Percy Jackson and the disastrous bonding trip

Summary: To Most people a little bonding trip with your dad, uncles, and cousins sounds 'fun' This is the one where after I made the God's promise to pay more attention to their Demi-God children the big three decide to bond with us, what could possibly go wrong?

Chapter 1 – I go to the Beach with some God's

'Go' mom says 'it'll be fun, spending some time with your Dad and your uncles; it'll be great you'll love it.' Yeah, that was unlikely.

To most people, a little bonding time with your dad, uncles and cousins sounds fun. But their Dad isn't Poseidon, and their uncles aren't Hades and Zeus. So putting it simply, the big three God's and their Mortal off-spring on a beach, is simply calling out to all the monsters of America, 'I'm ready for you to eat me now', fun right?

So I made sure that Riptide, my lethal ball-point pen, was safely in the pocket of my jeans. I know what you're thinking, 'wow a ball-point pen, now he can poke the monster in the eye and then draw all over its face, classy right? This kid's the hero of Olympus all right, with his evil ball-point pen'

But if I uncap riptide, my pen transforms into a sword, many inches long it's made out of celestial bronze, a monster's worst enemy, one slash of this weapon, and a monster will disintegrate to ashes and it's bye, bye evil monster thingy that tried to eat my brains, and brutally kill me. But hey, I'm an optimist, so I'd look a monster in the eye, and say 'come and get me you big ugly, thing.' Or something dumb like that, so much for playing around with a monsters head. Lame, I know, my girlfriend Annabeth Chase is always saying that to me.

So as I was sitting in my room, dreading this 'bonding trip', this bonding trip is just another way for Zeus and Hades to try and kill me, but Thalia and Nico will be there so I'm sure I won't die or anything like that, hopefully. But the God's can be pretty unpredictable, one minute it could be a civilized conversation and the next, boom Zeus shoot's his Master bolt, and it's bye, bye Percy.

I know what you're thinking, I'm invincible, I've got that Achilles invincible curse thing going on. But I seriously doubt that it could protect me from Zeus's Master bolt, I mean that thing is seriously powerful; one bolt could kill an entire city or something like that. I don't go around asking Zeus how much people he could kill with one bolt. I could just imagine myself going up to Zeus and saying: 'Hey Zeus, you know your ultra-powerful lightning bolt thingy, that you thought I stole from you four years ago? Yeah, how much people can that kill?' I shuddered, imagining that trip to the sea-side, and because of my stupid ADHD, I blurted that out, that would not be good. Not good at all.

Twenty minutes later I'd finished packing, and poof, my friend Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades pops up in front of me, I jumped so high in fright I landed flat on my butt. Nico chuckled before offering his hand for me to take, 'Thanks zombie dude' I said gratefully taking his hand.

'Kelp head, that's getting old' I put my hand over my mouth to try and muffle my laughter.

'Kelp head, really?' Nico shrugged

'Best I could do under pressure' I chuckled heartily

'Right, you keep telling yourself that that was your reason for your epic fail on nicknames'

'Seriously Perce, get over it' I shrugged

'So where's pinecone face?' Nico began to laugh

'And you said I was bad at thinking of nicknames' I rolled my eyes

'Yes I did, so are you ready to go or what?' Nico nodded

'Um…I guess' I raised an eyebrow at my friends nervous tone.

'Nico are you ok? You seem a bit nervous' Nico shook his head and sat down on my bed. He looked distraught, I knew something was wrong. When I looked at him more closely I could see tears in his eyes. I sat beside him. 'Nico?'

'I'm not nervous, it's just today's Bianca's birthday, and I miss her' He said the last part so quietly I barely heard him.

'Nico, I didn't know her near as well as you did, but she was my friend and I miss her too.'

A tear slid down his face, 'what do you mean?'

'I guess what I'm trying to say is Bianca wouldn't want you crying right now, she really loved you Nico, she still does' That just made him cry harder, I pulled him into an embrace, I'd never hugged Nico before, but he was one of my best friends, and my cousin, so I just let him cry into my shoulder. His body shook with every sob. 'Nico, please dry your eyes' He couldn't he must really be missing Bianca.

'C-can't' he choked out 'such a baby' I tried as hard as I could to comfort him.

