Don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heroes of Olympus, I just like writing fanfiction

Percy continued his story as if his audience never was looking at him and Thalia like they belonged in an insane asylum. It wasn't his problem that they didn't understand their inside joke.

"Right, so we quickly got back on the train, but the last stop was in Denver," Percy said.

"But you guys are going to Los Angeles, right?" Katie asked. "How are you guys going to get to L.A. if your last stop is Denver?"

Percy winked at Katie, "You'll see."

Annabeth took over, "So when we got off the train, we decided to get some food at a local diner."

Hermes interrupted and leaned forward in his throne, "But you don't have any money, did you steal?"

The rest of the room rolled their eyes, besides his own children, but he didn't notice because he was leaning back again, "No," Grover began. "I think we were planning on using the sympathy card that we did at Medusa's."

"But we didn't have the chance, because in the middle of ordering we were interrupted," Annabeth continued.

"A god needed us to do a task for him," Percy finished.

"A god, I thought gods weren't allowed to interfere on quests," Reyna said.

Percy shrugged, "It happens more often than you think. On my third quest about ¾ of the Olympian Council interfered," all of the half-bloods looked up at the gods who just looked sheepish.

"They had a good reason though," Thalia assured the Romans. "You'll see."

"Anyways, the god that interfered with our quest was Ares," the people that didn't know gasped, he didn't seem like the type to crash a half-blood's quest. "Yeah, the task he gave us was to retrieve his shield from a local water park."

"Seems easy enough, right?" Grover said and everyone nodded.

"Wrong," the trio said, much to the confusion of the rest of the room.

"It was a trap," Annabeth explained. "Hephaestus likes to catch Aphrodite and Ares when they go on dates, trap them in an embarrassing situation, and then display it on Olympus." Everybody was starting to realize what was about to happen

"So when I grabbed the shield it tripped a wire and a net filled with mechanical spiders fell on top of us and a countdown to when cameras would start rolling and show us in Olympus began," Everybody winced, knowing Annabeth's fear of spiders.

"Annabeth and I made our way to the boat, then right when we were to be filmed I made the pipes burst and water started flowing into the tunnel."

"That's my boy!" Poseidon said, beaming.

Percy smiled back and then continued with his story, "Right well, everything seemed alright, until we saw that the gate at the end was locked, so we'd have to jump for it." Everyone looked at Annabeth and Percy with wide-eyes, even the gods who had seen the video. "We got maximum lift, but it was too high, but luckily Grover was there with his flying shoes and lowered us to the ground."

"It was then I realized that the cameras were still rolling, so I looked straight at them and said, 'Shows over! Thank you and good night!'" Percy said.

"Well that was intense," Hazel said.

"Did anyone record the video?" Travis asked.

"All videos on Hephaestus TV are recorded and on file," Hephaestus said.

"Can we watch Annabeth and Percy's video sometime?" Connor asked the God of Forges.

Everyone remained silent and waited for the Hephaestus' answer before he merely nodded. Annabeth, Percy, and Grover groaned, while the rest of the room cheered.

"Enough," Percy said as everyone started to settle down.

"You're just grumpy that you'll probably get embarrassed by that video," Frank said with a grin. He loved the fact that Percy wasn't as perfect as he seemed.

Percy gave him a mock glare, "Anyways, we got back to the diner and gave Ares his shield," the room looked at the God of War who was polishing a knife, when he realized the room was looking at him, he merely grunted. "The ride that he had arranged for us was 'Humane Transportation'."

Grover gave a scoff of disgust, "One animal had gum in its hair, and an herbivore had raw meet in his cage, while a carnivore had turnips! It was despicable!"

Annabeth and Percy nodded along, "It was sad, I wanted to do more to help them, like cut the gum out of one of the animal's hair, but the ride was too bumpy and I didn't want to hurt the animal," Everyone nodded. There really wasn't much they could do for the animals.

"A few hours later the truck stopped in Last Vegas," Annabeth said.

"Again, I thought you were going to L.A.," Katie said, with confusion.

"We were, but there was a stop in Las Vegas, the perfect opportunity to free the animals," Grover said.

"And it didn't help that I thought I was hearing voices in my head," Percy said with exasperation.

"What do you mean, son?" Poseidon asked worriedly.

Percy looked at his dad, "No one had told me I could talk to horses or fish, so when the zebra in the truck started talking to me, I thought I was going insane!" Everyone in the room started laughing.

"No Kelp Head, you just are insane," Thalia replied.

