Frank was cleverly sitting between two thick branches of a large oak tree. Its leaves hid him from the rest of the forest, but he could peer through them. Eyes narrowed, he searched for any sigh of Aqua and Aquila (personally, he snorted everytime he heard those names. They were just weird man).

His pale green eyes and light brown hair morphed well into his surroundings, and he leaned forward slightly, twisting his fingers a little. One of the branches rose up, following his finger, and connected with a branch from another tree, and Frank threw some seeds around so that thick boughs formed on either sides of the hand-made, cheap woodem bridge.

He continued like this, going slowly and cleverly, creating a path which led straight to the Sotíras. He was pleased to find that Dorcas was not wrong, the twin nymphs were scratching their heads and scowling at the packets of cheese and chips.

Frank turned and headed to the clearing, where he had came from. He found Emmeline perched up on a branch, eyes scanning the sky. Dorcas was right below her, fascinating herself by tangling some roots and making traps out of them.

"Yo, peeps," Frank said cheerfully. "You guys 'kay?"

"'Sup," answered Emmeline. "James and Remus are over in that tree, and Lily and Alice in that one. Marlene and Sirius are over there."

"Cool. Listen, I need you guys to help me." Frank explained his plan and identical smirks began to form on Dorcas's as well as Emmeline's lips.

"On it, sir," they said together and jumped up, following him with their hand-made traps and bow.

"Wait," Frank said suddenly and called out to Alice, "Hey, Als! Some help we need here sweetie!"

Alice appeared from a tree and came over to them, and Frank repeated his plan. She kissed him, grinning. So, with light footfalls, they crouched behind a large bough and peered at the nymphs.

Alice smirked and raised her arms, murmuring something under her breath. The nymphs froze and clapped their hands over their eyes, shrieking. (You see, children of Iris can make anyone blind temporarily.) At that time, Dorcas dropped two leafy traps near their feet, and the nymphs got caught up in that. Emmeline shooted two arrows, making sure that the traps held the nymphs in the ground by pressing the arrows through the traps straight inside the ground.

Frank might have cheered, if he wasn't so busy willing the vines and wild plants around Aqua and Aquila to wrap around them and squeeze hard. By this time, their blindness had worn off, but their hands and feet were tied, so no magic children!

You know what? I don't think maniacally laughing, homicide loving nymph daughters of Sea and Misery can be classified as children. I take back what I said.

"Oh this is bloody brilliant!" Dorcas announced, grinning brightly as she waved a stray feather in front of Aquila's nose. The nymph sneezed.

"Alright, 'sup," Frank said with a smile as he turned towards Alice, affectionately kissing her nose. The daughter of Iris blushed visibly. "Als, mind sending off a free IM to our other peeps?"

Alice did so quite easily and soon Sirius, Remus, James, Lily and Marlene were running towards them.

"Man!" Sirius complained. "I wanted to join in the fun!"

"Me too," Marlene groaned. "A nice punch to their ugly faces!"

As if to satisfy herself, Lily slapped Aqua, hard. The nymph screamed very colorful Greek and Latin curses back at her, which just resulted in Lily slapping her again, this time even harder.

•••

"So we go to the Meditterenean now?" Emmeline said, an hour or so later, as the nine demigods were relaxing in the living area of the Sotíras.

"Can we just, I dunno, relax for a bit?" Remus groaned. "We can float above the Hudson Bay, or sail, I don't really care, and make a real plan? We don't want to run straight into the sea and have James fight a goddess, right?"

"Especially a goddess who likes storms," Frank grumbled. "I really hate storms. They always uproot trees and plants!"

Everyone stared at his blankly. The son of Demeter shrugged and popped a cherry in his mouth and closed his eyes again.

"Whatever, I support Rem's idea," said Dorcas. "We certainly can't go strutting into the Meditterenean without a plan or something!"

"Here's the deal," Sirius started, "we'll just dump James-y boy into the sea while we float high above in the sky and he can deal with it while we feast on popcorn and wine up here! Mr. D would approve!"

Eight pairs of differently colored eyes glared back at him.

"Right, bad plan. Not approved," Sirius muttered under his breath.

"You've never came up with decent plans," Remus pointed out.

"Fuck off, Lupin!" Sirius scowled at him, not really meaning it. (Remus was his best mate, as annoying and wise as he was.)

"I'm getting intense flasbacks to "Fuck off, Nigel!"" Emmeline laughed.

"That was bloody hilarious-"

"Off the topic!" Alice shouted.

"Right you are, Ali." Emmeline grinned apologetically. "Its just that those dudes are everything and Larry is religion."

"Oh yeah, totally!" Alice grinned.

Sirius coughed. "Someone just shouted Off the topic and I find that extremely hypocriticial."

"Whatever, Black." Alice waved him off. "The thing is that-"

"We must fly to the sea near Greece-" Remus interuppted.

"And-" Lily added.

"Fight that goddess!" James concluded.

Dorcas clapped sarcastically. "Wow! I would have never thought that!" She added a gasp for extra-dramatic effect. (Sirius and Mr. D approved, don't worry.)

"Guys," Marlene sighed, rubbing her eyes and leaning against Sirius, who twirled his fingers in her hair affectionately. "Can we please have at least 7-8 hours of sleep before all this? Please? Ever since I fell into that well, I haven't slept and it's exhausting."

"Yeah, she's right," Lily yawned.

At that moment, James's head gracefully fell into her lap and he started to breath evenly and deeply, no doubt in deep sleep.

Lily smiled and didn't even push him off her.

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Someone please tell this dudes not to be so cute- like, SIRIUSLY. Take care and stay safe.

Love,
~Aurora♡