children of the gods ( percy jackson)

[Dark Huntress]

Angel grinned as she delved into the crowd. It was like the highschool parties she'd snuck into, except much more crowded and less dangerous. It only took a moment for her to realize Pheonix was trailing behind her. "Why aren't you eye-murdering Jason right now?" She asked, falling into step with him.

He shrugged, his thick forearm brushing her arm. "Penelope can handle herself and Jason probably won't try anything. Besides, you're, like, running away from us. We're going to lose you if someone doesn't stalk you."

"Just put a collar on me or chip me, besides, that'd be some tragedy." She turned eagerly to watch a craps table, too soon to hear Pheonix murmur 'Yeah, it'd be terrible". She shrugged again then glanced back at Penelope and Jason. "Merh. Dancing sounds fun." With that she darted back towards them.

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"You're going to get me killed," Jason laughed drily. It was so true it wasn't even funny. Fortunately, when he glanced around, Pheonix wasn't there. "Okay, maybe not so dead." He grinned a little, letting himself enjoy the dance. He'd kinda zoned out before he noticed Angel sidling up to a dark-haired guy that looked about 21 with some serious sleeves. To his surprise, she was successful and was out next to him and Penelope in only a minute or two.

"Guys love blondes," she whispered to him, as if to explain. With that she spun around and draped her arms over her partner's shoulders and turned on her flirt. Now Pheonix was eye-killing someone as he skulked around, but it wasn't Jason.

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Penelope glanced up at Pheonix who was now surrounded by a mob of girl giggling and shoving. He seemed to be having a pretty good time opening cans of soda and carefully sipping them one by one, to add a mature touch to his look. Jason lost balance as a small girl, a teenager perhaps smiled eagerly as if she was in a dare by her other mob of friends. Jason reluctantly moved towards her to be polite and had to crouch down to look down on the midget girl. Penelope rolled her eyes, pathetic. She turned around when she bumped into some guy spilling coke on his shirt. It spread towards his chest looking like a big explosion.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry,"Penelope frantically said as she looked down on her empty bottle.

She looked up and saw the hot guy. He had blondish / brownish hair, soft brown eyes, and was about 17. Penelope was about to turn 15 this month.

"No worries, I was going to get this damn shirt wet anyways,"he said, chuckling.

Easily, he could have outrun every boy in the club. He was freakin hot.

"I have a tendency of bumping into people. And then I get really pissed and kill them,"she said.

The guy laughed again, as if really enjoying that really dumb joke.

"Before you kill me, you should at least know my name. I'm Troy,"he said.

"As in the greek dude or the high school musical dude?"

"Greek. My father is a history nerd, but I kinda believe in those stories,"he said.

That caught Penelope.

"I'm Penelope, call me Penny like everyone does, right now I really don't care,"she said.

Before she knew it, the name spread on.

"Do you wanna dance or something,"he asked.

Penelope shrugged and they danced together while they danced over to the pool table.

"Okay, I'm gonna get a drink,"Penelope said.

She reached over to the nearest drink and her vision went foggy, then she regained balance. It definitely wasn't coke, she half spit it out. It was beer!

"Um, Penny. That...wasn't coke,"Troy said.

Penelope felt the sudden urge to dance all night with all of the power exploding inside of her. She began acting a bit goofy bouncing on her tippy toes and going over her mature limits. She won a bunch of coins from the games she decided to play and kept on dancing. Troy began to laugh uneasily, shrugged, then danced along with her. She could see Jason giving them jealous glances as another girl asked to dance with him. Penelope didn't pay attention and could easily see Pheonix looking at her with that crazy adult look.

[Dark Huntress]

Angel snuck a look at Penelope and mouthed, Well done. There was something intensely fun about having a girl to silently say that to. Something very fun about that. Thus, she was grinning a little when she redirected her grey eyes toward her partner.

"So," she said loudly over the music, "what's your name?"

"Dameon," he replied, leaning closer so he didn't have to speak loudly. She mutely noted his eyes were a bright amber color. "What's yours?"

"Angel. Weird, huh?"

"Perfect is more like it."

Angel grinned a little then jumped as her eyes collided with Phoenix's from across the room. He wasn't looking at her, not at all. He was staring at the dark hair that covered the back of Dameon's hair. The reason she tensed was because a red fire flickered in them and she knew from Penelope and Ares that the red-eye thing wasn't good news. At all.

But what could she do?

She silently shrugged, but continued dancing like it was her job. It helped to have one sexy ass guy as her partner.

