The Repeated History of the Heroes

How To Tell Your Mother To Fuck Off

        It was a sort of tradition to sit in a room with your friends and complain about life.  For a group of demigods they were not complaining about your normal things.  Nathan was still trying to write to his mom that he hadn't seen in seven years.  Zoe was upset that as a fifteen year old she had to be responsible and save the world.  Issac was annoyed that Zoe was spending more time complaining than saving the world.  Anna was pissed that she was the most competent doctor there.  Sam was on some detached tangent about wild fires and global warming.  Andy  was really just along for the ride of their chaotic conversations.

      Zoe pretended to faint as Issac continued to beg her to focus.  She sat up, "Okay, okay I got it I need Matt and Maggy probably, they're inexperienced but there my friends and they need to be there because I broke into the attic," she pulled out a piece of paper.  She glanced at Andy, "Your coming too," and she unfolded it as Issac took it from her hand, "Excuse you!"

       "Zoe what is this?" he looked at her shocked,

       "Well I'd explain if you didn't take it from me but you know the old Orcal before a person took over and all that and-"

       "Yes I know the story,"

         "What story?" Andy asked once again feeling out of the loop.

         "Well the orcal who does the prophecys used to a be a mummy, then it was a girl and it was for a while and then the girl who had done it for years just disapered."

           "Anyway," Zoe nodded to the paper, "Read it."

           He cleared his throat, "Quick, smart, electric, and love must go and must win.  If they fail to succeed the world will cease.  Zoe this isn't a prophecy,"

           "I know that dumbass, look who signed it,"

           "Oh shit!" Issac handed the paper to Sam and Anna.

             Andy blinked, "I'm missing something again,"

           Zoe laughed, well it wasn't really a laugh more of a giggle but it didn't really sound like the group of giggling girls.  It wasn't funny it was cute, he had to remind himself that this was the girl he had seen kill several monsters, the girl who could do more than hold her own on a battle field and had a tendency of shocking people.  "It was signed by our last orcal and dated the day before she diapered."

    He nodded, "That's dark,"

    She did her little laugh thing again, "I forget that you're new sometimes, I mean, you fit in nicely."

    "I'm glad, you guys are cooler than my friends at home."

     At that she gave her cockiest smile, "I'm cooler than most,"

    The rest of that night was a blur for Andy, he knew he needed to tell his dad that he wasn't at school but right then he really didn't care.  This must be what it's like to have real friends, he thought as they laughed and talked.  It was crazy they all picked on each other but there was an unspoken rule about what they did and didn't talk about.  Issac and Zoe were plain mean to each other but even they had clear boundaries, they weren't trying to hurt each other.  At this point he had realized they just picked on each other when they got bored.

    Andy had never really had friends he realized looking at them.  The last guy he had considered a close friend was going out with his girlfriend behind his back and since Mick was in California he really had Matt and maybe Issac if he was done with subtle threats.  That was another thing about friends they protected each other, he didn't have enough fingers to count the times that Alex or Zander had tried to say something to Zoe or Nathan and the other just appeared.  It was kinda funny to Andy how every time one of them came close to saying something to Nathan Zoe's sword was drawn and it was like that the other way around.