A picnic in europe -Pluto family, legacies too-

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Pluto smiled as he began to pack up a picnic lunch for his family, even his legacies. Pluto loved his family even if it was cheating on proserpina. He loved his wife and yet he also loved his kids. The god decided to abandon his usual suit and was wearing a tombstone gray shirt and black jeans. Most would think that the god had gone loopy for abandoning his usual attire of Formal wear. However the god wanted to spend time with his family. Especially since Felicity had messed up.He felt it was necessary for his family to get together and just forget this whole mess. Even if it was just for one afternoon and Pluto would be back inn the underworld by evening. "non underworld food? Check. picnic blanket? Check and travel location? Check." Pluto muttered to himself checking of the list of essential things for his outing.

The god of the underworld knew what it was like for his family to be misunderstood.Even Pluto himself was misunderstood and didn't have a throne on Olympus, not that he would use it much. It would have just been nice to have throne among the olympians and to be considered one by his family.Sure people called him one of the big three but it didn't matter. The king of the underworld went around to al his dead people, he was dealing with. " You all listen to Mors. If either one of you escapes,So help me I will personally track you down and bring your sorry incorporeal back this domain." Pluto snapped to the people he was leaving behind. The next stop would be to tell proserpina, that he would be gone for the afternoon. He wouldn't tell her why because it would just make it awkward. Once he was finished, The god of the underworld shadow traveled to Europe. It was not the most gloomiest of place. It was however the birth place of many horror stories. Pluto figured kids might like to see Europe where many of the horror stories started out at.

Once the god found the perfect spot for his family Pluto set about the business of setting up the picnic. He made sure not to provide underworld food for they would have to follow him. It was not their time yet. Once the location was set, Pluto Summoned a skeletal warrior, One for each member of his famiy. " Go now and Tell those that can shadow travel to come see me. For those that can't take them with you. However do no use violence. I am not kidnapping my own family." Pluto spoke as the skeletons rattled their bones and hobbled off to their respective people. Pluto didn't play favorites and each person would get their own undead messenger. It was not his fault on who would would show up first.He had taken liberty to make sure that each person would have a chance at arriving before the others. Pluto was going to enjoy his family time and nothing else.

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Felicity leaned against the war, rough bark of the trunk of her favorite tree within Camp Jupiter. She had just finished another training of the fourth cohort. Of course, she had to deal with lazy ingrates who refused to listen to her. At the moment, those campers were serving twenty laps around camp being chased by some undead Germanics. She could care less if people thought it was more inhumane training brought about by the crazy centurion daughter of Pluto. So what, the only thing all their complaining would bring is another lecture by the praetors. Felicity rolled her eyes. All it seemed to be lately when she would visit Remus would be lectures. Give her a break! It had been weeks since she last purposely stabbed someone. That someone being Lilith and that incident probably made Felicity more hated just because she stabbed the granddaughter of Mors with her obsidian iron sword. Felicity didn't regret it, heck, she hoped most people would take it as a sign to leave her alone and stay out of her way.

As she sensed someone approaching Felicity looked around with a hard glare, ready to scare off whoever disturbed her down time. Once she realized it was a skeleton she gave an annoyed sigh. There was no way she was going to take a family call. She tried to send the skeleton away using her own powers, but, just as she had expected, it had no affect. She glared at the idiotic cackling skeleton. She threw a rock at it just so it would shut up.

"Well come on! My stupid father sent you for a reason so show me where I'm suppose to go so I can leave as soon as possible." Felicity sneered at the skeleton who, with a stick, started writing out where she was suppose to go. As the skeleton was writing Felicity took the time to have her anger settle. She couldn't be too mad at the heap of bones. It was just following orders. Felicity was just upset with her father, despite him trying hard to be more involved with his descendants. It just seemed too coincidental that he'd show up more often now that Saturn was gaining power She was just suspicious is all. She had gone in and out of the Underworld without raising any alarms and was even able to make her way to Tartarus so she could start the process of getting Saturn his body back. Now all he needed was a weapon, but at the moment Felicity would not be able to leave camp to acquire it for him. Maybe Rhia could do it, who, even though she never listened to Felicity, was not being chased around by the undead. THen again, had she even shown up for training?

Felicitys thoughts were interrupted by a poke in her side brought from the skeleton, eager to show her its work with writing. As she looked over the etched out words in the dirt she gave a nod and mumbled thanks as she kicked the dirt around, erasing the message. Once she saw the slightly sad look on the skeletons face she explained why she did erase it because she technically could not be leaving camp without permission. The skeleton seemed content enough with the answer so Felicity told it goodbye and gave it another thanks before departing into the shadows, exiting to see the sight of her father, surprisingly not in a suit.

