'Hey?'
'Oh no.'
'What oh no?'
'Well, Leo, that is the tone that you have when you are about to say something utterly stupid or dangerous.'
'Thanks for the trust, Piper. Yet, I was wondering...'
'Stop it.'
'... I was wondering why we demigods do not have our own memes. I mean, we just use the same memes as any random mortal or any random other demigod.'
Piper looked up from her comic book. 'I... that is kind of a good question.'
Leo jumped down from the bunk bed and onto the hard wooden floor of the Hephaestus cabin. He pulled out his Phone. 'Now that we have safe phones, we have no excuse to not make our very own meme-culture!' He stuck his Phone in the air. 'Now, I already have a grand idea...' he ran out of the cabin, closely followed by Piper, who was more than curious about what he could come up with. After a few seconds, they were joined by a few other Hephaestus demigods, who were already busy typing on their phones.
Nyssa stayed behind in the cabin. She slowly lowered her magazine. Making memes? For demigods? Oh no. Now that would lead to some nonsense. Slowly, she put her magazine away, before getting up from her bed and walking to the door. She could see a cloud of her siblings dancing around the strawberry fields, clearly trying to do something that they thought was hilarious. She couldn't help but smile, concluding that seeing the demigods try to make memes would probably be funnier than whatever they could come up with.
Chiron noticed that very same evening that something was up. The camp was in a buzz of excitement - that did not happen until something grand was announced or the demigods thought of something potentially dangerous which they thought was the greatest. He gave Dionysus a sideways look. 'Do you know what could be going on?'
The wine god gave him a shrug. 'No, not really. I saw them all running around the field with their phones earlier, but I think that is regular teenage behaviour.' He took a sip of diet coke, while locking eyes with Chiron. The centaur understood the message - whatever it was, Dionysus did not want to know. Chiron made a mental note to absolutely tell him everything he would find out.
'Good evening, kids! I notice that you are all very giddy about something!' A few demigods looked up, a few others were too focused on their phones or food. Leo, however, jumped up. 'Yes, indeed! Say, could you give a dramatic speech?' Chiron gave him a weird look. Dionysus woke up from staring into the fifth dimension to stare at Leo like he was crazy. Piper jumped up from her chair, with her Phone camera out.
'You know, let it be! Those faces were perfect!' She ran out of the pavilion, with Leo at her heels. Chiron looked like he understood the situation even less. Dionysus jumped up from his chair, accidently knocking over his can of Soda. 'Mclean! Valdez! Get back here...' Chiron softly pushed him back into his chair. 'Dio, how terrible can it be? Just let them be...' Dionysus looked up at the centaur. He looked so tired Chiron was not so sure that everything Piper and Leo were doing was completely innocent. 'Sure, Chiron. If your face is all over demigod social media, we'll talk more about it.'
Piper and Leo took their refuge in bunker 9. 'Alright. I forgot to take a picture of Dionysus, but Chirons' picture is pretty enough... we just need a funny caption.' She looked at the picture of Chiron looking confused. Leo snapped his fingers a few times. 'Eh... I think... maybe ''When there is a hellhound behind the barrier?'' Oh, no, ''The hellhound when I am behind the barrier!''' Piper clapped in her hands.
'Great, great! Can you edit it?' Leo raised an eyebrow.
'Of course I can edit it.' He began to grin. 'My computer is already booted up!'
Reyna's Phone vibrated. She picked the Phone up from her desk. A message from Leo - with a picture. Alright, then. She opened her Phone to see whatever he had send her. She did not know what to expect - it was Leo, it could be literally everything. When she opened the message and saw the meme of Chiron looking confused, with Leo's dumb caption under it, she put her Phone onto her desk. She had to process it for a moment. Memes. Leo had found out they could make memes. Oh no. That would mean chaos, and not just in Camp Half-blood.
Just as she wanted to text Leo back, she heard loud knocking on her door. 'Reyna?' Hm. That sounded like Lavinia. 'In!' Reyna answered. The daughter of Terpsichore came tumbling into the room, with her Phone in her hand. Reyna felt her heart sinking into her chest. It was already send to multiple people. Within moments, all of camp Jupiter would be running all over the place, memeing anything and everything they could find.
'Did you get the message from Leo? Isn't it hilarious!?' Lavinia asked, sounding excited. Reyna slowly nodded, with a fake smile. 'Yeah, sure, great. We might have to do some extra moral training today.' Lavinia rolled her eyes.
