Chapter one-
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Theme song: Don't stop By: Innerpartysystem
(A/N: Just before I start I want to say that Kai, knows Luke, Thalia and Annabeth because of the adventures in The Half-Blood Runaways, that all happened in this story. I just wanted to make that clear for some reason. Basically, something's DID happen, others didn't. Songs of Nikai didn't happen obviously, but Kai did run away with Luke, Thalia and Annabeth and DOES know Percy from Ethics of a Daughter of Time. I don't know why, I felt like I needed to explain that.
So, this is the sequel to Ethics of a Daughter of Time in this one, three years have passed. Kai looks sixteen, Nico is sixteen, and Kai's little brother Neo, is now five! Kai, Neo, Cole, Ali, Hazen and Valentein are all still together, but when they return to Camp Half-Blood a lot happens. It all starts when 2 new half-bloods arrive at camp, an adventure unfolds and Kai begins to see a bit more to the son of Hades, and they both discover, being in love is a pain in the neck…and is not as easy or painless as the majority of the worlds thinks…these are the Pains of a Daughter of Time.)
Lex-zi McKane's POV.
(This is a new character, she's based on my amazing friend who ran away about a week ago. She's been having a lot of family problems so she ran away. I'm really hoping she's okay, maybe she's a Half-Blood, running away to find Camp. I just hope she's okay, so I'm basing this character off of you Bri! Please come home safe and not chopped up in pieces!)
I never thought this day would come. The day that I finally did it. A week earlier Damon ran away from his seventeenth foster family, and he's once again with me. I didn't think the day would ever come, but sure enough, it did. Damon and I had been planning it for awhile, but it never seemed to happen. There was always something holding us back. We'd been planning to run away for a long time, and the day finally came, when we had no choice but to run away…for good.
It all started Monday morning, the morning of the week before summer. Started as the worst Monday of my life, ended as the best Monday of my life…to be completely honest, it was pretty exhilarating…
"Hey Lex-zi." Damon's voice said from behind me. It wasn't the usual I'm-Just-Kidding voice that he usually had, it was the type of voice that made you slightly afraid and extremely serious. He grabbed me by the arms and pulled me to a more private place. "I can't do this anymore!" He said harshly.
"Do what?" I asked him clueless.
"I can't keep going from foster home to foster home, eventually they're going to run out of foster homes in the area, and we'll be on different sides of the country. This was the seventeenth Lex! SEVENTEENTH! I just…can't do this anymore…I want to do it. Tonight." He demanded.
"J-just wait…one more day…please." I muttered.
"You just don't get it! Your father doesn't care! He hasn't been home in a month, what does that say?" He said, I hated when he did this, he knew the truth, and he wasn't afraid to say it. I couldn't be angry at him, because I knew it was the truth…
"Fine…" I said…that's when it happened. Hop-Along, our stalker, came hoping up to us…
His name was John, he transferred to the school two months ago and have been stalking us ever since, we were at the mall once, and we noticed him following us, we thought maybe he was just going to the same place. We walked all around the mall twelve times…and he WOULDN'T Stop following us…it was seriously creepy. The only thing that kept us sane was he never approached us…
And seeing him running up to us like this…yeah, ULTIMATE freak out.
"Crap, he's coming towards us! RUN!" Damon shouted in my ear, he didn't need to tell me twice…
I ran the fastest I could, that's when something REALLY freaky happened. John BAAHED, I've never heard of a stalker bah-ing.
"Did you HEAR that?" I shouted.
"Yeah, the dude BAHED!" Damon shouted between gasps, he just ran passed the McDonalds and we continued running…Hop-Along continued chasing us…
"W-WAIT YOU TWO! BAH!" He shouted, that's when things went from Freaky to Bizarre…he started taking off his pants…with one hand he was shoving down his pants with the other he was throwing off his hat…which revealed little goat horns…
"OH MYGOD!" I shouted, "I'M DREAMING! I HAVE TO BE DREAMING THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!" That's when he dropped the pants completely…to reveal furry little goat legs…
"OH MY GOD! IT'S MR. TUMNUS FROM NARNIA!" I shouted as Hop-Along rolled his eyes.
