The first thing about newborns is one thing: they are loud! Two weeks after they were born, Gerald and June were yelling off a storm. Danny and Katie had their hands full trying to calm them down, feed them, or get them to sleep. Usually, Danny had more success with this.
"How come they're more responsive to you?" said Katie.
"Guess I have that motherly charm," said Danny. The twins only cried when they were hungry or sleepy. Besides that they were mostly calm, kicking out with their arms and feet as they fought to control them. Sometimes they smiled whenever Danny or Katie played with their hands or feet, or tickled their bellies. So far they were showing no signs of any powers, which meant Danny and Katie could sleep soundly and not worry about the house falling down. They didn't know how their powers would work out, with them either having one of the parents powers or both.
Despite this lack of knowledge, life continued on. Danny and Katie had never been more happier than they were now, taking care of their two miracles of life. Everything was perfect. If only the twins had a mute button to deafen their cries.
Their most frequent visitor was Gaia, but she mostly came looking agitated or scared.
"Mom, what's the matter?" Danny said one day.
"Nothing, I'm just seeing if they're fine," said Gaia, but Danny could sense something was up that she wasn't telling him. She seemed like she was dreading something from happening, and he thought it involved the twins somehow.
Either way, things were still good. Katie was losing the weight she had gained during the pregnancy. In a few weeks she would go back closely to the way she was before, even though she was still beautiful the way she was. The only thing that wouldn't change much was the wider hips, but that was only better to hold on to at night. She laughed when he told her this, Danny always finding the bright side of everything.
No word from Zeus had come, though Katie knew she was probably still pissed at her and Danny. She didn't know what he would do if he saw that the kids. That changed one day however.
Their doorbell rang and Katie answered it. She nearly fainted when she saw her father standing at the door.
"Dad! What are you doing here?" said Katie.
"I came to....may I come in?" he asked, no emotion in his voice. Katie had to think twice about her answer. She knew the consequences if she refused or let him in. She knew Danny was in the living room playing with the babies on the floor, playing in this case meaning moving the floor under them as they smiled and gave little baby laughs or tickling them.
"Okay, come in," said Katie. Zeus walked in, looking around at the house. Katie made her way to living room.
"Danny," she called. Danny looked up and froze when he saw Zeus standing in the doorway. In a heartbeat his shield was up and sword ready, placing himself in front of the twins.
"What do you want?" he said coldly.
"I came to...apologize," said Zeus. The words didn't have much meaning to him, who took it as "I came to kill you and your children."
"And you think after all the things you did to me, I should just forgive you like that?" he said.
"Danny, please," said Katie. She didn't want to start fighting again, especially after the last time, which her dad started. Zeus didn't look like he really cared, but here he was, trying to make things right.
"Okay," said Danny, lowering his sword down, but not too much.
"May I, please, hold one of the babies?" said Zeus. Danny looked to Katie for the answer. She nodded, but slowly.
"If you plan to harm them, I'm going to unleash my full power, and this time I won't hold back," said Danny. His weapons went back to their original state and he picked up Gerald. He handed him, cautiously, to Zeus. Zeus held him in his arms, looking down at his electric blue eyes, his eyes. Danny was standing nearby, his fingers on his belt and wristband.
"He's a strong child," said Zeus. He looked at the boy, admiring how he responded to his touch as a long lost relative. He gave him back to Danny and picked up June. He saw she had Danny's brown eyes, yet her mother's face. She was a beautiful baby. He gave her to her mom and sat on the couch.
"They are very beautiful grandchildren," he said.
"Thanks dad," said Katie. Danny remained silent, looking as if he would attack at any given moment, despite having a baby in his hands. He didn't trust Zeus, and wondered if he ever would again. If he did, Zeus would have to do something to gain his trust. Right now, seeing the babies wasn't one of them.
"I'll just be leaving now. Have to get back to work," said Zeus.
"Bye dad," said Katie. Zeus disappeared in a flash of light accompanied by the sound of thunder.
"Danny, can you get along with him once?" said Katie.
"Yeah that would be nice, if I didn't have a dead dad, a scar on my back, and almost getting killed by him, then we could be best friends," he said sarcastically.
"At least try not to start something," said Katie. She gave him June and went back into her room to take a short nap while Danny put the kids on the floor and started playing with them again.
For the next month, they watched the children grow as they reached one month old. Their hair was starting to change, and they could see it was flecked with a little blond. They were also more responsive and were able to control their bodies better too. They were also less loud, and only cried when they were hungry or sleepy. One day, as Katie put them to sleep, she felt a familiar heat come between her legs. It wasn't the first time. She realized that Danny and her hadn't had sex in awhile, and she was burning with desire to have him again.
She unbuttoned her shirt down till a huge amount of cleavage was showing and slid her pants down a little bit to show off the top of her underwear. Then she let her hair loose and walked to their bedroom.
