Keep Calm And Love This Chapter...

*Mount Olympus/Palace*

Apollo walked out of Hera's room with a dumbfounded look he was carrying a plate of chocolate chip cookies that were steaming hot. He picked one up and burned his finger he winced frowning at the cookies. He walked down the hall into his room that was big and he had pictures and posters of the sun. His bed was a King Sized that was yellow he plopped down in his bed and placed the plate of cookies on his nightstand.

All of a sudden his phone ringed on the nightstand he sighed picking it up and pressing ANSWER. He placed the phone to his ear.

Apollo cleared his throat, "Apollo, the God of the Sun, how are you?" he asked the person on the phone. His eyes lit up then he grinned when he heard the person on the phone talking. "By the Gods, little sister! It's been forever since you called me or anything...what's up? One of your special hunting trips? Is this one of the one's where you go by yourself since it's super dangerous for your girl cattle?...Okay! Okay! Sorry! Hunters...escort them to Camp Half-Blood you say? Alright then...who else is there with you and your Huntresses?...A satyr, some demigods, and one of the demigods happens to be a blonde haired idiot?" he gasped shocked. "You didn't have to call me that, Arty...you weren't talking about me? You were talking about Naruto? That whiskered dude that showed up at the Council with dad's bolt two years ago? Okay, isn't he our brother since Zeus is our dad?...Fine! Fine! Half-brother...gosh. I'll be there soon. Guess what? You have to get a copy of Olympian Gods Magazine! I was chosen sexiest male God of this year, I'm on page twenty. I look good! There are about five or six pictures of me. I was shirtless in all pictures showing off my sweet abs. A bunch of Goddesses were all over me...even Aphrodite said I was hot. Then Ares got all super jealous. Hold on, I think I have a copy in my room. I'm coming, bye." he pressed the end call button. He popped a cookie in his mouth chewing it. He pulled a magazine out from under his bed. He walked out of his room into the hallway. Three Goddesses walked by him.

"Hey Apollo!" The three waved at him with a smirks walking away.

Apollo's eyes twinkled. "Hey! Girls! You want some of the Sun god?"

The three Goddesses looked at one another they walked up to Apollo and dragged him into his room. Apollo shut the door locking it. Twenty minutes later he came out panting trying to fix his hair and the three Goddesses came out.

"We should do that again sometimes Mr. Sexiest Male God Of The Year." Winked one of the Goddesses walking away with the other two.

Apollo patted himself on the back, "You are so good with the ladies Apollo." he grinned. "Now," he placed on his sunglasses, "time to go see those children and the wrath of my little sister."

Artemis looked up and saw that the sky began to lighten, "About time." she muttered. "He's sooo lazy during the winter."

"You're, um, waiting for the sunrise?" Percy asked Artemis and Naruto snickered.

"For my brother. Yes." Artemis nodded. She saw Percy thinking about what Apollo would be driving to get here. "It's not exactly as you think."

Percy relaxed, "Oh, okay. So it's not like he'll be pulling up in a-" there was a sudden burst of light on the horizon. A blast of warmth.

"Don't look." Artemis advised. "Not until he parks."

Parks? Percy thought.

Naruto and Percy saw the others were covering their eyes, so they did the same. The light and warmth intensified, the only person who didn't cover their eyes was Haley who grinned at the light and warmth. She felt a familiar energy from it the light died down as did the light. She saw that in front of her was a red Maserati Spyder. Haley touched it with her hand, it didn't burn her but it just felt warm. Smoke was rising from the car. The driver got out the car smiling her eyes sparkled at the man she somehow had a connection with him. He had sandy golden long hair that was in a ponytail, he looked about eighteen or seventeen, a playful smile, outdoorsy look, he wore jeans, loafers, flip flops, and a t-shirt.

"Wow." Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."

Ino nodded slowly staring at the driver revealed as Apollo, "Damn right about that. I heard from Dionysus and Chiron that he was chosen as the sexiest male God of the year in Olympian Gods Magazine." she grinned.

"Well they are right about him being sexy."

"Amen girl, amen."

Haley grinned, "Daddy!" she ran up to Apollo and jumped in his arms he looked her strangely. She somehow knew who he was by his energy.

