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I don’t know, I feel like I should post something. I’ve been doing quite a bit of writing but I never post. So here’s a very long collection of Ari and Kit scenes, some of the more entertaining characters from my stories antics. This is mostly Ari though since Kit is the quieter one of the two, and has a bit more of a conscious than Ari.

Ari had already grown annoyed with Glen’s jokes about her name and tried to push him into a bunch of horse poop, but Todd and Kit were able to stop that from happening.

“Look, our Mom isn’t the most creative when it comes to names!” Kit admitted, “She has kids with Apollo and thinks, oh, twins, best name one Artemis, can’t call the other one Apollo though, cause that’s his father’s name and juniors aren’t really cool. So she called me Atticus. You should meet our half-sister. She’s two years younger than us and our Mom and another guy’s kid.” “Is she another goddess?” Glen asked and ducked a bit as Ari raised her arm to punch him.

Ari smirked, “No, she’s not. Except our mother was expecting a boy and wanted to call him Melvin, and when a girl popped up, well, she had to change her mind and she changed it a little too quickly.”

“What’s your sister’s name?” Todd asked curiously.

“Melwin.” Kit and Ari spoke at the same time, both of them seemed amused by their sister’s name though. Kit kept talking, “We usually just call her Winnie.”

“Upon further research that we didn’t share with our mother, Melwin is a boy’s name…that means Melvin.” Ari laughed a bit, “We have a whole family of strange names.”

~~~

“Cause the horses probably know where they live.” Kit watched as Ari tied a note around an arrow, “And Luke can talk to horses.”

“Oh, uh, I was just asking, uh, I didn’t mean to, uh…” Marcy just swallowed her words as Ari turned her bow so the arrow would fly out of the slit in the wall.

“Hopefully that one is Luke.” She let the arrow fly and it went into the next car over.

“How are they supposed to send that back?” Todd put his head in his hands, “None of them are really archers.”

“Laurie is magic, she can just poof it here or something.” Kit shrugged.

“Uh, can Laurie do that?” Marcy looked at Glen and Todd confused.

“Never seen her do that.”

“Well, she can learn.” Ari sat next to her brother again, “And we’ll get an answer as to whether we’ll have somewhere to rest.”

“I never said you could come to my house.” Glen grumbled.

“We’re inviting ourselves over.” Ari decided, “We need a plan after all.”

~~~

“No! You started it by stealing those three kids!” Ari snapped, “If you know where Nora is could you tell us so we can jump off this flying circus?”

“Who’s your godly parent? Ares?” Aeolus seemed impressed by Ari’s anger.

“Apollo, awful guess.” Ari rolled her eyes and Kit elbowed her.

“Try and not anger the god right now.” He spoke quietly.

“Apollo must have been in a bad mood for you.” Aeolus gave Ari a slightly disgusted look before smiling again, “Now, an explanation wouldn’t hurt.”

~~~

“Around twelve years ago I was taking a break from my weather channel. There were things that had to be done; a couple rogue storm spirits and I found what I thought was a wind spirit standing out in the middle of a tornado…just watching it. Of course, I guess my eyesight must have gone foggy a bit.”

“Really? Just a bit? Was the eighteenth or nineteenth plastic surgery that did that?” Ari asked and received another elbow to the ribs from Kit.

“I’m going to enjoy killing you.” Aeolus scowled at Ari and suddenly smiled, “Well, anyway, I may have had a bit of an elope with the mortal woman.”

~~~

“Well, she almost got hit by a bike, and then the guy went and called some people and I’ve been trying to get rid of her as she got older, but the damn kid is incredibly smart.” Aeolus grumbled.

