A/N - Hey guys, this is going to be a reading the books series but it will also be a bonding fic, so there are gonna be some family days and stuff. Don't worry, they will most definitely read the books as well :)
The demigods all woke up at 8am. Percy and Nico felt no sign of being tired. Their parents were still asleep which didn't surprise the demigods. The demigods all took their phones and snapped photos of their parents and grinned.
They all went to the dining hall and enjoyed the fresh chilly air that was hitting them. They all decided to eat outside. Once they went outside, they showed each other the pictures they clicked and then snickered. Some demigods sent their images to their friends because they asked for it.
"It was super fun yesterday." Thalia said
"Yeah, we should really take out time of the readings to do such stuff." Percy agreed
"Maybe we could take a week break and do some fun stuff and relax for that week and then continue with the readings. What happened yesterday was fun but I'm still shaken up by dad's nightmare." Nico said
"That's a good idea. Yeah, that nightmare was disturbing and we were watching it from a distance and we couldn't see you two so well. You were sitting right there, it would've hurt more." Jason said
"Yeah, it sounds disturbing as you say it." Percy said, his eyebrows furrowing.
"Things get all serious again today." Annabeth sighed
"I think one day of fun gets very subdued by the readings of multiple chapters. Like if we read today, the next three to four chapters will subdue all the fun and positive thoughts and good vibes. It's like Nico said, if we take a week or multiple days off, it would help relax everybody's nerves. I mean somewhere the readings to linger in the back of your mind. The feelings can't just disappear." Will said
The demigods nodded.
"Okay so we should train." Percy said
All the demigods nodded and got up. The ones who had died also decided to train so that they wouldn't remind the others of their death.
Grover practiced some nature magic and grew some vines for a few demigods to practice obstacle courses. Percy, Nico, Clarisse and Jason hacked at dummies. Piper, Leo, Rachel, Annabeth practiced throwing knives. The Apollo kids, Frank, Zoe, Reyna and Thalia practiced archery. They had a friendly archery competition which Lee and Zoe won. Thalia and Frank were tied. Beckendorf was lifting weights. Clarisse did the same after training with swords. Chris practiced with spears. The Stolls were running around the track. Katie, Silena, Dakota, Hazel, Castor and Pollux were doing Grover's obstacle course. Annabeth went and joined them after throwing knives.
The demigods were all sweaty by 10am which is when their parents woke up. They had all walked to the dining hall and grabbed their meals. A few of them had desserts from their dessert boxes. The demigods went to the dining hall and greeted their parents. The gods saw the condition their children were in. Their shirts were sticking to their skin and was dripping with sweat. Their hair was sticking up and with the amount of sweat on their face, it looked like they had dunked their face in it. They all had identical grins plastered on their faces. The gods knew that anybody could figure out as to how all their children were so fit.
"We've decided something." Piper announced
"What?" Ares asked
"We'll tell you after we take a bath." Percy grinned
The gods snickered. They all went to their respective quarters and took some hot water baths and shampooed their hair. They all wore hoodies so that their head wouldn't get cold.
"Okay so we're back." Thalia said
"So what did you decide?" Hephaestus asked
"We decided to take the week off from reading." Nico said
"Can you do that?" Persephone asked
"Well the fates haven't objected so I think we can. Our reasoning might have made sense to them as well." Hazel said
Persephone nodded.
"So what are we going to do for the week?" Apollo asked
"I feel like we're teachers and you all are students asking for a field trip." Percy snickered
The gods chuckled and the demigods grinned.
"We're gonna decide that as the day goes by. Today we're all going clubbing. We've all got things that we've got to put behind us." Nico announced
The demigods grinned and nodded.
The gods nodded. Hermes, Apollo and Ares cheered. The demigods gave small smiles. They were beginning to realize the reason as to why their parents would maintain a distance from them. It was because they didn't want to go crazy after the demigods died. The demigods were thinking the same thing but they all always lived in the present. They would see what would happen later. At this point, they were all smiling at seeing Hermes, Apollo and Ares cheering while the other gods were grinning.
"Don't worry, there won't be any gross dances." Reyna assured Artemis, Hestia and Zoe
"I'm not one for clubbing." Hestia smiled
"Oh." Reyna said
"So, should we do something else?" Nico frowned
"No, no. Don't cancel on my account. We've got the whole week off and we've got many days left." Hestia smiled
The demigods smiled.
"I don't think I will be able to join you all." Chiron said
"Why not?" Annabeth asked
"I don't think clubbing is my thing. I mean you have seen me with the party ponies. You all should go though." Chiron said
The demigods nodded.