Apollo snickered, "Daddy? Who's your daddy? Are you Haley?" he grinned and kissed her cheek. "Wow, you've absolutely grown since the last time I saw you! You were just a baby! Now your, what? Three? Four?"

Haley nodded. "I'm four years old. How old are you?"

Apollo patted her head, "I'll tell you that when you're older." she nodded played with his ponytail. He then smiled and saw Artemis. "Little sister!" he called out showing his white teeth. "What's up? You never call. You never write. I was getting worried!"

Artemis sighed. "I'm fine, Apollo. And I am not your little sister."

"Hey I was born first."

"We're twins! How many millennia do we have to argue-"

Apollo saw Rhea, "Grandma!" he called out she smiled and walked over to him embracing him.

Rhea let go of him, "Apollo," she grabbed his ear pulling it as he winced, "what have I told you? You are not the eldest twin! Leto gave birth to Artemis first! Not you! You were born last! And why in the world haven't you cut your hair? Do you want to be mistaken for a female?" she then let go of his ear as he rubbed it.

"Grandma, you still haven't lost that grip...did you really have to do that in front of my kid?" Apollo asked Rhea gesturing to Haley who pretended his ponytail was a mustache. "Speaking of kids...where are the other two?"

Naruto walked up to Apollo with knitted brows he pulled the collar of Apollo's shirt so that now they were face-to-face, "Is it true you fucked with my mom?"

"And that would be...?"

"Kushina Uzumaki."

"Oh! Oh yeah. Yeah. Yep. Sure did." Apollo smiled. "I'm guessing you wannna know why? When I first I met her I was at the beach chillaxing on the sand in the sun since I do love the sun, believe me, I pull it. Anyways I heard crying and it coming from behind a bush so I went into it, Kushina was crying about missing Zeus and blah blah blah. I comforted her, she took me to her house and we talked and laughed. Then she went to the bathroom...few minutes later she came out naked and I think out I told her she looked sexy. We then started to you know, move with the wind." he winked. "Kushina was pregnant with Adam, when he was born I named him Adam Beckham Harris. Harris was the last name of Kushina's favorite model. A year later we had Sarah Elizabeth Harris, finally my little Haley Marie Harris."

Naruto let go of Apollo's collar, "So, in other words you fucked my mom more than once?"

Apollo nodded, "Duh."

Naruto felt strained but he managed a smile. "You're my favorite brother, Phoebus."

"Hey! Do not call me Phoebus, it's Apollo."

Naruto snickered, "Phoebus Apollo."

"You're our dad?" Asked the voice of Sarah. She went up to Apollo with Adam by her side. "W-Why did you leave us with her then?" she questioned Apollo referring to her mother.

Apollo ruffled Sarah's hair, "I didn't leave you, actually, I thought your mother was a bit cray-cray in the noggin. I had to go to Olympus and stuff. But I thought about you, Adam, and Haley everyday and everynight...because I love you guys." Adam and Sarah were about to hug their father but he held up his hand with a serious look, he wanted for everything to stop and listen him. "Hold on, I...I feel a haiku coming on." Haley raised a brow at the word 'haiku' but she then crawled up his shoulders sitting on them. The Hunters groaned not wanting the Sun God to tell a haiku.

Haley still wanting her father to tell a haiku. "Do it daddy! Do it!"

Apollo grinned and pecked her forehead he then cleared his throat:

"Green grass breaks through snow,

Artemis pleads for my help,

I am so cool."

He waited for applause.

"That was so..." Haley trailed off. "...BEAUTIFUL!" she grinned and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"That last line was only four syllables, bro." Naruto told Apollo with his arms crossed.

Apollo frowned. "Was it?"

"What about...'I always pick up girls?'" Naruto suggested with a smirk.

"Or you could try, 'I am so big headed?'" Artemis suggested getting Adam and Sarah to chuckle.

Apollo shook his head. "No, no, that's six syllables. Hmmm." he began to mumble some things to himself.

Rhea turned to the group. "My Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he took Leto and I to Japan. It is not as bad as the time the three of us visited Limerick. If I had to hear one more poem that started with, 'There was once a Goddess from Sparta.' I would have to-"

Haley whispered a few things to Apollo he could try he gasped with a smile. "I've got it! And my sweet little daughter gave me the idea! 'I am so awesome.' That's five syllables!" he bowed very pleased with himself. Adam and Sarah shared a look they shrugged it off, the two went to go and hug their father as he hugged them back. "And now, transportation for the Hunters!"

