THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE SHIP.
"Of course you didn't." Apollo sighed.
"Of course we didn't. That'd be too easy." Annabeth scoffed and all the demigods snorted in amusement.
"Yeah exactly. Going to check out a place and returning without anybody trying to attack us? Impossible." Piper said, sarcasm dripping from her voice.
"Y'all are gonna drive us crazy with all the dark humor." Hermes shook his head, keeping one hand on his chest and the other rubbed his temples. The demigods grinned sheepishly.
Halfway across the dock…when battling evil sirens.
Everybody couldn't help but snort in amusement.
"That was actually a pretty good insult." Michael admitted begrudgingly
"I wish I could've chucked him into the sea of monsters." Annabeth said, her voice filled with remorse at not being able to do that.
Now, throw down your weapons…or even better—Percy.
"Aww, thanks my love. I feel flattered." Percy grinned at Annabeth who rolled her eyes playfully but smiled.
"Having the son of the sea god who can basically control the entire water body nearby and to whom the sea creatures listen to who just happens to be your boyfriend would be perfect. Literally the best solution." Grover nodded.
"You guys are making my day." Percy grinned at them.
"Oh shut up." Grover snorted with laughter.
"Well?" Octavian demanded…as she could into the water.
"Ooh that's smart." Poseidon grinned at Annabeth and the two high fived. Athena's jaw dropped open as did a few others'. While they knew that Poseidon and Annabeth got along well enough especially compared to Athena and Percy, they had no idea that they had already started having a father-daughter relationship.
"No, but how's that going to help. It's just a dagger thrown into the harbor. Percy could literally be anywhere." Dakota said in worry.
"Its Annabeth." All the elder Greek demigods echoed before Percy could say anything and the son of the sea god nodded in agreement and Annabeth blushed but grinned.
Octavian made a squeaking…He huffed in exasperation.
"Bro keeps losing brain cells per second." Lee snorted.
"He had brain cells?" Dakota asked, scandalized, making everybody laugh.
"You other two…fountain putting on a show.
"Holy shit!" the demigods shouted and whooped.
"Percy fooking Jackson, everybody!" Travis announced and Percy grinned. Poseidon's eyes shone with pride. He'd never had a demigod child who had ever come close to making him as proud as Percy had. The only children of his that he loved as much as Percy were his kids with Amphitrite and Tyson. There were a few times when he looked at Percy and saw Sally's son but he would never stop being glad whenever he saw himself in Percy or whenever somebody said that Percy was exactly like him.
"Loverboy alert. Warning. Warning. Caution." Thalia said in a robotic voice and Nico and Grover burst out laughing which only increased when Percy flipped Thalia off with both hands.
When the wall of seawater…totally poker-faced.
Everybody wolf whistled and hooted as Percy grinned and winked at Annabeth who blushed and gave him a kiss, making Percy go red as well.
"Bro waited his whole life for this moment." Katie snickered and Percy winked at her.
"Loverboy alert." Thalia grinned with a 'i-told-you-so' look. Nico made siren noises in the background and Percy smacked them both upside the head.
"Enter me-" Travis and Connor started loudly as they grinned at Percy
"He says in parenthesis." Chris echoed and Hermes grinned brightly. Oh, was he glad that his kids had watched his musical. Hamilton really had been amazing to do.
"Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me." Percy grinned and flicked Hades' sunglass to spin them and wear them. Hades was far too amused to even say anything. The sea gang chuckled at Percy's antics. They had no idea why it took everybody so hard to discover his parentage. Everybody burst out laughing and whooped.
"My shot was no doubt one of the best of your musical." Apollo told Hermes amusedly and the god of mischief smirked smugly.
"Why thank you."
Grover started humming Poker Face by Lady Gaga through the empathy link and Percy pouted at him but then grinned and joined in through the link. They hummed the whole song as the others continued reading.
"This shit be reminding me of the Lotus Casino." Grover snickered through the link and Percy gave him a dry look as he nodded in agreement.
Annabeth threw her arms…"Tempting," Percy called down
"It was such a good offer." Connor sighed.
"What?" Octavian shouted…"Nothing!" Percy shouted back
Everybody snickered.
