Me here again! :)
This time, I'm going to do a short fic on Percy's archery skills :) Which, of course suck. To be more exact, the big three sons' archery skills, and how they managed to have an angry Hecate cabin on their heels. Enjoy :) No pairings except canon in this one!
Disclaimer: I do not own the dam books. You would see much more Nico and Will if I did.
Stars: Jason Grace(canon), Percy Jackson (canon), Nico Di Angelo (canon), Will Solace (canon), Lou Ellen (canon), Fayelyn Hart (SYOC), Akiko Lee (SYOC), and a few others.
"Fish boy, there is no way that you are better in archery than I am." Jason gritted out between his teeth. He was thoroughly annoyed with the son of Poseidon, who was grinning stupidly at him from behind a rack of practice bows.
Percy didn't seem frazzled in the least as he looked pointedly at the arrow lying across the field.
"Grace, even I can't miss that badly." He snorted.
The blond boy refused to look at the arrow.
"Wanna bet?"
Percy raised his eyebrow as he took a gulp from his blue coke.. Once again, Jason had no idea how the camp managed to serve food in every hue, but he guessed it must be possible- after all, coke was the chosen beverage of Mr.D.
He frowned and shifted, letting the worn wooden bow hang at his side. Percy merely tossed the empty can into the trash bin as he picked up one of the bows.
"Oh Superman, you have no idea how you will lose… miserably." He said with a flourish.
Jason rolled his eyes.
"Kelp head, I heard from the Apollo cabin that you had such bad aim the campers banned you from using a bow."
As the pair trudged up in a half hearted, half playful manner, Jason caught sight of a certain small, dark haired son of Hades walking by with his boyfriend Solace. They were engaged in conversation, Nico's face turned away from the sunlight. It'd been a week since the whole 'Hi Percy, I've been crushing on you but you're not my type' incident, and the two were already cuddly as hell. Oh, the irony.
"Nicooo!" Jason called for his younger cousin.
Nico seemed way to deep in conversation with the golden haired boy, and he looked better than when Jason last saw him in the infirmary. When Nico didn't seem to notice, a black haired Asian girl poked the boy in the arm. He started, turning around to look at Jason.
"Jason?" He said, a bit confused at the bow in Jason's hand. Oh right. He knew how bad Jason was at archery.
"Morning, Nico. Me and Percy was just about to have a archery contest."
Nico's eyebrows knitted in confusion.
"But you both are awf-"
"So, why don't you join? It'll be like a little Big Three thing!"
Percy called out. "No way, Jace! My dad is way more cool than yours!"
The smaller, sallow boy seemed to sigh, exasperated.
"Alright, I'll join." He looked over his shoulder.
"Hey Will? Do you want to do the judge?"
Jason held a hand in front of Will's sunny face.
"No way Nico. I'm not going to let your boyfriend do the judge." He said, sternly.
Nico flushed, and an embarrassed pink spread out over his pale face.
"Grace, Will isn't my boyfriend!" Nico seemed to miss the way the doctor looked like a drowning puppy at that.
Jason, being the older, understanding brother, nodded vaguely.
"So, Akiko? Would you do the judge for us?" he asked to the black haired girl who seemed to nearly jump at his words.
"Oh… yes." She said, dropping the medical kit in her hands to come over to the boys. She looked skeptically at Percy's bow.
"Percy, you're holding it upside down." She said simply.
Jason giggled- no, he did not giggle! gave a manly chortle as Percy looked awkward as he adjusted the direction he was holding the bow. Jason looked at Nico to mention what a seaweed head the loyal boy was, but failed miserably when he saw Nico hugging Will. HUGGING. Jason choked on air, and he rubbed at his eyes. There was no way that Nico, the little gloomy fluff bal of death would hug another person voluntarily. I leave them for a week to their devices, and this is what they come up with? Next thing I know, I'll be giving Nico hot chocolate and comforting him from fighting with his boyfriend!
The doctor inclined his head towards Jason and broke into a smile as he looked at Nico, who was, presumably, grumbling. Will said something that Nico seemed to agree with, and then the other blonde started going off towards the medic tents.
Jason gave Nico The Stare. He flinched, and averted his eyes as he took his place next to Jason.
Akiko was already in the branches of some tree, and she called out over the field.
"The targets, everyone! They should be sturdy enough to hold your arrows!"
All three of the boys looked at the targets. They were swaying precariously in the wind, wooden splinters tearing off now and then. Personally, Jason thought they looked ready to blow up into bits and pieces-assuming, of course that any one of their trio could shoot one right.
"Alright, so we'll do this in turns. The rules are to not shoot each other or fight during the shootings. Maybe we should take this age wise- so Percy, feel free to go first!"
The green eyed boy stepped forward. He squinted at the targets, and all of a sudden, the targets seemed to move. Percy immediately regretted the bet. He drew the arrow- and took a shot. The arrow narrowly missed the supposed tree in which Akiko had taken shelter. Bad one. Percy got a minus 3 for that.
As the first round went around, Jason ended up with 1 for hitting the very edge of the target. Nico got a 3 ("Got helped by your boyfriend, Nico?" "Shut up, Percy."), and all three were at a bypass by the next round. It was more of a fun game than a rivalry.
The problem occurred in the third and final round, when Percy took his third shot. Uncharacteristically, the hero looked nervous as he aimed for the target, and as he watched, Nico felt the hair on the back of his neck prickle. When the arrow started speeding, Nico sensed something was wrong. Very wrong.
…
And that was when the arrow exploded.
Right in the face of the Hecate cabin's experiments, blowing up a great deal of magical squiggly goo, and positively infuriating the campers. Needless to say, the small army of angry demigods appeared in the line of the trio's view.
"What do we do?" Nico muttered, looking nervous.
"You could shadow travel us out?" Percy suggested. Just then, an angry voice sounded from the medical cabin, a long way down the hill. It was Will.
"You are never to use your underworld powers, Sunshine!" the Apollo camper shouted.
Nico shrugged and grabbed his cousins' arms. In a daze, Jason wondered how Will had heard the noise from his cabin. The pale boy poked his glasses to get his attention.
"Just run, you idiots." He said.
The riot of angry Hecate kids intensified, and Jason and Percy started sprinting along with Nico- who was, surprisingly, faster than either of them.
Behind them, Lou Ellen screamed.
"Hear, troops! We are to be tracking down the criminals who have disturbed our mother's Pinky Powder summoning ritual! On, men!"
Her voice seemed to have lost any trace of sanity as the cabin rushed down upon the three most powerful demigods of the generation. One girl(he thought it was Faye) with choppy black hair and flaming eyes threw a roman javelin at the boys. Where in the name of Holy Hades did she get a Roman Javelin?! Ow!
Jason fought the urge to look backwards to just barely check how the Hecate cabin was following at an alarming rate. I suppose a peek wouldn't hurt.. he reasoned. Glancing back, he immediately regretted his decision.
They're like a pack of hyenas! He exclaimed to himself.
As they ran towards the woods, Jason realized that Percy had disappeared. And where was Nico?
He then spotted the small boy sprinting away from the trail.. as if…
As if he knew there was something wrong with the trail.
Just as he tripped, Jason heard one of the Hecate children shout something that sounded suspiciously like 'Stupefy!'.
And everything went black.
I hope this one was nice :) I'm planning to do a pairing fluff next time! SYOC description form is in chapter one!
And here's a hint to what I'm writing for one of the AU chapters..
Live long and prosper, readers!