't become more awkward, it did. Rebecca waltzed into the scene clutching Theo's shirt in her right hand. She stopped in front of Theo and looked at him, cocking her head to the side. Theo was trying to shrink and hide in a hole forever. Rebecca noticed this and looked around. To her right, she saw Hestia looking at them with her mouth wide open. She looked between Theo and Rebecca and seemed to connect the dots. However, she seemed to have connected the wrong dots.

Rebecca blushed hard and threw the shirt at Theo and ran away. Hestia looked at Theo with a stern face, "Young man, what did you two do?"

Theo ran his hand through his hair, "We were sitting atop Zeus' Fist and happened to forget my shirt there when I removed it to take my wings out." Theo said almost nonchalantly, "and besides, I'm just eleven, what did you think we would've done?" Fortunately for Theo, his father chose that time to walk into the scene immediately becoming Theo's saviour from the awkward conversation that his mother would've probably started.

"You'll be late for your birthday party, young man!" Percy dragged Theo into the Dining Pavilion where there were streamers hanging from the ceiling and signs saying 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY THEO!' There was a gigantic blue cake and a lot of food. Many of Theo's friends and his father's friends were there. He looked around some more and found that Thanatos and Artemis were also there, along with his aunt Thalia. The rest of the seven were also there, well, excluding Leo and Annabeth of course. My father then clapped loudly catching everyone's attention.

"'Sup guys!" he shouted, "The birthday boy is here! We can officially start his party now!"

As Theo's party was being held in Camp, Hebe was running through the streets of Olympus like a crazed woman; although saying that would indeed be a fact. It was just last night when she found her husband, Heracles, dead on the floors of their chambers. His skull was cracked open and while his abdomen seemed to have been ripped apart, in a means to get his entrails. She searched for clues after that, clues that could lead to his murderer. All she found were his entrails and brain; burning in the brazier next to his corpse, seemingly sacrificed. She remembers screaming bloody murder after finding that. Ever since, she's been like a paranoid animal on the run; always looking around, her eyes so red from crying and a lack of sleep. That is until around noon when she coincidentally bumped into Hermes who was walking down the street with a package clutched in one hand and his 'phone' in the other.

"No, Martha," he said into the speaker, "Hold that package there, I'm delivering that later." And that's when Hebe bumped into him and landed on the ground sitting.

"Hebe?" he asked, bewildered, "Oh my, you don't look so good." He took her and lifted her up bridal style, "What happened?" Hebe didn't answer and instead started to weep about her late husband on Hermes' shoulders.

"Alright sister," Hermes started to walk into the direction of Zeus and Hera's palace, "I'm gonna bring you to father's palace. Maybe we can do something about your state even."

"It's time for the gifts!" Hestia shouted. Everyone present started to head for the table, well; at least there was a table underneath the big pile of gifts. When everyone was standing near the table, she spoke again, "Alright, parents and patrons first!"

Artemis, Thanatos and Percy left the crowd and stood beside Hestia, who was standing by the table of presents. Thanatos went first when he took the longest and most gruesome gift on the table: it was a scythe with a wooden shaft that was at least as tall as Theo, with the blade was a two and a half foot long piece of sharp stygian iron. The shaft also seemed to have been imbued with the aforementioned piece of metal.

"This scythe," Thanatos said, "Is mostly made by Stygian Iron, and is blessed to be unbreakable. Being one of my champions, you, Theo, are able to wield Stygian Iron. This scythe will grow according to your height and will always be perfectly balanced for you." He finished with a smirk, as if telling the others that there was no better gift to give an eleven year-old than a Stygian Iron imbued five foot tall scythe. After Theo took the scythe from Thanatos, it turned into one of those pens where you can switch from more than one ink colour. Thanatos' smirk grew bigger, as if nothing could beat his present now. (A/N: You guys know those weird pens with like three to five different ink choices? The ones that's kind of… fat? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, but with like, five ink choices.)

"As you can see," Thanatos continued, "Your scythe turns into a pen, much like your father's. However," here, Thanatos smirked again, "unlike your father's pen, it has unlimited ink. That way, your parents will never need to buy you school utensils again! It will also help you very much in the future. Since it is multi-coloured, you will find it very useful for taking notes." Theo looked at him as if to say the scythe is a really good present, but a fancy pen for school is a bit too much. Thanatos took no notice of this and continued to explain the pen, "It would also help you in the future when you are to take exams in the future, especially your SAT's and DSTOMP." (A/N: Sorry, is it SAT or ST? I'm not really sure, because I take the IGCSE's, please if I'm wrong, tell me in the reviews below.)

"Wait," said Theo, "What's DSTOMP?"

"An exam for Roman demigods," Percy said, "To enter New Rome University, it stands for: The Demigod Standard Test of Mad Powers, (A/N: For those who don't know, the 'DSTOMP' came from The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle, also by Rick Riordan.)"

"Well, I'm sure your other patron and your parents would want to give you their gifts. However I'm very sure none would surpass mine." Thanatos smirked and gave the floor to Artemis. She swiftly tripped him while he was walking back; making it look like an accident and walked up to the gifts like nothing happened. Thanatos grunted in pain making people snicker at him.

"Alright," Artemis started; she grabbed a box that was around three feet long in length and a foot long in width. It was carefully wrapped in green wrapping paper, which coincidentally was Theo's favourite colour. She gave the box to Theo and gave him a smile. He took the box gingerly in his hands and looked at her; she gave him a motion to go on and he started to unwrap the present. When he finished, he opened the box which was previously wrapped in green paper to reveal an elegant bow. The top limb was a dark grey while the bottom limb was bright silver, the two colours seemed to mix and blend at the middle, there was a brown leather grip that felt perfect to Theo's hands, he looked up to Artemis who started to explain the bow and it's magical properties.

"This bow was blessed to have an unlimited amount of arrows. Pull the string back and you'll see it already nocked." Artemis explained. Theo did as she said and was surprised to see that the arrow was black. "When the dark grey limb is acting as the upper limb of the bow, the arrows that it will fire will be Stygian Iron, while they will be silver when you use the silver limb as the upper limb." She added. Theo flipped the bow and again pulled the string back, he was pretty shocked to see that the arrow was indeed silver, hey, that's pretty nifty he thought. Artemis smirked at his thoughts, "It also turns into a watch if you want it to" Theo said his thanks and Artemis prodded back to the crowd.

Hestia and Percy came in next, they gave him a whole set of armour that was blessed to be lightweight, fireproof, and very resistant to damage; it also turned into a necklace which turns back into the armour when Theo tugs on it. The rest of the party went on like that, after which there was some more eating ad talking; until three in the afternoon when a lightning bolt struck the ground, indicating that Zeus was calling a council meeting.

So, anyone who got the Bufford reference? If you did, here's a cookie (::).

Anyway, I'm very sorry that this chapter probably sucked, but as I said earlier, the last couple of days have been pretty hectic for me.

So, this is Mr. Nifty signing out.

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Just kidding, I'll be back in like, three hours to post the next chapter.