"I don't like extremely loud music. I'm sorry." Zoe said
"Aw man." Thalia said
"It's okay. You should still go clubbing." Zoe said
"Are you all sure?" Percy asked
"100%." Zoe said
Percy and the others nodded.
"Okay then." Jason said
The demigods jumped off the steps they were standing on and went and sat with their parents.
"So, enjoyed last night?" Triton asked
"It was great." Poseidon grinned
"Today's gonna be lit too." Percy said
"I'm looking forward to it." Tyson grinned
"Me too big guy." Percy high fived him.
Everybody chuckled.
Thalia decided to have some fun so she grabbed a bottle of ice cold water and splashed the water on Percy. Percy gave a high pitched squeak. Thalia and Nico burst out laughing but it was short lived as Percy grinned and conjured some water from Antarctica and splashed it on Nico and Thalia. Thalia gave a small yell. Nico squeaked in a voice that was even higher pitched than Percy.
"WATER FIGHT!" Connor screamed
"NO POWERS!" Travis yelled.
The demigods raced to the water bottle area and grabbed five bottles each. They opened the water bottles and emptied them on each other. The dining hall was filled with laughter. They were soon running around and splashing water on each other. Some of the demigods *cough* The Stolls *cough* got buckets filled with water and dunked it on the others. The demigods looked at each other and got matching grins which made the gods stop laughing and think 'Uh oh'.
The demigods ran outside and grabbed hose pipes.
"FIRE IT UP PERCY!" They yelled
Percy grinned and turned the pipes on. The demigods sprayed water on all the gods while whooping and cheering. Within two seconds all the gods were drenched from head to two. Hera, Zeus and Athena had been spared as nobody sprayed on them. The others got mischievous smirks on their faces. They went and grabbed their own hose pipes and sprayed their children. The demigods cheered at the top of their lungs and sprayed the gods back. He dining room floor looked as if a flood had occurred there which Poseidon promised hadn't.
Hestia chuckled and snapped her fingers, drying and rearranging everything. Chiron was smiling at the scene of the demigods and most of the gods getting along and drenching each other with hose pipes. A month ago, no demigod would've even dared to splash some water on any of the gods except Apollo. No god with the exception of Apollo would've wanted to engage in a water war with demigods. This reading really was changing everybody. The sea gang dried everybody's clothes.
*Time break*
It was 3pm and some of the demigods and gods were hanging by the beach and lying down on the sand with the promise from the sea gang that no crabs would hurt them.
The Hephaestus gang had gone to search for materials. They said that if they found something then they would let the others know. Annabeth had gone to the library with Will and Hazel to search for books on magic.
"Hey Annabeth and Will, check this one out!" Hazel called out
Annabeth and Will went over to Hazel and saw the two books she held. One was titled 'The Magic of Light' and the second one was titled 'Magical secrets.'
"I think this might have something. Let's keep all the books we've found on the table and then scope through them." Will said
Annabeth and Hazel nodded.
Will and Annabeth searched for another half hour. Each of them had found a total of three books. They kept all the nine books on the table. Annabeth read the titles of all the books.
"I think they might have something. As we scope through them, we might even get new ideas. Those are always helpful." She said
Will and Hazel nodded.
"Hazel, anything Hecate tell you yet about anything similar?" Annabeth asked
"Not yet. I learnt how to manipulate the mist and I'm learning basics for now." Hazel said
"Would the mist help creating something?" Will asked
"I don't think so. I mean the mist would create an illusion, it wouldn't necessarily be as real." Annabeth said
"So what Leo would help making, would that be permanent?" Hazel asked
"I talked to him. He said that they would make it in way that it could be removed and put back again, depending on the circumstances and situations. He also said that he had an idea of making all the seasons in the underworld, if we're supposed to help it work like the upper world." Annabeth said
"That's actually a good idea." Will nodded
Annabeth and Hazel nodded. The three of them grabbed one book each and read in silence.
"Hey guys, need help?" Silena and Chris asked, coming in the library.
"Yeah, we've got six books left. Could you help us read?" Hazel asked
"Of course." They said and took one book each.
The five of them read quietly for 2 hours when Will said "I think I found something."
"What?" the other four asked in excitement.
Will showed them the page. The four of them read the text.
"That's good." Silena said
The others nodded.
"Fold the page and we'll keep this on the side and look through more." Annabeth said
They nodded. Will folded the page and kept the book on the side and grabbed another book. By 6:30, the demigods had found two more references. They had folded the pages and kept the books on the side.
"Hey, what time are we going clubbing?" Hazel asked
"8pm." Chris said
"Great, so we'll leave the library in another half hour?" Annabeth said
The demigods nodded.
