ON THE WAY OUT OF CAMP…Maybe even Imperial golden
Everybody chuckled.
"You're my favorite cousin." Percy stated to Hazel who grinned.
"Hey!" Jason, Thalia and Nico protested.
"I feel so offended. After all those burgers…." Thalia shook her head.
"You guys know I love you right." Percy grinned at them.
"We don't love you." Nico said with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.
"You do." Percy said with a grin.
"Fine. Only time you're going hear us admit that." Jason grinned.
"I'm going to hear it a lot more. Because you love me." Percy grinned at them. The cousins burst out laughing. Everybody looked at them in amusement. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades looked the most amused. Honestly, how were their kids exactly like them.
He watched a bunch of kids in swimsuits…Percy sighed with anticipation.
"We're going in the dinner break." Triton said, clapping his hands together
"To a…Roman bath?" Percy asked in confusion. Triton chuckled.
"Nope. To the bath house." He said
"The one next to our quarters?" Percy asked with raised eyebrows. Triton shook his head.
"Nope. The other one. You haven't been there yet." Triton said with a grin.
"Looking forward to it then." Percy grinned "All of us can go." He said. Everybody nodded.
"I'll book it." Triton grinned.
"Bath house," Hazel said…kid riding a giant eagle swooped overhead
"Cool." Jason snickered.
"You haven't done that ever, have you?" Hazel asked him. Jason shook his head.
"Too busy and orderly." He shrugged.
"Looks like we've got a lot to do in the break then." Zeus said to him. Jason grinned.
"When are we taking a break?" Nico asked.
"Maybe in about two more chapters?" Hermes suggested. Everybody nodded.
"We have five cohorts of about forty…there's two hundred kids at camp?"
"That is insaneee." Beckendorf said.
"You guys have it tougher. We had a whole city under protection, not just a camp." Frank said
"All demigods have it tough. Its just a matter of how the camp was built." Annabeth said with a small smile.
"Roughly." "And all of them are…The gods have been busy."
The demi youngers burst out laughing. The gods raised their eyebrows at Percy while a few snickered.
"Well, have they been?" Jason snorted. The laughter increased.
"Hey, come on now. You cannot blame me for thinking that." Percy said, with a grin, holding his hands up.
"That is true." Hermes snickered.
"Well, luckily enough, to avoid our dirty minds from springing into action, Camp has a lot of legacies and kids of minor gods."
"That's good." The demi youngers snickered. The gods shook their heads fondly.
"That's just CJ though. What about CHB. We have kids of minor gods and mostly major gods… I mean what's going on there." Nico smirked.
"We don't wanna know!" The demi youngers screamed. Nico snickered.
"We already too much about our parents'…lives than normal." Thalia said, shaking her heads. The demi youngers nodded. The gods snickered and turned a little red which caused everybody to roar with laughter.
Hazel laughed. "Not all of them are…Does that surprise you?"
"You have no idea how much." Percy shook his head. The gods winced.
Percy wasn't sure…"These Legos—" "Legacies," Hazel corrected.
Everybody laughed.
"Percy is definitely the same without his memories as well." Pollux chuckled.
"Legos?" Annabeth chuckled fondly.
"They're fun." Percy pouted.
"No doubt. You have like 3 or more ship sets at your house." Jason said with a chuckle.
"You have the plane ones…at my house!" Percy said. Jason grinned sheepishly.
"Aunt S gave me some place to put it all. We bought it together." He said.
"Eh. Its your home too. You can do whatever you want." Percy shrugged. Jason grinned at him.
"They have powers like a demigod?"… legacy, descendant of Apollo.
Apollo and his kids and Rachel scrunched their noses at the unfriendly reminder.
"I am just so glad that he isn't here right now." Will shook his head
"I guess that even the fates knew that he'd be in a bad position by the end of the reading." Nico shrugged.
He's got the gift of prophecy…"What a horrible idea!
