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At the end of my second quest... everything ended….. quite well, too well, and things never go this way for me, Hades agreeing to have a friendship with me…. Zeus not smiting me, a mission where I didn't end up almost dying, granted this was my second quest so far, but still. And now that I was back on the camp I couldn't help but wonder… was something terribly wrong going to fuck my recently acquired luck streak.
Oh wait. No, I suppose Hades and his ridiculously high prices count as the negative highlight of my day, so I should be on the green, I mean his prices were… I don't know how to explain it… but why did he have to be such a greedy emo, he has no market to target, and yet sells properties on his realm like townhouses in Beverly Hills or something, it almost made me reconsider returning his friendship and getting the property for free, I mean I still had the receipt.
"Champion of Hestia huh?" Annabeth commented as she entered my hair-salon/cloth-store/makeup/everything Magic can summon shop.
"Hi Pennybeth," I chuckled, that was never going to get old.
"Very funny, but I'm here for my weekly hair retouch, not for your lame jokes," Annabeth chuckled, snapping her finger in a very diva-like way.
"Is it really wise to mess with the guy that does your hair?" I smirked at her, and for a moment she open her mouth to reply, but giving honor to her original nickname, the wise girl shut her mouth into a thin line, "I thought so," I love my job, and the privileges it gives me.
"So… why didn't you tell me Hestia made you her champion," Pennybeth said, trying to worm her way to a few answers she somehow thought she deserved, she was my friend but even friends don't tell everything to each other.
Two can play that game, "Why didn't you tell me you had your period last week?" I asked.
"That's personal!" Annabeth barked.
"And so are my champion deals," I shot back with a smile, "Now, you have a new color or…?" I added touching her hair to make a point.
"Sometimes I can't tell if you are too smart, or just random enough to appear smart," Annabeth sighed, "I want the same style, but with some blue shades,"
"I like to think I am both very smart and very random," I chuckled, "Blue shades, got it,"
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[Zeus POV]
Hestia refused to answer my question… my demands over and over again, but it mattered not, I knew now who had recovered my weapon, I knew now… who had stolen it.
"Bring me Adam Aragon, now!" I shouted, ordering my daughter Artemis to do so, and for a brief moment I was able to see a faint but unbecoming tint of doubt on Artemis, as if she was weighing whether or not to obey.
"I will father," Ares stated with a bright smile, which was odd, very odd, Ares would never offer himself for a task he would always say was beneath him, perhaps he wanted to impress me?
"No, I will go!" Artemis snarled at him, in all honesty… it surprised me, why was she so angry with Ares all of the sudden, it was… just a boy, a son of l… Leto, he was a son of Leto, Artemis was angry at the prospect of Ares killing him.
"No," I smiled, looking over Ares, "Go son, and retrieve him,"
"But father… the hunt is.." Artemis started but I cut her off with a glare.
"Ares will do, he offered himself to do the job," I stated, leaving no room for discussion.
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[Adam POV]
Another day, another Buttload of money I siphoned out of the demigod's pocket with my very versatile skills, not bad, not bad. "Alright, time to see if Hestia wants to eat some cookies,"
"I could go for a cookie," That voice…. Ares!
"What are you doing here?" I asked, looking at the man that wanted to tap my no-no square.
"I'll put it in terms you understand, Dad.. my Dad is pissed, very pissed… he thinks you stole his weapon and returned it out of fear… so he wants to kill you," Ares said with a smile, and I started to see any possible routes of escape… Ares noticing this smiled, "I have a way out of this, a easy way out,"
Oh no, "What?" I asked almost sure I was not going to like the answer.
"I will convince dad it wasn't you, and in exchange… I will get what I want," I could almost hear in the background, the Booty warrior shouting, I like ya, and I want ya, "You, me and Aphrodite, once a month, deal?"
"I am ELE- ahhh forget about it, age clearly has no importance to you," I couldn't believe it, my destiny had found a new way to fuck me, this time quite literallly.
"I'll make it even easier for you, this deal will start once you are sixteen? Is that better?" Ares offered, "I think five years to mentally prepare are good enough for human standards,"
Five years… well, four and a half to plan the most important plan of all, operation save my booty, "Alright, I accept,"
"Nah nah nahhh, swear it to the river of the Styx," Ares smirked, and I sighed.
"I swear it of the river of the Styx, that I will do what you said about having a trio with you and Aphrodite, once I grow up," As soon as I said that, the loud thundering noise of a thunder was heard in the distance.
"Alright, now.. let's save that ass, I need it alive so that I can toss it," Ares barked in a laugh, and that day I knew he was going to be the first god to die by my hands.
"Yeah let's go," I nodded.
"Now, let me do the talking… Dad is easy to manage if you know what to do and say in the right moments… so please shut the fuck up," Ares ordered and I nodded, not like I had much of a choice, if I ran for it, I would literally put a target on my head, and every god would hunt me down, this way… the booty selling way was the best way.