Danny was on his laptop doing the work for his online classes. He was nearly done with his last assignment when he saw her come in and close the laptop down.
"Kate, not to seem irritated, but that was part of my work and...wow," said Danny, seeing her eyeing him with a knowing glance.
"It's been awhile Daniel," she said, climbing onto the bed like a predator and pushing him down, straddling him.
"Wait, what about the kids?" said Danny.
"Just put them to sleep, we have a few hours," she said. She took her shirt off to reveal she hadn't worn a bra that day. That got Danny hard in a second and he took off his shirt and pants at a superhuman speed.
"Anxious are we?" said Katie. Danny flipped her over so that he was ontop and helped her take her pants off. Once they were off he went up to her breasts and nibbled, sucked, and kissed around them. Katie's hands went to his back, lightly scratching him as he continued his assault on her beautiful mounds. Danny went down to her belly button, sticking his tongue in there to tickle her and give her some pleasure. Moving down to the hem of her panties, he took them off with his teeth. She lifted her hips up to allow him to do this. Once they were off he kissed around her inner thigh to excite her enough, then lightly brushed his tongue on her entrance, her back arching up when he did.
She was disappointed when Danny didn't "eat her out," but she saw that he had taken off his boxers and was about to enter her. He thrust into firmly connect them. Katie gasped when they were one, but then thought of something. She flipped them over so that she was on top and began to slowly ride him, wanting to savor this. Danny got up so that he was in a sitting position, one arm behind him, the other wrapped around her waist as she ground down upon him.
"Yes, I love you," she said passionately.
"I love you too," said Danny. She ground down on him as he moved his hips up to meet her. She kissed him passionately over and over again, loving the feel of them making love again.
Danny got his other arm and embraced her, hugging her close to him. she returned the hug too as she moved down on him faster. Danny kissed around her neck and chest as worked her hips and kissed the top of his head.
"Faster," whispered Danny. She ground on him faster now, letting her hips roll onto his manhood as he thrust up the best he could from his sitting position. She whispered and moan near his ear, saying how much she loved him, or how good he was doing.
They kept it up for thirty minutes. Feeling that their climax was coming, she ground down harder until they both came in one semi-loud gasp. When they were finished, they kissed again passionately and rested until Katie had to wake up to feed the kids.
Whilst they slept, Danny had a dream.
Danny was walking to a door, a fierce knocking at the door. He opened it up to see a huge wall of black, an epic black. A hand reached out and grabbed him and pulled him into the darkness, and everything went black.
Danny woke up in an instant. He looked around, then sank back down to the bed, remembering it was just a dream.
A few weeks later, in October, was a baby shower. Everyone knows that you're suppose to have the baby shower while you're still pregnant, but this time things would change. It was Danny's way of "getting at the system," or whatever he had against established practices.
Everyone who went to the wedding came, including Poseidon and Gaia, and it was a blast. While the adults were talking and what not the babies were in a room all on their own. Seth had grown a lot, now seventh months old. He had started to crawl a bit, courtesy of inheriting his mom's brains, but his father's looks, and was able to crawl feebly now. In the room were the twins, Clarisse's daughter Harmonia, after her half-sister thousands of years ago who was married to Cadmus, another Greek hero, and lastly Grover's baby, a little baby satyr named Pan.
The adults were talking having a good time, exchanging gifts, etc., when a knock on the door came.
"I'll get it," said Danny. It was his house after all. He got to the door, but Percy was there too, walking back to get Annabeth her drink.
"I'll get the door," said Percy politely. He opened it and saw a very tall man with an all black jacket on. They couldn't even see his face, for it was clouded from the shadows the jacket cast.
"I'm here for the party," he said in a deep, booming voice.
"Not our," Danny thought.
"I'm sorry, but this is invites only," said Percy.
"Are you Perseus Jackson and Daniel Stone?" said the man. That was usually a bad sign when someone you don't know used your full name. Danny's hand went slowly to his belt buckle and Percy's fingers slowly went to Riptide in his pocket.
"Who are you?" said Danny.
"Amazing, my own brother's can't even remember their own brother. Let's refresh your memory," he said. Two enormous hands took Danny and Percy by their shirts, pulled them out the house, and threw them into the air. More specifically, over the house to the backyard. They hit the ground on their backs. Dazed and hurt they looked up to see the giant man in the air, coming down about to smash them with his feet. Danny and Percy rolled aside as the enormous feet came down on the ground, causing two mini craters in the ground. Seismos appeared in Danny's hand and he slashed the giant's leg.
The giant howled in pain as his leg was slashed opened. Dust was starting to come out of his leg, but strangely, when it hit the ground it went back into the leg and formed something like a cast around the leg. When it disappeared, the leg looked like nothing happened. Danny and both Percy, Riptide in hand, realized with horrible recognition who the giant was.