'You're not a baby Nico, you're twelve you're allowed to cry' He laughed softly, but he never loosened his grip around my neck. I never thought of Nico as the hugging type. 'Do you have your stuff?' he nodded, drying his eyes and pointed over to a small kaki suitcase.

'I think your shirt's all wet' Nico said softly, I looked down at him and smiled.

'I can always change it' Nico smiled softly and yawned. 'How far did you have to shadow travel?' I asked Nico shrugged

'From Spain' I raised an eyebrow at Nico

'It's just Bianca always wanted to go there, it seems like I've been thinking more and more about her recently, do you have any idea why that is?'

I shrugged 'Not a clue, maybe it's because she was your age when you lost her' Nico shrugged

'I guess' he yawned again

'Thalia, Zeus and our dad's won't be here for a while, you rest and I'll go make my famous spaghetti bolognaise.' Nico smiled wearily.

'Percy'

I looked at him 'Yeah?'

'Thanks' I smiled at him

'Rest' he nodded and snuggled under the covers.

Twenty minutes later I walked back into my room, Nico was tossing and turning, I could see tear tracks on his olive skin. 'Percy don't go. Please I'm sorry, don't leave me please Percy'

'Nico' I said softly, he didn't hear me. 'Nico' I said a little louder, he continued tossing and turning, he was whimpering in his sleep, whatever he must be dreaming about, must've been scaring him senseless. He cried my name over and over. 'Nico, I shouted it this time, he jolted awake as if Thalia had gave him one of her 'little shocks'

'Percy, you're not gone, you didn't leave me' I sat beside him

'Of course I didn't. I'd never leave you Nico.'

He rested his head on my shoulder. 'Percy I'm so confused, I've always missed Bianca, but never as bad as this, what's going on with me' He sounded like he was about to cry again. I rubbed his back gently.

'It'll be ok Nico', I put my arm around his shoulders and guided him into the Kitchen. 'Let's eat' Nico nodded.

'Yeah, now I can see if you can actually cook' I grinned at him

'I can battle monsters, but you don't think I can cook?' Nico shrugged.

We had barely gotten halfway through my AMAZING spaghetti, when there was a loud 'Poof' and Zeus, Thalia, Dad and Hades arrived in my kitchen.

'Hey seaweed brain, Zombie dude' I ran over and gave Thalia a hug and then my dad.

'Hey sport' my dad said, his sea green eyes sparkling, his usual smiley crinkles near his eyes.

Nico had a completely different approach, He ran over to Hades screaming, 'Daddy!'

Hades embraced his son, 'hey son'

Nico beamed, I liked seeing him smile it was a change from when he was so upset earlier and was crying. Nico looked up at me and I gave him my best reassuring smile.

'I can't wait, this is going to be so awesome' Thalia exclaimed

'Are we all sharing the one Cabin?' I asked.

My dad grinned 'Who said anything about a cabin?' he said mischievously. 'We're staying in a beach house, well beach mansion actually; we all get our own rooms'

Nico grinned broadly, 'awesome, I get the room next to Percy, dibs' he said quickly. I smiled at my black haired friend.

'And why do you want the room next to Percy?' Thalia questioned

'Cause, he helps me with stuff' Nico mumbled

'What stuff, school is over' Nico looked at the ground; I knew he was talking about Bianca.

'Are you going to answer?' I shot Thalia a glare and placed a hand on Nico's shoulder

'Let it go Thalia, he obviously doesn't want to talk about it.' Nico shot me a grateful smile, I smiled back.

'Thank you' he mouthed, I squeezed his shoulder gently. Nico fell into step beside me. 'I owe you' he said smiling slightly, I smiled back

'It's cool; it's what friends are for'

Nico didn't answer and we walked in a comfortable silence. Nico seemed distracted, probably thinking of Bianca.

'Alright, everyone stay here, we are going to the beach', we grinned in excitement, 'take each other's hands' we obliged and then Zeus said something in ancient Greek, I felt a strange pull in my navel, it travelled straight through my body, and the next thing we were standing outside the biggest house I'd ever seen, but of course it wasn't simple because the first thing we saw were five draekanea standing outside. I had a feeling this was going to be a long trip.

And there you have it my first Percy Jackson Fic ever, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter and please R&R

Later

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