I saw "The Book of Life" last night and can I just say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IT IS GREAT GO SEE IT RIGHT NOW my only complaint is that it should have been longer haha
Anyways, I am officially writing this fanfiction's first request scene, from the amazing TheKookieKing11! The request was a romantic dinner in the mess hall! Don't worry, Queen Ore-Sama and Agana of the night, closets are abundant in the next chapter, as are endless jokes about closets because I am a nerd.
Also, I would like to say to the guest who reviewed saying that Solangelo is terrible (I deleted your review), why are you reading my story if you don't like Solangelo? I mean, why force yourself to do something that you don't want to do? That's honestly very confusing to me. And that was the first review closest to a flame that I've gotten in a while, so thanks for that. Wow, I've actually sorta missed that feeling.
Sorry for that negativity, everyone. On to happiness and rainbows!
*"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" starts playing*
Yeah. Not exactly that, but whatever.
Nico: I saw that movie when it came out, actually.
Me: You, sir, are brilliant.
Nico: I didn't like it. Too much color.
Me: You, sir, are not so brilliant.
REVIEWS
Spiesareawesome: Yes, it is Solangelo. Sorry if there was any confusion. The major Solangelo isnt really happening yet, but it's getting there. And I'm sure if you wait long enough someone will write a story with one of them as a girl, if you like reading those instead! Also you don't have to read this if you don't like it.
Queen Ore-Sama: I needed some dramatic event leading up to the closet, and then I looked at the dinner request and it all fell into place. The closet chapter is soon, I assure you! I serve the meatiest and only the meatiest. Haha, yeah, I did. I'm actually just basing Jason and Annabeth off of me and my friends regarding our OTPs ("Oh no my OTP just died again. Okay I'm sad. Now I'm going to go get a new one."). The problem is we like Doctor Who, Homestuck, and Attack on Titan, and they all kill off a large percent of the characters, so we have like one or two or three dozen dead OTPs. And thanks!
Sabrina-luna-potter: Thanks! Wait, seriously? I thought that both events had like three or so hours between them. Didn't Rachel become the Oracle in the afternoon, and Percabeth became canon in the evening? I mean, everyone had to get back to Camp Half-Blood…I'll have to look back and see.
RavynAshes2: I'M READING YOUR MIIIIIND…Yup, she totally would! Only problem is tracking her down *laughs*
Rainbowchameleon: I was about to say I would join, but it's Nico instead of Percy. And I'm still not over him.
Ippiki Ookami no Fuyu: I'm glad you liked it! I love writing Jason as a huge dork, actually. And Rachel is awesome I love her. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't seem too harsh! I honestly can't wait to write Aph getting involved. And I decided to just write both and upload them, unless if people wanna vote.
ThisSentenceIsALie: I'm guessing your name is a Portal ref, since my friends talk about the cake thing a lot. Oh my god, Chiron finding out. I was going to write that anyways, so you'll get it soon! And a Will look-alike? Gonna take the entire Aphrodite cabin for that haha.
Deliluh: HEY THERE DELILUH WHAT'S IT LIKE IN NEW YORK CITY I'm sorry I had to. Annabeth and Jason are quickly learning why people say OTP stands for Oh the Pain.
Disclaimer: I have homework. Rick Riordan doesn't.
WARNING: My Connor/Lacy shows in this chapter. I started shipping them a year or so back. Not entirely sure why, however. I guess I just did.
Chapter 3: Skulls by Candlelight
SLAP! The knocking of the empty cardboard Starbucks coffee cup against the wooden table jolted everyone in the room out of whatever daze they had previously been in.
"I hereby call this emergency meeting of the Aphrodite branch of the Solangelo club to order!" Drew cried, throwing the cup behind her as she picked up another one, still steaming hot.