Artemis pointed at the group, "These demigods and grandmother will also need a ride. Chiron's people."

"No problem, sis!" Apollo checked out the group. "So this is the great Team Demigod I've been hearing about...you guys are the talk of Olympus from time to time. Ino...right?"

Ino nodded, "The one and only."

"Hm...already talked a little to my little brother." Apollo winked at Naruto.

Naruto ran his fingers through his hair, "Same color eyes, same blonde hair, same handsomeness, same father." he winked back at Apollo.

"Thalia...right? I've heard so much about you." Apollo said to Thalia with a smile.

Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

"Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half-sister and," Apollo then pointed at his three kids, "these little munchkins your half-nephew and half-nieces. Used to be a tree didn't you? Man, I hate it when pretty girls get turned into trees! I remember one time-"

"Brother, you should get going." Artemis said to her twin.

"Oh, right." Apollo narrowed his yes at Percy. "Percy Jackson?"

Percy nodded, "Yeah...yes, sir." Apollo studied Percy some more which the son of Poseidon found a little creepy.

"Well!" Apollo said at last. "We'd better load up, huh? Ride only goes one way...west. And if you miss it, you miss it."

"Cool car." Nico commented.

"Thanks, kid." Apollo said.

"But how will we all fit?" Adam asked his father.

"Oh!" Apollo noticed the problem he then grinned feeling Haley pat the top of his head. "Well, yeah. I hate to change out of sports car mode, but I suppose..." he took out his car keys and hit the security alarm button. For a moment the car glowed brightly again, when the glare died the Maserati had been replaced by one of those turtle top shuttle buses. "Right. Load up! Let's get this show on the road!" Zoe ordered the Hunters to start loading, she picked up her camping bag. "Here, sweetheart. Let me get that." Zoe recoiled, her eyes flashed murderously at the Sun God sending chills down Haley's spine.

"Brother." Artemis glared at her twin. "You do not help my Hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them 'sweetheart.'"

Apollo spread his hands. "Sorry, I forgot."

Haley looked questionably. "Daddy, what's flirting?"

Apollo was about to speak but Artemis interrupted him. "Nothing, sweetie. Absolutely nothing."

"Hey, sis," Apollo spoke up, "where are you hunting at anyways?"

"It's none of your business!" Artemis snapped.

Apollo smirked folding his arms over his chest, "No prob, I'll find out. I see all. I know all."

Artemis snorted, "Just drop them off, Apollo. And no messing around!"

"No! No! I never mess around."

Artemis rolled her eyes then turned to the group, "I will see you by Winter Solstice. Zoe, you are in charge of the Hunters. Do well. Do as I would do."

Zoe straightened, "Yes, my lady."

Rhea walked up to Artemis giving her granddaughter a loving hug, "Be careful, honey." she whispered in the Goddess's ear.

"I will be, grandmother." Artemis whispered back. "I will come back with the monster..."

"I know you will my granddaughter." Rhea smiled softly letting go of Artemis. "It's time."

Artemis glanced at her nieces, nephew and Naruto with a small smile she then knelt down with her hand touching the ground, she rose with a troubled look, "So much danger. The beast must be found." she sprinted towards the woods and melted into the snow and the shadows.

Apollo turned with a grin jangling the car keys on his finger, "So, who wants to drive?"

The Hunters sat in the back of the bus, they all crammed back there to get away from Apollo and al the other infectious males. Bianca sat beside Sarah and the two girls were talking nonstop about different vampire love story movies with where the vampire guy falls in love with the human girl but the werewolf guy fights for the girl's love. Haley was in the seat that was behind the drivers seat she was seated in Naruto's lap not only that but Thalia was next to him. Adam was in the first seat of the second row of the bus while Apollo was sitting in the drivers seat. Nico and Ino were behind Adam, Nico asked Ino a bunch of questions about her and Grover's relationship, Percy and Clarisse were behind them.

"This is cool." Adam commented with a small smile. "Is this really the sun? I thought that Helios and Selene were the Sun and Moon Gods. How come sometimes it's them and sometimes it you dad and Aunt Artemis?"

