AN: I'M SORRY! I'll spare you the excuses. I just want to say thank you, you guys. I honestly didn't expect much feedback and I thought this would be just some story that I would abandon afterimage a couple of chapters that I wrote for fun, but that's definitely not happening now! I'm going to continue to write and make a good commitment (maybe not healthy, but fun).
DISCLAIMER ( HAIKU/TANKA STYLE!):
As winter is cold,
As summer is always hot,
Those books are not mine,
Yeah, I do suck at Tankas
No and read (Wow Mathematical-Candy-Panda, that was rude, APOLOGIZE! Okay, I'm sorry you guys, you know I like it when you say stuff)
Also credit to JOKER OF CLOVER! Who gave me an idea on how to finish this chapter in an EPIC way! She's totes awesome!
NAMES:
Zeus- Victor Richards Poseidon- Dylan Richards Hades- Adam Richards
Athena- Ramona Owens Ares- Dustin Owens
Artemis- Luna Archer Apollo- Lucas Archer
Hermes- Mitchell Runner
Hephaestus- Edan Bryant
Aphrodite- Amy Erving
Demeter- April Flores
3rd Person POV
'Hera just really hates me' Poseidon thought as he paced. Poseidon was sort of excited to go to his son's school. It would be quite interesting, but seeing his son's new life was different. It reminded him that he was never there for Percy nor Sally. 'Sally' he thought with even more sadness. He was aware that she seemed to move on now, and that she has a husband. At least he is better than the last one, but Poseidon could've given so much more, he could've given her a palace in the sea and he could be with her, even if Amphitrite would hate her. They didn't have to live in the same place.
Poseidon heard a click on the door and then Hermes walked in with a certain goddess of beauty.
"I"M HERE!" she yelled. "Now let's go to Percy's place!" Poseidon walked into a chair and stumbled into the seat.
"What!" he yelled while Hermes was going into the kitchen, trying to hide a mischievous smile.
"Oh come on! I just wanna see some Percabeth!" she whined. "Oh they're just so cute together!" she giggled to herself.
"Percab- What?- NO, no we're not going there" he started to get up.
"Why not, is it because of SALLY?" she smiled.
"NO, um, I just think that there are better things to do like….uh." he thought of things that she would want to do, the first thing that came to mind was "Shopping" 'why did I say that' he thought. Hades and Zeus shot a glare at Poseidon.
"OHMYGODS we should go shopping!" She squealed. This is not a good idea. Aphrodite would probably spend all of the money they needed for their bus cards this week. "We could totally do makeovers and I can pick out all of your clothes and then we could do our nails then we could watch the Twilight movies oh they're such a good couple and AAAAAAAHHH I'm so excited!" She sounded as bad as hephaestus's kid when hopped up on sugar. What was his name again, wait, Leo. She continued going on about all the torture she could put them through till Zeus interrupted her.
"I'm sorry, we have important uh…..Big Three manners to talk about, the rest of council can go with you" He said, hoping she would buy it.
"Oh, okay!" she said sort of disappointed.
"Thanks a lot Dad," Hermes grumbled as he went into the bathroom.
"I'm going to tell all the others!" she hurried out of the room to all of the other apartments.
"Do you really think its a good idea to have Aphrodite go shopping" Hades asked both Zeus and Poseidon.
"Well, he's the one who suggested it in the first place" he said pointing to Poseidon,"He just did it so he wouldn't have to face one of his affairs!"
"Don't you talk about affairs with me!" Poseidon shot back, "you went around the block with every single woman you saw. Hera even has a name for you, Womanizer, which basically is your name now!"
"Well you broke the oath!"
"You broke it twice! And it was an oath you made us swear into!" Hermes walked out of the hallway, noticing the two fighting, he tried to sneak away and not to look suspicious of committing a prank (oracrime). Hades, being the one who was bored just sitting around while the two gods bicker, like he always does, looked at Hermes with a glare. Hermes put a finger over his mouth to signal him to be quiet and ran off. Hades looked in the hallway and noticed that a door was open, Zeus's and Poseidon's door. He smiled to himself. Maybe he did have to stay in this apartment all day with those two gods arguing for stupid reasons, he would rather go on a shopping spree with Aphrodite, but he could see one or both of his brothers get pranked by Hermes, which just might make his day.
OH DON'T MIND ME, I'M JUST A LINE BREAK! NOW, CARRY ON WITH YOUR READING
"Is this really necessary, Amy" Artemis complained.
"You already have a wardrobe three times the size of an average person's wardrobe" Athena pointed out. It was true. The bags turned out to be magical so it stored a lot more than what it appeared to store on the outside.
"And I know you look really hot in all of the clothes, babe!" Hephaestus shot Ares a glare. "You don't need more!"
"Well then then the average person is poor and gets less than what they need! That isn't enough clothes! I at least need enough clothes that is 50 times the number of the normal person's wardrobe!" Aphrodite argued. Everyone groaned and rolled their eyes.