"Octavian's cluelessness is way too entertaining than it should be." Reyna raised an eyebrow and shook her head at the thought that he was close enough to become praetor. Rome would have probably fallen twice thanks to that numbskull.
Hazel frowned. "We can't let them drown, can we?"
"You could but the question here is you want to." Triton said darkly. "You should have, in my opinion." He said and then grinned, scaring the wits out of a few people.
"We couldn't just do that. It wouldn't be right." Hazel told him.
"Ah, you just had to have morals, eh?" Triton joked with a light chuckle.
"Unfortunately." Hazel snorted.
"They won't," Percy promised…This time, he didn't disappoint.
"Of course, he didn't." Tyson said, his voice filled with pride for his brother.
Ropes flew on their own…unfurled and caught the wind
"You would have been the greatest pirate ever had you lived in those times." Will mused to Percy who grinned.
"Second greatest. The greatest will always be Captain Jack Sparrow." He said. Will grinned and nodded sagely.
"True that." He said.
"But I have a more important question for you." Leo said, a grin slowly creeping up his face. Percy raised an amused eyebrow, anticipating some reference by the look on Leo's face.
"Why is the rum gone?!" Leo wailed in a perfect imitation of Captain Jack Sparrow and all those who understood the reference roared with laughter. Once everybody calmed down, Piper continued reading.
Meanwhile Annabeth fired the engine…interrupted a Chuck Norris movie!"
"My guy's got his priorities straightened out." Chris nodded sagely.
"We all must learn from him." Clarisse agreed.
Piper emerged from below…hear him screaming and cursing.
Everybody sniggered at the mental image.
"You just couldn't let me sit on your back, could you?" Leo pouted at Frank. "Hanging onto the legs and waving like I'm a banner." He grumbled.
"You know that I have a worse back than a 60 year old grandma." Frank defended.
Behind them flew Jason… "He looks like a blonde Superman."
"I've been saying that to Zeus for ages. Except the 'blonde' thing isn't there." Poseidon complained. Zeus rolled his eyes playfully at his elder brother.
"At least now I know what to give Jason on his birthday. A good ol' suit will do him well." Percy grinned.
"The fact that he even flies with his hand extended fits him even more." Nico joined in.
"I hate you guys." Jason pouted at them.
"This isn't the time…screaming and cursing.
"Arion would be proud." Percy snickered at Leo.
"Well, I live to be as great as that horse." Leo nodded.
Jason and Frank were forced…slamming into Jason.
Hephaestus and Beckendorf's eyes widened. Hephaestus gripped Leo's shoulder.
"Isn't Hedge supposed to be chaperoning?" Aphrodite scowled.
"I think he's having more fun with weapons treating them like fireworks." Hephaestus said with a matching scowl.
"He did mess up a few times but all in all he was a really good chaperone. I mean he did help save Frank and Percy." Piper defended Hedge.
Annabeth watched in horror as Jason…"That was just a warning shot!"
"Maybe he should warn the enemies rather than hitting the demigods." Zeus shook his head, clearly unhappy with his son being hit as well.
Annabeth gunned the engines…"Frank and Leo!" Hazel added.
"A fire user, a practical Animagus and a blonde superman who is also a sparky. We could manage for a while." Leo assured everybody and a few people chuckled weakly.
"I'll find them…All on your own?"
"That's a Wednesday." Annabeth grinned, stretching back, this time, making everybody laugh.
"Just an average day…them take this ship!"
"Chapter's done." Piper announced. Just then, Nico yawned and that caused a few others to yawn as well. The gods chuckled at that.
"I think we can take a break and continue reading tomorrow." Hestia smiled softly.
"This is why you're my favorite." Nico grinned tiredly and Hestia chuckled.
"Lets get some food first." Hades chuckled as he pulled Nico to his feet.
"And coffee." Nico stated. Hades laughed lightly.
"I thought you wanted to sleep." He said.
"I don't want to. I just am sleepy. Coffee's gonna fix that." Nico corrected. Poseidon laughed.
"He really is your son, Hades." He said and Hades smiled at that but didn't say anything.
"Lets get you some caffeine." Hades conceded and clapped Nico's shoulder as everybody started trickling outside.