A/N: Here we are! What couple (out of the Caleo, Percabeth, Frazel, and Jasper) would you guys like me to do next? Also, any ideas are welcomed!

"No, Mom likes shrimp gumbo." argued Emily. She and her twin brother Alex were making a Christmas present for their mother. Well, more like trying too.

"Well, I don't." said Alex grinning. "I like pizza. Besides, how do you cook shrimp gumbo? Plus you can't wrap it."

"It's not for you, silly." his twin reminded him.

"You could get her a gift card." suggested Isabelle, who was over with her brother Caleb.

"That's boring." Caleb said.

"We want to make something." Emily added.

"We should make cookies!" said Callie and Natalie (who were also over), at the same time.

"But the cookies might get moldy." warned Emily.

"You could freeze them." suggested Caleb.

"So, we're going to make cookies, then?" Alex asked. Everyone nodded.

They got out olive oil (because Frank was lactose-intolerant), flour, eggs, baking soda, and of course, the most important ingredient, sugar.

Emily got out a bowl, and they started putting ingredients in.

"How much baking soda do we need?" asked Callie.

Caleb shrugged. "Just dump the whole thing in." So she did. They also put about seven cups of sugar in, a cup of flour, one egg, and a cup of oil.

They then proceeded to mix it all up, and put it in the oven.

"Okay," said Natalie. "An hour should be enough to cook."

"More like half an hour." Alex snorted. Natalie shrugged.

Isabelle put the cookies in the oven for forty- five minutes, as sort of a compromise. After that, they all went outside, forgetting about the mess, and the cookies.

—

After a little while, Hazel Levesque Zhang began to smell smoke.

"Frank," she asked her husband. "What is that smell?"

Frank shrugged. "I think the kids were trying to bake cookies for you as a Christmas present."

"Oh, that's so sweet! But it was probably a surprise." said Hazel. "Frank, can you tell the kids to take the cookies out? I don't want to ruin the surprise."

Frank nodded and went to carry out his wife's plan.

—-

Meanwhile, back outside, the kids were having a snowball fight. But, with demigods, or legacies, snowball fights don't always stay snowball fights.

Callie was on a team with Emily and Isabelle, who was trying to charmspeak her brother, with no avail, into giving up. Natalie was trying to bury Callie in the snow, while Alex and Caleb had somehow found a way to make their nerf guns shoot snowballs. Emily was trying to sneak on enemy territory to steal the other team's snowball collection.

Just normal demigod behavior.

But of course, everything stopped when Frank told them the cookies were done.

They rushed inside to look at the cookies, almost leaving Callie stuck in the snow.

"Eh, they could use a few more minutes." Caleb decided. "The middle cookies aren't completely brown."

"Let me see!" Callie complained, pushing her way through the crowd. "Why are they so big? They look burned."

"I think," said Isabelle, placing the ruined cookies in the trash. "We put too much baking soda in them. Also, we probably weren't supposed to cook them that long."

It was true, the cookies were quite enormous and odd looking, along with being burned.

"I have a better idea." Natalie suggested. "Let's make popcorn!"

Everyone agreed with that, so Emily found some microwave popcorn in the pantry, and they stuck it in the microwave for ten minutes.

—

Ten minutes later, when Alex opened the microwave, he was met with a cloud of smoke. He started coughing.

"Open the windows!" Hazel shouted, running in from the living room. The said person started opening windows. Emily turned on the fan.

Callie closed her eyes and concentrated. Suddenly, water came rushing in through the window, and the kitchen flooded a bit. Only about inch. But at least the smoke was gone.

After the mess was cleaned up, which took about an hour, Emily took a look at the popcorn. It had turned into a lump of charcoal, and was completely black.

Next time, Emily would just stick with a gift card.

A/N: How was it? Please review! Random Story: Once, my sister tried to make popcorn by microwaving it for ten minutes, and it didn't turn out so great. Lol. :)

I'll try to get the next chapter out by Wednesday. If you guys have any ideas, you can review or PM , guys!

-lunarchroniclesandcockatiels