Surprisingly, having Drew as a leader was a whole lot more tolerable now. Lacy couldn't tell if it was because she had changed during the Giant War-really, they all had-or if it was because everyone was now devoted towards getting Will Solace and Nico di Angelo together. All of the cabins had called a temporary truce in order to work on getting them together. So far, this peace had been working out just fine, but Lacy knew it was only a matter of time until the Stolls cracked and pulled a prank on a cabin.
Oh, the Stolls. Lacy sighed dreamily as her thoughts drifted towards them. She knew that Travis would always belong to Katie-you couldn't find a single non-shipper in the Aphrodite cabin, and they were positive the same rang true for the Demeter and Hermes cabins. But Connor, however…
Oh, Connor was funny. So dreadfully funny! And his curly brown hair, falling lazily over his face and covering his bright blue eyes. And the way he moved, the way he spoke…So perfect. Utter perfection.
Lacy was jolted out of her daydream when two fingers snapped under her nose. She scowled at Mitchell, who merely jerked his head in Drew's direction. Lacy tuned back in to what the Korean girl had been telling the entire cabin that Lacy had missed all because of Connor Stoll, amazing, perfect, Connor Stoll.
"As we all know, the first two major attempts have failed."
"Two?" somebody called out.
"Yes, two. Annabeth and Jason tried to talk to Rachel about seeing into the future about Solangelo, but they had no success since her power is still cut off. And we all know how the Apollo cabin fared last week."
A series of grumbles rang throughout the room. Honestly! Serenading the couple with a Disney song? And not just any Disney song, but "Kiss the Girl?" And not even the original version, just their own modified one? How ridiculously cliché! And even though the Aphrodite cabin had a soft spot for cliché, sometimes you had to hit the limits on certain things. And "Kiss Nico" had smashed every single one of those limits.
"Are we still going for something cliché?" Mitchell asked.
Drew frowned, tapping an immaculate finger against her even more immaculate bottom lip. "Yeah, but not what they did. Serenading? Seriously? I don't think anyone's tried that since the movie came out! Which was…uh…"
"The 90's?"
Everyone jumped as head counselor Piper poked her head behind the bed sheet that the cabin was using to cover up their meeting. "Just got back from archery, sorry."
"What's the status on the OTP?" Drew asked her.
The relationship improvement between the two girls still took some getting used to. Lacy still couldn't believe that they were on speaking terms. She also couldn't believe that Piper was actually helping out with this quest to get Solangelo together. Out of all the Aphrodite kids, everyone would vote Piper "Least likely to help out the Club of a(n) ship/OTP." But Jason did start the fan club, along with Annabeth. And Piper was best friends with Annabeth, not to mention also dating Jason. It was more likely she was in it to help out her friends and boyfriend, but Lacy did appreciate that she put in effort for this ship.
"Will's actually hitting the white part of the target now. Can't say much about Nico, though. I honestly haven't seen him since lunch time. But Will did say that he was going to hang out with Nico later. Well, he said 'check up on him because he still can't do any Underworld-y stuff,' but we all know that he's really going to hang out with him for non-medical reasons."
"The look in his eyes?"
Piper grinned. "Oh, yes. Not saying that romantic ships aren't great, but the platonic level these two have is borderline romantic."
"At least if they don't get together as a couple, they'll make great friends!" Lexi called out. She was one of the aromantic/asexual Aphrodite children, so she had a great eye for great friendships. The rest of the cabin nodded in agreement. Platonic OTP's were always so much easier to get together than romantic OTP's, and spreading platonic love was also important! Even if one didn't desire romantic interactions, one will also desire friendship!
"I think Jason and Annabeth might actually die if they don't get in a romantic relationship, though. To tell the truth, it's actually funny. I didn't think they expected this amount of stress." Piper laughed as she walked over to Lacy and sat down beside her. Lacy waved a hand in greeting, and Piper waved back. "So, what's going on?" the Cherokee girl asked.
"After the disastrous attempt of the Apollo cabin last week, we decided that we'd have to launch our own move. To be honest, I'm surprised that they attempted before us! We, the children of the goddess of love herself, of all people!"
