AN: SRRY I haven't updated in awhile, but I don't know where I should take this story next. I want Isabell and Christi to go on some sort of quest but I can't think of anything that would be fitting. Of course, it doesn't help that I keep thinking about the other story I'm going to write. If you have any ideas for a quest, please tell me in a review! HELP!
Disclaimer-enough said.
It was three days before the wedding and everyone was running around like mad trying to get ready. Some of the guests had been arriving over the last several days, along with some of the campers that had gotten out of school early. Of course the year round campers had been helping out with the wedding in their spare time, too.
"When are Kezi and Athan getting here with Percy's sister?" Thalia asked Annabeth as they steamed her wedding dress.
Kezi and Athan were friends of these demigods for years now. They were first met them when Annabeth had gone missing and Percy's prophecy to find her had directed him to them. They helped to find Annabeth and along the way became close friends with Percy and Nico. In turn, they were now together for all the big things that happened in their lives. They had found Percy's little sister (Poseidon's daughter) trying to run away while they were looking for Annabeth and took her along with them. She had run away because she didn't like to be at camp without her brother there with her. Kezi and Athan had started to look at this little girl like a daughter and took her in when they were married shortly after finding Annabeth. Kezi was a grandchild of both Poseidon and Athena, and a great-grandchild of Nemesis. She was tall at 5'11", had long brown hair, and powerful dark brown eyes from the mixture of the bright sea green eyes of Poseidon and stormy gray eyes of Athena. Athan was a grandchild of Zeus and Hades. He was also tall at 6'3", had extremely dark black hair, and midnight blue eyes. The couple was extremely powerful and had powers that the kids of their respective grandparents did not possess. (AN: Read the other story I'm going to publish for more information.)
"I think they're supposed to be here at three, which is a little less than four hours from now." Annabeth responded as she looked at the clock.
No sooner had she said this than Juniper walked into the room followed by the very people they were just talking about.
"Congratulations, Thalia!" Kezi squealed as she ran to hug Thalia. The two had originally hated each other's guts and were constantly at each other's throats. Thalia had always been acting rashly without thinking if she was right or wrong with her actions, which clashed completely with Kezi's personality. Her personality was strange for her god percentage. One would think that she would either be quick tempered like the sea (which she was occasionally) or she would be a total Athena personality where she would think she was always right. But she wasn't either one of those (usually) she was always quickly and carefully judging if something was right or wrong, good or bad, balanced or unbalanced like Nemesis.
"Thanks!" Thalia laughed, "Did you get the whole story or just half?"
Kezi smiled "Whole, of course! I don't assume things. If I'm going to come here and congratulate someone, I'm going to get all of the info and say it once."
"Why are you here so early? You have, like, a 10 hour drive!" Annabeth asked.
"Oh, so now you don't want us?" Kezi laughed "Actually, we stopped in Philadelphia yesterday to see the liberty bell, this morning Lena was insisting on leaving early to get here."
"You mean a teen actually woke up early enough to drive from Philly to Northern Long Island by 11 a.m.? Who would have guessed?" Annabeth said sarcastically.
The girls all laughed and talked while getting ready for the wedding over the course of the next few days. The guys on the other hand weren't so easy-going. They spent most of their time with Dionysus.
"Not to be positive, but I actually like having that daughter of Zeus getting married!" Dionysus exclaimed before taking a long drink of his wine. "We should marry off all of the children of Zeus so I can keep drinking!"
"Mr. D," Chiron intervened trying to take away the bottle of wine he held. "I do realize that it's been many years since you've been allowed to drink, but please let up on the alcohol, you're starting to scare the campers."
Nico took the bottle away from Mr. D and drank all that was left trying to drown his panic. He wasn't taking the fact that he was getting married in a few days very well. "I need more!" He yelled running towards the cooler.
Percy tried to throw himself between Nico and the cooler to keep Nico from going too far but Nico just grew a wall of rocks from the ground that Percy slammed into. Soon Athan walked around the corner of the big house and immediately realized what Nico was trying to do. He leapt onto his back and threw him to the ground.
"Nico," He said. "That's enough, you can't keep your wedding from happening like this all you're going to do is make it worse."
Nico tried to throw him off but failed. Then he tried to form rocks to pull him off, but Athan had power over the rocks too, and threw them right back. "Come on, man" Nico whined with a last attempt to get rid of Athan.
Athan stood up and pulled Nico up with him. "Now apologize to Percy."
Nico looked at Percy who was pulling his bruised self up off the ground. "Oh, gods, I'm so sorry Percy! I guess I was just trying to make the stress of this go away." He turned to Athan. "Thanks, does it really only make it worse?"
