Like Fools And Horses

Chapter 10

~Child Of Olympus~

Hello mi amigos! I hope that you are all well and ready to read a new chapter! hehe :D I am dead tired but I couldn't resist updating, plus it takes my mind off of all the stress and worries. I can enter my own personal world :') Although my friends say that my brain is scary, hehehe the brain of a *hopefully* future writer ;) *cue evil laughter* hehehe I am sorry for this being way overdue, my brain is fried and I couldn't think of a thing to write :'( please don't hate me!

And another reason for my tardiness…well…it's a very serious reason which will explain the length of this author note but it would mean a lot to me if you would all read this and then think about the world we are living in today because to be honest with you I am thoroughly disgusted at the behaviour of the doctors at my local hospital. Their job is to help prolong the lives of the people but instead they are killing one. Basically, to make more sense, mu uncle is mentally and physically handicapped. He can't do much for himself but he does try, plus he has autism. Now for a while he hasn't been very well, and we've all been worried. We took him to the hospital where they just sent him home and didn't tell us anything about his condition. After much debate and demand we found out that he really is not well, and he may have a cancer in the blood. It isn't certain but it could be there. Now the doctors at the hospital refuse to treat my uncle. They say that because he is disabled he hasn't got any quality of life and if he stops breathing then they are not going to resuscitate him. And they have told us that he is dying but they have washed their hands of him. So now he is slowly deteriorating at home. He has been looking a slight bit better in the past couple of days but we don't want to get our hopes up. I guess the reason for me telling you all of this, because you guys probably don't want to read this, but surely a disabled 59 year old man deserves to be treated the same way as any other 59 year old man who would walk into the hospital needing help, right? I thought the days of discrimination were over and that everybody were equal. But it doesn't seem that way, my uncle is discriminated wherever he goes because he is disabled and he can't exactly speak properly. I find it rude and downright horrible that anybody could make a decision that really is a matter of life or death on the fact that he is purely disabled. He does have a quality of life, just because he can't do as much as some other people doesn't mean that he doesn't have the right to live. Anyway, I'm sorry for this rant…I just really needed to get it out of my system you know? Please, please think about this because I think that it is wrong but on the other hand I think I'm going crazy. I just need to know that I'm not the only one that thinks this way plus I've had so much stress over the past few weeks and this really did not help.

Anyway on to a happier note….here's the next chapter :')

Thank you to Avardsin- Thank you for the review! Hehe she does but don't worry the Annabeth side will be coming out a little more hehe :') aesir21- Thank you! Hehe :') Guest- I shall definitely think about that hehe, thanks for your review :') The Goddamn Dark Knight- I'm still not quite sure on that yet, but I will let you guys know my thoughts on his relationship later on :') KnivesAndPens13- Thank you! Hehe you shall find out in this chapter ;) Hope you like it :D CrazyPeanutAttack- Ah yes, that would make sense ;) Hehehe thanks for your review :') NightmarishStar- Ahaa, they are so annoying aren't they? Thank you hehe good luck for yours too! :D Hope you like the chapter! :D Pandastyle- I am really sorry! I know I put up that one shot but that was just something I had on my mind, plus I put up read my other story because I thought that I could advertise it to people who haven't read it yet. Sorry again for the lateness :( But here is the next chapter- hope you like it :')

Disclaimer: I still don't own Percy Jackson or anything! I prefer for Rick Riordan to keep the rights because he is a way better writer than me and I want Mark Of Athena to come out!

Percy's POV

Before we reached the surface, Triton called out for us. Unfortunately he was using the formalities of 'Lord' which I was beginning to despise.

'Yes Triton?" I asked turning around to face him.

"I must sincerely apologise for the actions of my mother, Lord Perseus, I ensure you it won't happen again" he told me.

"Triton, there is no need for the titles, you know I hate them, plus I already know what you and your mother think of me from back when I was younger- so just treat me the same" I shrugged.

He smirked "Hmm…maybe I should continue calling you Lord if it bugs you that much. An eternity of bugging you brother, sounds better and better with each passing second"

"Of course you would take up that opportunity" I sighed knowing that he was going to annoy me for the rest of my eternal life.

"Whatever made you doubt that, milord" he laughed

"Triton!" I growled.

He laughed harder and replied "Aww, very sorry to say Lord Perseus, but I must be heading back to Atlantis now, I shall see you soon"

And with that he swam away obviously very pleased with himself.

"And his true colours shine through" Sophie said.

I groaned "Great, a whole eternity with that."

"It won't be too bad" Sophie tried to reassure me.

"Oh believe me baby girl, it will be" I told her "Anyway focusing on now- I am exhausted- what about you?"

She nodded in agreement "And starving" on cue her stomach growled in hunger.

"Alright then, I'm sure we can get some food on the way back to Olympus" I smiled and we reached land, on the shore of the Camp Half Blood beach. Many campers were shocked as we surfaced but I didn't pay much attention to them for the time being. We got a cab into town, because I still don't have a clue as to how to teleport, and we grabbed a Subway.

When we reached Olympus we decided to heat up our sandwiches at our palace but we were unfortunately pulled into the throne room.

