Just a random thing I started with the twins! I keep meaning to update these one-shots, but I start one and then I start three more and then I just have no idea what's going on! ^_^
"Soooo, what now?"
"Hm?"
"Oh my gods, we're going to die." Percy put his head in his hands. He could feel the weight of his sister's glare, meeting her gaze with disbelief. "We got all this way and you have no plan."
"Truth be told, bro, I didn't think ya'd get this far."
"Don't you mean 'we'?"
"No. I already know what I'm doin'." At his silent demand, she grinned. "Bullshittin'. Obviously."
"How are you still alive?"
"Why does everyone keep askin' that?" She exasperated, folding her arms with a sulky huff. Percy wasn't sure how to respond to her oblivious take, surveying their surroundings instead. In a bid to get them to stop fighting for five minutes, their mothers had sent the twins on a 'team-building exercise'. Five thousand feet underwater. With a mission, from their father;
"My favourite back-up trident has been stolen-"
"Back-up?"
"Yes. Not as powerful as my normal one, but always good to have spares."
"Stolen by who?" Percy asked.
"I don't know." Poseidon shrugged a shoulder.
"So, we'll just search the entire ocean for it then?" Louisa joked grumpily, rolling her eyes and vaguely waving her hand around.
"That sounds like a grand idea." Poseidon agreed, drawing her glare to him.
"Sarcasm, Dad. Learn it."
"Sarcasm or not, you offered to search the entire ocean and I've accepted that offer."
"Can't you just… magic it back?" Percy quizzed, snapping his fingers to demonstrate.
"I could." The god agreed. "But I believe the one who took it-"
"Ya literally just said ya didn't know."
"-still holds a grudge against me and I'd appreciate if you gave her a little nudge in the right direction." He smiled secretively at them.
"Her?" Louisa frowned.
"An ex-girlfriend?" Percy guessed simultaneously. Poseidon gave a meaningless motion of his head, neither a nod or a shake. He dismissed them with a wave of his hand. Once outside the throne room, Percy turned to his sister. "How hard is it to find one of Dad's exes?"
"Mmm… like me findin' hotdogs."
"Oh. This may take a while."
"This is your fault."
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
So they swam and they swam and they swam and Louisa got distracted by some jellyfish and had an argument with a rather cheeky eel, and they swam some more. They had no idea where they were going, bickering over every possible thing they could- whose fault it was, the colour of the coral, how many pegasi it would take to change a light bulb and the ever classic:
"I say we go left."
"I say we go right."
"No, right's stupid!"
"Left's stupid! I'm the older twin, so we go right."
"I'm the better twin, we go left!"
"You're not-"
"I am!"
"Says who?"
"Me! I have better taste than you!"
"Bullshit, do you." Percy scoffed. He noticed they were being watched by a large school of thousands of silvery fish. He touched Louisa's cheek, turning her head. She stopped mid-insult, marvelling at their audience.
Don't mind us, several chorused, please continue.
Please please please please please-
"You lot wouldn't have happened to see a trident, would ya?" Louisa asked. "Might be with Dad's ex-girlfriend."
Narrow it down a bit more.
"That's literally all we know." The school seemed to collectively shrug and took off, swirling around the twins, as many of them bumping into them as possible, making a game of it. Percy sighed, sinking to sit on a rock. Louisa watched the fish disappear into the gloom before joining him. "This sucks." Percy muttered.
"Yep. Just 'bout sums up our lives, huh?"
"Yeeeah, unfortunately."
"Do we have to find this trident? Can't we just, like, give him a 'We tried!' 'n' go home?"
"I sincerely doubt that."
"Well, I sincerely think you're an ass."
"Thanks, Lou, love you too."
"Anytime."