Disclaimer: I don't own PJO.
Okay. So I accidentally deleted the whole chapter, I don't remember how it goes, and I have no idea how to bring it back. Yeah, I think I'm going to panic. The good thing? I have a vague memory of how it goes, and I think my writing skill has improved, so I'm just going to hope that this is better than the original chapter. My amount of chapters is really going to change right now. By alot. But I think I'll have more words. This is probably the longest for now. Do you know why? Because I can write it however I like! RE-writing it basically means editing it a little bit, but deleting means a fresh start! Well, I added the Pothena chapter to the next chapter, so it isn't all written these days...
Athena's POV:
A moonlit walk beside the beach. You would have thought that I would hate it, after all, I do hate Poseidon. But I actually loved the beach. It was always so calm and peaceful for me. It also reminds me of good times between us, so long ago. Sighing, I sat down, running my fingers through the the sand and building it up into a Parthenon. I still remember the statue that got lost. I still felt guilty of what I had sent Annabeth into. I may not like the sea spawn, but no demigods deserved to fall into Tartarus. I usually come to the beach in private, when I'm upset. I came over here after dinner ended because of the fact that our temporary home was too bright and loud, and stayed here for a few hours. It's kind of funny. Since dinner had been pushed really late from our arriving. Poseidon and father had gotten into a fight over... blue cookies. Really? Cookies? But still... I still remembered when Poseidon and I used to tease each other. When we used to get along. But then there was Medusa. And Pallas. I would always remember her. For ore reason that one. One was that it was the time when Poseidon and I were together. I still liked him, even though I'd always thought it was rivalry. But of course, Aphrodite was always bugging me about it. It had taken e forever. She had said. But at least I finally got it. She had added. But really, I wasn't backing down from the rivalry until he did. And that was rather unlikely, now that I thought about it. I mean really, why should I pin for someone who hates me?
"What are you doing here, Owl Head?" I groaned and turned around at the sound of Poseidon's voice.
"I find the moon calming." I lied. I actually found the water calming, but I wasn't going to tell him that.
"Really? Usually when people come here, it's for the sea." He said. "And can't you see the moon from 'Olympus'?
I blushed slightly. "I think that the beach is quiet. I can't say the same about 'Olympus'." I paused. "Both versions, actually."
Poseidon's POV:
Her blush looked cute. Whoa! Where did that come from?
I never would have expected to find Athena sitting on the beach at night. I mean, I only come here because I was getting a headache and water was my domain. But her?
"Then you could have gone to the hill. The demigods are asleep after all." I countered.
"Monsters pass that hill alot. I really don't think that counts as calming." She said.
There had also been another reason for me coming here. I wasn't going to tell her that I came here to think on how to apologize to her about the Medusa incident. I always found myself thinking of her. Every time I dated someone, it was always someone who reminded me of her. Amazing, extremely nice and really smart. It didn't take a genius to know that I liked her. With a start, I realized that she was waiting for me to say something.
"It can be calming. The sound of snorts and grunts." I said, joking.
Apparently, she didn't get it, because she looked at me curiously. "If you say so... then why aren't you over there?"
"The sea is my domain. Or do I have to remind you of that, Owl Head?" I asked.
"I do not think that it would be necessary to suggest such a preposterously absurd statement?" Athena asked me.
"Umm..." I trailed off. What in the name of my older brother did 'preposte-something' and 'absurd' mean?
"Oh were those 'abnormally' large words perplex your calamity of a brain to the point of not being able to utter words?" She smiled at me innocently.
"I can still speak!" I said. "I'm just stating my statement. And besides, no one can understand your words!"
"If I recall, your older brother managed to interpret my words. He could also convey his message using 'problematic words' as you would have said." Athena said.
"It is rather annoying, waiting for you to insult you." I said.
"Why did you come here? And don't try the 'this is my domain' thing again. I know that there's another reason for you appearing here so late at night." Athena studied me carefully.
