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~Chapter 5: Hermes, Thalia and Annabeth!
Zeus sighs. First Apollo, now Hermes? Who's going to be next? He most certainly hope it isn't him! And he also wish that the Japanese Gods would answer them soon. If they don't until it is too late, he might not even be in the right condition to ask them, not to mention missing all of the Olympians…
How shamed they would be…
~Flashback~
"Where is Hermes?" Zeus asks, finally at wits end. "We have been waiting for him for 30 minutes! Where in Chaos name is my son?!" He thundered.
"R-right h-here, f-father." Answered a weak and old scratchy voice.
They all looked toward their feet to the source of the voice and were all stunned white.
Aphrodite held her face in her hands and screamed out, "NOOOOOOO!" with tears coming from her eyes like fountains. That was the worst possible thing that she can almost imagine happen to her! But no, it happened to Hermes, and she will never let it happen to her! To become this… this… HIDEOUS THING!
Hermes, in all his glory, turned into… an old man. With electric fried hair, and blacken skin, along with wearing a pink thong and a pink, frilly female top, he was a horror for anyone. He was clutching on his Caduceus like a cane, and walked toward Zeus slowly.
George and Martha have long fainted to heaven when everything happened, so for once, they weren't bickering about rats and the whatnot.
As Hermes walked closer, Zeus and the rest of the Olympians backed way farther from him. "Can you guys stop running from me? I just want to ask for help. " Hermes grumbled,, exasperated.
"You can ask us right where you are. And a question, why aren't you traumatized like Apollo?" Zeus asks as he pointed a finger at his son. Said Sun god was still in his corner, growing mushrooms and fungi as he mumbled about life and death.
Hermes heaved a dramatic sigh, a dark cloud raining over his head. "Honestly, it may be because I have been expecting something like this, I have mentally prepared myself for the worse. And this is much worse than I thought. Even I had to spend a few days mumbling in a corner like Apollo till I pull myself together. But still… why this? Why this?!" He all but screamed the last bit out, before succumbing to a coughing fit.
"Err… are you all right?" Zeus asked his son awkwardly before he was rewarded with a glare that said, 'Do I LOOK alright to you, you old man?!' as Hermes continued his coughing fit. Now, normally anyone who glared at Zeus would get punishment but… Hermes has the right to glare in his… condition right now…
Hermes himself usually never glares much, and especially at his father but he is most definitely not in the mood. Life is messed up right now and he can't find his son!
"Father, is there any way to turn me back to normal? And I also can't find my son!" Hermes asked as he cried tears of self-pity.
"We can go get Dionysus from the camp and have him check it out since Apollo is in no condition to." And Athena shivered at that before asking Hermes something they all wanted to know. "Besides, Hermes, why in Hades name are you wearing those things?!" Athena inquired, but she only received a blank look from the god.
"What are you talking about? Don't I normally wear this all the time?" Hermes replied, confused.
At the unexpected-yet expected-answer, they all frozen into ice cubes before Zeus broke out his cube and immediately demanded one of them to go get Dionysus to 'fix' his son. On no! His son was going mad!
They all went into various panic that somehow reminded Dionysus of headless chickens when he arrived at the site. He gave one look at what was causing the panic and fell into a heap, laughing his guts out. Oh how glad was he that he was given a 50 year punishment right now! If he were still here… this would have happen to him too!
As he eased his laughing fit, the other Olympians have calmed down when they noticed his presence. Dionysus reminded himself to thank Iris for telling him what happened to the throne room, even if the culprit did the same to his chair but at least he wasn't a target… he hopes…
"Alright. I heard from Iris that Hermes might have some kind of illusion on him and you want me to get rid of it right?" he directed at his father. Zeus nodded in confirmation and Dionysus became examining Hermes.
As Dionysus examined Hermes, his eyebrows rose up. The more he examine, the higher did his eyebrows go before they disappeared into his hairline. He was impressed. Very impressed. He knew how to get rid of the illusion on his sense of fashion, but he can't help out the old man part. He finished his examination and reported to his father at his discovery.