“Must be from her mother.” Ari was looking at Kit, but she clearly wanted Aeolus to hear. Kit just sighed and shook his head.

~~~

“You want to risk your lives dealing with the underworld, fine, but Hades won’t be nearly as kind as I am.” Aeolus sighed in a bored manner.

“Kind?!” Ari sputtered, “You’re joking? If you’re a cakewalk then I’m going home.”

“I’d be happy enough to arrange a separate ride for you.” Aeolus scowled and Ari scowled right back at him.

“If you don’t mind, we sort of need her to come along. If you could ignore everything she says, that’d be great.” Kit elbowed his sister and grabbed her arm as she tried to make a rude gesture, “How are you planning on transporting us?”

~~~

Laurie watched him rant and then smiled a bit, “So, how did my idea for capture the flag turn out? I’ve actually been curious.”

Harper stared at her, his mouth hanging open, “Unbelievable.”

“Does that mean it didn’t work?” Laurie tilted her head a bit.

“No! We won! That doesn’t matter though!” Harper grumbled, “Besides, me and Freddie were told we weren’t allowed to magically change the flag after that.”

“Yeah, it’s cheating, numbnut.” Ari looked at Laurie annoyed, “You could have said it was you who did that!”

“Why would I say that! You’d just get mad!” Laurie laughed, “I don’t recall a good time to bring that up either. When you were shooting arrows at us from a moving car? No. Uh, how about getting attack by Moros…or vampires…or wind spirits…or-“

“Alright, I get it!” Ari sat back annoyed.

~~~

Ari looked off towards the rest of camp and then to Percy, “Can you hold off the onslaught of counselors till Chiron is done chewing us out? Gods know I don’t want to deal with that.”

“Carol in one ear and Chiron in the other.” Kit scowled in agreement.

“I’ll keep them out, go in.” Percy started pushing kids through the door.

They all filed in and sat around the ping-pong table. Most of the kids looked ashamed as Chiron stared them down and the door closed, Zoey was the last to walk in. Nora, Drew, and Clara seemed rather calm since they couldn’t really help the fact they’d left camp. Zoey and Ari also seemed calm, but that was just them; they didn’t really feel bad for most decisions they made.

~~~

“Right, well, moving on, the rest of you have some explaining.” Chiron stared them all down, “The rest of you deliberately left the camp in a very large group that could have attracted dangerous amounts of monsters,” No one disagreed with that, Ari actually smiled and nodded her head in agreement.

~~~

“Very good.” Chiron looked towards the window, “I figure your cabin counselors will have a few words for you as well.”

“Can we skip that part?” Ari asked, “I mean, you had quite the speech already. There has to be a rule on how many reprimands you can receive in one day.”

“For you, Ari, the rule is limitless.” Chiron’s eyes lit up with humor and Ari rolled her eyes.

~~~

“What’s up?” Drew asked confused, “Everything alright? We heard Ari shouting all the way up there.” He pointed towards the cliff over the beach.

“No! Everything is not alright! I’m done! I quit! I can’t live with this anymore!” Ari shouted, “I’m never going home! This is the last straw, I can’t handle this! I’m calling CPS!”

“What? What happened?” Clara asked concerned, “Is everyone alright?”

“Our sister Winnie gave us an Iris message.” Kit rubbed his head, he looked tired, “Looks like our mom got her a puppy.”

“Aw, what kind of puppy?” Laurie asked happily, “I don’t see the problem.”

“We didn’t really ask what breed it was.” Kit sighed.

“They did ask for the name though!” Zoey was breathless as she leaned against the stables laughing, “Ask what they named the dog!”

“They named him John! John! They named the damn dog John!” Ari shouted, “He’s a dog! Why does he get a normal name? Why John? Why couldn’t they name the dog something weird, like…like…I can’t even think of a name, but my mother certainly could of come up with some horribly strange name to name the damn dog! Why John?”

“Why couldn’t I be named John?” Kit grumbled.

“They named the dog John.” Clara blinked in surprise and then smiled a bit. She shared a look with Laurie and Drew and all three of them burst out laughing at the twin’s strange family.

“Don’t laugh! It’s not funny!” Ari snapped.

“It’s kind of hilarious.” Irene was trying to hide a smile.

