Me: Whazzup guys? Sorry for not updating for so long. Here's an extra long chapter to make up for it but you guys are AMAZING! Thanks so much for helping me reach my goal of 100 reviews which also means that there will be a huge shout-out for everyone at the end of this story! Also, here's a special shout-out to the 80th, 90th and 100th reviewers! Zeus, will you read the shout-out?
Zeus: Fine. Special shout-out to Ivy000 for being the 80th reviewer! This authors stories of the penguins of Madagascar were incredibly funny, Hunger games story was amazing and the Artemis Fowl fanfic was extremely awesome! This is to Ivy000, the 80th reviewer!
Me: Thank you. Poseidon?
Poseidon: The 90th reviewer is actually THE BACON NINJA WITH WINGS, but since this person didn't have any stories, this user let it be passed on to the 91st reviewer who is Yami Princess whose story of Pokémon was extremely cool, and her story of Yu-Gi-Oh was just plain awesome and being the god of the sea, I know what I'm talking about. This is to Yami Princess and THE BACON NINJA WITH WINGS, the 90th and 91st reviewers!
Me: Very nice. Hades?
Hades: Do I have to do this? Fine. Special shout-out to Amirexia for being the 100th reviewer! What else was there... oh right. This authors story about Sherlock Holmes and the Avengers was worthy of Athena and the other story about the Avengers was incredible. This is for Amirexia, the 100th reviewer!
Me: Thank you Hades. That was great and now without further wait, here is the seventh chapter of Road Trip. Hope you enjoy!
Zeus's POV
My plan was brilliant, sending us to Universal Studios. The look on their faces were priceless and would've gotten millions of views if I had posted it on Hephaestus TV. As we all stumbled out of the ancient grey taxi and passed the admissions, we were greeted by and array of rides, corny carnival games and a ton of mortal food that probably could have rivaled the power of the cornucopia, if the cornucopia sprouted unhealthy mortal junk that had enough oil and sugar to give a buffalo a heart attack.
"What should we do?" Thalia asked as we got our bucket of popcorn, her blue eyes wide with awe as she looked around at all the different things we could do. Instantly the two green-eyed teenagers pointed to one of the rides with a huge waterfall and waves as high as the palm trees that soaked everyone within soaking range.
"Jurassic Park" Poseidon read, looking at first at the map then at the ride, whistling appreciatively. "There is a ton of water on that ride and it feels great, doesn't it Hades?" A small jet of water appeared out of nowhere and splashed the Lord of the dead on the face, making him splutter and curse. Nico snickered but turned to point at another ride, farther in the distance with fake fire and statues of Mummies lining the walls.
"That looks good. It's called the..." he squinted, trying to read the sign. "It's the Rage of the Mango"
"Er, Nico? That says Revenge of the Mummy, not Rage of the Mango" Hades broke in, chasing the laughing Sea God around and brandishing a rolled up map, one of worlds most dangerous weapons, "But Rage of the Mango would make a pretty cool ride." He now began pelting Poseidon with another of the worlds most dangerous weapons, popcorn.
"Rage of the Mango?" Percy snickered, dodging the flying missiles and trying to brush them out of his hair as they flew by, "Seriously?"
"Oh shut it. You probably would've read it Jurassic Park like... like Jerking Pancakes or something" the son of Hades retorted.
Percy's jaw dropped. "How did you know? I mean, no, why would I read it as Jerking pancakes? I'm not some creepy son of Hades that can't read"
"I can so read! And if you don't be quiet, I'm going to cut off your head and label it 'Percy Jackson, son of the Sea God, winner of the most annoying Demigod award' "
"And spell half the words wrong"
"You're impossible!" Nico exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air.
Percy's snorted, but his voice was a little wistful as he said: "You sound like Annabeth"
Thalia looked thoughtful as she glanced around at all the different rides. Finally, she shook her head. "I don't know. I'm fine with whatever, though seriously?" She turned to look at her scowling younger cousin with one eyebrow raised. "Rage of the Mango?"
"I know right! But let's go to Jurassic Park. it looks wayyyyyyy cooler then Revenge of the Mummy" Percy persisted, joining in the fun and grabbing handfuls of popcorn to both stuff in his mouth and throw at his younger cousin.
"Mmmmhmmm!" Poseidon agreed. his own mouth full of popcorn.
Nico shook his head vigorously and ducked as a flurry of kernels flew by his ear. "Revenge of the Mummy" he insisted as he and Hades frantically retreated from the two grinning water people.
