Brick by Boring Brick

By: Emily Ebriection

Chapter Two

Bella practically dragged Percy into the Cullen home, running as fast as Percy would allow her. Thalia was helping Nico, his arm slung over her shoulder for support. The rest of the Cullens were just kind of awkwardly walking along through the forest with Nico and Thalia, not really sure what to ask or how to ask it.

"Uh… Not to be rude or anything, but what the fuck just happened?"

"Emmett! Language!"

"Sorry, mom. Seriously, though. What in the actual fuck just happened?"

"EMMETT!"

Thalia eventually began to speak. "Well, it seems like Nico passed out, we almost attacked each other for no reason, and Nico gave a play-by-play of how he would murder me and Kelp Head over there. Pretty average day for people like us."

"People like what, exactly?" Rosalie sneered, obviously distrusting of the three teens.

"People who are higher than the likes of you." Thalia said calmly, biting back the string of expletives that threatened to erupt from her mouth.

"Well, most of us are actually kinda poor…And thieves…And runaways…And the occasional murderer." A slightly slurred voice interjected, earning a glare from Thalia.

"Shut up before I become one of them."

-Ω-

Once everyone was settled in the "Dead Room" (more like forcefully pushed into a seat by an overexcited Bella) and Nico was slightly more aware of himself, they began to talk.

"Okay. Spill, Bells. What's going on?"

"What's going on, you ask?" Bella began, with a gleam in her eye, "You guys know all about Greek Mythology, correct? It's real. It's all real. We- Me, Percy, and these two- are demigods. Half god, half human."

Rosalie snorted. "Yeah, right. Come on, Bella, just tell us already. We won't be mad at you. Unless, you know, there's a particular reason why you're hiding something about these two charming men?"

Edward growled at Rosalie's insinuation.

Thalia raised an eyebrow. "Really? You don't believe her? How do you think I made my hair spark? What about our weapons?"

"There are explanations."

"Really? Find an explanation for this."

Percy stood, gesturing them outside. "Meet me at the river. Go ahead; use your vampy speed or whatever if you don't mind waiting."

Bella stood up, excited. "Come on!" she raced out the door, blasting the demigods with a cool wave of air. The Cullens, bewildered, followed after the newer addition to their family, going along with it to get an explanation quicker.

Thalia sighed, rising from the couch and extending a hand to Nico.

"Come on, Death Boy. Time to return to the world of the living."

"Ha. Ha. That joke you seem to relay on a daily basis just never gets old, does it?"

-Ω-

When the two demigods arrived at the river, everyone was waiting silently.

"Wow. You could totally cut the tension in the air with Riptide right now."

Percy rolled his eyes at Thalia's blunt description, turning to the river. "Watch what happens. Keep all hands and feet inside the car at all times, and don't forget to stop by the photo booth on your way out."

Now it was Thalia's turn to roll her eyes.

"Just get on with it, nimrod."

"Fine. You're no fun."

The teenage mutant ninja turtle- I'm sorry, teenage demigod turned back to face the gushing water, a grin spreading over his face. He slowly lifted his hand, and with it came a thick column of water, stretching up towards the grey, cloudy sky. The Cullens watched in awe. The rope of water twisted itself, forming a simple star midair. Percy then moved his hand over to point at a small, water-deprived tree, allowing the star to fall, showering the tree in a healthy amount of water.

Nico, now fully recovered, scoffed.

"You call that impressive?" He provoked, a challenging tone in his voice.

"Nico, you just passed out. You could literally die from doing something big right now. Don't be an idiot. By the way, do you have an explanation for passing out?"

"Vampy overload. They cheated death. My inner ghost king doesn't like that. Around two or three of them, I'm good. But eight and a half? Not so good."

"Okay, I'm confused. How exactly do you know about us? And what do you mean, "Inner Ghost King"?

"Well, I shall assume you guys believe us on the whole "Greek Gods" thing, correct? Good. I'm a son of Hades, the god of death. In the Underworld, I'm known as the Ghost King."

"AKA Zombie Boy. AKA Death Breath. AKA Emo Kid. AKA-"
"The kid that's about to run you through with his sword."

"Oh, please. You can't touch this." Thalia scoffed, gesturing her hands up and down her body. "I'm like a freaking ninja."

Nico raised an eyebrow. "You do realize I can literally melt into the shadows, right?"

"…Shut up. I can, like… electrify stuff and light shit up so there aren't any shadows. Boom."

Thalia had said this with excessive hand gestures, nearly smacking Jacob in the face. Needless to say, Renesemee found it quite funny, giggling her head off. At this point, the Cullens were actually starting to believe the three teens. No one who was joking would act this ridiculous.

"There will always be shadows as long as there's some kind of light, so you'd probably just be giving me more fodder."

There was a long silence in which Percy, Thalia, Emmett and Bella gave him blank looks.

"…Did you seriously just say 'fodder?"

"Percy, it is a perfectly valid word of the English language."

"Well, yeah, and so is buttocks, but you don't see me going around saying it!"

"Do buttocks really come up in conversation that often?"

"They do in yours, pousti."

"Dang, Thals. That's cold."

"The cold, hard truth."

"…Due to my being Hades' son, I have an extremely low body temperature, as do vampires."

It took merely seconds before Emmett and Jacob caught on to the joke and began guffawing loudly, startling all nearby wildlife. Alice let out a single giggle-snort before muffling her laughter in the shoulder of Jasper, who had a wide grin stretching across his face. Bella covered her mouth with one hand as she giggled lightly, while Edward wrinkled his nose in disgust. Rosalie looked at Emmett and waggled her eyebrows. This being the last straw of inappropriate behavior, Carlisle and Esme picked up their granddaughter and walked a few yards away, trying to explain to her that her parents, aunts and uncles were simply crazy.