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*Wednesday
*Morning
*The Throne Room on Olympus
The new Olympians sat around, chatting while they waited for Annabeth and Jason to stop talking about what they had to talk about during this thing. Some of the gods, like Will or Travis, flashed in and out in order to finish the list that they have been following for a little while. The rest, except Pollux and Leo, were checking out their duties on an iPod, a Tablet, or keeping in mind what they had to do first. Pollux was just merrily drinking, already half way to drunk off his ass, and Leo was talking while he fiddled with some metal, fixing it into something that he might make larger and better in his forges later on- if it was good enough, that is.
But the Throne Room was not necessarily filled with cheerful chatter and conversation. No, not with this group of gods. Most were still tired from their lack of sleep over the days with all their duties, and were more irritable. A lot of them, just didn't have the patience for everyone and yelled at everything they said. Some were just not meant to be happy with each other. Hence, why Nico and Rose were yelling at each other, and Katie and Travis were, too.
Thankfully, it all stopped when Jason Grace, the king of the gods, yelled out the single, helpful command of shut up. It took a few minutes, but eventually, everyone was quiet and looking at Jason or glaring at their yelling partner.
"Okay, what is this meeting even about?" Leo asked, sticking his little flying bird in his pocket and looking over at the long time best friend.
"We have to make rules, you know, get everything situated," Jason answered, shrugging.
"How many rules?" Rose asked hesitantly.
"Yeah, I can't be here all day," Will said before his watch beeped and he groaned before flashing out again.
"We'll take a few at a time," Annabeth assured. "We have to make 2,739 rules to make by the end of the year, so we don't have to do them all today."
"It's only July, half way into it," Nico joked dryly, rolling his eyes.
"Oh, right, we have to get married," Rachel mentioned, the required gods groaning at the reminder.
"We're not focusing on that today," Jason said quickly, knowing he still had to make a plan, probably go on some more dates, and then pluck up some courage to ask the love goddess to marry him.
"Don't we need a list, you know, the one Chiron mentioned?" Rose asked, rolling the half empty Dr. Pepper in her hands.
"He gave it to me earlier, he has to watch over the campers, you know," Annabeth replied matter-of-factly.
"Okay, so does it have categories or something we can go by?" Travis wondered after sitting down, having arrived a second ago, but knowing what they were talking about.
"Yeah," Katie said, impressed and shocked- Travis promptly glared at her.
"Of course it does," Thalia announced, rolling her eyes. "This is Athena we're talking about.
Annabeth handed over the small book over to Jason who groaned at seeing it. "Oh, look, a table of contents," he mumbled quietly.
Percy and Rachel, being the only ones who heard it, snorted in laughter.
"Okay, well there's..." Jason frowned. "A lot in each."
"Just give us one," Pollux snapped, rubbing his throbbing forehead.
"Fine. 'Behavior in Mortal World.'"
"That's easy," Leo said, distracted by building another thing. "You can't teleport or use our true forms."
"Has anyone tried that?" Cole asked, looking interested. "I did, and it was freaking awesome."
"Really?" Grover furrowed his eyebrows. "What was it like?"
"Oh, man, you've got to try it. It was wicked."
"I tried it!" Ashley exclaimed joyfully. "It was fun!"
"What do you look like?" Will asked, watching him with a curious expression.
"Well, it's got to be awesome if Cole liked it," Percy said, rolling his eyes.
"Guys, guys, we're getting off topic," Piper called to the guys who were all getting ready to start talking about it.
"RIght, be right back," Will muttered before disappearing.
"Seriously," Rachel stressed, rolling her eyes.
"I know," Thalia snorted. "Boys."
"We're gods, thank you," Percy snapped, frowning. She rolled her eyes at him.
"We need to hurry this up," Pollux announced, looking cross eyed at his empty wine bottle. "I need to go to the store."
"We'll just do the motal section today, then," Annabeth told everyone as they all rolled their eyes. "How many are there for that one, Jason?"
Jason traced his finger from the title of the 'chapter' over to the page number and opened it up, flipping through a few more, counting under his breath. When he was finished and came across Behavior with Mortals, he sighed. "Thirty-seven," he answered heavily.
"I can't be here that long!" Nico said immediately. "I've got to see if this murder gets to go the Fields of Punishment!"
"And I've got messages to deliver!" Travis whined.
"I've got to water my plants because if they die, I'm the worst goddess there is," Katie grumbled.
"Okay, guys, calm down," Percy ordered, though he looked annoyed himself. "We won't do them all. We've got four, five months before we have to finish it."
"And we can keep some of the rules they have," Rachel reminded.