Percy snickered. "Rage of the Mango you mean"
"Oh shut it Kelphead"
"Excuse me, but who are you calling Kelphead?" Poseidon asked, his green eyes gleaming mischievously.
Hades took one step forward, grabbed the bucket of popcorn and overturned it on the stunned Sea Gods face. "I am, Kelphead"
Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. " Guys, stop it!" I demanded, trying to do my 'I-am-the-king-of-the-gods-and-if-you-don't-stop-I -will-blast- you-into-smithereens-glare'. "Now, get us a bucket of popcorn since you wasted it all."
The arguing people sighed in disappointment but soon, Hades came back with another bucket of popcorn and offered it to me. "Here you go my Lord" he said mockingly.
I took it and offered some to Thalia, who took a handful. I was extremely glad my daughter was acting so mature, unlike some other gods and demigods I could mention. As everybody began arguing again, I rolled my eyes in exasperation. I swear these people argue more than Artemis and Apollo sometimes. " STOP!" I yelled.
It worked.
They all turned to me with annoyed and exasperated looks on their face. "What Zeus?" Poseidon demanded, just getting ready to flick some more popcorn.
I took a deep breath. 'Since we can't decide what ride to go to, we'll take a vote. Raise you hands of you want to go to Jurassic Park" -Poseidon and Percy raised their hands. Poseidon taking the chance to drop his handful of kernels down Hades's shirt- "Raise you hand of you want to go to Revenge of the Mummy"- a very uncomfortable Hades and a popcorn coated Nico raised their hands.
"So it is decided" I said solomly, "Since each vote had two, we will be going to,"- I paused for dramatic effect which I personally find always makes everything more exciting and suspensful-" HARRY POTTER AND THE FORBIDDEN JOURNEY!"
"WHAT?!" They all exclaimed.
I shrugged and snapped my fingers, hoping that the mist was powerful enough to fool gods "Majority rules, now let's go"
"Alright" Poseidon said dreamily. Hades nodded, his eyes glazed. "Yeah, who doesn't love Harry Potter?" They demigods agreed, looking rather confused but as we began walking towards the ride, I grinned.
"I love the mist"
Nico's POV
After we all decided to go on the Forbidden Journey, I began walking there in a daze, slightly confused. That's odd. I could swear that I had chosen Rage of the Man-, er, Revenge of the Mummy but-
"It's great how we all decided on the Forbidden Journey isn't it?" Uncle Zeus asked brightly.
We all mumbled an agreement and I noticed my father also looking dazed, and I guessed not because of the popcorn beating.
"What happened?" Asked Percy as we neared the line for the ride, "Weren't we going to... um... something about Mangoes? Or no, it was... Pancakes! Jerking, er, Jurassic Park wasn't it?"
Zeus looked panicked for sec but he quickly adopted a careful expression of concern. "No, we were going to the Forbidden Journey, right guys?"
"I think... we were going to..." Thalia looked like she was thinking hard, like the time when she was thinking about the chicken and the egg. Finally, she sighed, giving up. "I don't remember. Those kernels must have been really hard"
"Yeah, really, really hard" Percy agreed, rubbing his head and wincing slightly.
The Lord of the sky sighed in relief. "Gods I love the mist" he mumbled, smiling.
"What was that?" Poseidon asked shooting his brother a curious look.
"Nothing" Zeus answered quickly, which made me even more convinced that he was hiding something. Now what was that about the mist...?
"Look, it's our turn!" Thalia exclaimed. Three side ways seats which looked like they were running on rails slide before us and two stopped, giving us enough time to slide on and pull on the safety hand thing. As my cousins took one and our parents took one, I began to feel a little bit nervous. This would actually be the first time I went on a real roller coaster in an actual amusement park and I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I wasn't the only one on edge though.
"It's dark" Percy murmured, turning a strange shade of green.
I frowned. I could see perfectly fine, one of the perks of being a child of Hades. "No, it's not"
"Yes, it is" Thalia insisted. "We aren't all children of Hades you know"
"But you wish"
Thalia snorted. "To be related to you? Being your cousin is good enough thank you very much. I'd sooner be related to Percy."
"Really?"
"No. Duh."
I opened my mouth to retort but at that moment, the ride lurched, as did my stomach and we all glanced around, alert and ready though I highly doubted that there would be a monster hiding in a Harry Potter ride but being a demigod, you can never tell.
The ride wasn't actually that scary or well made as I could see the wires, screens and rails but then again, we weren't all children of Hephaestus. When the ride (finally) stopped after a series of quick turns, spin arounds and sudden bursts of speed, I had to admit I wasn't feeling the greatest.