"Okay," Dameon shouted, "I have to ask before I get into some giant freaking trouble: how old are you?"

"Fourteen." She hated to say it.

A slightly perturbed expression flitted across his face before he shrugged. "I'm eighteen, oh well, guess I had it coming. My luck would be that the hottest girl in here would be a minor."

Angel blushed a little and gave him a grey-eyed stare. "You could just wait four years."

"Or he could just disappear and let us do our mission." Pheonix's low, hard tone was harsh in her ear behind her.

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"Your 14 again?"Troy asked as he leaned over her as she was taking a pool shot.

"No, I'm 15,"she said tilting her head as she got up.

"Well, it doesn't matter when you have that sexy look to pass by guys like me, huh?"he said laughing.

He grabbed another stick and swerved to the other side to make a clear shot. His soft brown eyes looked intently and he quickly jerked his arm, making a red and green striped ball fall into two separate holes.

"You can say that,"she said laughing and folding her arms with her black leather jacket.

She had on a pink top underneath and her long black hair to her side as she amusingly watched two guys pass her.

"Proved my point. Damn, your good. How'd you make that shot?"he asked her.

"Oh, you can say practice,"she replied back.

She had excellent aim and could shoot anything with just a blink. Troy was good too, surprisingly very good.

"Oh come on. Your not going to tell me that a girl like you would spend time 'practicing' on a pool table,"he said grinning.

"You can say that you might not want to get on my bad side, that's all,"she said shrugging with her hands in her back pockets. She reached them out to the back of the pool table as Troy leaned forward to her.

"I'll try not to,"he said smiling from the corner of his mouth as his lips brushed hers and they kissed. Penelope laughed a few moments later then watched Jason sitting alone at a bar. She can't obviously just walk into the bar with a guy twisted around her finger with another guy. That's just plain wrong. She lightly waved her fingers, and he smiled faintly.

[Dark Huntress]

[Skippy, blahblahblah]

Angel gave Pheonix a dark look and pulled Daemeon away. When she glanced back at the boy she was tugging behind, he was wearing a bemused expression. Finally, she stopped over a more secluded corner. She grabbed a small rocks glass and drained it.

It was a lot better tasting than the stuff at the parties she was used to attending. Two more drinks and she had to blink hard to keep her attention on Daemeon. She swayed a little on her heels then glanced at the hand he grabbed her arm with.

"You don't do this normally, do you? Sneak into a casino, drink too much, and trust yourself with a guy you don't know?" Daemeon looked a little nervous.

Angel's eyes widened as she grasped his meaning. She flung her golden hair everywhere as she shook her head. "No! Well, I sneak into parties a lot, but I usually leave before anything bad happens and...I don't know, you seem nice."

"Where are your parents, 'cuz none of the people you were hanging out with looked related to you-" he rubbed the back of his neck "-was that your boyfriend?"

"Nope. Mom left a long time ago, Dad's too busy, and I-," she paled and pressed her hand against, "I think I'm going to throw up."

"I'm going to have to agree with you," he said, picking her up easily, given her small frame. He tapped Troy on the shoulder and waited until Penelope wasn't looking. "Get the girl your with and the guys and meet me in the alley. These kids are clueless...and tipsy." Then he moved into the alley.

They had just reached the suspicious place when Angel retched in a dumpster. A few minutes later and she glanced up at Daemeon, cheeks flushed.

"I'm really sorry about that," she said quietly. "I just...needed to drink."

"Well, I advise new clothes before you leave Vegas, and no heels."

She wrinkled her nose, but shrugged, "You sound like Penny."

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Penelope heard that and looked back," Sorry but most dumb blondes aren't dumb enough to wear heels to hike. It's not American,"she said swaying slightly.

She caught Troy for balance and laughed. Troy smiled, but uneasily glanced at Daemoen. He thought Penelope was a fun girl, but they came here for work and not to pick up girlfriends. Then he tapped back at Daemon,"Shut up, I'm the son of Neptune dude,"he said smirking. He whispered in Penelope's ear and smirked looking at how Daemeon already convinced Angel to the alley, at least Penelope couldn't be that gullible. She was a daughter of Ares after all.

"The alley? Your kidding me right? We're in a [censored] casino club!"she laughed holding her cup in the air.

Troy smirked again,"Com'n, your 'friend' is giving me weird glances,"he said jokingly.