"All I know is, I want to be able to live like a mortal in the mortal world," Rose declared. "I mean, now that we're gods, maybe later on, we can actually pretend like we have a normal life."
"And we've still got college to go through," Annabeth mumbled, mostly to herself.
"Like you need to go to college," Sarah replied, rolling her eyes at Annabeth's blush.
"Okay, so who else wants to be able to own a house and go to school in the mortal world?" Jason asked, looking around at them.
"It's a chance to be like them, considering we're not in danger every time we step out the door," Percy shrugged, raising his hand.
"Yeah, and our jobs now will be like our jobs then," Leo mused with a grin, raising his hand.
"I'm up for it," Rachel said, raising her hand. "I can show off my art still."
"College," Annabeth said in her decision, her vote a positive.
A few other hands went up and majority ruled. "Okay, so we can own a house and go to school like mortals," Jason decreed and Annabeth made her own little book appear, writing on the second page the name of the category and the new rule down.
"What about we can't go to jail?" Travis asked, that mischevious glint bright in his eyes. "I mean, you could do crimes, and fool the cops with the mist into not letting you go."
"That's a horrible idea," Ashley blurted after a few seconds of silence.
"Not bad crimes," he argued with a roll of his eyes. "I mean like stealing little things. Commiting a murder, now..."
"You cannot commit a murder, harrass anyone, harm anyone, or any other act of high violence," Annabeth spoke as she wrote it down without consent, because really, she didn't need it.
"Stealing's okay, though," Rose shrugged before blushing and covering herself, "I mean, you have to go to jail if you're caught and it can't be anything big."
"It's just like we're normal, right?" Travis asked with a grin.
"You have to serve time if you're caught," Ashley warned.
"When is he going to be caught?" Grover scoffed. "He's the god of theives."
"Well, still."
"So, stealing and going to jail?" Jason asked, looking around. Only a few people rose their hands, but no majority. "Okay, next."
Travis shrugged. "You just gave me permission to steal and not go to jail."
Annabeth sighed. "He's got a point, you know."
"What about this?" Will yawned. "You can steal, but you have to go to jail, and there's no manipulating the mortals with the Mist or anything to get out of it."
"I like it," Sarah raised her hand.
"So you can commit little crimes that does not involve breaking and entering or taking away people's cars or anything, and you have to go to jail, no Mist manipulation?" Annabeth clarified as more people rose their hands.
"Majority."
"Now, what about the Mist manipulation?" Leo asked, his eyebrows furrowed. "Can we do that to get whatever we want?"
"No," Percy answered. "If we're acting like normal people, we have to pay and everything."
"But what if something major happens, you know, like the Titan War?" Rachel wondered. "I mean, nothing like that is going to happen again, but how do we get the mortals to not panic?"
"Mist manipulaion," Leo shrugged.
"So it can only be for life threatening situations," Jason nodded. "Something that the normal Mist can't handle and we have to step in. Nothing little. Vote?"
Everyone raised their hands, though a few reluntactly; Annabeth jotted it down easily.
"Okay, sweet, how many more?" Will asked, looking down at his watch.
"No chariots can be seen," Katie declared. "I mean, that would rise suspicion, right?"
"Vote?" Count the hands raised. "Majority."
"No teleporting right where people, you know, where someone would see," Thalia said.
"Majority."
"No showing your weapons," Rose announced with a sharp glare to Cole.
"Majority."
"No fights against anyone mortal," Grover bleated.
"Majority."
"No true forms," Percy muttered.
"Majority."
"We have to protect them, but can't let them know," Travis sighed.
"Majority."
"We have to make them make their own decisions," Piper said.
"Majority."
"What about money?" Pollux asked, looking around at them all.
"That's a...good question," Nico muttered in surprise.
"Oh, shut up. Just because I'm stupid, doesn't mean I'm drunk."
"Don't you...Don't you mean just because I'm drunk, doesn't mean I'm stupid?" Ashley wondered hesitantly.
He looked at her before laughing. "That's just stupid."
They all rolled their eyes at him, but thought on the question. "What? We're gods!" Travis grinned, kicked his feet up on the hearth and beamed at them. "We can make money appear out of no where!"
"But we're not acting normal then," Rachel snapped.
"You both have a point," Percy shrugged.
"I don't know...What about half and half?" Will inquired, looking around at them with a raised eyebrow.
"Do what?" Leo blurted.
He rolled his eyes. "Half of the money, we make appear, only to, you know, start us off, and the rest you actually have to earn. Get a part time job somewhere or something."
"That's not enough to live off," Rose pointed out.