"I'M NOT A FAUN! THAT'S ROMAN! I'M A SATYR THAT'S GREEK! YOU TWO ARE IN TROUBLE!" He shouted…
"YEAH! FROM YOU!" I shouted. That's when we both ran into a HUGE, and I mean HUGE seven headed dragon…what's wrong with me! This can't be happening! That's when the dragon opened it's mouth, and green fire came racing towards me…and I knew it wasn't a dream…I felt the heat of the flames…and the fear…
This was not a dream.
-(two weeks later)-
Kai Laskaris's POV.
"DAMMIT NEO! GET OFF ME! I DON'T CARE WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE YOUGNER THAN ME! I CALLED THE LAST COOKIE AND THERE'S NO WAY IN HADES YOU'RE GETTING IT!" I shouted as the five year old tackled me, terrible twos and threes? Forget those, what about the terrible fives? Back when he was two and three he could talk less and wasn't as strong!
"IT'S NOT FAIR! YOU GOT THE COOKIE LAST TIME!" He shouted as he reached for it. I shoved it down my throat faster than his speedy little five-year-old hands could grab. "You're such a jerk!" I stuck my tongue out as Hazen and Valentein kissed. Yeah, they've been going out for around one year now…they were connected by the tonsils, and it was extremely disgusting…and I'm not talking dirty diaper disgusting, I'm talking, constant gagging disgusting…it was weird having two of my closest friends doing that…
Cole and Ali were out getting more food leaving me to baby-sit Neo. Sure he was my little brother, but that didn't mean he wasn't annoying. He had dark black hair that was spiked up in…well…spikes. He was around 4 foot and stronger than he looked. I'd like to take credit for that though because I'm the one who taught him all he knew…yeah, I'm awesome like that.
"Hey guys we're back and- Kai, why does Neo have you in a choke hold?" Ali asked as she and Cole came back with their arms full of junk food and awesome stuff. Something I've realized is that, as half bloods, and all the extra work we did, we really didn't need to watch our weight. We fought nearly everyday whether it was fighting eachother or fighting monsters and apparently fighting burns a lot of calories…
"SHE ATE THE LAST COOKIE!" Neo shouted angrily.
"She called dibs on it dude, get used to it." Cole said grabbing Neo by the collar and dragging him off me. I took a big breath in dramatically…that little jerk could've killed me!
"She called dibs on the LAST last cookie! It's not fair-" Neo began.
"And I call dibs on this last cookie too!" I shouted reaching for the Oreos which were, incidentally, at the bottom of Cole's stack of crap, which all came crashing to the ground. "OOPS!" I shouted…they all sighed as we all picked it up. We all had one backpack, one bag we had to carry everything in. And whatever was in the bag we had to be able to carry. I had ambrosia, nectar, a pair of spare clothes, a lot of food, and a magical ipod Apollo gave me after I blackmailed him.
"C'mon, we've got to get moving again or the monsters will catch up." I told them, "We're on the outskirts of Manhattan right now, I saw we-" I began when Neo interrupted.
"CAN WE GO TO THE ZOO! I've never been, and well…I've always wanted to go." He said, he acted mature sometimes, and was extremely strong, but there were times like this when I had to remember, he was just a kid. A five year old kid…he needed training, protecting, and time to grow and learn.
"The zoo? You know what? I think that would be fun, we should go." I said brightly… "The Staten Island Zoo is nearby, we should go. I hear they have an Italian festival every June, the Festa Italiana let's go." That's when the most magical thing happened and when I say magical, I mean predictable…
If there was one thing you should know about a half-bloods life is that it's unpredictable, you could be off on your merry way to grandmas for turkey day and the next second, be battling a Minotaur…the only thing that you can easily predict, is a monster attack and with four half-bloods and whatever me and Neo were, the monsters were on us like white on rice…
"The Nemean Lion, what a wonderful surprise…" I muttered, I was wearing one of it's pelts now, it was in the form of a hoodie at the current moment. "Neo, I don't believe you've ever fought a Nemean Lion before, aim for it's mouth, it's hide is thick and it's mouth is it's only weak point." I coached the younger boy, lately, he's been getting stronger, and I've been letting him handle the fights…ya gotta nail it into him somehow right? Building pain tolerance is also a good thing…but if he was nearly dying, of course I'd jump in…maybe…he was pretty annoying sometimes…
Neo grinned, "I got this one sis, just you relax and watch the-" He began as he jumped out of the way before it tackled him to the ground…the trees around us were tall and thick, they provided coverage from the world around us. Basically, so no cops would come rushing around the corner and see a wild lion trying to attack us poor kids that happened to be wielding guns (swords) That had happened many times before and so, we tried to keep out of the public eye. It wasn't easy though…
Neo did a James Bond roll and stepped back as the lion took a hairpin curve, bounding off from the tree. It launched itself, claws first, Neo pushed the lion back with his sword but the sword did no damage due to it's hard pelt. The claws nearly reached Neo, but he turned right in time, only his jacket was torn.