"Apparently whoever that did this is good, very good. It is subtle enough to escape a gods notice, and they won't notice anything wrong with themselves since it messes with certain senses. It was applied probably when he went to get changed or something. And the turned old man thing… Sorry, I can't helped with that. You have to find whoever did it or Apollo if he ever comes back to his senses." Dionysus finished, just in time before they were interrupted by a 'Yo!' from a person they didn't think they would be seeing for at least a few more months.
"Apollo!" Hermes cried out in relief.
At the sight, Apollo snickered. "What happened old buddy?"
"Same thing that happened to you." Was the retort.
Apollo only tilted his head confused. "What happened to me? I don't remember for some reason." He scratched his head sheepishly.
The other gods and goddess looked at him in shock, before Athena arrived at a conclusion. "His mind." This got her confused looks before she decided to elaborate. "Sometimes when a mind receives a huge shock, it would try to erase the memory by burrowing it deep in his consciousness so it could never be found. It is a way the mind protects itself, and it seems like that is what Apollo's mind did after what happened to him."
Apollo rubbed his chin. "So something really bad happened to me and my mind erased it so I will never remember it. Okay, I'm fine with not knowing. Sometimes it is better not knowing, especially since my mind took all the trouble to bury it." Apollo finished with a casual shrug.
"Can you revert whatever happened to me?" Hermes asks his old friend hopefully.
"Yeah, sure. Let's go." And they too teleported away, leaving Athena to gasps.
"I can't find my daughter!" she yelled out.
"Didn't Hermes said something about not finding his son either?" Ares asks Athena, but was interrupted when Hermes came back for a quick message. "I think my son has something to do with the prank in my house since I could detect a faint presence from him. So just saying, I think he is in league with the fox right now, and maybe your daughter too now." He finished and quickly left again.
The others, at the thought of a child of the wisdom goddess allying with the fox, all let out despaired wails. The fox was already devilish and hellishly smart, so what would happened with an added Athena child and a Hermes demigod?!
"Wait. My daughter is gone too!" Zeus wailed out. At the sentence, all the other gods and goddesses began to scramble to check on their sons and daughters, making sure they don't meet the devil fox.
~Flashback End~
Now, they were all taking watch on the camp, and their backs too. But the good thing was, was that the Japanese Gods have finally answered and will come in about a week.
Let's hope the rest of them can survive the week shall we?
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Luke was laughing. He was laughing so hard that he could have sworn he was laughing up a lung. Thalia, another demigod that they picked up was also laughing beside him, almost dying from the lack of air, while the last member of the demigod group was looking horrified at the TV that Naruto conjured up from who knows where.
Annabeth, the last demigod they had found and the youngest among them all did not want to die. Pranking gods, was a definite one way ticket to Hades, and she can't believe that they actually have the guts to do it! And she can't believe that she followed them as well when she knew-somewhere in the back of her mind-that those two were insane and inane.
But, a tiny piece of her also wants to laugh, laugh long and hard like the two beside her, but she doesn't want to bring on the wrath of the gods down on her.
When Thalia calmed down enough from her laughing, she decided to ask the culprits, "What did you two exactly do?" she asks, emphasizing on do.
Luke, with his chest puffed up in pride, began to explain what they did exactly.
~Flashback~
"What does these 'seals' as you call them do?" Luke asks his mentor as he applied it on mirrors, doors and anything around that is a part of the house. He had decided that the fox was his mentor-without permission-since he (At least he thinks it's a he) is so knowledgeable about breaking into people's homes and trapping plus pranking!
The reply he got was a manual thrown at his head which he promptly dodged and began to read. He was in awe. How was he supposed to know that those pieces of paper were so awesome? All it had was some random scribbles on it to him, but this said that the ones he were applying were illusion types and the other one an electric type!
Illusion makes him think the wrong way, and the electric to fry him! Continuously until they run out of juice! "What's 'Chakra' by the way" he asks the fox.
