Meme 10: Christmas

Milky O. Awesomeway smelled the fresh February air. It was full of chocolate and fundip. She started singing the song her younger (mortal) sister had written about fundip. "I love fundip. It is crunchy. I love fundip. It is fun to play with."

"Shut up!" Phoebe yelled. "I hate Valentine's day. So disgusting."

"I hate Valentine's day, too." Milky insisted. "But I love chocolate and watching the gay guys celebrate Valentine's Day."

"You're an idiot."

"Am not."

"Just like your idiot father."

"He's not an idiot. He's awesome, but you're not awesome enough to understand the level of his awesomeness."

"How many times have you said or written the word "awesome" in the past two months?"

"Only 30."

"Wait, you actually counted?"

"Of course. I'm the awesome daughter of the awesome god of awesomeness, therefore I should know how many times I say 'awesome' in my awesome sentences. Duh!"

"35, Milky."

"What?"

"Now you've said it 35 times."

"Shut up Phoebe. I thought you were a daughter of Apollo too."

"Oh, I am, but I hate the man. He is not as awesome as he says he is, and for the record, neither are you. All you are is a 13-year-old directioner who's a crazy yaoi fangirl who likes to meddle in other people's lives. You bring shame to the Hunters."

"I'm a yaoi fangirl, Phoebe." Milky said rolling her eyes. "I highly doubt that makes me a horrible Hunter, because if you think about it, I love the idea of the men jumping on each other rather than women. That's why I like One Direction, because I know that they are secretly screwing each other backstage."

Phoebe laughed. "Never mind what I said. You're all right." Milky smiled and gave her fellow Hunter a quick hug, before going to spy on all the gay couples she could find.

First was Nico and Frank. Yeah, yeah. She thought it was the weirdest couple too. Frank was Nico's sister's ex, and Nico's sister had started dating Nico's ex-crush, which made it even more awkward. Milky wasn't sure how Nico and Frank exactly ended up together, in fact Frank was the only male of the seven Nico was never shipped with, or at least, she would never ship Nico with, and she's never seen the two shipped together before, but Nico was her best friend and she couldn't exactly tell him not to be happy, could she?

"Come on, Nico. We have to go meet up with Annabeth and Luke at the subway station for our double date. I know you don't particularly like Luke or Annabeth, but it got us out of that very awkward lunch that Hazel and Percy had planned. "

After resurrecting Hazel, Nico had gotten bored so he had tracked down Luke, just as he was going to step into the River Lethe. He had hoped that resurrecting Luke would make Annabeth leave Percy, and it did, but it didn't help the situation much. Now Percy was stuck with Nico's sister, which was worse than Annabeth, but Nico had gotten back by dating Frank.

Ah, Milky loved the smell of sibling rivalry in the morning. What was weird to Milky was why Percy and Hazel had ended up together even after the messed-up incident that happened last month with the whole marriage thing. Oh, wait. They didn't remember that.

Nico and Frank met up with Luke and Annabeth, and after deciding where they wanted to go—Nico had suggested McDonald's—they ended up at a small diner.

"Come on, Annabeth. Let's ditch them now." Luke said to his girlfriend quietly. Even though Nico had saved him, he was just as cautious around the boy as ever.

"Oh, come on, Luke. It was either this or go with Thalia and Leo, Percy and Hazel, or Jason and Piper. I definitely do not want to see Percy and I know you're scared of seeing Thalia, and Jason and Piper are awkward to be around these days."

"Why?"

"Oh, sorry. I forgot that you were dead or just not around for a lot of this. You see, everyone thought that me and Percy were this power couple that no one could break up, and Hazel and Frank were so cute together, but then you have Jason and Piper, who were really only together, if you think about it, because of distorted or forgotten memories. But, now they are the only couple still together… and it feels weird, like they should have broken up too."

"Oh." Was all Luke could say. Did that mean that Annabeth still had feelings for Percy? No. He didn't want to think that.

Percy screamed out in agony.

"What's wrong?" Hazel asked.

Percy pointed at the aquarium where the lobsters were being held. "Why do they put tape on them. Why I oughta…"

"Percy!"

"How dare these people lock up poor, innocent, sea creatures? Listen to them. They're asking me for help."

Hazel sighed. They were buying groceries for their very special Valentine's Day meal but Percy's ADHD and sea spawnness were getting in the way.

"Percy, please. Stop throwing a fit."

"I will not stand for the torture of any sea creature."