"SHIT I LIKED THAT JACKET!" He shouted.
"NO SWEARING NEO! YOU'RE ONLY FIVE!" I shouted.
"You're-" He dodged "-such a-" He struck "-a hypocrite!" He shouted as the lion raced towards him, the lion bounded destroying our tent entirely…or wait, no that was Hazen and Valentein's tent, haha suckers…I wasn't laughing for long though, because quickly after, Neo led him to MY tent to which the lion shredded like some sort of Lion-Designed Paper Shredder.
"POSEIDON'S SALTY BUTT HOLE! NEO! YOU'RE SO PAYING FOR MY NEW TENT!" I shouted as he rolled against the dirty ground, dodging the lion's claws again. "Hurry up and finish it!" I shouted. That's when Neo decided to put his creative side at use. He grabbed a broken branch and dipped it in the fire. Waving it around like a baton, the lion backed off and roared, at which point Neo shoved the stick into the lion's mouth holding it open as he stuffed his scythe in it's mouth and tore open it's entire jaw, the monster exploded into dust…and I grinned…I was so proud!
He was sweaty, covered in dirt, ash…and golden dust. He stared at me and arched an eyebrow. As he questioned me, "Poseidon's salty butt hole?" He said skeptically. I shrugged.
"I'm trying to set and example to not swear! Don't judge my creative substitutes for swears!" I scolded pointing at the jacket, "Now put on your new jacket. We need to take some showers, you look like shi- I mean, you look like crap. I know a lake nearby." I said as I threw him the jacket, it fit him well. Neo had a classic celestial bronze scythe that could turn itself into the form of a scythe necklace.
I stuck with Amyntas, as for Valentein and Hazen, Valentein had a 1 ½ foot dagger and Hazen used a knife while Ali used her bow and arrows and Cole had an amazing hunting rifle I gave him, it was lightweight for a child of Ares and it worked good with his reckless style…
That's when I noticed Neo's twisted ankle. I frowned. "When did that happen!" I shouted pointing.
"When my foot got tangled in your tent." He said, "I mean, what used to be your tent." I rolled my eyes as he jumped on my back, "Heheh, piggy back ride!" He cheered, like I said, he was still only five. "Can we still go to the zoo today? OOOH! LOOK A SQUIRREL!" Did I mention he had ADHD and Dyslexia too like any other half-blood? Because he did have ADHD, he had it BAD. He jumped off my back, tried to run, and fell in the attempt due to his ankle…
"Well at least you know he wasn't just hitching a ride." Hazen said helping Neo up.
"Cole it's your turn!" I shouted lifting Neo onto his back.
"What! Since when was this 'turns'?" He said.
"I teach him how to fight, and not swear-" "You're doing a great job on latter." "SHUT UP! My point is, I do enough work, you're the transport, he's half your brother too!" I accused.
"He's actually only a quarter my brother, one quarter my brother, one quarter Ali's brother and half your brother! What about Ali?" He complained.
"She teaches him history and all that nonsense I never paid attention to!" I said as he rolled his eyes.
"C'mon Neo." He said as he lifted up Neo. "Which way to the waterfall Oh-Great-And-Powerful-Bossy-One?" I slapped him on the head.
"I liked it before you got to "bossy"" I said as he laughed, "And it's a lake, not a waterfall. Don't get your expectations to high, even if it is June it will probably cold as Hades. Take note Neo, I didn't say Hell I said Hades! See, I'm trying!"
"But you just said Hell." He retorted I slapped my forehead…I'm really no good at this parenting crap…I admired all parents from this point forward… If being a parent was this exhausting 24/7, I'm most certainly NEVER having kids. Besides, from all the screaming they do on TV, it seemed extremely painful too…
All the trees were overgrown and you had to be careful if you didn't want to trip over a root and be introduced to the dirt, or for me, RE-introduced. My face and the dirt were long time besties at this point.