He only received a smack that wrote 'None of your businesses' on his cheek before he angrily wiped it off and continued his gluing. He decided. Electric was more painful right? So he would apply more of those! By matching the drawings that were on the seals against the manual, he successful applied over hundreds of seals.
'Fry! Damn it FRY! Fry till you become snake meat! Fry till you can't stand! Fry till you can't move! FRY!' was the evil chant that Luke had thought the whole time he was applying the seals.
~Flashback End~
"So that was why he was all charred and everything." Thalia said thoughtfully. "Can I have some of those 'seals'? They sound awesome!" she asked Luke excitedly.
"They are awesome! And you have to ask him for those 'seals'." Luke replied.
"I'll asked him later. So what's up with the pink… things that Hermes was wearing?" Thalia asks as even Annabeth moved closer to hear the explanation.
"Well, that was him." Luke pointed with a sweat-drop. He thought that maybe the fox gone overboard with what he did…
And so he began to explain to the two, what exactly did his mentor do.
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Naruto sighed. Why does he now have two extra baggage? He already got one that decided to follow him, why did he get two more now?
~Flashback~
"Can we have lunch? I'm hungry now." Luke complained.
Naruto felted his eyes twitched as he continued to ask until he felt the presence of another demigod. This one seems to be a child of Zeus and she seems to be hungry.
Naruto stopped walking and sighed, while Luke cheered. He got out his scroll and maximized it to let Luke look and choose what he wanted.
Luke could feel his eyes widen to impossible sizes as he looked at every food that could ever be found in the whole world in a single scroll. There were French, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and a lot of other foods he can't recognize.
He would have drool if he wasn't interrupted from his thoughts from some rustling in a nearby bush. He cautiously approached the tree and dodged… a girl? That came hurling at out of the bushes, a dagger in her hands. He took a look at her.
She had spiky black hair and electric blue eyes, reminding him of someone. Deciding to take a risk, he asked, "Are you a demigod?"
She looked at him in surprise, but nodded, until her stomach broke the atmosphere like what Luke's stomach did.
Grooowwl~
Thalia blushed, and glared at Luke, daring him to comment.
Luke only raised his hands in surrender before introducing himself. "The names Luke Castellan. Son of Hermes, nice to meet you and um, do you want something to eat? We have plenty." He said which earned him a glare from Naruto, as he is the one providing the food, even if it is unlimited!
Thalia nodded but and introduced herself. "Names Thalia. And I have to ask, what's up with the weird fox?"
Said weird fox only gained a vein on his head before writing her a short message. 'This weird fox here is your food ticket!' which only got him a small 'Okay?' from the punk little girl.
She was quickly introduced to the grand scroll of unlimited food, and ate till she almost burst. With a happy stomach, she quickly joined the little group without permission.
`Flashback End~
Naruto sighed. Annabeth joined in a similar fashion except the fact that she was being attacked, and the two, like idiots, randomly charged the monsters and he had to save their butts, again.
But now that he think about it, why does he still have the son of Hermes following him? Shouldn't it be around time for the kiddo to leave him and go find that camp of theirs? Sigh, maybe he should do them all a favor and just bring the kiddos to the camp and leave before the gods find him.
Nodding his head at the thought, he gathered up the three and put them on his back before running toward the direction of the camp. The sooner he has them off his back, the better.
So next destination. Camp Halfblood.
~Omake~
Luke could feel his eyes widen to impossible sizes as he looked at every food that could ever be found in the whole world in a single scroll. There were French, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and a lot of other foods he can't recognize.
He would have drool if he wasn't interrupted from his thoughts from some rustling in a nearby bush. He cautiously approached the tree and tried to dodge a dagger that flew at him. Keyword, tried. He was unsuccessful, and instead, the dagger went through his pants and cut off his testicles.
As he felled down in shock in pain, the owner of the dagger came out to apologize, as that was not her intentions while a nearby fox was only laughing his head off as he somehow reconnected the chopped off body part.
Luke decided. From then on, he will never approach a bush unprotected from a certain body part. Once was enough thank you very much. And no man wants to have his balls chopped off in the first place, even if they could be reattached since they have a certain fox with them.