"Honestly, its not horrible. I mean, mostly people get siblings and if they don't then they get cousins who are like siblings-" Castor said, gesturing to Thalia, Nico, Tyson and Percy. "- And yeah, you might be alone for some time but then everybody gets used to you and you make friends. We don't really say that one is below the other as there are no ranks there." He said
"I'm sorry. I agree with what you're saying and all. That's just the way that our camp is so we got used to that." Hazel said apologetically
"Its quite all right. I was just saying. I'm just not too fond of ranks because…well…I'm just not too fond of the ideas. But then again, both our camps' philosophies are different as well so being divided into cabins based on your parents for you guys might not be the ideal way." Castor said with a small smile. Hazel nodded and returned it.
"If only the Romans and Greeks who fought in the civil war could have come to such an agreement." Apollo sighed.
"That's what we think isn't it? How things might have ended up if that happened." Lee sighed.
"There were multiple reasons that accounted into the civil war between the Romans and Greeks. Though, it is what we think. How things might have ended up." Annabeth stated and then sighed.
"Even generations change and so do thought processes. Some people still think like the older ones but most of them change over time and as generations pass." Nico said. Everybody nodded.
No, the officers decide where to assign…like he'd been in that situation
"Just for some time." Percy said with a small grin.
"Why? What's your ancestry?"
"Well…I am actually the kid of a major god." Hazel chuckled. Everybody snickered and chuckled as well.
"That would be kind of funny because you said that not everybody is a kid of a major god and then he asks your ancestry and you're supposed to go like 'oh well actually, I am a kid of a major god…" Nico snickered. Hazel grinned. Hades chuckled.
Before she could answer…"Yes, yes, and no," Percy said
"Actually, its 'yes, yes and yes.'" Grover said with a grin. Percy groaned, remembering the fire breathing horses who had a very good interest in eating seafood.
"That was once and I had no choice at all so…" Percy said.
"Who are you?"… Haven't you had a bath?"
"Okay, rude." The Greek demi youngers chorused.
"I've been a little busy fighting…like something he'd always known.
"It is similar enough to our camp's story." Chiron nodded.
"The Western Civilization thing just in Hazel's own words." Nico said.
"And you're in the Fifth Cohort,"… enough to count every paving stone.
Jason and Hazel gave each other small smiles.
"Sorry." Percy grimaced.
"Its no problem." Hazel smiled.
Come on," she said at last… have kids, retire when you get old.
"That's a dream." Beckendorf said with a smile
"You can do that now. You should have had that comfort before but you can do that now." Hephaestus smiled at his son.
It's the only safe place on earth for…something she wasn't supposed to say.
The Underworld gang sighed.
"It's—it's complicated," she said…"Yeah, I read the sign.
Everybody snickered. Poseidon coughed as he felt the taste of dust in his mouth.
"That was hilarious." Frank snickered. Percy pouted.
"War games tonight," Hazel said…"We can't have that."
Everybody chuckled.
Hazel laughed. It was hard to believe…like she felt guilty about something.
Everybody stared at Percy.
"How on anywhere can you be so freaking perceptive?" Thalia asked slowly.
"I don't know. Skills?" Percy said
"Really though." Jason said with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know. I can just understand what somebody's feeling. If I like them." Percy shrugged.
"You're really empathetic." Aphrodite noted with a small smile
"Only to those I care about." Percy said. Aphrodite nodded.
Hazel pointed south across…guys hanging out on the side of the road.
"Goat legged?" Grover asked with mock offense. Percy grinned sheepishly.
"At least you didn't call them half donkey this time." Hermes sighed.
"Hazel!" one of them cried…Work for the camp! Hilarious!"
"That's not funny." Grover frowned.
"Fauns are, um, free spirits,"… We tolerate them, but —"
"I still hate that they beg." Grover scowled. Hermes and Dionysus nodded in agreement.
"Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don said…' I love her!"
Everybody couldn't help but chuckle at that.
The faun seemed harmless…homeless guys begging for denarii.