"Aw…dam-" Ali began.
"You mean, DARN." I hissed.
"Oh, yeas, aw…darn it I hate the forest…" Ali muttered sarcastically. "You know Kai, you're really failing and this isn't working out, you've brought him up teaching him that intentional maiming and slight facial disfigurement was okay, now you're telling him swearing isn't okay? It's a FAIL get over it Kai, you swear enough anyways."
"STOP SAYING THAT! I can change! And stop complaining, it's just a little longer…" I said, the dirt paths in front of us were dry due to the summer heat, the trees were various and the trails were worn over by overgrowth and other stuff. I heard the rushing of water and looked over to see a small creak with a manmade bridge thing over it, there was two boys there, with a pack of cloves…
I rolled my eyes. "Neo, those are called stoners, ignore them." I said, then realized the boy was asleep…
We passed over another hill and finally came to a glistening lake, it wasn't big, but it was beautiful the lake water glittered beautifully under the sun. I half expected a group of naiads to be inhabiting it… The glistening lake water reflected the trees in the distance, and the sun casting down on it, the entire thing was absolutely marvelous, like a small bit of peace in a world of complete chaos…
"NEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I shouted in the boy's ear.
"HOLLY APHRODITE'S NIPPLE!" He shouted as we all stared at the younger boy, how he knew the word "nipple" I will never know…
"You're a bloody five year old pervert!" I shouted as he smirked in return.
"Hey, I'm just coming up with creative new swears without using swear words, curtsey of your guidance." He retorted grinning this annoying grin that just made me wanna punch him! "And anyways, where are we?" he asked as he looked around studying the scenery…
"We're at the lake, jump in and get bathing." I said as the boys went first, us girls turned the other way. SO what if we were half-bloods or on the run, it didn't matter, decency is decency and privacy is privacy and both of those things weren't about to change.
"If you could have ANY car what car would it be?" Ali asked staring up at the sun dreamily, daughter of Apollo, remember? Something I couldn't help but notice is that Aphrodite and Apollo BOTH have multiple kids in the same age range which makes me wonder a lot of things…it also made me wonder what would happened if Aphrodite and Apollo got together and had a kid…
Engulfed in my little ADHD thoughts I realized everyone was staring at me. "What?" I asked.
"If you could have ANY car what car would it be?" Ali asked again.
"Oh, definitely a purple Aston Martin DB9." I told them as the boys finished bathing we got in…after that we played for awhile at the lake…Ali was building a sand castle with Neo and I was resting a floaty that Hazen just HAPPENED to have in his bag. What that boy had in his bag never ceased to amaze me. His bag was like a 24/7 Convenience Store. It was really quite amazing…
That's when a familiar kid with sea green/blue eyes came around the corner kissing a blonde girl…
"Hades sweaty gym trunks…" I muttered, "PERCY?" I shouted as they jerked their heads towards our group of…1, 2, 3…4, 5…6
"KAI!" They shouted. I grinned.
"It is you fish breath!" I shouted. As he frowned, he and Annabeth looked to be around twenty at this point. I grinned, it's when I spotted the ring on Annabeth's ring finger…heheh…aw…young love.
"Fish Breath?" He muttered. "Anyways, what are-"
"WHO THE HELL IS THIS DUDE?" Neo shouted…as I hit him.
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT SWEARING?" He rolled his eyes.
"Wait…that can't be…that's that little midget of an overlord!" Percy shouted.
"What?" Neo shouted…I sighed…I had a lot of explaining to do.
"Don't you remember seaweed brain? He was reverted back into a two year old!" Annabeth scolded. As Percy got that "oh" look on his face. I laughed at his face…it was a funny face…
"What are you doing here?" He exclaimed.
"Floating." I retorted sarcastically gesturing to the floaty.
"We're going to the zoo after this!" Neo cheered, as he accidentally tripped over his sand castle…he frowned and glared at it…then began further kicking it. "STUPID SAND CASTLE! THIS IS REVENGE FOR TRIPPING ME!" He shouted at it…
"Yeah…he's a troubled little five year old." I explained as they laughed. "So, you two on your pre-marriage honeymoon?" I asked grinning pointedly toward the ring. Percy was taller than I remember, he was wearing a blue tee shirt with his camp half-blood bead necklace that now had eight beads on it… Annabeth stood next to him looking extremely happy, she had her old Yankee's hat on and wore a park of Capri's with a Camp Half-Blood tee shirt…her bead necklace now had…damn, thirteen beads on it.