And that, long story made short, was how Percy and Hazel ended up coming home empty-handed.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get us kicked out of HyVee. I just don't like the inhum—" Hazel cut him off with a kiss.

"I know. And I love you for it. You are a very sweet guy." Percy smiled.

"What do we do now?"

"I can think of a few ideas." Hazel replied, and pushed him against a wall. Milky and Thalia walked in while they making out.

"Oh, dear gods!" Milky screamed. "I'm a Hunter! And I'm only thirteen. I don't want to see that! Gross!"

Thalia rolled her blue eyes. "Me and Leo are inviting everyone over to Milky's house for a party. We wanted to know if you guys wanted to come over."

"Yeah!" Percy exclaimed. "We'll be over in a few hours…Now get out."

Milky decided to go spy on Frank and Nico again, now that she'd visited Hazel and Percy, the second-weirdest couple of them all. A least that one didn't sound extremely ridiculous, unlike Franco or Nink or Fraco or… well, she'd think of a pairing name later. Stupid character number replacement memes. So stupid. She'd had to continually redo this one over and over again in order to avoid Gracest or Hadesest between Nico, Bianca or Hazel. Not even all the money in the world would stop her from cheating on this one. She was not going to have craziness again.

There was one time where the problem was she got Percico as a couple on top of the crazy incest business, and she definitely wasn't going to go there. Crazy pairings plus her OTP? No way! She couldn't handle it. Not after the stupidity her older brother Justin was pulling in the news.

So in order to keep herself sane, and partially in order to make sure that she wasn't just doing the same pairing over and over again(Hello, Percico references in pretty much every chapter) she had to cheat her way through this one. Well, she lasted through ten of these without doing it. That was probably a record, considering her crazy fangirling.

Frank and Nico were having a quiet discussion in Nico's bedroom. Yeah, they didn't live together yet, unlike their stupidface exes, who most likely were only together to add salt to the wound. Or, at least, that's what the two boys said to themselves at night.

Milky, always one to pry, pressed her ear against the door.

"I've told you before and I'm telling you again." Came Nico's voice. "We're not doing that!"

"Oh, come on! It will be fun."

"Fun? That sounds painful!" Milky's eyes lit up. Were they talking about doing that…subject that she couldn't say out loud due to her Hunter status?

"It won't hurt to try."

"Shut up Frank. I'm not doing that with you. Or anyone else for that matter."

"Oh, come on, Nico. Loosen up." By this point Milky was considering getting a camera and opening the door to film the… whatever Frank and Nico were doing.

The next line, however, sent her discreetly walking away from door. "Frank! For the last time I am not going to feed the dead Burger King. It will give them indigestion!"

Milky was embarrassed by where her supposedly chaste Hunter mind went. She scampered off, deciding to pretend that never happened. It was even more humiliating that she was required to record that.

Annabeth came over a few minutes later, looking for the pair of boys. "Nico? Frank?" She opened the front door, wondering where they were. When neither answered she started to freak out. Hadn't she just seen them this morning?

For some reason she walked into the bathroom. Why she was actually walking in there to look for one of them rather than knocking the world may never know. Like what Nico had said two months ago, "To Tartarus with logic." Remember this statement, dear readers, because it is the answer to all your questions when wondering why this stupid story is so messed-up.

Anyway, long story short, she ran out screaming after seeing Frank getting ready to take a shower, completely forgetting why she had come over in the first place. She ran home and jumped into Luke's arms, traumatized by the sight she had just seen. Once she was able to speak again, she informed Luke of what had occurred. The only thing he could think of saying was, "Is he, um, bigger than—"

"Hey, Luke. This story is rating T, not M. I'd like to keep it that way." Milky said out of nowhere, confusing Annabeth and Luke so much that they stopped talking about X-Rated things.

Milky was irritated. First, Percy and Hazel make out, then Frank and Nico start making useless innuendo as a loophole to get out of what they were really supposed to be talking about, and then Annabeth walks in on Frank naked and Luke wants to compare sizes. "Quit pushing the T rating. I'm a Hunter. A bloody Hunter!"

"You're also American. Quit using British slang." Some random dude said to here.

"Belt up, Arsehole."

"Bloody Yank." The random dude said after Milky ran off, probably looking for some one to terrorize with her authoress powers.

Luke remembered what he had said to Nico at the diner that morning. He had told him how he had convinced Ethan to join the titans. That was his special secret. Let's just say that it had something to do with Ethan being gay.