Grover smiled at Percy who returned it.
Don looked at the ground in front…from a charging bulletproof elephant.
Hades grimaced.
There was a flash of light and there stood the single most irritating person in the world….Octavian. Everybody groaned as they saw his face.
"And we spoke to soon." Nico groaned and buried his head in their hands. Octavian sneered at him.
"I'd like to know if he realized that you all were turned into gods." Ares said with a raised eyebrow. Octavian staggered a little but nodded. His eyes even bugged out when he saw how similar some of the demi youngers looked that he couldn't tell them apart from their parents.
"I know." He said.
"Oh us. Even his voice is a pain to my poor ears." Percy groaned dramatically. Octavian glared at him and sat alone on a couch which appeared at the corner.
"He's only here for some time." Apollo said with relief that Octavian would be going away.
"That's good." Everybody nodded.
"The fates haven't specified how much time though." Apollo grimaced. There were a few groans but there was nothing anybody could do about it.
The faun sighed. "Aw, I can't stay…"That's the Temple of Mars Ultor."
"No offense but it sounds like Ultron." Nico said to Ares who snickered.
"Mars ... Ares, the war god?"… Ultor means 'the Avenger.'
The demi youngers couldn't help but snort. Octavian looked absolutely horrified. Ares snickered at the demi youngers. Octavian now looked freaked out.
Percy wasn't thrilled to hear that…the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus."
"You're not going close to my temple." Zeus said to Octavian.
"He's dead, dad. The fates didn't bring him back to life." Jason said to Zeus who nodded in satisfaction. Octavian stared at Jason.
A few looked a little surprised that Zeus hadn't said anything about his temple being the best or something.
Percy had to think about it…They only used ships if they had to
"Okay wait that makes 0 sense." Pollux said
"What do you mean?" Reyna asked
"Like. You're scared of the ocean but you still don't pay any respect to the god of the ocean. If you've ever had bad luck at sea, there is literally only yourself to blame." Pollux said
"Percy got the temple renovated though." Reyna said
"And we wanted to do it too." Frank added quickly.
"That's all good but I still don't get the logic." Pollux shook his head
"It is not yours to get." Octavian glared at Pollux
"Its mine. I'm not asking you for permission there." Percy said coldly to Octavian. Octavian froze at the tone.
"And if Pollux has questions then he has the right to ask. Shut up and sit there. None of us wanted you here." Percy said to Octavian. The others nodded in agreement.
Octavian's mouth closed with an audible click and Percy turned to the others.
"Yeah so I mean I was saying that if you are scared then shouldn't you be more respectful. I mean that's most likely to piss anybody off more." Pollux said
"You're right." Frank nodded. "Percy got it all fixed now." He said. The sea gang smiled at Percy.
Even in modern times, having a child of Neptune…they'd give him some moldy apples.
"If you tried to be scary then you would definitely succeed." Nico nodded. Percy snickered.
"Octavian looked about ready to pee his pants when you glared at him." Travis snickered. Octavian glared at Travis but stopped quickly.
Still…standing at Neptune's altar…like waves rippling through his veins.
The sea gang grinned at Percy and Triton and Tyson high fived Percy.
He reached in his backpack…but he set it on the altar
"And how is that better than the fruit?" Octavian sneered.
"That's all he had and he still gave it. I'm pretty sure that you can afford something not stale." Poseidon glared at Octavian and the augur shut up.
"What did we do to deserve Octavian here?" Nico groaned dramatically. Hades gave a chuckle at his son's antics.
"At least he's only here for some time." Hazel sighed.
"That is a huge relief." Thalia nodded
"Can we take a break after this chapter. Get rid of seeing him for some time. Even this much time is making my eyes hurt?" Nico asked. Everybody snickered. Chiron looked like he was considering it but then even he chuckled at the end.
"Just two more chapters and then we can take a break." He said
"Two, including this one?" Frank asked. Chiron chuckled again.