"Family time? Seriously? Don't you have a wife to cater to?" Felicity said, sneering a the word wife. She hated that goddess, then again, Felicity seemed to hate a lot of goddesses, and gods, at the moment. Felicity leaned against the tree near the picnic area, whose shadow was what allowed her entrance. A Pluto family reunion. Something Felicity use to wish for, but now was looking forward to it ending. Though, it did say something for her to even show up for this.

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notes: Ta-duh!! Pre-quest reply now ^_^ Hope its good

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Gabriel was exhausted. Not that it was out of the ordinary, but he was still tired. Jolly and Ashby had decided to do another forty-eight hour drill and after putting his body through rigorous training, but he had drug his body to his bunk to fall into it like a sack of flour. He was barely able to pull his armor off and put his bow and quiver to hang from the peg by his bunk. But if there was any chance he could get some sleep, he would. He would feel better in the morning after some sleep, Gabriel did know that sleep was a godsend. Luckily Jolly was smart enough to give people the next day off for recuperation, at least half of the cohort was in the infirmary due to fractures and the most server cases of exhaustion. So after sleeping deeply for nearly twelve hours, Gabriel managed to pull himself up and drag himself off of his bunk. He gave an unintelligible grunt to whomever said something to him from the top bunk. There wasn't much going on in the first cohort barracks. The beds were either empty or there were snoring figures in them. Gabriel grabbed a change of clothes and his weapons before stumbeling out of the barracks and making his way to the bath house in nothing but his pajama bottoms. Even his feet were bare as he stumbled down the cobblestone walk way. There was nothing but a comment from one of the guards on duty that it looked like he had a rough night. “muumph...” Gabriel said, or he had intended to say, it wasn't a rough night, merely lack of sleep. But he was feeling better and knew that a shower would make him feel like a million dollars.

After drowning himself in the hot water, his skin pink and red, he stepped out after a vigorous scrubbing. He dabbed the rough towel over his face, taking in a deep breath to free his lungs from the humidity of the steaming shower. There was no one else here, thankfully. But as he wiped the water from his face, he found a skeleton standing in front of him. Gabriel jumped as he held the towel around his midsection. “Shakespears underpants....” He cursed as he stared at the skeleton. The skeletal warrior gave him a pointed look and then Gabriel got the message. He quickly jumped into his clothes, taking some deep breaths as to not have a panic attack. Gabriel slid his quiver and bow onto his back before pulling on his leather boots. “I have to do something first, alright?” Gabriel said, he had something he wanted to do before he would listen to this bag of bones. He walked out of the baths and turned down one of the roads to find the skeleton walking rather dutiful behind him. He pulled a letter out to his mother and dropped it off in the post box before turning to the skeleton. The ancient being clicked his teeth and made some motions with his hands before Gabriel gave him a blank look. He really hated playing charades, but this skeleton wasn't some concoction of his sisters, nor his. It's not like he could drag up skeletons from the nether regions anyways. But after twenty minutes of playing guessing games, Gabriel gave up, exasperated. The skeleton then pointed to a book that Gabriel had under his arm and pointed out the words of the message that he was to give Gabriel. “Alright, where?” Again, he waited patiently for him to formulate a word. Gabriel nodded as he then slipped into the shadows as the skeleton vanished into the earth.

He exited the shadows as he spotted his father and his sister. It was a bit of a surprise that his father wasn't in his usual garb of a formal suit. But Gabriel brushed off he dust from his tee-shirt. “Good afternoon father.” Gabriel said with a bow. Felicity had recently gone off the deep end, but to a degree, Gabriel wanted nothing but the best for his sister. On the flip side, he worked hard to bring up the name of Pluto. First Cohort was nothing compared to the screw ups that Felicity had. It seemed that no matter what good Gabriel did, Felicity was always there to undermine his attempts at being half decent of a legionnaire. Only the gods knew how many time he had heard things about his sister and how he might just be a walking time bomb too. It was getting harder and harder to ignore the whispers. But for that, he would just burry himself into his training and forget about all the problems his annoying little sister caused for him. “Nice spot for a family gathering.” He commented as he looked around.

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Pluto stood there waiting for his skeletal delivers to drop of the precious cargo, that he had put them in charge of bringing back. He loved his family and if any of them were harmed due to a miscommunication from his undead the god would still seek to make their undead lives miserable. Luckily, Pluto didn't need to wait long for his first of the two direct descendants to arrive. He hoped Felicity was well, considering she had just made a major miscalculation in judgement. The lord of the underworld had hoped she would have thought it through better instead of trying to bring Saturn back. "Well Hello, My Miss sunshine. It is lovely to see my daughter too. Yes as to your question on Proserpina, I do need to cater to her. However I distinctly remember a young demigod child of mine, making daddy promise to spend time getting to know you all. I am a god of my word and will keep my promises Felicity. I have yet to break an oath, the only exception is that of you and your brother. " Pluto spoke as he mentioned the broken pact he made with his brothers. In the eyes of the god this promise was now null and void.