Luke couldn't remember exactly how the conversation got started, but both Annabeth and Frank had gone to the bathroom, leaving the two boys alone. What he did remember was that Nico started talking about his insecurities about coming out, and Luke was talking about how he was bisexual, and one thing lead to another… and soon Luke found himself talking about it.

"Oh, sweet!" Milky yelled. "Another Luthen moment! Maybe I should have these holiday chapters more often."

"Shut up, Milky!" Eros called. "I told you at Christmas, and I'll tell you again. That is not their pairing name."

"Who asked you, cherub face?"

"Shut your face, daughter of Apollo."

"That's not an insult."

"That's what you think. Apollo is the worst god to have as a parent. I'd rather be one of those clueless mortals!"

"I highly doubt that!" Milky screamed. "There are gods way worse than Apollo. You and your parents, for instance."

"Aphrodite and Ares are the best parents out there."

"So is that why your idea of love is war?"

"What do you mean?"

"You shoot people to make them love."

"Oh come on, Milky," Eros screamed. "I shoot arrows. If anything I'm the child of Aphrodite and Apollo."

"I thought you'd rather be a mortal than my half-brother."

Eros was silent, unable to reply to the fourth-wall breaking authoress who couldn't keep her nose out of people's business.

Percy looked at Hazel who was cuddled into his shoulder. He remembered how he, after being dumped by Annabeth had found her crying. He discovered that Frank and Hazel had also broken up. After a week, Hazel had kissed him and had asked him to be her boyfriend. He was so happy!

"Seriously?" Milky mumbled under her breath. "That's the best he could come up with? Oh, come on! There has to be more to the story."

On their way to Milky's house for yet another holiday, Jason and Piper started discussing about how they thought Thalia and Leo would eventually get married. They were around the other couple quite a lot, what with Thalia being Jason's sister and Piper, Jason, and Leo being the Greek Musketeers. Crap, Milky thought. That's not what she meant to write. She'd meant to write the Three Musketeers. Oh, well. She'd fix that typo later.

Thalia and Leo had sworn the two to secrecy and had revealed that they really were already considering marriage, although it wouldn't be for a few years. They weren't Percy and Hazel. Those two move way too fast, whether it be getting married at thirteen or moving in together after only a few weeks.

"They are so cute." Piper gushed to Jason. "I hope we can be as happy as them…"

"And so you will," came a voice that sounded like Milky.

Piper and Jason screamed. Jason looked up and glared at the Hunter who was sitting in a tree.

"Welcome to Thalia's Valentine's Day Party that she randomly decided would take place at my house."

"What did you mean by, 'And so you will'"

"Oh, Piper. You and Jason are the longest-running couple invited. Obviously, you two are the happiest."

"You think so?" Piper asked.

"I know so. I'm the awesome daughter of the awesome god of prophecies, am I not?"

"I don't know about awesome." Jason mumbled.

"Shut up, unawesome boy." Milky sneered, instinctively going into Hunter mode. She ran inside her house.

Inside the house, Thalia was crying. Leo tried to rub her back comfortingly. "What's wrong, Thals?" He had yet to come up with a good nickname for her that wouldn't get him castrated, or at least dumped. Eagle Cloud?

He decided that nickname was harmless enough. "Hey, Eagle Cloud? What's wrong?"

"Eagle Cloud?" Thalia asked, but showed no indication in disliking the nickname. "Leo, Annabeth and Luke didn't respond when I asked them if they were coming. They're my oldest friends. Why don't they want to see me?" Thalia hadn't gotten to say a word to Luke since he'd been revived. She was jealous of Percy, though she'd never admit it. During Luke's final moments, Annabeth and Grover were there, but instead of Thalia, the other person there was Percy. If Thalia had been brave enough to be the child of the prophecy, if she hadn't joined the Hunters, would she had been able to be there for Luke?

Everyone loved Percy, and Thalia, the daughter of Zeus, was jealous of him. He'd stolen all her best friends from her and he somehow became the hero of everyone. Thalia was only remembered for being a tree. Sometimes she wondered if Perseus Jackson really was better than her.

Leo rubbed circles in her back. "I'm sure Annabeth and Luke want to see you. You're hot."

Thalia punched him in the stomach. "One more comment and I'm punching you somewhere lower."

'"Where the awesome Apollo don't shine." Milky added, smirking.

"Seriously? Why do you have such horrible grammar?" Annabeth asked as she walked in.

