Chapter 2 - Movie Night and Pranks!

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Hermes was drawing comic strips in his room one evening. He was pretty good at drawing, and he liked coming up with punchlines. A lot of them were based off real life events that happened to himself, his friends, and his family.

He finished writing in the dialogue for the last panel and smiled to himself. It was a cartoon about his family getting their Olympian ID cards.

Then he heard someone knocking on his door.

"What is it?" Hermes asked grumpily, realizing it was probably nothing good. I'll bet Dad wants me to deliver another package. He put away his sketchbook, not being a big fan of other people looking at his drawings.

"Don't worry, it's something good," he heard Zeus say.

Hermes rolled his eyes. "You always say that, Dad."

Zeus started to close the door. "Oh, I guess you don't want to choose movies for us to watch tonight. Alright, then. I'll just ask Ares and you can stay here."

Hermes jumped up from his desk chair and ran towards his dad. "Wait! Wait! I do! Let me choose! Ares will just pick something I don't like!"

"Alrighty, then," said Zeus as he closed Hermes's door.

Hermes walked back over to his desk, picked up his phone, and sent a quick text to Apollo.

A few minutes later, the two brothers were sitting at the dining-room table looking up "Olympian movies" on the internet. Being Olympians, they knew that the rest of their family would want to watch something with them featured in it.

"Oooh, Hercules!" said Apollo. "Apparently we're in it!"

"We are?" asked Hermes excitedly. "We should watch it!"

"Let's add that to our list and look up more movies, in case there's something else we want to watch," Apollo suggested.

In the end, they decided on a selection of movies and not just one, because they wanted to stay up late.

Apollo called everybody over, and the Olympians gathered in the living room. The older Olympians sat on the couches and chairs, and the younger Olympians sat in beanbags. Dionysus had dragged a bar stool from the kitchen and was sitting on that. A lot of the Olympians had brought their pets and had them on their laps.

Hermes slid a DVD into the DVD player and grinned when Ares asked him what movie was going to play. "You'll see," the messenger god responded.

Suddenly, the theme music to Disney's Hercules came on.

Apollo was smiling, because the gods would be so pleased with what they chose. He bet that they would be thrilled to see themselves on TV.

But the gods watched the film with rage.

"Why am I BLUE?" yelled Hermes.

"They got your height right," smirked Dionysus.

Athena cracked up. "P-Poseidon—Poseidon—is a, a FISH!"

"I'm no fish!" shouted Poseidon, glaring daggers at her. "There's a difference between being a fish and being the all-powerful Sea Lord!"

"I DO NOT LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THAT!" roared Ares as he pointed to his TV-self.

"I look like ARES!" wailed Apollo.

"I know, dude," said Hephaestus. "I actually thought you were him."

"I can't take it!" shouted Apollo. "Switch movies, Hermes! NOW!"

Hermes quickly switched movies.

But deep down, all the gods thought it was cool that they were TV stars.

The next movie began playing. It was a very boring movie that nobody knew the name of.

"Who on earth picked this one?" demanded Artemis as she scowled at Apollo and Hermes.

"I didn't!" said Apollo.

Hermes laughed. "It might have been me."

Everyone turned to glare at him.

"What? It was a prank!" He continued to giggle.

The other gods rolled their eyes, grumbling about Hermes's annoying pranks.

Hermes opened his mouth to retaliate.

Dionysus stood up, sensing an argument that he wanted to avoid. "Who wants popcorn?"

There were shouts of "Me!" "I wanna help make it!" and "I want chips!"

Dionysus sighed. "We don't have chips!"

With that, he, Demeter, and Hermes went into the kitchen to make some popcorn.

Demeter was digging around in the pantry for a large jug of popcorn she had bought a few months back, and Dionysus got out a large pot and set it on the stove.

Demeter came out of the pantry and plopped a huge vat of popcorn on the counter. "How much of this do you think we need?"

"Well, there are fourteen people we need to make this for…" said Hermes.

"What's the serving size?" asked Demeter.

Hermes grabbed the popcorn and twisted off the lid. "Let's just make it all," he said as he dumped the whole thing into the pot.

Dionysus added some salt and olive oil as Demeter turned on the stove.

Two of the three gods smiled as the popcorn began to pop. But Demeter was frowning. "I think we forgot something."

Hermes counted off his fingers. "Popcorn, check. Salt, check. Olive oil, check. The stove's at the right temperature—"

A piece of popcorn hit him in the head.

Then another. And another.

"Who's throwing popcorn?" Demeter demanded.

She looked at the other two gods, but they held up their hands.

They all turned to the stove.

Popcorn was flying out of the pot and onto the floor. It was going so fast, that in no time at all, the gods were knee-deep in popcorn.

"We forgot to put a lid on the pot!" shouted Demeter.

Dionysus dove for the cabinet, frantically searching for a lid. He took everything off the shelves, but there were none to be found. "I don't see one!"

Demeter frowned, digging around in another cabinet. "I know we have them. I'm sure of it…"

Dionysus grabbed the closet thing to a lid he could find, a cutting board, and slammed it over the pot. It stopped the popcorn from shooting out onto the floor, and he sighed in relief.

"Don't rest just yet," warned Demeter. "We have to find the lids."

That's when they realized someone was missing.

They turned to each other and they both asked in worried tones, "Where is Hermes?"

Dionysus looked in the living room, where the gods were watching some cartoon, but his brother wasn't in there. Strange, he thought. Hermes would never pass up the opportunity to watch cartoons.

Demeter went upstairs to the bedrooms. "Hermes?" she called.

She paused outside Hermes's door and listened. There was nothing. She was starting to freak out a little, because gods just don't disappear like that for no reason.

That's when she heard a huge crash, and Hermes yelling, "OW!"

"Hermes!" she threw open the door. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

But her worries soon faded to anger. Hermes was sitting in front of his closet amid a large pile of metal lids for pots and pans.

"…April Fool's?" he said.

"HERMES!" Demeter chased Hermes downstairs and into the kitchen. The trickster god was laughing all the while. "You hid the lids on purpose!"

"That was my best prank yet!"

Long story short, when Demeter caught him, she made him sweep up the popcorn in the kitchen.

But that was okay, because one of Hades's hellhounds had already eaten most of it.

A/N: I know a lot of people have written stories about the demigods/gods watching Hercules (which is actually one of my favorite movies), but I just had to write about the gods' reactions to seeing themselves onscreen. XD

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