Apollo turned to look back at son with a loving grin, "Downsizing." he revealed to the dark brown haired pre-teen. "The Romans started it. They couldn't afford all those temple sacrifices, so they laid off Helios and Selene, and folded their duties into our job descriptions. My sis got the moon. I got the sun! It was pretty annoying at first, believe me, but at least I got this cool car!"

"But how dos it work exactly?" Adam asked a little confused. "I thought the sun was big fiery ball of gas."

Apollo chuckled and ruffled Adam's hair. "That rumor probably got started because your Auntie Arty use to call me a big fiery ball of gas! Seriously, son, it depends on whether your talking astronomy or philosophy. You want to talk astronomy? Bah, what fun is that? You want to talk about how humans think about the sun? Ah, now that's more interesting. They've got a lot of riding on the sun...er, so to speak. It keeps them warm, grow their crops, power engines, makes everything look well, sunnier. This chariot is built out of human dreams about the sun, son. It's as old as the Western Civilization. Everyday, it drives across the sky east to west, lighting up all those puny mortal lives. the chariot is a manifestation of the sun's power, the way mortals perceive it. Make sense?"

Adam blinked. "Um...how are you my father?"

"Depends," Apollo tapped his chin, "did you learn about sexuality in Health class?"

Adam grimaced, "No!" he blushed. "But, mom told me about it."

"Then there you go!" Apollo ruffled Adam's hair once more. "That's what your mom and me did! And it created...you, Sarah, and my little baby Haley." he poked Adam's nose.

"Can I drive, dad?" Adam asked with a smile.

"Nope! Too young!"

"But I'm twelve!"

"Like I said! Too young! You maybe a demigod but that does not change the rule about driving until you're sixteen. Team Demigod has people that are...what? Sixteen? Seventeen?" Apollo guessed with a smile.

Grover raised his hand, "Aye! Right here! I want to!"

"Mm, no." Apollo shook his head. "Too furry." he looked at Naruto. "Naruto Uzumaki! Son of Zeus! Lord of the Sky!" Naruto grinned. "Just now realized that I'm not letting you drive!" he looked at Thalia. "Thalia! Naruto's half-sister! Daughter of Zeus! Lord of the Sky!"

"Oh, no." Thalia shook her head. "No thanks."

"See?! She doesn't wanna! Let me drive!" Naruto grinned reaching for the keys but Apollo held them up away from the blonde who pouted.

"Come on. How old are you?" Apollo asked gently.

"I guess...like seventeen?" Thalia said quietly.

"You are old enough to drive!" Apollo grinned. "With a learners permit that is."

Thalia shifted her feet nervously. "Uh-"

Apollo then nodded, "I know what you're going to say." he said with a pleased smile. "You don't deserve an honor like driving the sun chariot."

"That's not what I was going to say."

"Don't sweat it! Maine to Long Island is a really short trip! And don't worry about the last kid I trained here. You're Zeus's daughter! He won't blast you out of the sky." Apollo laughed good-heartedly but everyone else didn't join him. "What was weird was that he blasted Perseus and me when we're driving back in the day."

Thalia tried to protest but Apollo wasn't taking "no" for an answer. He hit a button on the dashboard and a sign popped up along the top of the windshield. Naruto had to read it backwards but that didn't help he squinted his eyes and thought it read: WARNING! STUDENT DRIVER!

"Take it away!" Apollo told Thalia. "You're gonna be a natural!"

Haley applauded Thalia, "Yeah! Lia! You can do it!" she grinned. Naruto was jealous that he couldn't drive, sure he's never droven before, but, he still wanted to drive. Why is Thalia getting all the attention all of a sudden? He was the child of Zeus too!

"Speed equals heat." Apollo advised.

"So start up slowly, and make sure you've got good altitude before you really open up." Sarah added.

Apollo turned to his daughter, "Oh...my little Sarah knows a thing or two about car driving, eh? Impressive for a girl your age." Sarah shrugged lightly with a smile.

Thalia gripped the wheel so tight her knuckles seemed to be turning pale.

"What's wrong?" Adam asked her a bit concerned.