"What is with you and grammar?" Milky screamed out exasperated. "I've had two holidays ruined because of you. "

"Annabeth! Luke!" Thalia exclaimed, trying to make it look as if she hadn't been crying. She was the tough daughter of the god of all gods. She could do this. "I knew you would come. Why wouldn't you guys. I'm definitely better than that Kelp Head. Besides, if you hadn't showed up I would have decked you, Luke."

Leo and Milky looked at each other, both raising an eyebrow. Milky broke away, grumbling about "that Tsundere Thalia." Leo figured out quickly that she was back in her crazy anime-obsessed awesome self. He backed up slowly.

Milky looked at the three couples who were at her house. Piper and Jason were obviously fine by her. Luke and Annabeth did used to have crushes on each other, although the age difference is kind of worrying. Aw, whatever. Most people seem to forget that Luke was already twenty by the time Annabeth was thirteen anyways, so does it really matter?

Leo did have a crush on Thalia, so that wasn't too far of a stretch. Besides, Milky did ship them anyway, or, at least used to before Caleo came along.

Now Milky just had to wait for Perzel and Franco to show up, and then the awesome party can finally start. She snuggled into the couch and took an awesome nap.

Children of Apollo got slightly different demigod dreams than other demigods. The others got warnings whereas the Apollo kids got awesome knowledge of the future. In the future, Jason and Piper were married and Nico and Frank had long broken up, due to Eros shooting Nico with a lead-tipped arrow, mumbling something about, "I don't care if it's Leico or Percico or Jasico, but absolutely under no circumstances will I buy into this Nank crap."

"Nank?" Milky mumbled in her sleep.

She watched Nico go to Hazel, but Frank also go to her too. Apparently, daughters of Pluto were good therapists. When they saw each other, Nico ran to Jason and Frank went to Annabeth.

There was a reason why Milky had taken a Hunter's oath.

"Milky, wake up!" Nico yelled.

"Oh, gods! Nico!" Nico always turned back into a ten-year-old when he saw Milky. It was annoying but she would prefer it to the way he treated everyone else.

"Sorry, Milky." Nico said with a smile. "But I needed to wake you up. We're all here now, though, so the party can start."

"Awesomeness! Pure awesomeness! Now, Nico, be your awesome self and go find that awesome son of Poseidon for me. I need to ask Percy a question."

"What did you want to ask me?" Percy said five minutes later.

"I just wanted to ask the king of camp if my party was awesome." Percy rolled his eyes.

"Hey guys!" Annabeth yelled. "Luke had an idea. What if we did a drinking game. You know, like, every time someone says something we all have to take a drinking."

"Sounds good to me." Jason said.

"But Luke's the only one who's legal." Percy pointed out. "This is an absurd idea."

"Don't talk about my boyfriend like that!"

"I used to be that boyfriend… and everyone called me stupid, including you."

"Well, that's because you are, Percy."

"What? Are you not calling me Seaweed Brain anymore, Annabeth?" Percy looked hurt. "Besides, at least I never joined the titan's stupid army."

"Everybody, shut up!" Millky yelled. "Percy, Annabeth, quit being OOC."

"Actually, I don't think they're being OOC." mumbled Apollo from Olympus. "I think they've resorted to the Battle of the Labyrinth time/Titan's Curse sexual tension Percy and Annabeth.

"That was many books ago, Father. Their personalities are completely different now."

"But what about Nico? He acts like his past self too."

"Okay, so everyone but Percy and Milky are going to do the game, right?" Frank said.

"No. I'll join, if it means Annabeth would shut up." Annabeth glowered at him. Milky wondered why they were leaving her out.

"Okay every time Milky says 'awesome' we all take a drink of beer." Luke whispered to the others. "I think we all know why I left her out."

"It won't be that hard to get drunk." Annabeth reasoned, while laughing. "She's already said it 26 times today."

As always, Annabeth was right.

Leo was the first one to pass out, after teasing Hazel and Percy about why they were late. Milky couldn't remember what was said, but it turned Hazel's cheeks pink and Percy yelled, "Even though we're living together, we haven't done that yet!"

"Hey!" Apollo had yelled. "I thought my daughter said to keep it at a T-Rating."

"What?" Asked all the drunken people. At the sound of a god's voice, Frank jumped a few feet in the air. He somehow managed to give himself a concussion. No one knows how that happened.