"It was either that or the Stolls pushing them in a closet," someone reminded Drew.
The Korean girl looked miffed. "Ugh. Let's not go there yet."
Nobody disagreed.
"Anyways, we're gonna need to step up our game! We need to play our own moves! We need to get them together using something that's cliché, but has our own twist on it!"
"Pushing them into a closet full of weaponry?" someone asked.
"Useful if it's involving a child of Ares, but no. However, when we're trying to get a child of Ares together with someone, we should use that."
"Have Nico drop a handkerchief with skulls on it? He's from the forties, they probably still did that back then," Mitchell suggested.
Everyone shrugged. "Will would freak out and think that he has a cold," Lexi said.
"Ah. Yeah, we'll save that as a last resort."
"A dance? For the entire camp? Wait, no, it's too soon, the war ended just last month and we're still cleaning things up."
Still more suggestions were thrown around.
"Ooh, ooh, I got it! We should have them marathon movies together!"
"Nico probably likes horror movies, and we all know how devoted Will is to Disney. Also, that's getting a little personal with their lives."
"Oh…"
"Set them up on a blind date with each other! That restaurant in Brooklyn near that weird abandoned warehouse that people say they see that mansion on sometimes-"
"Too complicated, we don't have the resources for that currently. And Nico will probably kill us, while Will wouldn't even go on it. Trust me."
"Put them in a room together?"
"Tempting, but no. Same concept as the closet."
"Switch stuff around so their training schedules are the exact same?"
"Will does infirmary work, and Nico tries to stay away from there."
As Lacy heard all the suggestions being thrown about, her mind went on full autopilot as it scrambled for an idea. And then one came. "I'VE GOT IT!"
Everyone jumped, then turned to face the blonde girl that had just leapt up. "What?" Drew asked.
"We want cliché with an original twist, yeah?"
Everyone nodded.
"Well, I've heard that Nico is Italian. Right, Piper? I mean, you know him a little bit better than the rest of us do. Just saying."
Piper responded, "Yeah, he is, Lacy."
"Well, besides 'Kiss the Girl,' what's the most iconic romantic scene from Disney, that involves Italy? Well, not exactly Italy, but the food? With spaghetti and meatballs?"
Piper's kaleidoscope eyes dawned with understanding. "You don't mean-"
Mitchell hit himself on the head. "How could we ever forget?!"
Drew's eyes gleamed with evil intentions. "Yes. We are doing that. We are so. Doing. That."
*The scene is so obvious and cliché that I bring you this linebreak to make up for it*
"Are you kidding me?"
Nico facepalmed. He knew that he and Will had become an OTP, but this was just getting ridiculous.
The two boys had both received an anonymous note telling them to come to the pavilion thirty minutes prior to the usual dinner time. Curious, they had both obeyed the notes' instructions, although when Nico learned that Will had also been invited, he had an underlying suspicion that a certain cabin had been involved.
And boy, was he right.
The Hades table had been cleaned up, the black velvet tablecloth straightened out and obviously ironed, and Nico could've that he smelled something fresh in the air surrounding the table. Febreeze created to smell like flowers? Actual flowers? Rose and daisy perfume? The rotting corpse of a Demeter child? He couldn't tell, although the last one would have been a nice touch.
Honestly, he could've just lived with having his table cleaned up. He was always too lazy to pick up after himself, which was funny because he was good at dusting and washing dishes and even making some food. But cleaning up? Nope. So he was actually glad that someone had put in the effort to sweep and wipe down his table. He might've even gone out to find and thank them. But that was not all that had been done to his table.
There was a candleholder on his table with three candles lit inside it. It was black, with skulls adorning it. It looked like something straight out of a romantic dinner that Mr. and Mrs. Addams of the Addams family would be holding. A sprinkling of blood red rose petals lingered near the base of the candleholder. For all Nico knew, it was actual blood shaped to look like rose petals.