"Heheh, you two are getting old." I said.
"And you actually look like you're aging Kai." Annabeth said, "I thought you were immortal."
"Yeah, little trick I learned last year, I can make myself grow with my time powers, it's a nice trick." I told her, "So, how's life married, excuse me, engaged to a guy with a brain made of kelp?"
"Surprisingly…not that bad." She said grinning as she stared over at her fiancé who was playing with Neo in the sand immaturely… Percy was a good guy, he and Annabeth were going to be happy for a long time. But I swear to the Gods, if that guy hurt Annabeth I'd kill him myself I stab him all over until I found his Achilles heel. But I figured, Percy's out of Annabeth's range if there was any heart breaking, she'd be the one doing it… "So, how's life raising Neo?" She asked.
"You were a lot easier to raise Annabeth…probably because you were a daughter of Athena…either way, I promised Neo I'd take him to the zoo today, so we'd better get going.
"Hey, you should go visit camp half-blood sometime…you haven't seen Nico in what? Three years? Might be time for a little reunion." She said standing up from the sand as she and Percy left…leaving me thinking about her words.
We packed up our stuff and got ready to head out…
(A/N: I'm working on creating more creative swears that aren't swears for the sake of little Neo, so if you have any suggestions please tell me!)
We finally reached the zoo, we stood in the ticket line while Neo looked at everything around him with wide excited eyes. Hazen and Valentein were busy looking into each other's "loving eyes" and Ali and Cole were fighting over something only siblings would fight over…I stared at them all…they were all my family. I thought about Annabeth's suggestion. Tonight, we should stay at Camp Half-Blood, it would be safe for them and we could maybe get a full nights sleep…
I owed it to them to give them something…I finally reached the front of the line, Neo and Ali were both still children but the rest of us were adults so more money… "Four adult tickets two children tickets please." I said as I forked over the debit card I had. Credit cards are the ENEMY! Apparently we got these cool animal hats so, I gave mine to Neo so he got two.
(A/N: By the way, I've never been to the Staten Island Zoo, so I'm making all this up, I've done a little research but not much…so excuse me if you're from New York or you've actually been to that Zoo, I know NOTHING!)
"So, what do we see first?" I asked them.
"THE SNAKES!" Hazen shouted. Figures, snakes are Hermes animal of power…
"THE LEOPARDS!" Valentein shouted out, she had Dionysus's personality more than Aphrodite's, figured she'd want to see the leopards, I just considered myself lucky that she wasn't wearing leopard print everything like Dionysus had a habit of doing.
"Do they have boars here?" Cole asked curiously, but trying not to sound too curious seeing as he's been pretending this whole time like this was all one big nuisance, but I knew he liked this as much as the others. It was funny how they all shouted out their parents animal symbols…
"Let's let Neo decide, he's the one who wanted to come here in the first place." I said as we turned to Neo. He grinned mischievously…if I didn't know better I'd say he had a bit of Hermes in him.
"I wanna go to the café first, I'm hungry." He said as I laughed…
"You're always hungry, Neo you're gonna get fat." I scolded as we headed toward the café, we got some food and headed toward the pavilion, it was a large place full of blue topped plastic tables and glass windows on the roof that were tinted blue. The trees around were pretty and there was a pink sakura tree in the back. We ate and I asked Neo what he wanted to see first.
"Those big things, with the floppy ears and the long toes!" He shouted.
"You mean and elephant? And they don't have long toes Neo, they have long TRUNKS." I corrected him while picking a piece of food out from his hair, how it got there I have no idea. "Okay, we'll go there first, then let's just go in order of whatever the place has." I said as we headed towards the African Savannah…
After that we were outside looking at the red panda when it happened…
"Look at it it's so-o-o-o cute!" Ali squealed pointing at the fluffy object that she thought was the panda…
"Ali, I hate to break it to you," Cole said trying not to laugh, "but that's a bush." Her jaw dropped as we burst out laughing. She frowned.
"There it is!" Neo exclaimed, it was a mix between a fox, a raccoon, and a cat but I certainly did not see the panda. It was descending headfirst down the trunk of a tree. It's orange and light orange colored tail was wrapped around the tree and it scattered down with ease. "It still is pretty cute…" He said.