Hazel spoke. "I should probably go and take him upstairs to fix him up a bit."
"I'm an awesome healer. I can do it." Milky said to her. Everyone still in the game who was paying attention took a drink.

Hazel sighed. "Fine." She nodded at Piper, silently asking her to do that thing they had discussed. Piper leaned over, and since Nico was distracted from Frank's injury, discreetly slipped a lust potion in his drink. You heard that? Lust, not love. It was supposed to make him full of lust for the first person he laid eyes on. That person, they had planned to be Piper.

That was, long story short, how Piper had taken Nico's virgi—No, bad rating. Stop trying to become M. Milky won't let you. What was she saying again?
(On a completely unrelated note, Piper almost died at the hands of a Stygian Iron sword the next morning.)

Anyway, Jason was crying because everyone else was getting some, even his best friend and Jason's own girlfriend. He didn't feel betrayed, though. Nope, not at all. She was an Aphrodite girl. He didn't expect her to say faithful. Not that it bothered him any.

"Seriously? What is wrong with you, Jason?" Milky yelled. "Never mind. I'm never doing Valentine's Day with you people again. Can someone get me the Aspirin?

Here's the meme. I hated this one. It had me tearing my hair out. But hey, here it is. Four days early.

1. Nico
2. Annabeth
3. Luke
4. Thalia
5. Piper
6. Percy
7. Leo
8. Jason
9. Hazel

10. Frank

Now, let's do our two times tables! So, one goes with three, and two with four, so on; and 9 & 10 get placed together. Get it? So list the now five couples:
1. LukeXNico
2. ThaliaXAnnabeth
3. PiperXLeo
4. PercyXJason
5. FrankXHazel

Now! To mix things up a bit, move the name on the left in every coupling down one, 5 will move up to 1. This leaves us with:
1. FrankXNico
2. LukeXAnnabeth
3. ThaliaXLeo
4. PiperXJason
5. PercyXHazel

Now, let's have some fun!

Couple 1, and couple 4 are double dating. They're seated on a bench trying to decide where to go. What do they decide and how do they get to that decision?

Luke and Annabeth are arguing. What are they arguing about? How do they resolve it?

Percy and Hazel are sharing a heated session. How did they come to it and what exactly happens? (If you must, spare on the details!)

Thalia is upset. How does Leo comfort her? More over, what is she so upset about?

Annabeth sees Frank naked in the bathroom, how does she react? In addition, how does her partner react when he discovers this fact?

Piper and Jason are keeping a secret about Thalia and Leo from the other couples. What is it? And how do they feel about it?

Frank is trying to pressure the other into doing something naughty. What is it, and how does it go down?

How did Percy and Hazel become a couple? Who asked who?

Now, who is the first to break up? And why? Who would they individually go to for comfort out of all of the characters participating?

Which couple would be most likely to get married, and how does the proposal go down?

Be honest now, which couple is the strangest to you? Why?

Which couple are you actually okay with?

Thalia is jealous of Percy. Why is that?

Now they're all playing a drinking game for the rest of this quiz! Fun, right? Who passes out first?

Piper ends up in bed with Nico. Why? How? What happens when they wake up?

Jason starts crying because he is a sad drunk tonight. Why? Who comforts him?

Frank hurts himself. How? Who helps him back into good health?

Leo embarrasses Hazel greatly. How?

Luke has something to confess to Nico. What is it?

Anyway, guys I have something so exciting to tell you guys that I had to write it in many different languages. The translations might be wrong. I used Google Translate for a lot of them. Can you guess what language they are?

你願意成為我的情人

ΘαείστεΑγίουΒαλεντίνουμου

ТыбудешьмоейВалентина

あなたは私のバレンタインになる

Czy będziesz moją Walentynką

Vill du bli min Alla hjärtans

Vei fiÎndrăgostițilormeu

Hoće li biti moja ljubav

당신은나의발렌타인이될수있다

Babaguhin ba ninyo ang maging aking mga Puso

ТыбудзешмаёйВалянціна

Je, kuwa na wapendanao wangu

וועט איר זיין מיין וואַלענטינע

Mənim Sevgililər biləcəkmi

Bạn có thể valentine của tôi

Vil du være min Valentinsdag

Werden Sie mein Valentinsgruß

Vai Tu būsi mans Valentīna

Vuoi essere il mio Valentino

Èske w ap Valentine mwen

Serez-vousmon Valentine

Ar jums My Valentine

¿Quieres ser midía de San Valentín

Will you be my Valentine?