“You’re all dead to me.” Ari grumbled and stormed off. Kit ran after her looking equally annoyed with his friends.

~~~

i have a post somewhere with an entire interaction with the Janus and Ari and Kit that involves their middle names but...

Ari looked about ready to pull out her hair, “What if I spoke another person’s name? Like we spoke our mother’s name and our sister’s name? Can we exchange that for a ticket through?”

“Your own name!” Janus shouted.

“Come on, just work with me here!”

“There’s nothing to work with! I’m just asking you to state your name!”

“That’s the problem! I’m trying to work out a deal with you and you’re just not budging. For someone who loves decisions you sure don’t want to make one.” Ari pouted.

“Name or I’m stabbing you both.”

“Ari, come on!” Irene stepped forward a bit, “Just say your name, it’s not worth dying over.”

“That’s up for debate.” Ari held up a finger.

Kit rubbed his head and shared a look with his sister. Ari groaned and took a breath, “Fine. My name is Artemis…” She looked pained as she paused for her middle name and punched her thigh, “Artemis Moon Lake.”

Janus was silent for a moment and Ari looked at him expectantly, “Let me pass, dammit, as fake as it sounds that’s the name I’m stuck with.”

“By the gods…she’s not lying.” One of the heads breathed, “What’s your damage, kid?” He stared at Kit.

Kit looked like he was seriously considering the right route suddenly. Ari elbowed him, “Just get it over with.”

Kit looked just as pained as Ari and took a breath, he just sighed out his name, “Atticus…Fido…Lake.”

~~~

“You two are regular little liars and cheats!”

“Sure!” Ari agreed, “But we’ve never broken anything!”

~~~

“If they clean up their act.” The media specialist sniffed.

“Shut up, lady.” Ari glared at her and saw Winnie hide a smile.

The woman ruffled, “These twins of yours are plain disrespectful and rude in every sense! I highly doubt they’ll amount to much more than criminals in the future!”

“Aw, and I really wanted to be a media specialist, guess I’ll never be pompous and high strung enough for that.” Ari pouted sarcastically.

~~~

“That’s just rude.” Ari crossed her arms and stepped towards her, “Look, lady, we’re bratty kids, we’re allowed to be rude. You can’t be, cause you’re supposed to be professional all the time.”

~~~

Ari backed up a little and held up her umbrella in front of her. She waited for the lady to get closer before opening it up and smashing it into her nose.

“Rrrraaagh!” The lady tore it apart and Ari sprinted towards the tire swing shouting.

“Murderous dragon hag! Murderous dragon hag!”

~~~

“What’re you doing?” Ari rolled over and looked at him.

“Looking for camps on Long Island.”

“Why!?”

“Because Mom was talking to a voice in the sink about camps in Long Island.”

“You’ve lost your mind.” Ari grumbled and went back to sleep.

“Probably.” Kit agreed.

~~~

“Young lady is that sarcasm?” There was a dangerous edge to their mother’s voice, a guaranteed year of being grounded if Ari responded wrong.

“Yes.” Ari responded wrong.

~~~

“Not a chance! You two aren’t going anywhere but home!”

“No, we’re going to Long Island. That’s why we got a ride there.” Ari again responded wrong and another tirade came from their mother. While she yelled Ari and Kit exchanged an annoyed glance that just said, She’s not gonna tell us.

Kit sighed, “Well, talk to you later, Mom.”

“Don’t you dare-“ The next tirade was cut short as Kit hung up the phone.

~~~

“Oh no, she’s working for the gods of Olympus.” Irene told them as if she was talking about the weather, “Our Mom works on the architectural designs there, plus the designs in New Rome for the Greek sector.”

“Gods of Olympus?” Ari blinked, “Um, you crazy or something?”

“Ari!” Kit warned her.

“What? That’s kinda a crazy thing to say!” Ari objected.

~~~~

“Camp full of weirdos.” Ari pointed out.