It seemed just a Pluto was speaking about his only second child whom was directly connected to him, did Gabriel did arrive and was followed promptly by his escort. " Ah, I see my escort service found you both and neither of you was harmed in the process. I pardon my lack of not coming to you directly. I am not one to play favorites and i was sure that one or both of you would have thought i was based on who i picked up first. This way you both had equal chance to arrive at the same time. Anyways, Welcome to Europe. One of my favorite places. It is the birth place of several horror stories and some pretty deadly history. I felt the need to spend time with you all. As you both know times are not as peaceful as they once were. I tend to remain neutral in the family dispute. However I also want my kids as a united front. You both are powerful and sadly a lot of our family is misunderstood. They don't give us much of the proper respect i feel we deserve. So I brought you all here for family bonding." Pluto lectured his voice firm but oddly caring. It was not a side one often saw in the god of the dead.

Pluto was usually a serious and tough man, but it was known he loved his family. He tried to spend a lot of time with them but Jupiter tended to hound him about not interfering. Pluto felt his baby brother didn't understand for he just slept around. "As to where we are currently. We are in Romania, near Transylvania. Yes it is believed to be the birthplace of Vlad the impaler. I like horror as most of you know and so I thought somewhere dark and Gloomy was more fitting for my family. So sit and Enjoy, I had some food prepared, non underworld of course. I don't want you both to have to end up in my domain before your time." Pluto nodded seating himself down, after dismissing the two escorts that had come back to him. This would be good time for Pluto.

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Oh, he just had to bring up that stupid promise every time she made a comment about family time. Yes, she use to want to spend more time with her family, get to know this person who she was expected to call father. And, at first, it was great getting to know him, but then he, like most gods, showed his arrogant side. It was that one moment, that one night, that made Felicity realize just how much these "gods" were just immature brats who felt the need to use the demigods as their toys. It was beyond pathetic. As Pluto continued his little spiel about being there more and whatever else, Felicity did the common teenager expression of rolling her eyes.

As she was about to argue something back for the sake of arguing, Felicity noticed that her half-brother had finally shown up. She studied her brother for a moment. She was like him a few years ago, trying hard to make a better name for Pluto. Become a better reflection of the god and show that they weren't all just symbols of bad luck. Now, all the little work she had done was all flushed away, and some of her brothers hard work that he spent countless years on. That was the one of the things Felicity regretted about her now course of action. She was not being a good sister for her half-brother.

Felicity turned her attention back to her father as he started another spiel. Honestly, was Pluto a politician or something because it seemed like he would never stop talking. Though, at his mention of how times not being as peaceful as they once were, she couldn't help feeling slightly at fault, okay, not slightly, more like a lot at fault. Though, honestly, when were times peaceful? They had just fought in a war two years ago. And the past two years hadn't exactly been peaceful. So, what good would family bonding do anyways? He actually expected her and Gabe to become a united front? Was he joking? They barely associated nowadays. Plus, he was in the first cohort and she was stuck in the fourth cohort. Which, was beyond unfair because she was extremely skilled with the sword, then again, she did rely on her powers much more than her skill in weaponry, perhaps that was why. Either way, Felicity still felt like Pluto had lost it with his sudden humorous want of his family.

At the mention of where they were, Felicity listened inventively as her eyes scanned the environment. It would be a lie if she wasn't excited about being here. Deep down inside was the childish dream of hers to travel the world, however it was buried deep because she was always reminded how dangerous the outside world was, especially since she was a child of the big three, any step outside would almost mean death. So Felicity had to give up on that dream, but a handful of people still knew about. Four people to be exact if Felicity remembered correctly. None of whom were in her proximity. A suppressed laugh escaped her lips. Sorry, did he just say that someplace dark and gloomy was the perfect place for a Plutonian reunion? Was he just trying to promote the stereotype of Pluto and his kids.

"Oh joy, I always wanted to hang out with my family someplace dark and gloomy. Wow Pluto, way to totally stereotype us." Felicity started with sarcasm, not even bothering to call her father by father. "Maybe for our next get together we should just hang out in a cemetery. Since, ya know, we all enjoy dark, gloomy, and dead places." Felicity ended with another eye roll as she remained fixed leaning against the tree with no intention at the present moment to remove herself from it.