The giant threw his jacket off and his true identity was revealed. He looked like a sumo wrestler, completely red, except for tattoos around nearly his entire midbody that looked like waves, a loincloth covering the areas no one wants to see in public.
"Hello little brothers," said Antaeus.
"Oh shit," said Danny and Percy. The giant charged. This was going to be one hell of a fight.
"Have you seen Danny?" said Katie to Annabeth.
"No. Last I saw he was with Percy by the door. The next second they disappeared," said Annabeth.
"Weird, it was that fast?" said Katie.
"Yes. They might be outside having guy talk," said Annabeth. At that moment, a tremor in the ground caught everyone's attention. It was weird. It was like the ground shook at the very foundation.
"What was that?" said Nico. He, Poseidon, and Gaia were the only ones in the house who really felt connected to the Earth, and that wasn't an earthquake. Something was using the earth as a weapon, or just moving it around. Gaia could tell something was very, very wrong.
Another tremor shook the house again. Katie felt it come from the backyard. She walked over to the curtains that blocked the view from the backyard. When she opened them, a large boulder was coming fast towards the window. Everyone ducked out the way as it smashed through the glass and landed in the kitchen. Everyone looked up to see an titanic battle going on.
Percy and Danny were fighting against Antaeus. Antaeus had thrown the boulder in an attempt to flatten Percy, but Percy had used it to his advantage by jumping on it and flipping over it, letting the boulder plow through the window.
"Aw man, I spent two hours cleaning that!" said Danny. This only infuriated him and he lunged to attack Antaeus. Antaeus made a grab for him and tried to flatten, but he rolled to the side, came in the a jump, and slashed his arm off. Antaeus roared in pain, but Danny knew his arm would go back. There was no victory in an empty triumph.
The arm came back on and Antaeus growled. He stomped the ground and a torrent of earth coming up like pillars came crashing towards them. Not having time to react, Danny and Percy were knocked into the fence on the other side of the yard.
Everyone in the house pulled put a weapon, except for Ms. Sky, who Katie didn't want to risk getting hurt, and Gaia and Poseidon, who couldn't interfere with these kind of things.
"Heroes, charge!" said Annabeth. Everyone attacked Antaeus with force, but their attacks were as pointless as the other ones. The only difference was their attacks peppered his body. Antaeus swatted left and right to block them away and attack. Grover used his reed pipes to make the weeds in the yard grab at Antaeus. They coiled around his legs and held him in place while everyone cut into him. Tyson used his club to smack into Antaeus's chest, loud THWACKS resonating off his chest as if he were getting a beating.
The dust poured from his body as the celestial bronze of everyones' weapons cut them. He couldn't die so long as he touched the ground, but that didn't mean that it couldn't hurt him. Percy had found this out when he battled him in the Labryinth.
"We need to get him off the ground," Percy said to Annabeth.
"Workin' on that," said Annabeth. Antaeus gave a mighty howl and ripped the weeds that were holding him down. His arm punched the earth and it ran up his arm up to his shoulder. He lashed out at everyone with one large swipe. Only Danny, Katie, Nico, Percy, and Annaebth were able to get out of the way. Everyone was knocked to the side into the wooden fence, making huge holes in it's wooden stakes and knocking them all out cold.
Now it was 5 demigods against a giant.
"This will be over quickly. No chains to help you here Perseus," said Antaeus.
"This is going to be tougher than I thought. Any plans?" said Danny.
"Yes. We need to get him off the ground," said Annabeth.
"Okay, any easy plans?" said Nico.
"How about we lure him to the roof?" said Katie.
"Great, who's willing to do that?" said Percy.
"Don't know, but now let's get him distracted," said Annabeth. They charged towards him and attacked. Nico chanted some words in Greek and three skeleton Greek warriors came out of the ground and attacked with swords jagged around the sides from decay. However, they all didn't expect Antaeus to pull out a two-edged axe from the ground. It had formed like it was there the whole time, but it wasn't. The blades were on both side, but on each one was the Greek letter Gamma, or G in English.
He swung his axe and the Greek warriors bones feel to the ground, useless. He stomped his foot and Nico was pinned to the ground by a slab of rock. Now only four were left in the fight.
Percy summoned water from the hose system in the backyard and a geyser of it spewed out. He channeled it towards Antaeus and it engulfed the giant. ONce it was swirling around him, Antaeus swirling in the orb, Percy commanded it to freeze. Just like that, the water froze. Antaeus was trapped inside it's solid confines.
"You know it would have been nice if you had done that earlier Seaweed Brain," said Annabeth.
"It took me awhile to realize there was a faucet back here," said Percy. At that moment, his ice prison broke from his sheer strength and he ran twoards them all, axe in hand. He came at Katie first, his axe smashing into Static, sending sparks flying from the axe thudding against the shield.