All the gods and goddess were walking along Central Park to get to the train station. Demeter convinced them that they should take the long way and see the park too. Demeter was sick of the urban environment, she wanted to at least be around grass and trees and other plants. Everyone in the park was enjoying their last week of freedom. They cut through the corner and walked on the sidewalk. People sat around the statue in a happy mood smiling and talking to each other.
"Hey wait you guys, isn't it that-" Apollo started but then Aphrodite finished.
"PERCABETH! OMG!" Aphrodite started running towards the couple. Others ran after her to try to stop her, but they were too late. Aphrodite ran up to the couple that was in the middle of a make out session.
"OMG!" Annabeth and Percy pulled apart. Percy subconsciously fingered at his pocket, feeling riptide in his fingers. Annabeth felt her sheath strapped to her belt that had her drakon bone sword from Tartarus. They knew from experience that when weird things came toward them, it meant danger. Though they had never seen anything like this.
"Uh, who are you?" Percy asked a little weirded out.
"Oh you're so cute and handsome" Aphrodite said as if she was a grandmother greeting her young grandchild. She grabbed Percy's cheek.
"Can you please let go of my boyfriend's cheek" she said in a defensive manner. Annabeth knew that the girl was not a threat to stealing her boyfriend, but nobody was allowed to touch her property.
"Oh Annabeth, you look so beautiful" Aphrodite let go of Percy and started murdering Annabeth's cheek. Annabeth got out of her grip and stood, so did Percy. He had Riptide out; not in sword form, but ready to uncap when things got ugly.
"How do you know my name?" Hephaestus grabbed Aphrodite and led her away from Percy and Annabeth.
"Sorry about that!" He led her away before she could cause more trouble and mouthed 'she's crazy!'. Percy and Annabeth started walking away back in the direction of Percy's apartment, stealing glances at Aphrodite and the others while talking to each other, looking pretty worried.
"What were you thinking! You're going to blow our cover!" Athena scolded.
"Come on, you're overreacting, we'll be okay," Aphrodite assured her.
"Maybe Kelp Head won't figure it out, but my daughter will see right through everything!"
"So what if she finds out!"
"Hera didn't want any of the demigods to know! We can't go against what she said!"
"Ugh, you always follow the rules! It's going to be fine! Stop worrying so much!"
"What do you mean stop worrying, this is something that we should definitely worry about! Do you think Hera is just going to ignore that we blew our cover! You saw how she blew up on Olympus and turned us into mortals! What-"
"Just shut up already! Nobody wants to hear about your stupid lectures!" Ares yelled at Athena..
"I don't see how my lectures can be stupid, given that I am the goddess of wisdom. I don't think I can say the same for you, being a god of war who runs away from problems that you can't solve, which are many by the way," She retorted. Ares clenched his fists, trying to come up with a come back with great difficulty.
"Shut up" Ares said, ultimately losing the War of Comebacks. Athena knew she won, but she wasn't done. No one can disrespect her like that without getting a piece of her mind.
"What, can't come up with a comeback? The supposed God of War can't win in a small argument that he started himself? How sad is that," Athena said coldly. Ares was about to punch that goddess. There was a mighty fire in his eyes. He pushed Athena. Heads snapped to look at the impending fight. "Now you're going to fight me to gain back your wounded pride?" It took three gods and goddess each to hold back Ares and Athena. Parents led their kids away from the park. The smart kids ran away. The others watched them fight and cheered on.
"For crying out loud can we get through one day without having to hold you two down!" Hermes yelled.
"No, I think that's impossible" Apollo muttered.
"Wow, he actually thinks!" Artemis said in mock surprise.
"Hey!"
"JUST STOP IT ALREADY!" Demeter screamed. Athena and Ares stopped fighting, the surrounding people backed away. Demeter can get pretty scary. "How about we just get this shopping day over with instead of yelling our heads off!"
"But you're ye-" Demeter glared at Apollo and his voice faltered. Demeter glared at him as if she was saying 'finish that thought and we'll see how good it would be for your health'
Everyone started to head to the train station. They looked down in the stairs with the vulgar smell hitting their noses again. They didn't really want to go on the train again. They all agreed to walk, since the mall was only about two miles away.
Once they reached the mall, Aphrodite squealed with excitement. She barged in while everyone else groan while walking in, knowing the torture they were about to go through. There were many different shops and a giant JcPenney. Aphrodite dragged everyone inside a store.
"Okay, everyone pick out an outfit, I'm going to help someone else with choosing some clothes," Aphrodite winked at Artemis. Artemis had a horrified look on her face.
"Um, no, I'm fine I'll go-"
"Oh just come on!" Aphrodite dragged a protesting Artemis. She looked back with a pleading look on her face as if she was saying 'HELP ME!'. The others just sighed with relief and waved at Artemis. No way were they helping her. They all dispersed.
"Hey, you wanna blow this joint?" Hermes whispered to Apollo. Apollo nodded. Hermes had a sly smile on his face. Hephaestus overheard and looked at the two.
"Where are you going and what are you stealing?" Hephaestus asked. Hermes smile only increased.
"We're going to need you too, come on"
"What?"