"What a nice cousin I have," Percy murmured, loud enough for all the half-bloods to hear, which caused them to snicker.

"Anyways, we released all the animals and then started to roam around Las Vegas until we came across the Lotus Hotel and Casino," Annabeth said.

"No!" Nico said frantically. "Don't go in there, get away."

"The people at the entrance drew us in," Nico groaned, making the people around him look at him in confusion. "They gave us Lotus cards that had an infinite amount of money to play games on," Annabeth said.

"Cool!" Most of the half-bloods said, but a few looked wary.

"We took showers and then went to the arcade to play," Percy and Annabeth heard their parents groan. "I realized something was wrong when the person next to me looked like they belonged in the '70s and when I asked him the date, he said that it was 1977."

"What?!" The half-bloods asked.

"It was the lair of the Lotus Eaters, time is different there. You think you spend a few hours there, but it really is a couple of days and there's an enchantment that makes you want to stay," Annabeth said.

"Immediately when I broke the enchantment I went to find Annabeth and Grover, when I did we found a taxi and using Annabeth's Lotus card we went to Santa Monica and then the Underworld."

"Before that though, we had a bit of a run in with Procrustes."

Poseidon groaned, "Must you run into everything your brothers have fought as well? First the Minotaur and now Procrustes!"

Percy shrugged, "Wasn't by choice. Anyways we got out of there and after bribing Charon into getting in the Underworld-"

Hermes interrupted again, "You three bribed Charon?" The trio nodded. "You three are now officially my favorite half-bloods besides my own children."

Percy gave Hermes a winning smile, while the other two weren't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing, "Anyways, once we got off the ferry we still had to get passed Cerebus and of course Annabeth knew how."

"He loves red, rubber balls," she shrugged. "What can I say."

"So we got passed Cerebus because Annabeth knew how to handle dogs, then went through the Fields of Asphodel, when suddenly the flying shoes Grover was wearing started to malfunction."

"Malfunction?" Hermes asked.

"They started dragging me in one particular direction," Grover said.

Many still looked confused, before the trio said, "Tartarus," Immediately the room got colder.

"Luckily Grover has hooves, because it was those hooves that saved him in the end, though the shoes did end up committing suicide," Percy said lightly, making most of the room laugh slightly, though most were still a bit creeped that the three almost ended up in the Pit.

Annabeth hit his arm lightly, "Seaweed Brain!"

"What? I thought it was funny," He looked out in the crowd. "The situation itself wasn't funny." He could tell by his dad's white face and deep breathing that it wasn't. "But when Grover took off the shoes they hit us in the face and then fell into the Pit, so I found it slightly funny." Everyone else just rolled their eyes.

"Only you, Aqua Dude, would find that funny," Nico said.

Percy rolled his eyes, "Yes, I suppose," Then he looked out towards his audience. "By that point I had noticed that my backpack that I had received from Ares had gotten heavier, but put it out of my mind, because I was about to confront Hades about the Master Bolt."

"Which I did not steal!" Hades said, slightly angrily.

Percy looked at him calmly, "Yes, we realize that now. It's been about 4 years."

"Anyways, we got there and Hades told us his Helm of Darkness was also missing and that he wouldn't want war because it would just cause more traffic in the Underworld," Annabeth said.

"Really?" Zeus asked suspiciously.

Before Hades could answer, Poseidon put in, "Sorry, some of those backups are partially my fault brother."

Hades waved his hand towards Poseidon, "Eh, It's annoying, but it is what it is," Hades turned towards his youngest brother. "You need to stop being so damn paranoid Zeus! I don't want a war, because then there'd be deaths and that would just cause more paperwork."

"More paperwork would suck," He looked at his uncle with sympathy. "I only have to do worksheets and essays for school, but that's enough for me, I couldn't imagine what you'd have to go through."

"Thank you, nephew!" Hades said, surprising everyone.

There was a slight pause before Annabeth continued, "Right, so apparently the Master Bolt was in the bag that Ares gave us and so Hades assumed that we had stolen his Helm of Darkness, so he was keeping Percy's mom hostage."

"We only had three pearls to take us out of the Underworld and then I remembered a line in the prophecy, you shall fail to save what matters most in the end. I realized that it was my mom. So I had to use the pearls for just the three of us and not my mom."

"Which was really hard for him, because of his fatal flaw," Grover said.

"But we did it," Annabeth said while grabbing her boyfriend's hand.

"Hold up," Thalia said. "I just saw Aunt Sally last week, how did she get back if you 'failed'."