Penelope shrugged, but she almost came back to her senses after an hour and sensed Jason with an odd scent. It was like the scent Percy had, except stronger and a little more darker. She unknowingly grabbed a weapon and slipped it onto the back pockets of her shorts. Soon enough, Jason and Phoenix were following them, and Penelope knew it was a trap. She noticed Angel missing too, they were luring them to the alley and they were successful. They were all eyeing each other confused, well most of them. Penelope kept the small cylinder as a keychain and felt it glow and burn in her hands. She was used to fire and burning and didn't bother to flinch. Let them play along and then surprise them, she felt distaste for Troy, but knew part of him liked her for who she was.

[Dark Huntress]

"God, I'm so sorry about this," Daemeon said quietly. Angel's grey eyes widened as she backed away from him.

"About what?!" She hissed, then stumbled forward as she passed out. Daemeon felt a little bad as he tossed her over his shoulder and slipped out of the alley, but he had work to do and one, too-young blonde wasn't about to change that. The clerk at the hotel where he was supposed to meet Troy was apparently used to guys carrying passé out girls because he asked if he should bring ice and Aspirin to the room. Daemeon shook his head and jogged up the stairs. He did not care for elevators...at all.

Once he reached the room, he keyed open the door and pushed in. It was a suite, so two rooms with full beds and a pullout couch. Ought to be good enough, as long as Angel and Penelope didn't hate eachother and Jason and Pheonix had no qualms about sharing the couch. Suddenly, it seemed like two rooms would've been a better idea.

Angel was already starting to wake up when he dumped her on the bed and the motion jolted her awake. With quicker reflexes than he'd anticipated-she was a newbie- she scrambled across the bed and pulled a knife out of her shirt. Daemeon gave he an amused look. "Were you keeping that in your bra?"

She lowered it slightly. Sadly, even though he'd kidnapped her in a back alley, she trusted him. And she was the daughter of the Goddess of Wisdom. There was something profoundly wrong in her wiring. "Meh, I didn't want anyone to see it."

"So you hid it in your shirt. Makes a lot of sense. Drunk guys never stare at chick's boobs." He laughed as she threw a pillow at him.

"My reasoning may have been a little faulty, but...," she grasped for a comeback. "Shut up! Anyway, what the hell is up with you? 'Cuz obviously, you didn't pick me and Penelope up because we were the hottest girls in the room."

"No...not originally, but you two still were," he backed up and peeked down the hall at the door. "Troy should bring the others soon and well explain, er, almost everything."

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Troy waited for a second before turning and grabbing the dagger in Penelope's hand. She took it and locked her arms around his neck crusting his neck with blood as the dagger's sharp edge was pointing horizontally to his. He grabbed Penelope's waist and it was in reverse.

"Honestly, guys don't like to hurt hot girls,"he whispered in her ears.

Before he could think, Penelope had it in reverse in no time. "Impressive,"he said breathing heavily.

"I could show you more if you push it. Who the hell are you?"she said, slowly dropping the dagger half-way.

"Call me Troy,"he said rolling his eyes. "And some dude who is way hotter than Dameon,"he added.

"Shut up,"Penelope replied.

"I've honestly got no choice, and I'm soooo sorry,"he said. He pulled out a syringe, but before Penelope could notice he held her stomach with his hand and shot it through her. She dozed off temporarily and almost hit the pavement, but Troy swooped and caught her. He took the dagger from her hand and smirked. He leaned her against the wall and gave her his leather jacket noticing she was wearing nothing than her pink tanktop and shorts. He took her back and legs carrying her to the hotel. He nodded at the clerk in the hotel and went upstairs He made his way into the hotel where Daemeon was and slowly settled her onto a bed.

"She'll be awake in a few minutes,"he said to Daemeon noticing the other girl as well. "She almost killed me! God is she sexy."

"I left the two idiot boys in the club, they'll ruin everything,"He said crashing on to the bed next to Penelope who was still 'asleep.' He looked at the syringe and pulled it out of her stomach sorrily. "Thanks for this,"he said,waving the syringe in the air. He noticed the other girl as well,"Awkward... Dameon's going to explain everything once Penny's awake,"he said raising his eyebrows.

Penelope's eyes began to flutter and saw 3 pairs of eyes staring at her, she immediately got up and looked for her dagger. She later realized it was in the possession of Troy. "You're an asshole,"she said as she got up and reached for it.

"Give it back!"she protested.

"No way! So you could kill me again?"

"Yes, and I would have done it successfully if you hadn't dosed me!"she shouted.

"I had to! Did I not mention the part where you almost killed me?"Troy shouted back.

He still had the dagger, but Penelope still had the rose cylinder. Penelope gave a grunted sigh and pushed Troy out of the bed.