'Yeah, yeah, come on Reyna, they won't go completely mad because of a few memes. We have had memes before, we can just make them ourselves now.' Reyna looked out of her window.
'That's what I am worried about,' she answered.
It spread around the divine world like wildfire. Hades tried to stay out of it as much as possible - he did not feel like getting swept up in whatever the teens were doing today. But he had not accounted for Nico, who loved memes way more than Hades (or anyone really) had thought. One day, when Hades was just trying to eat a nice bowl of oatmeal and relax for a moment, he was interrupted by Nico jumping around the corner and snapping a picture of him - and not a very flattering one either. He had just taken a bite and his expression was equally surprised and annoyed by what this nonsense was.
He begun to realise what was going on when Nico ran away, in the direction of Elysium. He jumped up and dropped his spoon to the dirty floor. 'Nico! Get back here this instant! I cannot have my reputation ruined!'
Yet, Nico was already gone, probably to his friends to make one of those 'memes' out of it. Hades took a deep breath. It would probably fly over quickly. Maybe the picture was blurry. He forcibly smiled. Yeah, it would be okay. Stay calm. Just go get a new spoon and things would be fine.
No. No they would not. The surprised hades meme format became the most popular demigod format within moments. Yet, this was the moment Dionysus decided to interfere. He had tried to follow the meme hype as closely as his pride would allow (Which wasn't very close, but close enough to notice the Hades meme).
'Say, Chiron?'
'Dio, that tone is actually concerned. What is the issue?'
'Those kids are using pictures of gods for their jokes now. We might need to do something about it before the gods will get angry at them, each other, or everyone at once.'
Chiron sighed. 'Nys, I think it will be alright. It's just a hype, it'll be over soon!'
'No.'
'Yes. You know what? Will talk more about it once the gods are at each other, alright?'
Aphrodite stormed out of her castle and towards Zeus' palace. She angrily knocked on the door. 'Zeus! I demand justice!' Zeus nervously opened the door a little bit. When Aphrodite was this angry, you had to watch out. 'Eh... what is it, Aphrodite?'
Aphrodite forced herself into the palace. 'It's... that horrible picture of me that is everywhere! I want you to take it down and banish the person who is responsible to Tartarus!' Zeus felt his cheeks flush bright red. 'Well, well, banishing to Tartarus will be difficult. Yet, I could find that person and ask them to take it down.' He smiled.
Aphrodite raised one of her eyebrows. 'Yes... that would be nice,' she answered, before turning around and walking off. That horrible Zeus. She would get him back for that and she would get him back for that right this instant!
Zeus quickly deleted the Original picture of Aphrodite sitting on her couch with a face mask dripping down the sides of her face and a piece of cucumber on her cheek instead of on her eyes. Alright, it might have been a stupid idea to post that onto the internet. It might have been a really, really stupid idea to have posted anything concerning Aphrodite on the internet. Yet, she would not be completely ruthless in her revenge, right?
Zeus knew he it was wishful thinking when he thought it, but when he saw his own face projected onto a screen on the big throne room, surrounded by a bunch of gossip (Of which none... some... alright, most of it was true). He disappeared of the mountain in a thunderstorm, not to be seen for a few days.
Dionysus looked at the screen. What did he tell Chiron again? Right. He teleported off of Olympus (He knew he should not have been there, but nobody paid attention to him if he was there anyway) and right in front of Chiron, who dropped a book to the floor when he suddenly saw his colleague arrived right in front of him.
'The gods are going at each other. Do something about it.'
Chiron picked up the book and put it down. 'I have a plan. Maybe. We should try to get this to stay with the demigods.'
'Maybe you are too late.'
'You're optimism is heartwarming, as always, Dio.'
'It is my speciality.'
Yet, it turned out that Dionysus was right. Chiron could hold by the demigods a little bit by forbidding them from including divine beings in their memes (which only worked for a bit, because demigods think listening is for the weak, but it was enough to not have any gods attack the camp), but you cannot stop divine beings from doing anything. Actually, the demigods didn't even need to make the memes about the gods themselves - said gods did a great job of making each other ridiculous in their place.
Reyna scrolled past the new monstrosities on her phone. It wasn't the demigods she should have worried about - it was the gods, who were now well ahead with making each other ridiculous. She took a deep breath and put her phone down. Now it was only a matter of time before the gods decided to fight this out on earth. She got up from her desk chair. There was only one thing to do: make sure her camp was prepared for whatever was going to be thrown at them.