*Time break*
The demigods and gods were in their quarters, dressing up for going. Annabeth, Piper, Silena, Hazel and Reyna wore dresses. Thalia, Katie and Clarisse stuck with pants and a jacket on top of their t-shirt. The goddesses wore dresses.
The boys wore pants with jackets on top of t-shirts and some wore t-shirts and pants and the others wore denim shirts with pants.
They met each other outside. The ones with partners blushed as they looked at each other. Though they decided to make this for everybody and not a couple thing.
"Let's go." Travis grinned.
Everybody grinned and they all went to a club on Olympus called 'AM to PM.'
"Sounds good." Triton said
"Looks great too. Whole place is booked for us today and the layout is customized." Percy grinned
They all went inside. The songs were playing at full volume. The speakers were such that they could never be dangerous.
The demigods cheered. The song playing was 'We Own It.'
"Love this song." Connor grinned
"Love the movie." Travis fist bumped him.
"Let's get a drink." Percy grinned. The demigods went to the bar and so did the gods.
The demigods poured different non-alcoholic drinks.
"All right. So TO WINNING TWO TO THREE FREAKING WARS!" Thalia shouted
"CHEERS!" The demigods shouted and drank.
"Let's dance!" Nico said
"Yep." Will grinned
The song changed to Gang up. Everybody went to the dance floor.
The demigods danced and jumped. The lyric 'we stayed down and came up.' Played and the demigods danced and sunk to squat position with their hands behind their neck and the waved back up, grinning.
"Nice one." Triton grinned
Percy grinned.
"What did he say?" Nico asked
"Nice one." Percy said
Nico nodded.
They all danced for another half hour.
"SOLO DANCES!" The Stolls yelled in the mic
Everybody cheered.
"PERCY FIRST!" Travis shouted
Percy grinned. He went to the dance flower and everybody went to the side.
"First Percy will dance and then he will choose somebody to do the dance with him. You can't chose your half siblings or step parents or partners but you can choose your parent. You can choose up to 2 people to join you. Same for everybody." Connor said
The demigods grinned.
Percy walked onto the dance floor.
"Which song, my mate?" Travis asked
"Venom by Warriyo." Percy grinned
"You got it." Connor grinned
The song started playing and Percy did some simple neck exercises. Then he started 'The Reanimate' dance from Fortnite. The demigods and some gods cheered and whooped. After that he smoothly changed to 'The Worm.' The cheers got even louder. Percy ended the dance with a back flip. The demigods and gods cheered and whooped. Percy grinned.
"I choose dad, Hermes and Apollo." Percy grinned
The Hermes kids and Apollo kids whooped. Triton, Tyson and Amphitrite cheered. The others cheered. Hermes, Apollo and Poseidon grinned and joined Percy. Connor played the music.
The gods managed the reanimate perfectly. Hermes and Apollo managed the worm but Poseidon wasn't able to do it but all four of them nailed the back flip. Everybody cheered.
"Nico next!" Travis grinned
Nico grinned and went to the dance floor. Connor played the song.
Nico started with Orange Justice which got a lot of cheers because Nico's was faster than the actual one and he was the best out of the campers at the dance. As he finished the dance, he quickly changed to 'Infectious.' He finally ended the dance with a side flip. The cheers were deafening.
"I choose dad, Percy and Thalia and Jason." Nico said
"Only three people, Nico." Connor said
"Aw come on!" Nico said
"Fine, all four." Travis grinned
Nico grinned.
The four people walked onto the dance floor. The music played and Nico started. The four people somehow managed to keep up with Nico. They finished all the moves together and totally nailed it. Everybody cheered and grinned.
Then Thalia chose Reyna and Artemis who did the Squat dance. Everybody continued to do this for one hour.
"Who wants a drink?" Castor grinned
"The demigods' bartending skills." Pollux grinned
"So you all will put in drinks for us?" Hermes asked
The demigods grinned and nodded.
"We already know your choices." Percy grinned
The gods chuckled.
The demigods grinned and smirked.
"Castor, Pollux and Dakota for the finale." Lee said
The demigods nodded. Castor, Pollux and Dakota grinned.
"Percy." Travis called
Percy went to the bar and grinned.
"Which song this time?" Connor asked
"Energy by Elektronomia." Chris said
The Stolls grinned and played the said song.
Percy grinned and grabbed the bottle of tequila. He flipped it on a low level by the neck. Then he tossed it behind his back and caught in from his other hand. He tossed it from between his legs and caught it. Then he tossed it in the air and created a hand out of water, which caught the bottle and he turned his hand and the drink poured formally into the glass. Then Percy closed the cap and then he waved his hand, making the water hand disappear.
The demigods roared their approval and everybody cheered.
Percy grinned and bowed. He gave the glass to his dad.