"Yeah, that's why we only make money appear when we need it. Not a lot, mind you, just little amounts."
"Yeah, it's not like I want to live in a mansion anyway," Piper grumbled.
"Right, see? It's perfect. You start off, get a job, then do half the rent and everything with our money and their money."
"That's a pretty good idea," Thalia mused. "I'm in."
"Vote?" Murmurs, then finally raised hands. "Barely majority."
"Can we live anywhere in the mortal world?" Annabeth asked. "I've always wanted to live in Greece."
"Yeah, anywhere, but not where we can't reach you," Nico replied, running a hand through his hair. "You know, Alaska, the Poles, top part of Russia- those kind of places."
"Right, vote?" Pause. "Majority."
"How many is that?" Pollux asked.
"Thirteen," Annabeth answered.
"Can we eat regular food, too?"
"Of course, but you have to pay for it."
"Vote? Majority."
"Fourteen."
"Okay, what about two more and then we're done?" Annabeth offered and everyone agreed readily.
Everyone was silent for a while, thinking of rules and completely forgetting about the book of rules in Jason's lap that was open to the category they were talking about. Will's watch beeped a minute in the silence and he disappeared. "Can't being normal be one?" Leo asked after another two minutes, Will back in his seat. "I mean, that's a rule. 'Act normal.'"
Jason laughed. "I guess it is."
"Sweet, now one more..."
"You can't share your inventions!" Rose shouted quite suddenly, everyone jumping. She blushed before pushing her bangs out of her face. "You know, the things Leo and Annabeth make, they can't be shared because then they would start problems with other countries because they might be working on something like and they could've thought the plans were stolen..."
"You're getting desperate, Frieten," Nico deadpanned, getting a glare from the god in response.
"No, she's right," Annabeth said, Rose's glare turning into a smug smirk. "What we make is between the gods and maybe the demigods."
"Right, vote? Majority."
"We're done!" Leo yelled, standing up with joy.
"Hang on, I want to talk about something," Travis called, clearing his throat nervously.
"Yeah," Grover bleated. "Me too."
Frowning, Leo sat back down and the gods all looked on in confusion. "You guys suck," Leo grumbled.
"Well, you guys know how hard this job is for me, with this huge list and everything," Travis started, rubbing the back of his neck. "I barely complete it in a day and I keep getting calls that I'm mixing up the packages and-"
"What's your point?" Thalia snapped, glaring at him.
"," he breathed, his words smashed together and incoherent.
The others blinked. "Huh?" Cole asked, his eyebrows furrowing.
A deep breath, his heart pounding at the fear of rejection, he said slower, "I want Connor to be my immortal assistant."
"Well, that's understandable," Rose mused with a smirk.
"Well, what do you guys think?" Jason wondered, looking around at everyone. "Vote?"
"You can't let the other Stoll be a god!" Katie yelled, her eyes wide.
"Why not?" Leo shrugged. "He's all of our friend, he'll help with Travis, and he won't be an Olympian."
"They'll prank all of us!"
"Yeah, she's got a point," Ashley bit her lip. "They might disrupt our duties."
"And they'll be more annoying in twos," Cole grunted.
"But if we have so much to do, don't you think we would want a laugh once in a while?" Will mumbled thoughtfully. "Being so stressed and everything, maybe a prank on someone else will make us laugh."
"And really, if they step out of line, we can kill them, but not actually kill them," Rose said, her eyes sparkling.
"I'm in," Cole agreed immediatley.
Jason shrugged. "I don't know, why don't we give it a trial and then we'll see?"
"Yeah, a three day trial of Connor helping you," Rachel agreed.
"Vote? Majority."
Katie gave a growl of frustration and stood up before flashing out angrily.
"Now, G-man, what's up with you?" Percy asked, looking at Grover.
Grover took a deep breath and opened his mouth to say something when the Throne Room doors burst open and a young girl came running in before falling to her knees in front of the Olympians, panting and trying to regain her breath as if she ran all the way here.
"Who are you?" Jason wondered, blinking.
"I'm your Oracle!" she breathed after a few minutes of lengthy silence.
Well, long chapter that was. If you have any ideas for any rules, be sure to click that little button below the bold print and tell me about them. I'm up for any suggestions because honestly, there are a lot of rules to come up with and I need some help on them, man.
Sorry about the long wait. I went on a surprise camping trip, then over to my grandparents in Arizona and my dad forgot the second computer, so I couldn't write, and really, it was just a tough first week of summer. Or second I guess.
HAPPY SUMMER, to you of those I haven't said it to yet, or are just starting. Hope you have fun, and blah, blah, blah. Really, I just hope you read my stories(;
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