"Nothing." Thalia said shakily. "N-Nothing is wrong."

"You'll do great." Adam shot her a reassuring smile. She gave him as small smile.

Thalia pulled back on the wheel, it tilted and the bus lurched upward so fast Naruto fell back holding onto Haley who seemed to be having a blast. Naruto crashed against something soft.

"Ow!" Grover yelped.

Naruto got to his feet, "Sorry Groves."

"Slower!" Apollo said.

"Sorry!" Thalia swallowed. "I've got it under control!" Naruto looked out the window to see smoking ring of trees clearing stating that they had taken off.

Naruto got back into his seat and sat Haley next to him, "Thalia, you may want to lighten up on the accelerator, ya know."

"I've got it, Naruto." Thalia said while gritting her teeth. But she kept it floored.

"Loosen up damn it!" Naruto told her gripping onto the seat.

"I'm loose!" Thalia yelled. She was so stiff...

"We need to veer South for Long Island." Apollo told his half-sister. "Hang a left." she jerked the wheel and that threw Naruto into Grover once more. "The other left." he suggested. Naruto made the mistake of looking out the window again only to see that they were at airplane height, too high. Too high. The sky was even starting to look black.

"Ah..." Apollo said making it sound like he was trying to stay calm. "A little lower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over." Thalia tilted the wheel. Her face was chalk white and her forehead was covered with sweat. Naruto had never seen her like this before. Something was wrong. The bus pitched down and Naruto screamed along with Grover. Now they were heading straight toward the Atlantic Ocean at a thousand miles per hour, the New England coastline off to their right. It was getting hot in the bus.

"WEEE!" Haley grinned.

Apollo had been thrown somewhere in the back but was climbing up the rows of seats.

"Take the wheel! Take the damn wheel man!" Grover begged Apollo.

"No worries." Apollo said a bit loud so that Grover could hear him. Apollo looked plenty worried. "The same thing happened with Perseus. She just needs to learn to-WHOA!"

Naruto saw what he was seeing. Down below the bus was a little snow covered New England town. At least it used to be snow covered. As Naruto watched, the snow melted off the trees and the roofs and the lawns. The white steeple on the church turned brown and started to smolder. Little plumes of smoke, like birthday candles, were popping up all over the town. Trees and rooftops were catching fire.

"We're gonna die! We're gonna die!" Percy yelled gripping onto his seat.

Clarisse winced at the fires that kept popping up, "And that's one reason why New England hates Greeks and Americans!"

"Pull up! Pull up!" Naruto yelled.

There was a wild light in Thalia's eyes. She yanked back on the wheel and Naruto held onto Grover as the teens yelled. They looked over at Ino who asleep snoring every second away while Nico held onto her, as the bus zoomed up Naruto could see from the back window that the fires in the town were being snuffed out by the sudden blast of cold.

"There!" Apollo pointed. "Long Island dead ahead! Let's slow down dear. 'Dead' is only an expression."

Thalia thundered through toward the coastline of Northern Long Island. There was Camp Half-Blood: the valley, the woods, the beach. Naruto could see the cabins and the amphitheater.

"I'm under control." Thalia muttered to herself. "I'm under control." the bus was only a few hundreds yards away now.

"Brake." Apollo told her.

"I can do this." Thalia muttered gripping the wheel harder.

"BRAKE!" Apollo and Naruto shouted.

Thalia slammed her foot on the brake, and the bus pitched forward at a forty-five degree angle, slamming into the camp Half-blood canoe lake with a huge splash. Steam billowed up sending some frightened naiads scrambling out of the water with half woven wicker baskets. The bus bobbed to the surface, along with a couple of capsized, half melted canoes.

"Well," Apollo began with a brave smile, "you were right, my dear. You had everything under control! Let's go see if we boiled anything important, shall we?"

Ino woke up snorting she sat up rubbing her eyes, "Uh..." she grumbled and patted Nico on the head signaling for him to release her which he did with a slight blush. She stretched then scratched the back of her neck. She raised a brow at the frightened expression the group had. "Mmm, what'd I miss?"

Well here we are! Male sure to check out my newest story! "Heiress Of The King And Queen!" If you got to my profile you will see a poll about who should be paired with Naruko in my new story since she is one of the main protagonists/characters!

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