"Sorry Percy- but we have highly important matters to discuss" Zeus told me.

He then went on to talk about things I didn't really care about and Sophie and I were discreetly eating our Subways- like children trying to eat food in class without being caught. Somehow nobody noticed until Nico stopped the meeting.

"Sorry Zeus, but I do have to ask, what is that amazing smell?" Nico asked sniffing the air.

"I was thinking the same thing!" Hermes and Apollo said simultaneously.

Sophie and I looked like deer caught in headlights as we tried to disguise the wrappers.

But Annabeth being the class snitch in this scenario piped up "Why don't you check what those two seaweed brains are eating?"

Everybody glared at us, which made me think that they were really hungry, and Sophie replied "Gum" without hesitation.

Nico, not believing our lie, came over to me and practically wrestled me for the wrappers.

"Subway?!" he shouted "You got a Subway without me? And didn't even bring me one back? How could you, I thought we were friends Perce!"

"We are!" I told him "But we were really hungry so we got a cab into town and bought a Subway"

"So we had to wait here for ages for you so you could go get this and not even think of us, thanks Perce" Nico sulked and sat back down.

"Nico, man come on, you're not seriously going to hate me for this are you?" I asked.

"Are you actually fighting about this right now? Or am I simply going crazy?" Hera asked.

"Yes it seems like the sea spawn and the devil spawn are fighting Hera, it's obvious" Athena glared.

"Don't get sarcastic with me young lady!" Hera warned.

"You know Ares I really don't appreciate you making out with MY WIFE! In front of me!"Hephaestus voiced out.

"Deal with it" Ares sneered

While Hephaestus and Ares were fighting Aphrodite was smiling about how two men were fighting over her. Weird. Before I knew it the whole throne room had burst into arguments. Hera was fighting with Zeus about him bedding mortal women. Demeter was shouting at Hades for kidnapping Persephone for the millionth timewhilst throwing cereal at Nico whenever he tried to respond to her. Athena was fighting with Dad again about Athens, Hephaestus and Ares were still fighting over Aphrodite who was fighting with Artemis about love. Artemis kept up her hatred for men and Aphrodite was trying to tell her how important love was. Annabeth scanned the room, trying to find somebody to fight with so I turned to Sophie and pretended to talk to her so she wouldn't come over here. Hermes and Apollo on the other hand were play fighting just for the sake of having a fight and not wanting to be left out.

"SILENCE!" Zeus bellowed.

Everybody stopped fighting and turned to Zeus who was red in the face.

"All I was saying was Percy could of got me a Subway too" Nico pouted

"Ok! I'm sorry alright! Why don't you go and get one yourself? You can actually teleport!" I reminded him.

"That is enough!" Zeus declared "Now as I was saying, we need to teach Percy his powers so Apollo you will be helping him with archery, Ares you will be making sure that his sword fighting is up to scratch, Poseidon you will help your son with his power over his domains, plus teleportation…is that clear?"

Everybody nodded not daring to complain.

"Ok, if nobody has any other matters to discuss…" Zeus said.

"Actually…" Sophie replied

"Baby girl" I warned.

"No, no…go on" Zeus sighed and slumped down in his chair

"So….Chiron told me to ask you guys what the 'Child Of Olympus' actually means….I just thought it would be a good time to bring it up" Sophie said.

Athena and Zeus shared glances and then Athena nodded to Zeus.

"Ok, well I just want to say that if any of you want to leave, you may, Athena and I shall discuss this with Sophie" Zeus announced.

I jokingly got up out of my chair making it look like I was about to leave but Sophie pulled me back down and ordered "Stay"

I laughed and just held her hand to show that I wasn't going anywhere. Apollo came over and sat of the armchair of Sophie's chair and Hermes sat on the other side of mine.

"What are you two idiots still doing here?" Athena asked Apollo and Hermes.

Apollo gasped feigning hurt "Ouch Athena…I thought you had more respect for us, we are clearly here for our friends and to find out about this child, olympus thing"

"Plus Apollo and I want to discuss some house renovations with Percy" Hermes added.

"Like what" Zeus asked.

"A GAME ROOM!" they both shouted

"I am all up for that" I agreed.

"Right Perce, it has to be amazingly cool" Apollo told me.

"Wait don't you technically already have a games room?" Sophie asked "…You know Hermes room with all of those electrical things"

"Dear little naive Sophie" Hermes said "We are talking about arcade games…also known as the best games EVER!"

"Just make sure you don't include Pacman or Dionysus will never leave your palace" Apollo warned.

"Stop! Stop it forever!" Zeus yelled at them and once they had stopped talking Zeus continued "Now Athena please start talking before they do"

Athena nodded and turned to Sophie with a twinkle in her eye.

"Right well, the Child of Olympus as I'm sure you have already been told is very special, and it comes from Ancient laws which means that you are very special but it also means that you have to follow certain laws. As the Child of Olympus you can't age past seventeen really, especially because eighteen is now considered as an adult and free to make choices. Now you are bound to Olympus just like the Gods but that also means that basically we are your family. You are the 'child' and officially will be the youngest for….well forever. All the Olympians excluding the Big Three are basically your elder brothers and sisters. As for dating purposes you aren't allowed to have children because you are the child, and well…I guess you can date and stuff but it can't go on for long and you can't have an immortal lover….questions?" she explained.

