Starlord (OPEN)

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Ethan was practically skipping. It was an odd sight, but this was Ethan Hunter. He’d just pulled a great prank on the first cohort as pay back for them taunting his little sister (okay, more like aunt, but he refused to call a 12 year old ‘auntie’) the other day. It was a satisfying mix of justice and good old fashioned fun. He wiped his sticky fingers – literally sticky, not just the guilty kind – on his jeans and made his way past the Field of Mars. Now whatever to do that would get him away from the First Cohort Barracks enough that he would have, oh, he’d bank on an hour before they started hunting people down. Most likely his kin. And with how many pranks he pulled either on people or on the camp as a whole, he was fairly certain his name would come up eventually. Sure, he hadn’t played a prank since he put a ton of dry ice in the Forum fountain during New Years. That had been a hit, that. He actually got compliments for that move. The thought brought a smile to his face as he walked.

Yes, but now what? So little time, so much to do. Or was it the other way around? He actually shrugged at his own thoughts, which probably would have looked strange to anyone else seeing him since there really was no outward motivation for the move. Oh, but that was not enough. Gods no. It was time to really make people question his sanity. All inspired by one of his new favorite ‘superheroes’: Starlord. Seriously, that guy was freaking awesome except for the sleeping with every lady that moved thing. He’d skip that part, but the witty sarcasm and personal soundtrack? Heck yes! So he switched his mental band to play that one song from the intro and did his best impersonation of Starlord being all epic and dance-walking along the path towards New Rome to a song only he was hearing. Oh, and he was humming it too, so anyone close enough might get it. Unfortunately for his little theatrics, there was an utter lack of tiny animals to kick and use as microphones and large puddles to splash through. But there was dirt, which he immediately started making a nice big cloud out of.

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Notes: inspired by this scene

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Oh the boy was good, Mercury thought as he watched his grandson hop about, dancing and basking in the joy of having a job well done. Though he would have plotted on doing something to someone who wasn't exactly first cohort. If Chris or Charlie ever got a hold of him, to say the least Ethan would be running till his lungs nearly burst. He also wouldn't put it past them to have him in a week long punishments. First was always really clever with their punishments. Mercury followed along behind him, mostly unseen by people, as he usually did. Mercury was the master at finding things and doing pranks, stealing things and pilfering than anyone else.

"You need to get rid of that evidence fast." Mercury said as he watched Ethan wipe his sticky paws on his pants. "And you left boot tracks, might want to do something to cover those up too." Mercury said as he placed a hand on Ethan's head and ruffled his hair with a grin. He was fairly proud of all of his kids, and he meant ALL of his kids. Jupiter and Mars could grunt and whine about who's camp this really was, but everyone knew that this was really his camp. All of the demi-gods were his kids and he wanted them to be well fed and happy. "So Starlord, got any other plans for today or do you mind hanging out with me?" He said as he poked Ethan in the forehead.

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Ethan was jamming out to the band in his head. Humming at the top of his… voice? Did you use your voice when you hummed? It wasn’t really talking or singing, so he honestly had no idea. You used your vocal cords though, right? That way you could make the different tones. That was his theory at least. He mouthed the lyrics to his hand like Starlord had done to that critter and put a little jerk in his step to go with the beat.

Then someone spoke up and he jumped. Thankfully, he was already in motion, so it probably wasn’t noticeable. He stopped his performance and spun on the spot to face the culprit with wide eyes. His d-…grandpa. Details. “I did though!” Arguing with a god probably wasn’t the best idea, but he was defensive about his pranks. He knew he wasn’t the best, but he figured people only really came after him because of his history and heritage, not because they actually had evidence it was him. “I didn’t leave boot tracks. Not even DNA sampling could help them now.”

Of course, Captain Confrontation and Ego couldn’t last long around dear old grampy. He grinned and jokingly punched – lightly – his shoulder. “You kidding? You’re lucky if I leave you alone now. Come on, what trouble we going to get in today? Devour some burgers? Bubble bath the pool? You name it!” This was going to be great! A day with grampy. Yes, he did plan on calling him that. Not just because it was true, but because it was also funny. And he knew if any immortal had a sense of humor, it was grampy here. After all, he basically invented humor, right? “What were pranks like in ancient times? You have me really curious now.”

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Notes: Sorry it’s short!

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Finding Ethan in good spirits was awesome. Mercury always thought that seeing his kids happy was one of the coolest things in the world. it made him smile. "If you think that those centurions aren't going to at least blame you, evidence or not, you're dead wrong kiddo. I know those two and you'll be thrown a horrible punishment." Then Mercury started to tap a finger on his chin as he tried to figure out what exactly to do with his grandson. He had spent plenty of time with his other kids but Ethan was busy. The boy had a girlfriend to keep up with and that was extreamly important. It was never nice to keep your girl waiting. "So how are you and lilith doing?" He said with a tilt of his head and a smile.