Katie attacked with Jolt and stuck it into his belly, pulling it out to watch the sand come out. While he was busy rehealing, Annabeth stabbed him in the thigh. Percy helped Danny create an enormous boulder and hurled it at him at Mach 4. It hit Antaeus and he rolled to the house. He was very close to the house now.
Antaeus got back up to his feet and did something that was amazing. He hit the ground with his axe and two stone hands came out of the ground.
"Get him!" he bellowed at them, pointing straight towards Danny. The stone hands came and grabbed him, then they hurled him to the roof.
"Danny!" yelled Katie. Luckily Danny broke his fall on the roof...with his back. The roof was like a traditional roof of a house with a raised tip at the top and the bottom stretching up and angling to make a flat piece about two feet wide. Danny hit it so hard he blacked out for awhile. While he was out, Antaeus fought the other demigods until they were dead tired and dazed.
"I'll deal with you in a moment. Now I need to talk to my little brother first," he said. He jumped onto the roof, causing the house to shake. Danny had woken up and had gotten the stone hands off him. He stood ready with Seismos and Pedos.
"What do you want?" he demanded.
"Well, well, my young brother giving me demands," said Antaeus.
"I'm no brother of yours Antaeus," said Danny.
"Quite well seen. Tell me, did mother cry her eyes out when you became a traitor?" he chided.
"Actually, she took it better than the day you died, the first time," said Danny. Antaeus sneered, sounding like an enraged bull.
"You think you know what's happening? You have no idea little brother. As we speak, we are preparing to do what we have wanted to do for centuries," said Antaeus.
"Who is "we," said Danny.
"It won't matter where you're going," said Antaeus. He lifted up his axe and swung. Danny met it with a swing from his sword. Danny slammed his shield into the giant's belly, but he might as well have done it to a brick wall. Antaeus laughed and swatted him to the side. Danny nearly fell off from the roof, but his hand just barely caught the edge. Antaeus walked forward towards him.
"How does it feel to not have mother's protection on you?" he taunted, raising his axe high above his head to give the final blow.
"Like this. Percy, now!" yelled Danny. A wave of water swept Antaeus off the roof into the sky. Katie summoned a lightning bolt that collided into him in midair. It was so forceful and so powerful that he turned into blackened ash. The ashes fell to the ground, sinking into it's confines. Danny raised his free hand and a pillar of earth appeared at his feet. He let go of the roof and descended back down to the ground.
Everyone was recovering from the battle. The ones who had been thrown through the fence were rubbing their heads or bodies while the others shook off their injuries.
"Not to seem rude, but you guys are forgetting someone, like me," said Nico, still trapped in the slab of rock. Danny touch it and it cracked open, letting the son of the Underworld out. Gaia came out of the house first.
"Mom, what's going on?" said Danny.
"I think it best we talk in the house," she said.
"Your brothers, my children, are planning to take over Olympus," she said to everyone. Everyone listened with shock disbelief and horror.
"Mom, they tried that, the mortal, monster, and immortal ones, and look where it got them," said Danny.
"But this time they're working together," said Gaia.
"Impossible. My dad has the powerful ones sealed up in Tartarus," said Nico. The ground shook underneath their feet and from out of the ground he came, the Lord of the Dead, his Helm of Darkness in his hand.
"It is true son. They have braken out from Tartarus. All of them," he said. A painstaking silence filled the room. It was broken when a small cry from the room told them that one of the kids were awake.
"What will happen?" said Percy.
"They will regain much of their strength. They will fashion new soldiers, recruit my other children, like Antaeus," said Gaia.
"Can you..?"
"Daniel, you know can't. I cannot harm my other children, and help the other. I cannot do anything. The ancient laws bind me to that, and my heart" said Gaia. Danny was silent as she explained more to them.
"Do you know when they will attack?" said Clarisse.
"Even that I do not know," said Gaia.
(Deep in the recesses of the Earth)
"Sir, Antaeus has been killed," said an unknown man hidden in the natural darkness.
"I knew our brother was to die, but he has served his purpose. The message has been given," said another unknown man, this one responding in a voice cold and commanding, his tone suding like two continents clashing into one another. "Is everything else going accordig to plan?"
"Yes. New soldiers are being churned out, fashioned, and armed as we speak," said unknown man #1
"Good," said #2
"Sir, permit me in saying, but does our "estranged" brother have to...."
"Yes, he must. He made his choice by marrying that bitch, the daughter of Zeus, and now he has children. They must be eradicated if we are to have raze Olympus, and only our mother will be worshipped as the supreme goddess," said #1.
"Yes sir," said #2.
"Wait, maybe not the children. Perhaps we may find a use for them. Dispatch Theoceles to kill their parents and bring the children to me...alive. Kill anyone else who gets in the way."