"Who says there's another reason?" I asked.
"I can tell." She sat down. "You don't have to tell me though." She materialized a book and enough light so that she could read.
"Okay then." I turned to walk away, when I felt her gaze. "But I think I'd rather stay." I sat down beside her and started making shapes out of the water.
She shifted a bit, so that she was facing me. "And why is that?"
"I came here to think about something, and I'm not leaving until I get to think." I said,
"You? Think?" She sounded so incredulous I would have laughed if she wasn't insulting me.
"I do think, you know." I said, slightly hurt.
"What were you thinking about, Salt Shaker?" She asked me.
Should I tell her? I mean, I came to think about how to apologize. This is the perfect opportunity, so why am I hesitating?
"I was thinking about you and Medusa." I admitted.
She backed away from me so fast, I almost got dizzy looking at her. "What about Medusa?"
"I wanted to say that it wasn't my fault." I said.
"What do you MEAN it wasn't your fault? I walk away for a few seconds and then I see you with her in my temple!" Athena screeched.
"Calm down!" I said, flashing the peace sign. "I came in peace!"
""And now you're quoting random shows." She spat.
"She was the one who gave me the potion!" I said, as fast as I could.
"What potion?" Athena stared at me.
"A potion so I would lust after her for about ten minutes." I said, lifting my hands in a defensive stance. "Seriously, I didn't mean to annoy you."
"You didn't tell me what happened for like, what? A few thousand years?" She frowned.
"I wanted to. But you were making it difficult." I admitted.
"Of course I was." She smiled.
"It was actually you that I liked." I muttered, quietly. Well at least I said it! Aphrodite's been bugging for Zeus knows how long!
"You... what?" Athena blushed. Oh well. I guess she heard me.
"I said I like you." I looked at her. "And will you allow me the pleasure of being your boyfriend?"
"Sure?" She looked sightly uncertain. "You do that dad's going to kill us, right?"
"Hey, we're immortal! And besides, Zeus is my younger sibling." I said, hugging her and pulling us up. Little had I known, that Aphrodite was watching them from the bushes.
Aphrodite's POV:
"Where are Poseidon and Athena?" Hades asked, coming down the stairs, looking annoyed. "And what's with all the noise? I'm trying to work!"
"Oh come on!" I walked over to him. "You can't spend all your time holed up in that stuffy black room!"
"It seems that I do." He looked down at me. "Besides, why are you up at eleven o'clock at night?" He glanced at the clock. "Make that eleven twenty, and three seconds."
"We don't need another Athena!" Hermes groaned from the couch. "And seriously uncle? You're still up, it seems."
"At least I'm not making a ruckus like the rest of you!" Hades yelled to be heard over everyone else. "Aren't you even worried about your daughter, Zeus?"
"Why are you so interested?" Zeus asked. "And how do you know that the two of them aren't here?"
"One, I checked this scroll from my library and found a piece of felt, that was kind of a scroll in it that had the name Athena engraved in silver. Two, I couldn't find her in her room and then I didn't hear either of their voices here. I also checked the rest of the house." He said, crossing his arms.
I slipped away and walked towards the beach. I saw Athena head towards here four hours ago, and Poseidon slipped away a few minutes ago, heading here.
"...Owl Head?" I heard Poseidon, and from the sound of it, he's at the beach.
I sped up my pace, and hid into the bushes alongside the beach, watching them for a while, until Poseidon and Athena got together. It was my cue for running back towards 'Olympus'.
"Who bets that Pothena will happen?" I asked, looking around the room. Hades had already gone upstairs, as had Persephone. Everyone else stared at me. "I know it'll happen!" I exclaimed.
"I don't think so." Apollo said. "She's too strict."
There were murmurs of agreement, and then everyone bet against me. It's kind of sad that no one believes in Pothena. I thought, as I looked outside a window.
"Hey look! They're coming!" I said, spotting Athena and Poseidon.