"I was actually not including this one but all right. We can break for the night relatively early today." He said. Everybody cheered.
Octavian glared at them all but kept quiet. He really wasn't eager to get a cold glare for any of the members of the sea gang again.
"Hey…uh, Dad." He felt pretty stupid…Tell me—tell me what to do."
Poseidon sighed and squeezed Percy's shoulder.
His voice cracked…without grabbing for missing memories.
Jason sighed, knowing how Percy felt at the time. It literally felt like a part of him was missing.
Poseidon grimaced and gave Percy a side hug as he felt Percy's emotions flow through him. Percy gave a small smile. The others sighed and gave Percy small smiles and a few glared at Hera.
"There's nothing stupid in that and nobody can blame you for tearing up. Anybody would, seeing as how long you'd been lost and like you said that's scary." Grover said with a small smile. Percy returned it.
Hazel put her hand on his shoulder…he barely knew for comfort
"Hey!" Hazel protested with a small smile.
"Sorry, Hazel." Percy said with a small goofy smile. "I'd come to you now when I need it." He said. Hazel smiled at him.
But he was glad she was there.
Hazel and Percy grinned at each other.
Above them, thunder rumbled…"Let's go."
"So he's done murdering innocent stuff toys." Percy said "Oh wait, never mind." He added. Octavian glared at him and Percy rolled his eyes.
Compared to Neptune's tool shed…What are you talking about?"
Everybody snickered. Hazel shook her head.
"I'm talking about the lightning bolt. It doesn't look like that." Percy grinned. Zeus gave a small chuckle.
"Statues are mostly inaccurate." He said. Everybody nodded.
"Hazel's just so flabbergasted like 'what are you saying and how the heck do you know that?'" Thalia snickered.
"He just randomly went 'it doesn't look like that.'" Hazel defended. They all chuckled.
"I—" Percy frowned…like a scarecrow wearing a bed sheet
Everybody burst out laughing. Octavian looked highly affronted at the description.
"That was the best and most accurate description ever." Piper choked out. They all nodded. Octavian just sulked in his corner.
"You always described togas as bedsheets. They are not bedsheets." Jason shook his head with a chuckle at Percy
"They look like bedsheets." Percy said. Everybody snickered.
"What's he doing?" …That didn't make him look any less crazy.
Everybody snickered.
"Percy," Hazel said…Nowadays, we use these."
"That's less harsh." Grover said. Octavian shrugged.
He tossed the fuzzy thing to Percy…thought he could learn something from it.
Everybody scowled.
Octavian narrowed his eyes…I bear a remarkable resemblance."
"No, that wasn't it." Percy murmured.
"Luke?" Poseidon muttered to him. Percy nodded.
"Yeah. Same hair color." Percy said.
Percy didn't think that was it…the first interpretation is correct.
Everybody burst out laughing.
"Nope. I'm sure that its 'the goose has cried.'" Rachel snickered. Octavian scowled a little and shook his head.
You seek to join the legion?"… "an oracle or something?"
"Aw, you missing me, Perce?" Rachel grinned. Percy chuckled.
"No doubt. Its hard to forget how annoying you were. See! It stays with me even though I forgot everything except Annabeth." Percy said with a grin.
"Haha soo funny." Rachel said with a playful roll of her eyes.
An oracle!" Octavian smiled…"Because Reyna isn't stupid," Hazel said.
Everybody laughed. Nico high fived Hazel. Hades and Persephone gave her a proud look. Jason, Frank, Thalia and Percy gave thumbs ups and grins.
"Burnnn." Leo grinned. Hazel grinned. Octavian rolled his eyes.
"—so we have only a few …whole body was trembling. "That's important.
Poseidon trembled as well as the confusion and anxiousness and frustration of Percy rang through him through the curse.
Octavian arched an eyebrow…but it's several thousand years old.
"That's kind of funny, really." Rachel stated with a raised eyebrow
"Not really. They get the prophecies wayy before but then you tend to get them later but to them it gets mixed in many more prophecies. For you guys, you have only one to worry about at once." Apollo said with a small smile.