"Thanks for that,"he muttered.

"You deserve it,"Penelope replied.

Troy raised his eyebrows sarcastically and sat on the edge of the bed. She still felt pretty weak and dazed, and it was all Troy's fault.

"Is anybody going to explain anything?"she grunted.

"Daemeon, you can go beat his ass,"Troy smirked.

[Dark Huntress]

Daemon raised a black brow at Troy. "Hey, I didn't do jack-shit to her. If anyone's going to kill me, it's Angel." Angel shrugged at that and eased herself onto the bed next to Penelope, if they were going to make a move for it, they were going to do it together.

He rubbed the back of his neck and stared at the wall, watching Angel run the blade of her knife over her destroyed jeans out of the corner of his eye. "I'm not sure how much the average camper at Camp Half-blood knows, but there's another camp for half-bloods out there. The only difference is that it's for the children of the Roman gods. They're virtually the same except more violent-" he glanced at Penelope "-and more united. Me and Troy are from there-"

"Troy and I," Angel corrected quietly. Daemeon shot her a look and she shrugged. "What?! The correct nominative noun placement is..." She trailed off as the look turned to a glare. "Continue," she said waving a hand submissively.

"Thanks for the permission," he muttered. "Anyway, Troy and I are Roman half-bloods. Unfortunately, we didn't really stick around at the camp because we were just too dangerous together. He's a son of Neptune and I'm the son of Pluto, so with all the awesome sauce between us two, it's kind of dangerous."

"So you two are rubbing your big, bad I'm-so-freaking-awesome big three half-blood scent off on us?!" Angel rolled her eyes, "Gee, thanks."

An unbidden chuckle escape Dameon. "You're welcome! Finishing up, we hunted down you guys because you four are trying to end Kerberos. I doubt you'll get far without us." He smugly folded his arms over his chest.

"God, I hate that you're hot," Angel muttered under her breath, then flew off the bed, knife in hand. Daemeon grabbed her hand and twisted her up in it, but she flipped him over her back onto the floor. "Okay, I'm done," she said airily before plopping back of the bed.

Daemeon rolled onto his feet. "For the record," he glanced towards Troy,"there were four harpy's with them when they owned us."

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"Right, so that's why you had to dose me-,"Penelope said to Troy who shrugged and played with her blade, "and that's why you BOTH kidnapped us,"she said looking at them both.

"A very well planned explanation thanks, and now I'll leave with dosing you,"she said. She reached for a syringe, but found it empty, her eyes stared directly into Troy's. "Wow, thanks, now I'll leave without my full revenge,"she said.

She took her blade, without her full strength she could still whip everyone's butt in the room. She shot the short dagger with excellent aim between Daemeon's two fingers as he leaned against the wall. She did this from her bed and smiled as if she was enjoying every bit of it.

"What was that you said about her not beating your ass again?"Troy said, smirking.

"Why don't you go over there and help your boyfriend up,"she said.

"Nah, I prefer him that way,"he said shrugging.

Penelope took this as a cue and uncapped her cylinder leaving it to a full 5 foot sword, but it shrunk to her size. Troy's eyes glowed in the object and Daemeon looked at it with his full focus.

"Where'd you get that?"Troy said grabbing for it, but it shocked him.

"Stole it, but I got a feeling it belongs to me,"she slowly muttered.

She got up and while Troy was fully distracted with the weapon, she took some rope and tied it behind his back before he could say the word -Penelope. Daemeon didn't dare move with the knife in between of him. Penelope took the sword and did a low cut on Troy's shirt, almost ripping it in half.

"That for frickin dosing me!"she said.

Troy laughed,"Bet you did that on purpose just to check my awesome abs."

Penelope rolled her eyes and after she got them BOTH back she took off the knife and untied the knot with daggers poking at them.

"Having a chick kick our asses and pull us like stray dogs does NOT put us in the best mood,"Troy muttered.

"Oh i know, but it brings happiness to my face,"Penelope shrugged.

She capped back at the cylinder with both their eyes on it.

She looked at her overgrown leather jacket and threw it in his face,"That's yours, and it smells terrible."

"That's the smell you get when you fight 4-5 monsters a day,"Troy said.

He put the jacket back on and ruffled his blonde hair.

"So how exactly are you supposed to help us when you got your asses kicked by a 14 yet to turn 15 year old girl?"

"You know, you looked prettier when you were asleep,"Troy said sarcastically.

"Oh I get it, a weak heart to accept the truth."