"Ali doesn't think it's cuter than the bush though." Hazen mocked her as we laughed again and she glared at us evilly, no, not evilly, more like she was offended. And that's when it happened, a loud growling could be heard followed by a bark…we all looked at eachother sharing each other's concern.
"Okay, let's just hope it's a pack of rabid wolves and the zoo keepers will take care of it." Valentein suggested, but we all recognized the sound. A hellhound…oh joy. On the one day we wanted to just have a nice afternoon at the zoo.
"Stay here, I'll take care of it." I said as I leaped off. I saw what looked like a giant black mastiff but was really just a hellhound, or, I thought it was just a wild hellhound, but no hellhound could've been that fat. I recognized it immediately. The only fat hellhound alive was Mrs. O'Leary…
That's when I heard the shouting…
"DAMMIT YOU FAT!" A familiar voice shouted, it was odd using the word "Fat" as a noun…Mrs. O'Leary skidded to a halt when she saw me, and I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that she licked me or the fact that a group of angry zoo keepers were chasing her with stun guns and nets… The funny part about this whole scene was the fact Mrs. O'Leary had an ice cream cart in her mouth and ice cream all over her face…she dropped the cart at my feet waiting for me to throw it like a giant stick…
"You are a fail." I muttered angrily at the hellhound as some black haired boy raced around the corner. He grabbed a hold of the leash I now saw was connected to the spiked collar around Mrs. O'Leary's neck. It was as odd as it was humorous… That's when the boy tripped over an empty Sprite can and tripped allowing the zoo keepers enough time to catch up and hit Mrs. O'Leary with a stun dart…
If there is a graceful way for a hellhound to fall, I sure haven't seen it, as Mrs. O'Leary fell a cloud of dust rose up and a loud BAM was heard. Imagine the sound the Hulk would make walking to the super market, that's sort of how it sounded…
"Sir, is this your dog?" A zoo keeper asked.
"Uh…yeah, sure." the boy responded as he stood up from the ground. The zoo keeper began going over the rules and stuff when the boy snapped his fingers. "You saw nothing, my dog is taking a nap." As the mist clouded around their pathetic mortal minds and they left… the boy turned to the dog and sighed.
"There is no way in Hades I am lugging this fatty back to camp." He hissed as I laughed. He looked up and noticed me for the first time, he grinned. "Long time no see Kai." He said.
I arched an eyebrow, the boy looked familiar…who was he? How did he know me?
"Who are you?" I shouted, "Or rather, let me put it this way. If I owe you money, I don't know you."
"Honestly? REALLY? After all that you don't remember me?" he shouted…as Neo, Cole and Ali came around the corner with Valentein and Hazen…
"Who's he?" Valentein questioned I shrugged. I studied him, he was wearing black converse with dark blue skinny jeans and a black MCR tee shirt…why did he look so familiar? He had a black and white plaid jacket with tears that looked recent and he looked super familiar…he had black hair was the messy and smooth in the front and messy and spiked in the back.
"Wow…just, wow. REALLY? YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME?" He shouted again.
"Is he another guy you owe money?" Cole asked. The boy rolled his eyes…HIS EYES! They were a deep green, that's when I recognized him! I knew exactly who this guy was, I was stupid not to realize it earlier!
"I REMEMBER! Of course! I'm pretty dense sometimes, after everything we went through, I really should've recognized you." I said.
"THANK YOU! FINALLY!" He shouted throwing his arms in the air dramatically.
"It's been a long time Raymond." I said as he glared back at me, dropping his arms.
"Do you guys really not remember? Even I remember and I met him when I was TWO!" Neo said, WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! NEO REMEMBERED THIS GUY? HOW IN ALL THAT'S HOLLY DOES HE KNOW THIS GUY? "That's that son of Hades, Nico di Angelo." Neo said…wow…
"No way, he was NOT that hot." I retorted, "He was shorter!"
"Yeah, it's called aging. And I'm flattered you think I'm hot." this "Nico" guy responded. I blushed…maybe I shouldn't have said that…
"And who's Raymond?" Hazen asked me…
"Long story." I said, "WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! ZEUS'S HOLLY BUGGERS! YOU CAN'T BE-"
"Zeus's holly buggers?" Neo asked skeptically.