"Ah okay." Rachel nodded.
We don't know what it means…He was kind of fond of it.
Percy pouted a little bit. He liked the panda.
"We'll buy you a new one." Triton chuckled amusedly as he saw his brother's face. Percy brightened up.
"I'll buy two." Percy said
"Nah. My treat. I have years of spoiling you to make up for." Triton said with a chuckle. Poseidon beamed at him.
"I'll take that." Percy grinned.
Octavian turned toward the altar…turned with a big smile on his face
"You just murdered an innocent pillow pet and you're smiling." Percy grumbled under his breath. Poseidon chuckled fondly at his son.
"Good news!" he said…It would mean so much to me."
"Never." Hazel shook her head.
"I'd been at the camp the longest." Octavian said
"So?" Hazel asked with a raised eyebrow. Octavian sputtered. Nico muttered something in Hazel's ear and she snickered.
"Well…maybe in one nation." Hazel said. Octavian looked at her.
"Imagination." She said. Everybody Ooh'ed. Octavian turned shades of red and purple.
"We've already chosen the new praetors and you can't be chosen anyway. Not that we would have in the first place but whatever." Frank stated. Octavian scowled.
Hazel clenched her fists…the symbol of Apollo
The Apollo gang scowled deeply.
"After all," Octavian told Hazel…liked being at the other end of a blade.
Hazel smiled at Percy and he winked at her. Hades gave him a grateful smile as well and Nico grinned at Percy. Percy just smiled at them. Frank glared at Octavian.
Octavian snorted at Percy who raised an eyebrow at him and smirked. He pulled out his weapon controller which he still called Riptide and casually flipped it and expanded it into his trident and sword. Octavian swallowed thickly and the others muffled their snickers. Percy sighed and got Riptide to its original form and put it back in his pocket. Hazel winked at Percy and he grinned.
Hazel took a deep breath…"I'll think about it."
Hades felt Hazel's panic race through him and he glared coldly at Octavian and the legacy recoiled.
"Excellent," Octavian said…your brother is here."
Everybody's gazes turned to Nico who grinned.
"A visit from the son of Hades." He winked. Hazel chuckled.
"I hate you for that, you know that right?" Percy asked with a raised eyebrow but a small smile.
"I know. But in general you can't hate me because I'm your brother." Nico said simply.
"You always get away with that." Percy protested. Nico smirked.
Hazel stiffened. "My brother?... He has a disturbing effect on the others
Nico shrugged while the others glared coldly at Octavian and Will scowled deeply at him.
Now, if you'll excuse me…about where Octavian could stick his knife.
Everybody burst out laughing.
"Go Hazel!" The Stolls and Leo cheered. Hazel grinned a little sheepishly. Octavian scowled.
"That's my sister!" Nico grinned and high fived Hazel. Hades nodded approvingly with a smile at Hazel.
"I hate that guy,"… He'll want to meet you.
"Oh, weren't you excited?" Percy said to Nico.
"Sorry, Perce." Nico sighed.
Percy didn't argue…like this was somebody he should know
"You should." Nico said sagely.
"Tell that to her." Percy snorted and gestured to Hera.
"Though if you would have remembered me, I would have had to tell you about Romans and Greeks." Nico said
"I don't think that I would have minded. Sure, I mean, it would make things a whole lot clearer for me and I might not be too fond of it but I don't think I would get mad." Percy said, thinking about it.
"You would have to hide that secret." Hera said
"I would know that." Percy nodded.
For a microsecond when he saw Percy…"I'm Nico di Angelo."
Nico's cousins snorted. Percy pouted at Nico.
"How are you pleased to meet him?" Thalia asked with raised eyebrows.
"Hey!" Percy protested. Everybody chuckled.
"Done with the chapter." Aphrodite stated
"I'll read." Hephaestus said. Aphrodite passed him the book.