Hey, anime and/or MLP:FiM fans of the interwebs!
I need your help. Long story short, if you had to assign an anime character to each element of harmony, who would it be?
Include your answer in a review, or PM me- even if you only have one or two characters in mind. Character name and anime title please! Thanks!
Up close, Danny realized that the girl with the black hair looked a lot like he himself did. Bright blue eyes and messy black hair, not tall but not short. She looked younger- fifteen, maybe?- and had freckles, but she actually looked a lot like Danny himself. Her personality was definitely different, though; that much was obvious. She was dressed in black and silver (was that a tiara?), had spiky, almost punk-style hair, and obviously had no problem standing up to guys like Dash.
Her friend looked just as murderous, but was physically very different: just a little bit older, with curly blonde hair and tan skin. She was dressed in more typical summer clothing- running shorts and a T-shirt that he couldn't read from where he was located.
As punk girl threatened Dash, clinging tight to his shirt with no apparent intention of releasing him, blondie whirled around, her very scary-looking gray eyes scanning the entire restaurant. They narrowed when they met Danny's wide ones, but, obviously disinterested, kept roving until they saw who was behind him.
She was in motion before Danny had even registered her reaction, and in the blink of an eye she was holding Paulina in the same grip as punk girl and Dash. Pulling Paulina off of Percy's lap, the girl's eyes were snake-like slits of fury.
"Don't even think about it." Paulina stumbled backwards and fell on the dirty restaurant floor as she was released without warning. Wailing about a broken nail, she ran out of the Nasty Burger, Star in tow.
By that point, everyone who wasn't being held to the spot had cleared out, fearing for their lives. Danny had to admit that he didn't blame them. The girl watched, rolling her eyes as Paulina tried to run in her heels.
"...Annie?" Her blonde ponytail flew as her head spun yet again.
"Perseus Jackson, I swear to the gods above I am so going to-" She was cut off by Percy's arms, wrapped around her waist.
"I missed you, Wise Girl." Danny noted that Annie looked much prettier (and much less scary) when she was beaming like that. He realized that this was the girl from the Mist message- Percy's girlfriend.
"It's Annabeth, dummy."
"Yeah, I know." Their faces drew closer together as if pulled by an invisible force and their lips almost touched as-
Cough. Cough.
Danny noted in addition that Nico's fake coughing needed some work. And his timing.
"Okay, break it up, break it up. You guys'll have plenty of time to get all kissy and sloppy later." Both of their faces turned tomato red.
"Oi, you loafers over there! Do I have to take out this brute by myself?" punk girl called over.
"I'm sure that would make you happy, wouldn't it, Pinecone Face?" Percy replied snidely.
"C'mon, Thals, let him go. I think you've scared the guy into submission anyway." 'Thals' snorted and dropped Dash to the floor.
"You're one to talk," Nico muttered to the girl Danny now knew as Annabeth, obviously talking about what she'd done to Paulina.
"You mess with my cousins again and you'll really get it," punk said flippantly, turning heel and striding over to where Danny and everyone else was.
"Think it's too late to ask them for a burger? I'm starved."
"Wait, so even your so-called 'normal' side of the family is weird? Gods, Percy, what the Hades did you do to piss Fate off?"
"I've asked myself the same question," Percy replied with mock seriousness.
"Gods, both of you. Can we focus for just a second here?" Annabeth looked exasperated, turning to Danny. "So you're trying to tell me that you're half-ghost? Honest to gods?"
"Yup, that's me. Weird even by half-god standards," Danny muttered. Even Annabeth cracked a smile at that one.
"That's funny, you sound like Percy."
"He is my cousin, after all." Percy cut in.
"Your cousin that you didn't even know existed until a few days ago."
"And you didn't know that I was your cousin until you were what- eighty?"
"Eighty-two," Nico corrected.
"Wh-?"
"Long story," came the unanimous reply. Danny wasn't even going to bother.
"Wait, so Percy's a son of Poseidon; Nico is a son of Hades; and you two are...?"
"Daughter of Zeus, Lieutenant Hunter of Artemis," Thalia said lazily, like she said that to people all the time.
"And I'm a daughter of Athena." That one Danny could definitely see.
"Hunter of Artemis?"