"Those are some serious skills." Poseidon grinned
"Watch my friends now." Percy grinned
"Clarisse!" Connor said
Clarisse grinned. She grabbed the Vodka bottle and twirled it. She tossed the bottle behind her shoulder and caught it with the other hand, next to her other shoulder. She then increased the speed of it and then it looked like a blur. Finally she twirled it again and poured the drink in the glass and gave it Ares who grinned.
The demigods cheered and whooped.
"Damn, you guys have skills." Triton said
"How?" Amphitrite asked
"Training." Percy grinned
"Beckendorf and Leo!" Travis grinned
Beckendorf and Leo fist bumped each other and went to the counter. Beckendorf picked out the brandy.
Beckendorf tossed it toward Leo who lit his palm with fire and caught the bottle with the other. He held the fire close to the alcohol but made sure to not touch it. Though there was a distance, to the demigods and gods watching, it looked like the bottle was on fire. Leo grinned and tossed it from behind his back to Beckendorf who grinned. Beckendorf balanced it on his head, then he titled his head and caught the bottle as he dropped it from his head. He then poured it into the glass and gave it to Hephaestus who grinned.
Everybody cheered. Silena, The seven and Apollo cheered the loudest. The song changed to Monsters by Shinedown.
"Nico!" Connor grinned
Nico grinned and went to the bar. He grabbed the Whiskey bottle. He held it on his palm and black smoke rose from his palm surrounding the bottle. He then immediately tossed it to his back and caught it with the other hand. He tossed the bottle across his waist. Then he smirked and threw the bottle in the air as it was surrounded by shadows and smoke. Then when it was coming down, he bumped it with his chest and caught it. It looked like Nico was doing all this with a bottle of smoke. He then poured the Whiskey into the glass and grinned. Then he gave it to his dad who grinned. All the skills Nico did was in almost two minutes.
Everybody cheered at the top of their lungs.
"Katie." Travis grinned. The song changed to 'Sugar, we're going down' by Fall Out Boy.
Katie chuckled and went to the counter. She took the wine and tossed it between her legs and then tossed it from behind her back. She caught it on her shoulder and tossed it into the air. She had some vines bring it down. She caught it and poured it into the glass and gave it to her mother who smiled.
Everybody cheered.
"YEAH! THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND!" Travis shouted
Katie grinned.
"Will, Lee, Michael and Rachel!" Connor called.
The four grinned at each other and went to the counter. They grabbed the Tequila. Will tossed the bottle and Michael caught it. He did a series of fast throws form one hand to another and behind his back as well. Then he tossed it to Rachel who grinned and made it slide down her back and then caught it with her arm. She then tossed the bottle in the air. Lee pulled a slingshot and shot the cork right off the bottle. Will caught the bottle and poured it. They gave it to Apollo who cheered.
The cheers at Lee's shot were deafening. They all did this until only Castor, Pollux and Dakota were left.
"Castor, Pollux and Dakota!" Travis and Connor grinned
The three demigods grinned and went to the bar. They grabbed two bottles of wine. Castor juggled both the bottles with high speed. Then he tossed the bottles to Dakota who caught one behind his back and the other in front of him. He grinned and tossed both in the air. He caught them and balanced them on his shoulder. Then he bent forward and caught the two bottles and tossed them toward Pollux. Pollux did such tricks with the bottle that it looked like he was playing basketball but without the bottles dropping. Finally he tossed the bottles to Castor who caught them and opened the cap. The gods thought that they would just pour it now but the demigods new better. Castor pulled the cork of the bottles and flipped them in such a way that both the wine bottles poured directly into the glass and there was not even a mark on the table Pollux then got vines to bring the bottles down and Dakota put the cap back on.
The cheers were deafening. Dionysus was grinning widely. The other gods were surprised at the show of skill by all the demigods and cheered loudly. The Dionysus kids gave the god the drink and Dionysus grinned.
They all partied and danced for some more hours. The demigods jumped and whooped and a lot of them did complicated breakdance steps which left the gods open-mouthed and the demigods smirking or grinning. Only when they thought the demigods' dance skills couldn't amaze them more, the demigods would do way more complicated breakdance steps. The demigods and gods all drank during the night. None of the demigods, even Castor, Pollux and Dakota didn't have any alcoholic drink. The gods stuck with alcoholic drinks.
At about 2:30 am, the demigods all sat and talked and around 3:30 they decided it was time to sleep.
"Come on guys, we gotta sleep now." Percy said
Everybody nodded. All of them were quite tired. They all went to their quarters and the gods crashed on their beds immediately. The demigods looked at them and chuckled and closed the door to their rooms and slept.