A/N: I don't own PJO.

Last Week's Mini-Olympics: Last week, Olympus held a mini-Olympics, open to all gods, nymphs, and demigods.

Artemis: The archery was the best.

Apollo: Hey, the poetry contest was better.

Artemis: It was boring.

Apollo: Not boring! Nope! Nonono!

Artemis: It was so boring.

Apollo: I won!

Artemis: You didn't win. Your son won, if I remember correctly.

Will Solace: I won. Sorry, Dad, but I won.

Apollo: My haiku was great, though!

Artemis: I heard it when you broadcasted it live to all of Olympus on the OlympusMegaPhones. It was not a good haiku.

Apollo: Well, you must have heard another haiku. This was mine:

I am Apollo

I am the best haiku writer

I am awesome, yeah

Artemis: Exactly what I heard.

Apollo: And it's good, isn't it.

Artemis: The second line is eight syllables.

Apollo: Obviously you don't know this, as you aren't the god of awesome poetry, but the second line of all haikus is seven syllables, Artemis. Not eight.

Artemis: Your second line was eight syllables.

Apollo: It was not!

Artemis: Count them.

Apollo: I - am - the - best - haiku - write - er. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Artemis: "Haiku" is two syllables.

Apollo: I know.

Artemis: I - am - the - best - hai -ku - write - er. That's eight, not seven.

Apollo: Oh, well. Eight, then. Well, I got eight-ninth place!

Artemis: Out of eighty-nine.

Apollo: Grr. Well, it's not like you won the archery contest.

Artemis: Actually, I did win.

Apollo: Fine. Go away. Leave me alone.

Aphrodite: omg da beuty pagant! hahahahahah! i won it im so exited i cant tink proprly!

Athena: Sorry?

Aphrodite: i one da beuty pagant! i one i one i one!

Athena: Sorry, could you please clear up your writing?

Aphrodite: bt i one!i one athena i one i rlly rlly one!

Athena: Please choose between English, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Albanian, Indian, Portuguese -

Hermes: Can you please not brag about the languages you've mastered? I'm still working on Spanish alone. Hola, mi llamo Hermes.

Mr. Spanish Teacher: Better, better.

Hermes: Why do you always appear whenever I say something in Spanish?

Mr. Spanish Teacher: I have secrets, Hermes. I have secrets...

Athena: Anyways, please write in any language other than gibberish.

Aphrodite: im speeking in inglish i am athena cuz i one the beuty pagant -

Athena: Not gibberish, Aphrodite. Didn't I already request that?

Hermes: I believe she's trying to say that she won the beauty pageant at the mini-Olympics.

Athena: There was a beauty pageant?

Hermes: This wasn't really a mini-Olympics. It was more like a series of varied competitions.

Percy Jackson: And it's not that surprising that she won...

Aphrodite: Awwww! Soooo sweet, Percy!

Percy Jackson: No - not -

Aphrodite: It's fine, Percy, fine! We already knew -

Athena: Anyways, I won the trivia contest.

Hermes: Well, I tried.

Athena: You didn't even make it to the third question, Hermes. "What was Olympian architect Orus Steud's debut sculpture of?"

Hermes: I didn't know who this Orus Steud guy was!

Athena: Son of Hephaestus. Born 1916. Died 1944, in the war. Became architect - slash - artist of Olympus in 1936.

Hermes: What sculpture was it?

Athena: The one of the Cyclops at the forge. Crafted in 1939, the year before he was drafted into the US army. Called "Cyclops at the Forge".

Hermes: Whatever. I didn't know! I only knew the first one, and that one was really obvious. What are the names of Hermes's pet snakes? George and Martha. Almost unfair.

Athena: Whatever. I won. I correctly answered the question, "Who was the first ambrosia-a-la-cheese vendor in Italy?"

Demeter: I won the cereal tasting contest! I was able to tell apart natural and processed Raisin Bran!

Hermes: I can't believe I competed in that...

Demeter: You couldn't even tell apart mortal-brand Cheerios from OlympusNatural Cheerios! Or even Shredded Spoonfuls from Shredded Oats!

Hermes: Hey, I'm not a professional cereal taster.

Demeter: You made that clear.

Aphrodite: And you totally lost the beauty pageant.

Apollo: Well, I got second. Hahaha! Hermes tried to win? He tried to compare with me?

Ares: Excuse me, Apollo, I was the first place male.

Aphrodite: I got ten votes, and I voted for Ares every time!

Ares: *Bows* Yes, I am great.

Apollo: Well, I got second.

Hermes: I got four hundredth...

Aphrodite: Too bad for you!

Ares: I totally won all of the fighting ones.

Hermes: My scars are still healing...

Athena: Actually, Ares, I won the javelin throwing.

Ares: Barely, but barely.

Artemis: I won the archery.

Ares: That's not battle!

Artemis: It is fighting. I have killed countless things with my bow.

Ares: Whatever.

Artemis: You didn't win all of them.

Poseidon: I won the trident throwing competition!

Athena: I got second.

Poseidon: Well, ha, Athena! I beat you!

Athena: I've still beat you more often. Remember the Athens contest? I won that easily.

Poseidon: Meanie.

Athena: I won it.

Hephaestus: I won the build-your-own-automaton competition!

Athena: I was second.

Leo: I was fourth!

Beckendorf: I was third.

Percy Jackson: How did you get there, Beckendorf?

Beckendorf: I got a one-day release from the Underworld.

Leo: I built a dragon! Like Festus, but bigger!

Hephaestus: I built a whole robot house. Everything you need inside.

Percy Jackson: I saw that! Like Howl's Moving Castle.

Hephaestus: Excuse me?

Percy Jackson: Howl's Moving Castle! You know, that weird old movie with the castle with feet?

Hephaestus: My creation hovers. It does not have feet.

Percy Jackson: Oh...too bad.

Hermes: I got first in the footrace!

Percy Jackson: Congrats.

Artemis: I won in my heat.

Percy Jackson: I only came in tenth in my heat.

Hermes: Out of ten.

Percy Jackson: Well, yeah.

Zeus: I won the Almighty God of the Universe contest.

Poseidon: There was a -

Zeus: No.

Poseidon: Makes sense. If there was, I would have won, of course.

Zeus: No! I would've won!

Poseidon: I hate to tell you the truth, but I would've -

Hephaestus: Kindly stop your bickering.

Zeus: You -

Hephaestus: Ah, fine. I need to go anyways, so bye.

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