Everyone rushed to the windows and waited for them to come back.
"I'm back!" Poseidon said as he came in, holding hands with Athena.
"I'm tired." Athena said, yawning. The two of them headed upstairs together. Well more like Athena pulled Poseidon along.
The second the left the room broke into chaos.
"They can't be together!" Hermes said. Apollo nodded in agreement.
"They must be drunk!" Dionysus exclaimed.
"You guys have to pay up!" I sang.
Grumbling all of the gods forked over drachmas. Zeus did so absentmindedly.
"I am so going to kill that Poseidon." I heard him mutter.
"And then upset Athena? I do not think that is wise." Nyx shook her head.
Athena's POV:
I woke up at 5:00 a.m. like always and headed to our mini kitchen, and started to make breakfast. 5 minutes later Hestia came in and helped with making the breakfast.
"Good morning Athena."She said with a warm smile."Do you know what we're doing today?"
"I think we might be going to the library, like I suggested yesterday at dinner..." I answered slightly distracted. "The library that was designed after the second war, that is. I added when Hestia still looked confused.
"Oh, that's nice, I suppose you're really excited?" She asked.
"Yes, I'm quite interested to see how Annabeth designed it." I told her.
"I'm sure it's really nice, she seems like a good architect." Hestia said.
"Good morning sister." Hades said, walking over to us. "Do you know where my sword is?"
"Good morning brother. I think your sword is somewhere under your pile of papers." Hestia told him. "And what do you need the sword for anyways?"
"I need to use it to wake Zeus up." Hades said relieved and ran back upstairs to grab his sword. Hestia and I called the others down after a while.
Frank's POV:
(At Camp Jupiter)
I woke up early and jumped out of bed to check my phone. On it Percy had sent me a text saying:
The gods are at Camp Half-Blood. All of them. Even the minor ones.
My jaw dropped, Camp Half-Blood was so lucky! Then I read the next sentence and laughed.
They freaked me out, I was there just when Lady Athena was speaking so I thought she was speaking to me.
Really? So he defeated Cronus and Gaea and is afraid of Lady Athena. Wow. Then I noticed it was breakfast time and jumped up to get ready. At breakfast there was an announcement.
"Attention Campers!" Reyna's voice called for attention. "I have gotten a message from Camp Half-Blood." She continued when everyone was looking at her. "We will be heading to their Camp after a few days or weeks." She finished. "Any questions?"
"Who's going?" Called out an unidentified camper.
"Me, Frank, Hazel, Jason, Dakota and a few others. Any other questions?"
"For how long?" Hazel asked.
"For the summer, than a few of us will be going to school with them, the gods will also be at school." She replied. "Is that it?"
No one answered. Then we started a delicious breakfast of bacon and eggs and alot of other delicious stuff. When we finished we went towards the different activities.
Zeus' POV:
I woke up to Hades whacking me over the head with a sword.
"Ow! What was that for?" I glared at him.
"Athena and Hestia were shouting "Breakfast is ready!" and you didn't wake up, so I did the next best thing." He said, smirking.
"So you care about me?" I asked.
"Not really. I just wanted to know if you're ever going to install the security system in the Underworld. You promised that you would." He said.
"I will, sometime later." I said.
"I think I should go change." I heard him mutter, as he glared at me. "You'd better install it." And then he left the room.
I got dressed, left the room and...immediately got knocked over by Hermes and Apollo in hippie outfits... what the Hades?
"I see you found your outfits." They were greeted with a smirking Athena. "I know you helped Hermes with messing up my childrens' cabin." She added, her eyes cold.
"That's not fair!" Whined Apollo.
"And pranking your sister's cabin right when we get here isn't?" She responded.
"No, it is fair!" Said Hermes.
"Maybe I should then curse you like Jupiter did to Phineas." She smirked.
"What? Why?" Hermes asked.
"For being idiotic." Athena raised her hand.
