Warning: Bad pick-up lines.

All they wanted was some ice cream. And now there was some dracaena cambering over the ice-cream cabinet with her snakey legs far too close to the icecream tubs for Nico to be happy, but his focus was quickly and regrettably torn away from the icecream, and to the literal monster charging at him and Will.

He automatically pushed himself in front of Will, his sword out and slashing at the air in front of the creature. The tip of his sword sliced open her staff T-shirt, ruining the tagline of 'Monstrously good desserts!'

Gods, how did he and Will miss the whole 'monster' aspect of this icecream shop? The lure of good ice cream close to the Camp and the innocent mascot of the Cookie Monster had thrown them off.

The other customers of the Cookie Monster Ice Cream Parlour fled, which meant that Nico and Will didn't have to worry about mortals being in danger.

"Listen, I just wanted a nice date with my boyfriend. I won't stab you if you just give me an ice cream cone." Nico told the dracaena who hissed and brandished an ice cream scoop.

"Congratssss on the boyfriend, but it'ssss ice ssssscream time." The monster told him and Nico had to wonder how long the dracaena had been planning that comeback for the day some demigods wandered in.

Nico groaned and thrusted with his sword, and the dracaena all but fell on it, giving Nico the most anticlimactic victory over a monster ever. She burst into a cloud of dust, leaving only an ice cream scoop to fall to the ground.

"She wasn't even trying, she just wanted to ruin our date. We're probably going to be in trouble with this whole town because, I don't know, we raided an ice cream shop at gunpoint." Nico muttered and Will gave a chuckle, walking past him to pick the ice-cream scoop up.

"I guess it's a self-service now?"

Nico decided that if they paid at the end they could take some icecream. He refused to scoop with the monster-gunk-scoop and found a cleaner one when he vaulted the counter.

"I'll have an 8-inch Popsicle to suck on." Will winked at Nico, who was busy scooping his own mega-cone.

"I don't think they have Popsicles, it's an ice cream sho- Will you're a bad person." Nico realised the joke too late and groaned, sending his boyfriend a glare.

"Are you ice cream? Because I can't wait to eat you up."

Nico's face was getting redder as he tried to ignore Will and pour more sprinkles on his cone.

"Seriously Will, the police could show up and you're trying to use bad pick-up lines?"

"I guess you just make me melt." Will smirked when Nico finally laughed, walking under the counter (instead of jumping over it like his heathen boyfriend) and scooping a vanilla cone with a Flake.

"That's really unhealthy." Will felt like he had to say it, as Nico stuck gummy bears in the monster-ice cream.

Nico just stuck his tongue out at him. "Treat yo self." He said childishly. Will laughed and had to lean in for a quick kiss.

"Are you ice cream because you're too damn sweet."

"Will, no."

Whoops so I'm late with this one too. Today's chapter will be up soon too!

Have a great day!

Fez.