Percy laughed, "Well, we got back to the beach, Ares was waiting for us with the Helm of Darkness and so we gambled, I fought him for the helm and if I won he'd give it to me, if he won I'd give him both."

Everyone who didn't know looked shocked and looking at Percy as if he were crazy.

"That's a risky bet, especially for one with barely any training," Athena said.

"I know," Percy nodded. "When I was on that beach, I was still upset that my mom was being held captive and that it was for the helm, just a few feet away from me, so I wasn't exactly thinking rationally, but it worked out in the end."

"You won?" Jason asked. Ares grumbled, while all the gods sniggered at him.

"Yes, a 12 year old with barely any experience won," Apollo said.

Jason nodded, looking impressed, "Nice."

"Yeah, the only problem was that it was almost near the end of the solstice, so we had to hurry and get to Olympus," Annabeth said.

"How are you going to do that? It would take days over land!" Will said.

"We flew," the trio said.

"That's suicide," Clarisse said. "Especially with a son of Poseidon on board.

Percy rolled his eyes, "Yes and it was frightening, but since we had Zeus' Master Bolt, he wasn't about to blast the plane."

"Don't think you can enter my domain again, nephew," Zeus said.

"Wouldn't dream about it without a Pegasus," Percy said, Zeus grunted and mumbled something about how that's cheating.

"So I got to Olympus on time and returned the bolt, met my dad for the first time," Percy smiled at his dad, who smiled back. "Then returned to camp."

Everyone cheered, "So your quest is over, correct?" Aphrodite asked.

"I don't think so," Athena replied.

"My mother is correct," Annabeth replied, much to the confusion of the room, before she explained more. "One line of the prophecy said you'll be betrayed by one you call friend." Everyone nodded and some had looks of realization, as if they knew who the "friend" of the prophecy was.

"The rest of the summer passed nicely. Grover left to start his search and the camp bead for the summer was black with a sea-green trident on it," the older Greek children showed the bead to the people in the room. "The last day of camp I went to relieve some stress when I saw Luke in the arena."

The room became tense at the name, "Luke at a new sword called, 'Backbiter' it was a mix of celestial bronze and steel so that it could harm not only monsters, but mortals as well," Percy said.

"No one should have a sword like that," Hephaestus said.

"It made me feel extremely uncomfortable and when Luke asked to have a drink in the forest with him I almost decline because of that, but we were friends, so I thought why not?" Percy said.

"Your loyalty," Annabeth said.

"Luke started going on and on about how the gods shouldn't rule anymore, how Western Civilization should be destroyed to the ground and brought back up, that the Titans would rule," He looked around the room and gave a sympathetic glance towards Hermes. "Of course I told him that was insane."

"Why'd you tell him that?" Hermes asked.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked in return.

Hermes sighed, "Luke had been there more often than any of the gods, why would you choose the gods over someone who had been there for you?"

Percy was silent for a moment before he said, "I know that gods don't have DNA, so technically we aren't all related, but despite that I consider everyone my family, even the gods were included in this, despite the amount of times they voted on whether to kill me or not."

"So you chose to side with Olympus because you consider us family?" Zeus said.

"As Mr. D would say, 'Well, duh', and since I only had my mom before camp and always wanted a big family, I decided quickly that I would be loyal to them and help in any way I could."

"Why are you always so impertinent if you consider us family then?" Athena asked.

Percy raised an eyebrow and simply said, "The sea doesn't like to be restrained," he winked at his dad, who was beaming, while everyone else groaned. "Also because despite my always being loyal towards Olympus, I saw why demigods were defecting towards Kronos' side and wanted you all to realize it."

"So all the impertinence was a plan?" Annabeth asked with wide-eyes.

Poseidon said, "I could see through it perfectly."

Percy nodded, "I thought it was simple."

"I don't understand, how you did you two," pointing at her rival and his son. "Come up with a long-term plan to change Olympus without us even knowing," Athena said.

Percy and Poseidon stretched at the same time and said in sync, "Because we're awesome." Everyone rolled their eyes again.

"Anyway, back with the story, Luke released a pit-scorpion and it stung me, I probably would have died if the tree nymphs hadn't carried me back to the infirmary."

"He looked horrible," Annabeth said while grabbing Percy's hand. "I thought he was going to die for a while and just when I thought my day couldn't get any more worse, Percy told me that Luke, the guy that I had known since I was 7 had been the one to do it."

Everyone shook their heads at that, before Percy said, "Well that was my first quest."