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notes: sorry >.< this was her bad stage. I am so so so so sorry

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Okay maybe Gabriel had to agree with the fact that a bunch of children of Pluto hanging out in a remote location in Europe that was well known for horror stories and scary people in history, that was a bit stereotypical. But was he grateful for spending more time with his dad? Yes. It was easy to say he was happy for that. Was he sad that he had to share this time with his ungrateful little sister? Yes. Sometimes Felicity could be such a brat. He loved his sister to death, -insert rimshot for a bad pun here-, but sometimes she was such a pain. Gabriel listened to his father speak before felicity barked back at him like she was a hellhound who hath fury like a mad woman. Gabriel gently lowered himself to the grass where he found a comfortable patch to keep from getting his jeans wet from moisture. However it would seem that Felicity was hell bent on keeping her post up on the tree. Gabriel felt safe so long as he was around his father. The moment it was time to go, he would be out of there as fast as he possibly could. It wasn't ever safe for demi-gods or legacies to be outside of the boundaries of camp. It was even more deadly for a child of the big three, let alone two big three children. Felicity had been sneaking out of camp for years now. It was known that Remus had turned a blind eye to it just because the two of them were all lovey dovey. Gross idea really, but he would think that of anyone who wanted to date his sister. Yuck.

Pluto spoke of them being a united front. Gabriel couldn't help but roll his eyes slightly. Asking him and felicity to be a strong front for the name of Pluto was a bit of a stretch. They were so different in personality and abilities. She used her abilities as a crutch, relied on them way too much. Gabriel was skilled in a different manner, his shadow abilities were his strongest abilities. But he could work a sword and a shield like most others in his cohort, but his strength really lay in the bow. Sure he wasn't a hunter or an Apollo kid, but he was a good shot and he could use the shadow manipulation to maneuver anything he shot to where it needed to go. There was a reason why he was in First Cohort and she was in Fourth. Sure she was a centurion, but Gabriel had no desire to lead. It was probably much to the dismay of his father, but Gabriel didn't want to lead people. He didn't want to turn into a psycopathic idiot like that Remus. Boy that was a head case if he ever saw one. His up tight ways were strange, but maybe it was because he was a child of mars. He didn't care who's parent Remus was or if he was a mortal or a legacy, that brute wasn't good enough for his sister. No one would ever be good enough for his sister. She deserved nothing but the best, even if she was a little in the deep end.

Gabriel couldn't help but snort and laugh at what Felicity said. Okay he was thinking it, but he wasn't about to say it out loud. “Just think about all the history here, Felicity. A history lover like you would probably leap at the chance to be in such a place like this.” Oh he had sat in on some of the lectures back at the university when he was younger. “Vlad Dracul, quite possibly the most ruthless and bloody figure in Eastern European history, for the middle ages at least.” Gabriel leaned back, supporting the weight of his body on his hands. “I'd like to explore his castle one of these days. I bet there's plenty of ghosts around to talk to.”

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Pluto listened and yes in a way he did stereotype his own kids but really it was somewhat easy when many of them got some of his own qualities. His kids sometimes may have felt daddy was not paying attention but he was especially when his own dead would come back with stories on how they met one of them. Pluto knew more than he lead others to believe but for the sake of keeping Jupiter off his back he didn't let others know of what he knew. For instance, he knew Gabriel could hold a grudge and he remembered seeing his son around Halloween and seemed to be okay with how daddy Decorated his own temple. The god of the dead also knew Felicity was a loner who didn't make friends well, much like her own father. "Felicity watch your tone. I know more about you kids than you I tell you about. It is stereotype you kids for I know you posses some of my own qualities. Plus the dead can be rather chatty." Pluto smile looking directly at Felicity for he knew she relied heavily on her power of necromancy and shadow travel. "YOu may or may not like dark and gloomy to the extent I do but i know for a fact you both posses some qualities of your dad." Pluto continued.


He smiled when Gabriel stepped up and spoke, he seeemed to somewhat understand. Europe was full of history some of it dark but rich with history. If he had jewels for how rich the history was, which he did have being the god of riches too, then he would one rich god. Pluto smiled when his son wondered about the ghosts of Vlad the impaler's castle. "Yes, his castle has several ghosts. Some of which are no the friendly chatty sort. You both can roll your eyes all you want about the united front. My children can be a thorn in my dad's side or greatest help. It was one of your siblings that helped convince me to get involved and to turn the tide of battle." Pluto continued totally not acknowledging the fact it was his own daughter who helped start the whole mess. He partially blamed himself for not being around as much as he would have liked. Jupiter was strict and Pluto was good to keep promises. "You both posses qualities or strengths the other does not and in this time it could prove to be very strong. However the choice belongs to my kids and I will not use you or make you do anything. I am just asking you to consider being united." Pluto asked as he realized it was getting late and he couldn't be out too late nor could his kids be gone from camp too long in monster territory. This wold be good picnic in his eyes.