“Well…what did we expect from a camp that a sink recommended?” Kit asked her.

~~~

“Well, we mainly called just to let you know we made it here fine with no help from you and you should probably call off the police search and pick us up in August before school starts.” Ari told her happily, “’Kay?”

“You two can’t just be making these decisions by yourself anymore, got it?” Their mother demanded, “From now on, I’m taking you to and from that camp. I won’t have any running away nonsense. Now I have to explain where you two are to the police.”

“She didn’t call them.” Winnie informed her siblings, “Since she figured you two were fine.”

“What? You’re just sending us empty threats now, Mom? How are we ever supposed to trust you?” Ari asked sarcastically.

~~~

“No, I’m just looking around. I decided I wanted to be a doctor recently so I’m just seeing how it’s done here.” Ari told him and looked through some drawers.

Emmett rubbed his head, “Well, you never cease to amaze with how many boundaries you lack. Still, I can show you a couple things if you want?”

~~~

Charlie covered his mouth and snorted with laughter, “Ari…your Dad is Apollo!”

“What’s so funny, fish boy?” Ari glared at him.

“Your name is Artemis!”

Ari blinked and then pushed Charlie over, “I’m gonna kill Mom. Kit, give me a drachma so I can yell at her.”

“Gods.” Kit sighed and shook his head.

~~~

Jamie jumped as two arrows smacked into the ground in front of Betsy and Caleb’s feet. He looked up to see Ari and Kit with their bows drawn and glaring at the two campers. Ari twirled an arrow in her right hand as she happily walked into the amphitheater, “Hey, Jamie! We just got here and were coming to say hi cause you’re a weird kid and all. Wanna go bet some money?”

~~~

“Plus, we can gamble with you!” Ari went back to her normal behavior.

“I’d win.”

“If you cheat!”

“How would you know if I cheat?” Jamie asked innocently.

Ari raised her hand in response and then slowly lowered it as she realized she honestly would have no idea if Jamie were cheating or not. “Well played.”

“Slap jack is usually a safe bet.” Jamie laid down a card and slapped his hand down, “Though I’m still pretty good at games.” He gathered up the cards with a smile.

“Little weasel.” Ari grumbled and threw down a card.

~~~

“Holly? Listen, stop falling. Chiron trusts me with a lot of shit. I’m his most trusted advisor. I’m so trusted he can’t even trust me.” Ari called down, “Holly? Did you hear me? I’m awesome.”

“Yeah, thanks for the update!” Holly shouted back, a little breathlessly.

~~~

“You’re trying to scheme your way out of this.” The tail rested a little more harshly against Kit’s neck.

“Scheming? I never scheme. I just told you I was a man of honor. Well, teenager of honor would be more fitting considering my age. I’m certainly not really a man at my age. My sister and I are quite honorable. We have an entire book of rules that we read through quite often and are sure to follow them.”

“Rules? Really?”

“Yes, it keeps us on the good path. Though, I’m curious as to why you would care? I mean, you’re a manticore, not exactly a righteous sort of monster, are you?”

~~~

Laurie let her arm drop as she saw everything was safe and quickly stumbled towards Kit, “Kit!”

“M’good.” Kit assured her, as he awkwardly lay sprawled on the ground, “A little paralyzed, but it should pass.”

~~~

Ari, of course, was the most brutally honest in her comments.

“Perhaps next time warn us about the ghost you’re following, Drew.” She yawned, “Then we won’t be as surprised when he possesses you and tries to kill all of us.”

~~~

Ari returned her bow to necklace form and started looking at the arrows in her quiver, “I’ll admit I don’t like the damp air warping my arrows either. It’ll mess with my perfect aim. I prefer to just shoot and not have to compensate for faulty equipment.” Kit nodded in agreement with his sister.

“Uh, not to rain on the parade of the perfection twins, but didn’t you almost kill Jamie with an arrow once, Ari?” Glen pointed out. “I wouldn’t call that perfect aim.”