"so for things for us to do today, no bubbles in the pool this time... but I do have another idea...." HE said as he got a rather mischevious grin. "Uncle fish-face will love this one, and afterwards, bottomless fries and root beer floats with burgers at the resturant by the university?" He said as a proposition to Ethan as fun. He didn't mind pranking Neptune anyways, the god was fairly laid back and easy going. He wouldn't dream of pranking Mars, that god was a jerk and a half and would probably curse his own kids to oblivion if push came to shove and let's face it, Mercury didn't want his children to suffer the wrath of Mars. "We should also steal all the shoes from the venus girls. that would be something to see." Mercury said, mumbeling his thoughts out loud, if there was something that Ethan in particular wanted to do, Mercury by all means would help his grandson achieve maximum fun.

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Ethan tried to play it off as though it were nothing at all. “Try their best, they can’t best me. I never crumble under pressure. Just like my gramps!” He nudged Mercury with a grin. He had an extra little bounce to his step as he went along next to his grandfather. This was already fun, and they had yet to do anything. At his gran-… dad’s (why not call him that when he thought of him like that anyway?) question, he grinned. “Oh, awesome! She’s so wonderful. I tell you, I’m the luckiest guy in this whole camp. Nah, the whole world. I built her a surprise cabin in the mountains a ways from here. Took me forever and a day and, yes, I did actually pay for the furniture. Or… most of it. Beds are expensive! Anyway, yeah, the look on her face when I took her there the first time… so worth it.” He could have babbled about Lilith for hours, and in fact had to stop himself from doing just that.

“No bubbles? But that’s my favorite!” He laughed. Oooh, food. That was one thing that Ethan Hunter always agreed with. “You got yourself a deal! Though so you know, I have a stomach the size of Alaska and that is a very dangerous offer. I could probably eat like… well, suffice to say a lot. So then, what is this prank idea? As long as I don’t get drowned or something. Or like… piranhas eat me alive. Say, does he even have control of the Nile? Since it’s in Egypt? But the Romans did conquer it. I guess it is more a river, huh?” He grinned at the second idea. “Another brilliant one. Though hey, what if we like… put the shoes in the bunks of other people so they thought someone else was stealing their shoes. Or, like, put them in the lake. Confuse the Neptune duo.”

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"You are going to spoil that girl.." Mercury said in a half joking half serious voice as he wagged his finger at his grandson. To be honest, Mercury didn't care if Ethan wanted to try to give that girl the world, he was happy and that was what was important to him. So long as she didn't break his heart, Mercury would have no real reason to be mad or indifferent towards her. Was it really horrible that he just wanted his little Ethan to be happy? "And yes, I know beds are expensive, including the mattress. And the best part is you have to replace the mattress every eight years." Mercury couldn't help but shake his head. It was nearly highway robbery, and he couldn't be more proud of whoever came up with that idea. Whether it was scientific or not, people believed anything they read on the internet. Gotta love those scientists with their degrees from Google University. Okay that was enough for the inner sarcasm of the Mercury monologue.

"You took the idea right out of my mind, shoes in the lake...." Mercury really couldn't help but grin at how Ethan was on the same brain wave as him. Brilliant, just amazingly brilliant. "Shoes in the lake and what about floating some down the little tiber?" Mercury mused as he took a pack of balloons out of his back pocket. A parade of shoes down the river was exactly what this place needed. "Confusing people and making them all oogled is the best thing in the world, the looks on their faces will be priceless." Mercury stated as he then went to working on a strategy in his mind to go and get all of the shoes.

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Ethan grinned as if spoiling Lilith was a great triumph. “Well, that was the general idea, but she’s surprisingly hard to spoil. Humble, that one. Reason why I like her so much.” He blanched. “Eight years!? What the-… no way! No one can afford that except… oh hey, except the guy who sells the mattresses and gets a fat wad of cash. Nah, I couldn’t do that job, not ever. Boring!” No way. He would just keep up his five-finger discount for the time being. Much easier.

No but seriously, Ethan was curious who controlled the Nile. That was totally Egypt’s territory, which became Rome’s territory, which then crashed and burned. Maybe he’d go there some time and find out for himself. Definitely not a trip to take Lilith on though. He was fully aware of things called crocodiles that the Egyptians loved so very very much. And gods whose heads were crocodiles. Or was it dog? Or falcon. Who knows.

Then grampy picked up on the shoes in the lake idea and Ethan had to grin. “Yes, it’s perfect! Shoes swimming along and we toast to victory!” He paused with a slight frown. “Though, ah, what are the balloons for?” And why was he not surprised to find Grampy carrying a bag of them? Ah, the questions of life.

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