Athan half laughed "Much worse. It's really not any fun to have a hangover while you're getting married."
"That's why you don't stop drinking!" yelled the drunk Dionysus from his pinochle table.
Percy, Athan, and Chris rolled their eyes.
"So," said Percy, "How's my sister?"
"She's fine. You know she reminds me a lot of Kezi when we were eighteen."
"I can't believe she's eighteen already!" Percy groaned. "I was only seventeen when my dad showed up at my cabin in the middle of the night and told me I was to take care of her until someone else would be able to. She was just a week old!" The other guys nodded in acknowledgement.
"So what's new here?" Athan asked as the group walked into the sword fighting arena.
The guys started to fill him in as they broke up into pairs and started practice fighting.
It was the day of the wedding and everyone was excited. Thalia had just gotten into her beautiful dress with a sky blue sash in the Zeus cabin and all of the guests were filing into the woods and sitting on the benches set up in rows for the ceremony. All of the girls were hugging each other and trying not to cry.
"The last one of us is getting married!" Annabeth said chocking back her tears and pulling away from hugging Thalia.
"I know!" Clarisse said, the tough girl, the only one who couldn't get control of her tears as they spilled down her face, causing everyone else to lose control too.
As they regained control over themselves someone knocked on the door and Kezi walked over to answer it. When she opened it, she found the father of the bride dressed in a brand new pin striped suit. "Lord Zeus, come in." Kezi said stepping aside.
"Thalia, as much as I hate that you quit the hunters, I'm glad that Aphrodite picked Nico to be with you." Zeus told his daughter.
"Aw, Dad!" Thalia said trying not to cry again, knowing how hard it was for him to tell her that and also knowing that he meant it. She held her arms out for him to hug her. Thalia had changed a lot over the years. She was no longer the hard punk girl that she was before she joined the hunters, and she cares about things more, too.
"Now" said Zeus, "it's time to start the wedding."
All of the gods and goddesses were there, even the minor gods and Artemis, who was still mad at Thalia for leaving her hunters. Her brother was sitting towards the front next to his girlfriend who they also befriended on the quest. Nico was standing up by Chiron with Percy standing behind him. One of the younger daughters of Zeus was sprinkling flower petals up the aisle with a young son of Hades following behind her carrying two rings. Behind them were Thalia's three bridesmaids and her maid of honor, Annabeth. When Annabeth reached Chiron, music came on and everyone stood up as Zeus took Thalia down the aisle.
After the ceremony, the wedding party and guests moved to the dining pavilion to start the reception. Before the food was eaten, friends and gods made toasts.
"To Thalia and Nico. I wish you luck with my sis, Nico, you're gonna need it." Jason joked.
"My prized x-leader, I don't approve of your getting married, but I wish you luck and many years together." Artemis said.
"Well, I hope your marriage is short, so you can get a divorce and remarried as many times as possible!" Dionysus, who was still drunk, toasted before falling off the side of the pavilion as Thalia gasped and Nico laughed.
"Hmm, well, you'll have to excuse him. Since my daughter was getting married, I let up on his punishment for a little while and he abused it. I won't let it happen again." Zeus promised. "Anyway, here's to my little girl. I hope my wife allows you two many years together."
"Fine. You've grown on me over the years anyway. But the main reason is because you're Jason's sister. I like him." Hera relented.
"It'll be hard to follow that, but I'll try." Percy started "To Pinecone Face and Corpse Breath…"
"Percy." Annabeth cautioned.
"Annabeth." Percy mimicked. "Anyway, I always knew you two would end up together…"
"We." Annabeth interrupted.
"I'm sorry Annabeth; would you like to do this?" Annabeth shook her head. "Then stop. As I was saying, we always knew you would end up together. You balance each other out."
After dinner, everyone headed to the beach where a huge platform had been assembled and an Apollo camper had started to play music. Everyone had taken to the dance floor and was dancing to a fast song. After two hours of dancing, another fast song came on and the newlyweds went to sit down and take a break.
"So," Kezi started as she and Athan walked up to sit with them, "How have your first few hours of being married been?"
"It's been great!" Nico got excited "Though this might be the best part."
"Now that's not true!" Athan corrected. "Just wait about a year and it'll get better. You know, after the baby starts sleeping through the night."
"Oh, another slow song! I love these!" Thalia said.
Kezi laughed. "Go enjoy it before it's over."
The couple moved out to the middle of the dance floor and started dancing. They leaned their foreheads against the other's and shared a loving look.
"I love you Thals." Nico whispered.
"I love you, too Nico." Thalia whispered.