“I shot where I intended to shoot, it’s not my fault if someone is moved in the way. I never miss. I’m a child of Apollo, Glen.” Ari told him haughtily. “I bet if I pull out my bow now I can hit the tree right behind you perfectly.”

“Cause I’d move out of the way.”

“And I’d hit my intended shot!” Ari pointed out happily, “See, I’m right again, another thousand points for Ari! Jot it down, Kit!”

Kit, faithful to their antics as always, pulled out the twins shared notebook and added a thousand points under Ari’s name. Their names, of course, were the only two in there with actual points. Though Chiron seemed to have gained negative points, as had the camps two traitors.

~~~

“We’re all fresh out of ideas except for what we’ve got then.” Holly grumbled.

“I’m with Holly.” Irene sat down, “Let’s stay here and what for some sort of answer. Kit, you may as well try the pencil.”

“He could very well draw some crazy fire-breathing llama that we have to fight next. It might not even be about Drew or Todd.” Ari pointed out.

“We’re not going anywhere and he can regain whatever strength this takes, as well as there are thirteen other people here to be sure that if and when we get attacked, he doesn’t have to worry about being enraptured in his drawings.” Luke agreed with Irene on the subject, shocking nobody.

“Fine.” Ari pouted and sat down beside Kit.

“It’s a fair enough point.” Kit sighed and pulled out his sketchbook.

“No points added for Luke and Irene I see.” Holly sat down smugly beside Finn and a very tired Jamie.

Ari snatched their notebook from Kit, since he was already starting to go into a sort of prophetic trance and spoke out loud, “Minus two million points to Holly for talking rudely and breaking the floor of the Labyrinth.”

~~~

Ari snapped her fingers by Kit’s ear and he blinked a few times before putting down the pencil, “We found them.”

Kit looked up towards Drew and Todd before looking at his nearly finished drawing, “That’s good, cause this isn’t about them.” He showed Ari a picture of a palace that Kit had become much too familiar with drawing.

“Oh…great.” Ari made a face, “Should we expect an invitation soon?”

“More than likely.”

“I don’t make good company. At least, that’s what I’ve been told. I personally believe I’m the best company that someone can have.” Ari sniffed and a couple kids laughed.

~~~

“They might have grown bored with Kit and my story of how we were actually gods that were so old that even Chaos had forgotten of our godly status.” Ari sighed unhappily.

“It was a good story too.” Kit pouted as well, “They were really buying it.”

“Of course, somebody,” She looked pointedly at Holly, “Had to ruin it by laughing when I said I was the ancient primordial being of intelligence and Kit was the ancient primordial being of wit.”

“Look, I just thought you were more fitting to be the gods of being an asshole and spewing lies.” Holly shrugged and sat back smiling.

“It’s called improv and it’s no longer lying if it gets us out of a Cyclops den alive.” Ari reminded her, “So next time, have a little imagination, Holly. Pull on your mortal side there, since I’m pretty sure Ares isn’t exactly the imaginative type.”

~~~

Todd remembered seeing the Apollo kids teaching CPR. Ari had called it the “emergency-kissing maneuver”.

~~~

“School sounds like a really boring thing to go back to, so finding Jamie and Alex wins this one.” Ari crossed her arms.

“Also because it’s the right thing to do.” Kit rolled his eyes.

~~~

“And it’s not like you murdered Jamie or anything. He’s just stuck in hell basically. We’ll get him and Alex out in no time.” Ari grinned and sat back happily. Her usual twisted humor showing itself.

~~~

Clara pulled out a bag full of drachma, “Start talking.”

“Okay.” Charlie may not know Clara well, but she certainly got her point across.

“Alive for a day and Clara is already threatening to kill him.” Ari sighed and shut up with an angry look from Clara.

~~~

#story excerpt #except plural because there's multiple one line to paragraph long excerpts in here #these are mostly in order of when I wrote them #with the main story first #followed by Ari and Kit's backstory #and then it gets out of order #there's just random scenes but it ends with excerpts from an idea that I dropped because it would not have fit with the main story well

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