Okay, here we are again! Since I had no reviews, I'll thank all my favorites and follows. Fun Fact: I am typing this at our garage sale, and people watching has me laughing in my head, so this may be a funny chapter, just depends on how many people I will have to put up with.

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Chapter 4: Family Matters

"I believe that will be alright. In the future, we will read more chapters before we take a break. Okay! Everyone! Go let off some energy and return within the hour. If you are late, you will be locked out of the reading." With that the demigods began to make their way outside, breaking off into smaller groups.

Even though they split up, they all still went to the gardens. Demeter must have been in a good mood, since all the flowers were at the height of their bloom. Theseus and Orion made their way to Percy, wanting to know their younger brother. "Hello, Perseus." Orion said, somewhat nervously. What if our brother hates us or doesn't want to know us?

"I'm not going to talk to you if you're going to be like that." Percy said. Both of his brothers' excitement dropped. "My name is Percy. I'm your brother, so there's no need to be so formal." He finished with a grin.

"Well said, brother!" Orion agreed. Theseus rolled his eyes.

"Could we try to be brothers? Me, you, and this idiot over here?" Orion was nodding along until that last part.

"Hey!"

Theseus sniggered. "It's the truth." The brothers made their way over to the fountain and continued to bond. "So what's with you and that daughter of Athena, Annabeth, right?"

"You'll see," muttered a bright red Percy.

"I hate that answer." Orion whined.

"Get used to it." As the sons of Poseidon bonded, so did the children of Zeus and Jupiter, except for Hercules. Jason at approached Perseus and Thalia had followed.

"So you are our way older brother." Jason Grace started. Silence followed. He turned to Thalia for help.

"As you know we are Thalia and Jason Grace. We know you are Perseus. The three of us make up the Humble-ish Children of Zeus/Jupiter Club. Hercules application was denied. Yours, however made it through the screening. So welcome to our club." As she finished, Thalia gave a slight bow to Perseus.

"Is that so? The 'Greatest Hero of All Time' didn't get in? What is wrong with the world?" Perseus shouted the last part, making many heads turn in his direction. He gave a half smile and waved. "Uh, hi," he said brightly.

Hercules had seen the brats of the God of Puddles getting along great. He hoped his siblings were smart enough to realize that being friends with them was a one track way to being a loser. He spotted the brother and sister pair walking with Perseus towards the Fish Brains. He walked over to intercept them before they did something they regretted. "What do you think you're doing?" He hissed.

The dark headed girl rolled her eyes. "Oh, gee. I think we were headed to talk to our friends." She said, gesturing to the sons of Poseidon and Annabeth, who had joined Percy.

"Those are your friends? Really? Let me tell you something. You are children of Zeus. You need to have friends that are good for you. People expect you to have certain allies. You don't want to get caught up in the wrong sort."

"I think we can tell who the wrong sort is for ourself." Jason Grace said coolly.

"Those brats are just using you!" Hercules voiced gradually raised until he was yelling. "Name one thing that the shrimp has done for you!"

Thalia leveled her special glared she had learned from Artemis at Hercules. "Well, brother, Perseus Jackson has saved me from being a tree, saved my life on numerous occasions, became the child of the prophecy, battled Kronos, fought Gaia, saved my life again by taking on a giant who was about to overwhelm me, and been the best big brother ever. That doesn't mean I don't love you Jay-Jay."

Jason Grace smiled at his sister. "Love you too, Thals. Now, let's see. What has Percy done for me? More than you know. I can't even count. But you know what? We are family, and family doesn't do stuff for each other because we have to or so we can be owed something. We do it because we want to and love each other. Yes we may get close to killing each other, but we stand by each other."

Perseus shrugged. "I don't know the kid, but he's named after me and our younger siblings respect him, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I won't judge him since he has not judged me."

"Well those were beautiful and inspiring speeches and I feel like puking. Fine go be with the losers. I don't give a Hades. You all will get what's coming to you." Hercules spat and whirled around. He stalked out of the gardens.

"Woah. Someone has his panties in a bunch," muttered Reyna. This earned some snickers from the demigods who had overheard the conversation, which was all of them. Percy and his entourage walked over.

"Um, Jason, Thalia? I didn't really do that much stuff for you. I also had a ton of help and-"

"Kelp Head, for once in your life quit being modest. Accept the compliments. Realize that more people owe you their lives than you could count." Thalia said with a light glare at Percy, who turned red. Theseus and Orion grinned at their brother, while Perseus was glad that Thalia was a better person than Hercules. Like that is hard. Maybe I shouldn't compare my new favorite sister with that idiot.

The demigods all gathered together in the middle of the garden. They were bored but they couldn't sit still. "So, what do y'all want to do?" Piper asked. Everyone shrugged. "Someone please suggest something to do." Piper said, this time with a bit of Charmspeak. Oh yeah, I went there. She thought to herself.

"We could play tag."

"Hide-and-go-seek!"

"Ninja."

"We could take a nap." Everyone turned to look at Nico. "What? I'm kind of tired!"

"Sorry, us kids who graduated kindergarten don't have naptime anymore," Frank said. Nico turned red and muttered something about escaping souls and midnight breakouts.

"Duck, duck, goose! The best game ever!" Jason Grace shouted over everyone.

"But I wanted to play Ninja, demigod style…"Leo whined. "Please please please." Annabeth rolled her eyes. Someone has to take charge or we will spend our entire hour arguing.

"Leo, stop your whining. We can play both, but we will start with duck, duck, goose." Jason from the Argo, Perseus, Orion, and Theseus all looked confused. They had never heard of this game. Who played a game with birds and a goose at that? Did they race them? Annabeth caught on to their confusion and decided to save them a headache and explain. "In this game we will all sit in a circle. One person is 'it' and will walk around the circle saying 'duck' while patting each person on the head. When 'it' says 'goose' the person who was patted gets up and chases the person around the circle. If 'it' beats the 'goose' back to the empty spot, the 'goose' becomes 'it', or the 'goose' could tag 'it' and then 'it' must go again. Got it?" They just nodded their heads, still a little confused. Percy sighed.

"We sit in a circle while one person calls people duck or goose. If you are a goose, you chase the person around the circle trying to touch them. If you tag them you sit back down. If you do what the person before you did." This time they grinned.

Annabeth grumbled, "That's what I said," under her breath. Percy came over and kissed her forehead.

"Ann, we aren't children of Athena. The dumber you say it the faster we get it."

"Are the love birds going to play?" Jason Grace yelled. The two walked over and sat down by each other. The demigods spent the next forty-five minutes playing the childish game, and loved every minute of it. All of a sudden Reyna jumped up.

"We are going to be late! Come on, hurry!" A quick glance at a watch showed that the demigods had less than a minute to get back to the throne room. They took off running into the building. There wwere some minor gods and goddesses in the hallway, and gave the group dirty looks for sprinting inside. They got to the throne room doors and heard Zeus and the others talking. Throwing the doors open, they walked in right as time expired.

"Cutting it close, half-bloods," Hades observed. "Now, shall we-"

"Do not presume to make orders in my place, brother." Zeus snapped. "Begin reading… Artemis." Said goddess sighed and grabbed the book.

"Must we read about a boy losing his pants?" Artemis asked. All the gods looked at her with quizzical expressions. "It's the name of the title!" She explained. Zeus made a continue gesture with his hand. Artemis sighed in resignation.

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