Sophie nodded "Loads" but Athena pretended that she didn't hear her.

"No questions? Good, I'll be off now…but before I do go, Sophie, I will inform you when your lessons with me start" Athena said and then walked off.

"Lessons? What does she mean by lessons?" Sophie interrogated Zeus "Please don't tell me that she means school"

"She doesn't mean school…?" Zeus lied.

"Don't lie to me!" Sophie told him "How could you do that?"

"I-"

"Why do I even need 'lessons' in the first place, I was rubbish at school anyway"

"Well-"

"And why-"

"I DON'T KNOW!" Zeus broke down and then ran out of the throne room.

"Jeez, someone is in a mood" Sophie sighed making Apollo and Hermes laugh.

"He so should have been the God of Theatre" I laughed and for that comment thunder rumbled across the sky followed by lightning.

"Right, lets go make some plans for the game room" Apollo smiled.

"Sorry fellas but Zeus demands that lessons start straight away, come on punk lets' see how many times I can smash you into a pulp" Ares yawned.

"What?" I whined "Can't it wait until at least tomorrow?"

"Nope, and after this you have archery with Apollo and then you need to meet up with you father before you head back to the palace" Ares replied.

My mouth fell open "But it's nearly the end of the day! How am I meant to do all of that without collapsing from exhaustion?!"

"Better be quick and maybe some of your teachers will cut you some slack" he told me.

"Will you?" I asked hopefully

"Not me stupid punk, of course I am going to work you to the bone…now get moving!" he ordered.

I kissed Sophie on the head and mock saluted Ares before dragging myself over to the sword arena. As far as I can tell the sword practice went on for hours but according to Ares we had only practiced for half an hour. And apparently that wasn't even the hard part. Oh joy, not only do I have to suffer the rest of this and archery, I'm also worried that Hermes and Apollo are teaching my daughter things like pranking and possibly stealing. I didn't ever think that I would have to worry about bad influences here on Olympus!

"Right punk, one last spar and then I will let you go to Apollo" Ares sneered.

"For my archery lesson" I grunted

"Not only for that, after this you're going to need a doctor" he laughed

Great.

He started to come at me with his sword and all of my training from Camp Half-Blood came back to me. I defended the block and jabbed and got in close because I had the shorter blade. I felt refreshed and ready to fight for hours but Ares stopped and told me to leave. Percy- 2 Ares- 0

Some nymphs pointed me in the direction of the archery range and even though I was still ten metres away I could hear arguing. Apollo and Sophie came into my view and Apollo seemed to have an arrow sticking out of his shoulder.

"How are you so bad at archery?!" he shouted "All you had to do was aim and shoot!"

"I'm sorry!" Sophie shouted back "I told you that this was a bad idea!"

"You guys ok..?" I asked hesitantly.

"NO!" Apollo yelled at me "I have an arrow in my shoulder, I am not ok! Percy lesson is cancelled for today, if you're daughter is this bad at archery I don't think I can stand you at the moment" he then walked out muttering something about ambrosia and nectar.

"Sorry!" Sophie called out again.

I looked at her and asked "So…you shot Apollo…?"

"It was an accident" she reassured me "He was standing by the target and told me to fire so I did…but it didn't go on the target it went in his shoulder"

I laughed and shook my head "Come on baby girl, lets' go see my Dad"

We found Dad outside my palace looking like he was in deep thought.

"Dad?" I asked.

"Oh Percy, my boy, well this is going to be a short chat because Amphitrite is furious with me for some reason.." he told me.

"You're always welcome to stay here, you know that right" I told him

"Ah thank you, I will remember that for the future, but I fear that this is one problem that will not go away on its own, now basically starting tomorrow I would like you to come down to Atlantis and we can work on some water control and wave control, you know God of Waves is quite interesting because that includes things like sound waves and all that science-y stuff" Dad laughed "And then I believe that is all we have to work on, God of Hereos…well there isn't much to control on that one I'm afraid"

"That's cool, so I'll meet you down in Atlantis tomorrow" I nodded.

"Yes, wish me luck" he replied.

"Flowers" I told him "Get her some flowers"

He nodded "I will talk to Demeter before I leave, lets' just hope for my sake that she doesn't rabbit on about cereal, bye Percy, Sophie"

We waved goodbye, when I go down there tomorrow World War Three will probably already have started. Good luck Dad, I thought to myself.

Hey guys, so yeah sorry if that was sickish which I think it was buuuuttttt I will hopefully update soon with some more exciting stuff ahaa :D Although this chapter was kind of boring the next one should be better because I think I have hit rock bottom haha :') Sorry again for the long wait, I feel really really bad and I will try not to let it happen again. And if you haven't already please check out my one shot Meet Apollo :')

But some exciting news I'm seeing Perks Of Being A Wallflower tonight! YAYAYAY going to be soooooo good :D hehehe

Please review! Until the next time mi amigos!