A/N: All credit goes to DaughterofSelene.
Mini Olympics On Olympus: Next week, Olympus will be holding a mini Olympics. The events to be taking place are still to be decided.
Artemis: One word: Archery.
Hermes: Huh? Wait. So we're, like, coming up with ideas for events?
Artemis: Yes. Archery.
Hermes: Surely we can come up with more than that.
Artemis: Archery.
Hermes: Anything else?
Artemis: Archery.
Hermes: Like, apart from that.
Artemis: Archery, the target being Hermes's head.
Hermes: Ah! No, I didn't mean -
Artemis: Archery, then.
Hermes: Fine.
Apollo: Poetry contest!
Artemis: Sorry?
Apollo: Look!
We can compete in
Poetry competition
Because they're awesome
Artemis: Um...no. Archery.
Apollo: Poetry!
Haikus are better
Than archery contests 'cause
They are more awesome
Artemis: You are mistaken.
Apollo: I am not!
Artemis is mistaken
She thinks that archery is
Better than haikus
Artemis: You totally messed up there.
Apollo: Sorry?
Artemis: Haikus are 5-7-5, O Haiku Master.
Apollo: Thanks!
Artemis: Ever heard of sarcasm? Anyways, haikus are 5-7-5.
Apollo: I know! Why tell me, Artemis? I'm the god of poetry, and therefore of haikus! I know everything about them!
Artemis: Your haiku is 7-7-5. So, you clearly don't know everything. Or even the basics.
Apollo: You think my first line was off? That's ridiculous. I'm the god of -
Artemis: The god of bad haikus, yeah. The first line was seven syllables.
Apollo: It was not!
Artemis: Count them.
Apollo: Count what?
Artemis: The syllables.
Apollo: In the first line?
Artemis: Yes.
Apollo: Um...okay. Artemis - is - mistaken. That's...three?
Artemis: It's seven!
Apollo: No, because this is the first line, remember? Only five syllables.
Artemis: Yeah, but your first line was seven syllables!
Apollo: It was not!
Artemis: Count them!
Apollo: Fine! Ar - t'mis - is - mista - ken. One, two, three, four, five. Happy?
Artemis: No! Ar - te - mis - is - mis - ta - ken. Seven!
Apollo: Ah, but it's not! It's only three words! Therefore, because of Murphy's law, it cannot be seven syllables!
Artemis: What? Murphy's law -
Apollo: Is demonstrated above.
Artemis: No! Last I checked, Murphy's law was about everything going wrong when it could, or something like that.
Athena: Murphy's law: the idea that everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Apollo: No! Murphy's law: the idea that if there are three words, there cannot be a sum of seven syllables.
Artemis: Not!
Athena: Look it up.
Apollo: Fine!
Athena: We should have a trivia contest.
Hermes: For the mini-Olympics?
Athena: Isn't that what we were talking about?
Hermes: Well...yes.
Athena: We should have a trivia contest.
Hermes: You just said that.
Athena: Yes, but no one else responded.
Artemis: As long as we have an archery competition - which I will win - I'm fine with a trivia contest.
Hephaestus: Let's have a build-your-own-automaton contest!
Leo: Can I compete?
Hephaestus: Is this open for demigods?
Zeus: Sure.
Hephaestus: Then yeah, Leo.
Leo: I'm going to win.
Hephaestus: I don't agree.
Leo: Fine, I'm going to get second place.
Hephaestus: That's more like it.
Charles Beckendorf: Not if I compete.
Leo: Oh yeah?
Becky: Yeah, I'll get second.
Leo: Haha.
Becky: Immature, Leo. Kindly fix my username.
Leo: Only if you don't compete. Haha! Now, you must not compete, or forever more be signed on as "Becky"! Haha! Blackmail!
Charles Beckendorf: Leo, you're forgetting that I'm even more experienced than you. Even if I'm dead.
Leo: Oh...oh, yeah...
Poseidon: We should have a trident throwing competition!
Zeus: No! A zap-the-Poseidon competition!
Ares: No! No, no, no! We should have a battle! A jousting competition! A kill-the-Jackson competition!
Poseidon: Ares, I will not let you kill my son for the sake of a mini-Olympics.
Ares: But -
Poseidon: It's not going to happen.
Ares: Fine! We'll have sword fighting, javelin throwing, killing -
Artemis: Don't forget the archery!
Apollo: And the poetry!
Ares: Bah, the poetry! Archery? Ah...whatever, sure. Cowards, not actually running into the battle...
Athena: And the trivia.
Zeus: Okay, okay, so we've got out events. Now -
Demeter: Cereal tasting! Whoever can tell apart cheerios, apple jacks, fruit loops, and honey cheerios wins! Stuff like that!
Hades: Oh Demeter! Demeter wants to taste cereal? In a mini-Olympics? What is wrong with you, Demeter?
Demeter: Nothing! Cereal tasting!
Hades: Cereal tasting is not an event!
Demeter: Of course it is!
Hades: Cereal is disgusting!
Demeter: It's delicious!
Hades: Not! Not, not, not!
Demeter: How could you say that -
Hades: Cereal is disgusting!
Demeter: It's -
Zeus: Yes, yes, whatever. So, we'll have a trivia contest, an archery contest, a...poetry contest -
Hermes: *Grumbles* Footracing?
Zeus: Be quiet, Hermes. So, a trivia contest, an archery contest, a...um, poetry contest - sorry, people - a footrace, a build-your-own-automaton contest, a trident throwing competition, a jousting competition, a javelin-throwing competition, a sword fight, and a...cereal tasting competition.
Hephaestus: As long as there's a build-your-own-automaton competition, I'm fine with there being a cereal tasting competition, and even a poetry contest.
Zeus: Um, good. So, is that it? Should we shut the forum down now?
Hephaestus: Yeah. Bye, guys, good luck next week.