"Stop it. I know that they shouldn't prank your cabin, but you can't curse them." I said, grabbing her hand and looking at her sternly.
Instead of the punishment Athena was thinking of, Aphrodite plowed into Hermes and Apollo, squealing.
"Pothena has happened!" She kept repeating, until Athena put a spell on her to make her only speak quietly.
"Would you mind telling me what this is about?" Athena asked Apollo and Hermes, still glaring at the two of them.
"Umm...she placed a bet on whether you and Poseidon would get together or not.." Apollo told her, preparing for her rage. Surprisingly she didn't yell at them, instead she turned to Aphrodite.
"Did you really ask that?" She said smirking, wait... smirking?
"Yeah..." Said Aphrodite, also looking terrified.
Now the dreaded rage..
"How much drachmas did you get?" She asked. What?! I thought she would have been angry...though this is safer.
"About... let me think about it...$900000 or something." Aphrodite answered uncertainly.
"That's nice, can I have some?" She asked Aphrodite.
"Sure!" Aphrodite said.
"So are you going in?" Asked Hades, standing behind us with Persephone. When did he get here?
"Yeah we are-"I was cut off by laughter.
"What in the name of Zeus happened to you two?" Asked Hades between chuckles. Persephone was just laughing while gasping for air.
"Who? Oh, Athena cursed us..." Answered Hermes.
"Let's go in first though, we should eat, besides your going to be very amusing to the demigods..." Athena suggested.
We got in the dining room where there was alot of food spread on the table.
"I wonder if we should let the demigods eat some of this." Persephone asked the others.
"They can choose what they want when they eat, so I don't think so." Athena told me. "And besides, boys eat alot."
The next few gods who came here bursted out laughing at Apollo and Hermes, who both scowled at them.
"What happened to them?" Was a common question for everyone who saw them.
After breakfast we went over to the dining pavilion for the demigods. They were there with news about the other camp.
"A few people from the Roman camp will be here too after a few days." Announced Chiron. "We will be going to the library now. Any protests?" No one spoke under Athena's heated glare.
Apollo and Hermes hid so no demigods could see them. At the library we all settled down on the couches and love seats. That's when everyone saw Hermes and Apollo, who were trying to hide behind a giant book.
Everyone stared at them for a few seconds... and then burst into laughter.
"Gods, what happened to Lord Hermes and Lord Apollo?" Asked Leo.
"Let's just say Athena got her revenge." Said a smiling Artemis.
Then everyone noticed that Athena and Poseidon were late again.
"Where are Athena and Poseidon?" I spoke aloud. No one answered, until Athena called out.
"I'm here father." She said appearing behind me, and scaring the Hades out of me!
"Can you ever stop using my name as a curse word?!" Said a very pissed of Hades, from his spot beside Persephone.
"No, I can't." I said smugly.
"BOO!" I nearly jumped out of my skin when Poseidon materialized behind me.
"Will you stop doing that already? First Athena now you! Who's next?" I said, looking at all of the people in the room.
Surprising all the demigods, Athena and Poseidon slid into one love seat together.
"So they weren't drunk." Mumbled a sleepy Dionysus.
"Shoot! Why is our family so messed up?" I said groaning.
"Well, we're all your family, you know that, right?" Said a smirking Poseidon. There were many disgusted faces at this.
"Well, what's up with those two?" Asked Hypnos. " And not all the gods can stay here, you know. We have jobs."
"Well, obviously they're together. As for your other comment, I agree." Piped up Aphrodite. (A/N: Not pun intended. ;) Piper=Piped?)
"Oh, really?" Asked Hypnos and Morpheus. "Well that's the news of the news of the century." Added Morpheus when Aphrodite nodded, seeing as Hypnos was asleep.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter! I have a small question though; do you think that I should give you more of their thoughts or did I describe enough. Comment your answer please. Thank you for your support! ( Is it me or did I just sound like an ad? LOL)
*Chapter: EDITED ^_^*