Prompt: If you could would be to have Nico and Anubis play Mario Kart against each other on monopoly just some game as have them be super competitive.

"Explain to me again the reason we're playing this game?" Anubis grumbled.

Nico glanced at him and snickered, "It's fun to play, and besides, I haven't seen you play competetive games before."

Anubis scowled, "We played Monopoly last week, and that ended horribly, you're a really sore loser."

The demigod sighed, "We've been through this before, I'm not a sore loser."

Anubis chuckled but said nothing. He focused on the screen in front of them, the words Mario Kart painted over it in flashy colcours. He didn't know anything about this game, and he stared dumbfounded down at the – what was it again? - controller in his lap. He idly tapped a button and the screen flashed a few times. He dropped the thing in alarm and held his hands up to signal it wasn't on purpose.

"Don't worry, you didn't destroy anything," Nico spoke up from beside him. "Come on, we're gonna start."

Anubis sighed again and reluctantly picked up the controller. His boyfriend pushed some buttons and the game 'started'.

"Okay, so what you do is hold this button to accelerate and move forward, and this to change direction. Depending on the surroundings you have to avoid obstacles and try to finish the three races before the other players," Nico said, pointing to various buttons on the controller. "Since we're just two people, I'll add a few more competitors to make things more interesting. Along the way there are glowing boxes that you can run into to get items that can be used to take out other players, some of them you just drop behind you and others you fire forwards, you use this button to do that."

Anubis nodded, "I believe I understand the basics. Let us play."


Anubis believed he'd gotten the hang of it after a few rounds.

He found himself in first place and something akin to a blue tortoise shell smashed into him, hurdling him upside down and effectively making him lose his first place.

"What?! What in- What was that?!" the god spluttered.

Nico didn't even spare him a glance, "It's a blue cupa shell. It targets the player in first place and sabotages them."

Anubis scoffed, "How is that any fair? Targeting the first player is just rude."

"Tough luck."

The god vowed to never get hit by another blue shell.

Unfortunately, the following race he noticed the blue shell on the map and slowed to fall into second place. However, the same thing happened again, the blue shell smashed down on him.

"What?! I wasn't in first place!" he flung his hand into the air as he crossed the finish line in fifth place.

Nico snickered beside him, "It doesn't matter if you slow to second place, the shell has targeted you specifically."

Anubis gritted his teeth in frustration.


Nico won the next race, and the race after that, and the race after that. Anubis could feel his left eye twitch slightly.

As the demigod hit him with another red shell, he felt his patience snap.

"This is impossible," he exclaimed, dropping his controller.

Nico chuckled beside him.

"What are you laughing about?"

The son of Hades stopped, "It's just funny that Anubis, the Lord of Funerals and one of the Egyptian gods of Death, is getting angry at a video game."

Anubis raised an eyebrow, "Oh, what about you? You get angry at people that misunderstand the powers of the gods on Mythomagic cards."

"Wha- that was one time. And I didn't get angry, is just-"

"You called him incompetent, and it was more than one time."

Nico blushed, "I don't remember calling him that."

Now it was Anubis' turn to laugh, "Well, at least you didn't call me incompetent."

"That's just because I like to see you struggle."

Anubis leaned over and pressed his fingertips into Nico's side, making the demigod jolt.

"Don't tickle me, Anubis."

"What are you going to do about it?" the god challenged, continuing his ministrations.

Nico writhed in his arms, laughter spilling from his lips in spurts between breaths. "No- ahah! Stop!"

"Promise you won't tease me about video games," Anubis demanded, his voice straining to sound serious.

"Never!"

Anubis moved his fingers to a particularly ticklish spot, "Are you sure?"

Nico's body spasmed with laughter, "Please! No- hahaha! Okay, oka- Haha! I won't tease- you!"

Anubis smirked and stopped tickling, "Thank you."

Nico huffed and the god leaned down to plant a kiss on his lips.

"And should you tease me, you know what'll happen," he flexed his fingers and the demigod shuddered.

"I'll remember."


I wasn't really feeling this chapter... I don't know why. I'm sorry if it's not to your liking. Anyway, I'm still alive, guys :D I'm now out of University for the summer, and I'll hopefully post more chapters. Uhm, there'll be times where I don't have my computer, so I won't upload anything during that time. But I'll still write on my phone.

I hope you guys haven't died waiting