"Come on, do you really want to go shopping with Aph- Amy?" Hephaestus took one look at the girl pulling tons of clothes and dumping them on poor Artemis. She barfed out words non-stop by the looks of her mouth. She was his wife and he did love her, but hey, it didn't mean he liked everything she did.
"Fine," They all snuck out of the store to do gods know what.
After looking around for clothes, all the gods went to the dressing room (Well, all of the gods that were there). Aphrodite forced them to have a fashion show to show off their clothes for her approval to buy them.
Athena came out of her dressing room. She wore a pair of skinny jeans, a soft and sleek plain white long sleeve shirt, and a brown leather jacket. Her wavy hair was up a high ponytail.
"Maybe it could a bit more pink, but I approve!"
Athena walked back into the dressing room next Demeter came out from her dressing room. She wore a colorful floral dress with a thin brown belt. Her brown hair in a braid and she was wearing regular black flats.
"April! You look so beautiful!" Aphrodite squealed, mostly because Demeter was wearing something colorful and it was a dress. She hugged her.
"Um, thank you" Demeter went back inside her dressing room. Ares nor Artemis didn't come out of the dressing room until they both came out wearing the clothes they were wearing when they came inside the store.
"Why aren't you wearing any of your outfits!" Aphrodite asked.
"All the clothes here are stupid," Aphrodite gasped.
"I'm sorry, but I can't where any of these clothes because they show way too much,"
"What are you talking about! They're so cute!"
"I know they're cute, but you know that I can't where these. I'm supposed to be a maiden!"
"What are you talking about! You're not twelve! You're a thousand years old!"
"Well I have the right to do what I believe! And I don't believe in flaunting and throwing myself towards every single guy that I see!"
"That's because I actually believe in love!"
"Love? Please, you don't love any of them, they don't love any of you. The only person who really loves you is your husband, who you constantly cheat on right in front-"
"Hey, I love her!"
"No you don't, pig! You only date her because she's 'hot'!" Ares sat there then just shrugged.
"Dustin! That's not true, is it?"
Athena poked her head in.
"Excuse me, when is Hermes and everyone else going to be ready to leave?" Athena asked. Aphrodite continued to glare at Ares, who was glaring at Artemis. Artemis was glaring at Aphrodite. Athena sensed the tense atmosphere, yet she asked again. After a couple of seconds of more silence and glaring, Artemis was the first to respond. She claimed she didn't see them anywhere. So did Aphrodite and Ares. Athena's eyes widened. They were pulling a prank.
"We need to find them. Now" She and the others found Demeter and rushed out of the store. None of them even bought their clothes. They searched through the mall, Hermes, Apollo, and Hephaestus were no where to be found until they were walking in a quick manner toward the group.
"Where were you!" Demeter yelled "We were looking everywhere for you!" Hermes only turned them all around and started pushing them away toward a mall exit.
"We need to leave now" he said. Athena sighed.
"What did you steal this time," Hermes only kept pushing.
"No time to explain, we need to get out of here!"
"No, we need to immediately return it!" Artemis scolded.
"I'm not sure if it can be returned now!" Apollo said. Hephaestus nervously checked his watch.
"Only a minute and thirty seconds left.
"until wha- wait, this is a horrible prank isn't it" They were close to reaching the doors.
"Almost o-"
"Hey, you there! Stop!" All of the gods stopped dead in their tracks. He pointed to Hermes, Hephaestus, and Apollo.
"Take it out of your pockets" They all stood frozen. "I said TAKE THE STOLEN ITEMS OUT OF YOUR POCKETS NOW!" The other mall cop's buddy was calling in for more forces. Hermes slowly reached into his pocket, then rested paused for a while.
"What are you doing! I said take the thing out!" Hermes saw Hephaestus wink subtly out of the corner of his eye. It was the signal. Hermes winked at Hephaestus. Suddenly Hephaestus brought his hand to the watch, and nothing happened for five seconds, then chaos. Different colors of perfumes exploded out of different stores, bras and panties fell from the ceiling, the song that all the gods heard on the train exploded from the intercom in the mall 'S%*ted on 'em, p-p-put yo numba twos in the air if you did it on 'em!', people started screaming, Hermes brought out a ball that'd he been holding in his pocket and threw it at the one mall cop's face which turned into powder once it reach him while Apollo pushed the other one on the ground and Hermes, Apollo, and Hephaestus started running to the exits while all the gods stared at them in shock.
"GET THEM!" and then off all of the gods went, running away from hordes of security. Aphrodite struggled to keep up in her heels. Athena tried to haul her along to outrun the guards. They all coughed as perfume filled their lungs and they swatted bras from their faces. They pushed crowds out of the way and burst out into the streets of Manhattan to find Hermes and the others and ran to their apartment.
2776 words total in the chapter. WHEW! Also guess which song played and who its by. Thank you for all the people who reviewed and followed and Favorited. I will make plenty of weird scenarios with their children, plenty of fighting(That is how they got to be mortals in the first place), pranks with Hermes, and Poseidon will have a talk with Paul. I defiantly want to do that. Whelp, PEACE OUT!