"YES! I TOLD YOU TO STOP CRITICIZING MY CREATIVE SWEARS! They're for your benefit you potty mouth!" I shouted as I turned back to Nico. "Now that I think about it…you do look a lot like him…WAIT! I know a way to prove it!" I said as I approached him, and poked him on the shoulder. It happened so quickly, his arm swung up and I dodged just in time to avoid his punch. "YOU ARE NICO!"
"How did you know my arm did that when I was poked there!" He shouted.
"When we were on that quest, Percy was trying to wake you up and he poked you on the shoulder and he got punched in the face." I told him as he got an "oh" expression on his face.
"That explains why he was ignoring me for the rest of the day." He muttered.
"Yup, now what are you doing here?" I asked him.
"I was taking Mrs. O'Leary on a walk because, well, you can see how badly she needed some exercise, and well, she's an overweight hellhound and bounded here…and now that the zoo keeper shot her with the stun dart, I have to carry her all the way back to camp half-blood, THIS DOG NEEDS TO GO ON A SERIOUS DIET!" He shouted…as he poked the Mrs. O'Leary's potbelly.
"We could help." Neo suggested. Nico's head jolted up with puppy dog eyes…hahaha…they were cute. They shone like diamonds in a spotlight, but they were so green they were kind of…amazing.
"What? Are we gonna get the worlds biggest gurney and march her back to Camp Half-Blood?" I asked. Nico stared at the fat unconscious hellhound. "or were you thinking of calling upon my magical dragon puff again?" I asked him referring back to 3 years ago as he cracked a smirk that wasn't quite a smile. I remembered how he always did that, I wondered why…did he lack the ability to smile?
"We could get pegasus' to help fly her back to camp." Ali suggested. Nico noticeably cringed.
"Let's see, horses? Me? Bad idea, they freak out because they "smell death" around me." He said.
"Can we stuff her into some sort of tube and roll her camp half-blood?" Cole questioned…we all stared at him questioning his brain powers. Then I remembered, son of Ares, not the brightest crayon in the Crayola box… "Or…not." Valentein muttered.
"What about just carrying her?" Hazen offered.
"She's a hellhound that weighs nearly as much as Cerberus, over 500 pounds and you really want to carry her back to Camp which is all the way back in Montauk." Neo stated. His idea melted away…
"Okay, why not shadow travel her?" I asked Nico.
"Do you know how much energy it takes to shadow travel a Fat like that?" He asked, "Normally when I shadow travel with Mrs. O'Leary she pulls her own weight…literally…"
"Okay, let's just wait for the lazy fat to wake up." I stated…so we decided to wait. We all stood around her staring at her like some sort of interesting specimen…that just happened to be giant…and furry…I got bored and began poking her…she made no signs of movement, if she wasn't exploding into dust I'd suspect she was dead…
"Okay, let's try this." Nico said slapping the dog…Mrs. O'Leary flopped over lazily and continued snoring…
"My turn." Cole called as he slapped the dog.
"HERA'S SMELLY ARMPITS! STOP SLAPPING THE POOR DOG!" I shouted…Neo arched an eyebrow saying: "Hera's smelly armpits? Really?" I retorted with a look that says: "Yes, don't question me." He rolled his golden eyes that matched mine so well.
"Oh yes, but poking it repeatedly is okay?" Nico retorted.
"Yes, yes it is! Okay…let's try something else." I said as we stared at the dog. "…any one have any bacon?" I asked as they stared at me strangely… "Okay, fine!" I shouted insulted, that's when it happened, a kid was walking by with a hot dog when it fell on the ground. Mrs. O'Leary's eyes shot open and she bounded towards the hot dog and licked it up in one long slurping sound…
"Okay…that was easier than I thought." I said… "Let's get to Camp Half-Blood. Nico, you can take Fatty Mc Flabby here back now, we'll meet you there." He nodded and shadow traveled off.
"That was the most amazing day of my LI~FE!" Neo shouted…
We all stared at him funny…
"Wow…"
(A/N: Okay, what'd you think? Okay? Too short? Too long? I've been trying to make them longer, I've been really inspired by taco's lately…so, I've been eating a lot of them. I have no idea why I said that. I wont be updating until I get some reviews or until I figure out where the hell this story is going. Okay, please review, and creative swears will be appreciated, for Neo's sake!)