But the worst thing was the food. There was one heaping platter of spaghetti and meatballs, with tomato sauce all over it. Two forks and knives were placed on either side of the plate, obviously meant for one person only. There were aso two fancy wine glasses, empty, with a bottle of sparkling water lying next to them. A little card was lying next to the plate as well. Nico couldn't read the words because it was written in cursive, but he would bet all of his drachmas that it was wishing him and Will a happy dinner.
"Lady and the Tramp," Will muttered. "Freaking Lady and the..." He sighed and ran his fingers through his messy curls of blonde hair. "I should have seen this coming."
Even when he was annoyed, Nico couldn't help but to feel the skeletal butterflies flutter in his stomach at the mere thought of Will Solace. Standing next to the boy himself just put them into overdrive.
It wasn't until the Appolo cabin event last week that Nico realized how close he was letting himself get to the son of Apollo. He could easily open up a little more around himand he waslo easy to talk to. He was also a good listener, willing to give a shoulder (Sometimes he was afraid Will would do that literally) to anyone who needed one.
But he had his downsides. He was always forcing the patients in the infirmary to stick to whatever he had assigned them with. He also stuck rigidly to the rules, and he had a way of goading people into things. He was extremely straightforward and refused to take "no" for an answer.
But Nico knew that all of these things only made him fall harder and harder for Will Solace.
Of course, Will probably didn't return Nico's feelings. After all, Will probably was as straight as a straight angle, while Nico was a quadratic in terms of heterosexuality. Shameful, really. Loving someone who could never love you back because of gender. But Nico would get over it at some point,he was sure. After all, he had gotten over Percy, hadn't he?
At least, he hoped that he could get over Will. He wasn't sure if he ever could.
Will sighed, jolting Nico out of his thoughts. "Alright. Let's go, Sunshine. As much as I love pasta, who knows who's behind this. Let's go before Mitchell or Drew or someone forces us to actually eat all that. And with that, he turned around and march out of the pavilion, straight in the direction of the supply sheds. Nico scoffed at his permanently fixed nickname, but followed him anyways.
As they walked, Nico sudenly spoke up. "I can't believe you're taking this so well."
Will snorted. "I'm only minutes away from breaking a bow on somebody's head."
Nico wasn't sure where all of this sudden strength to talk was comig from, but he just decided to go along with it. "Well, yeah, so am I, but..."He decided to chance it. "We're boh boys..."
Will stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to face Nico, blinking. Then he snorted. His snort turn into a chuckle. The chuckle turned into a laugh. The laugh turned into a guffaw, and before he knew it Will was lying in the fetal postion on the ground in front of Nico, because of his laughter.
Nico finally asked, "What'd I say?"
Will pulled himself into a seated position, still hooting with mirth. "Your forties are showing," he said weakly, standing back up
Nico crossed his arms. "I'm confused."
Just when Will had opened his mouth to reply, however,something slammed into Nico and sent him flying into Will. He barely had time to cry out before they both tumbled into somewhere empty and dark. A door closed behind them and a lock clicked.
They were locked.
Locked in a closet.
Anyone got any more requests? Because I'm sorta following a little plot line I cooked up using the requests I've gotten, and I need a few more chapters to put in between major plot events. Yeah, I said plot. After all, this is leading up to the canonizing of Solangelo. Completely disregard my rule that said I will only take one request per review, I take it completely back. First chance I get I am going to edit that rule out completely.
I really hope at least one person sends in a Halloween-themed request, Halloween is my favorite holiday!
On a side note, should I change the story name? I mean, I like it, but I'm not exactly getting that "READ ME!" vibe off of it, if you know what I mean.
And I wrote like a few Solangelo one-shots that I'll probably upload Monday. My computer is being weird about the documents right now, so I'm honestly not sure when they'll be up.
Eh. Oh well. Guess that's the price I gotta play for being fabulous.
And who caught the Kane Chronicles reference? Speaking of which Rick Riordan please write a crossover between PJO and Kane Chronicles please amen.
Deranged Shadow Fangirl