My cousins and I stumbled off the ride and we made our way to where the teen-aged gods were. I noticed that they didn't look very good either. Zeus's eyes were clouded and he looked like he was seriously regretting his decision while Poseidon's expression clearly showed that popcorn and rides do not mix.
"So, what's next?" I asked after the world had stopped spinning. We all decided that the best thing to do was to go through the entire amusement park and go to all the rides that looked good and that's exactly what we did. Some of the rides such as Revenge of the Mummy and Men in Black; Alien invasion were incredibly awesome while some... well, let's just say that Jurassic Park and me do not mix well. We also went on a couple 4D rides, which were pretty cool as you could see the things popping out of the screen and actually feels some of the stuff (Thalia screamed as a brush of some kind beneath our chair tickled our legs as on the screen somebody dropped spiders) though in the Clash of the Titans movie ride, the gods weren't real thrilled.
"Perseus looked nothing like that" Zeus grumbled as we stepped out of the theater. "and why do we look so old? I mean, we looked ancient!"
Poseidon frowned. "And plus, we're gods. We don't just turn into dust and die. It's not like we're monsters"
"In other words," Hades finished, "That. Movie. Sucked."
But as we were walking to our next ride, Thalia, Percy and I went ahead and the daughter of Zeus snickered. "They were really annoyed at that movie weren't they"
I nodded, trying not to laugh. "At least they don't have a ride for that weird movie called Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I mean, in that movie, my dad looks like a) the devil and b) like one of those crazy rock stars. That movie, if anything, was a fail"
After a couple more rides, the gods stumbled onto one of the benches around the park and groaned. "I don't feel so good" Poseidon groaned. "If you guys want to keep going, go ahead. We're just going to take a short rest"
Zeus nodded, looking dazed. "Yeah, a short break sounds good. Everything is yellow now"
Hades shook his head, turning a little green. "No, everything is blue and black. And there are flamingos in the sky"
"So you guys go ahead" Poseidon finished. Then added "No, those aren't flamingos, they're chickens, with... with orange beaks"
"Um... okay?" Thalia said, sounding mystified and trying not to laugh. "Where should we meet you?"
Zeus shrugged. "We'll track you down. We're good at that." I honestly didn't want to ask what he meant so we pushed though the crowd and left the gods behind. As we were about to head to another one of those Harry Potter rides called the Dragon Challenge ("Dragons are no challenge, Drakons are" Percy grumbles) the son of the Sea God suddenly froze in his tracks and tilted his head, as if he were listening so some weird new music. Then, his eyes widened. 'They're here!" He gasped. "By the doughnuts! Come on! Hurry!"
We raced after him as he dashed though the crowds but it was only until he stopped beside a doughnut stand that we caught up to him. "Percy, who are you talking about?" I asked, with a small suspicion that maybe Percy had hit his head too hard on the last ride. "There's nobody here but-" My words died as I noticed a black Pegasus standing in the middle of the road and a girl with blonde hair, Yankee cap in hand and grey eyes that were sparkling with laughter.
My jaw dropped.
"Annabeth?"
Percy: Annabeth! How did you get there?
Blackjack: On a very handsome, very loyal, very doughnut hungry Pegasus. Duh.
Me: Okay, before Percy begins arguing with a horse-
Blackjack: *Cough, Cough* a very handsome, loyal, doughnut hungry horse you mean?
Me: Yes, the one that'll be made into glue if he doesn't be quiet, I just again want to say how grateful I am to you readers that we got 100 reviews before chapter eight! Thank you guys so much! I know a couple of you wanted Annabeth to show up and Blackjack to be able to take a break-
Blackjack: A break that I deserve.
Me: *Dangerous look* yeah, and so on. Before I help Percy argue with this horse, I just want to tell you guys the contest for this week so you guys have a chance to win a shout-out. What you have to do this time is that you will have to tell me which book this Prophecy below came from, who it applies to, and what it means. Ready?
"One shall be lost in the land without rain
No? Too hard? I'll give you the next line to help know which book it's from.
"The bane of Olympus shows the trail"
Got it? Only the first line remember but if you honestly have no clue, you can to the second line as well. Just either PM me, or write it in your review. In your answer though, you also have to answer this very important question.
Which of the big three gods do you feel is the least responsible and most likely to run off with the kids to a candy store? Please answer it as I will be using it in one of the next few chapters!
Goodbye, and good luck with the contest. Now where did that flying horse go...