"Immortal teenage girl group that goes around, well, hunting stuff," Nico explained offhandedly. Wait, immortal?As in...
"As in not dying, yeah." Thalia seemed to have read his mind (or maybe his facial expression).
"So if you-"
"We can discuss Thalia and her inability to die later. First, we have to figure out what's going on here."
"What do you mean?" Percy asked, suddenly serious. As Danny looked around, he noticed that all of them seemed ready to strike at any second.
"We aren't just here on vacation, Kelp Head," Thalia said. Annabeth nodded.
"There's something weird happening in this city, and we need to stop it."
So I've been doing this thing where I post a chapter and then, like, disappear off the face of the Internet for months at a time. And I really wish I had more time, but until life stops interfering with my plans, this is how it's gonna be until summer, or until I get hit with a Zeus-master-bolt-sized stroke of motivation and innovation.
(Also known as AP classes suck.)
Please bear with me, and thank you for all the reviews and support that makes me sit down and write! The reason I'm finishing this story is because of the amazing people who read and review it!
And to a guest review: Danny is not, and will not be (in my story, at least), a demigod or Legacy or in any way related to the gods except through Percy. Sorry if that disappoints you, but I like to stick with relatively canon characterizations. Thanks!
EXTRA:
"Percy? Annabeth? Dinner's ready- my parents are really excited to meet you, Annabeth. Where are you guys?" Danny had already looked in his room, the lab, outside, even Jazz's room- they were nowhere to be found.
Only one room in the house was still unchecked, Danny realized. He put his ear to the door, hearing a few muffled noises. They obviously didn't hear him knocking, so he entered without thinking...
Lips locked, fingers running through hair, his arm around her waist. Way too realistic to be a fakeout makeout...
"Am I forgiven, then?" They were both breathing heavily, eyes locked on each other.
"Yes, Seaweed Brain. I forgive you." She hooked her arms around the back of his neck. Neither of them showed any notice to his turning invisible and intangible before he creeped back into the hallway.
...
"Um, I think they're busy. We can go ahead and eat, though." He honestly had no idea how he got away with the whole "part time ghost-ass-kicking superhero" thing, seeing how bad a liar he was.
Percy's mom had a knowing twinkle in her eye, and Danny watched as Nico made awful-looking kissy faces across the table at Thalia, who was practically trembling with laughter.
"That's fine, they can fix themselves some leftovers later when they're finished." Danny's mom looked perfectly content, sitting down and telling everyone to dig in.
"I think they may take a while, Mrs. Fenton. They can just eat in the morning," Thalia said sweetly.
"A looong while," Nico snickered, mimicking another barfing gesture. They both tucked into their meals quietly, probably accustomed to whatever their cousin and his girlfriend were up to.
...
"Danny, honey, are you okay? You haven't touched your dinner."
"It's nothing, I just... uh, I'm not hungry." More like lost his appetite. Thalia choked a little on the water she was drinking.
...
"Morning, everyone. I'm starved- did anyone make breakfast yet?" Percy walked in, stretching, brushing his shaggy hair out of his eyes. He meandered around the kitchen aimlessly: nodding good morning to Danny, who was sitting at the table with a bowl of cereal; opening cabinets and closing them without taking anything out; pulling out a chair but not actually sitting down.
To be honest, he still looked half-asleep- a typical morning for the son of Poseidon, as Danny had found out the past few days. Had Danny not seen what Percy was, erm, "up to" last night with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that anything was different about his cousin. Percy yawned again, stretched, and scratched at his neck, finally deciding on one of the blueberry muffins sitting on the counter before sitting down next to Danny.
"So..." Danny didn't exactly know what to say at this point, opting instead to just take another bite of cereal and to finish his sentence.
"Did your mom make these muffins? They're good," Percy commented offhandedly, his mouth full of aforementioned food. He shifted in his chair a bit, and Danny saw it. That reddish-pink mark on Percy's neck that looked like a bruise, except Danny knew what it actually was.
...
Annabeth came down a couple of minutes later, and Danny noticed that, if only for a few days, their matching grey hair streaks weren't the only physical trait the two shared.
I promised a Percabeth reunion/make-up scene a few chapters back... I'll leave this one up to your imaginations, sort of...